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African Wildlife Foundation is looking for a Senior Manager, Youth Leadership Program

Location: Nairobi, Kenya, Africa

Job Type: Full-time

Description:

The Senior Manager, Youth Leadership Program, will manage and oversee AWF’s newly established Youth Leadership Program. Reporting to the Vice President- External Relations, the Senior Manager, Youth Leadership Program, will ensure that the Youth leadership program is designed and implemented most appropriately to the African context and meets AWF vision and strategy.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop a 5-year youth Strategy and implementation plan aligned to AWF strategic plan.
• Develop, implement, and oversee a portfolio of Youth leadership Program activities and ensure that services are delivered on time, on budget, and in compliance with donor regulations
• Ensure that the Youth Leadership program is implemented in ways responsive to communities, partners, and AWF’s principles, values, and strategic plan and compliant with AWF’s procedures
• Work with the staff to develop work-plans and follow up with team members regularly to ensure that activities are on track
• Monitor program progress against both programmatic and budgetary targets, adjusting program design as necessary
• Work with the policy units (Africa, China, Europe, US) to develop the next generation of leaders and to align and identify appropriate platforms to position the voice of African youth
• Work with the communications and marketing team to create a movement of young people for nature on the continent
• Work with the conservation strategy team to integrate a youth-led approach within program delivery and to identify appropriate future partners for implementation of the Youth Program
• Collaborate with the human resource department to ensure the Youth agenda is embedded within AWF policies and an enabling environment is in place to support young people

Partnership and Capacity:

• Establish creative and innovative partnerships to deliver the youth leadership program
• Leveraging existing partner platforms for sharing, learning, and promotion of initiatives
• Support partnership modality by ensuring partner organizations are active members/participants in all operations cycle
• Conduct periodic review of annual plans to identify bottlenecks and the ways those bottlenecks could be addressed
• Support the development of capacity building plans for Youth program partners
• Provide regular coaching on technical and program management skills to field staff and other patters as needed
• Provide mentoring and role modelling for staff and partners on youth issues

Monitoring and Evaluation:

• Actively monitor Youth leadership program activities, ensuring quality of AWF program
• In collaboration with the Knowledge management department, develop appropriate and additional institutional metrics and indicators as necessary to track Youth leadership Program progress
• Ensure appropriate, timely, and accurate data collection against agreed indicators to enable both internal and external reporting
• Support design and organization required for assessments, baselines, and evaluations, particularly regarding communicating needs to the Youth Leadership Programs partners team, and participate where possible
• Make a relevant business intelligence analysis and adopt best practice and examples of well-executed projects, especially in the field of sustainability, which managed to mobilize massive youth engagement and capacity building and analyses success factors and opportunities

Fundraising. Marketing and Communications:

• Collaborate with the communications and marketing teams in generating ideas for products and initiatives that tell and communicate the powerful stories of young people
• In collaboration with Policy Units, Program Design, Field Programs, Corporate Communications, develop proposals to fund the youth leadership program initiative
• Identify partnerships that can support AWF Youth Leadership Program

Requirements:

• Advanced degree in (or bachelor’s degree and equivalent experience) in social sciences, international development, or other relevant fields.
• At least 8 + years of experience with Youth or Youth-Leadership centred programs.
• A good strong experience with leadership programs
• A strong understanding of the African context
• Strong organizing, facilitation, and networking capacities
• Strong ability for public speaking, representation, and engagement
• Strong ability for networking, mobilizing and leading groups
• Ability to analyse information, evaluate options and to think and plan strategically
• Ability to write clear and well-argued assessment and project reports
• A team player who can work collaboratively and with people of diverse backgrounds
• Excellent writing, editing, and analytical skills. Written and spoken fluency in English required. French a plus
• Cultural sensitivity with strong interpersonal skills
• Understanding of basic financial principles, budgeting, and cost analysis.
• Strong leadership capacity including management of team resources (both financial and human), providing guidance and mentorship to junior staff, and ensuring team’s delivery of goals
• Patience, listening skills, diplomacy, and a sense of humour
• Willingness to travel, sometimes to remote locations within Africa and
• Demonstrated commitment to conservation of wildlife and wild lands

Interested candidates please apply.