Job Opportunities

Task description

Under the supervision of the Chief of Adolescent Development and Participation (ADAP) and in close collaboration with the ADAP Officer (Participation), the National UNV Specialist will support youth engagement processes and contribute to mainstreaming meaningful participation of young people across UNICEF Thailand programmes.

The tasks include, but are not limited to, the following :

1. Coordinate and support the Young People Advisory Board (YPAB) - Serve as the main liaison for the YPAB, facilitating regular meetings, preparation of agendas, and follow-up of action points. - Ensure the YPAB membership is representative of diverse geographical areas, backgrounds, genders, marginalized youth, and support recruitment, orientation, and capacity building of YPAB members. - Support youth leadership within YPAB, mentor members as needed. - Ensure that YPAB inputs are integrated into programme planning, monitoring, evaluation, and advocacy, and that feedback loops are established so that YPAB sees how their contributions influence decisions.

2. Programme management support - Collaborate with programme sector teams to embed youth participation strategies into their workplans and annual work cycles. - Map and analyze existing youth-led platforms, networks, and mechanisms in Thailand (national, regional, local), identify gaps and opportunities for scaling or replication. - Maintain updated databases and records of youth partners, YPAB membership, youth engagements, contacts, events, consultation outcomes, and follow-up. - Prepare periodic progress reports, contribution to programme updates, and documentation of youth engagement outcomes. - As needed, travel to regions/provinces to support youth engagement activities, capacity building, consultations.

3. Capacity Building and Technical Assistance for Youth Consultations, Participation Platforms & Dialogue - Support the delivering of training, workshops, webinars, toolkits and guidelines for partners, and local stakeholders on adolescent and youth participation, facilitation methods, youth-friendly engagement, inclusive practices, and ethical engagement of children and adolescents. - Facilitate meaningful consultations with young people (in-person and virtual) across diverse contexts to gather their inputs, aspirations and feedback on programme design, implementation, and evaluation. - Document youth voices, stories, case studies and feedback and help package them for use in advocacy, communications, research and stakeholder dialogues.

4. Youth Partnerships Management - Liaise with youth organisations to promote youth participation, co-design and alignment of youth policies or plans. - Foster collaboration with youth networks and local-level youth groups. - Represent UNICEF in youth forums, coordination meetings, national or regional youth events, and ensure that UNICEF’s youth engagement agenda is visible, responsive, and informed by young people.

Age: 18-80

Required experience: 3 Years

Nationality: Candidate must be a national or legal resident of the country of assignment.

Languages: English, Level: Fluent, Required | Thai, Level: Fluent, Required