Job Description

The role holder will be responsible for collaboratively leading the development and implementation of a youth engagement strategy, youth mobilization, and advocacy, including integrating youth voices in the overall discourse to interest and create opportunities for the youth in the health worker discourse for increased and sustainable job creation. This position requires strong coordination skills, technical knowledge in youth civic engagement and development activities, deep youth networks, and extensive experience cultivating and establishing partnerships and enhancing youth advocacy issues. The job holder will be a member of the Programme Implementation Team (PIT) and will also work closely with Amref’s Youth in Action Programme Director to align with the organisation’s youth strategy.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Lead and coordinate the development of the programme’s youth engagement, participation and empowerment strategy, ensuring that the necessary tools, guidelines, and SOPs are developed to streamline the programme efforts.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to programme partners, ensuring alignment on the meaningful youth engagement, participation and empowerment agenda
• Provide overall leadership and coordination of the youth civic engagement activities, including youth coalition formation and rollout of youth advocacy activities and the overall meaningful engagement of youth throughout the programme’s life cycle.
• Design and implement key strategies to increase youth engagement, participation, and empowerment with critical stakeholders, including national partners, local organizations, youth networks, and individual leaders at local, regional and national levels
• Engage and advocate for youth inclusion in national policy review and formulation for increased and sustainable job creation for the youth within primary health care (PHC) sectors in the programme implementation countries.
• Oversee and ensure that youth engagement, participation and empowerment efforts and strategies are integrated across all programme thematic areas;
• Provide strategic direction, development and implementation of capacity strengthening plans to enhance the capacity of staff, young people, youth networks, youth-serving organizations, and government in youth engagement, participation and empowerment.
• Provide oversight in mainstreaming youth engagement, participation and empowerment activities across programme workstreams, and report progress to internal and external stakeholders to promote accountability.

Driving the programme’s youth strategy

• Lead the development, management and oversight of the programme’s youth engagement and accountability strategy
• Cultivate meaningful alliances with other youth movement-building organisations and initiatives with similar goals in the region to build momentum for the programme’s goal.
• Identify opportunities for regional cross-learning between the programme partnership, documentation and sharing of successes and lessons learned.
• Support and coordinate the programme stakeholders to develop and execute online campaigns to promote youth engagement, participation and empowerment initiatives.
• Support the development and implementation of youth engagement, participation, and empowerment strategies by building communities and connecting networks to ensure advocacy efforts reach wider and more diverse audiences. 

Partnership, Networking, and Collaboration

• Oversee the establishment of strategic partnerships and alliances with other youth movements and groups, and build relationships at the national, regional, and city levels
• Establish, link and strengthen youth coordination platforms in the programme implementation countries and regionally in close collaboration with the programme partners
• Establish, cultivate, and maintain relationships with the youth ecosystem of programme stakeholders, including the public sector, private sector, civil society, community-based organizations, and local governments to advocate and influence meaningful youth engagement.
• At the request of the programme director, represent the programme in collaborative platforms with diverse audiences such as ministries of health, UN agencies, civil society organizations, NGOs and private companies for programme visibility.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

• Minimum of a Master’s degree in communications, social sciences, public health, public policy, international development or other related fields from a recognized college or university;
• Minimum of 5 years of experience implementing youth development activities, e.g., economic empowerment, basic and higher education, health etc.).

Additional Information

Please include a cover letter that highlights why you believe you are an ideal candidate for this role, along with your CV showcasing your relevant skills and experience. The application deadline is Friday, 3rd October 2025.