Advisor, Stakeholder Engagement/Positive Youth Development (P3)

Summary

The Stakeholder Engagement/Positive Youth Development (PYD) Advisor manages specific youth activities for Gender and Youth Activity (GAYA), a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) Associate Award (AA) that works to improve the quality and impact of food security activities by addressing the barriers and challenges implementing partners face when integrating youth and gender within their activities. GAYA provides strategic capacity strengthening and learning in gender and youth activities for implementing partners of programs.

As Stakeholder Engagement/PYD Advisor you will provide technical input into all GAYA youth integration-related workstreams including analyses, mainstreaming, small grants awards, and the GAYA Fellowship in coordination with the Program Director and BHA Gender, Age and Social Inclusion team.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

Technical Leadership for Quality Programming (55%) 

• Providing youth technical leadership and support, as an integrated team member to AA, IDEAL, BHA, and implementing partners operating in humanitarian response, early recovery, risk reduction and resilience contexts focused on improving food security and resilience outcomes for the most vulnerable population segments
• Lead youth technical input into all GAYA workstreams including, annual Gender and Youth Consultations for Resilience Food Security Activities (RFSAs) during the Refine & Implement (R&I) process and culmination workshops, the GAYA Fellowship, the Annual IP Survey and Stakeholder Consultations
• Strengthen the capacity of implementing partners to integrate age and intersectional approaches, with a special focus on young people, into program scopes of work and protocol for youth focused analyses, adapted for rapid onset crisis and protracted crises contexts.
• Demonstrate in-depth knowledge and experience to ensure effective integration of a PYD approach in programming and lead the development of technical approaches and evidence models for SCUS’s global priorities related to youth engagement in agricultural value chains and addressing climate change in Food Systems.
• Support plans for addressing other priority and demand-driven capacity strengthening needs such as data collection, management and analysis, methods, and sampling, using analysis results for improved program design and implementation, etc.
• Provides youth technical support to Small Grants program improvement awards and GAYA Fellowship activities to leverage innovation and learning.
• Lead GAYA youth and PYD projects, in coordination with the Program Lead and other workstreams and serve as technical lead for those workstream(s), serving as primary focal point for consultancies, overseeing work plans, and ensuring timely delivery of key milestones and targets for those workstream(s).
• Design and lead presentations and facilitate small groups on a variety of topics, i.e. Youth Consultation during the RFSA Refine and Implement (R&I) process, GAYA virtual events and Fellowship Workstream. 

Knowledge Management & Learning (15%) 

• Contribute to an evidence base for effective youth integration for BHA implementation modalities.
• Document and present the design of learning studies.
• Maintain updated capacity statements, program descriptions, and other documentation useful in articulating youth specific approaches.
• Confirm technical tools and materials are filed according to GAYA and SCUS knowledge management protocols, ensuring their accessibility for team members.
• Create high-quality knowledge products from diverse data sources including programmatic materials and tools.
• Support the implementation of a thorough dissemination plan for how information, findings, and learning from small grants and workstreams are shared with the broader food and nutrition security community.
• Participate in regular After-Action Review and reflection sessions and adapt interventions and work plans accordingly.
• Lead and/or support additional innovations and learning workstreams as they arise and support GAYA members in their workstreams.
• Develop and disseminate, in consultation with implementing partners, strong guidance to support their capacity to utilize gender and youth analyses, findings, and learnings to inform revised Theories of Change, approaches, and activities. 

Resource Development (20%) 

• Promote PYD in both emergency and development contexts by adapting PYD resources and trainings for implementing partners and designing frameworks and methodologies for eff