ECONOMIC STRENGTHENING & YOUTH EMPOWERMENT OFFICER

Duties and Responsibilities

-Work with community-based facilitators to deliver economic strengthening interventions for OVC caregivers, covering ISALs, SPM, income-generating activities, financial literacy, entrepreneurship training, and market linkages.

-Support collaboration with government ministries, local businesses, and key stakeholders to provide youth with entrepreneurship and wage employment pathways.

-Conduct youth-led labor market assessments and participatory value chain analysis to identify opportunities for expanding labor opportunities for youth and OVC caregivers within local market systems.

-Implement youth Work Readiness Training Programs.

-Lead the implementation of market-specific vocational skills training in collaboration with local Vocational Skills Training Centres and tradesmen.

-Coordinate work-focused Social Asset Building training to equip youth, especially Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW), with skills to identify, avoid, and report gender-based violence in the workplace.

-Facilitate linkages between small youth-owned enterprises and established private enterprises, government institutions, and technical support organizations for business development support, mentorship, and start-up cost assistance.

-Organize or support youth participation in marketing events, including district agricultural shows and local exhibitions, leveraging social media for broader market reach.