Economic Opportunity Lead, Kosovo
ACDI/VOCA
- Kosovo
- Stalan
- Puno radno vreme
- Provide visionary oversight and guidance to the Activity regarding youth entrepreneurship, employment, and education, including skills development initiatives and private sector engagement in facilitating economic opportunities for youth
- Lead the development of strategies and interventions that promote the economic and social empowerment of male and female youth, especially youth with disabilities and ethnic minority youth.
- Actively partner with youth and other key stakeholders (schools, private sector, government, etc.) to improve conditions for youth economic opportunities
- Collaborate with other staff to ensure gender and social inclusion are integrated properly throughout the program areas in accordance with ACDI/VOCA and USAID’s youth and gender strategies and policies
- Lead and/or oversee research focused on youth economic opportunities, including utilizing youth-led research methods and analysis of age- and gender-specific challenges and opportunities
- Liaise with other technical specialists to ensure cross-sectoral synergies and impacts across the program
- Work with the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning team to ensure that economic opportunities approaches are well understood, planned for, and that indicators, data collection methods, and learning is being captured, analyzed, and reported on
- Work with local youth-led and youth-serving organizations to carry out program approaches and interventions, including strengthening the capacity of these organizations to improve service offerings to young people
- Contribute to the creation of work plans and periodic written program reports, summarizing youth economic opportunities results as well as progress and evidence of transformative approaches
- Identify and address capacity building and resource needs for program staff and partners
- Bachelor’s degree in sociology, economics, business, management, international development, or relevant field required; master’s degree preferred.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in youth workforce development, job creation and/or placement, and/or youth entrepreneurship.
- Understanding of and experience with the private sector in Kosovo desired.
- Familiarity with PYD approaches, meaningful youth engagement approaches, and inclusive market systems development desired.
- Experience working in Kosovo strongly preferred.
- Fluency in English required.
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