Youth Mobilization Officer
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center For Communication Programs•Tercha & Metu - ethiopia•12(views)
Full-Time
Job Description
Youth Mobilization Officer
Job Summary The Youth Mobilization Officer is responsible for mobilizing youth leaders at the kebele level, engaging youth in community service initiatives, and building their capacities through structured programs. The role involves implementing youth mobilization strategies, supporting entrepreneurship and business development training, establishing Micro and Small Enterprise Initiatives (MSEI), and maintaining rigorous project documentation and data quality control.
Key Responsibilities
- Youth Mobilization & Engagement: Collaborate with kebele and woreda implementation teams to execute effective youth mobilization strategies, drive demand generation, and support community service orientation sessions.
- Capacity Building & Entrepreneurship: Support and follow up on business development and entrepreneurship training for youth engaged in community services, and assist in establishing MSEI at one-stop service centers.
- Data Management & Quality Control: Track youth intake registrations, enter data into computer systems, conduct quality checks to resolve data discrepancies, and ensure proper project documentation at the woreda level.
- Monitoring & Learning: Conduct supportive supervisions, review meetings, and pause-and-reflect sessions; document best practices and share success stories across platforms.
- Stakeholder Coordination: Work closely with zonal, woreda, and kebele level actors, providing timely feedback and technical assistance to the team leader.
Educational Qualification & Experience Requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences or a related discipline.
- Experience: Minimum of 2 years of relevant professional work experience in youth mobilization, community engagement, or similar development programs. Prior experience working with local government and community stakeholders (zonal, woreda, and kebele levels) is essential.
Required Skills & Competencies
- Strong commitment to youth empowerment with an understanding of youth-related issues, handled with tact, respect, and confidentiality.
- Excellent interpersonal, training facilitation, and capacity-building abilities.
- Core Competencies: Demand generation, youth engagement, performance monitoring, and evaluation.
- Required Skill Tags: Communication, attention to detail, and problem solving.
- Desired Skill Tags: Adaptability.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center For Communication Programs
View ProfileJohns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP) Company Snapshot Parent Institution: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (Department of Health, Behavior and Society). Established: 1988 by Dr. Phyllis Tilson Piotrow. Headquarters: Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Staff Size: Approximately 600 employees operating globally. Financial Scale: Manages over $100 million in yearly project revenue and expenditures. Geographic Reach: Active in more than 30 countries with over 60 ongoing projects globally. Since its inception in 1988, CCP programs have reached more than 1 billion people worldwide. Mission and Vision Mission: To enable people around the world to make healthy choices and advance the science and art of strategic communication to improve health and save lives. Vision: A world where all individuals, families, and communities thrive, supported by equitable and responsive systems. Approach: The organization utilizes evidence-based, people-centered approaches to dismantle systemic barriers, ignite collective action, and center fairness and inclusion. Core Technical Strengths Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC): Designing programs that influence political dialogue, collective action, and individual behavior. Knowledge Management: Enhancing access to information and exchanging knowledge to improve overall health and health care. Training and Capacity Building: Strengthening infrastructure and training professionals to amplify essential voices and advance systems. Research and Evaluation: Conducting rigorous research to guide program design, evaluate impact, and build the evidence base for health communication theories. Key Health Issue Focus Areas Reproductive Health & Family Planning: A foundational program element for CCP. Infectious Diseases: Designing communication initiatives for HIV/AIDS prevention, malaria control (including the promotion of insecticide-treated mosquito nets), and avian/pandemic influenza. Wider Global Health Initiatives: Promoting maternal and child health, better nutrition, water and sanitation (WASH), tobacco control, and gender equity. Major Partners & Donors CCP's global initiatives are heavily supported by leading international development organizations, including the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UNICEF, and DFID.
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