Project Associate

The Project Associate is expected to contribute to the effective management of youth programming by performing the following duties:

• Directly supports the Regional Youth Project, inclusive of the Youth Leadership Programme (YLP), where relevant and youth programming by following up on implementation, coordinating with partners and UNDP Country Offices, accessing regional networks, creating linkages, and providing technical support.
• Contributes to strategic planning, developing innovative responses to emerging challenges and opportunities for youth in the Arab region around SDGs.
• Supports the implementation of the Country Programme Action Plan and direction for Youth engagement, YLP, and the SDGs
• Supports the timely preparation and quality control of all substantive technical reports, briefs, and required documents, including progress reports, concept notes, background documents, and briefing notes.
• Works closely with the regional team members in the development of project activities to promote youth’s social, political, and economic empowerment in the Arab region.
• Publicly advocating for and speaking out on youth engagement in development (and the pursuit of SDGs achievement) nationally, which will include monthly vlogs, leading online public webinars, and social media outreach.
• Facilitates the delivery of YLP activities by monitoring results achieved during implementation. S/he ensures and guides the appropriate application of monitoring, reporting, and evaluation systems and procedures and develops enhancements if necessary.
• Captures stories that reflect on know-how (procedures, processes, tactics) and know why (lessons learned, reasons for failures/success).
• Coordinates the YLP’s mentorship support, where relevant.
• Conducts an overview and analysis of the relevant partners, donors, and stakeholders to the project, and develops a plan for an efficient flow of information between them and the project, and vice versa.
• Develops general tools/guidelines for operative communication measures at regional/national/local levels, for instance, press releases, social media, press events, social media, and campaigns.
• Carrying out other tasks as assigned by Regional Coordinator in coordination with respective supervisor, and any other required administrative work.
• Leading the YLP alumni support team and creating the required linkages between the programme’s alumni and the UNDP youth team.
• Mapping youth activities in the CO, creating linkages between Youth Leadership Programme and other UNDP CO youth programmes.
• Preparing project proposals and presenting suggested ideas in a clear and innovative manner.

Institutional Arrangement

The direct supervisor is the Youth Focal Points in close coordination with the Regional Coordinator

• Core – applicable to all personnel. Select the relevant level for each competency based on the required behaviors.
• People Management – if the personnel have people management responsibilities, insert the standard text with the link to the people management competencies list.
• Cross-functional & Technical: Insert up to 7 competencies from the approved UNDP Cross-functional & Technical competencies list uploaded on the competency framework site.

Please refer to the competency framework site for the entire list of competencies and further explanations.