ILO internship(Canadian Nationalities Only)

GENERAL INFORMATION

Title of the posting: YEN Associate - Grants Officer 

Host Institution: ILO – Kenya Project Office Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Duration of Appointment: Total: 7 months 

In Canada – Pre-departure research and orientation: 2 weeks -Return: 

Debriefing and outreach: 2 weeks -On the job:

6 months Dates of Appointment: May – December, 2013

SUPERVISION Direct supervision by: Global College with Drew Gardiner, Technical Officer, YEN Geneva and Julius Mutio, ILO Enterprise Specialist I Kenya

BACKGROUND

CIDA-funded internships

The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) funds an annual internship placement programme - Young Professionals International (YPI). As a part of the this programme, CIDA has entered into a Contribution Agreement with the Global College, Canada and the Secretariat of the Youth Employment Network (YEN), Switzerland to place 5 Canadian “YEN Associates” in YEN Lead country offices. The four countries where Associates will be hosted are: Kenya, Morocco, Indonesia and Tanzania. The programme will be run annually over a 3 year time period: 2011-2013.

Global College

The University of Winnipeg Global College fosters global citizenship and engagement in human rights through interdisciplinary teaching, research, dialogue, and action in local and global communities. As an action-oriented, interdisciplinary forum for bringing students and community members into contact with local faculty, visiting scholars, local leaders and notable speakers from around the world, to discover their role within the local and global community, Global College provides a range of global citizenship programming for its affiliated students, beginning in secondary school, reaching beyond university graduation.

Global College’s will act as primary administrator for the Programme, responsible for recruitment, ensuring that Associates are trained and prepared for their placements and travel and stipend arrangements are made. Global College will also lend its education expertise, facilitating learning among Associates and ensuring this learning is shared with a broader Canadian audience.

Youth Employment Network

The Youth Employment Network is an interagency partnership of the International Labour Organization, United Nations and World Bank working to engage, educate and motivate actors to provide improved employment opportunities for youth. YEN was created in 2002 following the Millennium Summit which identified youth employment as priority for the global development agenda. In 2008, YEN went through a major revision of its intervention strategy, dedicating itself to providing more demand driven services to its Network and committing itself to higher accountability towards its stakeholders. The result of this revision was the division of YEN’s work into 4 major workstreams: (1) Advisory services through YEN’s Lead Country Network, (2) Capacity building on rigorous evaluation through YEN’s Evaluation Clinic, (3) Innovation through the Youth-to-Youth Fund and (4) Partnership development through an online portal called the YEN Marketplace.

YEN’s primary role in the Programme is to provide Associates with context and backstopping on the youth employment issue. YEN will be the main interface with host country institutions, assisting in aligning Associates work with priorities of the host institutions and transferring learning to the wider YEN Network.

International Labour Organization – Kenya Project Office

The Youth Entrepreneurship Facility (YEF) is based at the ILO area office in Tanzania and two ILO country offices in Kenya and Uganda. YEF is a 5 year (2010-2014), $22 million project sponsored by the Danish-led Africa Commission. The project is expected to create 11,500 new jobs for youth in the region. YEN is the ILO’s main partner on the project providing valuable support in terms of evaluation, youth participation and knowledge sharing. YEN’s main responsibility under the project is the Youth-to-Youth Fund, a grant scheme targeting youth led employment organizations.

The ILO’s Kenya Project Office is based at the UN complex in Nairobi (http://www.unon.org/ ). In Kenya, the ILO is collaborating with the Kenya Community Development Foundation (KCDF) to run the Youth-to-Youth (Y2Y) Fund. The Youth-to-Youth Fund is a concrete offer to youth-led organizations in Kenya to actively engage in youth entrepreneurship development and to identify innovative, small-scale solutions that can be replicated by others. In line with the ILO’s focus on green employment and entrepreneurship, a portion of the Y2Y Fund grants in Kenya is earmarked for projects that support the promotion of green entrepreneurship opportunities.

The second call for proposals took place in September 2011 resulted in over 400 applications. Ten organizations were selected to receive the Y2Y Fund grant package of funding and capacity building to implement their entrepreneurship development projects. These projects will be implemented with technical support from KCDF, YEF and its BDS partner organizations.

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE

Eligibility A Canadian citizen or permanent resident A post-secondary graduate - graduate of a degree or diploma program from a university, college, post-secondary school of technology, postsecondary institute or a CEGEP Out of school Between the ages of 19 and 30 Unemployed or underemployed Legally entitled to work in Canada

Skills/Experience Ability to draft technical reports and meet deadlines; excellent computer skills. Strong relational skills are needed to ensure effective coordination of a network with partners from different sectors and countries. Working experience in international development and with project cycle management. Experience working or living abroad.

Languages This post requires proficiency in English. Knowledge of Kiswahili would be an asset.

How to apply:

APPLICATION

Send your CV and cover letter to global.college@uwinnipeg.ca by February 18, 2013. If you would like to be considered for several of the placements, please indicate which positions in your letter. (Application due Midnight February 18 CST)

More info: http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/gc-internships