The Youth Grow Activity (YGA) is a five-year (2023-2028) USAID-funded project implemented by Q2 Impact and partners, adopting Positive Youth Development (PYD) principles to empower Jordanian youth for the benefit of the youth and society at large. The YGA targets youth aged 10-29, prioritizing girls, women, people with disabilities, and isolated or economically disadvantaged communities. The YGA focuses on three core objectives: (1) preparing youth for economic opportunities by providing access to high-quality online career counseling and entrepreneurship and employability readiness services; (2) strengthening youth leadership, inclusion and social participation through targeted support of local youth-led organizations (YLOs) and youth-serving organizations (YSOs) and (3) strengthening Jordan’s youth support systems to create youth inclusive and enabling economic and social environment, in partnership with the youth.

The YGA Theory of Change (TOC): The YGA believes that equipping youth and families with knowledge, resources, and leadership opportunities, along with stronger youth-inclusive systems, will lead to increased youth engagement in their economy and communities.

Overarching Activity Objectives and Expected Key Result Areas

YGA aims to achieve three main objectives:

• Enhance youth readiness for economic opportunities. Through increased access to career counseling and employability information, access to employability and entrepreneurial readiness services, and access to funding opportunities, the youth will be better prepared and inspired to start income generating opportunities and engage in the private sector.

• Enhance youth involvement in decision-making and leadership. Local YLOs, YSOs, and youth groups will be supported to engage youth and strengthen their leadership capacities to provide and implement solutions and initiatives that enhances youth readiness and accessibility to economic opportunities.

• Strengthen national youth support systems and enabling environment. Co-creating youth-effective services and policies in collaboration with the Ministry of Youth and other influential stakeholders, to foster an enabling environment for PYD-grounded youth participation in economic sectors.

ROLES and RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Youth Leadership, inclusion, and participation Component Lead will assist the DCOP in the overall project management of the USAID Youth Grow Activity project, the Youth Leadership, inclusion, and participation Component Lead’s specific responsibilities will include the following:

• Develop and implement a strategic plan for youth leadership, inclusion, and participation.
• Oversee the development and implementation of youth leadership, inclusion, and participation interventions and activities.
• Develop and implement plans to sustain youth leadership, inclusion, and participation interventions and activities with potential national youth system’s actors
• Supervise capacity assessments and capacity building activities for YLOs and YSOs.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration among YLOs and YSOs.
• Manage technical assistance and financial support provided to YLOs and YSOs for youth-led initiatives, including grants.
• Facilitate the establishment and operation of YGA’s youth steering committee.
• Lead the establishment and operation of the youth community of practice.
• Conduct an annual youth national forum, focusing on youth accessing economic opportunities and other supporting functions
• Supervise the activities related to supporting the development and implementation of the national youth strategy
• Organize workshops and brainstorming sessions for stakeholders to adopt CLA practices within youth programing

• Manage the budget and resources for the youth leadership, inclusion, and participation Component.
• Ensure compliance with relevant policies, regulations, and donor requirements.

• Foster partnerships with government agencies, private sector actors, and civil society organizations to support youth initiatives.
• Support advocacy efforts for youth leadership, inclusion, and participation policies and programs.

• Monitoring and Evaluation:
  • Support monitoring, evaluation, learning, and adaptation for the youth leadership, inclusion, and participation Component, and track and analyze the program’s impact on youth outcomes.
  • Ensure alignment between the youth leadership, inclusion, and participation Component outcomes and outputs and the overall goals and objectives of YGA’s.

• Collaboration and Networking:
• Collaborate with other components of YGA to ensure a holistic approach to youth leadership, participation, and inclusion.
• Network with local stakeholders to promote youth inclusion, leadership, and participation.

• Team Leadership
• Provide leadership, mentorship, and guidance to a team of youth inclusion, leadership, and participation specialists and coordinators.
• Conduct regular team meetings to share best practices, discuss challenges, and align strategies.

• Communication and Reporting:
• Maintain clear and open communication channels with youth participants, and stakeholders.
• Prepare regular reports on program outcomes, success stories, and areas for improvement.
• Any other assignments provided by the DCOP.

EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE:

• Bacher degree in social studies or any other relevant technical field.
• Minimum 8 years of experience, 4 of which in managing development and/or humanitarian projects/programs.
• Hands on experience in designing and implementing youth inclusion, social participation and advocay
• Working with USAID and programs funded by other bilateral governmental donors is a plus. 

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, and ABILITIES:

• Ability to work with people with different backgrounds and experiences.
• Able to travel in the region and outside the region.
• Awareness, sensitivity, and understanding of cross-cultural issues.
• Superb written and verbal communication skills in both Arabic and English.
• Strong time-management skills and the ability to organize and coordinate multiple projects at once.

• Ability to effectively motivate and work as a team player.
• Self-motivated and able to follow through to the end of assignments while meeting goals and deadlines.
• Proficiency with MS Office applications including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Accuracy, and attention to detail.

REPORTS DIRECTLY TO:

The Deputy Chief of Party at USAID Youth Grow.

WORKS DIRECTLY WITH:

YGA’s COP, communication specialist, DFA, MEAL manager, and consortium partners.