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Mission and objectives
UNICEF works to help the children of Indonesia reach their full potential. We assist our partners to monitor and measure progress against these rights via the child-focused Sustainable Development Goals, with an emphasis on the most vulnerable children. Our programme interventions are rights-based, cut across different sectors, respond to the specific needs of girls and boys and address the vulnerabilities and strengths of children in their first and second decades of life. UNICEF has a strong on-the-ground presence in Indonesia, with seven regional and sub-regional offices. These are primarily in areas with the greatest disparities and service gaps. They complement our high-level policy and programme advice with practical support for planning, financing and service delivery, especially to advocate for quality, equity and sustainability. Indonesia has the world’s fourth largest child population. UNICEF's presence in the country means we have the potential to impact more than 80 million children. We take this responsibility seriously and are committed to ensuring that children and adolescents – the building blocks of Indonesia’s future – have an equal chance in life.
Context
The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) states that children, young people have the right to be heard in matters affecting them – and have the right to have their views taken into account. Children and young people have shown that when they are given meaningful and authentic opportunities to participate, they can make a difference in the world around them; they have ideas, experience and insights that can make a positive contribution to their society, including on policies and programmes that will shape their country’s future. This is why a crucial part of UNICEF’s mandate is to provide young people with opportunities and platforms through which young people can build skills, identify their priorities, communicate in their own way and learn from their peers so they are better equipped to take an active role in society. To do that, UNICEF Indonesia supports an engagement model by creating Mitra Muda Youth Network and utilizing U-Report. Through the creation of the Mitra Muda Youth Network, UNICEF aims to provide young people with opportunities and platforms that support their civic engagement journey through various online and offline activities. Bringing together existing Youth Networks in the country and leveraging their resources for greater impact, Mitra Muda members have been engaged in capacity building initiatives, focus group discussions, user-testing workshops, content creation, to high-level events at national or global level. Since the initial inception in 2021, Mitra Muda now has an active members of 60 young leaders across Indonesia and 50+ alumni members. U-Report is the digital communication platform led by UNICEF to engage with young people. It conducts polls regularly to understand young people’s perceptions on issues that matter to them and provides information portal to give curated information and micro-learning platform. In Indonesia, the chatbot is live via direct message in WhatsApp Messenger, Facebook Messenger, and Telegram, while the digital campaigns are available in social media feed in Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. The UNV will be placed in the UNICEF Indonesia Social Behavior Change and Youth Engagement unit of the Communication Section, working closely with various units of the section, as well as the adolescent and sectoral focal points across the office. Under the guidance of the supervisor, the UNV will be expected to work cross-sectorally with other UNICEF clusters (health, child protection, social policy, education, etc.) at national and subnational levels.
Task description
Under the direct supervision of Communication Officer on Youth Engagement, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks: - Coordinate Mitra Muda engagement and participation o Co-developing annual workplan with Mitra Muda members in consultation with respective sectoral colleagues at Country and Field Offices, including the capacity building and activity supervision plan. o Supporting young people’s participation across programme clusters by proposing Mitra Muda’s active and strategic roles in relevant initiatives. o Liaising with other UNICEF Indonesia’s-supported Youth Networks/programme alumni and mapping and liaising with other youth-led organisations and other UN agencies’ Youth Network to partner with. o Strengthening team spirits among Mitra Muda members through online and offline engagements, and providing the needed coaching and mentoring support while upholding UNICEF’s ethical values. - Prepare knowledge management and communication products on youth engagement initiative o Monitoring post-engagement activities to ensure there is clear a feedback loop on follow-up actions o Creating a monthly documentation report, including lessons learnt and good practices on the youth participation initiatives, especially for the Mitra Muda’s involvement - Support the implementation of U-Report Indonesia o Running the technical process in RapidPro backend system o Co-developing creative content with Mitra Muda, including assisting the articles writings for Mitra Muda’s involvement o Developing content and maintaining the online community in social media, including its scale up strategy for U-Reporters recruitment - Support any relevant Communication and Public Advocacy initiatives o Supporting the team to plan, coordinate, and execute the online and offline youth engagement activities, such as online streaming events, offline community engagement, and volunteer projects o Providing general support for communication activities and events when necessary and liaising with relevant programme colleagues working on youth engagement to ensure good coordination Furthermore, UN Volunteers are encouraged to integrate the UN Volunteers programme mandate within their assignment and promote voluntary action through engagement with communities in the course of their work. As such, UN Volunteers should dedicate a part of their working time to some of the following suggested activities: • Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and take active part in UNV activities (for instance in events that mark International Volunteer Day); • Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country; • Provide annual and end of assignment self-reports on UN Volunteer actions, results and opportunities. • Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/ websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.; • Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly-arrived UN Volunteers; • Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering or encourage relevant local individuals and organisations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible. Results/expected outputs: • Mitra Muda network is engaged meaningfully in UNICEF Indonesia’s programmes • U-Report platform in social media and bot system maintained, including creative content strategically produced and the numbers of U-Reporters recruited growing. • Participation in youth related meetings/events and meeting notes provided, highlighting key summaries and action points. • Effective and timely support for office wide, cross sectoral youth engagement/programming. • The development of capacity through coaching, mentoring and formal on-the-job training, when working with (including supervising) national staff or (non-) governmental counterparts, including Implementing Partners (IPs); • Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) perspective is systematically applied, integrated and documented in all activities throughout the assignment • A final statement of achievements towards volunteerism for peace and development during the assignment, such as reporting on the number of volunteers mobilized, activities participated in and capacities developed
