Director YIELD Hub
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Rutgers
Remote (global)- Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
- Job type: Job
- Experience level: Not specified
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: Remote (global)
- Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
- Remuneration: $60,000 USD-$75,000 USD / yearly
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 26/01/2025
- Location: Remote (global)
The YIELD Hub improves young people’s partnership in Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (AYSRHR) by facilitating action learning processes and influencing norm change. This partnership is equitable, mutually respectful and beneficial relationships between all actors, including young people.
What you will be doing
The Director is an influencer and a strategist. The individual in this role provides overall leadership, strategic direction and coordination of the YIELD Hub, oversees Hub operations and accountability structures and leads resource mobilization and external relationships.
The responsibilities include:
- Implement the Phase 2 Strategy (2025-2028) through an annual work plan while monitoring and adapting against the results framework.
- Identify opportunities within your network and beyond for funding and bring the right people together to further develop these opportunities into partnerships and successful funding proposals.
- Proactively promote the mission, learning and field-building contributions of the Hub and actively seek, identify and support opportunities to raise additional funding in collaboration with the Advisory Board, Host, and funders;
- Oversee the development and continuous improvement of functions, systems, tools, and processes to advance the Hub mission;
- Demonstrate leadership and purposeful management skills of remote teams, Advisory Board, and funder relationships;
- Build networks to help recruit cross-stakeholder members for Action Learning Groups and manage the Advisory Board engagement;
- Forge and manage relationships with Hub host officers and staff, funders, and external collaborators;
- Manage the complexity of cross-stakeholder collective action learning as an approach and respond to emergent community, technical, and funding priorities;
- Develop strong and positive relationships with Hub stakeholders, aligned with the Hub values and principles.
- Oversee successful implementation of age and gender related safeguarding policies.
Your profile
- Demonstrated experience leading and managing remote teams, complex and ambitious initiatives and associated funding streams; demonstrated experience influencing institutional or systems change;
- Robust, relevant and current cross-stakeholder network and willingness to leverage that network for the Hub’s work;
- Demonstrated successful fundraising experience in relation to AYSRHR and youth topics.
- Demonstrated experience working closely with international donors, preferably in partnerships or collaborative initiatives;
- Deep understanding of key actors, frameworks, related politics and practices, as well as power dimensions in the AYSRHR field;
- Broad understanding of youth civic engagement, youth leadership development, youth participation and engagement politics and practices;
- Understanding of how to use a theory of change as a living tool and roadmap for organized action and change within and across stakeholder groups;
- Excellent interpersonal and people management skills, mediation and conflict resolution skills, inclusive consultation skills and demonstrated ability to motivate others;
- University degree or related experience in youth leadership, international development, community development, AYSRHR or relevant social science field;
- Fluency in English and desired proficiency in French and/or Spanish.
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