Strategic and Operational Planning and Implementation:
• Contribute to the overall Bank’s efforts to support the member countries to empower youth.
• Contribute as an expert and participate in project appraisal, design as well as processing and approval process as team member along with relevant regional hubs.
• Contribute to provision of input on youth empowerment while ensuring that the Bank’s policies, strategies, and interventions are adhering to the IsDB Youth Development Strategy and the associated action plans.
• Contribute and mainstream youth empowerment in Member Country Partnership Strategy (MCPS) formulation, country dialogues and engagements with relevant departments at HQ and regional hubs.
• Coordinate to the development of strategic policies, plans, guidelines, analytics, and other products related to youth empowerment with Women and Youth Empowerment division and with other Global Practices in Director General – Global Practices and Partnerships Complex.
• Lead the design and development of youth empowerment initiatives, programs, and projects of the Bank to support the member countries.
• Implement the frameworks, tools, and operational guidelines of the Bank to guide the Bank’s staff in supporting the member countries to empower youth.
• Monitor and assess initiatives related to youth empowerment programs and projects
• Contribute to the formulation of the operational programs/portfolios which maximize the utilization of resources and concentrate on results-based impact on youth empowerment in the member countries.
• Closely work with relevant units of the Bank and provide intellectual leadership on positioning the Global Practice (GP) internally and externally in relevant domains.
• Provide advisory on GPs work on youth empowerment, identifying staff and learning needs and setting competencies and standards for their global, regional, and country-specific solution areas to support the national youth empowerment agencies and institutions.
• Provide the regional hub staff with the necessary technical guidance and expertise in operationalizing the Youth Development Strategy of the Bank and associated action plan.
• Closely work with the Lead Youth Empowerment Specialist to design and update policies, strategies and actions aiming at empowering youth in the member countries.
• Provide expert advisory on the delivery of selected global engagement products on youth empowerment, and when needed, directly lead and participate in country dialogues and deliverables, in addition to capacity development interventions and events in member countries.
• Lead the monitoring of the implementation of IsDB Youth Development Strategy and associated action; review and revise the subject documents to align with any changes in the overall strategic direction of the Bank.
• Identify, contribute to and report on projects mainstreaming youth empowerment in the different sector interventions of the IsDB
• Participate in the formulation of relevant policies, sector guidance notes and any other relevant operational or fiduciary frameworks taking into account the dimension of youth development and empowerment
• Liaise with clients, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), academia, and development partners as required and in coordination with relevant divisions/departments/hubs to promote youth empowerment in line with the objectives and goals of the IsDB Youth Development Strategy
• Build and maintain strategic partnerships with leading institutions, think-tanks, philanthropists and donors, private sector, academia, among others in order to mobilize both technical and financial resources with the aim to advance the goals and objectives of the Bank and member countries in youth development and empowerment.
• Formulate/organize and contribute to national, regional and international platforms and events in order to enhance the visibility of the Bank in youth development and empowerment. Benefit from such platforms and events in order to enhance internal policies and strategic documents on youth empowerment.
• Lead the organization of knowledge sharing and dissemination events on youth empowerment of the Bank.
Capacity Development:
• Identify, assess, and monitor overall capacity development needs of internal stakeholders in the IsDB Group, the hubs as well as relevant external partners on the subject of youth development and empowerment with the aim to design and administer relevant capacity development interventions
• Develop and administer as needed technical assistance (TA) and youth empowerment grants and other training programs for capacity development.
Strategic Partnerships and Resource Mobilization:
• Work, in coordination with the Women and Youth Empowerment Division and others, on the leading work on women empowerment within the IsDB, and academia, MDBs and other key partners, outside IsDB, on the relevant research/ analysis, events and outreach.
• Contribute to the resource mobilization efforts to increase concessional and grant resources for the Bank to strengthen and promote youth development and empowerment.
• Liaise with the international youth development and empowerment institutions in order to promote and increase the visibility of IsDB’s interventions on youth development and empowerment.
Knowledge Sharing & Innovation:
• Track external issues and processes relevant to the best practices in addressing youth empowerment. Keep abreast of external developments and provide technical support to management on engagement in key external processes on these issues. This includes, among others, IsDB partnership with specialized UN agencies, multilateral development banks, bilateral finance institutions.
• Coordinate forums for knowledge generation, exchange and dissemination on issues of youth development and empowerment across the bank functions (with relevant GPs and Regional Hubs).
• Coordinate knowledge generation and advisory on youth empowerment with external stakeholders of relevance to IsDB’s activities including, but not limited to, member country institutions and agencies (including public, private and third sectors), IFIs, think-tanks and consultants.
Reporting & Communication:
• Contribute to the preparation of progress reports on thematic related activities in compliance with the Bank rules and procedures.