Youth Empowerment Specialist

Job Level Specifications

Essential Criteria

• Post Graduate Diploma in Development Studies, Social Science, Community Development,
  
• Bachelor’s degree in Development Studies, Business Administration, Social Sciences, Nutrition, Agriculture, Public Health and Gender Studies.
  
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in youth empowerment, community development, nutrition programming, or livelihoods programming.
  
• Demonstrated experience working with CSOs/CBOs, youth groups, and community-based structures.
  
• Strong experience in nutrition behaviours change communication (SBCC), Nutrition Impact and Postive Practices (NIPP), or similar community nutrition approaches.
  
• Experience working with young women, refugees, and persons with disabilities.
  
• Experience in implementing youth-centered and gender-transformative programming
  

Youth Empowerment, Skilling & Community Mindset Transformation

• Provide technical, financial, and legal support for the formation, strengthening, and formalization of youth and young women-led groups within the agrifood ecosystem.
  
• Map, profile, and enroll formal and informal youth groups and young women into the ASTYE program in collaboration with CSOs/CBOs.
  
• Support the identification, training, and mentorship of Youth Champions and Master Youth Champions to cascade services at community level.
  

Partnerships & Civil Society and Community Based organizations’ Capacity Strengthening

• Identify, assess, and onboard CSOs and CBOs as downstream implementing partners for youth empowerment and NIPP interventions.
  
• Conduct Organizational Capacity Assessments (OCAs) and develop capacity strengthening plans for CSOs/CBOs partners.
  
• Support partnership co-design, workplan development, implementation, and performance monitoring.
  

Youth Voice, Agency & Policy Engagement

• Support youth champions and young women to conduct community conversations to identify and address barriers to youth participation in agriculture.
  
• Facilitate youth participation in sub-county, district, regional, and national dialogue platforms, including youth parliaments and planning/budget conferences.
  
• Support youth-led evidence gathering, documentation, and dissemination (reports, audio-visuals, community briefs).
  

Nutrition Impact and Positive Practices (NIPP)

• Lead the planning and implementation of Nutrition Impact and Positive Practices (NIPP) interventions in target communities.
  
• Coordinate mapping, identification, and profiling of vulnerable and malnutrition-prone households.
  
• Support formative research on household decision-making, feeding practices, sanitation, food access, use and storage.
  

Market Linkages & Employment Pathways

• Facilitate linkages between youth groups and private sector actors, including agribusinesses, financial institutions, Business Development Services (BDS) providers, and agri-tech players.
  
• Support youth participation in agricultural trade shows, expos, youth agro-expos, and national/international events.
  
• Promote access to markets, inputs, finance, skilling, mentorship, and employment opportunities for young women.
  

Monitoring, Learning & Reporting

• Lead and coordinate programme documentation, including activity reports, field reports, meeting minutes, best practices, case studies, and success stories.
  
• Ensure proper filing and record keeping of programme documents, tools, training materials, and partnership agreements.
  
• Support preparation of quarterly, annual, and donor reports by compiling accurate and timely information.
  

Supervision & Team Support

• Provide technical supervision and guidance to Program Officers implementing youth empowerment and NIPP activities.
  
• Support Program Officers in planning, budgeting, implementation, and reporting of activities.
  
• Conduct regular field supervision visits to ensure quality implementation and compliance with programme standards.
  
• Support performance monitoring, coaching, and continuous capacity development of Program Officers.