International Youth Federation (IYF)
Team Leader, Youth Economic Empowerment - Volunteer
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The Team Leader
The Team Leader will contribute to defining priorities, developing resources and partnerships, establishing the foundations, and ways of working that will guide IYF’s work in this thematic area in the years ahead.
What difference will you make?
Mission Statement
To voluntarily represent, positively promote, and uphold the mission of “Empowering youth for a better world” in various programs and opportunities throughout the IYF interventions across member countries.
What are we looking for?
Required
Minimum 5 years of progressively responsible experience in two or more of the following areas
- Youth economic empowerment initiatives
- Workforce development and employability programmes
- Youth livelihoods and economic inclusion initiatives
- Entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems
- Career development and workforce readiness programmes
- International development programmes focused on youth empowerment
- Technical advisory roles related to livelihoods, employability, or economic participation
- Programme design, coordination, or management related to youth economic opportunities
- Partnership development involving employers, educational institutions, private sector actors, or ecosystem partners
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What will you be doing?
BPS serves as the programme management and strategic support function for IYF’s youth empowerment interventions. BPS develops programme frameworks, guidance, and support mechanisms to enable regional and country-level implementation and strengthen quality, alignment, and learning across the organization.
BPS develops, oversees, and implements general programmes, policies, requirements, and processes utilized by the International Youth Foundation (IYF) to achieve programmatic results. Aligned with the IYF Strategy 2026–2030, BPS operates as a resource, connector and convener to support Regional Directors, Country Directors/Representatives to implement youth centered interventions while advancing the global youth agenda.
Responsibilities
Pillar Leadership and Coordination
- Serve as technical leader on the subject of Youth Economic Empowerment, stay abreast of good practice in the area as well as unfolding needs, trends and gaps, and guide IYF on their added value, positioning and programme design.
- Lead annual and quarterly planning discussions for Pillar 2.
- Coordinate implementation priorities and monitor progress across initiatives.
- Facilitate regular coordination with relevant BPS colleagues and regional teams.
- Support prioritization and sequencing of pillar activities.
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Programme Design and Quality Support
- Contribute to the development of programme concepts, frameworks and guidance.
- Promote alignment with Results-Based Management principles and tools related to youth economic empowerment.
- Promote alignment with Results-Based Management principles.
- Support identification of indicators, evidence generation, and learning approaches.
- Encourage practical, scalable, and context-sensitive approaches.
Team Leadership
- Convene and coordinate volunteers and contributors working under the pillar.
- Foster collaboration and accountability.
Knowledge, Partnerships and Convening
- Identify opportunities for partnerships and collaboration relevant to youth livelihoods and economic participation.
- Support the development of curated resources and knowledge products.
- Promote collaboration with employers, educational institutions, ecosystem actors, and relevant stakeholders.
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