International Youth Federation (IYF)
Youth Wellbeing and Mental Health, TL - Volunteer
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This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the design and development of a strategic programme pillar from its early stages.
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 wellbeing and resilience initiatives
- Mental health promotion and prevention approaches
- Youth development programming
- Public health and community wellbeing initiatives
- Psychosocial support programming and approaches
- Safeguarding, protection, or supportive environment initiatives
- Social and behaviour change initiatives
- International development programmes focused on youth wellbeing
- Programme design, coordination, or technical advisory roles related to wellbeing and resilience
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What will you be doing?
Overview
The IYF Bureau of Programme Support (BPS) is the programme management body within the IYF interventions. The Bureau is responsible for implementing the global programme and supporting Regional Administrations in programme management.
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 organisation. BPS develops, oversees, and implements general programmes, policies, requirements, and processes utilised by the International Youth Foundation (IYF) to achieve programmatic results.
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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 Wellbeing and Mental Health, 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 3.
- 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.
Programme Design and Quality Support
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- Contribute to development of frameworks, concepts, guidance, and tools related to youth wellbeing and resilience.
- Promote alignment with Results-Based Management principles and tools related to youth wellbeing and resilience.
- Support identification of indicators, evidence generation, and learning approaches.
- Encourage practical, scalable, and context-sensitive approaches aligned with youth priorities and in close collaboration with regional and country colleagues.
Knowledge Management, Partnerships and Convening
- Identify opportunities for partnerships and collaboration relevant to youth wellbeing and resilience.
- Support the development of curated resources and knowledge products.
- Promote collaboration with community actors, youth organizations, educational institutions, and relevant stakeholders.
- Facilitate exchange of lessons learned and promising practices across IYF.
- Contribute to external visibility and positioning of pillar achievements.
Team Leadership
- Recruit, manage, convene and coordinate volunteers and contributors working under the pillar.
- Foster collaboration, transparency, predictability, and accountability.
- Build an inclusive and youth-centered working culture.
- Encourage cross-pillar collaboration and learning.
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