Director YIELD Hub
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.
The YIELD Hub uses action learning, a problem-solving method used to generate innovative solutions to complex problems, to develop new and creative ways for adolescents and youth to get involved in Adolescent and Youth SRHR. We convene and engage Adolescent and Youth SRHR stakeholders to reflect and change practices in ways that support partnership with adolescents and youth in SRHR work.
The YIELD Collective Action Learning Hub is recruiting a
(36 hours per week, vacancy number 2025-01)
Are you committed to creating a world where young people are actively contributing to and influencing all levels of decision making and implementation of AYSRHR efforts? Do you identify as an influencer, strategist and implementer with transformational ideas about how youth and adult practitioners, researchers, advocates and funders can work together to evolve practices that deliver better AYSRHR? Do you believe in collective action learning1 as an approach to dismantling entrenched barriers and creating new opportunities? Are you creative, ambitious and interested in strenghtening and scaling a cross-stakeholder platform to support progress in the AYSRHR field?
If this sounds like you, keep reading about the Director role!
About the Collective Action Learning Hub
Young people want and deserve the power to make decisions about their bodies, their lives, and their futures. This requires adolescent and youth partnership in policy-making, program design and implementation in Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (AYSRHR).
However, while principles of meaningful adolescent and youth engagement have been affirmed in several international legal and normative frameworks, the practice of meaningful adolescent and youth engagement in AYSRHR is not widely embraced. Since 2022, the YIELD Hub has used ‘action learning’ – a problem-solving method for generating innovative solutions to complex problems – to develop ways for adolescents and youth to engage in AYSRHR. This core work on action learning has been supported by communication and outreach activities, partner convening and advocacy.
The YIELD Hub is an independent initiative staffed by a small international team and hosted by Rutgers.
Find more information about the YIELD Hub on http://yieldhub.global
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.
If you do not meet all the criteria above but still feel your experience could be a good fit
for the role, please apply. We recognize that candidates who do not check every box can add value to the Hub.
What we offer
We offer a challenging position in an international working environment, with highly motivated and qualified colleagues. The position is a contractual position for one year, with opportunity for annual renewal. Global conditions permitting, the position may require up to 10% regional and international travel. Compensation range is US$60,000–75,000 per year based on a 36-hour week and a consultancy contract.
We are seeking a geographically, gender diverse team of young professionals between the ages of 25-35 years. Young professionals from the Global Majority are encouraged to apply.
Information and application
If you are an interested and qualified candidate, please apply no later than Sunday 26 January. Your application should include a cover letter focused on describing why this specific role and the Hub initiative are interesting and important to you. This cover letter should also showcase your relevant experience and skills and be accompanied by your resume.
Responding to this vacancy can only be done via the link to the online application form in the relevant vacancy at www.rutgers.international/vacancies. For more information about the YIELD Hub, please visit http://yieldhub.global. For additional background information on Rutgers, please consult www.rutgers.international.
An assignment can be part of the recruitment process. We ask candidates we invite to the second round to complete an online questionnaire prior to that interview. Based on this, we draw up a personal profile that addresses competences, team roles and learning agility (the ability to learn from changes in the work environment). We discuss this during the interview. Furthermore, the submission of a Certificate of Good Conduct and requesting references are part of the procedure. We follow the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme for requesting written references.
If you have any questions, please contact Olloriak Sawade, Director of International Programmes at Rutgers, via vacatures@rutgers.nl, stating the vacancy number.
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