YIELD Hub - Content Creator and Communications Coordinator

Job Description

At YIELD Collective Action Learning Hub, we are looking for a Content Creator and Communications Coordinator to join our team.

• Are you an outstanding content creator and a good writer?
• Do you have innovative ideas about how to use content on digital platforms, in-person opportunities, and other communications tools, in order to engage and bring together groups of people with various backgrounds?
• Are you creative, ambitious, and interested in contributing to a new cross-stakeholder initiative to support progress in the field of adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health and rights?

If this sounds like you, keep reading, because the YIELD Collective Action Learning Hub is looking for a Content Creator and Communications Coordinator.

The Content Creator and Communications Coordinator is an innovative content developer and writer, and an experienced communicator. In this role, you will generate new content to position the YIELD Hub as a leading entity in AYSRHR/Youth Partnership. You will harvest the knowledge generated through the YIELD Hub’s work and other activities. You will conceptualize, develop and package written and visual content for diverse audiences, including youth and non-youth implementers, researchers, and funders. Last but not least you will share content through digital platforms and other forms of communication aligned with the YIELD Hub’s overall Content and Communications Strategy.

You will coordinate the implementation of the YIELD Hub’s Content and Communications Strategy.

You will create content:

• Develop written, visual and audio content for diverse stakeholder audiences through digital channels, such as social media, the website and newsletter.
• Analyze Action Learning Group processes and results and transform them into high-quality audience-specific content.
• Establish and implement processes for content generation with the Action Learning Group Lead, group members, and other partners.

You will coordinate the communications activities:

• Coordinate all aspects of content promotion and stakeholder communications, including social media, events, campaigns, knowledge product dissemination, and website utilization.
• Create, identify and leverage opportunities to use the YIELD Hub learning and knowledge, in order to influence positive change at different levels, within and across stakeholders in the AYSRHR ecosystem.
• Organize online and in-person events for the YIELD Hub.
• Establish the YIELD Hub’s knowledge and learning platforms and functionalities and support customization of existing network spaces (currently the IBP Exchange Platform and the YIELD Hub’s website).

We are looking for candidates who will bring the following skills to this role:

• Ability to process, analyze, synthesize, and summarize complex information from diverse perspectives clearly and concisely.
• Has experience managing multiple communications channels, including social media, to address various topics and audiences, including youth.
• Demonstrated excellence in communications, particularly in writing, editing, and social media and digital platforms.
• Awareness of key actors, frameworks, related politics and practices, and power dimensions in the AYSRHR field and youth participation.
• Relevant experience at the intersection of communications and youth leadership, international development, community development, and AYSRHR. Relevant social science field knowledge is desirable.
• Written and verbal Fluency in English; proficiency in French desirable.

If you do not meet all the criteria above but still feel your experience and skill level 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 YIELD Hub.

We offer a challenging position in an international working environment with highly motivated and qualified colleagues. The position is contractual for one year, with the opportunity for annual renewal. Global conditions permitting the job may require up to 10% regional and international travel. The compensation range is US$40–50,000 per year based on a 36-hour week.

Did you become enthused after reading this job posting? Then we warmly invite you to apply no later than 9 october 2022. Dates for the first and second round interviews will be updated later on this page. Please keep an eye on the dates due to planning.

Individuals from all countries, gender identities and backgrounds are welcome to apply. Young professionals from countries not members of the European Union or the United States of America are encouraged to apply.

For additional background information on about the YIELD Hub, visit yieldhub.global. If you want more information about Rutgers as the hosting organization, please consult www.rutgers.international.

For further information about the position or if you have any questions, please contact David Imbago Jácome, YIELD Hub Manager, via vacatures@rutgers.nl, stating the vacancy number ”2022-27”.

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Applications for this position will be reviewed regularly; only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview.

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About the Organization

Young people want and deserve the power to decide their bodies, lives, and futures. It is both their right and their responsibility. But making this a reality requires youth participation at every level of AYSRHR decision-making and implementation – such that young people are engaged as partners and leaders in all efforts.

More than three decades of efforts to engage young people have demonstrated that, when this is done effectively, there are benefits not only for young people but also for the adults who work with them, the institutions they serve and lead, the initiatives they spearhead, and the outcomes they seek. Partnering with young people is not only the right thing to do; it improves the quality and responsiveness of AYSRHR efforts.

Yet despite increasing evidence of the multi-level benefits of youth partnership, this practice has not been systematically, consistently, or rigorously adopted. Mainstreaming youth partnership in AYSRHR is hindered by a lack of cross-stakeholder alignment, coordination, and shared learning. As such, stakeholders call for concentrated efforts toward collective action learning to overcome these persistent barriers and advance youth partnership in AYSRHR efforts as the norm.

The YIELD Collective Action Learning Hub (the YIELD Hub) functions as a cross-stakeholder platform for mainstreaming youth partnerships in the AYSRHR field as a norm. This is a new initiative built on the research and stakeholder engagement of the Youth Investment, Engagement, and Leadership Development Project (YIELD Project). For more information about the YIELD Hub, please visit yieldhub.global.

The YIELD Hub is an independent initiative hosted by Rutgers International. A core team staffs the YIELD Hub with operational support from Rutgers staff.