Old job: Children and Youth Program Officer

Job title:	Children and Youth Program Officer
Expected time to start:	July 2024
Grade:	2-3 (in the grade level of MSD)
Venue:	Hanoi with some travels to other provinces and countries when necessary

BACKGROUND

Management and Sustainable Development Institute (MSD) is a Vietnamese Non-governmental Organization established on March 05, 2008.

From 2021, MSD officially becomes United Way Vietnam – a member of United Way Worldwide – the largest global network of non-profit organizations.

Vision: We envision a world of justice and equality, where all individuals and their families can achieve their human potential through good education, financial stability, and healthy lives.

Mission: MSD – United Way Vietnam is making efforts to improve sustainable lives by mobilizing the caring power to the united partnership of an ecosystem for sútainable development.

Core values and principles:

Live United
Equitable Partnership
Inclusion and people empowerment
Good governance, transparency and accountability
Innovation and Inspiration

Slogan: Live United – Creating trends, leading changes

Approach:

Mobilization: Mobilizing caring power, investment, and good practice for social impact.
Solution: Providing the stop, comprehensive and effective solution services to improve sustainable lives in (1) Education for Development; (2) Income Mobility; and (3) Environmental Health.
Development: Advocating for enabling environment/ecosystem for sustainable development.

To support the MSD team to achieve the best results, we are in need of a Program Officer to support the organization to manage the Children and Youth program and do communication work for the program and MSD in general.

ASSIGNEMENT REQUESTS

Assignment purpose: to provide effective support for the Children and Youth program manager to implement the development strategy of MSD in 2021 – 2025.
Working location: mainly in Hanoi, some travel to Hue, Da Nang, Hochiminh city, and some other provinces and countries when assigned.
The job assigned manager and technical supporter: direct report to and be supported/coached by the program director of MSD.
Main responsibilities:

Management and operation: Managing the implementation of Children and Youth projects/programs throughout the project/program management cycle (design, develop the plan, coordinate the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation);
Support in MSD works at regional and international levels of Child Rights Governance and Advocacy;
Manage projects on child right governance, gender-based violence response related innitiatives, youth engagements in SDGs and community innitiatives, and social entreupreneuship,etc.
Support event organization and communication of MSD in general
This position will be the contact point for the child safeguarding policy of the organization.

Work plan: Workplan of MSD strategy and Children and Youth program Strategy
Travel: This assignment requires travel to Hue/Danang and Hochiminh city and other provinces or other countries when necessary. The travel fee and perdiem will be under MSD’s cost norm system.
Reporting and job performance appraisal:
- Reporting: The project officer will self-prepare his/her work plan and direct report to the MSD Program Director on monthly basis his/her work plan and the level of completion; In addition to the monthly report, the half-year and final year report will be required. The report form will also be provided;
- Job performance appraisal: The job performance appraisal will be conducted annually as the appraisal system of MSD in alignment with this job assignment.
Benefits:
- Play the key role in MSD with a high potential of motivation to become a project manager;
- Working in the professional and healthy environment of MSD;
- Competitive and transparent motivation and salary mechanism – this assignment is in grades 1-2;
- Learning and coaching opportunities with other MSD managers, leaders, and experts;
- National and international learning or workshop participation opportunities in related topics.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Knowledge: Bachelor’s Degree (a Master’s is a plus) in major relating to Strategy and Management, Project Management or Social work relating to Children and Family, Knowledge of CSOs and Child Rights issues in Vietnam.
Experience: At least 3 years of working experience in project management, experience and knowledge in children and youth-related activities can be an asset.
Skills: Have leadership skills. Fluent in English in all 4 skills of reading, writing, listening, and speaking; Good communication skills, and computer skills;
Working attitude: Creative, determined, results-oriented, self-management, ready to learn and share

APPLICATION

Interested candidates should send their CVs and resume in English to email: [email protected], with the subject of “PO 2024_(name of applicant)” (e.g: “PO 2024_ Anh Nguyen) as soon as possible. We will scan the application and contact directly the appropriate candidate(s) from this job announcement is released on a first come first serve basis. The deadline for application is June 10^th, 2024.

MSD is an organization working for the best benefit of children and has a child-safeguarding policy. All staff are required to strictly follow the child-safeguarding policy and be committed to developing an enabling and safe environment for children. Alcohol and tobacco use is strictly prohibited at work.

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Children and Youth Program Officer