Job Description

IC/UNDP/IFL/157/2021 - Youth Start-up Support and Partnerships Consultant

Location : Home-Based, INDONESIA
Application Deadline : 18-Nov-21 (Midnight New York, USA)
Time left : 0d 2h 53m
Type of Contract : Individual Contract
Post Level : National Consultant
Languages Required :
English
Duration of Initial Contract : 180 Working days
Expected Duration of Assignment : one year


UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.

UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

Background

Interest candidate has to access procurement notice Ref.: IC/UNDP/IFL/157/2021 - Youth Start-up Support and Partnerships Consultant at the following link: https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=85254

We encourage you to submit your application through this website and send the complete application to bids.id@undp.org (only application with complete supporting document received in bids.id@undp.org before or at the closing date will be proceed).

Background

More than half of the world’s young people alive today, live on this continent. At the moment, roughly 68 of every 100 people in Asia are of working age. It is a region facing the challenges of extreme poverty and climate change but brimming with economic dynamism and a young workforce to deliver on unfulfilled potential. Furthermore, nearly a billion people in Asia are below the age of 15, which means by 2050 the region will have more working-age people, and fewer older and younger dependents than at any point in its history. This ‘youth bulge’ offers the region a unique opportunity for economic progress to lift millions more out of poverty, and ultimately close the gap with the developed world.

Young people in the region are 5-7 times more likely to be unemployed than their older counterparts at the same level of education. Women’s access to education and participation in the labour force remain stubbornly low across populous swathes of the region. The next wave of development gains as envisioned by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals must address the needs of those left behind. These are big issues and our solutions must be equally bold. UNDP’s Asia-Pacific Human Development Report for 2016 examines these demographic trends and sets out clear policy directions that governments can harmonise with their national development plans and strategies.

UNDP and its partners believe that youth can make a real and positive difference and create their own opportunities by engaging with these challenges head on through social entrepreneurship and innovation, exploring dynamic approaches to mobilizing their peers and communities and creating adaptive solutions to addressing youth economic marginalisation. Against this backdrop, the UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub (BRH), UNDP Indonesia and their partners are developed a regional project on Youth Economic Empowerment and Social Innovation (Youth Co:Lab). With the great majority of Asia’s peak-era workforce still in their early years, now is the time to invest in interventions that will harness their potential. In not doing enough to ride this wave, we risk losing the most potent inter-generational opportunity we have had in ensuring the well-being of one half of humanity.

Through the initial programme phase during 2017-19, UNDP Indonesia and BRH were able to strengthen the collaboration with key government counterparts, engage private sector and strengthen the youth led social entrepreneurship ecosystem in Indonesia and APAC. With this success, UNDP Indonesia and BRH is keen to expand the initiative to provide tailor made support to young innovators in Indonesia and across the region and is currently seeking a consultant to support the youth startups in the portfolio.

Duties and Responsibilities

The consultant is expected to assist the following activities in completing the assignments:

Startup Support and Account Management:

• Coordinate youth entrepreneurial mentorship programmes with partners and work with young founders to design training programmes
• Facilitate mentorship sessions with corporate volunteers
• Conduct needs assessment interviews and surveys for Indonesian Youth Springboard participants and draft a work plan to provide necessary support based on key demands;
• Identify various support platforms which are available to promising youth-led startups through the consultation with National Youth Empowerment Alliance and other key partners across the region;
• Provide mentoring, coaching and account management support to promising youth and startups in a regular basis (monthly is preferred);
• Support to develop a matchmaking platform between the startups and ecosystem partners (National Youth Empowerment Alliance);
• Facilitate and broker investment support to youth startups (grants, angel investments, incubation and acceleration programmes, impact investments, corporate investments etc.);
• Support to improve sustainability and health of the startups (financial, HR, customer acquisitions, business development, legal etc.);
• Draft reports based on the success stories of mentoring support to youth startups and recommendations to further improve the programme;

Project Management and Implementation:

• Support to develop innovation and youth strategies linking with existing project portfolios in UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub and UNDP Indonesia;
• Develop and maintain community of youth innovation and entrepreneurship in development sector, bridging Youth Co:Lab with programmes in the value chain;
• Manage the implementation of a number of specific innovation and youth initiatives pertaining to diverse project portfolios and project units in close coordination with the UNDP Indonesia Innovative Finance Lab team;

Partnership Management Communications:

• Support UNDP BRH in developing partnerships and the organization of meetings with the Youth Empowerment Alliance of Incubators with the objective to facilitate knowledge sharing, technology exchange, and access to finance;
• Mobilize partnerships and resources to support the UNDP Youth Programmes at both national and regional level.
• Collect and keep track of youth-related practices in UNDP Indonesia including the innovation and youth partners database;
• Prepare partnerships materials associated with innovation, youth and public-private partnerships (i.e. PowerPoint presentations, brochures, etc.) as needed.
• Conduct the due diligence, prepare financing agreement, MoU and other relevant documents to support the partnership process.

Competencies

Competencies and special skills requirement:

• Strong project management (planning, organization, and implementation) and partnership skills
• Excellence in written and spoken of English and Bahasa Indonesia is required.
• Ability to work under pressure with minimum supervision and on-distance
• Demonstrated initiative, tact, and high sense of responsibility and discretion
• Ability to work independently and Excellence in teamwork
• Strong motivation & ability to work & deliver under short deadlines.
• Strong computer literacy and proficiency in MS office.
• Demonstrates commitment to the UN’s mission, vision and values;
• Demonstrates sound judgment, diplomacy and sensitivity to confidential matters.
• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure;
• Innovative forward thinking, good coordination and organizational skills, teamwork;
• Participate effectively in team-based, information sharing environment, collaborating and cooperating with others.
• Understanding of youth work and innovation methodologies is preferred;
• Excellent organizational skills with a successful track record of planning and implementing innovation events;
• Expertise and knowledge of the Asia-Pacific region, including Indonesia;
• Familiarity with the trend of new technology including IOT, VR/AR, Drone, AI, Behavior Insights, big Data, challenge Prizes, etc. is preferred

Required Skills and Experience

Academic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in development, international relations, business management, economics or related fields.

Years of experience:

• Three (3) years of relevant experience in the field of innovation, entrepreneurship, marketing, and educational training programmes;
• Prior experience in providing support to youth through mentoring, coaching and facilitating access to resources;
• Additional experience as business consultant/analyst in venture capital or investment companies is an asset.