Summary
Date Posted: Monday, February 07, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
This is an opportunity to work with an Ashoka Fellow
Ashoka Fellows are leading social entrepreneurs that have been taken through a rigorous selection process, testing the quality of their ideas and character, to become part of the Ashoka Fellowship and Network. Ashoka Fellows take on the challenges of building innovative system change ideas to make and spread social impact in a world wrought with challenges. They refuse to let the ‘impossible’ stand in their way to creating a better world.
This is an unpaid, volunteer opportunity

About The Affiliated Organization
Gold Youth was founded by Ashoka Fellow Susannah Farr
With 200 million people aged between 15 and 24, Africa has the youngest population in the world. Many of these young people are at risk of being visionless, lacking adult role models, without adequate education and health services, at risk of HIV, orphaned, unskilled, or made vulnerable by the pain of life, unemployment and poverty. It is our dream to see an entire generation know their full potential and translate this potential into reality; filled with vision and purpose for their lives. We want these young people grow up in their own communities to be healthy, spiritually alive adults, able to contribute towards social and economic transformation.

Gold has a Mission:
To roll out quality youth peer education programmes in alignment to the Gold Model thereby empowering youth peer leaders to become positive role models and agents of social and economic change. Gold has an audacious goal: To develop a million young African leaders with character and integrity to mobilise their generation to reach their full potential, with concrete results in social behaviour change, education and job creation. Gold Peer Education is based on the reality that many people make changes not only based on what they know, but on the opinions and actions of their close, trusted peers. Peer educators can communicate and understand in a way that adults can’t, and they can serve as role models for change. Personal change leads to group change, which leads to community change.

Topics that are Covered Fall into 6 Modules of Content
Gold Social Franchisees are non-profit organisations that Gold-Youth partners with to implement our programme. Gold-Youth gives these organisations a range of services, including quality assurance, which help the peer education programme to run successfully in selected high schools and their surrounding communities. The many players that make up a community e.g. clinics, government, businesses and families play an important part in supporting the programme and its participants. We call this the Gold Model. Gold-Youth provides a job creation opportunity for unemployed youth to be Facilitator Interns. Facilitator Interns have completed school, and their role is to train and mentor teenage leaders called Peer Educators. Facilitator Interns start as a Junior and move through 4 years of their internship until they are a Lead Facilitator Intern. Both Facilitator Interns and Peer Educators receive resources containing all they need to know and use to participate successfully in the programme.
• Leadership (including Work Readiness)
• Self-Development
• Gender, Relationships & Rights
• Sexual & Reproductive Health
• Communication Skills

Community Action Peer Educators receive training and mentoring from Facilitator Interns; give training and mentoring to their Peers, and participate in community upliftment activities that are either focused on advocacy, awareness or acts of service (volunteering). Peer Educators are given academic support, work readiness support and workplace experience. gold-youth works with many Social Franchisees in a province/region. Gold walks with our Peer Educators and Facilitator Interns that complete the programme. They become part of Gold Grads (our alumni programme) for life. They are supported into a pathway of economic independence. We connect them to post-school opportunities in:
• Further study
• Jobs/Internships/Learnerships
• Micro-businesses We want to guide them into seeing a hope-filled future and support them as a group of active citizens and nation builders. Through this Gold Model, grassroots youth are activated with purpose. This produces concrete results in improved education, social behaviour change and job creation. These are key outcomes that contribute towards seeing Africa flourish.
For more information, please visit goldyouth.org

Job Description
In 2018, Gold-Youth became a member of the Poverty Stoplight family now known as the Greenlight movement, which uses is a unique monitoring and impact assessment tool that helps people to progress out of poverty through empowering them to understand and map their own choices. The tool was re-branded ‘My gold Journey’ for gold-youth. The survey, consisting of 50 indicators categorised across 6 dimensions of poverty, is used to ascertain baseline status of beneficiaries and their households which will be followed by 12-month, 24-month and 36-month follow-up surveys to determine transformation of the respondent’s status from poverty to non-poverty. Having been designed based on the South African context, it has been rolled out in South Africa.

However, as the Greenlight tool is a critical component within our M&E and Impact Assessment, and it is imperative that we roll it out within all our countries of operation. We are in the process of developing a proof of concept for scale up into Africa, and we are doing this based on data from all 5 countries, and therefore our evidence from this tool in all countries is necessary. With this background in mind, Gold-Youth will engage in the process of piloting the tool in the other 4 countries.

This requires the involvement of Country experts to participate in an exercise of analysis the 50 indicators of the Greenlight tool, and providing Country knowledge and insight needed in order to “tweak” the tool according to the country context. This may involve re-framing, removing or adding questions to the existing survey tool, and the end product will be country adapted tools for Botswana, Rwanda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is our hope that we can have a tool which can be Africa relevant at a macro level whilst still applicable for local contexts.
Volunteer Logistics
Estimated hours required per week: 5-8 hours per week
The estimated duration of the project is: 1-3 months
This position is Virtual
Language Requirements
English; Other African Languages spoken in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Rwanda

Desired Skills and Experience
Country expert/s of Botswana, Rwanda, Zambia and Zimbabwe must have vast knowledge of the general social, socio-economic, socio-political, health, environmental, infrastructural dimensions within the particular country.
As the country-specific tools may need to be translated, local language fluency and writing ability is an added advantage.
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Education Requirement: No Requirements

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

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