Consultant – Community Engagement and Communication, Youth Participation in TVET

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🕒 5 days ago

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👫 Community Manager

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World University Service of Canada (WUSC - EUMC)

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1963

🤝 Non-profit

📚 Education

🌍 Social Impact

Non-profit • Education • Social Impact

World University Service of Canada (WUSC - EUMC) is a Canadian non-profit organization dedicated to improving education, economic, and empowerment opportunities for young people across the globe. By collaborating with a diverse network of students, volunteers, schools, governments, and businesses, WUSC seeks to address inequality and exclusion in over 15 countries worldwide, including regions in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Their initiatives focus on enhancing access to quality education, particularly among girls and refugees, increasing access to training and employment services, and empowering youth to contribute to a more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable world. In Canada, WUSC is involved in the resettlement of refugees through its Student Refugee Program and engages Canadians to foster a better understanding of global development issues.

📋 Description

• Provide ongoing strategic oversight and technical assistance to community engagement partners • Support the design, execution and monitoring of research-informed social marketing campaigns • Translate evidence-based research into localized, community-driven campaign activities • Support monitoring of campaign reach and behaviour-change pathways, adaptation of approaches and documentation of learning • Coordinate with the STRIVE technical team, Women’s Rights Organizations, youth champions, TVET providers, private-sector partners and community representatives • Identify barriers affecting young people’s participation in TVET, particularly young women and other underserved groups • Facilitate awareness and outreach initiatives and strengthen linkages among communities, TVET providers and stakeholders • Support communication and campaigning activities promoting inclusive participation in TVET and skills development • Identify and challenge harmful social norms restricting youth and female participation in Agriculture and Hospitality & Tourism TVET programs • Review research, district recommendations, labour-market and TVET ecosystem evidence and translate findings into campaign priorities • Support audience and influencer targeting and analysis of social norms, attitudes, practices and accessibility barriers • Facilitate behaviour-change pathways linking barriers, behaviours, influencers, messages, engagement approaches and channels • Co-design campaign strategies, messages, activities, channels and implementation plans • Provide technical coaching and accompaniment during campaign implementation • Facilitate inception, evidence synthesis, norm prioritization, co-design workshops and implementation planning • Produce workshop facilitation reports, a social marketing and engagement strategy, partner-specific implementation plans and progress trackers, and a knowledge-transfer and learning-synthesis report

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated professional experience in developing campaign activities for community engagement and BCC-focused social marketing activities • Experience applying gender equality and social inclusion principles, including working with women, youth and/or persons with disabilities • Experience facilitating participatory processes and strengthening the capacity of local organizations or community-based partners • Knowledge of Sri Lanka’s TVET, youth employment or skills-development context is highly desirable • Excellent communication and written Tamil skills required • Fluency in English is preferred • Sinhala is an advantage • Demonstrated ability to produce clear and concise quality reports and learning documents • Submit CVs describing experience in campaign strategy development and processes for community engagement and social marketing

🏖️ Benefits

• Possible contract extension • Working days negotiable depending on project requirements