Regional Representative, Africa

One role for each sub-region of Africa. You make YouthShare known there, bring the Country Coordinators together and connect young people in your sub-region with the five labs. We look for proven leadership: an initiative you led, people you mobilised, results you achieved.

Read the full role description on our website: full role description

HOW TO APPLY: PLEASE READ

You can apply here on Idealist, but you must also apply on our website, even if you have already sent your application on Idealist. On the website you present your background, attach your CV and receive your application reference by email.

Apply on our website: apply for this role on youthshareinitiatives.org

THE ROLE AT A GLANCE

• Level: Lead

• Time: 4 to 6 hours a week

• Commitment: at least one year, fully voluntary role

• Location: fully remote, from any country

• Languages: English or French, ideally both

• Applications open until 31 January 2027. This listing may close earlier, as soon as the right person is found.

• Role page: youthshareinitiatives.org

TWO MONTHLY MEETINGS

As a Lead, you take part in two meetings every month. You must be able to align your team around shared goals and to organise and run its meetings.

ABOUT THE TEAM

In Africa, there is one role for each of five sub-regions: North Africa, West Africa, Central Africa, East Africa and Southern Africa. In your application, name the sub-region where you live and act. Within the leadership and coordination team, you report to the General Coordinator and coordinate the Country Coordinators of your sub-region. Official representation of YouthShare and the signing of its commitments stay with the presidency; any public presence of YouthShare in a country is decided with the Board, after a note on local law. The role is carried out remotely.

YOUR ASSIGNMENTS

• Present YouthShare in your sub-region to youth organisations, universities and institutions, working with the General Coordinator, and prepare the commitments that the presidency signs

• Build the sub-region’s roadmap (priority countries, first teams, first partnerships) and report on progress every quarter

• Identify the sub-region’s Country Coordinators with the Talent team, support them and bring their network together online every month

• Connect young people in your sub-region with the five labs on the issues that affect them, from jobs to governance: research avenues, debates, calls for contributions

• Support The Southern Compass Lab’s correspondents in your sub-region with contacts, field sites and introductions

• Suggest speakers from your sub-region for webinars and online exchanges with young people, working with the Speaker Research and Programming Officer

• Introduce organisations YouthShare could work with to the Head of Partnerships and Institutional Relations, who leads every partnership

• Apply YouthShare’s shared rules across the sub-region: editorial charter, safeguarding of minors (exchanges in the team’s shared spaces, parents informed of their child’s involvement), image rights, data protection

PROFILE WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Proven leadership as a local leader, a student leader or an active member of an organisation in your sub-region

• A concrete initiative you have led, set out in your application: its purpose, the people you mobilised, the results you achieved; at interview, with your consent, we contact someone from the organisation you name

• Residence in the sub-region and close knowledge of its countries, youth organisations and institutions

• Initiative, a sense of representation and steady follow-through in remote work

NICE TO HAVE

• A network in the sub-region’s universities, civil society or institutions

• Experience coordinating across several countries or organisations

• Good English and French, and another language spoken in your sub-region, such as Arabic, Portuguese, Swahili or Hausa

WHAT THIS ROLE GIVES YOU

• A volunteer leadership role in an international youth organisation, across your sub-region, to highlight on your CV

• Building a network of countries, from the first team to the first partnerships

• The “Leading at YouthShare” course and regular exchanges with the representatives of other sub-regions

• A direct line to the General Coordinator and to the leads of the five labs

A VOLUNTEER ROLE, OPEN TO YOUNG PEOPLE

Every role we offer is fully voluntary. The experience we ask for can come from a course, a student project, an internship, volunteering or a personal project: every skill counts, wherever you gained it. We weigh your motivation and potential as carefully as your track record.

HOW SELECTION WORKS

• Online application on our website: apply online

• Profile review: the Talent team reads every application and sends a first reply by email within three days on average.

• Video interview: a conversation to get to know each other and shape the assignment together.

• Decision and arrival: our answer by email, then a welcome to the team and access to its tools.

If you need an adjustment to apply or to take part in an interview, write to hr@youthshareinitiatives.org

ABOUT YOUTHSHARE INITIATIVES

YouthShare Initiatives is an international think-action tank and a French non-profit (Act of 1 July 1901). It brings young people from around the world together in five labs to think together, then act: research, debate, mentoring and foresight. Discover us: youthshareinitiatives.org

APPLY ON OUR WEBSITE (REQUIRED, EVEN IF YOU APPLIED ON IDEALIST)

• Apply for this role

• Read the full role description

• See all our open roles

RÉSUMÉ EN FRANÇAIS

Représentant·e régional·e pour l’Afrique : Une mission par sous-région d’Afrique. Vous y faites connaître YouthShare, réunissez les coordinateur·rices pays et reliez les jeunes de votre sous-région aux cinq laboratoires. Nous recherchons un leadership démontré : une initiative menée, des personnes mobilisées, des résultats.

Poste bénévole, à distance, pour au moins un an · 4 à 6 h par semaine. Candidatures jusqu'au 31 janvier 2027.

En tant que lead, vous participez à deux réunions par mois : vous devez savoir fédérer votre équipe et organiser ses réunions.

Même si vous postulez sur Idealist, vous devez aussi postuler sur notre site : postuler sur youthshareinitiatives.org

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