Youth Advocate
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CHOICE for Youth and Sexuality (CHOICE)
Remote (local)- Career category: Advocacy/ Policy
- Job type: Volunteering
- Humanitarian or Development: Development
- Experience level: 0-5 years
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: Remote (local)
- Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
- Remuneration: Volunteer position
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 19/02/2025
- Location: Netherlands
OPPORTUNITES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
As a Youth Advocate you will work with other young people on all kinds of different projects and tasks, advocating for the improvement of young people's SRHR and participation in the Netherlands and abroad.
Every Youth Advocate is part of one of the following Long-Term Working Groups:
- Advocate Guidance Groupis responsible for monitoring advocates’ well-being, connection and participation. They organize teambuilding activities, monitor the budget for advocates, initiate new recruitment rounds and identify needs for capacity building.
- External Communication Group works together with staff members for social media channels, branding, public relations (PR), photography, campaigns and advocacy-related communications.
- National Advocacy Groupworks together with staff members from the Internal Advocacy Team to coordinate national level advocacy and further the implementation of the national level advocacy strategy.Fluency in Dutch is required if you want to join this team.
WHAT DO WE OFFER?
- Training and guidance on key concepts of CHOICE’s work, Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights, Meaningful and Inclusive Youth Participation, youth leadership, and international advocacy!
- Insights into the inner workings of a development sector NGO.
- Lots of opportunities to learn and exchange knowledge with other Youth Advocates, the staff team, and the Board. CHOICE promotes the ‘learning by doing’ principle.
- Experiences! Be part of a professional NGO. Train or be trained and improve your leadership skills. Advocate for young people’s SRHR internationally and in the Netherlands.
- A network of other young advocates from all over the world. Fun!
- Travel costs for all CHOICE activities (including meetings) are reimbursed and we offer professional supervision in the preparation of all activities.
WHAT DO WE EXPECT?
It is important that you are interested in the topic of SRHR. Aside from enthusiasm, we would like you to bring:
- Deep interest to feminism, LGBTQ+ rights, anti-racism, contraception and abortion access, ending gender-based violence, and the rights of people living with HIV. Further, CHOICE also values human rights-based approaches, sex-positivity, inclusivity, meaningful youth participation being an ally and being an advocate for change.
- Flexibility! We ask you to spend on average 4 to 6 hours per week on CHOICE. Based on the advocates’ experience, sometimes this is 12 hours per week for two weeks and 1-2 hours per week for another week. Advocates work remotely as well as in-person with their working group but are expected to attend general meetings (GMs) held every six weeks at the office in Amsterdam. You will also be expected to attend weekly in-person trainings when you start, as a part of your onboarding.
- Input! Even if you are new to the organization, we value your opinion and ideas.
- Long-term commitment! The knowledge and skills you obtain at CHOICE are extremely valuable and good for organizational sustainability. Therefore, we expect a commitment of at least a year, but preferably longer.
- Excellent written and verbal English language skills.
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