Call for Youth
Report Researchers, Authors and Peer Reviewers!
The Network of
African Youths for Development (NAYD) has become one of the strongest voices of young people in Africa and is
now pleased to open up a call for applications to interested persons and
institutions willing to collaborate in developing a youth report seeking to
investigate how to operationalize the United Nations
Sustainable Development Solutions Network Youth (SDSN Y) programme in sub-Saharan
Africa – starting
in Kenya.
SDSN Y is
the global youth initiative of the United Nations
Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) driven and led by youth
leaders from around the world. SDSN-Y will engage youth in the education and
implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to be adopted by
the United Nation (UN) member states this September and is already active in
several countries in Europe, Australia, and the Americas, and expanding at a
rapid pace.
The
positions are open to all those individuals with demonstrated interest in youth
development issues particularly in a developing country context, and who would
be able to dedicate at least 20 hours per week to this assignment starting in
early or mid-October. Applicants must be currently residing in Kenya and be willing to help develop this report over a
three month period. We also seek institutional partners active in youth
development matters to support this initiative whether in cash or in kind.
For
this project we are seeking three (3) Researchers; three (3) Authors; two (2) Translators;
and ten (10) Peer Reviewers/Correctors. Applicants are advised that currently,
there is no promise of remuneration for their efforts but all costs related to
preparing the report including but not limited to travel, accommodation and
meals will be covered in their entirety. The deadline to express your interest
is Monday, August 31 2015 1800 hours East African Time. Questions may be sent
by e-mail no later than 14 days before the deadline for the submission of applications
to the addresses below, indicating clearly the subject as follows:
E-mail
addresses: Nericmwangi@yahoo.com and Tdobermann@gmail.com; with a copy to Paul@geovision.co.uk; Sslon2@student.monash.edu and Annetjudy@yahoo.com. Please title your email ‘Clarification – NAYD-SDSN Y Youth Report’.
Please direct all inquiries about NAYD to Help@nayd.org and
about SDSN-Youth to Youth@unsdsn.org. How
to apply: fill out this form and to view the
curriculum of the planned Youth Report, please see the images at the bottom of
this advertisement. We'll be in touch in the next few weeks with a follow-up.
Good luck!
NAYD
and SDSN Y have no obligation to provide clarifications to questions received
after the said date. Replies will be given no later than 11 days before the
deadline for submission of applications. To ensure equal treatment of
applicants, the NAYD and SDSN-Y cannot give a prior opinion on the eligibility
of applicants, affiliated entity(ies), an action or specific activities.
Questions that may be relevant to other applicants, together with answers and
other important notices in the course of the evaluation procedure, will be
published on the NAYD website http://www.nayd.org/ and
on the SDSN-Y website http://www.sdsnyouth.org/, as
the need arises. It is therefore advisable to consult the above mentioned
websites regularly in order to be informed of the questions and answers
published.
This
process does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color,
religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry),
disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status.
Consideration will be given to those with physical disabilities and women to
ensure parity within the candidate pool. Applicants selected on the basis of this
call will be invited to commence the engagement as stated if sufficient funding
has been secured.
Disclaimer: The NAYD-SDSN
Youth partnership reserves the right to contract personnel outside the pool of
applicants if this is deemed necessary.
