Opportunities for Media and Information Literacy Ambassadors

The Youth Café is a non-profit organization that strives to enrich the lives of young people by modelling and advancing youth-led and rights-based approaches to foster young people’s civic efficacy, community resilience, sustainable development, an equitable society, as well as proposing innovative solutions, driving social progress, and inspiring transformative change by utilizing innovative research, policy and advocacy actions.

For 8 years, our strategy has always been to look at today’s youth bulge as an opportunity for development and economic growth. This is why we are the leading organization for implementing a broad range of personal and professional development programs spanning life skills, job activations, media advocacy, entrepreneurship, peace and conflict prevention, among others.

About the Project

“Advancing Youth Online Civic Reasoning in Kenya” Project aims to equip young people with key media literacy skills: critical thinking, fact checking, online safety, social media verification, and quality assessment of online information and their sources through a dedicated handbook. Implementation Research will be used to enhance fact-checking skills of the youth to restore eroded trust by fake news, improve their civic online reasoning and encourage responsible social media usage among the youth particularly in the context of election periods in a bid to reduce political incitement, political strife, tarnished political images and hate speech.

These skills are important in restoring and consolidating democracy in Kenya where evidence shows that digital tools and social media networks have been used to spread distorted narratives to shape public opinions. Through designing, developing, evaluating, and disseminating a youth-centered media literacy handbook, we hope to address digital threats to democracy in Kenya.

Position Summary

This position is open to youth between the ages of 18 – 35, and will primarily be based in the Nairobi metropolitan area throughout the project implementation cycle. They will be reporting to the Implementation Research Officer and will serve as the point of contacts in the field.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

  • Participate in partnership building and stakeholder engagements
  • Understand key issues, get inputs, feedback and perspectives of the end users regarding the media literacy handbook
  • Support in conducting Focus Group Discussions
  • Act as a key point of contacts for arranging events in the local areas with the local people
  • Provide feedback on all activities that will be carried out and documentation that will be written/be involved throughout the project
  • Organize regular; weekly check in with the project team to update the team on the project progress in the local areas
  • Carry out outreach activities; act as our direct point of contact in Embakasi
  • Support planning and delivery of all the project workshops and training sessions
  • Support in data collection in the field to actualize 100+ monthly responses
  • Support in administering assessment games on MIL Handbook throughout the project life cycle
  • Contribute to the content development of the monthly project based newsletter
  • Develop content supporting project outreach through digital, visual and text platforms and be our social media outreach champions
  • Contribute significantly to project reporting, including monthly project based newsletter
  • Cultivate relationships with relevant local leaders and youths in Embakasi
  • Represent The Youth Café and the project publicly
  • Other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

  • Expertise in marketing, communication and IT skills
  • Be proactive in social media platforms
  • A great team player
  • Be proactive, persistent and detail oriented
  • Excellent report writing skills
  • Outstanding verbal and written communication, interpersonal and cross-cultural skills required
  • Spoken and written proficiency in English and Kiswahili

Method of Application

Interested applicants who meet the criteria above are encouraged to apply. To submit your application; https://www.theyouthcafe.com/tyc-careers/media-and-information-literacy-ambassadors

Closing Date: 9th May, 2021

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