Mobilisation Lead (Volunteer) job at The Migration Youth and Children Platform (MYCP)

About the Role

The Mobilisation Lead works with youth-led organizations across different regions to support advocacy campaigns and initiatives, helping amplify their impact and connect them with decision-makers. The role collaborates closely with MYCP Regional Representatives to strengthen regional networks, coordinate collective action, and elevate youth-led voices to influence migration policy and practice.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate connections between youth organizations and MYCP's thematic and advocacy structures (#THINK and #DELIVER).
• Support youth-led organizations in planning and implementing advocacy campaigns and initiatives.
• Collaborate with the Capacity Building Focal Point and Regional Representatives to align outreach efforts across regions.
• Identify opportunities for joint campaigns, solidarity actions, and collective mobilization on migration issues.
• Ensure regional campaigns align with MYCP's global priorities and advocacy strategies.
• Support capacity-building initiatives to strengthen campaigning and advocacy skills among member organizations.
• Promote youth-led initiatives through MYCP communications and visibility activities.

Minimum Requirements

• Aged 18–30 years.
• Experience in youth engagement, advocacy, or grassroots mobilization, preferably within youth-led organizations or civil society.
• Understanding of migration issues, preferably through lived experience.
• Excellent organizational, facilitation, and communication skills.
• Strong command of English; proficiency in one or more additional UN languages is an added advantage.
• Ability to work effectively with people from diverse cultural and geographical backgrounds.

Key Competencies

• Youth engagement and community mobilization.
• Advocacy and campaign coordination.
• Networking and stakeholder engagement.
• Cross-cultural communication.
• Collaboration and teamwork.
• Creativity and innovation.
• Problem-solving and initiative.
• Commitment to youth empowerment and MYCP's values.

Diversity & Inclusion

MYCP strongly encourages applications from individuals with lived experience of migration, displacement, or statelessness, as well as candidates from underrepresented communities.

• Facilitate connections between youth organizations and MYCP's thematic and advocacy structures (#THINK and #DELIVER).
• Support youth-led organizations in planning and implementing advocacy campaigns and initiatives.
• Collaborate with the Capacity Building Focal Point and Regional Representatives to align outreach efforts across regions.
• Identify opportunities for joint campaigns, solidarity actions, and collective mobilization on migration issues.
• Ensure regional campaigns align with MYCP's global priorities and advocacy strategies.
• Support capacity-building initiatives to strengthen campaigning and advocacy skills among member organizations.
• Promote youth-led initiatives through MYCP communications and visibility activities.

• Youth engagement and community mobilization.
• Advocacy and campaign coordination.
• Networking and stakeholder engagement.
• Cross-cultural communication.
• Collaboration and teamwork.
• Creativity and innovation.
• Problem-solving and initiative.
• Commitment to youth empowerment and MYCP's values.

• Aged 18–30 years.
• Experience in youth engagement, advocacy, or grassroots mobilization, preferably within youth-led organizations or civil society.
• Understanding of migration issues, preferably through lived experience.
• Excellent organizational, facilitation, and communication skills.
• Strong command of English; proficiency in one or more additional UN languages is an added advantage.
• Ability to work effectively with people from diverse cultural and geographical backgrounds.