Livelihoods Pathways Consultant, GPD, Generation Unlimited, 12 months, NYHQ, USA (Remote, potential 1-week missions to India and Brazil) # 594255

Organizational Context

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential. Generation Unlimited (GenU) supports young people to move from learning to earning through integrated skilling, employment, entrepreneurship and social impact pathways. The Creative Academy, supported by Adobe, will equip young people with creative, digital and AI-enabled skills.

Job Purpose

The Livelihoods Pathways Consultant will support UNICEF's Generation Unlimited (GenU) to develop a flagship livelihoods model and practical tools for the Creative Academy. This consultancy aims to equip young people with creative, digital, and AI-enabled skills and support their transition into dignified and sustainable livelihoods. The work will focus on establishing clear pathways from skilling to earning, including employment, freelancing, and entrepreneurship, initially in India and Brazil, with a view to creating a global model. The consultant will ensure the Creative Academy moves beyond mere skilling to provide structured, flexible, and realistic earning opportunities, considering the non-linear nature of youth transitions and the diverse support needs of young people. This role is crucial for informing GenU’s broader skilling-to-earning portfolio across various global initiatives.

Responsibilities

Develop a flagship livelihoods model for the Creative Academy, defining the overall approach for supporting graduates' transition from skilling to earning opportunities. Design and create practical tools and templates to facilitate implementation, including guidance for portfolio development, partner mapping, pathway design, and country-level planning. Ensure the Creative Academy provides structured, flexible, and realistic pathways into earning through employment, entrepreneurship, and/or freelancing. Address the non-linear nature of youth transitions to livelihoods and the varying levels of support required by young people. Define how creative skills can support income generation across sectors, including services to MSMEs, local businesses, digital commerce, creative industries, and self-employment. Collaborate with the GenU global team and Country Offices to adapt and implement the livelihoods model and tools. Inform GenU’s broader skilling-to-earning portfolio across initiatives like Green Rising, Passport to Earning, YouthHub, 1MiO, imaGen Ventures, and Yoma. Facilitate the operational frameworks for structuring and adapting employment, freelancing, and entrepreneurship pathways across different countries. Ensure the practical tools and templates are user-friendly and effective for country teams, implementing partners, governments, and private sector stakeholders. Contribute to the overall strategic direction of the Creative Academy's livelihood components.

Work Experience

Minimum 7 years of progressively responsible experience in youth livelihoods, youth employment, workforce development, skills-to-work transitions, creative economy programming, entrepreneurship, or a related field.

Skills

Programme design and development, Youth livelihoods programming, Skills-to-earning pathways, Creative economy programming, Entrepreneurship support, Workforce development, Tool and framework development, International development, Stakeholder engagement, Cross-cultural collaboration, Project implementation, Monitoring and evaluation

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