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Generation Unlimited (GenU) supports young people to move from learning to earning through integrated skilling, employment, entrepreneurship and social impact pathways. Through the Creative Academy, supported by Adobe, GenU will equip young people with creative, digital and AI-enabled skills and support them to translate these skills into dignified and sustainable livelihoods.
The Creative Academy will initially focus on India and Brazil, while also establishing a global model that can be adapted by other countries. The programme aims to support young people to progress from foundational creative skilling into tangible portfolios, and from portfolios into earning opportunities, including employment, freelancing, self-employment and entrepreneurship. The programme will build on GenU’s existing platforms and initiatives, including Passport to Earning, YouthHub, 1MiO and imaGen Ventures, as relevant to country context.
Under the supervision of the Senior Advisor, Global Programmes, in collaboration with the GenU global team and Country Offices, the Creative Academy Livelihoods Pathways Consultant will support GenU to develop a flagship livelihoods model and practical tools for the Creative Academy. This work will also inform GenU’s broader skilling-to-earning portfolio across other global initiatives including, but not limited to, Green Rising, Passport to Earning, YouthHub, 1MiO, imaGen Ventures and Yoma. For this consultancy, the livelihoods model refers to the overall approach for supporting Creative Academy graduates to transition from skilling into earning opportunities. The operational frameworks will define how the employment, freelancing and entrepreneurship pathways can be structured and adapted across countries.
The practical tools and templates will support implementation, including guidance for portfolio development, partner mapping, pathway design, and country-level planning. A key focus of the role will be to ensure that the Creative Academy moves beyond skilling alone and provides young people with structured, flexible and realistic pathways into earning through employment, entrepreneurship and/or freelancing. This will require attention to the non-linear nature of youth transitions to livelihoods, the different levels of support young people require, the role of portfolios as proof of skills, and the ways in which creative skills can support income generation across sectors, including through services to MSMEs, local businesses, digital commerce, creative industries and self-employment.
UNICEF/GenU will facilitate required system and email access from the inception phase to enable access to relevant internal documentation, platforms and coordination channels.
Minimum requirements
Experience applying youth livelihoods, workforce development or skills-to-work approaches to creative, digital or adjacent sectors.
Experience developing practical programme frameworks, guidance, tools or templates for use by country teams, implementing partners, governments or private sector stakeholders.
- Experience supporting multi-country or large-scale programmes in international development contexts is desirable.
- Strong writing skills, including experience producing high-quality analytical reports, guidance notes, frameworks, tools, presentations and recommendations.
- Experience undertaking partner mapping, ecosystem analysis or stakeholder analysis related to employment, livelihoods, entrepreneurship, workforce development or youth economic opportunity.
Strong understanding of the barriers young people face in moving from training to earning, particularly in low- and middle-income country contexts.
- Demonstrated ability to work across diverse teams and stakeholders, including global teams, country teams, implementing partners, private sector actors and youth-serving organizations.
Understanding of how creative and digital skills can support income generation across sectors, including through services to MSMEs, local businesses, digital commerce, content creation, design, marketing, freelance work or entrepreneurship.
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- Cover letter
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