Youth Employability Technical Expert At Save the Children

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EXTERNAL ANNOUNCEMENT

TITLE: Youth Employability Technical Expert

Contract Type: National

TEAM/PROGRAMME: Programme Development & Quality

LOCATION: Bangkok

CONTRACT LENGTH: 12 months, renewable based on performance and continued funding availability/ PART-TIME (8-12 days PER month)

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Youth Employability Technical Advisor will ensure that Save the Children delivers technically sound, evidence-based youth employment programming across all priority cohorts — Not in Education, Employment, or Training (NEET) youth, and youth in vocational/Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) pathways — with a focus on innovative, inclusive employability skills, entrepreneurship, and life skills development. The post holder will ensure key organizational principles (child participation, accountability, disability and gender inclusion) are embedded throughout the project cycle. S/he will provide the technical backbone connecting concurrent donor-funded grants (UNIQLO(80%), and Accenture(20%)), ensuring coherence of approach, quality of donor reporting, and cross-cohort learning, while developing strategic partnerships with private sector employers, government institutions (including the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities), and civil society organizations.

Save the Children (Thailand) Foundation (SCT) has found it challenging to identify a single technical expert with the breadth of experience to credibly cover this range of youth groups while maintaining the depth expected of a senior technical advisor. This Terms of Reference has been strengthened accordingly: rather than a general youth-employability generalist, SCT is seeking a senior, multi-disciplinary technical advisor capable of providing credible, high-quality technical leadership across NEET programming and TVET/vocational pathways, , while ensuring coherent reporting and learning across these concurrent donor-funded grants.

The Youth Employability Technical Advisor will ensure that Save the Children delivers technically sound, evidence-based youth employment programming across all priority cohorts — NEET youth, and youth in vocational/TVET pathways, with a focus on innovative, inclusive employability skills, entrepreneurship, and life skills development. The post holder will ensure key organizational principles (child participation, accountability, disability and gender inclusion) are embedded throughout the project cycle. S/he will provide the technical backbone connecting the concurrent donor-funded grants (UNIQLO, and Accenture), ensuring coherence of approach, quality of donor reporting, and cross-cohort learning, while developing strategic partnerships with private sector employers, government institutions, and civil society organizations.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Director of Strategy, Program Quality and Impact

Dotted line report to: Director of Program

Role Dimensions: Coordination with Youth Employability Program Coordinators across all three grants, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) team, Save the Children US Skills to Succeed / Life Skills for Success (LS4S) program team, other Technical Advisors, donor focal points, and key external partners (e.g., Klong Toei Deejang, Vulcan Coalition, TVET institutions, and relevant government counterparts).

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Key Area 1: Technical Leadership Across Vulnerable Youth Cohorts

  • Provide credible, high-quality technical guidance spanning all four priority youth groups — not a single specialization.
  • Provide ongoing technical support and leadership to program staff working with youth with disabilities, NEET youth, and youth in TVET/vocational pathways, ensuring each cohort’s distinct barriers and needs are reflected in program design.
  • Make use of the labour market assessments and needs analysis (e.g., NEET Youth Needs Analysis in Khlong Toey), ensuring that it is applied to define future works where cohort-specific barriers, aspirations, and employer demand are taken into account
  • Ensure the Life Skills for Success (LS4S) / Skills to Succeed (S2S) modules are contextually adapted — including disability-accessible formats and migrant-sensitive content — for each cohort and delivery setting.
  • Identify and develop strategic partnerships with private sector employers (including hospitality, retail, and property-sector partners linked to Ascott, CapitaLand, and UNIQLO), government institutions, and disability/civil society organizations.

Key Area 2: Program Quality and Capacity Building

  • Ensure technical consistency and build sustainable capacity among SCT staff and partners.
  • Design and deliver workshops and Training of Trainers (ToT) sessions for SCT staff and partner organizations (TVET institutions, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)) to build and sustain technical capacity.
  • Ensure MEAL systems disaggregate data by cohort (NEET status) so that equity of outcomes across groups can be tracked and reported, not just aggregate program reach.

Key Area 3: Multi-Donor Program Coordination and Development

  • Maintain technical coherence and quality across three concurrent donor-funded grants.
  • Support project teams in producing high-quality, timely technical reporting across all donor portfolios (UNIQLO (80%), Accenture (20%)), ensuring a coherent technical narrative and avoiding duplication of effort.
  • Maintain a coordinated planning cycle (annual, quarterly, monthly) across grants, ensuring complementarity between cohort-specific activities and shared program infrastructure.
  • Contribute to funding strategies and proposal development to expand or sustain the youth employability portfolio, packaging concepts for a range of institutional and private donors.

Key Area 4: Representation, Networking, and Advocacy

  • Represent SCT’s technical position externally and build the partnerships needed for scale.
  • Co-present research and assessment findings to government counterparts, TVET institutions, and other relevant stakeholders.
  • Actively participate in technical coordination meetings and sector fora to ensure synergy with other agencies working on inclusive youth employment.

Key Area 5: Evidence, Learning, and Documentation

  • Ensure learning across cohorts and grants strengthens the wider portfolio.
  • Ensure lessons derived from implementation across all cohorts are well articulated, documented, and disseminated both internally and externally.
  • Feed learning and evidence of impact into the strategic development and quality assurance of the overall Child Poverty / youth employability portfolio.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice):

Accountability:

  • Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
  • Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

  • Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
  • Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
  • Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

  • Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
  • Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
  • Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

  • Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
  • Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

  • Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

The post holder must commit to work in an international agency that promotes diversity, equity and inclusion and fights racism, gender inequality and discrimination in all forms; and to model positive behaviours that demonstrate a commitment to equality and respect to all colleagues, partners and communities.

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Master’s degree (or equivalent post-graduate qualification) in a field relevant to economics, international development, social development, education, or disability studies.
  • Minimum 5–7 years of progressive professional experience in youth employability and livelihoods programming, with demonstrated breadth across at least two of the following: NEET youth programming, TVET/vocational pathways, and/or migrant youth employment.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

  • Demonstrated technical expertise spanning multiple vulnerable youth cohorts, rather than a single specialization — this is a core requirement given the program’s intersectional caseload.
  • Experience adapting life-skills/employability curricula (e.g., Skills to Succeed, Life Skills for Success, or comparable models) for different population needs, including disability-accessible adaptation.
  • Experience developing private-sector partnerships for inclusive hiring, ideally within hospitality, retail, or real estate/property sectors.
  • Experience providing technical inputs across multiple concurrent donor-funded grants, including coordinated reporting and cross-portfolio learning.
  • Strong quantitative and qualitative research skills, including labour marketassessments and needs assessments.
  • Demonstrated experience in monitoring and evaluation, including disaggregated data systems for equity tracking.
  • Excellent stakeholder engagement and relationship-management skills across government (including disability-focused bodies), UN agencies, private sector, and civil society.
  • Strong facilitation skills, with experience delivering training and workshops (including ToT) to diverse audiences.
  • Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English; professional working proficiency in Thai preferred.
  • Commitment to Save the Children’s mission, values, and approach, including child focus, gender equality, disability inclusion, and child rights.

Desirable

  • Experience working in Thailand or Southeast Asia.
  • Understanding of Thailand’s disability employment quota law and Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEP) employer guidelines.
  • Familiarity with the regulatory context for migrant worker employment in Thailand.
  • Experience with digital or AI-enabled employability and job-readiness tools.
  • Experience implementing programs with corporate/CSR-funded partners (e.g., retail, hospitality, or real estate sector donors).

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the Save the Children International (SCI) Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.

“We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse”

How to apply

Interested candidates should apply and submit a motivational letter, comprehensive CV, expected salary and details of at least 3 referees via this link: Youth Employability Technical Expert – SCI Career Site Careers

Due to the volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.