FIELD OFFICER

Closing date: 9am, 21st November 2014
Interview date: TBC
Salary: 50,450.52 Rand per annum
Location: The Eastern Cape: OR Tambo, Amathole and Alfred Nzo Districts, South Africa. Please state on your application form if you are applying for a specific district only.

Restless Development is the youth-led development agency – everything we do is led by and through young people. And because we are who we serve, our mission is to place young people at the forefront of change, empowering them to take a leadership role in addressing the most urgent issues facing their countries and the world ,from the grassroots right through to the governments.

Our central goals are to address Youth Sexual & Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) - ensuring that young people are engaging in safe sexual and reproductive practices that lead to healthy lives – including addressing teenage pregnancy, Gender-based Violence, accessing sexual health youth-friendly SRHR services (including contraception and family planning services); Livelihoods and Wealth Creation – ensuring that young people have the capacity to become income earners in their communities whether through employment opportunities or by business creation and entrepreneurship; and Civic Participation – ensuring that young people are at the centre of decisionmaking processes and policies – at a local, regional and nation level.

We are looking for dynamic, committed and passionate staff to assist in the delivery and support of our volunteer-led programmes in the Eastern Cape. Working with rural-based communities and volunteers throughout the regions, our programmes build the capacity of communities to respond to the challenges facing young people around our three core strategic objective areas of sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR), livelihoods and employment, and civic participation.

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To apply please follow the instructions in the job description, sending completed applications tosithembele@restlessdevelopment.org, stating the vacancy job title South Africa - Field Officer

Closing date for this position is 9am, 21st November 2014