External Final Review – “YourJob II” – Youth Overcoming Unemployment Regionally through Job Opportunities on the Balkans

Job title: External Final Review – “YourJob II” – Youth Overcoming Unemployment Regionally through Job Opportunities on the Balkans

Company: Caritas Austria


Job description: Caritas Austria is currently seeking an evaluator for the YourJob II project.Caritas Austria is an international NGO implementing activities in the fields of emergency relief and rehabilitation as well as development cooperation, in countries struck by conflicts or natural disasters. Caritas Austria has been supporting projects in the countries Albania (AL), Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Kosovo (KS) and Serbia (RS) for the past 20 years, addressing social needs like care for children and youth, programmes for women and the integration of minorities, elderly care, support of persons with disabilities, agricultural projects, etc.For more information on Caritas Austria please seeWith the current programme YourJob II, Caritas puts the focus on the topic of youth unemployment in the region. The aim of YourJob II is to support youth and young adults to overcome the challenges of the transition from school to work life and to develop their individual capabilities and capacities. This shall be mainly achieved through tailor made counselling and mentoring, vocational and soft skills trainings, linking up young people with businesses for internships in their region or encouraging them to implement their business ideas for starting individual enterprises. The multi-country structure of the programme is in line with the strategic approach of Caritas Austria towards larger regional programmes and encourages networks between young people, businesses, NGOs as well as political and other stakeholders in the region. The programme was developed based on long-term partnerships of Caritas Austria with Caritas organisations in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Serbia. While these four organisations are implementing the programme on the ground, Caritas Austria has mainly a coordinating role.The main purpose of this external review at the end of the project implementation is to assess the achievements of the results and objectives of the individual projects related to the overall project goal. The emphasis on lessons learned speaks to the issue of understanding what has and what has not worked. The review shall therefore capture effectively lessons learned regarding project management, as well as the implementation of the project’s activities and the achieved results. The drawn conclusions and recommendations shall provide insights and reflection on the implementation of the projects and the particular interventions as well as guidance for well informed decision making with regards to programme renewal.The review will focus on the following objectives:

• an overall independent assessment of the programme:
• To identify problems and constraints that have been encountered
• To identify important lessons to be learnt and make recommendations for the implementation of future projects
• To identify how well YourJob II built on the successes of YourJob I

Primary users of the review:

• Funding partners
• Project holder (Caritas Austria) and implementing partners (Caritas Albania, Caritas BiH, Caritas Kosovo, Caritas Serbia)
• National stakeholders in the project countries and beneficiaries

Expected use of the review:

• Demonstrate programme relevance and results to donors and institutions in each country as well as beneficiaries.
• Provide an evidence base for development of a possible 3rd phase of the programme
• Contribute to organisational learning and knowledge-management
• Demonstrate if the methodology confronted the problem of youth labour market integration in the Balkans
• Determine if the project would be replicable in other contexts of middle income countries, for example in the Middle East or Eastern Europe.

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Location: Österreich

Job date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:35:49 GMT

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