Consultant - Youth Program Coordinator

Strategy Development and Implementation

• Lead the development of multi-year strategies and frameworks to meaningfully integrate youth across GLF programs and activities, in close coordination with GLF , YIL Steering Committee, and key partners.
• Lead the development and implementation of the annual GLF Youth Program Plan in collaboration with the GLF Youth Program team and YIL Steering Committee.
• In collaboration with the Community & Action Program Manager define short- and long-term priorities for the GLF Youth Program, and test innovative approaches for scaling impact across regions, localities, themes and intersections.
• Support monitoring, learning, and evaluation of youth-related processes and outcomes in collaboration with the Community & Action Engagement Officer and the GLF Knowledge team.
• Ensure compliance with the YIL–CIFOR/GLF Memorandum of Understanding and uphold partnership integrity across all joint activities.

Team Management

• Provide strategic, operational, and caring leadership to the GLF Youth Program team, ensuring high-quality delivery in a dynamic and creative environment.
• Recruit, guide, and support a diverse and high-performing team, consultants, and other contributors.

Program management

• Coordinate the Restoration Stewardship Program by fostering a caring, trust-based environment among fellows, mentors, stewards, and community teams.
• Coordinate the development and delivery of youth-led activities, sessions, and engagement opportunities across GLF events and convenings, in collaboration with the YIL SC, youth network members, partners, and internal teams, ensuring inclusive, participatory, and impactful youth engagement.
• Co-design capacity development opportunities with the GLF Learning team, ensuring they reflect the evolving needs of the youth network.
• Co-produce knowledge with the GLF Knowledge team, the YIL network, and Restoration Stewardship fellows, ensuring youth engagement is demand-driven, consultative, and supports effective knowledge exchange.
• Support the sustainable operations, growth, and regional expansion of the GLF Youth Network by strengthening engagement with members, partners, and YIL SC focal points, ensuring clear value for participation and fostering meaningful opportunities for co-creation, shared decision-making, and active participation across events, workshops, campaigns, and strategic processes.
• Work closely with the Community & Action Storytelling Officer and the GLF Communications team to amplify the visibility, stories, achievements, and opportunities of the GLF Youth Program and YIL network across the GLF website, digital platforms, campaigns, and communication channels.
• Facilitate youth inclusion from GLFx Chapters into GLF youth program activities in collaboration with the GLFx team, by working closely with the GLFx Coordinator.
• Build and maintain strategic partnerships to enhance the visibility, recognition, and support of the GLF Youth Program, and collaborate with the Landscape Alliance (CIFOR-ICRAF), GLF Charter Members, and other initiatives to expand the visibility, reach, and impact of the YIL network.
• Represent GLF in strategic networking spaces, conferences, global policy processes, and youth-focused platforms, including facilitating youth engagement in international forums such as COPs and other high-level convenings, while strengthening collaboration with global youth organizations and institutions.

Resource Mobilization and Management

• Mobilize financial and in-kind resources by integrating youth priorities into funding proposals, budgets, and strategic partnerships.
• Oversee annual planning and budget management, ensuring resource are allocated effectively and aligned with program objectives.