Programme Manager

**General Information**:
**Vacancy number**
- 1004/2025

**Recruitment type**
- Secondment

**Posted date**
- 14-May-2025

**Deadline to apply**
- 17-Jun-2025

**Duty station**
- Strasbourg

**Entity**
- Directorate General of Democracy and Human Dignity (DGII)

**Description & Requirements**:
**Your Team**

The team within which you will work, the Youth Department, is part of the Directorate for Democracy within the Directorate General of Democracy and Human Dignity (“DGII”) of the Council of Europe. The Department elaborates guidelines, programmes and legal instruments for the development of coherent and effective youth policies at local, national and European levels. It provides funding and educational support for international youth activities aiming to promote youth citizenship, youth mobility and the values of human rights, democracy and cultural pluralism. It seeks to bring together and disseminate expertise and knowledge about the life situations, aspirations and ways of expression of young Europeans.
- The Youth Department is looking for a secondment of a Programme Manager to its dynamic team working for youth programmes and policies that are conducive to the participation and inclusion of young people in all their diversity. To this end, it seeks an experienced professional in youth work and youth policy, ideally connected or able to connect with the youth civil society environment, to provide advice on institutional, political and educational matters in relation to accessibility and inclusiveness of the Youth for Democracy programme, as it applies to young people in all their diversity, and specifically to young people living with disabilities.

**Your Role**

As a Programme Manager in charge of accessibility and inclusiveness of the Youth for Democracy programme, you will be:

- Leading the implementation of the accessibility agenda of the Youth for Democracy programme, in close cooperation with the management of the European Youth Centre (Strasbourg and Budapest) and with members of its Statutory Bodies;
- Planning, preparing & implementing and advising on multi-annual projects in the Youth for Democracy programme and cooperating with other Council of Europe sectors, governmental and non-governmental partners and donors, notably in relation to the specific issues of accessibility and inclusiveness of youth policies and programmes for young people in all their diversity, in particular young people with disabilities;
- Planning, implementing, ensuring administrative follow-up, monitoring, reporting and evaluation of activities and/or co-operation activities, including those carried out through voluntary contributions by member States, and providing advice to colleagues in charge of activities with an accessibility or inclusiveness dimension;
- Maintaining working contacts with national and international, governmental and non-governmental bodies and organisations active in the youth field, including by representing the Council of Europe in conferences and seminars, and carrying out official journeys in member States;
- Contributing to the implementation of the overall remit of the Youth Department and collaborating with other Council of Europe committees, bodies and divisions active in promoting youth participation, accessibility and inclusiveness of youth policies and youth work to young people in all their diversity;
- Contributing to the implementation of the co-managed programme of youth sector activities, notably those under the priority on peaceful and inclusive societies which covers issues of disability access, inclusiveness and participation of and minority youth, including intersectional aspects (such as LGBTI+, national and linguistic minorities, Roma).

**Requirements to apply**

You must:

- have the support of the member State seconding you to the Council of Europe;
- hold a higher education degree or qualification in equivalent to a master’s degree (**2nd cycle of the Bologna process framework of qualifications for the European Higher Education Area**) in a relevant field (e.g. social and political sciences, social policy studies, international development or social and/or youth work);
- have at least 3 years of relevant professional and/or voluntary experience in youth-related policy, advocacy and project work/organisations; have experience of work on accessibility/inclusiveness in its broadest sense; have experience of disability access, inclusion and empowerment are an asset;
- have very good**knowledge English and have good knowledge of French; other languages are an asset;
- be a citizen of one of the member States of the Council of Europe.

**Key competencies**
- Managerial - Vision and Strategic Insight
- Operational - Planning and work organisation
- Operational - Analysis and problem solving
- Interpersonal - Teamwork and co-operation
- Interpersonal - Relationship building
- Professional and technical expertise:

-Ability to plan complex projects, draft documents and deli