Deadline: Unspecified
Apply now to join to CIVICUS Youth Action Team. The CIVICUS Youth Action Team is a group of voting members of CIVICUS, led by the youth and acting for the youth to be meaningfully represented and engaged in all of the alliance’s structures, governance, strategies, and activities. But it goes beyond.
The Youth Action Team perceives civic space as the final frontier and wants to make sure the youth have the tools to fully engage here. As a place for co-creation and designing innovative projects, the YAT sets its own agenda and work plan to make sure they develop projects in the areas that are currently more critical for young activists, social innovators and human right defenders.
Eligibility
If you answer yes to the following questions, then you are eligible.
- Are you 30 years or under by December 31, 2025?
- Are you an active member of a civil society organisation (registered or not registered) that is advancing positive change in your community?
- Are you part of the leadership team of a social movement or network at the national or regional level?
- Do you have support from your organisation to apply for this voluntary role?
- Are you passionate and experienced in defending progressive social justice agendas at the local, regional, and international levels by mobilising people?
- Do you have experience designing and facilitating virtual networking events that boost community building and knowledge exchange?
- Are you comfortable working in English and working with an international team based in different time zones?
- Do you have access to the internet for at least 10 hours a month to dedicate to the CIVICUS Youth Action Team?
- Can you attend an annual in-person gathering of one week? (if travel conditions allow it)
- Do you come from North, Central America, South America, or the Caribbean, North, West or Southern Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia? (Mexico, Zimbabwe and Zambia are not eligible, since there is existing YAT representation on this cohort)
Application
For more information, visit CIVICUS Youth Action Team.
