IYF

Chair, Nominations Commission

Available
Remote
3-7 hours / week

The IYF Nominations Commission (IYFNC) acts as part of an organization’s corporate governance to oversee overall nominations processes for different staff levels. Also, the commission is mandated to oversee internal elections.

What will you be doing?

Under the direction of the Secretary-General, the Chair of Nominations Commission is responsible for the overall administration, coordination, and evaluation of member’s nominations and elections, ensuring that IYF has the best talented young leaders, and high-profile advisers and honorary members.

(A) Strategic leadership and support for the nomination process:

  •  Oversee and support nominations processes for different staff levels upon the request of the hiring unit/department;
  • Represent the Executive Office/the Secretary-General in nomination-related matters, and act as Rapporteur for senior meetings/panels working on nomination of recruitment;
  • Initiate, develop, implement and follow-up with a standard operating procedure (SOP) for the corporate nomination process;
  • Communicate on behalf of the organization with partners, external agencies on nominations matters;
  • Produce annual membership report, while sub-reports and recommendations shall be communicated every three months;
  • Provide support for the elections process.

(B) Oversee corporate review and assessment processes:

  • Provide substantive support to the assessment process led by the IYF Leaders Assessment Center (LAC);
  • Review and assess potential candidate’s profiles along with the officials from the hiring unit;
  • Participate in and attend competency-based interviews for the shortlisted candidates;
  • Submit successful profiles to the Executive Office/Bureau of Management for consideration;
  • Adding potential nominees who are not chosen for the office for which they were qualified for may be considered for an alternate position or to be added to IYF Pool of Experts.

What are we looking for?

Experience within nominations, senior appointments, HR, internal governance or democracy, recruitment or something similar. 

What difference will you make?

To voluntarily represent, positively promote, and uphold the mission of “Empowering youth for a better world” in various programs and opportunities throughout the IYF interventions across member countries.

Additional information

You can download the following documents:

Chair of Nominations Commission_ToR (1) (1).pdf

Opportunity reference number: 1305531