Volunteer for a startup empowering marginalized youth to lead global change! 🌎

The International Youth Federation (IYF) addresses the challenges of youth inequality by creating global platforms that empower young people through education, leadership training, advocacy, and international collaboration.

The Challenge: Young people worldwide face unequal access to quality education, leadership opportunities, civic participation, and employment pathways—particularly in marginalized and conflict-affected communities. There is also a growing disconnect between youth voices and decision-making spaces, limiting their ability to contribute meaningfully to sustainable development and peacebuilding.

The Solution: IYF delivers youth-led programs, conferences, capacity-building initiatives, and policy engagement opportunities. By providing these platforms, we equip young leaders with the skills, networks, and confidence needed to drive social impact both locally and globally, ensuring youth voices are at the heart of national and international decision-making.

Role (Volunteer, unpaid): Global Marketing Manager

Role Description: Under the supervision of the Director of Public Information, the Global Marketing Manager develops and implements a plan to bolster communications efforts across the organization, focusing particularly on raising IYF’s profile and producing and coordinating Partner and donor-related communications with the other DPI teams. She/he is responsible for a team providing corporate communications support services and strategic outreach, including IYF branding and marketing through the promotion of public information, marketing, advertising and awareness-raising through global campaigns.

Mission Statement

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.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Conceptualize and implement a global strategy for outreach and positioning of IYF, including developing, coordinating, and generating external partnerships and support for branding and marketing campaigns with multiple target audiences;

• Strengthen outreach to donors and other partners through strategic products and services in collaboration with BER/NAC/BGPS, and other DPI units;

• Leads, manages and motivates Global Marketing team, overseeing personnel in the recruitment, performance and career management processes;

• Oversee the provision of marketing advisory services for writing/editing, translation, and dissemination of multilingual communications tools;

• Support resource mobilization efforts for emerging initiatives across the organization;

• Increase IYF’s multilingual presence through translation services in all IYF languages;

• Develop multilingual tools, templates and guidelines for corporate communications products and ensure visual coherence of the IYF brand;

• Update, maintain and enhance marketing of the IYF marketing and partnerships toolkit; and

• Provide marketing strategies tailored to specific projects, activities and programmes.

Skills Required

• Strategic Marketing & Brand Management
• Ability to conceptualize and implement a global outreach and positioning strategy, develop branding campaigns, and ensure visual coherence across multilingual communications.
• Leadership & Team Management
• Strong capability to lead, manage, and motivate a global marketing team, including recruitment, performance oversight, and career development.
• Partnership & Donor Engagement
• Skill in mobilizing resources, strengthening outreach to donors and partners, and building strategic external partnerships that support long-term revenue growth.
• Communication & Corporate Messaging
• Excellent writing, editing, presentation, and multilingual communication skills to support public information, campaigns, and corporate communications products.
• Creative Campaign Development & Outreach
• Experience designing and implementing global marketing campaigns using innovative communication approaches to raise organizational visibility and impact.

Experience

Experience within an NGO, INGO (such as the United Nations), charity, government, non-profit, not-for-profit, international relations, international development or youth empowerment or similar organization is advantageous but not essential.

Time Commitment: Volunteer 4-6 hours per week remotely for 6+ months 💻

If you want to make change happen, apply to volunteer with the International Youth Federation!