Sec. 5. Establishment of youth coordinator
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The President shall designate a current employee of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) serving in a career or non-career position in the Senior Executive Service or at the level of a Deputy Assistant Administrator or higher to serve concurrently as a coordinator for components of overseas conflict prevention, management, and resolution, and post-conflict relief and recovery efforts related to youth (in this section referred to as the Coordinator ).
The Coordinator shall— have the primary responsibility for the coordination of all resources and international activities of the United States Government appropriated or used for overseas conflict prevention, management, and resolution, and post-conflict relief and recovery efforts related to youth; lead implementation of the strategy established under section 6; lead revision, not less frequently than once every 5 years, of the strategy established under section 6; establish an advisory group of experts to advise the Coordinator on the development and implementation of the strategy established under section 6— which shall be composed of representatives of relevant civil society, international organizations, and United States Government entities; of which not less than 30 percent of such representatives shall be youth, and not less than 50 percent shall be female; and which shall facilitate exchanges between a diverse range of youth leaders across the country to connect youth and government officials around the world on the youth, peace, and security agenda and use these exchanges to provide insight and improvements to the strategy; coordinate with relevant Federal agencies, including the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the National Security Agency, the United Nations Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth and Envoy on Children in Armed Conflict, the private sector and relevant partner entities as appropriate, to carry out the strategy established under section 6 and to align current and future investments with effective, evidence based interventions; provide direction to the design and oversight of grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements with nongovernmental organizations and private sector entities for the purpose of carrying out the strategy established under section 6; and support the designation of a Youth Point of Contact
(YPOC)in diplomatic overseas missions and United States Agency for International Development bureaus, as selected by the Coordinator. The Coordinator shall receive no additional or supplemental compensation as a result of carrying out responsibilities and duties under this section.