Youth, Gender and Community Engagement Coordinator

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  • Career category: Advocacy/ Policy
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Not Specified
  • Right to work requirements: Not specified
  • Remuneration: Remuneration not disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Not specified
  • Deadline: 13/10/2026
  • Location: Kenya
GBV / VAWG Gender equality and Social inclusion (GESI) PSEA/ Safeguarding Youth
Position Purpose
The Youth, Gender and Community Engagement Coordinator will ensure that young persons with disabilities, particularly young women, are reached, selected, supported and engaged as rights-holders, leaders and co-creators across IAP. The role will coordinate OPD and community relationships, gender-responsive participation, safeguarding focal-point functions, reasonable accommodation planning, youth feedback and ethical collection of stories of change.

Required Experience
  • 8–10 years of progressive experience in youth, gender, disability inclusion, community engagement, safeguarding or rights-based programmes.
  • Demonstrated experience engaging young persons with disabilities, OPDs and community partners in programme design and delivery.
  • Experience as a safeguarding focal point or in implementing safeguarding systems, confidential reporting and referral processes.
  • Strong experience in gender-responsive programming and addressing intersectional barriers affecting young women with disabilities.
  • Experience coordinating accessible training, events, travel or digital participation across multiple locations.
  • Experience with ethical storytelling, informed consent, qualitative data collection or youth advisory mechanisms is desirable.

Technical Knowledge and Skills
  • Youth participation and co-creation methods
  • Gender analysis and gender-responsive programming
  • Safeguarding, PSEA, confidential reporting and referral
  • Disability inclusion, accessibility and reasonable accommodation planning
  • OPD and community partnership management
  • Inclusive facilitation and conflict-sensitive engagement
  • Qualitative data collection, informed consent and ethical storytelling
  • Basic monitoring, participant databases and secure documentation
  • Strong spoken and written communication, including sensitive conversations

Behavioural Competencies
  • Empathy with professional boundaries
  • Trustworthiness and confidentiality
  • Respect for autonomy, dignity and lived experience
  • Courage to escalate concerns promptly
  • Patience, active listening and cultural humility
  • Organisation and reliable follow-through
  • Calm judgement in sensitive situations
  • Collaborative problem solving and inclusive leadership

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