Youth, Gender and Community Engagement Coordinator

inABLE.org

Youth, Gender And Community Engagement Coordinator

• Job Type Full Time
• Qualification MBA/MSc/MA
• Experience 8 - 10 years
• Location Nairobi
• Job Field Project and Program Management

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Youth Outreach, Selection and Participation

• Develop and implement inclusive outreach and participation plans with OPDs and country partners across programme locations.

• Coordinate transparent, accessible and documented participant identification and selection processes consistent with approved criteria and targets.

• Maintain participant engagement calendars, contact protocols, attendance and participation records in coordination with delivery and MEL teams.

• Create multiple accessible channels through which youth can shape programme design, delivery, governance, learning and accountability.

• Gender Equality and Social Inclusion

• Serve as the programme gender focal point and support integration of gender analysis, targets, risk mitigation and responsive actions across workstreams.

• Monitor barriers affecting young women with disabilities and other underserved participants, and recommend practical adaptations to recruitment, scheduling, communication, travel and learning environments.

• Work with women-led and women-with-disabilities organisations to strengthen safe participation, leadership and visibility pathways.

• Support colleagues and partners to apply intersectional, youth-friendly and disability-inclusive approaches.

• Safeguarding and Participant Wellbeing

• Serve as a designated programme safeguarding focal point, subject to inABLE’s safeguarding framework, referral protocols and separation-of-duties requirements.

• Coordinate safeguarding orientation, codes of conduct, safe reporting information and refresher sessions for staff, consultants, partners and participants.

• Receive and immediately escalate safeguarding concerns through authorised confidential channels without investigating beyond the role’s mandate.

• Maintain secure, access-controlled safeguarding records and support survivor-centred referrals, incident follow-up and risk mitigation as directed.

• Conduct participant-safety and accessibility risk assessments for training, internships, travel, digital engagement, storytelling and public events.

• Accessibility and Reasonable Accommodation

• Coordinate participant-led accommodation assessments and plans covering accessible formats, captioning, sign-language interpretation, connectivity support, personal assistance, transport and venue access.

• Work with Finance, Convening, Skilling and service providers to ensure accommodations are budgeted, delivered on time and reviewed with participants.

• Monitor the accessibility and inclusiveness of virtual and in-person activities and document corrective actions.

• Promote dignity, choice, confidentiality and informed consent in all support arrangements.

• Community and OPD Partnerships

• Maintain respectful working relationships with OPDs, youth-led groups, families or caregivers where appropriate, and community partners.

• Coordinate partner orientation, role clarity, feedback, issue resolution and follow-up related to outreach and participant support.

• Strengthen OPD capacity in inclusive facilitation, safeguarding, gender-responsive engagement, ethical storytelling and basic programme documentation.

• Ensure community feedback and concerns inform programme decisions and are closed through visible response loops.

• Youth Voice, Stories and Learning

• Coordinate ethical identification and collection of stories of change, ensuring informed consent, accessible participation and protection from harm or exploitation.

• Support youth speakers, advocates and advisory members to prepare for conference, policy, media and governance engagements.

• Work with MEL and Communications colleagues to gather qualitative evidence without compromising confidentiality or participant ownership.

• Contribute to participation, gender, safeguarding and community-engagement reports and learning reviews.

• Education and Professional Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Gender and Development, Community Development, Youth Development, Disability Studies, Social Work, Sociology, Psychology, Public Health, International Development or a related field.

• Recognised training in safeguarding, protection from sexual exploitation and abuse, gender equality, psychosocial first aid, case referral or disability inclusion is required or must be obtained upon appointment.

• Training in accessible facilitation, reasonable accommodation, participatory methods or qualitative research is desirable.

• 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.

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• Application Deadline: 13th October, 2026

• Note: Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis. Early applications are encouraged.