Youth, Gender And Community Engagement Coordinator at inABLE

Youth, Gender And Community Engagement Coordinator at inABLE | Iko Kazi

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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