Job particulars
- Job title
- Technical Sector Officer – Community Mobilisation, AIM
- Hiring organisation
- s Expand Recruitment Services
- Location
- Kakamega, Kenya
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Industry
- Project Management
- Level
- Middle
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Posted
- 2 Oct 2026
- Closing date
- 9 Oct 2026
Key responsibilities
- Technical Support
- Support AIM field team in inception phase activities (community mobilization and inception meetings, transect walks, surveys, YDC formation).
- Train regional staff on GESI, GBV, disability inclusion, domestic violence reporting, and women’s rights advocacy; enhance PA/mentor capacity on GESI, community mobilization, SRHR, and GBV sessions.
- Support social and behaviour change communication (SBCC) planning, monitoring, and evaluation and coordinating with the project team.
- Lead the implementation of SBCC dialogue sessions at the community level, targeting local, religious, and cultural leaders, as well as other duty bearers.
- Guide community leaders in developing action plans based on commitments made during SBCC dialogue sessions. Support tracking and follow-up on these action plans to ensure progress and accountability.
- Identify and adapt safe, accessible club spaces with reasonable accommodations and gender-segregated infrastructure (restrooms, dignity kits, baby changing stations), prioritizing marginalized groups including PWDs.
- Support coordination with stakeholders (government, INGOs, CSOs, YDC members, and service providers) for social empowerment and enabling environment interventions.
- Participate in regional GESI, SRHR, and SGBV working groups, advocating for women’s and girls’ rights.
- Mentor and support youth advocates in developing, implementing & monitoring advocacy action plans, overseeing practical implementation (events, stakeholder meetings, logistics, linkage to CSO networks and technical working groups).
- Lead community action planning sessions to develop community action plans, consolidate commitments and ensure community-led solutions.
- Organize action planning and handover meetings at the end of each cohort to secure firm commitments from local leaders and ensure the sustainability of the outcomes.
- Coordination, Planning and Partnership.
- Support coordination with a range of stakeholders, including government entities, INGOs, CSOs, YDC members, and service providers at the sub-national level, to support interventions as well as the program’s grassroots advocacy and partnerships work.
- Coordinate and consolidate the mapping of SRHR and SGBV service providers at the regional level.
- Organize events for the celebration of international observance days such as International Women’s Day, the 16 Days of Activism, and International Day of the Girl Child in the regions.
- Contribute to the design and implementation of a monitoring framework to track progress, assess impact, and inform adjustments in youth advocacy action plans.
- Reporting, Documentation and Communication.
- Contribute to program reports and deliverables as required and demonstrate the status of GESI and grassroots-level advocacy activities towards achieving expected results.
- Quality management, checks, and assurance in the SGBV case recording database to ensure accuracy, efficiency, and timely reports.
- Identify and document best practices, most significant change stories, and share this knowledge with colleagues. Ensure quality reporting on enabling environments, community mobilization, and GESI indicators, and document good practices.
- Support regional managers, branch managers and programme assistants regularly to ensure timely and high-quality programmatic data entry and reporting in relevant manual and digital MIS (BInsight) by the Program Assistants, and mentors.
- Support documentation of program wins and success stories / case studies.
- Ensure timely preparation and submission of programmatic management information system (MIS), financial and donor reports.
- Policy and Strategy Compliance.
- Popularize the Enabling Environment Strategy, GESI policies and SGBV, SRHR and disability inclusion guidelines among the frontline staff through orientations and trainings.
- Support in policy-related materials development and localization.
- Safeguarding
- Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation to achieve the project goals on safeguarding implementation.
- Practice, promote, and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
Candidate requirements
- Degree-International Development/Gender/Sociology/Anthropology/Social Sciences.
- 3-5 Years of relevant experience in gender equality, social inclusion, SGBV, community engagement, and advocacy.
- Previous experience in providing technical assistance, especially related to advocacy, community engagement and empowerment-related activities, training module development and execution, and training facilitation.
- Experience working in integrated programs targeted for adolescent girls and young women is a plus.
- Previous experience in the development of SBCC messages, tools, and materials for community-based dialogues and other activities.
- Experience in conducting advocacy, community mobilization and engagement activities is also an added advantage.
- Skills & Competencies(required to perform all the responsibilities of this role):.
- Training materials development, staff capacity building, and facilitation skills.
- Computer literacy and presentation skills.
- Report writing and documentation of Most Significant Change Stories.
- Proactive, self-starter and independent worker with the ability to support large teams.
- Demonstrate commitment to community mobilization work around education, GESI, SRHR, and advocacy work, applying rights-based, human-centered, and survivor-centered approaches.
- Exhibit empathy and positive interpersonal skills, including cultural competence.
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Hiring organisation
s Expand Recruitment Services