Youth, Gender And Community Engagement Coordinator

inABLE.org is a nonprofit organization based in Nairobi, Kenya, and Washington, DC, with a mission to empower Persons With Disabilities through technology.

Youth, Gender And Community Engagement Coordinator

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.