Community Engagement Communication Consultant

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Girl Effect

  • Career category: Comms/ Digital/ Media
  • Job type: Consultancy
  • Experience level: 0-5 years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Deadline: 24/09/2025
  • Location: Kenya
Child protection/ Children’s rights Movement building
Who We Are
Girl Effect is an international non-profit that builds media that girls want, trust and need. From chatbots to chat shows and TV dramas to tech, our content helps adolescent girls in Africa, and Asia make life choices and changes.

What You’ll Do
1. Community Mobilization and Coordination
  • Mobilize, coordinate, and maintain strong relationships with community champions, schools, health providers, CHPs, child protection officers, parents, and adolescents.
  • Serve as the main local liaison for Girl Effect, Tunaweza Empowerment CBO, Migori County Government teams (GBV and Child Protection Units), Nairobi/Migori County Health teams, and other stakeholders.
  • Support planning, logistics, and execution of trainings, community sessions, events, monitoring visits, and baseline/endline assessments.
2. Facilitation of Community Sessions
  • Organize and facilitate community dialogues and forums using Girl Effect’s media assets, discussion guides, and WAZZII 3.0 digital tools.
  • Lead conversations on child marriage, girls’ education, gender norms, MNH, and adolescent health, encouraging reflection and action.
  • Promote integration of digital tools (chatbots, concierge, Champions App) into offline conversations.
  • Gather session feedback and share insights with the project team to inform continuous learning.
3. Champion Support and Capacity Strengthening
  • Support recruitment, onboarding, and supervision of community champions under Tunaweza CBO and other partners.
  • Coordinate and co-facilitate training workshops to build champions’ skills in facilitation, mobilization, safeguarding, digital tool use, and health messaging.
  • Provide continuous mentorship, troubleshooting, and motivation to ensure champions deliver impactful sessions.
4. Government and Partner Engagement
  • Serve as the link between the project and county/sub-county offices (Child Protection, GBV, Health, Local Administration).
  • Support rollout of community messaging in high-risk child marriage hotspots and WAZZII 3.0 engagement areas, aligning with official reporting, referral, and health service delivery structures.
  • Facilitate collaboration between champions, CHPs, and government officers to strengthen protection, reporting, and health uptake mechanisms.
5. Monitoring, Learning, and Reporting
  • Document attendance, feedback, key discussion points, health service referrals, and champions’ performance.
  • Submit timely reports, workplans, and recommendations.
  • Support Girl Effect’s Evidence & Insights team with endline data collection, ensuring community buy-in and data quality.
  • Capture stories of change and lessons learned for donor and partner reporting.
6. Flexible Surge Support
  • Be available for additional tasks such as extra trainings, launch events, urgent dialogues, troubleshooting, or media rollouts to ensure responsiveness to evolving community needs.

Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in Communications studies and related fields.
  • 3+ years of experience.
  • Proven experience coordinating community-based projects focused on GBV, FGM, child marriage prevention, or similar social issues
  • Strong background in community mobilization, facilitation, and stakeholder relationship management.
  • Demonstrated experience working with local government structures, child protection officers, and community volunteers.
  • Knowledge of participatory training methods and experience delivering capacity-building workshops.
  • Skilled in documentation, basic reporting, and feedback collection.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with diverse community members, leaders, schools, parents, and adolescents.
  • Excellent written and spoken English and Swahili, with an ability to cut through complexity and communicate effectively to multi-disciplinary audiences.

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