- 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.
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.
- 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.