CFK’s Girls’ Empowerment Program is founded. CFK’s first medical clinic opens. CFK brings together male and female youth of different ethnicities to promote community cooperation and development through sports and establishes Kibera’s first all-girls’ soccer league.

Responsibilities or duties

• Set and drive the strategic direction of YDN's sport-for-development work, overseeing soccer and multi-sport leagues, coaching, and youth participation across slum communities, with a focus on inclusion of girls and young women.
• Oversee CFK Africa's Kibera FCs — including team management, coaching standards, and competitive performance — building on the momentum of the 2025 women's national championship win and ensuring high standards of player welfare and safeguarding.
• Lead the design, launch, and continuous improvement of the youth-named and youth-branded digital platform, delivering league coordination, verified athlete profiles, health-behavior messaging, education and economic linkages, and a parent/guardian support network.
• Build and steward partnerships with sporting federations, clubs, scouts, schools, universities, and scholarship providers, negotiating placement and scholarship arrangements that connect verified athletes to opportunity.
• Work with the YDN Director to develop compelling proposals and sustainability pathways — including sponsorship and platform-based models — that reduce long-term grant dependency.
• Lead, motivate, and develop a high-performing, multidisciplinary team of program officers, coaches, coordinators, and volunteers.
• Hold overall accountability for sports-for-development budgets and donor compliance, and work with the MEAL team to define indicators capturing participation, retention, health, education, and talent-progression outcomes.

Qualifications or requirements

A master's degree in a relevant field (e.g. sports management, development studies, public health, education, or social sciences); a bachelor's degree with exceptional relevant experience may be considered.

Experience needed

• At least 7 years' progressive experience in sport for development, youth programming, or a related field, including significant senior leadership responsibility.
• Demonstrated success leading, growing, or transforming a program, ideally in informal settlement or resource-constrained contexts.
• Proven track record managing multi-donor budgets and delivering against ambitious targets in compliance with donor regulations.
• Experience building partnerships with sporting, academic, or institutional stakeholders and mobilizing resources or winning funding.
• Experience commissioning or managing a digital product or platform, or working closely with a technical delivery team.
• Knowledge of Kenya's sporting ecosystem — federations, clubs, scouting, and scholarship pathways.

• Set and drive the strategic direction of YDN's sport-for-development work, overseeing soccer and multi-sport leagues, coaching, and youth participation across slum communities, with a focus on inclusion of girls and young women.
• Oversee CFK Africa's Kibera FCs — including team management, coaching standards, and competitive performance — building on the momentum of the 2025 women's national championship win and ensuring high standards of player welfare and safeguarding.
• Lead the design, launch, and continuous improvement of the youth-named and youth-branded digital platform, delivering league coordination, verified athlete profiles, health-behavior messaging, education and economic linkages, and a parent/guardian support network.
• Build and steward partnerships with sporting federations, clubs, scouts, schools, universities, and scholarship providers, negotiating placement and scholarship arrangements that connect verified athletes to opportunity.
• Work with the YDN Director to develop compelling proposals and sustainability pathways — including sponsorship and platform-based models — that reduce long-term grant dependency.
• Lead, motivate, and develop a high-performing, multidisciplinary team of program officers, coaches, coordinators, and volunteers.
• Hold overall accountability for sports-for-development budgets and donor compliance, and work with the MEAL team to define indicators capturing participation, retention, health, education, and talent-progression outcomes.

• Demonstrated success leading, growing, or transforming a program, ideally in informal settlement or resource-constrained contexts.
• Proven track record managing multi-donor budgets and delivering against ambitious targets in compliance with donor regulations.
• Experience building partnerships with sporting, academic, or institutional stakeholders and mobilizing resources or winning funding.
• Experience commissioning or managing a digital product or platform, or working closely with a technical delivery team.
• Knowledge of Kenya's sporting ecosystem — federations, clubs, scouting, and scholarship pathways.

• A master's degree in a relevant field (e.g. sports management, development studies, public health, education, or social sciences); a bachelor's degree with exceptional relevant experience may be considered.