Position Summary

Sport and soccer are the strongest points of engagement for young people in Kenya’s informal settlements. CFK Africa was founded on this insight and brings 25 years of leadership in sport for development, most recently marked by the historic success of CFK’s women’s team winning the national championship in 2025. Building on this foundation, the new YDN will provide the platform for youth to engage in sports, receiving critical health behavior messaging, and link them to essential educational and economic opportunities. The YDN will place youth in employment, enhance public health, improve educational outcomes, and showcase that when talent meets opportunity, slum youth can break from survival mode to purpose-driven pathways.

Responsibilities

Working under the leadership of the YDN Director, the Sports Manager provides overall strategic, technical, and operational leadership for YDN's sport-for-development portfolio — including oversight of CFK Africa's Kibera FCs — and leads the design and roll-out of the Slum Sports Digital Platform (working title, to be named and branded by youth) — East Africa's first digital system linking grassroots athletes to institutions. Building on CFK's deep community roots, the Manager will use sport as a vehicle to improve health behaviours, keep young people in education, open economic pathways, and strengthen the networks of parents and guardians around them.

Accountability

The role carries accountability for program strategy and growth, the Kibera FCs, the digital platform, partnerships with sporting and academic institutions, resource mobilization, team leadership, financial stewardship, safeguarding, and demonstrable impact for young athletes and their communities.

• Provide overall strategic, technical, and operational leadership for YDN's sport-for-development portfolio.
• Oversee CFK Africa's Kibera FCs.
• Lead the design and roll-out of the Slum Sports Digital Platform.
• Use sport as a vehicle to improve health behaviours.
• Keep young people in education.
• Open economic pathways.
• Strengthen the networks of parents and guardians around youth.
• Program strategy and growth.
• Partnerships with sporting and academic institutions.
• Resource mobilization.
• Team leadership.
• Financial stewardship.
• Safeguarding.
• Demonstrable impact for young athletes and their communities.

• Strategic leadership
• Technical leadership
• Operational leadership
• Program design and roll-out
• Partnership development
• Resource mobilization
• Team leadership
• Financial stewardship
• Safeguarding
• Community engagement
• Sport for development principles

• Experience in sport for development.
• Experience in program strategy and growth.
• Experience in managing sports teams or programs.
• Experience in developing and implementing digital platforms.
• Experience in building partnerships with sporting and academic institutions.
• Experience in resource mobilization.
• Experience in team leadership.
• Experience in financial stewardship.
• Understanding of safeguarding principles.
• Deep community roots in Kenya's informal settlements.