Under the Center Court Africa project, the technical officer will support activities at community level that facilitate acceptance of SRHR through sporting activities among adolescents, young people and community members. The position holder will be based at the Nairobi County and will support demand creation and service delivery activities in target sub-counties.

• The ideal candidate should demonstrate strong experience in adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), life skills education, youth engagement, and community-based programming, with the ability to work effectively with adolescents, schools, coaches, health systems, and community structures.
  

Required Experience and Background

• Bachelor’s degree in Health Sciences, Community Health, Social Sciences, Psychology, Education, or a related field.
  
• At least 3 years of experience implementing adolescent SRHR, youth empowerment, gender, or community health programmes.
  
• Demonstrated experience facilitating life skills training and mentorship programmes for adolescents and young people, particularly girls and vulnerable populations.
  
• Strong understanding of adolescent-friendly health services, gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and response, mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS), and safeguarding principles.
  
• Experience using sports, youth clubs, schools, or other community platforms to engage adolescents in health promotion and behavior change initiatives is highly desirable.
  
• Proven ability to create safe, inclusive, and empowering spaces for adolescents to discuss SRHR, mental health, gender equality, and life opportunities.
  
• Experience working with schools, community leaders, youth groups, county governments, and health facilities to strengthen referral pathways and access to services.
  
• Strong facilitation, communication, advocacy, and stakeholder engagement skills.
  
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate community outreach activities, mentorship programmes, and adolescent engagement initiatives.
  
• Experience in programme reporting, documentation of impact stories, and monitoring of programme indicators.
  
• Ability to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams and manage relationships with partners and local stakeholders.
  
• Passion for adolescent empowerment, gender equality, and advancing equitable access to health and life opportunities for young people.
  

Technical support to project implementation

• Promote SRHR service delivery through static facilities and outreach models.
  
• Promote integration of services in the different services delivery points, for instance, FP/RH into HIV/TB clinic.
  
• Strengthen inter-facility referral for family planning services, for instance from faith base.
  
• Support training and mentorship sessions for SRHR Champions.
  
• Support sports tournaments and bonanzas in Dagoretti Sub County.
  
• Facilitate peer champion led intergenerational community dialogues on SRHR.
  
• Facilitate career guidance, life skills and mentorship sessions for adolescent mothers.
  
• Support linkage of adolescents and young mother support groups to financial institutions and government safety net programmes.
  
• Facilitate annual sports career guidance, life skills and mentorship sports and engagement days for girls and boys.
  
• Regularly undertake field activities with Implementing partners and provide technical and mentoring support to ensure timely implementation and quality outcome of the CSE project activities.
  
• Together with the SRHR Programme Specialist, support execution of the periodic planning, review meetings and workshops.
  
• Coordinate the development and implementation of a multi-year work plan.
  
• Support advocacy and communication processes for the project.
  

Partnership and networking

• Establish and support quarterly sports stakeholder meetings with sports clubs, local businesses, sports federations and talent academies.
  
• Liaise with relevant partners, stakeholders and collaborators to facilitate activities at community, sub-county, county and national levels.
  
• Maintain a good working relationship between Amref, ministry of health, Nairobi City County and other partners/stakeholders.
  
• Actively participate in the drawing, implementation and supervision of quarterly and annual project implementation plan with other partners/stakeholders.
  
• Support/document successes, lesson learnt and challenges in implementation.
  

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Prepare project activity reports as required, including monthly, quarterly and annual reports
  
• Conducting regular field visits to project beneficiaries in collaboration with key stakeholders to monitor progress.
  

Knowledge management

• Participate in development of case studies and human-interest stories for the project.
  
• Coordinate SRHR content development for health communication and development.
  

Admin and Financial management

• Support in day-to-day management of activity budgets including processing field imprests and other financial transactions.
  
• Ensure timely accounting for the use of project resources by stakeholders and communities in liaison with finance teams.