Youth Development Network Director

CFK Africa (CFK) seeks a mission-focused, entrepreneurial, and systems-minded leader to serve as Director of the Youth Development Network (YDN). Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer (COO), the YDN Director is responsible for the day-to-day coordination, delivery, and continuous improvement of the Youth Development Network — CFK’s integrating platform for amplifying CFK services, empowering youth advocacy, and facilitating data-driven change across informal settlements.

The YDN is not a single program but the connective architecture linking CFK’s youth-facing components — including TechCraft, the Slum Sports Platform, and the Youth Media Corps — into one network through which young people can move between opportunities in skills, work, sport, media, health, and education. Working closely with the teams that run each component, the YDN Director makes that connection work in practice: applying shared standards, keeping the referral pathways between the three components, maintaining the network’s digital tools and data, and ensuring youth experience one coherent network rather than separate programs.

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. This role requires deep experience in digital platform development, partnership brokering, strategy implementation, and resource mobilization, together with a genuine commitment to participatory, youth-led development in informal settlements.