1. African Development Bank (AfDB) Internship Program 2027
African Development Bank is recruiting for this opportunity based in Abidjan / AfDB duty locations. A paid professional internship aligned with AfDB’s Ten-Year Strategy and gender strategy. Focus areas include human capital, operations, finance, governance, economics, data, communications, legal, HR, technology and other Bank job families. The programme gives early-career professionals exposure to the Bank’s work across African development priorities and allows interns to contribute within relevant departments while learning from multidisciplinary teams. It is particularly broad in scope, covering areas from policy and finance to technology, communications and institutional operations.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 12
2. MERL Coordinator (Women, Peace and Security)
Plan International is recruiting for this opportunity based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Coordinates monitoring, evaluation, research and learning for a Women, Peace and Security programme, strengthening evidence, accountability, learning and results reporting. The role places strong emphasis on building reliable evidence systems, tracking programme progress and ensuring that learning is used to improve implementation. It also supports accountability to programme stakeholders by strengthening the quality of data, analysis and results reporting.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 2
3. Conflict Sensitivity Advisor ActionAid International is recruiting for this opportunity based in Nigeria. Provides technical leadership to the Renewed Women’s Voice and Leadership project so strategies, partnerships and interventions are conflict-sensitive, context-responsive and supportive of women’s rights and peacebuilding. The advisor helps ensure that programme decisions are informed by an understanding of conflict dynamics, local power relations and the potential effects of interventions on communities. The role strengthens how teams and partners assess risk, adapt activities and protect the integrity of women’s rights programming in sensitive contexts. Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 4
4. National Programme Officer – Protection and Gender International Organization for Migration (IOM) is recruiting for this opportunity based in Kenya. Supports coordination and delivery of IOM Kenya’s migrant protection and gender-mainstreaming portfolio, with responsibilities spanning programme management, protection, gender equality and stakeholder coordination. The position brings together programme coordination, protection practice and gender equality within IOM’s migration work in Kenya. It contributes to the effective delivery of interventions for migrants and communities while helping ensure that gender considerations are consistently integrated into planning and implementation. Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 4
5. Consultancy: Gender-Transformative VSLA Strengthening, Women’s Leadership and Restrictive Gender Norms Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is recruiting for this opportunity based in Ethiopia. Technical consultancy to strengthen gender-transformative Village Savings and Loan Associations, promote women’s leadership and address restrictive gender norms in humanitarian and development programming. The assignment is intended to move savings-group programming beyond economic participation alone by examining how women’s leadership, household and community power relations, and restrictive social norms shape outcomes. The consultant will contribute technical thinking that helps make VSLA approaches more transformative and inclusive. Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 5
6. Endline Evaluation Consultant – Strengthening the Rights of Children and Youth Against SGBV Sonke Gender Justice is recruiting for this opportunity based in Eastern Cape, South Africa. Leads the endline evaluation of a programme advancing children’s and young people’s protection from sexual and gender-based violence and strengthening advocacy in the Eastern Cape. The consultant will assess what the programme achieved, how effectively activities were implemented and what lessons can inform future work on preventing and responding to sexual and gender-based violence. The evaluation will contribute to evidence on the protection of children and young people, as well as the effectiveness of advocacy efforts in the Eastern Cape. Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 16
7. Strategic Communications Specialist Centre for Health Education and Vulnerable Support (CHEVS) is recruiting for this opportunity based in Remote / Africa-focused. Leads strategic communications and narrative work supporting human-rights, feminist and community movements, including campaigns that respond to anti-rights narratives and strengthen public-facing storytelling. The role focuses on using communications as a strategic tool for movement building, public engagement and the defence of rights. It involves shaping narratives that elevate the work of feminist, human-rights and community actors while responding thoughtfully to anti-rights messaging. Click here to apply | Deadline: Nov. 26
8. Programme Policy Officer – Gender and Social Protection World Food Programme (WFP) is recruiting for this opportunity based in Malawi. Supports gender-responsive and inclusive social protection programming, bringing policy, programme and analytical expertise to WFP’s work in Malawi. The position contributes to social protection work that is more responsive to gender inequality and the different barriers faced by women, girls and other groups. It brings policy analysis and programme expertise together so that social protection systems can be designed and implemented with stronger inclusion and equity considerations. Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 9
9. Recruitment of Trainers for Online Humanitarian Capacity Strengthening Trainings African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is recruiting for this opportunity based in Africa / Online. AWDF is recruiting trainers to deliver online humanitarian capacity-strengthening sessions for women’s rights and feminist actors, with a strong focus on practical, movement-relevant learning. The trainers will support women’s rights and feminist organisations to strengthen practical knowledge for operating in humanitarian settings. The assignment is designed around accessible online learning and movement-relevant capacity development rather than purely theoretical training. Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 2
10. Safeguarding Officer – West/Central Africa and East/Southern Africa CARE is recruiting for this opportunity based in Côte d’Ivoire / regional Africa. Supports safeguarding systems and practice across CARE’s West/Central and East/Southern Africa work, including prevention, risk management, reporting and organisational safeguarding standards. The officer supports consistent safeguarding practice across multiple country and regional teams, helping strengthen prevention, risk identification, reporting pathways and organisational accountability. The work is central to ensuring that programmes and partnerships do not expose participants, communities or staff to avoidable harm. Click here to apply | Deadline: Open until filled
11. Case Workers – Child Protection & GBV War Child is recruiting for this opportunity based in Uganda. Frontline case-management roles supporting children and survivors affected by protection risks and gender-based violence, including safe referrals, documentation and survivor-centred support. The case workers provide direct support to children and survivors who may be facing violence, exploitation or other protection concerns. The role involves careful case documentation, safe referral pathways and survivor-centred follow-up, with attention to dignity, confidentiality and appropriate support. Click here to apply | Deadline: Open until filled
12. Environmental, Social & GBV Specialist International Rescue Committee (IRC) is recruiting for this opportunity based in Sudan. Provides technical oversight on environmental and social safeguards and gender-based violence risk mitigation within humanitarian programming in Sudan. The specialist helps ensure that humanitarian activities are implemented with appropriate environmental and social safeguards while also identifying and reducing GBV-related risks. The position combines technical oversight with programme quality, helping teams consider how interventions may affect communities and how potential harms can be prevented or mitigated. Click here to apply | Deadline: Open until filled
13. MEL Lead – WISH Dividend, Policy & Systems Palladium is recruiting for this opportunity based in Kenya. Leads monitoring, evaluation and learning for policy and systems work linked to sexual and reproductive health and rights, generating evidence for adaptive management and accountability. The role is responsible for building a strong evidence and learning function around policy and systems work connected to sexual and reproductive health and rights. It supports the use of data to understand progress, identify what is working and guide adaptation across implementation. Click here to apply | Deadline: Open until filled
14. Consultant – Social and Behaviour Change Communication & Advocacy Palladium is recruiting for this opportunity based in Kenya. Consultancy focused on social and behaviour change communication and advocacy within a rights-based health programme, supporting strategic communications and stakeholder engagement. The consultancy supports the design and delivery of communications and advocacy that can influence knowledge, attitudes, behaviour and stakeholder engagement within a rights-based health programme. It brings together social and behaviour change thinking with strategic advocacy, helping ensure that messages and engagement approaches are grounded in programme objectives. Click here to apply | Deadline: Open until filled
15. GESI, Protection & Safeguarding Advisor – Border Security Programme Mercy Corps is recruiting for this opportunity based in Nairobi, Kenya. Provides technical leadership on gender equality and social inclusion, protection and safeguarding for a border security programme, integrating GESI and protection standards across implementation. The advisor helps embed gender equality, social inclusion, protection and safeguarding considerations across a border security programme rather than treating them as stand-alone activities. The role supports stronger risk analysis, inclusive implementation and adherence to protection principles throughout programme delivery. Click here to apply | Deadline: Open until filled
16. Protection Field Officer 1 (800678) International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is recruiting for this opportunity based in Benghazi, Libya. Supports protection activities, family-links services, engagement with families of missing persons, protection analysis, reporting and field visits in Benghazi and surrounding operational areas. The officer contributes to ICRC’s protection work in Benghazi and surrounding operational areas, including engagement with people affected by conflict and with families seeking information about missing relatives. The role combines field engagement, documentation, analysis and reporting with support to family-links activities. Click here to apply | Deadline: Open while vacancy remains live
17. Consultancy – Gender, Economy, and Value Chain Analysis United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is recruiting for this opportunity based in Sudan. National consultancy combining gender analysis, economic analysis and value-chain research to inform programmes that strengthen women’s economic opportunities and gender-responsive development in Sudan. The consultancy will generate evidence on how gender, economic opportunities and value chains intersect in Sudan, with a particular focus on informing programmes that can expand women’s economic participation. The assignment combines analytical work on markets and economic systems with a gender lens, helping identify barriers, opportunities and areas for programme intervention. Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 13
18. Consultancy: Technical Assistance to Review School Health Standards and Guidelines EngenderHealth is recruiting for this opportunity based in Uganda. Uganda-based consultancy supporting the Ministries of Health and Education to strengthen school health standards, including costing, implementation feasibility, monitoring, adolescent health and SRHR integration. The consultant will support the review of school health standards and guidelines in collaboration with Uganda’s health and education authorities. The work considers implementation feasibility, costing, monitoring and the integration of adolescent health and sexual and reproductive health and rights within school health systems. Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 9
19. Head of Gender, Inclusion, and Protection Bodhi Global Analysis is recruiting for this opportunity based in Kenya / Remote global. Senior technical leadership role overseeing gender, inclusion and protection research and advisory work across international development and humanitarian portfolios. The role provides senior technical leadership across research and advisory work focused on gender, inclusion and protection in international development and humanitarian contexts. It involves guiding the quality and direction of technical work, helping ensure that analysis and advice are rigorous, practical and responsive to the realities of affected populations. Click here to apply | Deadline: Open until filled
20. Program Manager – GBV (National Position) Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) is recruiting for this opportunity based in Somalia. Leads gender-based violence programming in Somalia, with responsibility for programme quality, implementation, partnership coordination, technical oversight and results in a humanitarian context. The Program Manager provides leadership for GBV programming in Somalia, ensuring that activities are technically sound, well coordinated and responsive to the needs of affected women and girls. The role brings together programme quality, partnership management, implementation oversight and results. Click here to apply | Deadline: Open until filled
21. Sexual Reproductive Health Coordinator International Rescue Committee (IRC) is recruiting for this opportunity based in South Sudan. Provides strategic, technical and managerial leadership for IRC South Sudan’s sexual and reproductive health portfolio, including contraception, maternal and newborn health, community delivery and SRHR scale-up. The coordinator provides strategic and technical leadership across IRC South Sudan’s sexual and reproductive health portfolio, covering contraception, maternal and newborn health, community-based delivery and wider SRHR scale-up. The position connects programme quality with management and technical direction, helping ensure that services are responsive, evidence-informed and aligned across implementation areas. Click here to apply | Deadline: Open until filled
22. Director of Programmes LEAP Africa is recruiting for this opportunity based in Lagos, Nigeria. Senior programme leadership role responsible for strategic programme direction, implementation quality, team leadership, partnerships, learning, donor reporting and scaling youth leadership and social-impact initiatives. The Director of Programmes provides strategic leadership for LEAP Africa’s programme portfolio, helping shape direction, maintain delivery quality and support the growth of youth leadership and social-impact initiatives. The role brings together team leadership, partnerships, learning, donor reporting and programme scaling. Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 2
23. Network Development Associate – Africa HelpAge International is recruiting for this opportunity based in Africa (eligible HelpAge locations). Strengthens engagement, coordination, knowledge sharing and relationship management across HelpAge’s Africa network, supporting members, regional collaboration and network development. The associate supports the strength and connectivity of HelpAge’s Africa network by improving how members engage, share knowledge and collaborate across countries. The role helps build relationships, coordinate network activity and create stronger links between members and regional processes. Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 5
24. Africa Conference and Regional Platform Coordinator HelpAge International is recruiting for this opportunity based in Ethiopia. Coordinates the Africa regional platform and conference processes, supporting convening, partner engagement, planning, communications and delivery across HelpAge’s African network. The coordinator will support the planning and delivery of Africa-wide convening and regional platform processes, helping bring partners and network members together around shared priorities. Responsibilities centre on coordination, communications, planning and stakeholder engagement needed to run effective regional activities. Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 12
25. MEAL Officer HelpAge International is recruiting for this opportunity based in Eligible HelpAge office locations. Supports monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning systems, helping strengthen data quality, evidence use, reporting and organisational learning across programmes. The MEAL Officer helps strengthen the systems used to understand programme performance, learn from implementation and demonstrate accountability. The role supports data quality, monitoring processes, evidence use and reporting, while also contributing to organisational learning across programmes. Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 13
26. Head of Network Development HelpAge International is recruiting for this opportunity based in Eligible HelpAge office locations. Senior role leading the strategy, systems and relationships that strengthen HelpAge’s global network, including member engagement, collaboration, partnership development and network growth. The Head of Network Development leads the strategy and systems that underpin HelpAge’s global network, with responsibility for stronger member engagement, collaboration and partnership growth. The role is focused on how the network functions as a connected ecosystem rather than a collection of individual organisations. Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 2
27. Consultancy – Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction Training HelpAge International is recruiting for this opportunity based in Remote / International. Consultancy to design and/or deliver inclusive disaster risk reduction training, with attention to age inclusion and practical humanitarian preparedness and response. The consultancy will strengthen practical understanding of inclusive disaster risk reduction, with specific attention to ensuring that older people and other groups are not excluded from preparedness and response. The assignment is expected to translate inclusion principles into useful training that can be applied in humanitarian settings. Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 4
28. Consultancy – Social Enterprises Development Model HelpAge International is recruiting for this opportunity based in International / Remote. Develops a practical social-enterprise model that can support sustainable, inclusive approaches within HelpAge’s network and programmes. The consultant will develop a practical model for social-enterprise development that can support sustainable and inclusive approaches across HelpAge’s work and network. The assignment explores how social enterprise can be structured in a way that is useful, realistic and aligned with programme objectives. Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 2
29. Programme Coordinator – WASH and Construction Concern Worldwide is recruiting for this opportunity based in Mogadishu, Somalia. Leads WASH and construction programming in Somalia, coordinating technical delivery, quality, team management, implementation planning and humanitarian programme oversight. The coordinator leads the delivery of water, sanitation and hygiene and construction activities in Somalia, combining technical oversight with programme planning, team management and quality assurance. The role helps ensure that infrastructure and WASH interventions are implemented safely, effectively and in line with programme standards. Click here to apply | Deadline: See live vacancy page
30. HeyGen Ambassador Program 2027 HeyGen is recruiting for this opportunity based in Africa eligible / Global. Selective ambassador opportunity for entrepreneurs, marketers, educators and creators to lead local engagement around AI-powered video, workshops and community-building. The programme enables ambassadors to build communities around AI-powered video and help users understand practical ways to apply the technology. Activities can include workshops, demonstrations, local engagement and creator-focused community building. Click here to apply | Deadline: Rolling basis
