Africa Advocacy Officer

Together for Girls works around the world and combines state-of-the-art data with powerful advocacy to end violence against children and adolescents, especially sexual violence. Through data and advocacy, TfG drives action to break cycles of violence and ensure prevention, healing, and justice. By connecting the dots between understanding the problem, identifying effective solutions, tracking progress, and mobilizing for action, TfG creates a synergistic effect that amplifies its impact and drives toward its ultimate goal of creating a safer world for children and adolescents.

We are a nimble and highly impactful team that continues to grow and evolve. We work with a broad range of organizations, researchers, and advocates to drive change.

TfG employs a comprehensive approach articulated through three interconnected initiatives that collectively contribute to ending violence against children. The Safe Futures Solutions Hub shares evidence and practice-based knowledge to inform effective prevention and response efforts, ensuring access to proven solutions across sectors. The Brave Movement mobilizes survivors and allies worldwide to drive political will, influence policy, and ensure that inaction is not an option. Finally, the Out of the Shadows Index tracks countries’ progress in addressing violence, providing an accountability framework and benchmark for advocacy. Together, these initiatives form a powerful model that transforms evidence into collective action for prevention, healing, and justice.

Position Overview

The Africa Advocacy Officer supports Together for Girls’ Africa-focused advocacy, coalition engagement, and movement-building activities, with a strong emphasis on coordination, logistics, and administrative support. This role serves as a day-to-day liaison with African Union institutions, supports survivor-centered campaign implementation across the region, and provides essential coordination for membership, regional platforms, and catalytic grant processes. The Officer helps translate evidence into regional advocacy opportunities, supports capacity-building of member groups, and ensures smooth execution of Africa-specific advocacy and campaign activities.

This is a full-time, 18-month position, with the possibility of renewal.

Responsibilities and Duties

African Union Advocacy, Influencing & Membership Liaison

• Serve as the day-to-day liaison with the African Union Commission and relevant AU bodies including Africa Committee of Experts (ACERWC), Regional Economic Communities and CSO Forum
• Monitor AU policy developments, identify advocacy windows, and prepare briefing materials to support strategic engagement.
• Build and maintain relationships with AU stakeholders and regional partners.
• Support involvement of survivor councils, activists, and membership platforms in AU advocacy opportunities.
• Draft talking points, meeting notes, and policy summaries for internal and external use, coordinating with data and evidence team to inform the materials..

Campaign Logistics, Coordination & Member Mobilization

• Provide logistical and administrative support for Africa-focused campaign activities, including event coordination, travel support, invitations, materials preparation, and vendor engagement.
• Mobilize and coordinate Brave Movement members and platforms for campaign activations and regional advocacy moments.
• Track timelines, deliverables, and administrative processes to ensure smooth implementation.

Membership & Movement Coordination

• Support the Movement Building in coordinating with African national platforms, ensuring consistent communication, follow-up, and sharing of campaign and advocacy updates.
• Support training and capacity-building sessions for membership groups on advocacy, campaigns, safeguarding, and evidence use.
• Coordinate catalytic grants, in liaison with the Membership Coordinator, for African membership platforms, including tracking deliverables, reporting, payments, and documentation.
• Support the Movement Building team by preparing and organizing campaign materials and providing logistical coordination for outreach and mobilization efforts.

Program & Grant Management Support

• Support financial and programmatic tracking for Africa-related grants, including documenting activities and preparing inputs for donor reports.
• Assist with budgeting, procurement, contracts, and consultant coordination.
• Maintain organized files, documents, and reporting templates to ensure compliance and timely delivery of grant-related tasks.

Communications & Stakeholder Engagement

• Support preparation of communications materials for Africa advocacy moments, including briefs, updates, talking points, social media inputs, and newsletters.
• Coordinate with Communications to support content needs for Africa-based advocacy, campaigns, and member visibility.
• Prepare meeting agendas, notes, and follow-up actions for internal working groups and external partner engagements.

Other duties, as assigned

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• 2–4 years of experience in advocacy, coordination, campaigns, project support, or related work
• Familiarity with African Union structures, regional policy processes, or Africa-led advocacy efforts
• Strong coordination, logistics, and administrative skills; ability to manage multiple tasks and partners
• Experience supporting campaign delivery, advocacy efforts, or movement-building activities
• Strong writing skills, including ability to prepare briefs, summaries, and meeting notes
• Demonstrated ability to work with survivor advocates, youth activists, or membership groups
• Ability to collaborate across teams and communicate with diverse stakeholders across the region
• Experience supporting grant administration, reporting, or documentation is an asset
• Commitment to survivor-centered, feminist, trauma-informed approaches
• Written and oral fluency in English required (additional languages desirable)

Background

Violence against children and adolescents is a prevalent and devastating global crisis. Sexual violence is a notable taboo, and often hidden, form of violence. Across the globe, one in five girls and one in seven boys will experience sexual violence in childhood - that’s three girls and two boys every second. Childhood sexual violence takes on many forms and it can happen to anyone.

We need a world where every child and adolescent is safe, protected, and thriving. Decades of research show how effective solutions can prevent sexual violence, with policies and programs to ensure survivors access healing and justice.

Together for Girls was created to work across sectors with a comprehensive and holistic approach to preventing and responding to violence. We understand that a multi-faceted problem like violence requires a multi-sectoral, radically collaborative solutions. Our partners include survivor activists, civil society, national governments, United Nations entities, and the world’s foremost leaders in global health, gender equity, development, and violence prevention and response.

Location & Ways of Working

This position is a full time, contract position that can be based in Kenya. Applicants should have work authorization for their preferred location.

This is currently a remote position with the expectation to travel to attend some in-person meetings periodically. This position will also require travel locally and internationally up to 25%.

All team members are expected to be available during Together for Girls’ preferred scheduling hours of 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. The other four hours that the team member chooses to work are flexible and may be coordinated with their supervisor.

Compensation

This role offers a competitive salary adjusted to the cost of labor in the city where the candidate resides. Final salary within this location adjusted range will also be determined by the candidate’s qualifications and years and type of experience.

For example, the annual salary for the position for a candidate based in

• Nairobi, Kenya will be Ksh 4,424,000 - Ksh 5,119,500
• Mombasa, Kenya will be Ksh 4,056,875 - Ksh 4,771,000

Together for Girls offers competitive pay, paid leave, and comprehensive health insurance. Specific benefits vary by country.

Culture and Values

Together for Girls seeks to create a courageous, inclusive, and flexible culture that empowers our staff to have the capacity and ability to deliver change. We strive to build and maintain psychological safety, trust, and accountability among team members in order to foster honesty and openness about our needs and challenges while also prioritizing self-care. We are a rapidly expanding organization that requires staff to be nimble and flexible, comfortable with uncertainty and able to adapt in real time to emerging opportunities.

Application Information

Together for Girls, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and committed to maintaining an inclusive and diverse working environment free from discrimination and harassment. Qualified applicants from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Together for Girls, Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in the U.S.

NOTICE—All job candidates must apply online and submit an application through our official process. Together for Girls does not send unsolicited job offers

Together for Girls offers competitive pay, paid leave, and comprehensive health insurance. Specific benefits vary by country.

Written and oral fluency in English required (additional languages desirable)