Company Description 5-Alive Development Community Based Organization (CBO) is a youth-led, community-rooted, and equity-driven organization founded in 2020 in Nakuru County, Kenya. The organization focuses on ensuring that LGBTIQ+ youth, young mothers, and other marginalized populations can access stigma-free healthcare, mental health support, and economic empowerment. What began as a WhatsApp peer support group has grown into a recognized movement across Nakuru and Narok Counties, reaching hundreds through SRHR education, trauma-informed psychosocial care, and community-led safe spaces. Through strategic partnerships, including with Mama Hope under the Localization Development Accelerator program, 5-Alive is scaling its impact with inclusive advocacy and youth-driven programming. The organization envisions a Kenya where everyone, especially those often left behind, can live with dignity, access opportunity, and feel safe to be who they are.
Role Description The Director role is a full-time remote position responsible for providing strategic leadership and operational oversight for 5-Alive Development CBO. The Director will lead program design and implementation, ensuring alignment with the organization’s mission to advance stigma-free healthcare, mental health support, and economic empowerment for marginalized communities. Day-to-day responsibilities include supervising staff and volunteers, coordinating youth-led initiatives, managing partnerships, and fostering collaborative relationships with funders, community stakeholders, and peer organizations. The Director will oversee budgeting, grant management, and reporting, while ensuring compliance with organizational policies and donor requirements. This role also involves guiding advocacy efforts, monitoring program impact, and supporting inclusive, trauma-informed, and rights-based approaches across all activities.
Qualifications
- * Demonstrated leadership and management skills, including team supervision, strategic planning, and organizational development.
- Experience in program design and implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and community-based or youth-led initiatives.
- Strong partnership, networking, and stakeholder engagement skills, including experience working with donors, NGOs, and community groups.
- Excellent communication skills, including clear written and verbal communication, public speaking, and report writing.
- Background in public health, social work, human rights, development studies, or related fields, with familiarity in SRHR and mental health.
- Proven commitment to equity, inclusion, and advocacy for LGBTIQ+ youth, young mothers, and marginalized populations.
- Experience with remote work, digital collaboration tools, and basic project and budget management systems.
- Relevant academic qualification (e.g., bachelor’s degree or higher) in a social science, health, or development-related discipline; equivalent experience considered.
- Previous experience in a non-profit, community-based, or grassroots organization, preferably in the East African
