Sports ManagerNew!

• Lead YDN's sports leagues, coaching and health programming across informal settlements, including the Kibera FCs.
• Design, test and deploy the Slum Sports Digital Platform that links grassroots athletes to institutions.
• Carry accountability for programme strategy and growth, annual planning and budgeting of sports and associated health, education and economic activities.
• Build and steward partnerships with sporting federations, clubs, scouts, schools, universities, scholarship providers and health and youth agencies.
• Negotiate placement, scouting and scholarship arrangements that connect verified athletes to opportunities.
• Lead a multidisciplinary team of programme officers, coaches, coordinators, content and health promotion staff, plus volunteers, referees and community mentors.
• Mobilise resources and prepare periodic reports, documenting and sharing lessons for programme improvement.
• Integrate health behaviour messaging, education and economic linkages and parent and guardian networks into sports programming.
• Ensure safeguarding and financial stewardship across the portfolio and demonstrate impact for young athletes and their communities.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Master's degree in a relevant field such as sports management, development studies, public health, education or social sciences; a bachelor's degree with exceptional relevant experience may be considered.
• At least 7 years of progressive experience in sport for development or youth programming, including health and economic empowerment or gender integration, with significant senior leadership responsibility.
• Demonstrated success in leading, growing or transforming a programme, ideally in informal-settlement or resource-constrained contexts.

Skills & Competencies:

• Strategic leadership.
• Programme design and delivery.
• Digital platform roll-out.
• Partnership building.
• Resource mobilisation.
• Team leadership.
• Budgeting and financial stewardship.
• Safeguarding.
• Monitoring and reporting.