GIRL EFFECT TENDER SEPTEMBER 2025
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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT COMMUNICATION CONSULTANT (INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT) KENYA SEPTEMBER 2025
Closing date: 24 Sep 2025
Who We Are
Girl Effect is an international non-profit that builds media that girls want, trust and need. From chatbots to chat shows and TV dramas to tech, our content helps adolescent girls in Africa, and Asia make life choices and changes.
We create safe spaces for girls, sharing facts and answering questions about health, nutrition, education, and relationships, empowering girls with the skills to negotiate and redefine what they are told is possible “for a girl”.
Our reach is 50 million and counting. And we’re using technology to reach girls at scale so every girl can choose to be in control of her body, her health, her learning and her livelihood.
Because when a girl unlocks her power to make different choices that change her life, it inspires others to do so too. She starts a ripple effect that impacts her family, community, and country.
That’s the Girl Effect.
Project Background
Girl Effect is implementing two pilot projects in Kenya that place communities at the heart of transforming outcomes for adolescent girls and young women:
Child Marriage Pilot – Migori County
This pilot targets Kuria West and Nyatike sub-counties, where social, cultural, and economic factors put girls at high risk of marrying before the age of 18. The project leverages community champions, multimedia tools, schools, and county child protection officers to spark safe dialogues, amplify positive role models, and strengthen referral mechanisms. The goal is to generate learning on how digital tools and community-led conversations can help reduce child marriage in Migori and beyond.
WAZZII 3.0 – Nairobi and Migori Counties
WAZZII is Girl Effect’s flagship digital innovation that connects young people to trusted health information and services through chatbots, social media, and youth-friendly providers. WAZZII 3.0 adds a strong community engagement layer, ensuring that young people’s digital interactions are supported by offline champions, group antenatal care forums, CHPs, and CBO-led conversations. This pilot aims to increase uptake of maternal, newborn, and adolescent health services while building a feedback loop between communities and digital platforms.
The Community Engagement Consultant will be coordinating and supporting on-ground delivery while ensuring active participation of champions, local leaders, parents, adolescents, and health stakeholders.
Purpose of the Role
The Consultant will coordinate and deliver community engagement for the Child Marriage and WAZZII 3.0, ensuring meaningful participation of community champions, schools, child protection officers, health workers, parents, and adolescents. They will facilitate community dialogues, support champions, roll out multimedia and digital tools in community spaces, and feed learning insights back to the Girl Effect team for scale and adaptation.
What You’ll Do
The selected consultant will be responsible for the following tasks:
- Community Mobilization and Coordination
- Mobilize, coordinate, and maintain strong relationships with community champions, schools, health providers, CHPs, child protection officers, parents, and adolescents.
- Serve as the main local liaison for Girl Effect, Tunaweza Empowerment CBO, Migori County Government teams (GBV and Child Protection Units), Nairobi/Migori County Health teams, and other stakeholders.
- Support planning, logistics, and execution of trainings, community sessions, events, monitoring visits, and baseline/endline assessments.
- Facilitation of Community Sessions
- Organize and facilitate community dialogues and forums using Girl Effect’s media assets, discussion guides, and WAZZII 3.0 digital tools.
- Lead conversations on child marriage, girls’ education, gender norms, MNH, and adolescent health, encouraging reflection and action.
- Promote integration of digital tools (chatbots, concierge, Champions App) into offline conversations
- Gather session feedback and share insights with the project team to inform continuous learning.
- Champion Support and Capacity Strengthening
- Support recruitment, onboarding, and supervision of community champions under Tunaweza CBO and other partners.
- Coordinate and co-facilitate training workshops to build champions’ skills in facilitation, mobilization, safeguarding, digital tool use, and health messaging.
- Provide continuous mentorship, troubleshooting, and motivation to ensure champions deliver impactful sessions.
- Government and Partner Engagement
- Serve as the link between the project and county/sub-county offices (Child Protection, GBV, Health, Local Administration).
- Support rollout of community messaging in high-risk child marriage hotspots and WAZZII 3.0 engagement areas, aligning with official reporting, referral, and health service delivery structures.
- Facilitate collaboration between champions, CHPs, and government officers to strengthen protection, reporting, and health uptake mechanisms.
- Monitoring, Learning, and Reporting
- Document attendance, feedback, key discussion points, health service referrals, and champions’ performance.
- Submit timely reports, workplans, and recommendations.
- Support Girl Effect’s Evidence & Insights team with endline data collection, ensuring community buy-in and data quality.
- Capture stories of change and lessons learned for donor and partner reporting.
- Flexible Surge Support
- Be available for additional tasks such as extra trainings, launch events, urgent dialogues, troubleshooting, or media rollouts to ensure responsiveness to evolving community needs.
Deliverables
- Community Mobilization Plan: Detailed plan outlining how champions, schools, parents, and adolescents will be engaged in Migori and Nairobi.
- Training Reports: Attendance sheets, training materials, and post-training summaries for all champion and stakeholder training sessions.
- Discussion Session Reports: Session attendance, discussion summaries, feedback forms, and photo documentation (where appropriate).
- Government Engagement Log: Record of meetings, agreements, and joint activities with Migori County GBV Office, child protection officers, and volunteers.
- Final Pilot Report: Comprehensive report summarizing activities, insights, challenges, outcomes, and recommendations for scale-up.
- Ad-hoc Deliverables: Any additional reports or updates required to respond to emerging needs or opportunities during implementation.
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