30 Hot Jobs Across Africa Currently Open – October 2, 2026

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

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

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

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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

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

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 | Dead line: Oct. 16

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 deve