Jobs Opportunities

Background

The Agency for Empowerment of Pastoralists (AFEOP) specializes in applying Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) approaches to address some of the most pressing and complex challenges facing communities in Kenya and the East Africa region. Through participatory media and culturally responsive community-based interventions, we work to enhance livelihoods, promote health and education, address gender issues, strengthen resilience, and foster sustainable development among pastoralist populations.

Our change model is anchored in the following approaches:

Taking a family-based approach: AFEOP takes a family-centered approach to much of our programming. This includes producing programming for parents, schools and young children, and fostering intergenerational dialogue on community challenges and collective solutions

Elevating the Voice of Women and Girls: Through a focus on both social-emotional learning and capacity development, AFEOP develop empowering content for women and girls. The skills we focus on through our programming are tailored to the context, and include effective communication, empathy, critical thinking, creative thinking, decision making, and self-efficacy alongside leadership, public speaking, media engagement, advocacy and campaigns.

Promoting Positive Social & Gender Norms: When addressing social and behavioural change AFEOP looks first at issues of power, agency and dynamics within families, communities, and social structures – shifting our focus from the individual to the contextual factors that impact the lives of women and girls and approaching programme design through a socio-ecological lens.

Use of Media & Technology: making media accessible and participatory is a core element of our interventions. We use traditional and social media as well as accessible technologies such as IVR to elevate citizens’ issues and make sure the most marginalized voices are heard.

Learning and Adapting: Adaptability is central to our program approach. We use survey data,evaluation tools, reflection meetings, in-depth interviews, community, and facilitator feedback, and research data to continuously evaluate and improve our programmes. By creating real-time learning and feedback mechanisms, we design iteratively and adapt as necessary to achieve our goals.

Project Overview

The ‘What Works to Prevent Violence – Impact at Scale’ Programme is a seven-year initiative funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) that aims to expand effective interventions to prevent Gender Based Violence (GBV).

The Programme identifies gender inequality as a contributing factor to violence against women and girls (VAWG), intersecting with other forms of oppression and discrimination. Preventing VAWG involves promoting gender equality and addressing power imbalances.

AFEOP in partnership with the Centre for Rights Education and Awareness (CREAW) iscurrently implementing an innovation grant to address Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) using a couple’s curriculum and dissemination of radio content to communities in Meru and Tharaka Nithi Counties.

The project intends to test the effectiveness of combining direct engagement with couples through the curriculum and the use of radio messaging to test the effectiveness of the radio intervention before scale to other regions in the country.

We are seeking a Drama Script Writer will be responsible for developing compelling, culturally sensitive, and impactful drama scripts that address issues related to Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) and particularly Intimate Partner Violence in Tharaka Nithi County. The writer will work closely with project stakeholders in the What Works 2 innovation project in Kenya to craft narratives that raise awareness, promote behaviour change, and foster community engagement.

Script Writer Responsibilities

This position’s Level of Effort (LOE) is 22 days spread across two months between May 2025 to June 2025.

The selected person will be responsible for:

❖ Participation in planning and preparations for a co-creation workshop in Tharaka Nithi by joining calls or meetings related to the design of the workshop, participants and expected outcomes from the co-creation process.

❖ Co-creation Workshop: The selected candidate will lead storyline development sessions during a 3-day co-creation workshop with stakeholders and target groups in Tharaka Nithi for a 22-episode radio drama series.

❖ Story Document: based on the outcome from the co-creation workshop, the person will develop a character bible and submit the radio drama Story Document, making necessary revisions until approval is obtained.❖ The candidate will also be expected to develop scripts for all the 22 radio drama episodes based on the outcome from the co-creation process and continued engagement with stakeholders where required.

Education and Expertise

❖ At least five years’ experience in scripting for radio and/or television, ideally on norms and behaviour change programming

❖ A strong proven track record of script development and/or script writing for gender and rights centered programming.

❖ Proven ability to generate imaginative story ideas and to tell clear, entertaining stories to radio audiences

❖ An excellent command of English and Swahili languages

❖ Substantial experience delivering work on schedule, on budget, and for purpose

❖ Advanced computer skills, particularly with the Microsoft Office suite of applications

❖ Knowledge and ability to implement principles of management, leadership, peace building, conflict resolution, negotiation, and motivation

❖ Demonstrated record of initiative, problem solving, and adaptability

❖ Strong listening, communication, and collaboration skills

❖ Experience facilitating co-creation/co-design sessions with communities to identifydrama storylines

❖ Bachelor’s degree required (media, communication, theatre arts, script/screen writing); advanced degree(s) preferred

Application Process

If you meet the above qualifications, please send us a statement of interest alongside your updated curriculum vitae and a portfolio of your script writing work to info@afeop.org not later than 30th April 2025.