Street Child Kenya, with support from Leigh Day, will implement a new Early Childhood Development (ECD) programme in Laikipia North Subcounty, aimed at improving access to and participation in early childhood education among vulnerable children.
The programme will support approximately 20 ECD centres, reaching an estimated 1,500–2,000 children through targeted school feeding, complemented by basic improvements to learning environments, teacher and caregiver support, and strengthened monitoring of attendance and transition into primary education.
Street Child seeks to engage a locally based Community-Based Trainer and Mobiliser (CBTM) with relevant education and ECD experience to support effective programme implementation, monitoring, and community engagement.
The CBTM will support the day-to-day implementation and monitoring of the Laikipia ECD programme, working closely with ECD teachers, school management, parents, community representatives, and local education authorities.
The position combines community mobilisation, education-focused monitoring, practical support to ECD centres, and oversight of school feeding activities to ensure that programme resources are used effectively and contribute to improved educational outcomes.
· Promptly report any safeguarding concerns through established organisational reporting channels.
· Previous experience supporting ECD teaching, teacher mentoring
Street Child is committed to the safeguarding and protecting the communities we serve, our partners, our volunteers, and our staff. As part of this commitment to safeguarding, all offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate background checks. Street Child also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.
To apply: Street Child welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
Street Child works to see all children kept safe, in school and learning—especially in low resource environments and emergencies.
Our vision is a world where it is seen as unacceptable for a child not to be in education. But today there are 250 million school-aged children around the world who are not in education. Millions more children are in school but failing to learn.
Street Child believes that education is a fundamental right and achieving universal basic education is the single greatest step toward eliminating the inequality gap and global poverty.
We go to places where others don’t go, where we seek out remote, hard-to-reach, fragile and disaster-affected states that are forgotten about and ignored. It’s in these contexts where our pragmatic and cost-effective approaches can make a real difference to a child’s future.
Street Child works to remove the complex social, economic and structural barriers to education wherever they lie. We are there to close the gaps through which the most marginalised children can slip. Our work includes not only building schools and training teachers but also protecting children and livelihood support for caregivers to ensure they can afford the cost of their children’s education.
Wherever we work, we partner with local organisations and communities which allows us to be responsive and nimble. We use simple, low-cost and replicable solutions that allow us to create maximum impact for the most children.
We started out supporting 100 street-connected children in Sierra Leone in 2008. Since then, we have impacted one million marginalised children in over 25 countries around the world.
