Project Coordinator - Open Position

Primary Role—Coordinator of the Project: "Gen Z" and Political Reconfigurations in Kenya and Uganda? Documenting and Understanding Youth Activism. French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA)—Nairobi, Kenya Primary Job Type: Scientific and Cultural Project Coordinator Reporting to the Director of IFRA-Nairobi, you will be responsible for coordinating a scientific and cultural project: "Gen Z" and Political Reconfigurations in Kenya and Uganda? Documenting and Understanding Youth Activism. Your mission is to coordinate partners and facilitate cross-functional communication across the project's three components (research and training, policy debates and expertise, archives); to ensure the implementation of activities across all three components; to ensure the delivery of project deliverables; and to manage reporting under the supervision of the IFRA Director. The project's objective is to develop action research by training students, fostering the exchange of ideas and media expression, and creating a digitized archive of activist materials in order to understand the nature and forms of political engagement among young people, as well as new frameworks for analysis. Led by IFRA-Nairobi, the project brings together the University of Nairobi, Kenyatta University, Makerere University, the British Institute in Eastern Africa, the Rift Valley Institute, the Alliances Françaises, the Mashujaa Archives Center, and the Ukombozi Library.