Programme Manager Kenya - Digital Futures

Overview

We are looking for an experienced Programme Manager with extensive Economic Empowerment experience and a strong focus on disability and gender inclusion.

Job title: Programme Manager Kenya - Digital Futures

Job location: Nairobi, Kenya

Salary: Local Terms and Conditions apply

Contract: Two-year Fixed-term Contract, renewable subject to funding

Hours: Standard office hours apply

We are looking for an experienced Programme Manager with extensive Economic Empowerment experience and a strong focus on disability and gender inclusion to provide strategic leadership, oversight, and coordination for the implementation of the MasterCard Foundation, Digital Futures Programme in Kenya.

Sightsavers and Mastercard Foundation is partnering with Digital Futures, a bold initiative under the Foundation’s Young Africa Works strategy and Sightsavers’ mission to promote inclusive development. The programme aims to improve access to dignified and fulfilling work for young people with disabilities across Africa, with a strong focus on young women.

Over 4.5 years, the programme will enrol 12,200 young people with disabilities, at least 70% of whom will be women and reach over 14,700 others through community engagement. By providing market-relevant digital, IT, and entrepreneurship training, seed funding, and systemic engagement with employers, policymakers, and representative organisations, the programme addresses barriers to inclusion in the digital economy and supports the development of inclusive ecosystems and workforce practices.

As Programme Manager for Kenya, you will implement and lead the Digital Futures programme in country. Reporting to the Digital Futures Programme Manager, you will ensure that programme interventions strengthen digital and IT skills training, promote inclusive employment pathways, and advance disability inclusive practices across public and private sector institutions.

Responsibilities

As Programme Manager Kenya – Digital Futures, you will:
• Provide overall leadership, planning, and coordination of the Digital Futures programme in Kenya
• Ensure high quality execution of digital, IT, and entrepreneurship training in collaboration with IT Bridge Academies and training providers
• Oversee community outreach, mobilisation, recruitment, and onboarding of young people with disabilities into the programm
• Manage relationships with all implementing partners, including OPDs, training institutions, digital academies, and private sector actors
• Provide technical backstopping and capacity building support on disability inclusion, safeguarding and inclusive employment
• Develop employer capacity building pathways on disability inclusion and inclusive HR practices
• Oversee linkage of programme participants to mentorship, internships, apprenticeships, and employment opportunities
• Lead budget preparation, oversight, ensuring alignment between expenditure and donor/organisational financial procedure
• Provide strategic oversight for data collection, validation, analysis, and reporting in line with MEAL frameworks

This is not an exhaustive list of tasks, please see the Job Description for full details

Skills and Experience
• Solid experience in programme management within INGOs, social impact programmes, youth employment, or digital skills development initiatives.
• Proven experience leading digital skills, employability, entrepreneurship, or labour market programmes.
• Strong experience in skills development, employer engagement, internships/placements, and disability inclusion.
• Experience in working with OPDs, persons with disabilities and other actors in the disability sector and on gender intersectionality.
• Experience engaging youth, TVET institutions, digital academies, employers, and OPDs.

This is a varied role, please read the full job description for further details.

Benefits

Sightsavers offers a reward package based on local pay, local contracts and local benefits and will not normally offer international contracts. Sightsavers is committed to investing in the training and development of its employees and offers a supportive work environment.

Next Steps

To apply for this exciting new opportunity, please complete an application via our recruitment portal. We anticipate that remote interviews will take place on week commencing 25 May, followed by an in-person second interview at the Nairobi Country Office if successful.

We warmly welcome applications from all sections of the community. We encourage individuals from underrepresented areas of society (i.e. women and people with disabilities) to apply, as we recognise and value different perspectives, that people can bring to our work.

Closing date: Sunday 3 May 2026

As a global equal opportunities employer, Sightsavers is committed to embracing diversity throughout our workforce by creating an inclusive environment that reflects the many cultures and locations where we work. Our workforce will be truly representative of all sections of society and we will actively promote the inclusion of individuals with a disability. Sightsavers is a Disability Confident Leader and qualified people with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.

Sightsavers is an employer that does not tolerate any form of harassment and has zero tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse. All potential candidates will be subjected to rigorous background checks and controls.