Internship Opportunity – Gender Youth & Inclusiveness
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Job Reference: INT/GYI/KE/04/2026
AGRA and its Work to Transform Agriculture
AGRA is an African-led institution that actively supports the drive towards inclusive agricultural transformation and sustainable food systems. We do this by empowering the continent’s 33 million smallholder farming households to transform their agriculture from a struggle to survive to profitable businesses. The continent’s farmers regularly face challenges, and we aspire to provide uniquely African solutions that respond to their agricultural and environmental challenges, leading to increased harvests for reduced hunger and more income.
Working in alignment with the development priorities of our focus countries, we enable farmers to access improved and high-yielding seeds, gain knowledge on sustainable farming, and linkages to profitable markets. In our work, we aspire to build the alliances, partnerships, and networks required to drive an inclusive agricultural transformation. We work with our partners to create an equitable youth-friendly environment that harnesses the youth dividend on the continent to drive growth and facilitate open employment opportunities for young women and men. We achieve our key objectives through a focus on the following four areas of intervention:
- Policy and state capability – We support governments in creating an enabling environment for private sector involvement in agricultural transformation.
- Seed systems – We trigger higher productivity by increasing the availability and access to improved seeds by farmers allowing them to increase their harvests for food security and better incomes.
- Sustainable farming – We support farmers in building resilient farming systems for sustained high yields through interventions such as mechanization and irrigation.
- Inclusive markets and trade – We work to increase the linkages between farmers, and other market actors for a positive, sustained cycle of commercialization and reinvestment.
- Youth, Gender, and Inclusiveness – We enable women and youth to contribute to and benefit from agriculture for their economic empowerment.
Implementing Our New Strategy Through People
People are the heart of our organization and remain the true drivers of our delivery and our impact.
We have cultivated a workplace that fuels Depth in Collaboration, Excellence in Execution, Constructive Engagements, and a spirit of being Increasingly Entrepreneurial; all underpinned by our cherished I-RISE Values (Integrity, Respect, Innovation, Stewardship and Equity)
We work with incredible people and partners who have roots in farming communities across the African continent combined with an inclusive, diverse, and talented workforce from over 25 nationalities. Our commitment to a call to action goes beyond ourselves as we arise to catalyze African Food Systems transformation and improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.
We are looking for people who are passionate about being part of a mission-driven team that is making a real difference on the continent; love to work on cutting edge Ag technologies and able to grow their skills, expertise, and experience career growth, while enjoying very competitive compensation and benefits.
The Position
Internship Opportunity – Gender Youth & Inclusiveness Job Reference: INT/GYI/KE/04/2026
The intern will be exposed to a professional environment where they will learn and contribute to the smooth functioning of inclusive agrifood systems programming while strengthening the team’s capacity to manage a dynamic portfolio of initiatives, partnerships and internal processes. This role offers a valuable opportunity for recent graduates to gain hands-on experience in a dynamic development organization.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Support routine coordination of activities under AGRA’s women’s empowerment portfolio gender integration and safeguarding, including follow-up on action points, timelines and internal inputs.
- Maintain trackers for key activities, deliverables, meetings, partner engagements and reporting deadlines.
- Assist in organizing internal working sessions, check-ins and cross-functional coordination meetings.
- Follow up with internal teams and relevant stakeholders on pending actions, submissions and routine requests.
- Support the organization and filing of concept notes, briefing notes, presentations, reports, meeting notes, correspondence and reference materials.
- Draft first-level summaries of meetings, workshops, consultations and stakeholder engagements.
- Help maintain a structured repository of documents, data points, partner information and learning materials.
- Support preparation of internal briefs, background notes, talking points and presentation inputs.
- Conduct desk research on issues related to gender integration & safeguarding, women’s empowerment, women-led agribusinesses, market access, entrepreneurship, gender equality and inclusive agrifood systems.
- Compile relevant statistics, case examples, partner information and sector insights to support concept notes, speeches, briefing packs, donor materials and event content.
- Support collation of information for reports, dashboards, donor updates and knowledge products.
- Assist with simple analysis of participation, engagement and activity data where required.
- Support logistical and coordination preparations for meetings, convenings, campaigns, learning events, awards-related activities, webinars and stakeholder engagements.
- Prepare invitation trackers, attendance lists, background packs and post-event documentation.
- Support coordination of inputs from speakers, partners, consultants and internal teams for assigned activities.
- Assist in documenting outcomes, action points and follow-up items arising from events and consultations.
- Support development of first drafts of routine communications materials, including internal updates, short event summaries, speaking points, profiles and background content.
- Assist in compiling information and assets for newsletters, social media, visibility materials and storytelling products related to women’s empowerment.
- Support review, formatting and quality assurance of documents and presentations before internal circulation.
- Help track visibility opportunities, milestones and content needs linked to the portfolio.
- Support scheduling, calendar coordination, meeting logistics and routine administrative preparations for the team.
- Assist with preparation of workshop materials, consultant coordination packs or procurement-related documentation where relevant and appropriate.
- Perform any other reasonable tasks related to the portfolio as may be assigned by the supervisor.
Key Qualifications required:
- A bachelor’s degree or be in the final stages of completing a bachelor’s degree, in Gender Studies, Development Studies, Agriculture, Agribusiness, Economics, International Relations, Communications, Social Sciences or a related field.
- Demonstrated interest in women’s economic empowerment, gender equality, entrepreneurship, agrifood systems, youth development or inclusive development.
- Basic understanding of the concepts of gender equality, PSEA (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse), and human rights
- Some prior internship, volunteer, research, university leadership or early work experience in program support, research, communications, events or administration will be an added advantage.
- Ability to conduct desk research and synthesize information clearly.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, especially Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Familiarity with Adobe Creative Cloud softwares will be an added advantage.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks, follow through on deadlines and work in a professional team environment.
- Good interpersonal skills and ability to work respectfully with diverse stakeholders, adherence to high ethics, confidentiality, and the ability to work in a multicultural environment.
If you believe you are the right candidate for this position, kindly submit your application with a detailed CV in both English and French (including your e-mail and telephone contacts) to https://ekjd.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX/jobs.
Applications must be received on or before 1st May 2026. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
For more information on the AGRA, visit www.agra.org.
AGRA is an Equal Opportunity Employer
