The Africa Youth Climate Fund is recruiting for three (3) Climate Finance Roles: Apply Now!
Closing Date: 7 August 2026
The Africa Youth Climate Fund is recruiting for three (3) Climate Finance Roles: Apply Now!
Africa’s young people are not waiting for change. We are leading it. Now it’s time to build the institution that will help unlock the resources, partnerships, and opportunities we need to scale our impact.
The Africa Youth Climate Fund is recruiting for multiple roles as they build a bold, youth-led climate finance platform dedicated to shifting power, expanding access to funding, and strengthening climate resilience across Africa. If you’re passionate about climate justice, youth leadership, grant-making, partnerships, communications, or building systems that empower young change makers, AYCF would love to hear from you.
Join the Africa Youth Climate Fund (AYCF) in shifting power, funding youth, and building climate resilience. Together, reimagining climate finance by putting young Africans at the center of the solutions.
About the Africa Youth Climate Fund (AYCF)
Africa’s youthful population is one of the continent’s greatest assets in advancing a low-carbon, climate-resilient development pathway through initiatives that promote a just and inclusive green transition. Yet despite young people being at the forefront of climate action, innovation, advocacy, and community resilience-building, they continue to receive only a fraction of global climate finance. Less than 1% of international and local climate funding reaches youth-led organizations directly, limiting their ability to scale solutions, influence policy, and drive transformative climate action. At the same time, Africa faces disproportionate climate impacts despite contributing less than 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions, making investment in youth leadership and locally driven solutions more urgent than ever.
The Africa Youth Climate Fund (AYCF) is a flagship initiative of the Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO), established to redistribute power, resources, and decision-making to Africa’s youth climate movements. AYCF exists to address the persistent inequities in climate finance by ensuring that young African climate leaders, innovators, movements, and organizations have direct access to the resources, partnerships, and opportunities needed to scale transformative climate solutions. Through a participatory youth-for-youth grant-making model, the Fund supports entrepreneurship and innovation, movement building, research, and climate justice advocacy across Africa. AYCF serves as both a financing mechanism and a continental platform for strengthening youth leadership in climate action, resilience, and sustainable development.
AYCF envisions an Africa where young people are not merely beneficiaries of climate interventions but are recognized as decision-makers, innovators, investors, and architects of the continent’s climate-resilient future. Through resource mobilization, fostering partnerships, nurturing innovation, and amplifying youth voices, AYCF is building a new paradigm of climate finance that is accessible, equitable, and responsive to the aspirations and realities of Africa’s young people.
Job alert: Programs and Community Support Manager
The Programs and Community Support Manager will provide strategic leadership for the coordination, implementation support, quality assurance, learning, and community-facing dimensions of AYCF’s program portfolio. The role will ensure that AYCF-funded initiatives are programmatically coherent, technically supported, youth-centered, and capable of generating meaningful evidence, learning, and impact. Working closely with the Grants and Operations Manager, the role will support grantees from post-award onboarding through implementation, learning, reporting, and program reflection, while the Grants and Operations function leads grant administration, compliance, contracting, disbursement coordination, and formal close-out processes.
Job alert: Communications and Youth Engagement Officer
The Communications and Youth Engagement Officer will coordinate and support the implementation of AYCF’s communications, youth engagement, storytelling, digital visibility, and public engagement agenda. The role will help position AYCF as a leading youth-led climate finance mechanism in Africa by amplifying youth voices, documenting grantee stories, supporting strategic communications products, and strengthening engagement with young climate leaders, partners, donors, media, and wider public audiences.
The role is responsible for shaping AYCF’s institutional voice, strengthening its brand and visibility, and ensuring that the stories, innovations, and achievements of young climate leaders are effectively communicated to diverse audiences, including young people, donors, policymakers, partners, the media, and the broader public. Through compelling storytelling, strategic communications, and digital engagement, the Officer will amplify the impact of AYCF’s investments while contributing to broader conversations on climate justice, youth leadership, and locally led climate action.
Job alert: Grants and Operations Manager
The Grants and Operations Manager will provide strategic leadership for grant management, organizational operations, and institutional systems that enable the effective implementation of the Africa Youth Climate Fund (AYCF)’s programs. The position is responsible for overseeing the full grants lifecycle, ensuring compliance with donor and statutory requirements, strengthening operational systems and internal controls, and supporting organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
Working closely with the Executive Director of AYCF, GAYO Finance, GAYO Operations, and the Program team, the Grants and Operations Manager will ensure that grants are implemented efficiently, risks are effectively managed, organizational policies are consistently applied, and operational systems support the delivery of AYCF’s strategic objectives. The role also contributes to proposal development, organizational planning, performance management, and continuous institutional improvement.
How to Apply
- Prepare your application package, which should consist of a one-page cover letter stating your interest in the specific role and highlighting your relevant achievements, along with a recent CV, all merged into a single PDF.
- Ensure that your application package is accessible and does not exceed 10 MB.
- Access the application forms at the official website.Be sure to complete the form in full with accurate information before submitting.
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