Working at BADEF.
Small teams, based in the districts they serve, doing work that is measured by what stays behind after a project closes. If that sounds like the job you want, tell us what you do.
Somalia and Kenya
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Values do most of the work in a hiring decision.
Our values are how we choose partners, hire staff and decide what to refuse. Four of them do most of the work in a recruitment decision.
Honesty about results
We report what actually happened, including the parts that did not work. Anyone who needs every project to look like a success is not a good fit here.
Accountability downwards first
To the communities we serve first, and to the partners who fund the work second. That order decides how arguments get settled.
Impartiality
We conduct our activities without regard to colour, clan or religion. Need decides who we serve, and nothing else does.
Capacity that stays local
Self-reliance is the exit condition. Roles here are judged partly on what colleagues can do after you have gone.
Nothing listed today, but write anyway.
No roles are listed at present
When we are recruiting, open roles appear on this page. There are none listed today.
That does not mean we are not interested. Teams here are small and roles open at short notice when a project is funded, so it is worth telling us what you do before a vacancy exists.
- Write to us with your background. Use the contact form and choose Careers or volunteering as the subject. Tell us which of the seven programme areas your experience sits in, and where you are based.
- Say what you are looking for. Field delivery, monitoring and reporting, finance and compliance, or something else. It helps us match you when something opens.
- If you want to contribute without a salaried role, the volunteer page explains how that works.
Most of our roles are based in the districts where we work: Afmadow and Dhobley in Lower Juba, Marka and Kurtunwarey in Lower Shabelle. We also have an office in Kenya, and child protection work has run in Mogadishu and Baidoa.
Why hiring here takes a little longer.
A large part of our work brings staff into contact with children and with survivors of gender-based violence. Recruitment is treated accordingly.
- Roles involving contact with children or programme participants require appropriate checks before an appointment is confirmed.
- We ask for references and we follow them up.
- Everyone who works for or with BADEF is expected to read and work within our safeguarding commitments. Our safeguarding page sets out how anyone can raise a concern, including our own staff.
Raising a concern honestly will never count against you here, whether you work for us or not.