About the Role

Reports to: Director of People & Operations

Target start: February/March 2027

Purpose: Build AAA’s presence on the ground: the locally led communities, partnerships and relationships that feed our talent funnel and support our programmes.

Responsibilities

• Help identify and recruit local leaders to establish and run Effective Animal Advocacy (EAA) groups in priority countries.
• Work with group leads on local outreach, community building and adapting our messaging to local contexts.
• Build and maintain partnerships with universities, professional associations, existing organisations and other recruitment channels.
• Coordinate on-the-ground support for our in-depth programmes, including local research and logistics, working with group leads.
• Support due diligence and local intelligence gathering through Effective Animal Advocacy (EAA) group leads, including farm visits and stakeholder interviews where relevant.
• Work with the Communications Manager on outreach in priority countries.

Essential

• Experience building communities, networks or partnerships, ideally in more than one country.
• Strong relationship-building skills with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Based in Africa, with strong understanding of at least one of our priority regions (esp. Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Northern Africa, South Africa).
• Interest in effective animal advocacy.
• Ability to travel for several weeks per year.

Desirable

• Existing networks in animal advocacy, effective altruism, or adjacent fields in Africa.
• Experience supporting or running volunteer-led or locally led groups.
• Arabic (strong plus, particularly for North African group building), French, or another regionally relevant language.
• Comfort with data tools and AI-supported workflows.

About the Organisation

Animal Advocacy Africa (AAA) works to empower animal advocates who are interested in or are working to reduce farmed animal suffering in African countries. AAA shares knowledge, provides connections, and helps advocates build the skills to run an impactful animal advocacy organisation. Over the course of our existence, we have helped advocates in Africa raise $200,000, connected them to international networks and helped with strategy development. We have also released research reports on animal advocacy in the African and Asian contexts. To learn more, visit our website. https://www.animaladvocacyafrica.org/