Human Centered Design Associate - Malawi

Lilongwe, Malawi
Full Time
Experienced

About CorpsAfrica:

Founded in 2011, CorpsAfrica is an organization that offers Africans the opportunity to serve as volunteers in their own countries, modeled after the Peace Corps. We train young, college-educated Africans and send them to live for up to a year in high-poverty rural communities, where they initiate and facilitate small-scale, high-impact projects identified by the local population. CorpsAfrica aims to promote a culture of public service in Africa by giving participants the opportunity to apply their training, skills, and energy to helping their fellow citizens overcome extreme poverty. www.corpsafrica.org

CorpsAfrica has steadily expanded its operations from Morocco to Senegal, Malawi, Rwanda, Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Gambia, South Africa and Cote d'Ivoire. Having successfully proven the power and effectiveness of the model, CorpsAfrica has begun receiving significant funding from major donors. As we reach a significant inflection point leading to future expansion, we are seeking to add motivated, skilled, and highly effective staff to our team in Malawi.

 

 About Corps Africa HCD Center:

The CorpsAfrica Human-Centered Design (HCD) Training center Malawi is an innovative hub dedicated to fostering creative problem-solving through the HCD approach. The center's mission is to empower organizations, communities, and individuals to address complex challenges by placing the needs, aspirations, and experiences of people at the heart of the solution design process.

At the HCD Center, we offer a variety of interactive training, workshops, and consultancy services designed to engage diverse groups in meaningful conversations and design thinking processes. These activities focus on:

  • Community-Led Development (CLD): Guiding organizations in developing sustainable, community-centered solutions. 
  • Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD): Leveraging local assets and strengths to foster positive change. 
  • Human-Centered Design (HCD): A structured approach to co-creating solutions that meet the needs of users, ensuring practical and innovative outcomes.
 

Overview of the Position: 

The Human Centered Design Associate position is a full-time staff position with the primary responsibility of demonstrating work in facilitation of high-quality, human-centered design training to government organizations, community foundations, and NGOs through our training center. 

The Human Centered Design Associate will assist in Co-development of center grants, proposals as well as enhance training materials to ensure they are engaging, relevant, and aligned with the needs of our participants and organizational goals for the HCD Center. The ideal candidate should have a background in human-centered design principles and methodologies, or significant experience in facilitation and training as well as a good background or experience in fundraising and marketing. 

 

Specific Responsibilities: 

  • Support in Planning, coordination and execution of training sessions, ensuring they meet the objectives and expectations of the HCD Center, its clients and Partners.
  • Assist in writing comprehensive reports on trainings conducted, capturing outcomes, challenges, participant feedback, and key learnings for future improvements
  • Co-plan and develop all necessary training materials, including presentations, handouts for upcoming workshops.
  • Document participant engagement, feedback, and key outcomes for the workshops. 
  • Track and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) for workshops, such as participant satisfaction, knowledge gain, or behavior change.
  • Assist in the HCD center marketing of content for each training conducted (e.g., blog posts, videos, social media snippets) in collaboration with the communication officer, that highlight the center's HCD activities and impact.
  • Co-create and submit comprehensive concept notes and proposals for potential collaboration with the HCD center team and other key staff members. 

Qualifications:

  • A Bachelor’s degree is required. 
  • Excellent judgment, initiative, and creative problem-solving skills 
  • Highly organized and detail-oriented
  • Strong written, oral, interpersonal, and communication skills 
  • You should have a strong commitment to youth leadership, participatory community development, impact evaluation, transparency, and accountability
 

TO APPLY:
Interested candidates should submit a resume and cover letter that demonstrates relevant qualifications for this role through JazzHR. Only complete applications will be considered. The application deadline for the position is July 22, 2025.

As an equal opportunity employer, CorpsAfrica encourages applications from all individuals regardless of age, gender, race, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, marital status, physical ability, or any other legally protected basis.


 

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