Community Coordinator, Kenya

About Circles

At Circles, we're building an app that helps communities create and use their own alternative money to exchange goods and services with each other.

Our mission is to empower 100 million people with greater sovereignty and agency to shape their own lives. We're building Circles to help people get more out of their skills and contributions, increase their purchasing power, and access more of what they need within their communities.

We're looking for someone who believes in this mission and wants to help build our first active communities in Kenya.

Website: getcircles.one

The role

You are the bridge between our team and Kenyan communities.

You'll identify suitable chamas, build relationships with their members, help them use Circles, and support their first exchanges.

This takes patience, initiative and good judgment. Success means members finding real value in exchanging with each other, alongside signing up and learning the app.

What you will do

- Find suitable communities. Identify chamas whose members meet regularly, have access to smartphones, and are willing to offer something and try exchanging with each other.

- Help build an active first community. Understand what members need and can offer, connect potential buyers and sellers, and help their first exchanges happen.

- Build trust and participation. Run meetings and WhatsApp groups, encourage quieter members to participate, and help resolve misunderstandings fairly.

- Explain Circles clearly. Support members in Swahili and English, explain app changes, and set realistic expectations about how the alternative money works and where members can use it.

- Connect the team with local realities. Explain community needs, concerns and customs to us, and translate our plans into practical steps on the ground.

- Travel to pilot communities as needed.

- Approach suitable local shops and help them understand how to participate.

- Learn and report honestly. Share clear updates on participation, completed exchanges, problems and feedback, including things that aren't working.

- Recognise bias and mistakes. Question your own assumptions and ours, seek different perspectives, and speak openly about errors so we can learn and improve.

- Work independently and stay responsive. Take initiative and keep in regular contact with the team.

Who you are

- Trusted in communities. People know you as reliable and fair.

- Experience working with chamas, SACCOs, CBOs, NGOs or similar community groups in Kenya.

- You can work comfortably with both local community members and a remote international team.

- Fluent in Swahili and English. Comfortable writing short, clear updates.

- You take initiative, ask questions when something is unclear, and are comfortable respectfully challenging an idea.

- You're motivated by helping people gain greater agency and opportunities through their own contributions.

- Ready to travel and work in the field.

Nice to have

- Experience starting or leading a community, savings group or local initiative.

- Past work with marketplaces, community currencies or digital payments.

- Experience training people who are new to apps.

- Luo or another local language used in Western Kenya.

1. Your CV and a short note explaining why this work interests you.

2. The towns or counties where you can work, the languages you speak, and your availability.

3. Two references with phone numbers (include at least one former supervisor).

4. One community you helped build or support: what you personally did, what was difficult, and what happened.

Deadline: 14 November 2026

We welcome all applicants. If you enjoy working with communities, take responsibility, and want to learn alongside us, we'd love to hear from you.