Call for Social Media Advocates: Join YouthHub Africa's SSCE Project to End Child Marriage

If you're passionate about youth advocacy and skilled at using social media for good, YouthHub Africa has an opportunity for you. They're recruiting Social Media Advocates for the Strengthening Systems and Communities to End Child Marriage (SSCE) project, and applications are open now.

What is the SSCE Project?

SSCE is a Nigeria-focused initiative working to end child marriage by tackling the problem from multiple angles at once. According to project partners, child marriage rarely results from a single decision — it emerges from the intersection of poverty, disrupted education, social expectations, and institutional gap. The project's approach is to strengthen the systems around the issue: state systems that can plan and implement effectively, civil society coalitions that can sustain advocacy and accountability, credible evidence that informs decisions, and community and youth voices recognised as essential to solutions.

YouthHub Africa is one of several organisations working in partnership to support coordinated, accountable efforts to end child marriage in Nigeria, alongside partners like Education as a Vaccine, with backing from the Malala Fund. Importantly, SSCE is not a promise of quick solutions, but a commitment to building the conditions that allow change to take hold — long-term systems change rather than a one-off campaign.

What the Social Media Advocate Role Involves

This call is for young people who already have an active social media presence and influence within their communities. The role builds on YouthHub Africa's long-running model of training young digital creators to drive social change — they've previously run a similar Youth Social Media Advocates programme with UNFPA, designed to expand its reach to young Nigerians who are existing social media influencers and empower them with requisite skills and resources to share information with other young persons within their communities and their social networks both online and offline  . Advocates use social media as a tool and strategy to raise awareness, share impact stories, and connect with relevant stakeholders to drive social change  on the issue at hand — in this case, ending child marriage.

Who Can Apply (Eligibility)

Applicants must be between 18 and 30 years old

Must be residents of one of the focal states: Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Kaduna, Kano, or the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)

Must be available to attend a 3-day virtual training in July 2026

Application Link

👉 https://bit.ly/C4YOSMA

Deadline

🗓️ 30th June, 2026

Why It Matters

This is a chance to get trained, supported, and equipped to use your existing online platform for real social impact — turning storytelling and digital influence into a tool for advancing girls' rights and ending child marriage in some of the regions most affected by the practice.

For more on YouthHub Africa's work, visit www.youthhubafrica.org or follow them on social media @youthhubafrica.