Transparency International - Kenya
(TI-Kenya) is part of the Transparency International group that is a non-partisan
coalition of individuals with a shared vision of a corruption-free world.
Transparency International Kenya
seeks to employ a Programme Coordinator for its Citizen Demand Programme.
Vacancy: Programme Coordinator
Reference: Citizen Demand
Duty Station: Nairobi with Travel to the Counties
Overall Purpose of the Job: The Programme Coordinator (PC) will lead,
coordinate and oversee its Citizen Demand Programme.
Reporting to the Head of Programmes,
the PC shall be responsible for strategic planning, budgeting, co-ordinating,
developing and implementing the citizen demand programme aimed at building
citizen capacity to enable them influence public policy and provision of public
services, and designing and implementing innovative projects that promote
effective citizen engagement in the promotion of accountable and transparent
governance and efficient service delivery at national and county levels.
The PC shall also be responsible for
the water and education sub-programmes, improved systems and procedures as well
as monitoring and evaluating programme activities and individual performance
against set targets.
Other duties include team building,
providing effective leadership and implementing on-the-job training to improve
employee performance within the Citizen Demand Programme.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities
Specific Duties and Responsibilities
The duty station for this position
shall be at the TI Kenya secretariat, Nairobi.
Duties and responsibilities at this
level include:-
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Designing and implementing strategies
and projects to enhance effective citizen participation in promoting
accountability, transparency and efficient service delivery;
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Designing and implementing
appropriate guidelines for advocacy against and legal advice on corruption;
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Designing and coordinating
implementation of appropriate and innovative projects, strategies and
activities to enhance public awareness on corruption and build their capacity
to stand up against corruption;
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Ensuring effective management of
Advocacy and Legal Advise Centres’ (ALACs) activities in the regions including
developing strategies for the recruitment and induction of volunteer advocates
into the Legal Advisory Committees for the ALACs.
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Developing work schedules, drafting
case pleadings and allocating cases in order to ensure that volunteer advocates
are receiving a continuous flow of court cases for their action.
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Reviewing the effectiveness of legal
aid services offered in the ALACs.
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Establishing and facilitating
cross-functional and multidisciplinary teams of probono advocates to represent
qualified clients in public interest test cases on corruption and integrity.
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Developing citizen driven
legislation, political participation, accountability and transparency projects
and strategies;
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Identify potential public interest
cases, research on them and develop multi-pronged strategies of dealing with
them, including but not limited to public/strategic/impact litigation
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Establish and coordinate sustainable
networks/partnerships with local and international governance institutions and
actors in the administration of justice and promotion of legal and human rights
in Kenya including donors, government agencies, NGOs and community groups to
ensure collaborative strategies and effective support networks to promote
accountability and transparency;
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Developing citizen centred programmes
and strategies to fight against corruption;
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Develop and operationalize effective
reporting mechanisms for the citizen demand programme and ensure periodic,
monthly and annual progress reports of the programme are written in time.
·
Reviewing the operations and results
of the programme and providing reports showing achievements against planned
targets as well as justification for performance variances.
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Developing appropriate fundraising
strategies to diversify revenue sources for the organization;
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Managing contracts and monitoring
expenditure ;
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Overseeing performance management for
the programme’s staff;
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Coordinating the monitoring and
evaluation and documentation of lessons and best practice in the Citizen Demand
Programme;
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Promoting linkages with government
institutions and other relevant stakeholders in implementing and monitoring of
citizen demand activities, development of national policies and legislation;
·
Promoting mainstreaming of
transparency and accountability in citizen demand policies and programmes;
·
Promoting research on citizen demand
and good governance in collaboration with institutions of higher learning;
Job Specification
For appointment to this position, a
candidate must have;
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Managed a governance and or legal aid
programme for at least (3) years;
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At least a bachelors degree in the
following disciplines; Law, Community Development, Development Studies, Public
Administration, Environmental Studies or any other related qualification from a
recognized institution;
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A Masters Degree in any of the above
disciplines will be an added advantage;
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Be proficient in computer
applications; and
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Shown merit in work performance and
results
Competencies
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A strong commitment to the aims,
objectives and values of TI-Kenya
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High level skills in report writing
and presentation
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Ability and experience to
conceptualize, implement and evaluate governance and policy programmes
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Knowledge of dynamics of partnership
and experience in a role directly involved with such partnerships
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A good appreciation of advocacy and
community engagement
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Excellent verbal, analytical, and
organizational skills
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Experience in proposal writing with a
proven ability to secure donor funding
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Strong interpersonal and
communication skills
Vacancy: Deputy Programme Officer
Reference:Advocacy and Legal Advisory Centre, Mombasa
Duty Station:Mombasa
Job Summary: Transparency International - Kenya (TI-Kenya) is
part of the Transparency International movement that is a non-partisan coalition
of individuals with a shared vision of a corruption free world.
TI-Kenya is an autonomous chapter in
the Transparency International movement, a global coalition against corruption
with which we share knowledge and exchange ideas for the greater good of Kenya.
TI-Kenya, in
collaboration with partners in Nairobi, Coast, Western/Nyanza and North Rift
regions has established Advocacy and Legal Advice Centres (ALACs) as a
strategic initiative to empower citizens to actively participate in the fight
against corruption.
TI-Kenya through the ALACs – carries out the following functions:
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Promote legal advice and assistance
to victims or witnesses of corruption through provision of free and
confidential advice on corruption cases, advice on formulation, development,
presentation and monitoring of corruption-related complaints and partnership
with legal aid organisations for referrals and follow up.
·
Enhance citizen’s access to legal
services through information, education and communication support.
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Undertake advocacy on a broader
anti-corruption reform agenda
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Enhance institutional capacity in
complaint assessment and processing to enable citizens pursue
corruption-related issues.
·
Support the work and sustainability
of good governance coalitions in the regions.
In addition, ALACs form the core
business of TI-Kenya’s Citizen Demand Programme that seeks to ssupport citizens
to proactively demand for transparency, accountability and good governance.
Under the supervision of the Programme Officer-ALAC Mombasa, the Deputy Programme Officer will provide support in the implementation of ALAC Mombasa activities towards achievement of the overall Citizen Demand Programme objectives and TI Kenya’s strategic plan.
Duties and Responsibilities
Programme Management
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Take up roles assigned by the
Programme Officer to assist in the coordination, management of ALAC Mombasa
programmes/projects, administration, logistical tasks, documentation and
liaison with other TI Kenya staff.
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Receive & book appointments for
clients, conduct initial interviews and where appropriate provide legal advice,
make records of complaint calls, make referrals and follow up of clients cases
and the overall management of ALAC Mombasa data base.
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Provide support on TI Kenya website
updates by highlighting ALAC Mombasa’s activities
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Assist the Programme Officer in
designing and implementing outreach initiatives on good governance and
corruption prevention targeting communities around the coastal region and its
environs;
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Providing the Programme Officer with
technical support in planning meetings, workshops and seminars including the
preparation of meeting documents, agendas, IEC materials and reports for the
Citizen Demand Programme.
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Develop and implement strategic
community mobilization and empowerment initiatives to enable community groups
to promote transparent and accountable institutions locally and nationally;
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Develop effective local community
organization resources and learning materials and effective strategies to be
used in advocacy work;
Advisory / Strategy Development
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Provide support to the Programme
Officer in defining sub – programmes priorities and objectives advised by the
regional dynamics;
Management of TI-Kenya
Partners/partnerships
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Work with the Programme Officer to
raise awareness of ALAC Mombasa project to the public and stakeholders in the
region
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Build sustainable partnerships with
community groups, county authorities and other development actors in order to
ensure that transparency and accountability issues are mainstreamed into local
and national social-economic and development programmes.
Institutional Learning
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Assist with the development of a
participatory results and impact tracking system for ALAC Mombasa initiative.
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Assist in the documentation of
information based on the CD Programme and ALAC Mombasa.
Resource Mobilization:
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Provide technical support to the
Programme Officer in researching for and developing exceptional proposals
and/or concepts for financial support and sustainability of the sub–programme.
Qualifications
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Bachelors’ Degree in Law (LLB),
political science or other related social science from a recognized university
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At least 2 years relevant work
experience with an emphasis on governance, access to justice, and community
engagement
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Experience in project design,
implementation and management.
Competencies
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Proven experience in community
mobilization and an interest in the anti-corruption sector.
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Familiarity with advocacy and
communications strategies and tools
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Result oriented, team player and self
motivated
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Ability to multi-task, with tight
deadlines/schedules and attention to detail.
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Excellent Writing, Research, Communication
and interpersonal and skills
Vacancy: Deputy Programme Officer
Reference: Climate Governance Integrity Programme
Duty Station: Nairobi
Job Summary:Transparency International-Kenya (TI-Kenya) is part
of the Transparency International movement that is a non-partisan coalition of
individuals with a shared vision of a corruption free world.
TI-Kenya is an autonomous chapter in
the Transparency International movement, a global coalition against corruption
with which we share knowledge and exchange ideas for the greater good of Kenya.
Climate Governance Programme aims at strengthening the legal framework & policies governing environmental practice.
The programme aims
at ensuring equitable sharing of accruing environmental benefits through citizen
mobilization and empowerment.
Transparency International Kenya (TI
–Kenya) is implementing a programme of action geared to promoting transparency,
accountability, integrity and anticorruption safeguards in climate finance
governance (CFG) both nationally and globally.
The purpose is to increase capacities
of climate finance governance stakeholders to better engage, cooperate,
advocate and contribute to CFG policy development, implementation and oversight
through low carbon technology.
Under the supervision of the Programme Officer, the Deputy Programme Officer is in charge of implementing appropriate activities in support of TI- Kenya strategic goals.
Duties and Responsibilities
1. Programme Management
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Design projects, develop work plans/activities
schedules and ensure successful implementation to achieve overall programme
objectives aligned to TI-Kenya strategic goals.
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Support timely programme reports;
monthly, quarterly and annual reports.
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Support management of the programme
budgets and resource allocation; monitoring expenditures, identification of
budget gaps and proper accounting to donors. The task will include timely
reports to relevant stakeholders.
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Track and monitor project
deliverables using M&E frameworks, produce M&E reports defining project
progress and, analyse results in contribution to overall strategic development
of the Climate Governance Programme.
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Support the identification and
recruitment of qualified service providers as well as procurement of
assets/utilities and consultants for tasks specific to the programme. The
Deputy Programme Officer shall also assist in preparation of the terms of
reference, expression of interest and contracts in accordance with TIKenya
policies and procedures and will facilitate successful delivery of work by such
service providers.
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Provide technical support to ensure
that technical documents of the programme are fully reviewed, discussed and
appropriately disseminated. This task includes support to research, data
collection and reports.
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Develop and implement national
advocacy strategies and actions to promote and improve transparency,
accountability and integrity of climate governance.
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Project organization and
co-ordination including meetings, dialogues with partners, development of
research and e – learning tools for stakeholders. • Build capacity of
staff and relevant stakeholders on climate governance with specific influence
on climate finance governance, service delivery, public procurement and
development of IEC materials on the sub-programmes.
2. Strategy Development.
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Support development of programme
priorities and objectives and communicate to staff, partners and other
stakeholders for mutual understanding and ownership.
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Support development of TI Kenya
national, regional and global strategies and implementation of climate
governance
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Support development of national
advocacy actions and strategies to promote and improve transparency,
accountability and integrity in climate governance which includes interventions
to CFG policy development, designing and producing policy and working paper in
climate governance issues and recommendations, convene high visibility events
and campaign to increase awareness on climate governance.
3. Management of TI Kenya
partners/partnerships.
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Conduct national risk map and
assessment of the key national entities responsible for climate finance for
mitigation and adaptation projects;
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Develop and maintain national or
local climate governance networks and communities of practice involving climate
governance stakeholders;
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Conclude special Memorandum of
understanding (MOUs) with key stakeholders;
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Develop collaborative program
strategies, resource mobilization, concerted efforts and collective results for
desired impact;
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Develop links and share experiences
with relevant stakeholders to promote and mainstream climate governance
transparency to achieve TI - Kenya vision and mission;
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Provide technical support to project
partners in the development of sound policies for transparent and accountable
institutions of governance;
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Support national or local climate
finance governance e–learning tool and supplementary capacity building actions
for local stakeholders to better understand and participate in national policy
development and monitoring;
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Mobilize TI Kenya good governance
coalitions to participate in initiatives of climate governance.
4. Institutional learning
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Support the development of e-learning,
networking and knowledge/content management platforms for communication and
share-learning.
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Provide technical support for the
development of structured opportunities of institutional learning including
project monitoring and evaluation, highlighting success stories and lessons
learnt and development of good practices.
Qualifications and Experience
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Hold a graduate degree in
Environmental Science;
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At least five (2) years of proven
experience in advocacy work around environmental governance, especially climate
governance. This should include expertise in climate financing and familiarity
with UNFCCC;
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Experience in project management
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Research skills.
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ICT skills-use of share point, Ms
Office 2010, Social networking tools & other project management computer software.
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Experience related to knowledge
management, Advocacy work, e-learning tools and/or online network management,
preferred.
Competencies
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Good understanding of civil society
and networks engaged in advocacy; knowledge of international institutions
likely to be advocacy targets.
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General knowledge of climate finance,
climate governance and development issues.
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Knowledge of and interest in corruption
and governance issues.
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Excellent communication – spoken and
written skills in English and Kiswahili.
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Public relations and communication
skills.
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Good understanding of messaging and
public positioning; ability to identify newsworthy issues and stories, media
opportunities and outlets
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Creative response to opportunities in
projects with integrated media and advocacy plans and actions
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Proven ability to meet deadlines with
a high level of creativity and flexibility
How to Apply:
Interested and qualified candidates
are requested to submit one document as an attachment (combining the
application letter and CV with at least three professional referees) by email
on/before close of business on 15th December 2014 to: hr@tikenya.org
Please include the reference: Climate Governance Integrity Programme as the subject of your email applications.
Do not attach your testimonials or certificates.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.