Kenya Wildlife Conservancies
Association (KWCA) is a national membership organization representing community
and private conservancies in Kenya.
KWCA’s mission is to work with
landowners and communities to sustainably conserve and manage wildlife and their
habitat through promoting an enabling policy and legislative framework, sharing
of best practices, harmonizing standards, and developing a network of
functional conservancies.
Both positions will work under the
Community Conservancy Policy Support and Implementation Program supported by
USAID and jointly implemented with The Nature Conservancy.
The two positions are based in
Nairobi with frequent field travel.
Communications and Development Officer
Key Responsibilities: The Communications and Development Officer will
oversee the development and implementation of a strategic communications
platform resulting in enhanced advocacy, information sharing, fundraising and
partnership opportunities for KWCA.
Main Duties
- Lead development and implementation of KWCA
communications strategy, supporting the organization’s purpose and helping
it advance its goals.
- Develop and distribute timely, clear and
consistent communications materials including website and social media
content, brochures, reports and newsletters
- Participate in developing and implementing
advocacy strategies, plans and support production of policy advocacy
materials.
- Strengthen KWCA’s communications to its member
conservancies, partners and the wider public to ensure strong information
flow and networking.
- Participate in fundraising and partnership
activities as part of the wider resource mobilization strategy.
Qualifications
- A Bachelor’s degree in fields related to Communications/journalism,
Public Relations, and Media from a recognized institution. A Master’s
degree preferred
- At least 5 years’ of relevant experience
- Excellent and creative written and oral
communication skills
- Experience in working with Kenyan media and
understanding of environmental issues in Kenya
- Proven track record in grant-writing, and
fundraising.
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Key Responsibilities: The M & E officer will be responsible for
designing and implementing an M & E performance plan, project-level
monitoring, data collection and analysis and for maintaining a data information
management system to enhance KWCA efficiency and program delivery.
Main Duties
- Coordinate the creation and implementation of
a KWCA Performance Monitoring Plan.
- Develop performance indicators, undertake all
data collection, analysis, storage, interpretation and learning to ensure
accountability and efficiency in all project activities.
- Participate in preparation and submission of
timely and quality activity reports, dissemination of M&E findings and
best practices to facilitate evidence based planning, learning and
decision making.
- Lead KWCA capacity building initiatives and
provide technical field support to regional associations and
conservancies.
- Regularly update and maintain conservancy
database, maps, carry out needed analysis and share data with relevant
government and non-governmental organizations.
- Plan, coordinate and participate in
independent evaluations from external evaluators.
Qualifications
- A Bachelor’s degree in fields related to
Statistics, monitoring and evaluation, project management. A Master’s
degree preferred
- At least five years relevant experience in
monitoring and evaluation at community and organization level
- Practical experience in implementation of
results oriented management of natural resources
- Excellent report writing and communication
skills.
Applications
A cover letter and CV should be
submitted electronically to: recruitment.kwcakenya@gmail.com by 4.00 pm on 12th
February 2016.
To obtain more application details; visit our website: www.kwcakenya.com
Only short-listed applicants will be contacted.
KWCA is an equal opportunity
employer. Female applicants are encouraged to apply.