Natural Justice Program Manager
Published On:
24th, April 2023
Closes on:
2nd, May 2023
Job closed
Job Description
Through legal empowerment, research, policy influencing and litigation, and as part of coalitions and campaigns, we support communities to know the law, use the law and shape the law. Natural Justice has three main programs: the Affirming Rights Program, Defending Rights Program and Standing with Communities Program.
Responsibilities:
- Research and MEAL
- With the research team, develop the program’s research, monitoring, evaluation and learning tools
- Write collaborative research reports, concept documents, academic papers, and organizational reports.
- Work with Natural Justice’s Defending Rights team to lead strategy planning and progress meetings, and facilitate updates and learnings from across the region
Partnerships, Networks and Communication
- Identify, build and maintain networks and/or partnerships with relevant stakeholders from government, civil society groups, community-based organizations, the private sector and academia
Support the development of partnership documents (MOUs, etc.) where relevant
Requirements:
- Bachelor of Laws degree with at least five years of demonstrated work expertise in environmental and/or climate change law, including natural resource and/or land law, and administrative law
- A post-graduate degree in law, political science or other relevant social science discipline is desirable
- Understanding of and proficiency in Kenyan and regional legal systems and institutional arrangements.
- Experience in environmental, climate or human rights litigation
- Experience in conducting fieldwork and working with marginalized communities
- Experience communicating complex legal issues in an accessible way to communities
- Experience relating research or project experiences to policy advocacy
- Experience conducting primary and/or desktop research and preparing clear and analytical reports (with proof of published work)
- Experience writing applications and reporting to donors
- Experience in program management, including budgeting, project planning, contract drafting, monitoring and evaluation
- Experience in managing and supervising teams
- An understanding of and experience in the socio-political environment and civil society work in the region
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Fluency in English and Kiswahili
- Citizen of Kenya or authorized to work in Kenya
How to Apply
Applications should be submitted via email to admin.nbo@naturaljustice.orgwith ‘Application for the position of Program Manager – Defending Rights’ in the subject line.