Transparency International Kenya is hiring a Project Officer - CDO to drive civic engagement initiatives, advocate for anti-corruption reforms, and support community access to justice programs.
Job Purpose
- The job holder is responsible for project activity implementation by
ensuring day-to-day effectiveness of the Citizen Demand and Oversight
Programme, with a particular focus on the following pillars: Citizen
and Leadership Integrity interventions; Access to Justice and
Access to public services
Duties & Responsibilities
Leadership
- Provide effective leadership to the staff within the relevant
programme area regarding interventions on the promotion of values,
norms, and behaviour change;
- Provide effective leadership to the staff within the relevant
programme area and the
- North Rift Regional office, including promotion of strategies that
will increase access to appropriate redress of corruption-related
injustices in public and private spheres.
- Support the effective implementation of the TI-Kenya Strategic Plan
by tracking and reviewing progress, reporting, and developing
implementation plans under CDO;
- Support the development of national advocacy actions and strategies
to promote ethical values, norms, and behaviour among Kenyans and
citizens’ demand for integrity from leaders;
- Support in developing national advocacy actions and strategies to
promote increased reporting and expeditious resolution of
corruption-related cases and enforcement of anti-corruption laws and
policies.
Programme
Management & Reporting
- Design projects, work plans/schedules, and ensure their successful
implementation to achieve overall programme objectives and TI-Kenya
strategic goals around access to justice, citizens, and leadership
integrity and access to public services.
- Ensure timely submission of sub-programme reports; monthly,
quarterly and annual reports;
- Manage the programme’s budgets, monitoring expenditure,
identification of budget gaps, and proper accounts to donor funds.
The task will include timely reports to donors and other relevant
stakeholders;
- Track and monitor project deliverables using M&E frameworks,
produce M&E reports defining project progress, and analyze
results in contribution to overall strategic development in
anti-corruption and governance;
- Support the identification and recruitment of qualified service
providers, including procurement of assets/utilities and consultants
for tasks specific to the programme.
- (The Project Officer shall also assist in the preparation of the
terms of reference, expression of interest, and contracts in
accordance with TI-Kenya policies and procedures, and will facilitate
successful delivery of work by such service providers);
- Provide technical support to ensure that technical documents of the
programme are fully reviewed, discussed, and appropriately
disseminated. This task includes support for research, data
collection, and reports;
- Assist in the coordination of programme activities, including
meetings, forums, workshops, trainings, and production of
reports/minutes thereto;
- Build the capacity of staff and relevant stakeholders on citizens
and leadership integrity
- Develop and operationalize effective reporting mechanisms for
anti-corruption governance and ensure timely periodic, monthly, and
annual progress reports;
- Collaborate with programme team members to conduct timely and
appropriate narrative and financial reporting with respect to all
activities and grants in the CDO programme.
Coordination,
Networking, and External Relationships
- Develop links and share experiences with relevant stakeholders to
promote and mainstream transparency to achieve the TI-Kenya vision
and mission;
- Provide technical support to project partners in the development of
sound policies for transparent and accountable institutions of
governance;
- Work with relevant partner coalitions and networks in the regional
office and national level to develop collaborative programme
strategies, resource mobilization, concerted efforts, and collective
results for desired impact on the fight against corruption
in Kenya;
- Support the capacity-building of partner institutions and
coordination with regional and international TI chapters regarding
legislative development;
- Collaborate with relevant research and higher learning
institutions;
- Collaborate with the private sector in line with TI-Kenya policies
to support transparency and accountability;
- Where appropriate, pilot international, national, or local
e–learning tools and supplementary capacity building actions for
local stakeholders to better understand and participate in national
policy development and monitoring in anti-corruption
and governance.
Good
Practice and Institutional Learning
- 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.
Resource
Mobilisation & Budget Management
- Develop exceptional proposals and/or concepts for financial support
and sustainability of the programme;
- Manage project budgets and ensure maximum but prudent use of the
available funds to achieve project objectives within the
programme
- Develop appropriate fundraising strategies as well as sustainable
alternative revenue sources;
- Map out the resource requirements of specifically assigned projects
under the Citizen
- Demand and Oversight programme and mobilize resources targeting
development partners whose criteria match the needs of the
programme;
- Develop and track budgets, and monitor programme expenditure against
budgets for the assigned project activities;
- Manage donor contracts for assigned projects;
- Lead social enterprise and local resource mobilization efforts for
anti-corruption work through generating additional resources from
consultancies about the programme objectives and mobilize resources
from the private sector and citizens.
Public
Communication and Social Media Advocacy
- Write well-thought-out, publishable articles on corruption and
related topics, every two months, for management’s
consideration;
- Maintain an active presence on social media that is interfaced with
TI-Kenya’s presence in line with the organisation’s social media
policy and guidelines; In conjunction with the Communications
department, initiate and participate in mainstream and social media
engagements focusing on pertinent corruption issues.
ALAC
Coordination
- Schedule client appointments, conduct initial interviews, and, where
appropriate, provide legal advice, make records of clients’ calls,
make referrals, and follow up cases reported to the ALAC;
- Coordinate the production of publicity and awareness materials for
ALAC;
- Organize and file ALAC documents and other information relating to
the Regional Office;
- Develop project reports and documentation of all ALAC and other
TI-Kenya activities in the North Rift Region;
- Provide overall management and compile weekly updates of the ALAC
database;
- Continually review the ALAC database to identify and document
trends, and develop effective advocacy strategies;
- Establish and facilitate cross-functional and multidisciplinary
teams of pro-bono
- advocates to represent qualified clients in public interest cases on
corruption and integrity;
- Identify potential public interest cases from the ALAC case log,
research them, and develop multi-pronged strategies of dealing with
them, including but not limited to public/strategic/impact
litigation.
Qualifications
- Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in law from a recognized university;
- Advocate of the High Court of Kenya;
- At least 5 years’ relevant work experience in anti-corruption,
elections and electoral reforms, governance, access to justice, and
stakeholder engagement, including conducting advocacy initiatives
among legislators, public officials, and stakeholders from different
sectors;
- Proven experience in legislative drafting and advocacy;
- Proven experience in managing partnerships, particularly in the
governance and anticorruption sector;
- Proven experience in understanding the anti-corruption legal
framework in Kenya;
- Experience and ability to conceptualize, implement, and evaluate
programmes.
How to Apply
