Namati’s Community Land Protection Program proactively strengthens communities’ ability to protect, document, and defend their customary and indigenous land rights. Drawing on eight years of fieldwork and research, Namati works with national partner organizations to support communities to complete a powerful five-part process for protecting community lands and natural resources. Our integrated approach combines the legal and technical work of mapping and documentation with the good governance work of resolving land conflicts, ensuring intra-community equity, and strengthening mechanisms for accountable and participatory sustainable management of land and natural resources. In Kenya, Namati supports communities and the Government of Kenya to use the Community Land Act to strengthen land tenure security, strengthen local land governance, enhance women’s land rights, and support communities to more sustainably manage land and natural resources.
Namati is searching for a hardworking, organized ambitious self-starter who will support Namati’s Community Land Protection Program in Kenya. Responsibilities will be based on the varied needs of the team and will include supporting monitoring and evaluation efforts, writing and editing, administrative support, correspondence and outreach, organizing travel and event logistics, and other special projects. The successful candidate will also play a role in supporting grassroots partners to improve data quality and management. The Program Associate will be expected to take initiative, pay careful attention to detail, and establish systems where needed to meet the needs of a growing program.
Specific responsibilities include:
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
- Support training efforts to Namati partners on data collection planning, techniques, and tools.
- Train partners on Namati’s online monitoring and evaluation database.
- As needed, assist partners to enter program data into the database.
- Ensure that all Community Land Protection partners enter high quality, full M&E data on an on-going basis.
- Produce monthly M&E reports and send to staff and partner organizations.
- Support the Senior Program Officer and Advisor to plan and carry out impact assessments and other research initiatives.
- As needed, spend up to two days per month stationed at partner offices to support M&E, impact assessment, and research efforts.
Partner Administration
- Ensure that all partner organizations meet all grant agreement requirements in a timely manner.
- Coordinating the timely submission of all agreed reports and contract deliverables according to reporting requirements and deadlines.
- Review partners’ narrative and financial reports.
Communications
- Contribute to the creation and curation of a variety of tools, publications and other resources designed to support community land protection efforts.
- Edit program publications (policy papers, academic articles and research reports) and coordinating the layout and design process for all publications.
- Coordinate the Community Land Protection Team’s social media engagement.
Logistics and Support
- Coordinate logistics (transportation, accommodations, funds request, ect.) for staff travel, workshops, partner convenings, trainings, and other events.
- Coordinate flights and international travel, in conjunction with Namati’s Washington, DC office, when necessary.
- Assist with the preparation of budgets and work plans.
- Coordinate with Namati Kenya’s Head of Office and Namati Washington DC on financial, legal and operational tasks.
- Provide basic translation and interpretation support, when required.
- Performing clerical duties, including responding to requests from the general public, faxing, photocopying, preparing expense reports, ordering supplies, coordinating program outreach, assisting in scheduling appointments and calls.
More Information
- Job City Nairobi
