Director, Economic Management at Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA)

Job Description

Duties and responsibilities will entail: -

• Providing technical leadership in research, policy analysis, and capacity building programmes;
• Ensuring timely preparation of relevant and innovative annual work plans and inputs to the performance contract;
• Ensuring timely and efficient implementation of work plans and conduct semi and annual appraisals of staff in the directorate;
• Enforcing the quality control process as Established by the Institute;
• Motivating staff in the directorate and Ensuring teamwork as well as a good working environment;
• Ensuring the directorate generates income to the Institute as per the set targets;
• Establishing and maintaining effective relationships with key stakeholders including policymakers and implementers, development partners, and other research institutions;
• Providing advice to the Executive Director on a regular basis on ways to improve directorates’ performance;
• Reviewing all research outputs from the directorate to ensure they are in line with the Institute’s mandate;
• Overseeing the Directorate’s dissemination activities calendar;
• Overseeing project planning, budgeting, and implementation in the Directorate;
• Coordinating capacity building activities and partnerships in the Institute;
• Supervising the implementation of the Young Professional program and other staff capacity building initiatives;
• Monitoring the implementation of the work plan and contracted projects;
• Preparing of the quarterly and annual reports for management, Board,
• Performance contracting, and donors; and
• Coordinating resource mobilization strategies and activities for the Institute.

Job Specification

Position Summary :- Head the Economic Management Directorate; guide the implementation of functions and duties undertaken in the directorate including policy research and capacity building in Macroeconomics; Social Sector, Governance, Capacity Building Department and implementation of strategic partnerships; determine and ensure directorate goals are achieved to ensure achievement of the Institute’s mandate.

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in economics or related social sciences from a recognized institution;
• Master’s degree in Economics, or related social sciences from a recognized institution;
• PhD in Economics, or related social sciences from a recognized institution;
• Twelve (12) years of relevant experience 3 of which in Senior Management;
• Knowledge statistical software for data entry, analysis, extraction, and reporting;
• Minimum of eight (8) publications in peer-reviewed journals;
• Minimum of twelve (12) research papers including KIPPRA discussion papers, policy papers, working papers, special papers as well as book chapters;
• Leadership course lasting not less than four (4) weeks from a recognized institution;
• Training in Modeling will be an added advantage;
• Computer Skills including statistical packages; and
• Fulfil the requirements of Chapter six (6) of the Constitution.