Programme Coordinator at Legal Action Worldwide (LAW)

Programmatic

• Oversee, support, and coordinate with the project team to ensure high quality programming with gender-sensitive and trauma-informed approach.
• Proactively engage with national, humanitarian and other relevant stakeholders to advance the programme’s goals and informed protection delivery especially for GBV survivors.
• Support capacity building and training of LAW’s network of civil society organisations and identify avenues for innovative learning opportunities.
• Conceptualize, coordinate, and undertake participatory research, surveys, for the implementation of evidence-based programming.
• Monitor project activities, in collaboration with management, and coordinate, follow up, support and collate accurate and timely reporting by the partners.
• Organise regular strategy and coordination meetings, internal and with partners.
• Coordinate and submit monthly reports on indicators and short narrative report to the Programme Manager and the Grants Manager.
• Ensure the programme activities are in line with LAW policies and procedures including. security, code of conduct and safeguarding.
• Provide operational support to the programme to ensure planning, financial monitoring, M&E, safeguarding and other support is available for implementation.
• Develop SOPs, and implementation of physical/digital security and safety procedures.

Advocacy and Communications

• Support the implementation of the advocacy strategy and design products that can be shared with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Participate in coordination group meetings and workshops to identify avenues for knowledge-sharing and coordination for interventions, especially on GBV prevention.
• Support LAW hosted events: liaising with panellists, preparing concept notes, agendas, flyers, and circulating all to participants.
• Coordinate and ensure that website and social media content related to the programmes is up to date.

Fundraising

• Draft concept notes to expand LAW’s programmes.
• Lead the drafting and review of donor reports.
• Draft donor briefings with visually appealing stories to highlight LAW’s impact of projects.

People Management

• Support the programme team effectively, ensuring high-calibre staff are recruited and retained.
• Develop work-plans, which ensure training and development opportunities.
• Support the Programme Manager and HR to ensure LAW is compliant with all relevant legal requirements relating to employment law, safeguarding, security, health and safety.

Legal

• Research support in preparing legal documents.
• Support in designing and delivering trainings and briefings on topics related to LAW’s programmes, and design related informative tools.
• Provide regular updates and analysis on key contextual developments.

Any other duties as specified by the Programme Manager or LAW’s Senior Management Team.

About you:

• The right to work in Kenya;
• Bachelor’s degree in law, human rights, international law or related field.
• Minimum 4 years relevant experience, with a focus on international criminal law, or international human rights law, or refugee law.
• Experience managing projects and programmes in the humanitarian and development sector and in project planning, design, monitoring and evaluation.
• Experience working with vulnerable individuals is essential, with experience working with victims and survivors of gender-based violence.
• Experience working with national civil society organisations in fragile contexts where civic space is restricted.
• Experience working across insecure or conflict-affected and fragile environments and demonstrated understanding of protection challenges within the region.
• Proven knowledge and experience in implementing protection interventions, interviewing at-risk communities and gender programming is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in.
• Experience of managing variable workload, attention to detail and meeting tight deadlines.
• Excellent drafting and communication skills in English.
• Excellent research and analytical skills.
• Active listening and analytical skills with ability to make sound judgment.
• Ability and skills to establish positive relationships with various stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, especially Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint, and strong technical literacy.
• Travel to the regions will be required.