JOB PURPOSE 

• The Project Assistant is required to support implementation of strategies and projects aligned towards the achievement TI-Kenya’s strategic plan. This includes interventions focused on successful implementation of projects under the strategic focus area and any other programme where support may be requested in line with the skills and competencies of the intern. Under the overall supervision and guidance of the Program me Coordinator PFM he/she will perform the below tasks:

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Project Management:  

• Prepare, review and update planning documents for proposed and ongoing projects including workplans, budgets, project management plans and outcome monitoring and harvesting plans. The Project Assistant will also prepare and submit for approval activity plans including concept notes, agendas, mission proposals, training materials e.t.c
• Manage logistics for program-related events, including workshops, seminars, and conferences, by coordinating travel arrangements, accommodations, and materials.
• Engage service providers, stakeholders and participants in project activities to provide services or take part in project activities.
• Facilitate engagements during activities including venue preparations, registration of participants and facilitation of sessions.
• Research and learning through enviornmental scanning by seeking information and data on current trends in public finance accountability  to inform project design,review and implementation.
•  Monotiring of project implementation timelines, targets, achievements and reporting requirements.

Partner Communication: 

• Facilitate communication with programme stakeholders, ensuring timely and effective information exchange through various channels (emails, phone calls, and written correspondence).
• Maintain, update and share a contact list of all project partners under the programme including donors, policy makers, civil society partners and other stakeholders as per project requirements.
• Foster effective internal communication within the in the programme, ensuring that information is shared among staff on planned engagements, areas of support requirements and updates on ongoing engagements.
• Assist in maintaining positive and collaborative relationships with partners, addressing inquiries, and providing necessary information as required.

Reporting  

• Ensure timely submission of activity, monthly, quarterly and annual r institutional and donor reports aligned to approved formats.
• Ensure financial and narrative reports are submitted according to the agreed deadlines and to donor requirements.
• Collaborate with other programme team members to generate timely and appropriate narrative and financial reporting with respect to all activities and grants in the Programme.

Resource Mobilization & Budget Management  

• Support in development of exceptional proposals and/or concepts for financial support and sustainability of the programme.
• Support in developing appropriate fundraising strategies as well as sustainable alternative revenue sources.
• Support in mapping out the resource requirements of specifically assigned projects for the organisation.
• Support in developing and tracking budgets, and monitoring project expenditures against budgets for the assigned project activities.

Public Communication and Social Media Advocacy  

• Write well thought out publishable articles every quarter for management’s consideration aligned to promoting the organisation’s advocacy plans more so aligned to the programme assigned.
• 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, support in initiating and participating in mainstream and social media engagements focusing on pertinent corruption issues in the technical area of the programme.

QUALIFICATIONS  

• A graduate with a bachelor’s degree social sciences preferably political science, law or any other related field.
• Strong analytical and research skills with a thirst for knowledge.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• A high level of organization, initiative, and a genuine passion for good governance initiatives.
• Proficiency in data analysis tools and strong attention to detail are a plus.

JOB SUMMARY 

• 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 AND 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 AND EXPERIENCE 

• 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.

JOB SUMMARY 

• The job holder is responsible for supporting the MERL Coordinator in executing all aspects of Planning Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting, Learning and Adapting (MERLA) for TI-Kenya, including designing, and putting in place robust MERLA systems, tracking indicators for the TI-Kenya and implementing partners, data quality control, drafting required reports, and facilitating mechanisms for programmatic learning and adapting. In addition, the jobholder will support institutional Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, Research and Learning processes.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Monitoring, Evaluation and Research (MER) 

• Support the MERL Coordinator in:
• Development of results frameworks, monitoring and evaluation plans, and other
• MER products to ensure they are rigorous, and align with good practice.
• Capacity assessments and support strengthening existing monitoring and evaluation systems.
• Monitoring of program/ project activities progress towards achieving desired outputs and outcomes.
• Oversight collection and analysis of data for tracking program and project performance indicators.
• Development and implementation of approaches to increase the use of research and evidence to strengthen the programmatic impact of activities.

Reporting and Learning 
Support the MERL Coordinator in:

• Collation of project and program reports and consolidate for internal and external reporting.
• Monitoring compliance with program and institutional reporting requirements.
• Preparing timely and regular reports on M&E findings to programme staff and implementing partners.
• Generating quarterly monitoring and evaluation reports from various project/ programs for presentation to the management team.
• Guiding and planning regular dissemination activities of M&E findings with programme staff and stakeholders
• Facilitating access to M&E data to programme staff and relevant stakeholders.
• Supporting in the design and facilitation of MEL capacity-building workshops, coaching, and other capacity development opportunities.
• Ensuring integration of lessons learnt in program/ project implementation.

Planning 
Support the MERL Coordinator in:

• Leading program /project planning processes including general oversight in program and project planning processes.
• Supporting institutional planning processes including strategic plan development, implementation, and review.
• Ensuring alignment of programs and projects to overall institutional strategic priorities, including alignment with donors/ partners requirements.

Quality Management 
Support the MERL Coordinator in:

• Reviewing the quality of reports from programme staff, implementing partners and external service providers and providing recommendations for improvement.
• Spearheading the development and implementation of service delivery standards.

Resource Mobilization and Budget Management 
Working with the MERL Coordinator:

• Support in contributing to the Resource mobilization fundraising initiatives ensuring all MERL related aspects are adequately addressed.
• Support the Resource Mobilization team in fundraising efforts while ensuring alignment to the operating environment, strategic plan and best practices.
• Provide budget oversight for the MERL oriented activities and projects in the organization.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE 

• Bachelor’s degree in Quality Assurance, Statistics, Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, Management, or relevant social science discipline.
• Certification in monitoring and evaluation, project management or relevant field will be an added advantage.
• At least 3-year relevant work experience in programming, monitoring and evaluation, research and quality assurance are desirable.
• Demonstrated experience in data collection, data analysis and synthesis and preparation of strategic information for decision makers.
• Demonstrated experience in writing reports and reviews and delivering presentations to program/ project stakeholders.

JOB PURPOSE 

• The Volunteer is required to support implementation of strategies and projects aligned towards the achievement TI-Kenya’s strategic plan. This includes interventions focused on successful implementation of projects under the strategic focus area and any other programme where support may be requested in line with the skills, competencies and desired areas of learning of the Volunteer. Under the overall supervision and guidance of the Project Officer (PFM), he/she will perform the below tasks:

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES  

• Under the supervision of the Project Officer (PFM), the volunteer shall provide programme support including but not limited to the following duties:
• Provide logistical and administrative support for program-related events, including preparations of venues, transport, programmes, participants registration and conference materials as may be needed.
• Assist in project documentation including activity reporting, minutes for meetings and support donor reporting in line with required templates and timelines;
• Research and learning through enviornmental scanning by seeking information and data on current trends in public finance accountability  to inform project design, review and implementation.
• Facilitate communication with programme stakeholders, ensuring timely and effective information exchange through various channels (emails, phone calls, and written correspondence).
• Maintain, update and share a contact list of all project partners under the programme including donors, policy makers, civil society partners and other stakeholders as per project requirements.
• 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, support in initiating and participating in mainstream and social media engagements focusing on pertinent corruption issues in the technical area of the programme.
• Contribute to team effort by performing related tasks as assigned from time to time.

QUALIFICATIONS  

• A graduate with a bachelor’s degree in Economics, Finance, Data Science, Law, Political Science or any other related field.
• Strong analytical and research skills with a thirst for knowledge.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• A high level of organization, initiative, and a genuine passion for good governance initiatives.
• Proficiency in data analysis tools and strong attention to detail are a plus.