Accountable Governance Lead (INT10287)

TEAM PURPOSE:

To work as a part of Oxfam Kenya’s Programme Workforce which exists to appreciate the imaginative and prescient of “a remodeled Kenyan Society that challenges poverty and inequality to assert their rights”. We contribute to this imaginative and prescient by strengthening evaluation and producing data and affect for transparency and accountability within the administration of public sources, progressive taxation methods, gender responsive allocation and efficient utilisation of sources for public companies. We establish and work with strategically match Civil Society Organizations, Girls’s Rights Organizations, Academia, Personal Sector, Networks, Coalitions, Actions and Alliances to have interaction and affect governments for inclusive and accountable governance methods that defend human rights and our planet. We convene and affect for efficient growth and implementation of key worldwide, continental and nationwide insurance policies, Programmes and human rights devices that facilitate protected and vibrant areas that permit all individuals to carry the highly effective to account.

JOB PURPOSE:

The Accountable Governance Lead shall be a core member of the Governance and Accountability Programme. The function is a part of Oxfam Kenya Improvement Programmes that works in the direction of guaranteeing equitable elevating, gender-responsive allocation and spending of economic sources at nationwide and county degree; and a vibrant and dynamic civil society that’s maximises its house; successfully mobilising residents, 
advocating for citizen’s rights and holding authorities to account on the administration of public sources. The function contributes to nationwide, regional and world advocacy and influencing efforts progressive taxation methods, gender responsive allocation and efficient utilisation of sources for public companies, to be able to alleviate poverty and lowering inequality in Kenya.  

The Accountable Governance Lead has total accountability for the Governance and Accountability programme, grounded in understanding that Tax revenues are the most important supply of long-term financing for sustainable growth and the Kenyan structure clearly specifies fairness as an anticipated consequence. With a constructive financial progress and funding alternatives, Kenya has an important potential to mobilise extra tax revenues, present public companies to its individuals, and cut back inequality. As a way to realise this, there may be want to enhance governance and accountability inside civil society organisations in order that they and residents can affect progressive tax mobilisation, gender responsive allocation and efficient utilisation of sources for public companies. S/he contributes considerably to Oxfam’s thought management on Civic House, Fiscal Justice, democratization, Lively Citizenship and efficient establishments.  H/She ensures an built-in method and connectedness (synergy) of all our programmes together with cross-campaigns (methods of working and coordination). S/he leads in programme/mission conceptualization, design, growth and useful resource mobilization for the accountable governance tasks; and connects them with the broader confederation International Strategic Framework, nation programme’s technique and nation programmes in a method that maximises useful resource acquisition effectivity and impactful supply.

S/he nurtures and helps a excessive performing crew and companions to combine and implement key influencing methods and actions. S/he develops and pushes for joint influencing actions with Oxfam and companions in participating the governments, corporates and regional our bodies. S/he establishes/strengthens strategic partnerships Civil Society Organizations, Girls’s Rights Organizations, Personal Sector, Academia, Networks and coalitions to maximise the impression of Oxfam’s work in Kenya.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Programme Administration, Implementation and Resourcing – 40%                                                                                                       

• Leads within the conceptualization, design, implementation and coordination of the Accountable Governance Programme and tasks.
• Ensures an built-in supply of the Programmes and Initiatives according to Oxfam’s One Programme Strategy.
• Engages with different nation Programmes, Oxfam in Africa, Oxfam Worldwide and associates to assist efficient implementation of campaigns and influencing applications on GJ & WR, Accountable Governance, Local weather Justice and Humanitarian Methods Strengthening.
• Intently displays nation degree and regional developments on Civic House, Fiscal Justice and governance methods, and offers well timed advise to the nation crew on methods to reply; and maximize constructive impression from the nation’s interventions together with on Feminist management approaches.
• Offers technical assist to the SMT, MEAL Advisor, Media and Communications Advisor and Technical Thematic Results in successfully combine accountable governance initiatives of their programmes.
• Ensures that agreed strategic targets and operational plans regarding the Accountable Governance programme are carried out in a method that maximizes synergy and according to Oxfam’s Strategic framework/imaginative and prescient.
• Leads within the designs of fundable tasks and mobilization of sources for the Accountable Governance Programmes and Initiatives.
• Ensures donor compliance and leads within the supply of donor experiences that meet Oxfam program high quality requirements.
• Helps the M.E.AL Advisor within the supply of high quality internally experiences in a well timed method.
• Helps program employees and management to evaluation experiences and related paperwork and adequately replicate Accountable Governance targets in Oxfam in Kenya’s work.

Partnership administration, coalition constructing and assist – 30%

• Offers technical steering and assist to the implementation of key tasks by working in collaboration with international locations in addition to Oxfam companions on Accountable Governance.
• Establish and Dealer relationships with governance and lively citizenship, nationwide and regional establishments in assist of accountable governance work and initiatives.
• Ensures Oxfam Program Influencing Requirements and Partnership Ideas are properly built-in and consistently referenced by employees and companions to information Oxfam’s work.
• Informs and influences CSO’s as acceptable and coordinates with the regional, affiliate and world colleagues.
• Helps companions and alliances/coalitions in useful resource mobilization efforts.
• Develops and maintains relationships with skilled networks with companions and allies, suppose tanks/data establishments, nationwide legislative our bodies and coverage mechanisms (Parliamentarians, ministries, native governments,).
• Participates in related regional/continental/nationwide/worldwide occasions.

Analysis, data era, campaigns and coverage influencing – 25%

• Offers thought management and adopts a political financial system evaluation to Accountable Governance work.
• Shares related info and instruments equivalent to briefing papers, inside paperwork and experiences with related groups, companions, and allies, as crucial.
• Helps the convening of key stakeholders to form appropriate and impactful narratives which in flip obtain design affect on problems with Accountable Governance within the nation.
• Implementation of the tasks underneath the Tax and Local weather Justice Programme that embrace influencing tax and financial justice, Local weather Financing, Home Useful resource Mobilization, public finance administration together with funds insurance policies, laws and choices for the advantage of goal beneficiaries.
• Via technical steering, to assist related analysis and coverage evaluation making an allowance for gender and inequality.
• Helps and strengthen coalitions and alliances on financial justice and inequality advocacy and campaigns concentrating on governments and establishments at related ranges to boost Oxfam’s work underneath the Accountable Governance Programme.
• Work collaboratively with the Media and Communications and the M.E.A.L Advisor to develop coverage briefing papers, media briefs and opinion items for exterior use and on the documentation of the programme, studying and case tales for programme visibility and fundraising.
• Handle consultants and researchers as required, in accordance with Oxfam coverage and procedures.

Human useful resource administration – 5%

• Handle direct experiences in according to Oxfam’s HR insurance policies and procedures.
• Handle direct experiences in a method that allows them to realize their targets and empowers them to ship to their full potential.
• With assist from HR, manages the life cycle of people inside their crew from pre-recruitment to exit, together with efficiency administration processes, and dealing with HR on points equivalent to disciplinary issues.
• Fashions Oxfam values and rules.

Particular person specification

Most significantly, each particular person at Oxfam wants to have the ability to:

• Stay our values of INCLUSION, ACCOUNTABILITY, EMPOWERMENT, COURAGE, SOLIDARITY and EQUALITY (learn extra about these here)
• Make sure you decide to our ORGANIZATIONAL ATTRIBUTES (together with adhering to the Code of Conduct).
• Be dedicated to our feminist principles, and to making use of them in your day-to-day behaviour and your work. Be able to continue learning, with accountability to those that expertise oppression on account of their identities, equivalent to their gender, race/ethnicity, incapacity, class, or LGBTQIA identification.”
• Be dedicated to endeavor Oxfam’s safeguarding coaching and adhering to related insurance policies, to make sure all individuals who come into Oxfam are as protected as doable.

Technical expertise, expertise and data

Expertise

• Schooling (grasp’s diploma degree) ideally in social sciences, worldwide regulation, or associated humanities subject with a give attention to inequality.
• Confirmed expertise in managing programming and advocacy work on accountable governance at continental or nation degree.
• Good understanding of Kenyan, African and Worldwide coverage context on accountable governance (civic house, public governance, lively citizenship, democratisation, or efficient establishments).
• Robust gentle and onerous individuals and mission administration expertise, with expertise working in various alliances.
• Robust interpersonal expertise that embrace expertise with mediation and consensus constructing
• Good organizational expertise together with accuracy, consistency, consideration to element, tenacity, and the flexibility to work underneath strain.
• Capability to guide tasks and programmes in a transparent and constructive method that conjures up individuals to ship.
• Capability to Handle budgets and processes for outcomes and impression.
• Capability to work independently and with various multi-cultural and digital groups.
• Capability to liaise with a variety of individuals, each internally and externally and at many ranges, with credibility, tact, and diplomacy.

Information

• Information and/or expertise in implementing accountable governance programmes focussing on civic house, public governance, lively citizenship, democratisation, or efficient establishments; with an understanding of related County, Nationwide, Regional and International points.
• Good data of and expertise in growing advocacy and marketing campaign methods and plans and efficiently attaining exterior impression and alter.
• Robust programme administration and high quality data, with the flexibility to make sure constant high quality in opposition to requirements and to implement efficient monitoring and analysis methods to evaluate and modify efficiency.
• A robust understanding of Civic House, Fiscal methods, growth points and the political and financial context of Kenya.
• Dedication to and good data of working with networks, coalitions, and a partnership method throughout the spectrum of Oxfam’s work, together with modern approaches to capability strengthening.
• Fluency in English with data of Swahili an added benefit.

Expertise

• At the least 7 years’ expertise in programme conceptualization, design and administration at nationwide and/or regional ranges in a non-governmental or comparable institutional setting.
• Expertise and expertise in mission administration and analysis, working successfully with coverage makers, authorities, donors and civil society.
• Expertise working with communities and data of Kenya particularly the federal government and political methods.
• Expertise in managing a crew, together with recruitment, efficiency administration.
• Confirmed expertise in working in complicated, dispersed organizations with proof of facilitating and integrating a selected space of experience throughout a large community, contributing to imaginative and prescient setting and implementation with impression, some degree of decision-making and the supply of agreed outcomes.
• Robust organizational and private administration expertise, with means to prioritize work points to satisfy deadlines with minimal supervision and modify to consistently altering conditions whereas sustaining give attention to supply and follow-through.
• Demonstrated expertise in managing companions together with efficient oversight and capability constructing in addition to mobilizing and organizing marginalized communities and teams to affect constructive change of their lives.
• Demonstrated expertise in managing and dealing with researchers and consultants together with growing sturdy phrases of reference and efficient supervision.

Important

• Self-Consciousness: Capability to develop a excessive diploma of self-awareness round personal strengths and weaknesses and impression on others.
• Agility, complexity and ambiguity:Capability to scan the atmosphere, anticipate modifications, are snug with lack of readability and take care of a lot of parts interacting in various and unpredictable methods.
• Mutual accountability: Capability to elucidate our choices and the way now we have taken them primarily based on our organizational values.

Learn how to apply:

As a part of your on-line software, please add your updated CV and Cowl Letter explaining your suitability in opposition to the important standards within the job profile.