Senior Quality Assurance & Compliance at Council of Legal Education

Job Reference Number: CLE 5 CLE/HR06/2017

Overall purpose of the job

Responsible for administration of the licensing processes and day to day quality assurance activities including inspection of legal education providers.

Responsibilities for the Senior Quality Assurance & Compliance Job

• Administer applications for licensing legal education providers;
• Monitor the adherence to standards and set curricula by legal education providers;
• Receive and review applications for recognition of foreign qualifications in Law;
• Coordinate and develop a comprehensive and updated database of licensed legal education providers;
• Participate in training and standards setting for legal education providers;
• Maintaining a databank of Peer Reviewers.
• Advising clients on quality audit and compliance processes;
• Following up on clients to confirm progress on implementation of audit and compliance recommendations
• Preparing technical/routine inspection reports and editing reports and working papers;
• Examining proposals for completeness and overall agreement with the regulations, standards and guidelines;
• Providing progress reports to clients on the evaluation status of their proposals;
• Preparing licensing tools/instruments and registers;
• Perform any other duty from time to time as may be assigned by Manager standards, Compliance, Accreditation and Quality Assurance

Qualifications for the Senior Quality Assurance & Compliance Job

• Masters Degree in Law;
• Professional qualification and demonstrable knowledge in Standards setting and licensing work;
• At least 5 years relevant working experience and demonstrable managerial exposure in a similar environment;
• Experience in conducting research;
• Good report writing skills and high level interpersonal skills;
• Ability to work with minimum supervision and adhere to set timelines;
• Team player, self-driven and focused;
• Be of the highest ethical standards, integrity and professionalism and comply with the requirements of Chapter six (6) of the Constitution of Kenya.

Salary Scale

Basic Salary: 137,984 x 12,616 – 150,600 x 12,616 – 163,215 x 12,616 -175,831 x 12,616 -188,446 x 12,616 -201,062 per month

House Allowance: Kshs. 40,000

Commuter Allowance: Kshs. 12,000