Project Contractor: Inclusive Economies (Nairobi) at Thomson Reuters

Scope of Work:

Thomson Reuters Foundation is recruiting a contractor for the Inclusive Economies programme who will:

• Co-ordinate and deliver an alliance on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and its outputs.
• Co-ordinate the delivery of a series of online and face-to-face convenings.
• Provide logistical support for projects, events and travel.
• Develop and maintain all systems and processes needed to run convenings and projects efficiently.
• Be responsible for stakeholder outreach, and developing and maintaining engagement databases and tools.

Projects deliverables and tasks:

• Co-ordinate and deliver an alliance on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and an event series:
• Organise convenings and support the development of an alliance around ESG indicators.
• Co-ordinate the development of the ESG alliance outputs such as white papers and toolkits.
• Provide logistical support for events, convenings and overseas travel.
• Draft material needed for the implementation of the events and alliance.
• Draft proposal and concept note for funders and partners to grow alliance and event series
• Estimate costs, timescales and resource requirements for the successful completion of each project to agreed scope and constraints.
• Update project finances monthly, co-ordinating with the finance team.
• Liaising with the Foundation’s communications and digital teams, to produce material and social content for events and alliance.
• Responsible for tailored stakeholder outreach and engagement and for the development and maintainance of the systems and tools needed to deliver the inclusive economy programme effectively:
• Develop and maintain systems and documents for stakeholder outreach and management on the IE economies three pillars with a specific focus on fostering fair and sutainable economic models, capital markets and ESG indicators.
• Co-ordinate new partnerships, coalitions, and networks and deliver the agreed programme outcomes.
• Support with partnerships outreach and management with a specific focus on ESGs and sustainable investors, and data and digital rights key players.
• Help co-ordinate internal groups across the Foundation teams on data and digital rights and shifting economic models.
• Support with the outreach in Africa for the Stop Slavery Award.
• Work in collaboration with TrustLaw Africa team to align projects and convenings with their strategy.
• Support with administrative tasks such as diary management, invoices and expenses, travel and logistics.

Key skills, knowledge and experience:

• Strong administrative experience.
• Experience in project management and/ or running capacity-building initiatives and coalitions.
• Experience in co-ordinating researches and toolkits scope, development and launch.
• Experience with databases and survey tools (knowledge of Salesforce and/ or SurveyGizmo would be an advantage).
• A proactive, process-oriented individual with strong attention to detail.
• An excellent communicator with first-class written and verbal communication skills.
• A highly motivated self-starter, with an ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
• A good understanding of ESGs and sustainable investment in the Africa region preferred or a strong interest in developing expertise in the area.
• Fluent in English, other languages highly desirable.
• Have the right to work in Kenya.