Senior Legal Officer at National Gender and Equality Commission - NGEC

REQUIREMENTS FOR APPOINTMENT
For appointment to this grade, an officer must have:

• Served in the grade of Legal Officer I or in a relevant and comparable position for a minimum period of three (3) years;
• A Bachelor’s of Laws (LLB) from a recognized institution;
• Been admitted as an Advocate of High Court of Kenya;
• Have demonstrable litigation experience of at least Six (6) years in the areas of constitutional, human rights, criminal, family and succession law;
• Attended a Senior Management course in a recognized institution;
• Been a member of a relevant Professional Body;
• Met the requirements of Chapter six (6) of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010;
• Computer Skills; and
• Shown merit and ability as reflected in work performance and results.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• An officer at this level may be deployed in either of the following functional areas: Legal, Complaints and Investigations or Redress.

Legal services division

At the Legal Services Division, an officer will be responsible for the following duties and responsibilities:

• Conducting litigation and other court proceedings;
• Developing legal advisories, briefs and opinions;
• Formulating and implementing policies and strategies on legal and advisory services for the Commission;
• Formulating, reviewing and following-up of contracts, agreements, memorandums of understanding and other related documents; and
• Instituting inquiries on various emerging topical issues.

Complaints and Investigations

• At the Complaints and Investigations Division, an officer will be responsible for the following duties and responsibilities:
• Processing complaints on violations of principles of equality and freedom from discrimination;
• Investigating violations of the principle of equality and freedom from discrimination and making recommendations for the improvement of the functioning of the institutions concerned;
• Facilitating and handling the referral mechanism of complaints to respective bodies and organizations;
• Conducting regional visits and investigations of any violations of equality and discrimination; and Developing and maintaining data base, files and records on complaints and investigations.

Redress Division

• At the Redress Division, an officer will be responsible for the following duties and responsibilities:
• Facilitating and conducting negotiation, mediation and reconciliations in appropriate circumstances;
• Conducting Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in appropriate circumstances;
• Surveying existing formal and informal in-country Grievance Redress Mechanism System (GRMS) in matters related to special interest groups (SIGs);
• Working with relevant public and private sector institutions, civil society and Non-Governmental Organizations to design and implement formal/institutionalized GRMS to ensure complaints ad grievances are addressed efficiently and effectively;
• Conducting needs assessment to determine the GRM’s scope and scale and identify resource gaps;
• Development of standard operating procedures and flow charts that codify how grievances will be redressed for all stages of the process in the various SIG’s programmes; 
• Engagement and training of communities on how to undertake grievance redress activities;
• Developing and publicizing SIGs programmes grievance redress policies and guidelines defining the scope of grievance and types of grievances addressed; setting out user-friendly procedure for lodging grievances; outlining a grievance redress structure; describing performance standards; and spelling out internal review mechanisms;
• Issuing and publicizing grievance redress policy; and
• Developing and undertaking training programmes and public education on how to handle grievances including information about interacting with beneficiaries about grievances, internal policies and procedures in relation to grievance redress.