Job Vacancies at Ol Pejeta Conservancy (OPC)

Role Summary

• The incumbent will Work within the CDP education team to facilitate the scholarship students’ journey from: Selection, fee payment, mentorship and welfare. Facilitate donor relations and reporting through pictures, written reports videos, updating Salesforce and any other records.

Responsibilities:

• In charge of routine management of scholarship students’ needs- welfare and ensuring they ALL remain in school and are getting the education/support they need.
• Organize all scholarship students and parents events sand meetings in the community and in the conservancy such as scholarship/mentorship days
• Update and design the scholarship selection form to make it current as per prevailing selection criteria.
• Using the Salesforce database to keep an accurate and proper record of student fee payment, school performance, personal data, community information and donor records.
• Submit, accurate, timely and detailed monthly reports to supervisor and have at hand different data sets and statistics on scholarship students based on gender, community, performance etc. for reporting purposes.
• Taking, editing and uploading videos/photos during special events and during cultural exchange activities for the PA-MOJA website and providing them to PR/Marketing department. Update PAMOJA social media channels-Facebook/Instagram/YouTube and any other.
• Organize scholarship selection meetings and ensure the gender balance in scholarship selections; equity, the inclusion of minority and/or disadvantaged groups in the selection
• Ensure the bursary beneficiaries are selected in a fair and transparent manner through the community leaders and members
• Coordinate and organize the scholarship alumnae program: getting data on graduated students and connecting them to Ol Pejeta projects, opportunities and including them in mentorship activities
• Develop an annual scholarship calendar with events, projected fees per year, payment and data collection dates.

Qualifications and Skills:

Qualification.

• Degree in, Education or related field

 Experience.

• Minimum 5 years relevant job experience
• Computer Literacy

Skills

• Detail oriented with excellent organizational, critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to thrive in a high paced, fast turnaround business
• Be positive, motivated, ambitious, and proactive, with a “can-do” attitude.
• Adaptable – ability to respond quickly to a shifting reality and adjust initiatives and priorities accordingly
• Great interpersonal, communication and collaboration s

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Role Summary

• Improving the livelihoods of communities surrounding Ol Pejeta through dry-land farming techniques, climate-smart agriculture, drip irrigation, and the development of market and enterprise opportunities for farmers in the community. Responsible for overseeing and managing water issues in the community.

Responsibilities:

• Provide relevant training and skills development to community members on sustainable agriculture practices and scale-up successful experiences, e.g., Beans seeds, kitchen gardens,
• Integrating livestock and crops through fodder farming, crop rotation, and planting of cover crops.
• Lead stakeholder dialogue and consultation meetings with farming communities and link them to opportunities related to value addition in agriculture and livestock enterprises.
• Coordinate the development and use of demonstration plots or similar agricultural development practices and the scaling of successful approaches and smart technology.
• Support the development of increased market linkages for farming households. Linkages of farmers to service providers on water harvesting structures.
• Provide relevant training and skills development to the membership of Water Resource Uses,
• Associations within the conservancy. Assist in conflict management within the community if need be.
• Support in M&E work within CDP and the landscape as required and guided.

Qualifications and Skills:

Qualification.

• Diploma and above in the relevant field
• Computer Literacy

Experience.

• Minimum 3 years of relevant job experience
• Motor vehicle/motorbike driving license

Skills

• Detail-oriented with excellent organizational, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to thrive in a high-paced, fast-turnaround business
• Be positive, motivated, ambitious, and proactive, with a “can-do” attitude.
• Adaptable – ability to respond quickly to a shifting reality and adjust initiatives and priorities accordingly
• Great interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills

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Role Summary

• Provide ICT-related technical and utilization support to schools in Laikipia that are supported by Ol Pejeta Conservancy Digital Literacy program. Delivery of IT Facilities and Technical Support for Schools around Ol Pejeta jointly implemented with partners/donors to selected schools and is responsible for all running of the Digital Literacy Programme in particular African Ruggedized Education System (ARES) offered to educational institutions.

Responsibilities:

• Delivery of digital learning technology and provision of technical support to educational institutions in the ARES Programme jointly implemented by Ol Pejeta Conservancy and partners/donors.
• Provide ICT-related technical and utilization support to schools in Laikipia that are supported by Ol Pejeta Conservancy Digital Literacy program.
• Closely work with teachers in focal schools supporting classroom curriculum delivery by assisting in the development of teaching and learning approaches using digital resources.
• Ensure that ICT labs in focal schools are accessible and utilized for learning and teaching purposes at all convenient times. And Keeping abreast with emerging trends and proactively improve and grow applicable methods and approaches on ICT integration in learning.
• Proactively manage communication with donors and partners and manage and coordinate incountry visits for international teams and proactively cooperate and liaise with the Ministry of Education, principals, and ICT teacher leaders in schools to ensure that ICT equipment and resources are properly maintained and in excellent working condition

Qualifications and Skills:

Qualification.

• Degree in IT, Education or related field

Experience.

• Minimum 3 years relevant job experience
• Certifications in computer packages, IT

Skills

• Detail oriented with excellent organizational, critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to thrive in a high paced, fast turnaround business
• Be positive, motivated, ambitious, and proactive, with a “can-do” attitude.
• Adaptable – ability to respond quickly to a shifting reality and adjust initiatives and priorities accordingly
• Great interpersonal, communication and collaboration skills

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Role Summary:

The Institutional Funding Coordinator will be responsible for coordinating Ol Pejeta’s institutional fundraising initiatives, enabling the Conservancy to secure funds from institutions, large trusts and foundations and selected corporate partners. The role will support the Fundraising team with institutional donor mapping and analysis, networking, and partner/donor engagement across Laikipia and in Nairobi. They will play a key role in coordinating and contributing to proposal development and facilitating engagement between fundraising and programme teams. The role will be critical in enabling Ol Pejeta’s efforts to translate opportunities to secure grants and income through the development of the highest quality prospect research and proposals.

Responsibilities:
Culture and behavioral responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders within the organization across teams and departments to understand and effectively translate programming priorities into fundable projects and programmes.
• Support team administration, including database management (Salesforce) and filing of key documents.
• Coordinate processes that enable cross-organizational working, including participating and supporting processes designed to improve OPC’s standard operating protocols for programme
• funding throughout the project cycle, in close collaboration with the Project Implementation team.
• Attend team and department meetings and contribute to departmental planning processes.

 Fundraising responsibilities - Pipeline Development

• Undertake ongoing donor mapping and analysis - aligning organizational priorities to those of donors (large Trusts and Foundations, Institutions and selected corporate partners).
• Track funding opportunities in the pipeline, provide analysis in a standard format to enable go/no go decision making, and identify opportunities for senior OPC staff to engage with donors formulating new funding modalities that align with OPC’s programme goals. 
• Lead annual contact/network mapping exercises to identify connections between identified prospects and Ol Pejeta leadership and other staff, or other core partners of the Conservancy that might be leveraged as part of a funding approach.

 Fundraising Responsibilities - Proposal Development

• Coordinate proposal development processes – developing proposal development plans, coordinating application admin, facilitating project design discussions with colleagues.
• Work in collaboration with the rest of the Programme Funding team to write quality proposals that secure multi-year funding.
• Develop and regularly update short project briefs on different aspects of OPC’s work to be shared with prospective donors.

Partnerships and Representation

• Identify and support the cultivation of new partnerships that position Ol Pejeta for new funding opportunities, either as the lead, or a partner within consortium bids.
• Support the management of existing partnerships in Kenya to identify new opportunities for collaboration, ensuring the best interests of Ol Pejeta are represented.
• Identify and engage in networks or platforms utilized by large trusts, foundations, selected corporate and institutional donors to raise our visibility among these donor groups.

Reporting and compliance

• Provide input to technical and financial reports to ensure grants are being reported against to the very highest standards and help ensure that donors are made aware of progress in a timely and accurate manner.
• Work with the programme’s teams and Ol Pejeta’s Legal Coordinator to manage the compliance
• monitoring tool and provide technical support where necessary to ensure that the Conservancy always remains fully compliant.

Qualifications and Skills:

 Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree or similar qualification in Conservation, Natural Resource Management or related discipline.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with fluency in English.

Experience

• Demonstrable experience raising funds from a wide range of donors, including trusts and foundations, corporates, and government donors, such as USAID, UK Government, EU etc.
• Experience in facilitating project design processes
• Experience in proposal writing and coordinating proposal development processes
• Working knowledge of Customer relationship management (CRM) databases (Salesforce),
• Microsoft 365 and Google productivity apps.

 Skills

• Detail oriented with excellent organizational, critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to thrive in a high paced, fast turnaround business
• Be positive, motivated, ambitious, and proactive, with a “can-do” attitude
• Adaptable – ability to respond quickly to a shifting reality and adjust initiatives and priorities accordingly
• Great interpersonal, communication and collaboration skills
• Good spoken and written English is a must for this position