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Job Description

EACHRights is seeking experienced, engaged and dynamic community liaisons to work on a 3-month education outreach project in Mathare, Mukuru and Dandora informal settlements. The liaisons will be expected to provide community members with information and skills for defending and asserting the right to education and will also work on improving the reporting and referrals of cases or violations within project sites.

Tasks

The scope of work will include:

• Increasing community awareness on the right to education
• Collecting and documenting evidence of violations to the right to education
• Building the capacity of community members to defend and assert their rights
• Conducting outreach and disseminating pertinent information to community members
• Acting as intermediaries where required which may include accompanying complainants or accused persons to schools, government offices, police stations or courts on occasion.
• Developing I. E.C materials
• Drafting simple official or legal documents.
• Reporting according to prescribed templates
• Attending training as required

Minimum Requirements and Competences

• Demonstrable ability to undertake community outreach
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in community engagement
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Excellent communication skills (both written and oral) including in presentations, report writing and research, in English or Kiswahili.
• Good judgement, discreet, uses tact and discretion
• Ability to work well under pressure and meet strict deadlines.
• Be able to perform routine office duties and have basic knowledge of how to use computers, especially the Microsoft office suite.
• Knowledge and experience in human rights and education issues.
• Must be a team player, highly self-motivated and self-driven.
• Desirable: Paralegal training, research experience

Supervision

The Community will be expected to be self-motivated and able to work independently. Supervision and support will be provided by the project manager of the education programme who will also provide a general induction to the work, relevant background documents, and links to the relevant entities and/ or individuals.

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Tentative starting date: December 2019

Type of contract: Short term

Duration: 15 days

Job description

EACHRights is seeking an experienced and dynamic consultant to conduct a human resource audit in order to inform the development of the organisation’s human resource (HR) agenda. This is also to ensure that governance and controls to key human resource management risks have been established and are working effectively to meet the needs of the organization.

HR Audit is a systematic assessment of the strengths, limitations, and developmental needs of its existing human resources in the context of organizational performance (Flamholtz, 1987)

Tasks

The scope of the consultancy will be to:

• Conduct an HR systems audit and draft a comprehensive audit report which will include but not be limited to:
• Performing a participatory review of existing HRM rules, procedures and practices pertaining to the selection/recruitment, management and growth, promotion, transfer of staff and their performance evaluation.
• Highlighting alignment and discrepancies with international best practice including an assessment of diversity, safe work environment, professional indemnity, welfare, equal access to training and career advancement, staff motivation and incentives, and social protection (pension scheme).
• Reviewing job descriptions, salary and promotion scales against similar jobs in the sector.
• Recommending priority actions to be taken to address developmental needs and areas for improvement. This should also cover the regulatory and procedural modernization of systems and tools.
• Recommend any other steps for overcoming challenges in human resource management.
• Training and needs assessment
• Carry out a skills assessment including performing a gap analysis by functional area, showing the current level of skills and knowledge, and proposed level required that are relevant to the sector and region.
• Drafting a report that will provide an overview of the scarce and critical skills or needs that will enable the organisation to deliver on its strategic objectives and goals
• Develop workplace skills and capacity building plan
• Develop skills profiles for all posts and recommend targeted training and skills development interventions for every employee as well as jointly for all staff that will address skills gaps.
• Propose how to integrate the assessment of the identified skills into the regular HR activities, such as recruitment, talent mapping, etc.
• Develop a policy for employees learning plans and career advancement
• Review Board of Directors performance
• Advise EACHRights on 2 key Huma Resource challenges.

Minimum Requirements and Competences

• Demonstrable ability to conduct a HR audit that at a minimum covers legal compliance, performance measures, people management, communications and employee retention.
• At least ten years’ experience in human resources, including the development of human resources strategies for international NGOs
• Advanced University degree in HR Management, organisational development, Psychology or related field.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Excellent communication skills including in presentations, report writing and research.
• Excellent spoken and written English
• Desirable: Experience of human resources management in the international human rights sector.
• Good judgement pays attention to nuance and detail, takes initiative, high sense of responsibility, tact and discretion, with sensitivity to different cultures.

Deliverables

A high quality, comprehensive HR Audit report; skills assessment report; Board performance report; capacity building plan and skills profiles for all posts.
Presentation to the SMT and to all staff

Supervision

The Consultant will be expected to be self-motivated and able to work independently. Supervision and support will be provided by the CEO and Senior Management Team who will also provide a general induction to the work, relevant background documents, and links to the relevant entities and/ or individuals across the wider organisation and outside of it

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Job description

EACHRights is seeking a video editor to edit raw footage and audio from fieldwork as well as create a graphical opening sequence to precede all multimedia work in future. Videos are not only a great marketing tool for an organisation but also bring an organization’s impact to life by increasing awareness and communicating with different target audiences.

Tasks

The video editor will be responsible for the following tasks:

• Cutting and editing 2 full-length videos into 15-minute segments.
• Inserting subtitles in English where the subject has used Kiswahili.
• Combining the two videos into a mini-documentary with excellent transitions.
• Linking and combining audios recorded separately to each footage.
• Recording and inserting voice-overs in some segments of the video.
• Submit edited video into a virtual folder containing final video footages.
• Ensure delivery of all the end products that meet the deadlines as specified.
• Cutting 10 video segments for use on social media and the web as teasers.
• Organize a virtual folder containing edited subtitled videos with transcriptions.

NB: Not all footage will require subtitles since some subjects/interviewees spoke in English.

Minimum Requirements and Competences

• Experience in editing videos and inserting subtitles, as well as linking the video with audio recorded separately.
• Ability to implement high-end graphic design, video editing and audio editing.
• Knowledge of different video formats and video file conversions
• Fluency in English and Kiswahili.
• Proficient in using Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere editing software.
• Proficient in using Apple Motion or Adobe After Effects software.

Deliverables

A mini-documentary comprising of:

• An opening sequence
• 6 interviews
• 8 b-rolls
• Video embedded with subtitles where necessary
• Smooth transitions

Two 15 minutes’ footage comprising of:

• Opening sequence
• 5 interviews (each)
• B-rolls where necessary
• Voice Over as directed by EACHRights

An opening sequence

The editor must apply a lot of creativity with the use of sound/audio and a lot of motion graphic design.

Supervision

The Consultant is expected to be self-motivated and able to work independently. Supervision and support will be provided by the CEO, Senior Management Team with support from the Communications Assistant who will also provide a general overview of the work and relevant background with documents and footage.

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Job description

In the preparatory stage of the above-mentioned research study, EACHRights is seeking an experienced consultant to facilitate pre-study activities in Garissa County as detailed in section 3 below. These activities under the preparatory phase will give EACHRights an opportunity to have a better understanding of the context, get input from end-users of survey findings, have buy-in from stakeholders and hence increase uptake of future survey findings.

Tasks

The scope of the consultancy will be to:

• Facilitate a county stakeholder mapping and context analysis workshop whose objective will be to;
  • map out FGM/C stakeholders (people or institutions that are likely to use the survey data.
  • introduce the survey and get the input/views of stakeholders on some of the issues they would like to be captured in the survey (participatory research approach).
• Collating the data obtained from the stakeholders’ workshop.
• Analysing the data obtained from the stakeholders’ workshop and submit a report on the same.
• Development of the data collection tools (questionnaires) to be used in the research study.

Minimum Requirements and Competences

• Advanced University degree in Social Studies.
• Strong background and experience in qualitative, quantitative and policy research.
• Experience in conducting social research and analysis is desirable (sexual gender-based violence, FGM, health issues etc).
• Robust data analysis skills (both quantitative and qualitative).
• Good understanding of the local context and related issues.
• Excellent communication skills in presentations and report writing.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and Kiswahili.

Deliverables

• High quality and comprehensive stakeholder mapping and context analysis report
• Research data collection tools developed

Supervision

The Consultant is expected to be self-motivated and able to work independently. However, partnership and support will be provided by the Watoto Wetu project team in organizing the Garissa county stakeholder mapping and context analysis workshop.