Vacancies at World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Kenya

Major Duties and Responsibilities

• Team PMO / Strategic Deliverables (50%)
• Act as the strategic PMO for the Conservation Impact team, ensuring that all team workstreams and deliverables are well-planned, monitored, and delivered to high standards(e.g., coordinating timelines, tracking dependencies, and flagging risks).
• Coordinate the annual and quarterly work planning process for the Impact Hub, ensuring all team members’ deliverables align with overall strategy and priorities.
• Support the Senior Director in tracking team-level KPIs, milestones, and progress against Roadmap 2030 and future global strategy/roadmap, focusing on outcomes, learning, and impact.
• Ensure that inputs to the Snr Director for key leadership engagement (e.g., board updates, leadership reports,) are consolidated and delivered on time.
• Identify and flag project risks or bottlenecks in project delivery by recommending process improvements, tools, and templates.
• Develop consolidated reports (narrative, dashboards, scorecards) highlighting progress against annual objectives and Roadmap milestones.
• Facilitate alignment across team strategic workstreams, ensuring that outputs from conservation data, learning activities, and knowledge are integrated effectively to maximize the team’s efficiency.
• Ensure project documentation, workflows, and deliverables are standardised and archived for accountability and knowledge retention.
• Knowledge Management (40%)
• Provide project management services to the Joint Impact Collaboration Committee (JICC), supporting the Senior Director, GIH.
• Coordinate agenda-setting, facilitation, and follow-up of JICC meetings to ensure alignment, learning, and progress across the Network.
• Escalate challenges, risks, and opportunities identified through JICC to the Senior Director, providing strategic guidance and supporting decision-making.
• Support the synthesis of lessons learned, high-impact examples, and best practices from JICC + Impact Community of Practice to strengthen adaptive management and inform team and network priorities.
• Manage collaboration with the Knowledge Management Hub to ensure that insights, outputs, and lessons learned are systematically captured, curated, and shared across the Network through appropriate channels (e.g. Roadmap Virtual Hub), and that their uptake is monitored and maximized
• In coordination with the Head of Measurement and Impact, package evidence into usable knowledge products (e.g., case studies, success stories, learning briefs) that demonstrate value for the network and support resource mobilisation, communications, and adaptive management.
• In coordination with the Head of Measurement and Impact, work with KM Hub, Practices, and country offices to design and run structured learning sessions (e.g., peer-to-peer exchanges, online and in-person events, case-sharing formats).
• Provide basic project management training and support to team members to improve consistency and efficiency.
• Miscellaneous Responsibilities (10%)
• Lead special projects, ad-hoc initiatives, and cross-functional tasks that arise outside the core responsibilities. This may include supporting emergent priorities as directed by the Senior Director, Conservation Impact; contributing to organizational initiatives; representing the team in meetings; and engaging in learning.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Advanced degree in conservation, environmental management, international development, organizational strategy, or a related field.
• Relevant experience in monitoring, evaluation, learning, knowledge management, and project management, preferably in a global conservation or international development context.
• Experience synthesizing technical PMEL outputs into leadership-facing insights and recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multi-stakeholder committees or learning communities (e.g., JICC, Impact Community of Practice (CoP)).
• Project management certification (e.g., IPMA, PMP) is an asset.

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Major Duties and Responsibilities

• Data Governance and Quality Assurance
• Lead the development and implementation of data governance standards and quality assurance mechanisms across WWF’s impact data systems, including Panda Impact and related platforms.
• Maintain and update the Compendium of Standard Indicators (CSI), ensuring methodological rigour, consistent definitions, and traceability across the network.
• Establish data validation processes that ensure comparability and reliability of indicator data across geographies and reporting streams (e.g., RM2030, GCD, GAR).
• Collaborate with GTDS to embed automated validation and data integrity checks into digital systems and workflows.
• Monitor data submissions from Country and Regional Offices to identify quality risks and provide targeted support to address data inconsistencies or gaps.
• Analytics, Insights, and Reporting
• Lead the development of analytics frameworks and models that convert raw data into decision-useful insights, supporting leadership, fundraising, and communications needs.
• Oversee the design and maintenance of global dashboards and analytical tools that visualise conservation performance and trends (e.g., Strategic Management Dashboard, RM2030 reporting).
• Partner with the Head of Conservation Impact to produce network-wide analytical briefs, impact summaries, and evidence-based insights for governance bodies and external reporting.
• Ensure consistency and coherence across analytical products and dashboards used by different divisions and offices.
• Indicator and Methodology Stewardship
• Manage the lifecycle of global indicators, from definition and validation through to application and periodic review, ensuring that methods remain scientifically credible and operationally feasible.
• Coordinate with the Global Science Team, Practices/PDD, Global Practice teams and Regional PMEL Leads to validate indicator methodologies and align them with WWF’s conservation models and standards.
• Maintain an accessible repository of indicator guidance, metadata, and supporting documentation for use by the Network.
• Collaboration, Capacity Building, and Support
• Provide technical guidance and support to Regional and Country Offices to strengthen data management, analytics, and reporting capability.
• Lead data quality clinics and training initiatives that build capacity in data verification, analytics, and interpretation.
• Foster collaboration with GTDS and other data teams to ensure integration and interoperability of impact data across WWF’s digital platforms.
• Serve as the focal point for internal data analytics communities and external partnerships on conservation data management and analytics innovation.
• Innovation and Continuous Improvement
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies, tools, and methods in data analytics and impact measurement to inform system improvements.
• Identify and lead opportunities for automation, predictive analytics, and AI-driven insights to enhance WWF’s evidence base and reduce manual reporting burdens.

Required Qualifications. 

• Professional experience in data analytics, data management, or impact measurement, ideally within a global or networked organisation.
• Advanced degree in conservation, social science, data science, PMEL or similar.
• Strong experience with PMEL frameworks, global indicator management, and results-based reporting.
• Strong understanding of data governance, quality assurance, and analytics as applied to conservation or international development.
• Experience managing large, complex datasets and analytics systems across multiple geographies and platforms.