Vacancies at Legal Action Worldwide (LAW)

We are looking for a passionate and skilled Grants and MEAL Coordinator to oversee grant management, and reporting processes as well as supporting MEAL and grants applications, ensuring compliance, quality, and smooth daily operations. This is a crucial role working with the Grants and Partnership Manager and Programmes Teams to strengthen LAW’s portfolio of grants from work institutional donors and to further develop tools, policies and procedures.

The Grants and MEAL Coordinator will:

• Oversee grant documentation and continually improve our grants management systems.
• Lead on the organisation’s grants calendar and implementation of grants’ SOPs.
• Organize all administrative aspects over grants ‘cycle such as new grants opening and closure.
• Maintain all grants tools, checklists and databases update to date and accessible.
• Ensure high quality and timely narrative and financial reporting to donors, including through donor portals as required.
• Map out donor rules and regulations to ensure compliance across programmes and lead on training staff on donor compliance.
• Support due diligence processes for donors and support the PMs in due diligence exercises for partners.
• Support and advise on donors ‘engagement through research on donor priorities and maintaining the donor’s matrix.
• Track and share relevant funding opportunities.
• Lead on collecting and support analysis of organisation data through internal tools.
• Contribute to consolidating the Global indicators trackersand MEAL policies.
• Support programmes in the field to develop MEAL plans and evaluation processes.
• Support the development of project fact sheets, presentation and briefing;

About You

• You must have the legal right to work in Kenya.
• Master's degree in law, international relations, social sciences or relevant field.
• Demonstrated 5 years’ experience or more in a similar position working for an international organization specialising in human rights and/or humanitarian programming.
• Track record of working on EU grants with sub-grantees.
• Excellent drafting skills and experience of writing high quality reports and proposals.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English.
• Good knowledge of donor rules and regulations, particularly EU and European Donors.
• Good knowledge of legal programmes is an advantage.
• Ability and good knowledge of consortium management is an advantage.
• Experience working with foundations and trusts.
• Flexibility and ability to work under pressure and meet conflicting tight deadlines.

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You are a collaborative team player with significant expertise in human rights law, advocacy, communications, and external representation. You are able to communicate complex legal issues clearly and persuasively, both verbally and in writing, to a wide range of audiences.

The postholder will perform duties in accordance with the responsibilities outlined below:

Legal:

• Provide support to LAW’s litigation initiatives aimed at justice and accountability for victims and survivors of international crimes and human rights violations, including research, drafting, advice, and coordination;
• Develop high quality legal documents including submissions, position papers, reports, concept notes and legal briefs.

Advocacy and Communications:

• Develop and implement the advocacy strategy and design products that can be shared with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Devise advocacy priorities and strategies, working closely with the programme staff to identify advocacy opportunities;
• Provide logistical and organisational support for events, including liaising with panellists, drafting concept notes and agendas, preparing flyers, coordinating participant communications, and arranging flights and accommodation.
• Lead on LAW’s innovation and thought-leadership, including through LAW’s expert roundtables.
• Promote the profile and visibility of the organisation and represent LAW on national and regional platforms, when required.
• Draft a range of written materials, including news releases, op-eds, blog postings, policy analyses and review reports and documents prepared by others.
• Develop and/or review publications, press releases, talking points, newsletters, case studies, social media content, and other communication products as required.
• Coordinate and ensure that the website and social media content related to our work is up to date and engaging audiences.
• Any other duties as specified by the Program Manager, Communications Manager and Senior Management Team.

About You 

• A degree in law, with post-graduate experience in human rights law, journalism, international relations or a related field.
• 5 years’ demonstrated experience working in a similar role within an NGO/INGO is preferred. Ideally in human rights or humanitarian field. 
• Exceptional speaker with outstanding communication skills, verbal and written in both English and Arabic will be an advantage.
• Excellent track record of drafting skills and significant experience in drafting proposals and reports within the not-for-profit sector.
• Demonstrated knowledge of human rights law, international criminal law, humanitarian law and public international law.
• Excellent organisational skills, with an ability to effectively manage individual and project workplans in a fast-paced environment and to effectively problem solve and troubleshoot.
• Track record and experience in advocacy and public speaking.
• Demonstrated experience of project management and implementation of delivering communications plans and strategies is preferred.
• Flexibility and ability to work simultaneously on a wide range of tasks and projects; ability to prioritise tasks, particularly under pressure, and to meet tight deadlines.
• Ability to work on own initiative and part of the wider team.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, especially Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint, and strong technical literacy.

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The post holder will perform duties in accordance with the responsibilities outlined below:  

Programmatic 

• Monitor project activities, in collaboration with management, and coordinate, follow up, support and collate accurate and timely reporting by the partners.
• Organise regular strategy and coordination meetings, internal and with partners.
• Oversee collection of MEAL data and information from partner activities, including success stories and photographs
• Coordinate and submit monthly reports on indicators and short narrative report to the Programme Manager and the Grants Manager.
• Ensure the programme activities are in line with LAW’s gender sensitive and trauma informed approaches as well as security, code of conduct and safeguarding policies and procedures.
• Provide operational support to the programme to ensure proper implementation financial and M&E planning.
• Support capacity building and training of LAW’s network of civil society organisations and identify avenues for innovative learning opportunities.
• Conceptualize, coordinate, and undertake participatory research, surveys, for the implementation of evidence-based programming. 

Fundraising

• Support the drafting of concept notes to expand LAW’s programmes.
• Lead the drafting and review of donor reports.
• Draft donor briefings with visually appealing stories to highlight LAW’s impact of projects.

Advocacy and Communications

• In coordination with the Legal and Advocacy Advisor, support the implementation of the advocacy strategy and design products that can be shared with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Participate in coordination group meetings and workshops to identify avenues for knowledge-sharing and coordination for interventions.
• In coordination with the Legal and Advocacy Advisor, ensure that website and social media content related to partner activities is up to date.

Legal

• Research support in preparing legal documents.
• Support in designing and delivering trainings and briefings on topics related to LAW’s programmes, and design related informative tools.
• Provide regular updates and analysis on key contextual developments. 

Any other duties as specified by the Programme Manager or LAW’s Senior Management Team.

About you:   

• The legal right to work in Kenya.
• Bachelor’s degree in law, human rights, international law or related field.
• Minimum 4 years relevant experience, with a focus on international criminal law, or international human rights law, or refugee law.
• Experience managing projects and programmes in the humanitarian and development sector and in project planning, design, monitoring and evaluation.
• Experience working with vulnerable individuals is essential, with experience working with victims and survivors of gender-based violence.
• Experience working with national civil society organisations in fragile contexts where civic space is restricted.
• Experience working across insecure or conflict-affected and fragile environments and demonstrated understanding of protection challenges within the region.
• Proven knowledge and experience in implementing protection interventions, interviewing at-risk communities and gender programming is preferred.