Senior Technical Advisor - GJLOS Reforms Programme Job Vacancy in Kenya

Republic of Kenya - Ministry of Justice, National Cohesion & Constitutional Affairs (MoJNCCA) Job Re-Advertisement - Senior Technical Advisor - GJLOS Reforms Programme

Full-time 12 - month non-renewable contract

Salary lump-sum Kshs. 320,000 per month and other benefits

The Governance, Justice, Law & Order Sector (GJLOS) Reform Programme is a Government of Kenya led initiative – coordinated through MoJNCCA - implemented since 2004, through a sector-wide, cross-institutional approach. It engaged the participation of over 30 Ministerial Departmental Agencies and Non-State Actors while drawing support from International Development Partners.

GJLOS reforms have so far been pursued through a Medium Term Strategy framework which expired in September 2009. To keep GJLOS institutions together and to maintain reform momentum, a short-term Bridging and Coordination Mechanism (BCM) is under implementation which includes the design of the new reform program.

Under the Bridging and Coordination Mechanism (BCM), planned activities include various surveys, capacity assessments and policy dialogues and the design of the sector reforms. In this regard, the Ministry of Justice, National Cohesion & Constitutional Affairs – in cooperation with GTZ – seeks to recruit a Senior Technical Advisor to support the re-design of GJLOS sector Reforms and to coordinate related consultancies to be finalised by latest 30th June 2011.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Senior Technical Advisor will be responsible for the following:

* Supporting the coordination, management and provision of technical oversight to six major consultancies. Consultancies for: development of sector Policy Framework Paper, three baseline on House-Holds data; Administrative data, and on Policy Law and Regulation data. As well as assessment of Human Resource and general Infrastructure sector capacity.
* Participating and supporting relevant stakeholders to fully participate in the consultancies and activities preceding the next phase design.
* Providing quality oversight and technical input on draft reports as specified in the terms of reference for each of the respective consultancies.
* Providing technical support and oversight on the design of the next governance sector reforms programme as well as the result based framework.
* Develop and manage the implementation schedule around the activities of the foregoing consultancies with a view of ensuring timely submission of agreed deliverables and keeping assignments within fixed time-frame.

Technical Knowledge and Skills

* A Masters degree in Project Management, Public Policy, Political Science, Development Studies, Law, or any other related field
* Demonstrable qualities in technical advisory work, analytical skills and report writing, with at least 10 years experience, five of which would be at senior level relevant to Public Sector Reform or Project Management in the public sector
* Possesses relevant experience in designing national, sectoral and / or institutional strategies as well as in the establishment of result-based monitoring frameworks (preferably in the governance sector)
* Experience in multi-stakeholder coordination and dialogues, especially high level engagement with government institutions, development partners and non-state actors
* Local and / or international experience in similar assignments

Applications (together with detailed curriculum vitae, copies of academic certificates and testimonials including daytime telephone contacts) should be sent to application_gtzkenya@gtz.de (Job Reference: GoGo-GJLOS-STA).

Deadline: 5th August 2010 - close of business.

Only short listed candidates will be contacted.

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