An organized, dynamic self-starter to support Namati’s multi-country Citizenship Program.
About Namati
Around the world, grassroots community paralegals are squeezing justice out of broken systems:restoring running water to health facilities, obtaining birth certificates for children born into historically stateless communities, preventing land grabs, ending unlawful pollution.
This is the work of Namati – putting the power of the law in the hands of the people.
In the last four years, Namati paralegals have worked with over 40,000 clients to take on some of the greatest challenges of our times: protecting community lands, enforcing environmental law, and securing basic rights to healthcare and citizenship.
Drawing on learning from thousands of cases, we have successfully advocated for 80+ improvements to laws and systems that have affected millions of people, like better policies for land governance in Liberia and healthcare in Mozambique.
And we have brought together hundreds of groups from every region of the world to form the first global network dedicated to legal empowerment.
Our community successfully advocated for incorporation of justice targets in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals—something sympathetic officials told us was impossible two years ago.
We’ve proven our concept, and we’re now at an inflection point. Namati is poised to scale. We have the tools, resources and networks to build a powerful global movement for justice.
Please consider joining us.
For more information visit www.namati.org.
About Namati’s Citizenship Program
Paralegals associated with our Citizenship Program are recruited from historically stateless communities who have citizenship in law but continue to face government discrimination in their attempts to acquire or use legal identity documents. Namati paralegals assist fellow members of the Bihari/Urdu-speaking community in Bangladesh and the Nubian community in Kenya with the acquisition of legal identity documents, educating clients on the law and building their confidence to interact with government in the process. Paralegals also carefully track each case in order to build evidence of how clients experience the administrative system and how discrimination affects the process. This data is used for advocacy to improve the laws and systems related to nationality and registration.
Since 2013, paralegals have secured 3,300+ identity documents (birth certificates, ID cards, passports) for members of these communities. Namati’s Citizenship Program is now moving into a new phase - supporting new partners in Kenya take the paralegal approach to communities like Kenyan Somalis, developing robust advocacy campaigns in both countries, publishing our lessons and experience, and providing support for new paralegal initiatives within the Syrian refugee community in Jordan and Lebanon.
About the position
We are seeking an organized, self-starting Program Associate to support Namati’s Citizenship Program team, based in Nairobi but working across all program countries/sites. Responsibilities will be dynamic based on the varied needs of the team and will include conducting research, writing and editing, administrative support, correspondence and outreach, organizing travel and event logistics, and other special projects. The successful candidate will also play a role in supporting grassroots partners to improve data quality and management as well as participating in analyses for program learning and advocacy. Overall, the Program Associate will be expected to take initiative, pay careful attention to detail, and establish systems where needed to meet the needs of a growing organization and office.
Here’s what you might have tackled last week -
- Spending a half-day with a partner organization’s team to build new checks for data errors into the existing paralegal database system.
- Sending introductory emails to two new fundraising leads to explain Namati’s work and request a meeting.
- Conducting research on funders who might support Namati’s approach to citizenship.
- Scheduling calls between Namati colleagues and several partners to plan for an upcoming joint advocacy meeting.
- Researching new and rising actors using paralegals to address citizenship and/or access to legal identity legal empowerment, and reaching out to them to bring them into our community.
About You/Must-Haves for the Position
Organized and meticulous approach to your work: You genuinely enjoy completing detail-oriented tasks. You are dedicated to letting no ball drop, deftly juggle multiple tasks, and feel happiest at work when you have all your tasks in order.
Flexibility: You know that providing quality support always begins with careful planning and execution. Yet in the face of unexpected challenges you are known for maintaining a positive attitude, quickly and adeptly reorienting yourself to find a new solution.
Resourceful problem-solver: You know how to find answers and can figure out how to solve problems when they arise. You possess the personal initiative needed to improve processes without prompting. You feel comfortable working independently.
Exceptional communication skills: Your written and verbal communications evidence clarity in both thought and analysis.
Mission orientation and drive: It’s in your nature to work tirelessly on a problem until you’ve seen the solution through to your complete satisfaction. You’re deeply committed to Namati’s mission and driven to make an impact.
Growth mindset: You’re always seeking to better yourself and your work, and you will push yourself to the peak of performance to help fulfill our mission. In service of that growth, you welcome and delight in feedback from supervisors, peers, reports, and anyone else.
Nice to haves
Data orientation: You have a demonstrated fluency with data management, quality control, and analysis, as well as the ability to utilize data to inform program planning.
Donor-savvy: You are a natural relationship builder and bring experience securing support from a variety of donors, from small foundations to the country offices of bilateral development agencies.
Compensation
Commensurate with experience. This will be a temporary staff position with an initial period of nine months, with the potential to become a regular employee after that time.
HOW TO APPLY:
Please complete our online application form by Friday, June 3rd.
Please note you must already be eligible to work in Kenya to be considered for this position.
No phone calls, please. Namati is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
