Job vacancies at IPOA for Head of Strategy & Planning, Planning Officer, Performance Monitoring & Evaluation Officer, Research Officer and Statistician in Kenya 2013
Head of Strategy and Planning
Reporting to the Deputy Director Strategy and Research, the jobholder is for Head of strategy and Planning section, Developing strategies and policies on corporate plans.
- Assist in the development of corporate strategic plan and annual and quarterly plans for the organization
- Conduct policy analysis and identifying need for policy, procedural and legislative reforms
- Assist in developing, improving and recommending policies, procedural recommendations and program initiatives
- Analyzing and evaluating regulatory, statutory and collecting, collating and reporting on issues that inform the implementation of corporate strategy and plans.
- Assist in monitoring and reporting on the implementation of existing policies and procedural and legislative reforms and Preparing the bi-annual performance and annual reports.
- a master’s degree in Strategic Studies/Development, Strategic Management, Public policy development, Business Management/Planning, Institutional Development, and Economics,
- Excellent computer skills with expertise in Statistical packages and a minimum of 7 years working experience in the field of strategy development and/or planning, and policy research.
- Must have strong business, analytical and planning skills and creative thinking.
Reporting to the Head Strategy and Planning, the jobholder is for conducting policy analysis and writing reports.
- Assisting in analysing and evaluating regulatory, statutory and other impact or change requirements involving the development and review of policies
- Assist in policy development for IPOA
- Write quarterly and annual plans
- Assist in preparing the bi-annual performance and annual reports.
- Assist in monitoring and reporting on the implementation of existing policies and procedural and legislative reforms.
- a Bachelor’s degree in Strategic Studies/Development, Strategic Management, Public policy development, Business Management/Planning, Institutional Development, and Economics.
- Excellent computer skills with expertise in Statistical packages
- A minimum of 3 years with 2 years post qualification, in the field of Strategy development and/or policy research and with demonstrated success in leading strategic implementation of key projects with proven results.
- Must have strong business, analytical and planning skills and creative thinking.
Reporting to the Head Strategy and Planning, the jobholder is responsible for corporate monitoring and evaluating of performance against the strategy and work plans.
- Developing performance monitoring and evaluation frameworks and tools
- Liaise with all departments of IPOA to develop, harmonize and define performance indicators
- Organize for evaluation and impact studies and the use of data for improvement of work
- Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Computer Science and 5 years working experience.
- Experience in database / statistical management and data analysis
- Must be computer literate with strong end user skills and proficiency in MS Office
- Experience working with database and statistical packages like SPSS etc.
- Excellent interpersonal skills to facilitate interaction with the workforce.
Reporting to the Head Policy Research, the jobholder is responsible for identifying, coordinating and carrying out social and behavioral policy research related to IPOA’s mandate and objectives.
- Coordinating research teams
- Coordinating data collection, storage, analysis in the areas
- Production of reports and policy briefs/recommendations
- Liaising and working with other departments/teams to make policy research coordinated and effective.
- Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, Economics and Planning
- 3 years working experience in policy oriented research.
- Must be computer literate with strong end user skills and proficiency in MS Office
- Experience working with statistical packages like SPSS etc.
- Must have strong business, analytical and planning skills and creative thinking and excellent interpersonal skills to facilitate interaction with the workforce.
Reporting to the Head Strategy and Planning, the jobholder is responsible for management of information system and statistics.
- Making sure that IPOA has relevant, appropriate and up to data infrastructure and programs for data storage and analysis
- Data analysts and interpretation
- Support the directorate with appropriate and required data and information
- Identification, collection, extraction and storage of data relevant to IPOA’s work from other sources.
- Making sure that research reports has relevant diagrams and tables
- Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Computer Science
- 3 years working experience in database / statistical management and data analysis.
- Must be computer literate with strong end user skills and proficiency in MS Office.
- Experience working with database and statistical packages like SPSS etc.
- Excellent interpersonal skills to facilitate interaction with the workforce.
Include your day and evening telephone numbers, e-mail address, names and addresses of three references together with copies of relevant certificates and testimonials with envelopes clearly marked the position being applied for.
The application should reach The Authority by Friday, 13th September 2013.
The applications should be addressed to:
Voucher No: 2181
P.O Box 49990 – 00100
Nairobi Kenya
DNA
NO: 1555
P.O Box 49010 – 00100
Nairobi Kenya
Note:
2. Persons living with disabilities are encouraged to apply
3. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and canvassing will lead to Automatic disqualification.