Key Responsibilities and Duties

Legal

• Advising the organization on all legal matters that may arise in its operations.
• Develop and ensure the implementation of a compliance plan to ensure all aspects of the organization’s operations are in line with relevant regulations and statutory requirements.
• Keep abreast of local and global best practices with respect to compliance and risk management for the organization’s operations and make recommendations.
• Responsible for legal & regulatory compliance management, including monitoring and reporting on applicable statutes and regulations changes. Advise the LWC management and employees on changes to the laws affecting the organization.
• Responsible for contract management, drafting and reviewing the standard and specialized contracts, reviewing, and negotiating contracts, and ensuring such documents and third-party contracts are correctly and promptly executed.
• Support the CAOO in handling cases filed against the organization and preparation of legal reports and opinions.
• Liaising with external lawyers and the state law office on all cases filed against the organization to ensure instructions, witnesses, and statements are procured on time.
• Developing, implementing, and reviewing legal policies and procedures to ensure that they are in accordance with the existing legislation.
• Prepare legal opinions, advice, and reports on technical legal matters to the management, including reviewing legal documentation, management of legal due diligence and liaising with external counsel as required.
• Ensure LWC complies with legal and regulatory legislation. This includes licensing by the various government bodies – Meru County Revenue Board, Tourism Regulatory Authority.

LWC Policies and Procedures

• Management of the LWC policies and standard operating procedures – maintain a register and ensure timely review and updating.
• Ensure that the LWC policies and procedures are compliant with the Law.
• Support the HR department in handling the disciplinary procedures and reviewing all the disciplinary documents.
• Advise the LWC pension trustees on the implementation of the good governance policies.
• Spearhead and support HR in forming a gender committee and training the same.
• Support the Heads of departments in the training of LWC employees on policies and procedures.

Data Protection

• Ensure that LWC complies with the Data Protection Act:
• Licensing by the Office of the Data Commission
• Ensure that the organization processes the personal data of its staff, customers, providers, or any other individuals in compliance with the applicable data protection rules
• Ensure that employees and third parties the organization works with are informed of their data protection rights, obligations, and responsibilities
• Undertaking a Data Protection Impact Assessment for processing of sensitive subject data
• Create a register of the processing operations within the organization and ensure processing complies with the Data Protection Act
• Handle queries and complaints in reference to the Data Protection Act.
• Review and train staff on the Data Privacy policy
• Review of the organization Data Protection policy and privacy statement
• Review the organization’s ICT information security measures and ensure implementation by the ICT Administrator
• Promote a culture of data protection across the organization
• Liaise with external regulators and advisers such as lawyers, Office of the Data Commissioner, Tourism Regulatory Authority, Meru Revenue Board.
• Perform any other duties that may be delegated from time to time.

Qualifications:

Education / Knowledge and Experience

• Have a Bachelor of Laws (LL. B) degree from a recognized institution.
• Knowledge of the Companies Act, Industrial & Commercial law, wildlife management, employment laws, and data protection law
• Postgraduate Diploma in Law from Kenya School of Law.
• Admission to the Roll of Advocates of the High Court of Kenya.
• Be a member of the Law Society of Kenya (LSK)
• Fulfilled the requirements of Chapter Six of the Constitution.
• A minimum of five (5) years of relevant work experience in the private sector

Key Responsibilities and Duties

Grants Management and Reporting

• Following assessment and guidance by the International development team on opportunities identified, work with the Grant and Reporting Officer and the programme heads to provide the information required to apply for grants opportunities.
• Ensure those grant opportunities pursued are aligned with the strategic needs of LWC and its programmes; once won, ensure proposed project activities and plans within programmes are implemented in accordance with the terms and conditions of the grant.
• Monitor submission of grant deliverables and reports, ensuring the provision of data and information to the International team in good time, to the deadline. Coordinate with the CPPO, and International team for review and approval.
• Ensure that all grant activities are properly documented from the start of implementation to grant close-down.

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Support organizational M&E systems, in collaboration with the M&E Officer and programme heads including documenting grant requirements, reporting, baseline and evaluation surveys.
• Ensure the alignment of M&E activities with programme goals and contribute to the development of annual work plans to identify project targets and ensure the inclusion of M&E activities.
• Ensure timely and accurate submission of projects and grants reports including progress against targets set in the award agreement and the annual work plan.

Support Lewa Data Infrastructure

• Responsible for Salesforce administration to meet the responsibilities of LWC (monitoring and evaluation, finance, and other functions such as the rhino naming programme) and ensure that it is optimally serving the needs of the organization and works effectively alongside the responsibilities of the International team (donor management, led by the Strategic Data Manager).
• Participate in the optimization of Lewa data management platforms such as Earth ranger, LoRa and Salesforce with focus on streamlining solutions for monitoring and data-driven decision making.

Program Management

• Work with the programme heads to define strategic priorities and identify synergies, based on LWC Theories of Change, into project design, monitoring, reporting, and budgeting.
• Develop capacity and provide technical assistance across the organization to use data and information to develop evidence-based conservation solutions.
• Monitor external trends around conservation and social development metrics and support their use in programme design and development, thought leadership, and impact monitoring.
• Building partnership with external organizations and internal teams and proactively seek out feedback to understand challenges to create more effective impact monitoring
• Contribute to thought leadership on planning for, measuring and reporting on conservation and community development impacts.
• Supervise and build capacity of the Grants Management & Reporting Officer, Salesforce Administrator and the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer.
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned from time to time.

Qualifications:

Education / Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental/Conservation Science or Development or equivalent experience.
• Further qualifications in relevant disciplines (e.g., monitoring and evaluation, project management, impact monitoring, research, etc.) would be an advantage.
• At least 10 years of experience in conservation or development, including designing, developing, and implementing impact monitoring and evaluation and visualization.
• Working knowledge of the Salesforce platform.

Competency and Technical Skills

• Excellent data analysis and visualization skills with critical and strategic thinking with a result focus.
• Knowledge and experience with a proven record of grant application writing and management, preferably in an international organisation or large non-profit organisation.
• Excellent written and verbal English language skills, with proficiency in Kiswahili.
• Good diplomatic and communication skills with an ability to network, communicate with and exert influence across a broad spectrum of individuals (e.g., government representatives, donors, public figures, staff) and a demonstrated ability to work with diverse, geographically dispersed teams.
• Energetic and passionate about conservation and committed to the mission of LWC.