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The International Budget Partnership collaborates with civil society around the world to use budget analysis and advocacy as a tool to improve effective governance and reduce poverty. The International Budget Partnership (IBP) focuses on government budgets because they are at the core of development. Budgets are the government’s most powerful tool t...
Under the supervision of the Country Manager, the Advocacy Officer will work collaboratively with all other colleagues of the IBPK team to ensure the successful implementation of IBP strategy for Kenya. At its core is the support of poor and marginalized persons to effect change and impact their lives by ensuring that public resources match their and other public priorities. This is by building civil society capacity, with a strong focus on analyzing public budgets to expose and unblock service delivery gaps affecting the poor and marginalized in Kenya communities.
The Advocacy Officer will be expected to lead in certain functional areas critical to the implementation of our strategy. This will include designing and implementing an advocacy strategy, specifically engaging duty bearers at different levels and supporting our partners to engage them effectively. The Advocacy Officer will need to ensure that the support and assistance that partners need from these functional areas is provided in a timely and effective way. At the same time, the Advocacy Officer will also be expected to lead in managing the partnership relations with a few of the SPARK program partners, coordinating with other IBPK colleagues to ensure that the support and assistance that is needed by this set of partners is provided in a timely manner.
The ideal candidate will be deeply interested in engaging in a complex space of public budgets development and implementation, citizen engagement and public accountability. S/he will demonstrate initiative and experience in community and government engagements, innovative thinking and acting as well as willingness to work in a small but very dynamic team. S/he will be ready to have a steep learning curve as the work is already ongoing.
Primary Responsibilities
Though itemized below its worth mentioning that work in IBP Kenya as guided by our country strategy and relevant workplans are collaborative, all rounded and multifaceted. Thus, staff members lead and follow on different tasks and responsibilities, but the entire team adds value to the specific work. The goal is to have everyone’s back covered for the
collective and individual success.
Advocacy and Campaigns Management
The Advocacy Officer Will Be Expected To Weave In And Innovatively Lead The Team In The Following Responsibilities
This is a core responsibility of this position and it entails working with civil society partners and supporting their engagement with government either directly or through their coalitions.
Partnerships and Outreach
Our partnerships and outreach approach is aimed at educating the public and government officials for meaningful engagement. As such it builds on the traditional sense of outreach such as communications, dissemination and public relations to sensitive, mobilize and develop capacity in citizens to act individually and collectively in seeking the change they desire. On the government side, this responsibility entails using officially available data and our own research to support partners to advocate to the officials to develop and implement policies that benefit citizens. At its centre is a partnerships and outreach engagement approach that has a budget and service delivery outcome in mind. The Advocacy Officer will::
Capacity Building Support
Building On The First Two Areas Of Responsibilities, The Role Of The Advocacy Officer Will Include The Following Collaborative Tasks
As indicated a key part of IBPK Kenya’s work is facilitating and supporting our implementing, peer and government partners to effectively engage through budgets to transform the lives of Kenyans. We undertake an array of engagements that include Training, Technical Assistance and Strategic accompaniment for research, analysis, campaigns organizing, advocacy and communication.
MERL Support
Thus, This Area Of Responsibility Is Collaborative And Rotational In Day To Day Engagement
IBP Kenya is on a deliberate journey of ensuring we closely monitor, evaluate, learn and report on the work we are doing. This is part of our global focus as a learning organization. We have an external consultant supporting our regular reflection and learning from an Action Research methodology.
Additional Responsibilities
Requirements of the position
Experience
Knowledge & Skills
Education
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