DAI Community Security and Justice Specialist Job Vacancy - Security Sector Reform, Kenya

Community Security and Justice Specialist

Security Sector Reform, Kenya 

About DAI

DAI works at the cutting edge of international development, combining technical excellence, professional project management, and exceptional customer service to solve our clients’ most complex problems. 

Since 1970, DAI has worked in 150 developing and transition countries, providing comprehensive development solutions in areas including security and justice reform, democratic governance and public sector management, agriculture and agribusiness, private sector development and financial services, economics and trade, HIV/AIDS, avian influenza control, water and natural resources management, and energy and climate change. 

Clients include international development agencies, international lending institutions, private corporations and philanthropies, and host-country governments.

Objective of the project

DAI is anticipating a donor-funded Security Sector Reform programme in Kenya, focused on community policing and gender policing. 

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide technical expertise to the design and implementation of the programme’s approach to supporting and developing national community policing mechanisms, including working with national level and community level enablers
• Under the direction of the Team Leader, oversee planning and delivery to achieve results in community policing working closely with colleagues to ensure a coherent and linked approach
• Identify and develop programme activities to support linkages between formal and traditional security and justice mechanisms, applying innovative approaches to increasing access to justice for women and girls in selected regions
• Contribute emerging, global thinking in security reform through non-state actors and traditional/ informal mechanisms
• Ensure that women and girls are central to the programme strategy 
• With the M&E Advisor, work with the Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor to develop appropriate indicators and evaluation tools for improving access for women and girls
• Lead relationship with programme’s community policing partners, including oversight of community-level engagement and pilots

Required Key Skills & Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in law or social sciences
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in international development, with at least 5 years working in community policing, informal Justice and with non-state actors
• Long-term overseas experience in Africa required, preferably in Kenya and the sub-region 
• Demonstrated experience in liaising with and advising Senior officials
• Experience and expertise in working with non-state actors in the security sector
• Demonstrated experience in programme planning, including basic activity budgeting and projections for staffing and financial needs
• Demonstrable ability to work within a multi-cultural team
• Experience working with donors such as DFID, UNDP, World Bank required
• Experience in working in challenging operating environments and fragile states will be an advantage
• Excellent written and verbal English skills required

How to Apply:

http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH13/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=DAINC&cws=1&rid=978

Programme Start Date: End of 2013

Programme Duration:  3 – 4 years

Deadline for Application: 30th September 2013