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Legal Strategist, Africa

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full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Kenya

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Salary

💰 KES 6,060,000 - KES 8,450,000 per year

Job Level

Junior

About the role

  • Informing and consulting with the ecosystem on climate, nature, and justice priorities in Africa.
  • Identifying potential new, and supporting existing grantees, shaping grant-making priorities.
  • Developing and maintaining external partnerships and networks with partners and practitioners in Africa.
  • Convening meetings of partners to discuss key African priorities.

Requirements

  • A sound and in-depth understanding of the operation and resourcing of African legal ecosystems, networks and institutions.
  • A law degree from an African university (not essential).
  • A post-graduate qualification in law or another relevant discipline (beneficial).
  • Meaningful post-qualification experience - in legal practice as attorney or advocate in an African country.
  • Some experience in grantmaking or grant management (beneficial).
  • Strong, demonstrable commitment to environmental and climate justice, reforming environmental, corporate and financial governance to deliver climate justice.
  • Sound knowledge of the Constitutional and statutory framework for environmental and climate governance in at least one African country.
  • Experience in litigating in one of Africa’s regional courts (beneficial).
  • Demonstrated experience in linking legal strategies to effective communications and advocacy.
  • Experience of building and/or maintaining external networks, and navigating complex power dynamics.
  • Experience of project management, prioritisation and planning.
  • Ability to work equitably with multiple perspectives.
  • Willingness to travel approximately four times a year.
  • Professional standard of written and spoken English; fluency in Kiswahili or another prominent African language; French is advantageous.
Benefits
  • Private healthcare
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
  • Enhanced sick leave
  • Flexibility working remotely and also abroad
  • Matching contribution to a pension scheme
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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Certifications
law degreepost-graduate qualification in law