Forum Syd Field Officer Jobs in Nairobi - Kenya

Forum Syd is a Swedish civil society organization focusing on democracy and human rights, gender equality, and environment and climate change.

Forum Syd vision is “a just and sustainable world where all people have the power to effect change”.

Forum Syd Hub Eastern and Southern Africa is looking for a Finance and Administration Assistant for its operations in Nairobi

Wajibu Wetu Programme is a 3 year initiative supported by the Embassy of Sweden, Nairobi. The programme works with media, cultural and gender focused civil society organizations to reach out to a critical mass of right-holders to deepen democracy, strengthen inclusive citizen participation and accountability at the national level.

This is done through creative avenues like the use of music, traditional and new media, artivism (art for activism), cultural festivals, documentaries, investigative journalism among others by more than 40 national and grassroots civil society organizations.

The Field Officer position works under the supervision of the Programme Manager and will assist in data collection, analysis, quality assurance and learning activities to help ensure accountability and efficiency from start to finish for all projects, both new and established throughout Kenya.

S/he will provide technical field support to the programme team. S/he will work closely with other team members to assess field conditions, support capacity building initiatives, and facilitate the collection of quality data.

S/he may be assigned to focus on supporting one or more specific grants or projects within a programme. S/he will contribute in the process of reviewing and preparing monthly, quarterly and final narrative and financial donors’ reports.

Additionally, s/he will work with other members of the team, as need be, on grants support and set up, follow up of programme expenses and indicators, implementation of processes, standard operating procedures and any other tasks assigned.


Major duties and responsibilities


Programme Management