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Job Title
Director, Economic Management
Job Description

Duties and responsibilities will entail: -

  • Providing technical leadership in research, policy analysis, and capacity building programmes;
  • Ensuring timely preparation of relevant and innovative annual work plans and inputs to the performance contract;
  • Ensuring timely and efficient implementation of work plans and conduct semi and annual appraisals of staff in the directorate;
  • Enforcing the quality control process as Established by the Institute;
  • Motivating staff in the directorate and Ensuring teamwork as well as a good working environment;
  • Ensuring the directorate generates income to the Institute as per the set targets;
  • Establishing and maintaining effective relationships with key stakeholders including policymakers and implementers, development partners, and other research institutions;
  • Providing advice to the Executive Director on a regular basis on ways to improve directorates’ performance;
  • Reviewing all research outputs from the directorate to ensure they are in line with the Institute’s mandate;
  • Overseeing the Directorate’s dissemination activities calendar;
  • Overseeing project planning, budgeting, and implementation in the Directorate;
  • Coordinating capacity building activities and partnerships in the Institute;
  • Supervising the implementation of the Young Professional program and other staff capacity building initiatives;
  • Monitoring the implementation of the work plan and contracted projects;
  • Preparing of the quarterly and annual reports for management, Board,
  • Performance contracting, and donors; and
  • Coordinating resource mobilization strategies and activities for the Institute.
Job Specification

Position Summary :- Head the Economic Management Directorate; guide the implementation of functions and duties undertaken in the directorate including policy research and capacity building in Macroeconomics; Social Sector, Governance, Capacity Building Department and implementation of strategic partnerships; determine and ensure directorate goals are achieved to ensure achievement of the Institute’s mandate.

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:

  • Bachelor’s degree in economics or related social sciences from a recognized institution;
  • Master’s degree in Economics, or related social sciences from a recognized institution;
  • PhD in Economics, or related social sciences from a recognized institution;
  • Twelve (12) years of relevant experience 3 of which in Senior Management;
  • Knowledge statistical software for data entry, analysis, extraction, and reporting;
  • Minimum of eight (8) publications in peer-reviewed journals;
  • Minimum of twelve (12) research papers including KIPPRA discussion papers, policy papers, working papers, special papers as well as book chapters;
  • Leadership course lasting not less than four (4) weeks from a recognized institution;
  • Training in Modeling will be an added advantage;
  • Computer Skills including statistical packages; and
  • Fulfil the requirements of Chapter six (6) of the Constitution.

Functional skills:

  1. Leadership and supervisory skills;
  2. Strategic management skills;
  3. Problem-solving skills;
  4. Communication and interpersonal skills;
  5. Organizational skills;
  6. Negotiation skills;
  7. Team building skills;
  8. Analytical skills;
  9. Presentation skills; and
  10. People management skills.

Behavioral competencies and attributes:

  1. Accountability;
  2. Adaptability;
  3. Innovative;
  4. Critical thinking.
Grade
KIP 2
No Sought
1
Advert Ref
HR/7/DEM/2025/37
Recruiment
KIPPRA Recruitment DEC 2025