Vacancy Details

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Job Title

Director, Integrated Development (One position)

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 knowledge management and data management activities for the Institute.

Job Specification

Qualifications

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;
• Leadership course lasting not less than four (4) weeks from a recognized institution;
• Twelve (12) years of relevant experience three of which in senior management;
• 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;
• Knowledge of statistical software for data entry, analysis, extraction, and reporting;
• Training in modeling skills and use of statistical software will be an added advantage;
• Computer skills including statistical package; and
• Fulfil the requirements of Chapter six (6) of the Constitution.

 

• Functional Skills, Behavioral Competencies, and Attributes:

• 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:

  11. Accountability;
  12. Adaptability;
  13. Innovative;
       14. Critical thinking.

   

Grade

KIP 2

No Sought

1

Advert Ref

HR/7/DID/2023/34

Recruiment

November 2023 Recruitment