About Us:

Amnesty International Kenya on behalf of Missing Voices (MV) is seeking to recruit a Missing Voices coordinator. Missing Voices is a consortium of grassroots, national and international organizations that document and highlight cases of extrajudicial killings (EK) and enforced disappearances (ED) in Kenya with the aim of supporting and seeking justice for the victims.

Missing Voices’ aim is simple: an end to human rights abuses in policing. We campaign for accountability, justice, and psychosocial support for victims of police excesses.

About The Role:

You will be the Missing Voices focal point. You will manage data collectors and the website editor. You will supervise data collection, verification, research, and campaigning materials, to work with communities, victims of police abuse of power, artists, human rights defenders, colleagues, and partners for advocacy.

With the team, you will be in charge of all strategies, operational plans, implementation, and evaluation of all Missing Voices activities.

About You:

An agile, persistent, enthusiastic, emotionally intelligent activist with experience of working in partnership with others to deliver advocacy, research, campaigning, and policy projects. Have worked with survivors and victims of police abuse of power, human rights defenders, and on security sector reforms, access to justice, and campaigns. You will have a very good understanding of the diverse and intersecting challenges of policing in Kenya and you are at ease working with a range of different people whether they are activists, mothers of victims, survivors, colleagues, or organizations.

Main Responsibility:

• Coordinate partner organizations representatives within the coalition and the additional human resource team to ensure cohesion in achieving the consortium’s mandate.
• Coordinate and supervise data collectors and editors.
• Coordinate the Missing Voices Coalition’s campaigns by conceptualizing projects (writing concept notes and financing proposals) and overseeing/managing MV operations.
• Partner with activists to produce palatable content that humanizes survivors’ stories and advocates for police reforms in Kenya.
• Create activity budgets and seek requisitions from outside suppliers, develop contracts for the selected suppliers and ensure accountability forms are submitted after the job is complete
• Work in partnership with HRDs and institutions documenting police killings and enforced disappearances (EDs) to create a unified national database
• Support in building partnerships with civil society organizations nationally, regionally, and CBOs including but not limited to social justice centers, networks of mothers of victims, etc to join forces in the campaign to end police killings and enforced disappearances.
• Coordinate all Missing Voices Activities and campaigns.

Skills and Experience:

• Experience in developing collecting and synthesizing data for campaigning, research, policy, and advocacy activities in a participatory and cooperative manner to mobilize diverse actors for a common goal;
• Experience of working in partnership/coalition with civil society organizations, grassroots activists, networks or coalitions;
• Knowledge of issues relating to the security sector in Kenya, particularly those around police abuse of power, accountability and access to justice.
• Strong interpersonal, negotiation and communication skills, including an ability to express ideas in a clear and compelling manner in English both orally and in writing, and to communicate complex information and institutional positions in an accurate yet concise way.
• Persistent and ability to manage people
• Keen to learn and explore with innovation

 If you are passionate about what we do and want to be part of this change send an application letter to be received before or on  Friday, April 15, 2022, 2359 hours (Nairobi time) as a single PDF document that includes a cover letter and a CV through; amnesty.kenya@amnesty.or.ke