Senior Program Associate, Global Land, Environment, and Climate (LEC) at Namati

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  • Kenya
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 16 days ago
Namati is dedicated to placing the power of law in the hands of people. For billions of people around the world, the law is broken. It's an abstraction — or worse, a threat — but not something we can use to exercise our basic rights. Namati is building a global movement of community legal workers-also known as barefoot lawye…Senior Program Associate, Global Land, Environment, and Climate (LEC)Responsibilities include but are not limited to:Program Support
  • Manage coordination and logistics for virtual and in-person convenings, including team retreats, learning exchanges, and global conferences (e.g., COP, London Climate Week).
  • Own scheduling and cross-team coordination, proactively managing team calendars and follow ups on action items.
  • Support online course production for the Grassroots Justice Network Academy (GJNA) by overseeing translation workflows, liaising with video editors, and tracking deliverables to ensure timely completion.
  • Collect M&E data on member engagement to support ongoing learning about our impact and effective strategies
  • Monitor media sources and databases for relevant updates and to provide light research support for programmatic focus areas
  • Maintain clear, structured meeting notes capturing key decisions, and action items to ensure clarity across the team.
Program Finance and Operations
  • Manage team expenses, including requests for expense approval, managing invoices, and tracking payments.
  • Support the drafting of consultant and vendor contracts with guidance from the Senior Operations Manager and the Global Finance team.
  • Oversee expense tracking and reporting for the Managing Director, ensuring accuracy and timely submission.
  • Support budget management by maintaining up-to-date tracking tools and monitoring expenditures against approved budget.
Publications and External Deliverables
  • Provide line-by-line proofreading of funding proposals, donor reports, and program publications to ensure clarity, consistency, and alignment with approved language and messaging.
  • Support proposal development processes by tracking deadlines and coordinating input from multiple team members.
Here's what you might have tackled in the past week:
  • Helped coordinate with a video editor to ensure learning videos for a new online course are produced on time for our launch date.
  • Took detailed meeting notes during a team planning call for the carbon justice campaign and circulated clear action items to ensure follow-through across the team.
  • Coordinated and managed logistics for a global convening in Sierra Leone, including reviewing participant visa and flight procurement status and booking venues.
  • Organized a virtual meeting of 20+ environmental justice advocates by sharing materials in advance, arranging interpretation, managing the Zoom chat during the meeting, and sharing notes and the recording in a follow-up email.
  • Updated tracker for budgets and expenses (consultants, travel, etc.) and prepared clear spending updates for the Senior Operations Manager and Managing Director.
  • Organized data on completion rates and quiz scores for our online Carbon Justice 101 course and shared statistics with the team to improve engagement.
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