Experience and Minimum Qualifications

1. Master’s degree in Law, Social sciences or other related fields or related disciplines from a recognized university.
   
2. Eight (8) years’ experience of which three (3) should be at a senior level with supervisory role in a relevant field.
   
3. Strategic Leadership Development certificate lasting not less than 6 weeks from a recognized institution is desirable but not mandatory.
   

Experience and Minimum Qualifications

1. Master’s degree in Law, Social sciences or other related fields or related disciplines from a recognized university.
   
2. Eight (8) years’ experience of which three (3) should be at a senior level with supervisory role in a relevant field.
   
3. Strategic Leadership Development certificate lasting not less than 6 weeks from a recognized institution is desirable but not mandatory.
   

1. Coordinate the formulation, implementation and review of the Commission’s research and compliance policies, frameworks, strategies and standards.
   
2. Provide leadership in the formulation of appropriate strategies for research and dissemination of findings and follow-up on implementation of the recommendations by the Commission.
   
3. Provide leadership in the development and submission of periodical state of human rights reports and advisories nationally, regionally and internationally.
   
4. Provide leadership in the review of both existing and proposed legislations and policies to infuse human rights principles and standards.
   
5. Provide leadership in monitoring, reporting and advising on Kenya’s state of compliance with all key international and regional human rights treaties.
   
6. Coordinate the participation of the Commission in regional and international human rights fora i.e. African Commission, African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, United Nations treaty body mechanisms, Human Rights Council, engagements with special procedures as well as the regional and global Networks of National Human Rights Institutions.
   
7. Coordinate the development of monitoring charters on various human rights instruments in relation to concluding observations.
   
8. Provide leadership in the discharge of the Commission’s role as the monitoring agency under Article 33 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
   
9. Review and approve divisional outputs and processes.
   
10. Lead mobilization of resources for the Division’s thematic areas and coordinate the development and utilization of the division’s budget and reports.
    
11. Supervise and undertake the implementation of the Commission’s human resource functions in relation to the Research and Compliance Division including performance management.
    
12. Coordinate timely preparation of monthly, quarterly, annual divisional and other reports.
    
13. Coordinate the establishment and implementation of strategies to build and sustain Commission partnerships in line with Divisional mandate.