Gibson Mwatete

Duties and Responsibilities:
• Providing specialized training on the following topics: Project Monitoring & Evaluation; Disaster Economics & Logistics; and, Environmental education.
• Preparing and delivering lectures, tutorials, workshops, and seminars.
• Developing curricula and course material that can be used across a number of platforms.
• Collaborating with other academics and lecturers to improve teaching methods and expand knowledge base.
• Setting and grading assignments, tests, and exams.
• Conducting research, and writing papers, proposals, journal articles, and books.
• Attending and participating in meetings, conferences, and other events in and outside of the institution.
• Providing support to students and other colleagues.
• Staying current by reading widely and producing published work in the field.

• Reporting and supervision through providing supervision and technical support to other conservation program staff and volunteers, as requested by the Executive Director.
• Support Local Conservation Networks through developing Site Support Groups (SSGs) and facilitating their institutional development and develop proposals to take conservation actions.
• Support Conservation action through developing and implementing Local Empowerment Programme according to the strategic plan and promoting livelihoods initiatives and ecosystem services.
• Advocacy and networking by engaging in national, county and site policy and strategic frameworks to promote site conservation actions, ensuring representation of local networks in decision-making processes.
• Fundraising through writing proposals to implement Nature Kenya’s conservation programme.
• Project and program management and reporting by ensuring the effective and efficient implementation of Nature Kenya’s projects and programs.
• Documentation and communication of best practices and lessons learned and disseminating them.

Duties and Responsibilities:
• Facilitating trainings on the following Project management courses: Project design, planning and implementation; Project monitoring and evaluation; Environmental and community issues in project management.
• Maintaining discipline among the students and ensure that the class attendance register is filled after every class session.
• Setting and marking work-based assignments and continuous assessment tests (CAT) for the unit(s) taught.
• Preparing a course file that contains copies of the following; Course outline, Work-based assignments and CAT given to students, List of students, Lecture notes and Tutorial materials
• Preparing lesson notes and other teaching materials for efficient and effective teaching.
• Lecturing in the field of competence to empower students.
• Counselling and guiding students to enhance learning and social responsibility.
• Supervising research projects and student industrial attachment per the guidelines provided.
• Conducting research to update knowledge in the field of competence.
• Attending and participating in scheduled departmental meetings and staff activities/ events to facilitate communication, socialization and interaction.

Core Roles
• Reporting and supervision through providing supervision and technical support to other conservation program staff and volunteers, as requested by the Executive Director.
• Support Local Conservation Networks through developing Site Support Groups (SSGs) and facilitating their institutional development and develop proposals to take conservation actions.
• Support Conservation action through developing and implementing Local Empowerment Programme according to the strategic plan and promoting livelihoods initiatives and ecosystem services.
• Advocacy and networking by engaging in national, county and site policy and strategic frameworks to promote site conservation actions, ensuring representation of local networks in decision-making processes.
• Fundraising through writing proposals to implement Nature Kenya’s conservation programme.
• Project and program management and reporting by ensuring the effective and efficient implementation of Nature Kenya’s projects and programs.
• Documentation and communication of best practices and lessons learned and disseminating them.

Core Roles
• Enabled and coordinated all aspects of the Project Implementation.
• Coordinated the preparation and presentation of work plans, budgets and progress reports to the UNDP.
• Provided strategic guidance to all Nature Kenya initiatives in the Nandi landscape and liaised with the supporting donors and partners to ensure that project targets were met.
• Ensured continuous monitoring and evaluation of project work plan and collected data to measure impacts.
• Attended and presented progress reports, work plans, budgets, and other documents required by the National Project Steering Committee and other appropriate structures.
• Drafted Terms of Reference for project Strategic Partners, consultants, etc and ensure delivery of agreed activities ensuring value for money.
• Maintained close and cordial working relationships with partners.
• Documented and disseminated via print and electronic media, Nature Kenya publications and other public readership channels key project successes, lessons and best practices.
• Supervised and line-managed other project staff, ensuring timely delivery of their responsibilities.

Core Roles
• Coordinated the preparation and presentation of work-plans, budgets and progress reports to the Royal Society for Protection of Birds (RSPB) and Department for International Development (DFID).
• Provided administrative and strategic guidance into all aspects of project implementation to ensure that project targets were met.
• Built effective working relationships with local and national government institutions, NGOs, Private sector as well as local communities.
• Attended and presented progress reports, work plans, budgets, and other documents required by the National Project Steering Committee, the National Liaison Committee and other appropriate structures.
• Ensured continuous monitoring and evaluation of project work plan and collected data to measure impacts.
• Drafted Terms of Reference for project Strategic Partners, consultants, etc and ensured value for money.
• Documented and disseminated key project successes, lessons and best practices.
• Supervised and line-managed other project staff, ensuring timely delivery of their responsibilities.
• Represented Nature Kenya in key conservation fora.

• Participating in the planning, implementation and monitoring of the project activities.
• Liasing with identified local stakeholders in implementing project activities.
• Carrying out assessments on agreed field activities and preparing and presenting regular progress reports to the Project Coordinator.
• Addressing queries raised by the local stakeholders.
• Convening regular meetings with local stakeholders and maintaining a record of the proceedings.
• Production of/ and dissemination of awareness materials such as Surveys findings, PRA, Newsletters and lobby materials.
• Producing of reports.
• Contributing to the publication and distribution of pamphlets and preparation of newspaper articles.
• Facilitating forums for stakeholders (farmers) on matters related to the project activities.
• Participating in local community meetings, tree planting and training workshops, tree nursery development, soil and water conservation and training on income generating activities (nature-based).
• Manning of field project offices and taking care of office equipment and other project resource materials.
• Assisting the Project Coordinator on all matters pertaining to the project field in the designated area.