Police Expert Consultant NGO Job DCAF 

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Key roles and responsibilities:

The Police Expert Consultant will join a small team consisting of DCAF’s staff and members from Kenya’s Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA). The Police Expert Consultant will bring his/her expertise in operational policing and police reform and/or oversight in Kenya, especially regarding urban policing.

More specifically, he/she will:

• Provide background research, such as mapping the current landscape of formal and informal urban security providers and local government, and their interactions, including mandates, current practices, and gaps in coordination or enforcement
• Advise the research team on identifying and prioritizing key informants from police leadership and operational officers, oversight and accountability actors,municipal security officials, and informal security providers, and support mission schedule logistics such as setting up stakeholder interviews or focus group discussions
• Contribute to the development of data collection research tools, such as interview guides, survey questionnaires and focus group discussion guides.
• In partnership with IPOA, lead on the technical conceptualization and facilitation of self-assessment workshops with police institutions and oversight actors from an operational policing perspective.
• Contribute to the thematic analysis of findings—particularly around institutional accountability and responsiveness, police–community trust and conflict resolution, and interagency collaboration, provide written inputs and commentary on relevant sections of the report and help frame findings and recommendations in language accessible and actionable for police audiences.
• Present or co-present findings at validation workshops and dissemination events with police, oversight actors, and other stakeholders.

Your experience

• Extensive operational experience and/or command roles in the police and/or civilian oversight of police institutions in urban settings.
• Degree in security studies, political science, law, international relations or a related field; a combination of relevant academic qualifications and extensive experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• Strong understanding of security sector governance and, ideally, relevant experience in working on related challenges in promoting effective oversight and accountability of the police in similar contexts.
• Proven knowledge of Kenya’s police architecture, oversight mechanisms (e.g., IPOA), and county-level governance.
• Experience with community-based or collaborative policing models in fragile or transitional settings is an asset.
• Excellent communications skills, and a perfect command of written and spoken English.
• Strong analytical and writing skills. Experience contributing to research and policy publications is an asset

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