Summary
Date Posted: Sunday, October 17, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job Description
The Foundation is recruiting a skilled and dynamic Programme Administrator to support the delivery and expansion of our award-winning TrustLaw programme on a fixed term basis.

About Thomson Reuters Foundation  
The Thomson Reuters Foundation is the corporate foundation of Thomson Reuters, the global news and information services company. As an independent charity, registered in the UK and the USA, we work to advance media freedom, foster more inclusive economies, and promote human rights. Through news, media development, free legal assistance and convening initiatives, we combine our unique media and legal services to drive systemic change. 
We use the combined power of journalism and the law to build global awareness of critical issues faced by humanity, inspire collective leadership and help shape a prosperous world where no one is left behind. 

TrustLaw 
TrustLaw is the global pro bono service of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. As the world’s leading pro bono legal service, TrustLaw helps high-impact NGOs and social enterprises, to grow, streamline their operations and navigate complex laws and regulations by connecting them with free legal assistance from the best law firms and corporate legal teams around the world. We also deliver groundbreaking legal research on key social and policy issues that our members use to support their advocacy and law reform efforts, and we deliver innovative capacity-building workshops on legal issues across the globe. 

The role
The Programme Administrator will work with a global team to support the day-to-day running of the TrustLaw service and ensure strong service standards. The Programme Administrator has a client-facing role, supporting our membership (non-profit, social enterprise and legal members) to engage with the TrustLaw service, and provides comprehensive administrative support to the TrustLaw team.
This is a six-month, fixed-term contract in Nairobi commencing in October 2021.

As Our Programme Administrator, You Will
• Support vetting, chasing and feedback collection of NGO, social enterprises, and legal members of TrustLaw across regions to ensure TrustLaw quality and growth metrics are met.
• Support the data collection and processing for our pro bono fees and hours reporting.
• Support the coordination of the annual TrustLaw Awards, liaising with regional TrustLaw teams, as appropriate.
• Support, as needed, TrustLaw’s portfolio of law firms, corporations, referral partners, NGOs, social enterprises and other key stakeholders. Administer, monitor and report on accounts and projects on Salesforce, our client relationship management system.
• Support the TrustLaw team with event planning and logistics for certain priority events.
• Administer the service, for example through inputting into databases, planners, and trackers, running Salesforce reports, ensuring members have up-to-date contact information, inputting into quarterly reports, responding to requests for information, etc. 
• Support TrustLaw’s global team with a range of administrative tasks as requested.
• Support the TrustLaw Heads with scheduling team planning sessions (both in-person and online) and arranging other meetings/working sessions as needed.
• Pull from Salesforce dashboards and input regional KPI figures into reporting templates for team review and reflection.
• Assist with other duties as required.

To be our Temporary Programme Administrator, you will likely have:
• A proactive, process-oriented individual with excellent client relationship skills and strong attention to detail.
• Strong experience in general administration and customer service.
• Experience with sophisticated databases, including Salesforce.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Fluent English is a must.
• A highly motivated self-starter, with an ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Experience working in the non-profit, development or legal sectors an advantage.

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis with an ideal start date of early October 2021. We encourage applicants to apply as soon as possible.
This is a fixed-term, six-month contract based in Nairobi. The salary is commensurate with experience.
To apply for this position, send your CV and cover letter describing how you meet the specifications for this role, what you bring to it, and your availability to start. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.
Applicants must have the right to work in Kenya.
Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.
We are powered by the talents of 25,000 employees across more than 75 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Accessibility
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.
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Locations
Nairobi-Kenya

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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