The Northern Rangelands Trust has announced new career opportunities for qualified professionals seeking to contribute to conservation, climate resilience, and community development in Kenya. These vacancies present an opportunity for experienced candidates to join one of Kenya’s leading indigenous conservation organizations working closely with communities across northern Kenya.
NRT is a non-profit community conservancy membership organization whose mission is to develop resilient community conservancies that transform lives, secure peace, and conserve natural resources. The organization currently supports 47 community conservancies across 10 counties in Kenya, including Marsabit, Laikipia, Isiolo, Meru, Baringo, Samburu, Garissa, Tana River, Lamu, and West Pokot, as well as northeastern Uganda.
The organization is currently hiring for the following positions based in Nanyuki.
1. Carbon Programme Director
Location: NRT Headquarters, Nanyuki
Job Type: Full-time
Reporting To: Chief Executive Officer
About the Role
Northern Rangelands Trust is recruiting a highly experienced and strategic professional to serve as Carbon Programme Director. This role will provide leadership and oversight for the Northern Kenya Rangelands Carbon Project (NKRCP), a large-scale community-led soil carbon initiative being implemented across 22 community conservancies in northern Kenya.
The project focuses on supporting:
- Rangeland restoration
- Biodiversity conservation
- Sustainable grazing management
- Climate resilience
- Long-term community livelihoods through carbon finance
- Landscape stewardship
The successful candidate will be expected to provide strategic, operational, technical, and stakeholder leadership to ensure the continued success of the programme while maintaining alignment with NRT’s conservation and community development priorities.
The position will involve close collaboration with:
- NRT senior leadership
- Community conservancy governance structures
- Government institutions
- Technical partners
- Donors
- Conservation stakeholders
- Community representatives
The Carbon Programme Director will help ensure that the project remains technically credible, financially accountable, socially legitimate, and compliant with both national and international carbon project requirements.
Duties and Responsibilities
The role will involve responsibility for:
- Providing strategic leadership and oversight for project implementation across participating conservancies
- Coordinating compliance with carbon standards
- Overseeing monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) systems
- Supporting safeguards and verification processes
- Ensuring compliance with Kenya’s carbon market regulations
- Supporting governance structures across participating conservancies
- Leading Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) processes
- Supporting benefit-sharing arrangements and institutional transition frameworks
- Leading stakeholder engagement with communities, donors, government agencies, and technical partners
- Managing project accountability systems
- Overseeing financial management processes within the programme
- Managing operational and institutional risk
- Supporting grievance redress mechanisms
- Aligning carbon finance initiatives with biodiversity conservation goals
- Supporting sustainable rangeland restoration efforts
- Strengthening climate resilience initiatives
- Supporting community livelihood outcomes across the project landscape
Qualifications and Experience
Applicants should possess:
- A postgraduate qualification in environmental management, climate change, natural resource management, governance, law, economics, business administration, sustainable development, social sciences, or a related field
- At least 10 years of progressive senior leadership experience in conservation, climate finance, community development, natural resource management, or large-scale programme management
- Demonstrated experience managing complex multi-stakeholder programmes involving communities, government, donors, technical partners, and private sector actors
- Experience in carbon projects, MRV, verification, FPIC, safeguards, benefit sharing, or climate finance will be an added advantage
- Experience working with community institutions, conservancy governance structures, customary leadership, and county or national government in northern Kenya
Key Competencies
The ideal candidate should demonstrate:
- Strong strategic leadership skills
- Strong stakeholder management capability
- Understanding of carbon markets
- Understanding of rangeland governance
- Knowledge of community-based conservation
- Strong communication skills
- Negotiation ability
- Problem-solving skills
- Financial oversight capacity
- Risk management capability
- Ability to work effectively in complex and high-scrutiny operating environments
2. Payables and Receivables Accountant
Location: NRT Headquarters, Nanyuki
Job Type: Full-time
Reporting To: Chief Finance Officer
About the Role
Northern Rangelands Trust is also hiring a qualified and experienced Payables and Receivables Accountant to support its finance department through effective management of payables, receivables, cash flow, reconciliations, and grant-related financial reporting.
The role will support NRT’s broader financial accountability framework by ensuring timely and accurate financial transactions, maintaining compliance with donor requirements, and supporting financial reporting across NRT projects and operations.
The successful candidate will play a critical role in ensuring financial efficiency and accountability across the organization’s programmes.
Duties and Responsibilities
Key responsibilities will include:
- Processing and verifying vendor invoices and payments
- Managing accounts receivable processes
- Preparing invoices
- Tracking incoming payments
- Conducting bank reconciliations
- Supporting cash flow management
- Supporting the financial management of donor-funded projects
- Supporting conservancy-based project financial operations
- Maintaining accurate accounting records
- Maintaining financial documentation
- Preparing financial reports
- Preparing reconciliations
- Preparing expenditure analyses
- Supporting internal and external audits
- Ensuring compliance with financial policies
- Ensuring compliance with donor reporting requirements
- Supporting process improvement initiatives
- Strengthening internal financial controls
Qualifications and Experience
Applicants should possess:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, Business Administration, or a related field
- CPA qualification (minimum Section Four)
- At least 6 years of experience in accounts payable, receivables, reconciliations, and cash management
- Experience supporting donor-funded projects or grants management will be an added advantage
- Familiarity with accounting systems, ERP platforms, and financial reporting tools
- Registration with the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK) will be an added advantage
Key Competencies
The ideal candidate should demonstrate:
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong reconciliation capability
- High attention to detail
- Accuracy in financial reporting
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel
- Experience using accounting software
- Strong communication skills
- Relationship management capability
- Integrity
- Accountability
- Strong organizational ability
- Ability to manage multiple priorities
- Ability to work independently
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates are required to submit the following:
- Cover letter
- Detailed Curriculum Vitae showing relevant experience
- Academic certificates
- Professional certificates
- Copy of National ID Card
- Testimonials
- Daytime telephone contact
- Email address
- Names of three professional referees
Applications should be sent to:
Application Deadlines
- Carbon Programme Director – Monday, 8th June 2026
- Payables and Receivables Accountant – Friday, 29th May 2026
NRT notes that it is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from:
- Women
- Youth
- Persons living with disabilities
- Marginalized communities
- Minority groups
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Because applications are submitted via email, no application link has been included.
