Jobs Kenya

Application Deadline: Application Deadline Aug 14, 2023

  • Environmental Sustainability Manager

    Environmental Sustainability Manager

    The Position

    The Environmental Sustainability Manager sits within Mercy Corps global support services and is tasked with driving organizational-wide efforts at improving the environmental sustainability of our operations. They will work with senior HQ, regional and in-country leaders to hone strategies, implement plans and develop tools for related initiatives.The position is responsible for designing and leading change management processes and related activities towards our sustainability key performance indicators (KPIs) with HQ, regional and in-country teams. In collaboration with Operations, Finance and Program departments across the agency, the Environmental Sustainability Manager will consolidate progress to date on tracking and reporting our global carbon footprint, develop and work with global and country teams to implement strategies for reducing this footprint over time, support the roll-out of country-leveo Green Teams, and develop a more comprehensive vision for environmental sustainability.  

    Essential Responsibilities

    STRATEGY AND PLANNING

    Scope and gather current best practices already existing around sustainability and change management processes to smooth the up taking among Mercy Corps colleagues in different departments.
    Work with the senior leadership across global support teams to further develop strategies and work plans related to sustainability goals.
    Engage in-country leaders for input into strategies and build support for executing key components of the work plans.
    Refine measurement frameworks and key performance indicators as needed and produce regular reports on progress.

    KEY INITIATIVES

    Work with the CCO and relevant teams to design and implement specific projects and initiatives aimed at reducing our carbon footprint, including office energy transition initiatives and global travel emissions reductions initiatives.
    Track progress of key initiatives and report as part of the Climate-Smart Commitment reporting cycle

    DATA MANAGEMENT, REPORTING AND COMMUNICATIONS

    Support and strengthen the regular carbon accounting, data quality assurance, and reporting processes and protocols.
    Work with communications teams for external communication plans as needed.

    COMMUNITY AND CAPACITY BUILDING

    Nurture, track and support ‘Green Teams’ across the globe seeking to reduce the environmental footprint of our offices.
    Build connections across office teams to share lessons and build a community of practice focused on our sustainability and safeguarding efforts.
    Develop or identify training products or processes to help build skills across the Mercy Corps global teams.
    Help onboard operations managers across the globe to the carbon accounting processes.

    Supervisory Responsibility

    Supervises one or more program officer level positions that engage in specific elements of the sustainability work.

    Accountability

    Reports Directly To: Chief Climate Officer
    Works Directly With: Global TSU, Finance, Travel, Compliance and Program Quality Teams, plus full network of country teams.

    Accountability to Participants and Stakeholders

    Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our program participants, community partners, other stakeholders, and to international standards guiding international relief and development work. We are committed to actively engaging communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.

    Minimum Qualifications & Transferable Skills 

    Bachelor’s degree required. M.A, M.S., M.Sc., or equivalent in a field related to environmental science, climate change, environmental engineering, sustainability or similar.
    Minimum 5 years’ experience working on corporate sustainability, energy transition, climate risk management, or similar issues – of which at least 3 years on change management in multicultural contexts and across departments.
    Experience in project or program management and demonstrated ability to oversee multi-stakeholder engagement processes.
    Familiarity with Greenhouse Gas (GHG) accounting (example, Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 GHG accounting) is required.
    Experience with the use of Microsoft Power BI or similar reporting and dashboard development tools is a plus.
    Experience working in international organizations is preferred.
    Fluency in English is essential, other language skills preferred especially French or Arabic.

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    jobs.jobvite.com

  • Asst PSP Operations Officer

    Asst PSP Operations Officer

    Duties

     Support staff in the PSP region on administrative and financial rules and regulations in order to ensure compliance with UNHCR rules and procedures.
     Assist with the implementation of processes and procedures to improve and strengthen internal controls in line with UNHCR rules and regulations.
     Liaise with the Income Recording Team in Copenhagen to record income and follow up with the local Admin team on procurement issues.
     Ensure best practices and procedures for financial and administrative management are implemented and assist in organizing and providing training and advice when required.
     Work with offices to maintain financial records and monitoring systems to record and reconcile expenditures, balances, payments, statements and other data for daytoday transactions and reports.
     Monitor the monthly accounts and administrative activities to ensure that disbursements are in accordance with UNHCR financial rules.
     Assist PSP admin staff with local LCC procurement processes in line with UNHCR regulations, rules and procedures.
     Assist Head of PSP region with the preparation of PSP regional annual budget and financial planning, according to the budget formats provided by the Global Operations Section in Copenhagen.
     Assist with preparation of annual staffing, ABOD and operations budget of PSP region.
     Monitor overall income and expenses for PSP region and assist with preparation of annual, quarterly, midyear, and monthly PSP reports.
     Assist the PSP’s regional team to keep track of significant variances between the approved budget and actual results and implementation rates, through clear reporting, whilst ensuring timely budget expenditure revisions and income forecasts are made and submitted to HQ in Copenhagen.
     Support Head of PSP region with preparation of other reports and presentations for senior level staff and other stakeholders.
     Support training and capacity building activities of PSP admin staff and provide necessary support and training.
     Facilitate the mission travel of staff, including following up on travel authorization, booking, tickets as required.
     Perform other related duties as required.

    Minimum Qualifications
    Education & Professional Work Experience
    Years of Experience / Degree Level

    For P1/NOA  1 year relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or no experience with Graduate degree; or no experience with Doctorate degree

     
    Field(s) of Education 

    Social Sciences;    Communications;   International Relations or other relevant field.

    Relevant Job Experience
    Essential

    Proven relevant experience in more than one of the following areas: human resources, administration, finance, budget, and procurement.
    Ability to come up with innovative and creative solutions to operational challenges.
    Ability to support, train and build capacity of PSP admin staff in region/unit.
    Ability to work well under pressure on multiple tasks simultaneously, establish priorities and deliver quality output in a most timeefficient manger in support of PSP region/unit.

    Desirable

    Experience working in the UN. Experience with PSP or interest in learning about PSP and understanding the operations. Knowledge of UNHCR policies and procedures related to admin, finance, HR and procurement. Experience with UNHCR systems. Understanding of the complexities of working with an international organization with multiple geographical operational sites.

    Functional Skills 

    PSPrivate sector partnerships and fundraising techniques
    FIERP Financial Management (SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Workday and other)
    HRPeopleSoft Human Capital Management
    ITComputer Literacy
    ITMicrosoft Office Productivity Software
    MGStandard Operating Procedures (SOPs) development
    (Functional Skills marked with an asterisk* are essential) 

    Language Requirements 

    For International Professional and Field Service jobs: Knowledge of English and UN working language of the duty station if not English.
    For National Professional jobs: Knowledge of English and UN working language of the duty station if not English and local language.
    For General Service jobs: Knowledge of English and/or UN working language of the duty station if not English.

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    unhcr.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com

  • Buyer Power Intern Corporations Secretary and Legal Services Intern Enforcement and Compliance Intern ICT Intern Planning, Policy, and Research Intern Supply Chain Management Intern

    Buyer Power Intern Corporations Secretary and Legal Services Intern Enforcement and Compliance Intern ICT Intern Planning, Policy, and Research Intern Supply Chain Management Intern

    REF NO – CAK/01.08/2023

    Kindly Note:

    The Authority does not guarantee employment after completion of the Internship Program;
    Incomplete applications will not be considered; and
    Diversity balance considerations will be applied in the selection process.

    Academic Qualifications

     Buyer Power- Bachelor’s Degree in any of the following disciplines: – Economics, Law, Business Administration or equivalent qualifications from a recognized institution

    General requirements:

     Beneficiaries of the Authority’s previous Young Professionals and Internship Programs are not eligible;
    Must be below 35 years of age

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    Interested applicants who meet the above requirements are advised to submit their applications quoting the respective Job Reference number to:
    The Ag. Director-General
    Competition Authority of Kenya
    P.O Box 36265-00200
    NAIROBI.
     Through;
    Email: recruitment@cak.go.ke
    The application shall include:Applications close on 14th August, 2023 at 1700hours. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
     

    Apply via :

    recruitment@cak.go.ke

  • Payroll Supervisor

    Payroll Supervisor

    JOB PURPOSE

    As the payroll supervisor you will be responsible for continuously improving payroll operational processes, designs, and implementation to ensure that payments are made accurately on a timely manner and pay slips are issued monthly.

    KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

    Lead, Supervise, mentor, couch the payroll team and handle disciplinary issues within the team.
    Provide and Lead in excellent customer service ensuring delivery to all clients.
    Accurate client reconciliation sent to the clients as per SLAs by the specified date every month.
    Ensure Invoicing is done by the Account Receivable as per client SLAS and developing the invoicing templates for every client.
    Maintain customer confidence and protect operations by keeping financial information confidential.
    Ensure payrolls are accurately calculated as per the income tax Act, overtime captured accurately and timely processed.
    Lead in payroll and Client reconciliations and ensure no outstanding issues are carried forward monthly.
    Pick all payroll issues, detect, and report any fraud and alert on any gaps/control failures and report arising issues to your supervisor and the finance manager.
    Lead in Payroll invoice follow up with payroll clients for healthy cashflow management.  
    Management of own payroll accounts
    Quality and audit assurance of all client payrolls for both local and regional partners and evidence is filed internally on monthly basis.
    Present statutory files with evidence of payment to your supervisor every quarter.
    Responsible for maintaining client files updated with all the relevant documents. (Muster rolls, invoices, approved payment vouchers and bank files, statement of accounts, statutory
    proof of payments and schedules, saccos, Helb, loans, advances and pension and any other required documents.
    Ensure documentation of all payroll information on OneDrive and clear plan on softcopy filing i.e Clear file naming and arrangement
    Advise on client profitability to avoid running unprofitable accounts. Seat in profitability analysis meetings and provide guidance where required.
    Ensure monthly statements are shared with clients and reconcile any variance within the agreed timelines.
    Manage accuracy of statutory details as uploaded with statutory bodies: NHIF, NSSF, SACCOS, PENSIONS and KRA. Build relationship with all the key statutory bodies and have contact persons to resolve any issues arising.
    Assist auditors for the purpose of providing accurate supporting documentation and/ or information on internal process that is required for audit.
    Provide accurate data and documentation required by the payroll accounts for the preparation of financial and management accounts.
    Responsible for ensuring all payroll files are always updated monthly and ready for an audit process.
    Timely update to client on any emerging issues, payroll changes and statutory changes.
    Ensure all payroll and clients payments are as agreed and billed to the clients.
    Assist with other accounting projects.
    Or any other task assigned.

    MINIMUM QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE

    Bachelor’s degree in business management, Statistics, Commerce, Economics, or any other business-related field.
    Certified Accountant CPA (K) qualification
    5 years’ minimum experience in payroll administration.
    Excellent Knowledge in accounting software e.g QuickBooks
    Exceptional computer skills, including Microsoft Office and databases.
    Awareness of the commercial trends and developments within the industry
    Corporate and personal tax experience

    SKILLS

    Ability to meet deadlines.
    Ability to maintain confidentiality.
    Attention to detail.
    Computer proficiency
    Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
    Organization
    Payroll software experience
    Regulatory compliance
    Spreadsheet creation and updating
    Tax form filing

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    nel.com

  • Africa Programs Executive Administrative Assistant

    Africa Programs Executive Administrative Assistant

    What is the opportunity?

    Reporting directly to the Sr. Director, Africa Region, the Africa Regional Executive Administrative Assistant performs critical administrative functions and serves as the primary point of contact for internal and external constituencies on all matters pertaining to the executive they support. This full-time role is based in Nairobi, Kenya. 

    A successful Africa Regional Executive Administrative Assistant will:

    Maintain a strong Christian witness to colleagues, donors, volunteers, and the public.
    Maintain high-level knowledge of Water Mission’s organizational objectives, programmatic strategies, projects, and activities.
    Provide superior administrative support, including but not limited to making travel arrangements, expense reporting, timesheets, processing invoices, and organizing and filing electronic and paper documents. 
    Manage the Sn. Director’s calendar and prepare for meetings.
    Proactively manage the Sr. Director’s schedule and email inbox to appropriately prioritize their time and resources.
    Assist with preparing meeting agendas, accurately recording meeting notes, and tracking follow-ups on action steps, as needed.
    Keep the Sr. Director well informed of upcoming commitments and responsibilities and follow up appropriately.
    Assist with providing professional and quality verbal and written communication on behalf of the Sr. Director with Senior Ministry Executives, Program Managers, Country Program Directors, ministry partners, staff, and the public via emails, phone calls, letters, and packaging and shipping materials.
    Keep the Sr. Director updated on relevant department or ministry topics or concerns.
    Open, sort, analyze, and distribute incoming emails and correspondence as appropriate. 
    Maintain confidentiality of all staff and related financial matters and donor partner communications.
    Assist with the planning of special events; responsibilities may include arranging venues, producing event timelines, managing event budgets, coordinating and arranging travel, and assisting with other event needs (set-up, implementation, and tear-down). 
    Forecast income, expenses, and assets. Prepare regular reports of fiscal year budget performance for country programs and the Africa Regional office.
    Coordinate with Program Managers and Country Program Directors to maintain an up-to-date financial (funding and expenses) report for country programs, initiatives, projects, and focus areas.
    Coordinate with HQ and country programs to track and facilitate minimum inventory levels, shipments, etc.
    Provide project coordination for special projects, as needed.
    Other duties as assigned.

    What is required?

    Personal and growing relationship with Jesus Christ.
    Alignment with Water Mission’s Statement of Faith and core values of Love, Excellence, and Integrity.
    Commitment to the mission of the organization to end the global water crisis.
    Alignment with the principles of servant leadership as embraced by Water Mission.
    Legal authorization to work in Kenya.
    5+ years of experience in administrative support or in a WASH-related field. 
    3+ years of experience supporting C-Level Executives preferred, ideally in a nonprofit organization.
    Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Program Management, Accounting, Engineering, or related fields.
    5+ years of experience utilizing comprehensive computer skills, including proficiency in Microsoft Office software: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. 
    Keen attention to detail and organizational skills.
    Keyboarding/typing proficiency.
    Excellent oral and written communication skills, as well as a willingness to communicate via phone, video, email, or in-person.
    Ability to thrive in a highly fluid environment and respond to changing requests.
    Ability to host all guests and high-level corporate personnel with hospitality and grace.
    Ability and willingness to travel both in-country and internationally, including the ability to travel in a car on rough terrain for long periods of time and to stand and walk for extended periods of time in hot weather.

    This job is no longer accepting applications.

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  • Research Associate

    Research Associate

    Responsibilities

    The post-holder will work alongside the research team and provide technical inputs into study design, data collection and management, and statistical analysis. They will also work with programme and advocacy colleagues to ensure complex statistical information is understood and used in policy and practice. Excellent communication skills and the ability to present complex information is crucial to this role.

    Skills and Experience

    Postgraduate degree in medical statistics, statistics, epidemiology, or related field with a strong statistical component, or equivalent experience
    Fluency in written and spoken English
    Training and experience in advanced statistical analytical techniques, particularly survey methods
    Experience of developing survey tools and managing large datasets
    Understanding of the key principles and governance of research
    Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to communicate complex information effectively to a range of stakeholders both orally and in writing
    Experience of contributing to scientific outputs, such as peer-reviewed publications
    Proficiency in statistical languages appropriate for data handling and statistical analyses for example Stata, R, Python
    Experience designing ODK-based data collection systems using CommCare or similar platforms
    Availability to travel on planned visits, for up to 5 weeks of the year, in sometimes difficult locations, Covid-19 restrictions allowing. 

    Desirable

    Experience of writing research grant applications
    French or Portuguese language skills

    Apply via :

    careers-sightsavers.icims.com

  • Bank Officer

    Bank Officer

    Job Purpose

    This is the entry and training grade for this cadre. An officer at this level will work under the guidance of a senior officer/authorized officer and will be assigned duties and responsibilities in any of the following functional areas: –

    Key Duties and Responsibilities

    Processing daily bank transactions and compiling settlement data.
    Undertaking daily bank reconciliations and control.
    Managing cash within approved limits.
    Handling customer inquiries.
    Compliance with bank policies, procedures, statutory and regulatory requirements.
    Opening new bank accounts according to standard operating procedures.
    Establishing and promoting cordial relationship with customers.
    Accounting for the payments, forex and money market transactions.
    Preparing internal reports and filing statutory and regulatory returns.
    Custody of operations and treasury tools of trade.
    Any other duties that may be assigned from time to time.

    Qualifications, Skills and Experience for Appointment
    For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:

    Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Commerce, Economics, Business Administration, Finance or equivalent qualification from a recognized institution.
    Proficiency in computer applications
    Fulfill the requirements of Chapter Six of the Constitution.

    Interested and suitably qualified individuals should email their applications, enclosing copies of their academic and professional certificates, detailed CV indicating work experience, contacts and addresses of 3 professionally relevant referees by 14th August 2023. Use the email recruitment@devbank.com. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

    Apply via :

    recruitment@devbank.com

  • Business Strategy Support Analyst Sustainability & Investor Relations Manager Assistant Manager, Medical Contact Centre Cloud & Mobile Software Developer

    Business Strategy Support Analyst Sustainability & Investor Relations Manager Assistant Manager, Medical Contact Centre Cloud & Mobile Software Developer

    Job Purpose:

    The role holder will be responsible for providing relevant insights that help the organisation make better decisions, identify possible new growth initiatives, and build a pipeline of opportunities for partnerships. They will gather, review, and test data and apply measures to provide solutions to critical business issues and decisions. He/she will ensure that the business has strategically aligned its resources and costs to the efficiently deliver strategy by investing in areas that really matter and running lean on areas that matter less and that the business has an aligned, supportive and focused decision making and organisation culture.

    Key responsibilities:

    Establish priorities in line with the company overall strategy. Work with Business heads to establish and continuously review the group’s key strategic priorities and translate them into strategic initiatives.
    Ensure all strategic initiatives meet shareholder ROI requirements and are in line with the Group’s risk appetite.
    Support the strategic planning process by working with the respective businesses in defining performance metrics and targets, designing new processes and establishing performance dialogues that cascade through the organisation based on data, developing dashboards that are data driven and ensuring alignment across all BUs.
    Implement data analytics projects to help manage the organisation through data and to drive performance based on data and insights arising from deep analytics.
    Work with BU heads to translate strategy into actionable and quantitative plans; Lead the development and innovation of new strategic initiatives and assist management in decision making.
    Provide actionable insights to improve strategy and performance through financial analysis and modelling.
    Develop dashboards, executive summaries, and weekly/monthly reports to measure against KPIs and market dynamics.
    Identify potential business issues and develop contingency plans to effectively mitigate risks.
    Contribute to key accounts by project managing work streams and/or leading delivery teams.
    Present findings from analysis to external and internal clients/stakeholders.
    Undertake market analysis/modelling, portfolio metric reporting, and operational support related to the firm/team’s strategy.
    Ensure all strategic initiatives are incorporated into yearly budgeting cycle;
    Where necessary, partner with business leaders, special committees, and consultants to support execution of key strategic initiatives.
    Deliver on performance requirements as defined in the Strategy and EPMO department’ strategy map, balanced scorecard and Personal Scorecard.
    Maintain a healthy and updated enterprise wide projects portfolio dashboard with the ability to quickly generate management reports on the portfolio status at any point in time. It is expected that the portfolio will consistently have projects at various staged of the project
    management lifecycle all the way from ideation to benefits realization.
    Provide key inputs for the annual financial integrated report and support its development from conception to completion.
    Engage with investors or plan investor meetings to discuss the strategy and progress.
    Able to create high level PowerPoint presentations on strategy and performance and present to relevant audience. 

    Knowledge, experience and qualifications required:

    Bachelors or Graduates Degree in business, business administration, computer science, economics, statistics or equivalent experience.
    Experience with frameworks, statistics, and algorithm design with strong quantitative and financial modelling skills.
    3 – 5 years relevant experience or in a similar role.
    Comfortable utilizing business case development and strategic thinking to solve problems.
    Excellent verbal and written communication skills to clearly articulate the insights from findings to management and relevant stakeholders.
    A good financial/ commercial and business acumen with proper understanding of financial statements.
    Comfortable negotiating and collaborating with others and must be able to work with cross- functional teams.

    Technical/ Functional competencies:

    Excellent written and oral communication skills.
    Excellent networking, interpersonal and presentation skills.
    Flexibility and adaptability.
    Communications Skills.
    Excellent powerpoint and Excel skills.
    Knowledge in Diversity management.
    Ability to drive change.
    Stakeholder Management.
    Report writing-ability and ability to develop business cases.
    Strategic Planning.
    Decision making –ability to make strategic decisions in a timely and effective manner.
    High moral and ethical standing.
    Highly motivated.

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  • GSE Quality Control Officer

    GSE Quality Control Officer

    Brief Description        

    GSE Quality Control Officer is responsible for ensuring that all maintenance required to be carried out on all GSE, is performed to the required standards; and any corrective action resulting from quality compliance monitoring is compiled with. S/he is overall accountable for the implementation of the quality control program to ensure delivery of operational effectiveness at GSE, by monitoring and evaluating work processes to ensure compliance and conformance.

    Detailed Description        

    Ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements, policies, processes, procedures, organization standards and local procedures is achieved so that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner.
    Promote and maintain a positive safety culture, a healthy, secure, and cost-effective operation for Kenya Airways and Customer Airlines operations and ensure compliance with the relevant industry/legislative requirements and company procedures to ensure a healthy and safe work environment.
    Identify and report hazards, near misses, incidents, and accident.
    Ensure GSE maintenances is implemented as documented in line with policies and procedures at the hub.
    Compile reports for GSE Manager either manually or using the available systems following the conduct of internal audits/Inspections.
    Review and compile documentation before and after audits.
    Implement the Quality Control program at GSE Workshops to ensure consistent compliance with regulatory requirements and conformity with company policy and industry.
    Facilitate periodic internal audits/spot checks at GSE to ensure consistent compliance with regulatory requirements, company policy, procedures, and processes.
    Evaluate training needs and delivery to ensure that relevant skills are imparted for various roles to satisfy the business needs.
    Conduct periodic/preventive/scheduled maintenance checks and assessments to identify non-conformity.
    Support process improvement of maintenance, by ensuring the quality of spare parts that are aligned to relevant industry practices.
    Notify all GSE Supervisors/Managers of observed areas of non-compliance and regulatory issues including suggested mitigating actions.
    Monitor the implementation of all approved corrective action plans and evaluate the level of compliance.
    Facilitate wash-up sessions to ensure we achieve re-certification of IOSA/ISAGO. 15. Responsible for incoming inspection of components, parts, materials, tools and equipment, the related classification segregation according to manufacturers’ recommendation.
    Adhere to KQ WAY principles and best practices.

    Job Requirements        

    Relevant University degree.
    A minimum of 5 years’ experience in the airline industry 3 of which must be in airport handling.
    Thorough working knowledge relevant to the industry.
    Relevant quality control experience.
    Sound understanding of all workshop processes.
    Good technical skills and an understanding of equipment maintenance.
    A good understanding of equipment systems-pneumatic, hydraulic, electrical
    A thorough knowledge of the organization’s maintenance procedures.
    Sound understanding of all workshop processes.

    Additional Details        

    Planning and organization skills.
    Good report writing and number skills.
    Computer literacy.

    Apply via :

    i-pride.kenya-airways.com