Application Deadline: Application Deadline May 30, 2017

  • Business Licensing Executive

    Business Licensing Executive

    Purpose
    KAMP-PRISK seek to engage two Business Licensing Executive (BLE) whose primary duty shall be to identify, engage and license corporate users of sound recordings and audio visual works in accordance with the Copyright Act.
    The successful candidate shall be required to have the ability to establish strong relations with the Key Accounts clients and must have excellent communication skills with the ability to fluently communicate in both English and Swahili. The position is based in Nairobi and may involve traveling across the country.
    Responsibilities for the Business Licensing Executive Job
    Reporting to the Head of Key Accounts, the BLE shall be expected to work with Key Accounts team to implement the Societies’ bespoke Key Account management plan including licensing, research, preparing reports, developing strategies, analysing markets, trends and developments in music and audio visual licensing.
    Specifically, the BLE shall have the following responsibilities:
    Research, target and penetrate large accounts across multiple sectors;
    Develop a comprehensive contact base of decision makers and influencers in target accounts;
    Co-ordinate bids and work closely with the relevant account teams towards closure of deals;
    Achieve new business targets based on retaining ‘Existing’ and netting in ‘New’ account targets;
    Utilise existing networks and relationships to build new business;
    Develop strategies to penetrate potential clients;
    Periodically carry out environmental scanning for a rationalized plan of action
    Ensure Key Accounts database is kept up to date;
    Take a consultative approach to cultivating the customer relationship and identifying customer needs;
    Create awareness to the public about KAMP-PRISK and their collective rights mandate in the music and audiovisual industry;
    Supervise enforcement operations in conjunction with the police from time to time as directed by Management;
    Carrying out any other duty as may be assigned from time to time.
    Qualifications for the Business Licensing Executive Job
    At least a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or any other related qualification (from a recognized university) with at least one year progressive working experience in a sales and marketing environment; or a Diploma in related field with at least three (3) years in sales and marketing preferably a licensing role with proven track record.
    Must possess reporting and people relations skills.
    Must have consultative sales technique with ability to develop a conceptual sale
    Must be an independent self-starter with pro-active approach to work and excellent follow through skills with attention to deadlines.
    Target driven with an ability to work independently
    Demonstrated professionalism, and ability to manage work relations in a respectful and courteous manner.
    Must be dedicated to aligning with company goals and policies in ensuring success.
    Must have NO criminal background. Certificate of Good Conduct is a requirement.
    Proficiency in Excel and Word.
    Good command of English and Kiswahili languages
    Candidates with good understanding of copyright and intellectual property highly encouraged to apply.
    Minimum Age 28yrs to 40 years

  • Nurse Clinical Oral Health Officer Optometrists Laboratory Technician Pharmaceutical Technician

    Nurse Clinical Oral Health Officer Optometrists Laboratory Technician Pharmaceutical Technician

    Responsibilities for the Nurse Job
    Identifies patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand care requirements.
    Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
    Promotes patient’s independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching patient, friends, and family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills; answering questions.
    Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; following hospital and nursing division’s philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations.
    Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
    Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations; calling for assistance from health care support personnel.
    Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
    Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
    Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.
    Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
    Ensures operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturer’s instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repairs; maintaining equipment inventories; evaluating new equipment and techniques.
    Maintains nursing supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed supplies; placing and expediting orders for supplies; verifying receipt of supplies; using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results.
    Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
    Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information; responding to requests; building rapport; participating in team problem-solving methods.
    Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
    Qualifications for the Nurse Job
    Diploma in Community health Nursing.
    Nursing & Clinical Skills,
    10 years & above working experience in a similar position
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  • Quality Assurance

    Quality Assurance

    Quality Assurance Job Responsibilities
    Ensuring that the laid down Quality management systems is adhered to at all times during the production process to ensure the product conforms in terms of quality, safety and Legality.
    Ensuring that the due diligence documents / records in use are current, latest version and completed in a timely manner.
    Heading a team of well trained and competent quality controllers who are motivated with an aim of ensuring that product quality, safety and legality is consistently achieved.
    Scheduling meetings with the relevant departments within the site to keep all updated on new legislation, new standards, and customer requirements as necessary.
    Prime online trainer of staff to ensure a comprehensive understanding of standards, specifications, job requirements and use of equipment within the quality department.
    Conducting routine refresher trainings to ensure continuous improvement/competency
    Liaising with the QA Manager on QA staffing.
    Report Product Quality and customer complaints to the head of QA
    Liasing with the intake to ensure incoming raw materials conform to the raw material specifications.
    Ensuring that the production process yield products that consistently satisfy the stated customer quality attributes
    Customer complaint: Receiving, investigating and reporting back on all customer complaints with an aim of getting to the root cause and preventing re-occurrence. All customer complaints to be logged and trended
    Participating in New Product Development and looking at new concepts that can be developed with the market changes.
    Planned preventative maintenance of equipment/facility and control of foreign body risks
    Setting customer service standards
    Ensure adherence to HACCP and GMP materials
    Maintaining safe and clean work environment by educating and directing personnel on the use of all control points, equipment and resources.
    Specifying quality requirements of raw materials with suppliers
    Investigating and setting standards for quality and health and safety
    Ensuring that production and quality processes comply with standards at both national and international level
    Working with production and quality assurance staff to establish procedures, standards and systems.
    Preparing daily quality and analysis reports and ensures that all the records are up to date.
    Determining training needs
    Acting as a catalyst for change and improvement in performance and quality
    Directing objectives to maximize profitability
    Qualifications for the Quality Assurance Job
    Degree/Diploma in Food Science or Food Technology from a reputable university
    Conversant with a good understanding of Milk processing plant.
    Experience in HACCP and UHT quality systems.
    Must have an experience in Quality Assurance
    Advance knowledge in Product quality management /customer complaints & customer relations
    At-least 3 years’ work Experience in dairy industry and FMCG.

  • Laboratory Technologist Community Oral Health Officer Nurse Pharmacy Technologist Programmer

    Laboratory Technologist Community Oral Health Officer Nurse Pharmacy Technologist Programmer

    Qualifications for the Laboratory Technologist Job
    Diploma in Medical Laboratory Sciences
    Must be registered with the relevant body
    Valid practicing license
    Computer literate
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  • Driver

    Driver

    Responsibilities for the Driver Job
    Drive the company vehicles in day today Activities
    Deliver important documents to required destinations
    Provide assistance as required by the office administrator
    Observe the road and traffic laws and regulations of the Government of Kenya
    Maintaining of the company vehicles by ensuring that they are free from damage and are consistently kept clean and presentable at all times.
    Ensuring that vehicles are serviced and in good condition to perform duties satisfactorily by keeping tab of the service due dates and relaying the same to the supervisor in good time.
    Maintaining regular checks on the vehicle and reporting malfunctions to the supervisor as soon as possible.
    Qualifications for the Driver Job
    Valid Driver’s License (Kenyan)
    Minimum of 5 years driving experience
    Good knowledge of Kenya Traffic Rules & Regulations
    Accident Free
    Valid Certificate of Good Conduct
    There is no age limit to the applicants.

  • Assistant Accountant

    Assistant Accountant

    Responsibilities for the Assistant Accountant Job
    Prepares the teaching payroll and undertakes statutory returns.
    Prints and distributes claims form copies for lecturers.
    Maintains the students’ Debtor’s ledger.
    Prepares Invoices for lay students and congregations.
    Makes and reports all adjustments to the students’ debtors’ accounts by debit and credit notes.
    Informs the Accountant on every modification to be made.
    Accounts for all students fees that are paid to the college.
    Keeps records of all students caution fees.
    Welcomes students and congregation representatives and gives explanations on their fees balances.
    Maintains and updates all files concerning students.
    Collaborates and shares the work with other colleagues in the Finance Department
    Follows up on the schedules of all installment payments and produces prompt reports.
    Any other assignment as may be directed by the Finance Manager or Financial Accountant
    Qualifications for the Assistant Accountant Job
    Degree holder preferably in accounts and CPA 2 or
    Holder of at least CPA3
    At least one year experience preferably in a finance office.
    Experience in dealing with debtors.
    Must be computer literate with the following accounting packages: Sage, QuickBooks and Pastel.
    Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
    Excellent organizational, planning and analytical skills
    Strong team player of unquestionable integrity
    Attention to detail
    Ability to work effectively with people of different nationalities/ cultural backgrounds

  • Trade Marketing Manager

    Trade Marketing Manager

    Key challenges
    Competing in an increasingly competitive environment to achieve a leading position category champion in key categories. Translating brand marketing actions into winning customer marketing actions He will report to the Country Manager.
    Responsibilities for the Trade Marketing Manager Job
    The position is based in Develops country/customer/channel 4P strategy
    Defines Category trade marketing KPIs
    Defines and manages the trade marketing budget
    Develops and implements promotional strategy in line with brand priorities and media plans across customers/channels
    Presenting on 4P strategy to customers
    Key contact for the brand marketing team with regards to all promotional and customer activity.
    Proactive in setting, communicating and executing objectives that contribute to the business unit’s results.
    Acts as strong team player within the sales organisation, motivates and encourages others, shares ideas and best practices actively within the team.
    Proven ability in linking commercial targets with viable action plans.
    Ability to integrate thinking on customer, category and shoppers to identify and set customer performance targets.
    Strong understanding and ability to apply category management principles and practices to improve in-store presence.
    Effectively manages short term and long term customer tactics and strategies, able to respond to short term customer needs without damaging the long term business perspective.
    Can positively manage customer/buyer expectations and objections, able to say no and maintain ongoing trading relationship.
    Acts as key interface between brand marketing function and sales function
    Sound financial ability and literacy, enabling the individual to effectively develop forecasts, identify trends, monitor performance against KPIs and track trade
    Qualifications for the Trade Marketing Manager Job
    Bachelors of Commerce Degree in Commerce or a business related field.
    At least five (5) years’ experience of working in the marketing and commercial environment of which five (5) MUST be within a trade marketing role

  • Humanitarian Advisor (Cash and Contingency Planning) Humanitarian Response Advisor (East Africa)

    Humanitarian Advisor (Cash and Contingency Planning) Humanitarian Response Advisor (East Africa)

    The successful applicant will take on responsibility to provide technical support in CTP, including working alongside partner organisations and Tearfund operational teams in needs assessments, strategic planning, the drafting of proposals, donor reporting, training, rolling out procedures and guidelines, and strengthening monitoring, evaluation and accountability. To be considered for the role, you will be able to demonstrate significant experience in CTP, preferably within the region or at least in a similar context.
    In addition to this this role will support each country programme to develop their contingency planning, including training and close accompaniment, and to feed this planning into their own country strategies and the broader response strategy appropriately.
    We are looking for an enthusiastic and interested individual who has good understanding of and experience in the Humanitarian sector, who can effectively influence and negotiate and who can work well in a diverse team.
    The successful post holder will also contribute more broadly to provide strategic guidance to the organisation by building evidence, embedding learning, engaging in regional innovation in sectoral thinking and applying this to different contexts in the region. The role will facilitate good practice to ensure Tearfund’s work builds the resilience of the most marginalised and vulnerable in line with Tearfund’s own Quality Standards .
    Applicants require strong English language skills (written and spoken).
    All applicants must be committed to Tearfund’s Christian beliefs.
    This is a fixed term position for 2 years.
    Location: The position will be based in Nairobi, Kenya with significant travel within the East African region (South Sudan, Somaliland, Kenya and Ethiopia). Applicants must be able to provide proof of the right to live and work in Kenya.
    Salary: Tearfund offer a nationally market matched salary and benefits package at 3,174,744 KES per annum. There are no expatriate benefits offered with this position.
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  • ICT Development and Program Coordinator

    ICT Development and Program Coordinator

    The ICT Development and Program Coordinator will focus on the following:
    Identify, analyze and prioritize the ICT needs of farmers, industry, and producer organizations and others, such as financial institutions
    Develop proposals for ICT solution development and implementation
    Develop ICT strategies with grants for solution development, capacity building, finance, and innovation in coordination with the regional team, partners and contractors of
    Develop business cases for farm professionalization, service provision, input provision, efficient production systems and digital agricultural solutions
    Support data analytics/mining to optimize transparency, decision-making, learning, continuous improvement, impact measurement and development of policy recommendations
    Support the mapping of potential partners and funding sources at national, regional and international level
    Create relationship management systems and network with key strategic partners related to ICT solutions
    Support the development of a regional strategy in coordination with the Solidaridad staff to incorporate ICT into our operational model, in alignment with global Solidaridad Network strategy
    Develop and implement training and learning programs for Solidaridad staff and partners in order to improve skills and understanding working with new ICT solutions
    The ideal candidate will fulfill the following requirements:
    A relevant professional degree or equivalent documented professional experience
    Fully bilingual English and Spanish capacity required: native spoken and written proficiency in English a significant plus
    Proven background, knowledge and track record on ICT solution development, including collaborative design and validated implementation.
    Demonstrated track record in proposal writing, fund-raising, technical reporting
    5 years professional and living experience in Latin America; experience in Central America or Mexico a significant plus
    Knowledge of and experience working in multicultural settings
    Strong analytical and research skills with a vision for sustainable agriculture and landscapes
    Experience developing partnerships with businesses, NGOs, public and private foundations, donors and government actors and investors: multi-stakeholder platform/dialogue experience a plus
    Service-oriented, pragmatic, flexible
    Excellent oral and written communication skills, including public speaking
    Must be able to travel in region, with occasional travel to other regions
    Must be able to work in Guatemala or another country in the region
    Affinity with the vision and mission of Solidaridad
    Willingness to take on new challenges as the organization evolves and opportunities emerge
    Ability to work pro-actively and collaboratively in a complex environment
    WHAT WE OFFER
    Competitive NGO salary and benefits
    High flexibility and liberty to operate
    A fast-paced and exciting work environment
    A motivated, small, but growing team
    Continuous learning within an innovative organization; significant professional growth and the opportunity to make a real difference in the world
    Opportunity to engage in multiple regional and global networks of high professional relevance

  • Biochemistry Lecturer Agronomy Lecturer Public Health Lecturer Geography Lecturer Lecturer Horticulture Lecturer Biochemistry

    Biochemistry Lecturer Agronomy Lecturer Public Health Lecturer Geography Lecturer Lecturer Horticulture Lecturer Biochemistry

    REF: PU/ADV/4/5/2017.
    Appointment to this position is either on permanent and pensionable terms or on a three (3) year renewable performance-based contract, depending on age, citizenship, or any other reason.
    Qualifications for the Biochemistry Lecturer 
    An earned PhD in Biochemistry or equivalent qualification from an accredited and recognized university. Be registered with the relevant professional body (where applicable)
    Have evidence of contribution to university/research institution through activities such as participation in departmental management, students’ academic/research advising, school or university/institutional meetings, committee membership and related matters.
    Demonstrate community involvement (e.g. Member of BOG, SMC etc.)
    Skills
    Applicant should demonstrate
    Ability to teach/conduct research and supervise students and/or staff.
    Ability to design and Develop academic programmes and curricula
    Leadership skills
    Communication skills
    Interpersonal skills
    Ability to work under pressure skills
    Problem solving skills
    Conflict management
    Supervisory skills
    Team building skills
    Publications
    Applicants must have a minimum of twenty four (24) publication points, of which at least sixteen (16) should be from refereed Journal papers.
    Responsibilities for the Biochemistry Lecturer
    Identify research needs in society in order to inform potential areas of research and contribute to the body of knowledge.
    Develop and write proposals to inform and justify the need for research and source for funds in accordance to donor regulations and ethical standards.
    Conduct research by implementing objectives through use of relevant methods to increase in the body of knowledge.
    Disseminate and share research findings through to inform an influence policy and provide solutions to societal needs
    Aid the University to meet its mandate white contributing to individual development and standing of the University in research matters.
    Grade and supervise undergraduate and post graduate students to conduct their research in accordance to ethical and quality standards.
    Develop and review institutional curricula to ensure quality and cater for advancement in the body of knowledge and meet market needs.
    Prepare for lectures for systematic and effective delivery of content.
    Prepare teaching and instructional materials for students to maintain standards and uniformity and ensure effective delivery of the teaching process.
    Deliver the curricula through innovative methods to transfer knowledge and skills.
    Maintain appropriate contact hours with students for effective learning by abiding to the scheduled timelines
    Set, moderate, administer, mark, compile, report, and process exams to meet University academic standards to evaluate acquisition of knowledge and ensure quality.
    Participate in attachment, field trips and teaching practice to equip students with on the job training and skills.
    Monitor students’ performance, progress, produce timely feedback, and seek ways to improve performance and content retention.
    Provide career guidance and student mentorship programmes provision during consultation hours to produce all rounded and well-grounded individuals.
    Ensure quality standards are maintained by ensuring students abide to policies and regulations in class attendance and examination discipline.
    Community Service and Outreach Responsibilities
    Identify and initiate external linkages with local and international bodies for purposes of collaboration, research and funding.
    Establish linkages for students exchange programs and attachment for purposes of training and capacity building
    Engage stake holders for purposes of curricula development, sharing experience and knowledge.
    Undertake sensitization programs to create awareness on issues affecting local communities.
    Perform any other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned or delegated by the Head of Department, Dean of Faculty or other Officer of the University in accordance with the University statutes.
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