Jobs Kenya

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  • The Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Finance and Administration)

    The Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Finance and Administration)

    Key Areas of Responsibility

    Provide leadership and guidance to the departments within the division incl. Finance, ICT, Human Resources, General Administration, and Marketing.
    Oversee the development and implementation of the University’s strategic and business plans.
    Develop and implement appropriate policies, procedures and guidelines.
    Coordinate preparation, approval, implementation and review of budgets, financial report s, and forecasts.
    Develop the structures, systems and culture that enables the University to attract , develop and retain the best human resources.
    Oversee the development and deployment of a dynamic and responsive ICT strategy and investments.
    Develop and oversee a resource mobilization strategy that supports the diverse needs of the University and its stakeholders.
    Drive the growth of partnerships and alternative revenue streams
    Oversee the development and execution of an effective growth-oriented marketing strategy.
    Oversee engagements with internal and external stakeholders of the University on various management and technical issues.
    Ensure compliance with all statutory and regulatory requirements.

    MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

    An MBA or equivalent degree earned from a recognized University.
    Candidates with a PhD/Doctorate degree will have an added advantage.
    Significant experience at the University or similar tertiary organization in either full time or adjunct capacity
    At least five (5) years management experience in industry (outside Academia), with exposure to hands-on financial and operational management practices.
    Proven track record of success in previous management-level roles.
    Active membership of a businbusiness-relatedessional association will be an added advantage.

    PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

    Spearheading prudent financial management.
    Driving change and achieving organizational growth.
    Developing, managing, and motivating teams to deliver excellence.
    Leading strategic projects.
    Working with Boards and external stakeholders.
    Knowledge and experience of strategic planning and strategic thinking.
    High integrity and professionalism.
    Strong work ethics.
    Innovativeness.
    Strong leadership skills.
    Excellent interpersonal skills.
    Ability to work under pressure.

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  • Legal Officer

    Legal Officer

    JOB PURPOSE                        

    The Legal Officer will be responsible, in liaison with the Legal Manager, for safeguarding the Company’s Legal interests in its operations by ensuring legal compliance, continuous legal risk assessments of the company operations and mitigation of potential risks identification.  

    DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES    

    Participate in ensuring the company’s compliance with legal and regulatory requirements by monitoring changes in relevant legislation and the regulatory environment and taking appropriate action.
    Liaise with business team leaders to identify legal issues and risks and provide appropriate advice, legal and business support on the same by undertaking research and drafting legal opinions.
    Preparing legal documents including contracts and leases, and preparing and monitoring the contract and property schedules.
    Participate in managing bad debt portfolio by maintaining the debtor’s schedule and following up on the collection of outstanding debts referred to Legal function.
    In-house reference point on Legal issues touching on the day-to-day operations of the various functional units 
    Participate in the management of litigation involving the Company in liaison with external lawyers assigned.
    Actively participating in the company’s safety and quality programs in order to play an advisory role on attendant legal obligations with regard to safety and quality specifications
    Participate in the Company record management through effective archiving 
    Ensuring that the company’s rights and interests including intellectual property are not infringed upon
    Participate in the Company’s ethics and compliance program
    Generally supporting various functions in the business.
    Any other duties commensurate with this role

    QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

    The job holder will require the following minimum qualifications: – 

    Bachelor of Law Degree and an advocate of the High Court;
    A minimum of two (2) years of post-graduate experience 
    Sound legal knowledge and strong commercial focus;
    High personal integrity
    Knowledge of contract drafting and litigation skills
    Effective communication and negotiation skills
    Membership to the Law Society of Kenya 
    Membership in the Institute of Certified Public Secretaries will be an added advantage 
    Ability to work in a demanding environment with client focus and attention to details
    Good computer literacy, strong presentation, problem-solving, report writing, and analytical skills.
    Good team player who is result oriented.

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  • Administrative Business Partner III Human Resource Assistant

    Administrative Business Partner III Human Resource Assistant

    Profile Introduction            

    Our client a Multinational Technology company that specializes in Internet-related
    Services and products seek to bring on board an Administrative Business Partner III who will be responsible for providing administrative support for the Kenyan Office.

    Overall Responsibilities

    Perform an extensive array of advanced administrative tasks (including but not limited to strategically managing calendars, booking travel, and scheduling facilities or equipment)
    Be a champion and role model of client’s culture by helping to develop and cultivate excitement, positivity and productivity in the organization
    Serve as a lead for and manager of medium to large-scale projects, including virtual and live event planning / project management
    Establish exemplary trust with senior leaders and partners; make decisions on behalf of partners using excellent judgment, confidentiality and discretion when evaluating complex circumstances
    Build efficiency and effective responsiveness into existing operations, and help define new operational strategies

    Daily responsibilities

    Core Administrative work, scheduling, calendar management, travel arrangements, etc
    Nairobi Site Responsibilities 
    Project management

    Minimum Qualifications

    BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience.
    3+ years of direct executive support experience or transferrable experience.
    3+ years of administrative experience supporting executive-level management in a corporate environment, and managing small-scale projects and events from pre-planning to execution.
    Experience serving as a project lead from conception to completion.
    Ability to quickly learn new tools and technologies; Interest and experience in using technology and the Internet to improve work efficiency.
    Comprehensive knowledge of process, project and program management theory and practices and the ability to apply them when solving operational issues.
    Expectation of complete confidentiality on all business matters.
    Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with a diverse range of people and job functions
    Rapid response to changing circumstances and priorities.
    Willingness to learn new things and step outside comfort-zone.
    Strong communication skills, written and verbal.

    Non- Essential Skills/Qualifications

    Strategic Thinking
    Project Management
    Presentation Decks
    Navigating Ambiguity
    Emotional Intelligence

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  • Finance Analyst Associate

    Finance Analyst Associate

    PROFILE INTRODUCTION
    Our client, one of the leading international non- governmental seeks to bring on board a financial analyst who will be responsible for supporting the Finance Lead in all financial aspects of its program partnerships in country, including due diligence, budgeting, reporting, and contracting. As such, the ideal individual must be self-driven, results-oriented, with integrity and strong listening skills and the ability to build effective working relationships. As the scope and scale of its work across Africa grows, the finance team structure and processes will also change. The ability to be flexible and adaptable, and willingness to support wherever needed, are crucial to our client joint success.
    KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

    Assist partners & leads in compliance with the Foundation’s grant management policies and procedures, including due diligence, budgeting, and reporting.
    Monitor and perform analysis on program spend against budget and program outcomes, including controls on Foundation’s resources. Provide analysis and recommendations on any proposed changes to the Finance Lead and Programs teams.
    Execute periodic checks on financial controls around partner programs to ensure reliability of financial reports.
    Support the management of the grant management database including commitments, disbursements, cash flow projections and reporting to ensure accuracy and timeliness of information.
    Maintain accurate and timely financial documentation and data, and report on contract commitments, disbursements, and cash flow projections.
    Perform program finance reporting in line with Foundation cycles and Policies to ensure timeliness, and accuracy in reporting. Ensure critical matters are escalated in a timely manner.
    Identify opportunities to improve and standardize processes within Finance.
    Travel as maybe required in the near future.
    Other duties and responsibilities as required.

    MINNIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

    A relevant University Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related field. Finance/Accounting designation or in progress.
    Minimum 3 – 5 years of progressive financial roles within large and/or global organizations. Previous work in the development sector an asset.
    Exceptional business, analytical, with a high level of attention to detail.
    Results driven and self-disciplined, with a strong sense of team and common purpose to achieve ambitious goals.
    Flexible, intellectually curious, and open, you are comfortable with ambiguity, receptive to new ideas and willing to learn and change & execute a range of job duties and changing priorities.
    Proficient in MS Office applications, particularly Excel.
    Flexible, adaptable, and able to execute a range of job duties and changing priorities.
    Possess excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills with the ability to articulate information to a variety of constituents across cultures.
    Possess professional maturity, sensitivity with different cultures, and impeccable integrity that exemplify the Foundation’s values.
    A commitment to our client’s values and vision.

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  • Leads System Developer IT Implementation Officer

    Leads System Developer IT Implementation Officer

    PROFILE INTRODUCTION           
    Our client, one of the fintech’s in Kenya that offers a range of finance products is looking for an experienced Lead Systems Developer whose main duties will mainly involve building software, modifying software to fix bugs and improve the software performance. You will also be involved in system testing and also working with the various stakeholders to resolve technical issues.
    Key Responsibilities include:

    Writing clean and maintainable code based on specifications.
    Maintain and improve existing software and fixing bugs.
    Design and maintain software databases.
    Design and maintain development environments
    Test and maintain software products to ensure strong functionality and optimization
    Evaluate user feedback and execute the recommended improvements.
    Provide technical documentation for reference and reporting purposes.
    Ability to multitask and switch between tasks without loss of efficiency.
    Review code work for accuracy and functionality.
    Create and implement design plans and functional and technical specifications
    Analyzing code segments regularly.
    Delegating tasks to junior team members.
    Keeping up to date with industry trends and technology developments.
    Testing code to acceptable standards

     MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

    Degree in an IT related Field or equivalent of 3 years of experience
    Minimum of two years of working experience in software development
    Good knowledge of software development stacks.
    Good coding skills and practices
    Good judgment and decision-making capacity.
    Market Intelligence skills
    Ability to detect and solve institutional risks especially operational risks – Fraud and non-repayment

    Required Attributes

    Good analytical skills
    Report writing skills
    Accuracy and attention to detail
    Leadership skills
    Communication skills
    High integrity, good conduct and with positive attitude towards work, clients and staff.
    Team player
    Excellent customer service.
    Negotiation skills
    Problem solving skills
    Time management skills
    Self-development skills

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  • Group MIS Project Manager

    Group MIS Project Manager

    KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

    Manage a lean, highly skilled and specialised project management team 
    Drive in-depth understanding of subsidiary business and group product strategies to support effective solution development 
    Identifying and documenting pain points / learnings from both internal and external customers to support solution improvement and scope future development 
    Support rapid version transition of latest technology across all subsidiaries
     Optimise the scope and development of overlapping digital needs across subsidiaries to maximise efficiency 
    Managing conflicting priorities and inter-dependencies and advising multiple project work streams on the course of action as appropriate 
    Ensuring effective collaboration between key project stakeholders; operational teams, developers, and other parties 
     Identifying pain points for both internal and external customers 
    Track / assess the project delivery performance all developers – both internal and external 
    Ensuring compliance with approved Project Development process guidelines and policies

    MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

    Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field 
    Project Management certification 
     Minimum of 10 years’ work experience 
    3 years working in a senior executive leadership in a similar role 
    Experience working in Fintech or bank digital channels preferrable 
    Experience working in a dynamic start-up environment 
    Excellent written and oral communication skills 
    Team player 
    Great interpersonal skills 
    Ability to work under pressure 
    Commitment to excellent Customer Experience

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  • Port Clerk

    Port Clerk

    Role Summary
    Effectively and efficiently, coordinate all Import and Export shipments Customs clearance and handling at the port of Mombasa, JKIA (Jomo Kenyatta International Airport) and ICD (Inland Container Depot).
    Professionally support the logistics functions in compliance with client, customer, and all regulatory authorities’ requirements
    Qualifications/requirements

    Certificate in Customs Administration.
    East Africa Customs Freight Forwarding Practicing Certificate (EACFFPC) · Clearing and Forwarding working experience – Minimum 2 years
    Analytical skills, attention to detail.
    Ability to work in a team environment

    Job Specification
    Regulatory Compliance

    Compliance with Customs and local authorities’ requirements for imports/exports handling of shipments including but not limited to
    Ensuring 100% compliance of shipment documents as per regulatory requirements.
    Typing and lodging of various customs entries and ensuring close follow up until they are passed

    Quality Assurance

    Implement exports / imports SOPs
    Maintain exports/ imports records
    Maintain allocated documents as per approved Import / Export SOP

    Operations Management

    Collect documents from all handling sheds at the port.
    Knowledge in IDFs, Imports and Exports entries processing in customs systems. Knowledge in KPA KWATOS & SAP system.
    Follow up of customs approval and releases of Imports and Export entries.
    Manage parcels, documents, and letters as per delivery instructions, ensuring signatures are obtained
    as per receipts and deliveries effected.
    Dispatch all internal and external imports and exports documentation within scheduled timelines.
    Engage with inspection authorities to ensure timely inspection
    Proper handling and accountability of all shipment documents.
    Liaise with all regulatory authorities at the port to ensure expedited shipment clearance and release.
    Follow up delivery orders with shipping lines.
    Communicate with transporters on loading, delivery and return of containers.
    Follow up on interchange for container deposit refunds.

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  • Customer Service Intern

    Customer Service Intern

    Qualifications/Requirements

    Degree or Diploma in Shipping (with experience) or related course
    MS Office Applications.
    Customer Service oriented
    Excellent communication, interpersonal, presentation and leadership skills
    Organized and process oriented
    Work well under pressure in a fast-paced and professional environment
    Strong Analytical Skills
    Solutions oriented

    Job Specification-

    Accurate and timely Export and Import Invoicing while ensuring to adhere to all local authority requirements
    Timely checks and publishing online delivery orders
    Assisting on EAF cluster Booking confirmations and queries while ensuring full adoption and usage of sales force tools.
    Assisting on Cargo readiness tasks while ensuring full usage of sales force tools. Customer communication to ensure set vessel allocations are loaded.
    Providing excellent customer service at the reception, receiving, and answering phone calls, attending to walk in customers.
    Customer education and promotion of e-commerce transactions
    Maintaining confidentiality for all documents in company custody and protecting company information and assets.                   
    Ensuring customers, overseas agents, and principal’s enquiries are answered in a timely manner and expectations are met.
    Ensuring full compliance with local SOPs, import service delivery, invoicing and release processes and Local Authority’s requirements.
    Weekly report on performance of related KPIs with proposals of process improvement needs.
    Proper record keeping for customer care documents for easy reference and retrieval when need be.
    Ensuring both online, telephone, email and walk in customers receive excellent customer service and quality service delivery for all their consignments.
    Miscellaneous related duties and tasks as may be assigned.

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  • Enterprise Solution Engineer Business Architect Solution Architect Technology Delivery Manager Technology Delivery Governance Analyst Release Manager Scrum Master

    Enterprise Solution Engineer Business Architect Solution Architect Technology Delivery Manager Technology Delivery Governance Analyst Release Manager Scrum Master

    KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

    Design and develop high quality solutions that are scalable, secure, and stable across the enterprise solutions.
    Work closely with product owners and business analysts and solution architects during requirements engineering phase to understand and document functional and non-functional requirements.
    Work together with Group Enterprise Architecture teams to analyze product requirements and design best-fit architectures and solutions guided by KCB policies and industry best practices and standards.
    Identify, champion, and implement innovative solutions that exploit existing business opportunities and mitigate existing risks.
    Accountable for development and timely delivery of quality applications and software solutions from requirements definition, review of solution design (SDD) and interface specification documents (ISD), user test planning and review, defect tracking, and ensuring closure project tasks.
    Specify and ensure application controls are incorporated during design of the software in order to check on risk exposure
    Analyze and fix software applications bugs and defects and contributes towards ensuring high availability, scalability, fault tolerance and resilience of production solutions and applications.
    Design, develop unit test plans and perform unit and scenario testing for application code bases and interfaces.
    Work with technology operations and support teams to handover system support skills and documentation and formulate OLA agreements with level 3 support.
    Work closely with Technology Risk and Security teams to ensure that applications are well secured as per the bank’s Technology Security policies and standards.
    Understands the necessity of and contributes to establishment of the right programming standards.
    Provide 3rd level support to the banking operations administrators and support teams and other application support teams in resolving production systems anomalies and refining of system operations.
    Creates and communicates initial estimates including suggested solution, IS impacts, IS costs for minor, small, and large enterprise projects.
    Collaborates with vendor partners for integration of partner development activities within project timeline.
    Performs technical evaluations of new technology products or suggest changes/enhancements to existing products/environments to fulfil business needs.
    Provides daily support for existing enterprise solutions, including modifying, testing, validating, and documenting system changes. Adheres to normal change control processes for these activities.

    MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

    Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study
    Professional qualification: Either certificates on ITIL, Project, Temenos T24 or related
    Experience with IT Banking Systems in either of the following areas, Temenos Core Banking system, Tranzware/ Card systems, Mobile Banking and mobile money, payment systems, Sybrin, Credit Quest
    Experience with Enterprise systems, development and support, IT Projects & Agile development

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  • Software Development Engineer on Test (SDET)

    Software Development Engineer on Test (SDET)

    Key Responsibilities:

    Development, customization, deployment, and maintenance of the reliable and scalable test automation frameworks for all systems and applications.
    Conducting code reviews and ensuring the developed software conform to approved standards, design patterns and best practices.
    Perform Unit Testing and API Testing and Integration Testing and collaborate with developers to conduct end-to-end defect analysis and resolution of defects, and in reviewing test results for maximum test coverage.
    Execution of performance and security testing and ensure that solutions meet the minimum baseline standards and performance benchmarks. 
    Test strategy formulation which includes decomposing the business and technical requirements into test scenarios, defining test data requirements, managing test case creation, devising contingencies plans and other testing preparation activities.
    Lead formal reviews of test plans, designs, test scenarios, test cases, and requirements documents with cross-functional teams for both functional and non-functional testing.
    Executes and reports on planned tests, report and manage defects, regress software fixes for new and existing products, assist development with replicating and debugging problems.
    Participate in CI/CD delivery models, create execution pipelines and integrate automation scripts into CI/CD pipeline.
    Supporting solution deployments and in resolving low level systems issues and taking part in resolution of such issues.
    Participate in solution architecture and design discussions and make suggestions to have appropriate changes in design.
    Coach and mentor QA Engineers in test automation best practices, frameworks and SDET discipline.
    Management and maintenance of Test Environments.

    MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

    Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study
    A minimum of 2 years of experience
    Having the following professional qualifications is an added advantage: ISTQB / ISTQB Agile Tester Certification / Certified Test Engineer (CSTE) / Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) / Certified Associate in Software Testing (CAST) / CMSQ (Certified Manager of Software Quality)
    Possess a solid understanding of testing principles, testing types, and methodologies.
    Highly proficient at debugging issues – learn debug tools like – Chrome Web Debugger.
    Ability to write reusable code/scripts and hence they should be proficient in at least one scripting language e.g python.
    Knowledge and experience in API testing using POSTMAN and Soap UI
    Experience in White box testing tools and techniques – like Mocking frameworks (Mockito)
    Good Understanding of architecture principles and standards of applications and general client-server model.
    Good understanding of Object-Oriented Programming concepts and programming languages like Java, C#,.NET
    Good understanding DevOps, Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery concepts (CI / CD) and experience in using CI tools like Jenkins/Bamboo and code versioning tools like Git. 
    Experience with at least one automation frameworks such as Selenium and Katalon studio. 
    Good understanding and experience in performance testing as well as writing simple scripts using open-source performance testing tools like JMeter.
    Knowledge of agile development methodologies using the Sprint/Scrum methodology of agile.
    Knowledge of public cloud technology platforms like – Amazon AWS, Google GCP, or Microsoft Azure.
    Exposure to Behaviour Driven Development.

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