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  • Project Development Intern

    Project Development Intern

    Job Description

    Grant Management

    Contract follow-up
    Communicate contractual obligations in particular with regards to reporting deadlines to Programme, AMEU and FLATS team;
    When any issue is identified in meeting deliverables in the given timeframe and budget, inform relevant staff in country and seek ACTED HQ Program Department advice on potential solutions that would meet donor rules.

    Reporting

    Participate in and take minutes of kick-off and close out meetings for each project
    Write quality narrative reports, reflecting the progress and status of projects in a transparent, timely and professional manner, in liaison with ACTED HQ GMU and finance, which will contribute ultimately to steady cash inflow;
    Work in close relation with AMEU to incorporate AME data (incl. data on input, process, output, outcome and impact indicators, lessons learnt and best practices) in reports and review M&E reports from AMEU;
    Liaise with FLATS teams when preparing reports, especially with finance to ensure greater coherence between financial and narrative reports by crosschecking the matching of data in the narrative and financial reports;
    Contribute to the monthly update of the Reporting Follow Up (RFU) and ensure smooth and regular communication with ACTED HQ GMU.
    Address ad hoc requests from donors in liaison with the CD, Programme and support teams.

    Partner Follow-up

    Ensure partners report to ACTED in a timely and qualitative manner as per the requirements of the grant agreement.

    Internal Coordination

    Internal Coordination and Communication
    Facilitate interdepartmental communication and information sharing from the Base, to the Area, Capital, and even up to the regional and HQ offices by taking minutes of the various ACTED coordination meetings
    Send meeting minutes in a timely manner to HQ;
    Inform ACTED HQ GMU and finance of latest developments, opportunities and challenges so that GMU can best advice on the way forward.

    Qualifications

    Postgraduate diploma in international relations/political sciences
    Excellent English and French writing and communication skills
    Previous related work experience, w/knowledge of proposal writing and donor relations
    Ability to work efficiently under pressure
    Ability to work in an unstable security environment moving
    Willingness to work and live in often remote areas under basic conditions

    Conditions
    Field Intern benefits include:

    300 USD per month living allowance
    Coverage of all accommodation, food, and travel costs, a luggage allowance of 50 kg
    The provision of medical, repatriation.

  • Senior Technical Presales Consultant

    Senior Technical Presales Consultant

    Job description
    Job Purpose:
    Senior Technical Presales Consultants provide specialist pre-sales services to current and prospective clients, distributors, and partners to facilitate and enable sales, deployment and support of TEMENOS products and services. The Business Solution Group (BSG) is responsible for ensuring that current and prospective clients understand the features of the product and are accountable for making sure that the correct decision is made, determined by the needs of the client. Pre-Sales activities include, but are not limited to: system engineering aspects, product presentations, answering clients questionnaires, creating collateral, perform training and troubleshooting. Senior Technical Presales Consultants are expected to train, educate and transfer knowledge to more junior BSG Consultants.
    Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

    Work independently, without day-to-day supervision or direction.
    Drive the pre-sales phase by introducing TEMENOS product/services offering and provide product demonstrations, system architecture, system requirements etc. – by interfacing with prospective and current customers, distributors and partners (both at business and technical level) and recommend system solutions that ensure the optimum usage and utilisation of TEMENOS products and services.
    Answering RFPs/ RFIs, Designing Technical Solution adjusted to the Client Requirements.
    Preparing and delivering Solution based Product Presentations
    Continuous Update on latest Temenos Technical modules, Architecture, Channels and Technical trends
    Ability to understand business requirements and translate them to technical specifications.
    Ability to create scenarios requested by clients and execute them in T24 environment.
    Assist Sales Managers with qualifying individual deals.
    Provide specialist support to other TEMENOS consultants, distributors and partners in technical aspects, and build and enhance technical credibility in customer relations.
    Stay current with market trends and observe functional and technical changes and advances.

    Skills and Qualifications:
    Technical aspects: The candidate should have exposure/knowledge to banking /financial domain Technical Architecture, Development, Integration, Channels and Security. Knowledge of T24 Technical modules and architecture will be considered an advantage but not mandatory
    Ideal candidates would come from a banking technology domain, coming from the IT department of bank or the financial services companies.
    Pre-Sales skills: Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services, this includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, and sales techniques such as Target Account Selling (TAS) skills .
    Educational & Proficiency level: Professional with generally a minimum 5+ years of domain experience.
    Languages: Fluent in English. A second major language is an advantage.
    Strong Presentation skills, objection handling and effective written communication and personal impact skills essential
    This role is to cover Africa, as such candidates must be able to travel up to 80% of the time across the whole region, including to Nigeria, Kenya, Ethipoia, Ghana for example

  • General Manager

    General Manager

    Helmsman ship of a highly successful and growing company
    Driving operations excellence by ensuring business policies, processes and procedures meet best practice and compliance standards
    High Power Partner (Schneider) relation enhancement and development
    Lead and ensure the quality, performance and motivation of a highly skilled team to ensure they meet short and longer-term business needs
    Developing the sales plan, including setting and meeting sales targets
    Establishing, maintaining and ensuring regular contact with existing top 5 corporate clients and continuous prospecting for business growth and development
    Identifying, implementing and benchmarking best practices in management
    Managing and Implementing change initiatives to achieve desired business plans and culture

    Qualifications 

    A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in business or related
    At least 3 years’ relevant experience in a management role
    Willingness to travel outside Kenya

  • Internal Auditor Territory Account Manager Administrator Reporting Manager

    Internal Auditor Territory Account Manager Administrator Reporting Manager

    Reporting to the Senior Manager – Technology Audits and Audit Quality, the successful candidate will be responsible for leading the delivery of IT Audits across all IT operations systems, customer support systems, Value Added Services (VAS) systems, IT infrastructure and business systems.
    Roles 

    Plan, conduct and deliver network security audits and information systems audits of business support systems, IT operations, Value Added Services (VAS) systems, and IT infrastructure;
    Manage the execution of audit engagements to ensure conformance to Internal Audit policies, standards and procedures for the delivery of high quality results within defined audit plans and budgets;
    Perform audits within an Oracle ERP environment, identifying control deficiencies and providing insight for enhanced utilization of the ERP by the business and promoting continuous improvement through technology;
    Provide practical and cost-effective advice to management on designing, implementing and enhancing internal controls in the area of technology;
    Provide assurance on the effectiveness of tools implemented in the company to address and prevent revenue leakage;
    Provide independent assurance during system implementations in the IT Operations domain;
    Track implementation status of audit recommendations. Maintain partnership with clients to ensure that all audit issues are resolved within defined timelines;
    Development of relevant continuous auditing routines around key areas of concern / exposure.

    Job Requirements

    Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, IT, Business Information Systems (or related technical / business field) from a recognized university.
    Holder of Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) designation. Other qualifications e.g. CISM, CISSP, CRISC, CEH would be an added advantage.
    6 to 8 years working experience in auditing of information systems in a reputable professional audit firm or internal audit environment.
    Experience in leading teams of auditors in successfully delivering IT audit engagements.
    Good knowledge of key applications supporting core business processes.
    Knowledge of common IT and networking technologies (operating systems, relational databases, network/mobile technologies) including Oracle or MS SQL database, Unix / Linux / Windows etc.
    Knowledge of information systems governance and security principles, frameworks and practices with an understanding of the concept of risk management.
    Experience in the use of data analysis tools such as IDEA, ACL, or Teammate Analytics.
    Experience in the implementation or use of Continuous Auditing and Monitoring (CACM) and Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) tools would be an added advantage.
    Knowledge of penetration testing methodologies. Experience in the execution or supervision of a vulnerability assessment or penetration testing exercises would be an advantage;
    Reliable, proven self-starter with the ability to effectively manage a team.
    Excellent documentation, communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

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  • Security Officer

    Security Officer

    Position Profile
    This position will support the security manager ensure that the security standards of ACTED staff are high and ensure high-level security of all ACTED assets, property and resources within ACTED sphere of influence and context of operations. They will acquire operational comprehensive understanding of ACTED program in Kenya and Somalia and provide support and advice in terms of security. He/she is accountable for compliance of ACTED security and safety guidelines.
    Duties and Responsibilities

    Context analysis

    Provide regular contextual security report and share with Security Manager.

    Security Assessments

    In concert with Kenya/Somalia Security Department, carry out security assessments and evaluations (Minimum Operating Security Standards (MOSS) self-assessment) in all ACTED area, particularly in Somalia.
    Update Security risks assessment, SOPs and others security documents as appropriate and share with Coordination and all local staff and ensure the security notice rules are applied.

    Operational support

    Report any damage to perimeter fence, warehouse or other structures to the Logistics team.
    Ensure constant update of the emergency contact list and timely issuance of ID cards.
    Ensure a proper level of preparation before movement on the field, transportation means are adapted, a good fleet maintenance, and set movement rules which are adapted to the local context to support the Logistic team in Country. Ensure Operational follow-up of movements.

    Briefing and training

    Provide security briefings for all incoming ACTED staff with follow-up periodically or when applicable.
    Provide security briefing to staff as needed and ensure that all staffs adhere to security policies and procedures. This includes briefing to all newly recruited staff joining ACTED, and induction briefings for visiting personnel.

    Liaison with humanitarian, military, community and other actors

    Establish a strong relationship with others security actors, including INGO, SNGO and agencies working in the security management filed.
    Share security updates with ACTED coordination.
    Report on all compound security and reporting from bases on agreed time-frames.

    Reporting

    Fill reports in case of security incident and follow up as appropriate.
    Fill the incident data base for Kenya/Somalia and centralize the national incident data base.
    Participate in the writing/updating of Country Security Plan and annexes.
    Record the field security focal points in the Security Monitoring Plan daily.
    Ensure proper filing/file maintenance of security related documents.

    Qualifications/Skills Required

    Bachelor degree in Arts, Social Sciences, Management, or a related security field. However, a diploma in security management backed by strong relevant technical experience will also be considered.
    A minimum of three years relevant experience on security, preferably at a management position, in an NGO.
    Deep and clear understanding of humanitarian principles and activities.
    Good understanding of security procedures and equipment.
    In-depth knowledge of security management and risk management.
    Excellent resistance to stressful situations.
    Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to establish effective work relations at all levels.
    Proven ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines and work with limited supervision, pro-active and a good team-player.
    Demonstrable experience in report writing and analysis.
    Fluency in Somali language is an added advantage.
    This position will require frequent travel to ACTED’s areas of intervention in Kenya and Somalia.

  • Nutrition Specialist

    Nutrition Specialist

    Job Description
    The overarching purpose of this consultancy is to assess the status of the identified boreholes in Samburu sub counties and Baringo east Sub County (list of borehole sites as attached), in respect to their functionality and establish the technical needs and develop bill of quantities for the scope of works to be carried out to improve/restore their functionality. The projects aim is to repair non-functional systems or upgrade the systems to meet the rising community water demand by increasing storage and reduce queuing time and distance to fetching points through introduction of water kiosks/stand pipes.
    (Please refer to the detailed terms of reference and Annex 1 borehole sites attached).
    The tender will be conducted using ACTED standard bidding documents, open to all qualified consultants and service providers. The Bidding Documents (in English) to be collected by sending a request to: kenya.tender@acted.org, Cc tender@acted.org or can be downloaded from the ACTED website at www.acted.org under the section “Tenders”.
    Potential bidders are encouraged to consult the ACTED website regularly for potential modification to the present tender and/or the bidding documents.
    A tender opening session will take place on the 14/11/17 in ACTED representative office in Nairobi, KENYA (Chania avenue off Marcus garvey road opposite LER apartment) at 2:30 pm (East African Time). Potential bidders can contact ACTED to get more details concerning exact timing.
    ACTED will not be responsible for any costs or expenses incurred by the Bidders in connection with the preparation and submission of their bids to ACTED.