Company Founded: Founded in 1993

  • M-Pesa Africa – Product Owner (Mobile Payments)

    M-Pesa Africa – Product Owner (Mobile Payments)

    Role Description
    M-Pesa, is a pioneering fintech business and global market leader in mobile money. From starting in 2007 as a convenient means by which the unbanked and underbanked can make digital payments, M-Pesa has now grown to offer over 50 million active customers financial services, enterprise, merchant, and retail solutions. We are proud of our work in enabling the digital economy in our markets, and in driving financial inclusion.
    M-Pesa Africa is now making strides to deepen and strengthen its offering to consumers and businesses in our operating countries, making it easier for them to manage their money and get more from their limited resources. Your role sits within the Financial Services release train who have the mission to develop a suite of products that democratise access to affordable financial services in order to deepen financial health and empower our customers and businesses.
    Working within the scaled agile framework (SAFe), you will perform all aspects of the Product Owner role. This includes taking ownership of the team backlog, user story content, and setting priorities for your Agile Team to maximise business value. You will also work within the context of a wider Product Management team, helping to define features and drive the evolution of our Products based on your insights.
    Key Role Responsibilities
    Owns the team backlog:

    Provide content authority – builds, edits, and maintains in line with product management direction
    Provides priorities to Agile team based on agreed criteria

    Represents the end-user:

    Works with SME’s to understand requirements, supporting the definition of features, and co-creating user stories and other required artefacts
    Understand the core technology platform capability and collaborate with developers in the best way to meet product objectives, acts as the customer for developer questions
    Leads the system demo for their agile team after each iteration

    Inputs into iteration planning session:

    Reviews and reprioritises backlog in preparation for Iteration Planning, including coordination of dependencies with other Product Owners and earliest delivery of value to our customers
    Collaborates with the team to detail stories with acceptance criteria and associated acceptance tests
    Communicates story detail and priorities, ensuring the team aligns and agrees on the final iteration plan

    Understands enabler work:

    Collaborates with the Systems Architect to assist with decision-making and sequencing/prioritisation of technical enablers

    Accepts stories as done:

    Validates the story meets the acceptance criteria and complies with the definition of done

    Works closely with product management team:

    Works alongside the product manager to ensure features are well documented, and that business priority is understood and aligned with team activities
    Actively participates in program ceremonies, PI Planning, PO-Sync, System Demos, Backlog refinement sessions, and Inspect and Adapt Workshop
    Performs preparation activities for program increment planning, helps drive PI objectives at the team level

    Exhibits Lean-Agile leadership:

    Exhibits the behaviors of a Lean-Agile Leader with a Lean-Agile Mindset
    Helps the team embrace SAFe Core Values, adopt, and apply SAFe Principles, implement SAFe practices

    Core competencies, knowledge, and experience

    Strong understanding of lending and credit products and background knowledge in other areas of banking and financial services.
    Experience of software development lifecycle in complex, data driven initiatives is essential, especially within agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum, SAFe)
    Experienced in leading agile feature teams to deliver both new and continuous improvements to customers
    Strong data analytical skills, able to identify solutions to complex problems.
    Business and customer focus and an appreciation of customer-led design and user experience techniques
    Ability to work proactively within a demanding environment, being a key contributor to a fast-moving product development process
    Able to communicate and influence with tact and diplomacy.
    Able to understand and explain complex technical concepts to business stakeholders
    Demonstrable numerical, analytical, and verbal skills, in particular well-developed written and verbal communication skills in English.

    Key performance indicators

    Return on Investment
    Team Backlog Management
    Customer Net Promoter Score (NPS)
    Work in Progress
    Production Issues
    Iteration slippage

    QUALIFICATIONS
    Apply if you have:

    Bachelor’s Degree in any relevant field
    Agile Experience including international suppliers or markets – minimum 2 years
    Relevant certified Product Owner or Business Analysis qualification, for example, SAFe Product Owner or equivalent is a must.
    Strong understanding of lending and credit products and background knowledge in other areas of banking and financial services.
    Minimum 2 years experience in Mobile Payment or Financial Payment Service
    Contagious passion for, and commitment to, driving mobile money growth and innovation
    Demonstrated communication and relationship management experience
    Excellent problem analysis and resolution skills to support work in reactive and proactive environments

    We are happy if you have:

    Experience of working within a cross-cultural team.

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    safaricom.taleo.net

  • MPESA API Engineer 

Engineer – Smart Analytics & Radio Planning

    MPESA API Engineer Engineer – Smart Analytics & Radio Planning

    Brief Description
    Reporting to the API Engineer Lead, the role holder responsibilities include: design, development and support of API solutions.  
    Key Responsibilities:

    Development of API’s consumed by various channels.
    Development of microservices using java, spring boot and spring boot security.
    Use CI/CD to automate deployments.
    Deliver projects on time as agreed upon by the various stakeholders.
    Design maintain and support Apigee infrastructure.
    Document and coordinate efforts to secure application resiliency prior to business continuity event.
    Participate in design, development, testing and implementation of new products, services and functionalities
    Making use of agile and scrum frameworks in project delivery while making use of tools like Jira, Confluence etc.
    Provide support during service deployments and when on-call.
    Participate in audit activities, review and provide data to auditors.
    Development of automated tests for functional, performance, and security testing using test-driven development methodology.
    Support capacity planning initiatives and provide application information to capacity planning teams.
    Customize alerting tools based on application specific thresholds.

    QUALIFICATIONS

    A Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Telecommunications or Electronic Engineering.
    At least 2-year work experience in software development.
    At least 1-year work experience in API management e.g., Apigee, MuleSoft etc.
    Strong understanding of both JSON, SOAP and development on swagger UI using open API’s
    Experience in securing APIs using Oauth, SAML etc.
    Strong knowledge in API modelling languages and annotations e.g., in Swagger
    Experience in java, spring boot, bash
    Experience working with relational and non-relational databases i.e., Oracle, MySQL, Mongo DB, Cassandra
    Hands-on experience in designing and developing API’s using REST and SOAP
    Experience developing solutions using agile, DevOPs, testing and CI/CD automation tools e.g., Jenkins, SonarQube, Git lab
    Strong understanding of end-to-end API and microservices architecture
    Experience in automation tools e.g., rundeck, ansible etc.
    Good presentation skills

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  • Programme Analyst

    Programme Analyst

    Detailed Description
    Reporting to the Foundations Programs Manager, the position holder will manage the MPESA & Safaricom Foundations websites and digital content, communications and data analysis and ISO integration activities (ISO 26000)
    Responsibilities;

    Support the programme analyst in conducting due diligence on all new applications including photos/videos and link with regional team and potential partners.
    Continuous uploading of content for Safaricom & M-PESA Foundation Websites.
    Ongoing employee engagement.
    Collating all the required information for the Foundations digital assets
    Support the Foundation in Public Relation and Communication activities for both print and digital assets.
    Assisting the Monitoring and evaluation team to update the project database and synthesizing M&E data.
    Supporting the team in write ups for prospect projects that the foundation has interest in and would wish to engage in.
    ISO integration activities (ISO 26000).

    QUALIFICATIONS

    A degree in Communication and Social Sciences
    Good understanding of development Communication in print and digital media
    Proven experience of relevant IT systems including MS Office, excel
    Experience of producing coherent reports to include statistics and graphical analysis of information.
    Ability to carry out some data analysis would be highly advantageous.
    Conceptual thinker, ability to wade through data and arrive at conclusions
    Strong communication skills – written and verbal – with graphs and trends for ease of understanding
    Multitasking and prioritization skills required to function in a fast-paced environment
    Professional presentation required.
    Uphold 100 % accuracy, integrity, professionalism and confidentiality at all times
    Ability to work under tight timelines and deliver accurate results

    Apply via :

    safaricom.taleo.net

  • Head of FACT Dialogue Secretariat

    Head of FACT Dialogue Secretariat

    Duties and responsibilities
    Management

    Establish and lead a high performing multidisciplinary team of 20+ across multiple countries
    Develop, review, and oversee the implementation and delivery of the FACT dialogue project strategic plans, including the FACT Dialogue Work Plan, the Secretariat Delivery Plan, and deploy sound procedures for improvement of strategies to support FACT Dialogue Roadmap implementation
    Build and enhance strategic partnerships, as well as ensure the FACT dialogue’s visibility and competitive position within relevant sectors towards delivery and impact
    Serve as the spokesperson of the FACT Dialogue Secretariat internally and externally, including speaking on behalf of the Secretariat in FACT Dialogue meetings, external events and to the media
    Responsible for strategic and operational for FACT Dialogue staff, finances, and systems that support growth of programs and ensure efficiencies.
    Establish effective systems to track and evaluate FACT Dialogue performance and provide direction to ensure the institutional viability, financial and operational efficiency

    Partnership

    Work with the comms team to establish robust processes to proactively manage overall mass communication with countries on plans, events and logistics as well as actively manage and respond to requests coming from countries on the dialogue.
    Work with the UK on coordinating meetings, questions and decisions with the FACT co-chair and assisting with substantive policy discussions with countries when required.
    Mobilize and leverage the power of relationships and networks across both public and private sectors to elevate Fact Dialogue impact and brand.
    In coordination with staff, design and roll out fundraising strategies to and pursue new revenue streams for FACT Dialogue.

    Risk Management and Governance

    Ensure that FACT Dialogue reliably achieves its objectives, addresses ambiguity, acts with integrity in line with policies and processes
    Identify and mitigate or exploit risks that could hinder or benefit CIFOR-ICRAF in achieving its objectives.
    Responsible for own occupational health and safety and that of others as obliged by CIFOR-ICRAF’s Occupational Health & Safety Policy.

    Education, knowledge and experience

    Master’s degree in relevant field with more than 7 years’ experience at leadership level in a similar, or aligned, organization, preferably in the domain of deforestation, climate change or forest and agriculture-based commodities. Candidate with PhD degree would be an advantage.
    Knowledge of rural development, political economy, land use change, social inclusion, and equity, and/or environmental issues is advantageous.
    An understanding of the work of the FACT Dialogue would be an advantage
    Excellent project management skills experience. Holding a recognised Project/Programme Management qualification
    Experience in strategic and day to day management of a high-level Secretariat including staff, office and budget, ensuring timely donor reporting
    Extensive experience leading multistakeholder and/or government to governments negotiations and build bridges and find consensus between diverging governmental / political interests
    Experience in inspiring and motivating multiple stakeholders with diverse need and interests.
    Experience in coordination with multi-agency, or multi governments forums, preferably at a high policy level
    Extensive experience of successfully building and leading large diverse teams
    A strong track record of setting up and delivering value for money high quality climate change programs.
    Experience in leading and delivering a complex and high-performing process with a culture of enabling and empowering people from different policy, governments and NGO’s background.
    Excellent English language skills. Working knowledge of Bahasa Indonesia, Portuguese, Spanish and/or French would be an advantage

    Personal attributes and competencies

    Strong analytical and strategic acumen
    An understanding and commitment to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
    Excellent communication and presentation skills
    Exceptional interpersonal and team-working skills, with a proven ability to motivate, earn trust and enthuse whilst delegating appropriately to focus on strategic issues.
    Ability to define clear goals and inspire people to achieve them.
    Ambition and energy to pursue the plans for consolidation and operational delivery.

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    www.cifor.org

  • Sales Relationship Manager- Public Sector

    Sales Relationship Manager- Public Sector

    Brief Description
    Reporting to the Sector Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for managing Strategic Accounts (TML-Target Market List) within the Public Sector and NGOs vertical; to drive and achieve revenue targets through solution selling and segment propositions.
    KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
    SALES ACQUISITION AND REVENUE GROWTH

    Individual contributor in a sales role responsible for delivering set revenue targets.
    Identify growth prospects (New/Up-sell/Cross-Sell) within the TML;
    Drive the identification and adoption of relevant segment propositions;
    Device strategic plans for Relationship penetration and ensure implementation of tactical plans including opportunity pipeline management;
    Proactive Relationship performance management and tracking;
    Position new Solution offerings within Public Sector and NGOs TML; through retention, acquisition and penetration;
    Drive acceleration in new growth areas of ICT and IOT
    Provide thought leadership and Insights from customer engagements within the Public sector and NGOs Vertical.

    RELATIONSHIP & BASELINE RETENTION

    Develop and execute customer ring fencing strategies in Public sector and NGOs Vertical;
    Stimulate existing prepositions within Public sector and NGOs Vertical;
    Develop strong relationships at CXO level in government and wider Buying Centers to understand mid-to-long term Public sector and NGOs objectives;
    Churn Management in Public sector and NGOs Vertical;
    Contract Management: Follow up on all existing contracts & renewal;
    Provide insight into the refinement of customer journey processes;
    Timely response to customer correspondence (not later than 24 Hrs.);
    Flag potential escalations in a timely manner.

    NPS- Manage customer relationships to drive Net Promoter Score by:

    Maintaining strong and deep relationships with accounts under direct management;
    Follow through on all customer issues until closure;
    Maintaining communication with the customer throughout the entire customer journey.

    SALES ACCOUNT DEVELOPMENT PLANNING

    Formulate and manage customer relationship through up-to-date Account Development Plans, opportunity road maps, pipeline management and the entire sales cycle plan;
    Leverage company assets (events & activities) to nature relationship with key stakeholders (CXO & Buying Centre).

    REPORTING

    Manage reporting cycles (daily, weekly, and monthly).
    Strict adherence on use of CRM systems for progressing customer orders and reporting.
    Timely circulation of customer meeting minutes (Not later than 24 Hrs.)

    QUALIFICATIONS

    Degree in Commerce/ ICT or a business related;
    Work experience of 4-5 years managing enterprise customers in a B2G or B2B environment.
    Knowledge/ Work experience in ICT working in Public Sector, NGOs, Civil society will be an added advantage;
    Strong relationship building skills.
    Ability to deliver results and meet and surpass targets;
    New business development skills.
    Be commercially savvy with a deep understanding and demonstration of Solution Selling.

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    safaricom.taleo.net

  • M-Pesa Africa – Talent Acquisition Manager 

Engineer – Telco & IT DCN – Planning and Design 

Product Manager – Digital content 

Engineer – Database Administration

    M-Pesa Africa – Talent Acquisition Manager Engineer – Telco & IT DCN – Planning and Design Product Manager – Digital content Engineer – Database Administration

    Role Description
    M-Pesa, is a pioneering fintech business and global market leader in mobile money. From starting in 2007 as a convenient means by which the unbanked and underbanked can make digital payments, M-Pesa has now grown to offer >50 million active customers financial services, enterprise, merchant, and retail solutions. We are proud of our work in enabling the digital economy in our markets, and in driving financial inclusion.
    The HR team at M-Pesa Africa works with the M-Pesa leadership across our 7 OpCos to co-create the talent strategy and ensure we have the right talent in the estate to dive the mission. You will drive the entire recruitment process from sourcing to offer process (including offer approvals & negotiations) and on-boarding. End-to-end Talent Acquisition process ensuring a superior candidate and Hiring Manager experience and strong collaboration with our shared services team.

    Why this role is tailored for you

    You will lead talent acquisition efforts across Africa while working with Centres of Excellence across the markets and vendors.
    We will expose you to Agile Release Trains and give you a blank canvas to explore a world of possibilities.
    Our culture values allow you to focus on candidate/employee & line manager experience (the customer), Experiment & be bold, collaborate while innovating.

    Talent Acquisition

    Key Role Responsibilities

    Work with recruitment agencies to successfully recruit all key/required skills into the organization within agreed SLA aligned to approved workforce plans
    Act as a talent advisor and influence and guide the business with knowledge, insights and expertise of external markets.
    Conduct intake meetings with Hiring Managers to confirm the desired profile and develop a sourcing strategy for the open position. You drive progress and you always have
    Drive a high volume of roles, stay connected to a robust pipeline of candidates, maintain long-term candidate relationships, and energetically sell the role and MPA mission and brand
    Develop diversity of business talent pools on gender, physically challenged
    Review against all vacancies within account managed, our internal talent pool to place ready now talent into vacant roles before going out for external recruitment
    Create an exceptional experience along the entire candidate journey
    End-to-end responsibility for the recruitment system, data quality, and compliance.
    Manage relationships with external providers including recruiting firms, institutions of higher learning, background checkers, etc.
    Produce reports and statistical data as required to include weekly reporting on recruitment initiatives, talent identified and placed, and challenges faced; Monthly reports – against workforce plan and other key performance indicators
    Employer brand and Employer Value Proposition: Ensure the employer brand is fully leveraged and embedded in talent acquisition touchpoints (including candidate and vendor interactions).
    Deliver full compliance to employer brand governance process

    Talent Management

    Oversee the continued rollout of a consistent Performance Management process that focuses employee efforts on the achievement of business goals and attainment of requisite skills/competencies to sustain profitable growth.
    Administer talent processes that focus on building bench strength to meet current and future business needs. In this regard, define critical roles for succession planning as well as facilitate and support succession planning initiatives and deliberately build strong talent benches for such roles.

    Apply If You Have

    Bachelor’s Degree and Higher National Diploma in HRM or CHRP-k
    Over 5yrs of experience in conducting competency-based interviewing and assessment centers as selection tools
    Experience using applicant tracking systems (ATS)
    Experience in coaching staff and line managers on best recruitment and selection principles/practices and interviewing skills
    Good stakeholder management experience
    Agile, Innovative, pragmatic, commercial, and customer-focused approach
    Knowledge of / exposure to relevant employment legislation (e.g. data protection)
    Executive-level reporting and influence experience
    Understanding of Labor laws related to talent acquisition across different regions.

    We Are Happy If You Have

    Experience of working within a cross-cultural team.
    Experience sourcing for all level roles (Exco and critical hard-to-fill roles).
    Agile certification.

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  • BSS Engineer

    BSS Engineer

    DESCRIPTION
    We are pleased to announce the following vacancy for BSS Engineer in the Regional Networks Implementation & Operations within Technology. In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below.
    Detailed Description
    Reporting to the Manager, Regional Networks Implementation & Operations. The position holder will guarantee Network elements fault clearance to ensure TCH availability of 99.8%, average NUR of less than 10min per week, and proper preventive maintenance of the BSS network, transmission equipment and the related power supply in owned sites
    Responsibilities

    Network element fault clearance.
    Perform proper preventive maintenance of all network elements and document results for owned sites on a monthly basis.
    Ensure proper site acceptance.
    Ensure proper contractors’ control.
    Proper works Orders execution.
    Proper use of defined processes and procedures in daily work 

    QUALIFICATIONS

    University /HND/ Diploma in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with a bias in Telecomm.
    Undergraduate degree in either Electrical, Telecommunications Engineering or equivalent from a reputable institution;
    1 year telecommunications experience in GSM related field;
    1 year valid Driving License.

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    safaricom.taleo.net

  • Manager, Fixed Delivery Assurance 

Manager, Fixed Network Support 

Manager, Fixed Wireless Access 

Fixed Planning and Optimization engineer 

Engineer, Fixed Customer Support 

Engineer – Fixed Rollout & Implementation 

Software Engineer – Robotic Process Automation

    Manager, Fixed Delivery Assurance Manager, Fixed Network Support Manager, Fixed Wireless Access Fixed Planning and Optimization engineer Engineer, Fixed Customer Support Engineer – Fixed Rollout & Implementation Software Engineer – Robotic Process Automation

    DESCRIPTION
    We are pleased to announce the following vacancy for Manager, Fixed Delivery Assurance in the Fixed Customer Solutions Department withinTechnology Division. In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below.
    Detailed Description
    Reporting to the Senior Manager – Fixed Customer Solutions, the role holder will be responsible for the below:

    Estate access acquisition for coverage
    Vendor and partner management
    Financial management: budgeting, sourcing, procurement, payments, capitalization and the required respective tracking.
    Coordination, Quality Assurance and SLA (Service Level Agreement) compliance, performance management of all fixed Technology partners and vendors.
    Management of all contracts on the Fixed technical domain.
    Field force management
    Operational health and safety within the fixed management
    Fixed Assets and inventory management including warehousing.
    People management

    Responsibilities

    Acquire property entry access for fixed coverage both FTTH and FWA.
    Key liaison role between operations teams, the vendor and all the relevant stakeholders.
    Assist with the setup of the fixed technology support contracts relevant to the various systems and solutions in the fixed space.
    Help define and formulate key contract deliverables as well as KPI’s and SLA’s to be measured during the life of the support contracts.
    Generate and manage on a monthly basis all penalties and service credit situations for non-adherence by the vendors or for support offered past SLAs.
    Coordination and follow up with Supply Chain and Legal on contract formulation, approvals and sign-offs.
    Support all contract transition activities including joint acceptance of the various hubs, sites, buildings and customer premise links.
    Prepare justification documents for renewal or purchase of services when contract is due for expiry.
    Initiation and drafting of the technical scope or requirements of new outsourced services contracts.
    Continuously monitor and evaluate performance of all fixed technical vendors and partners for preventive as well as corrective/reactive maintenance activities against set KPIs and SLA whilst maintaining a weekly record and carrying out an analysis of the same.
    Acquire property entry access for fixed coverage both FTTH and FWA.
    Key liaison role between operations teams, the vendor and all the relevant stakeholders.
    Assist with the setup of the fixed technology support contracts relevant to the various systems and solutions in the fixed space.
    Help define and formulate key contract deliverables as well as KPI’s and SLA’s to be measured during the life of the support contracts.
    Generate and manage on a monthly basis all penalties and service credit situations for non-adherence by the vendors or for support offered past SLAs.
    Coordination and follow up with Supply Chain and Legal on contract formulation, approvals and sign-offs.
    Support all contract transition activities including joint acceptance of the various hubs, sites, buildings and customer premise links.
    Prepare justification documents for renewal or purchase of services when contract is due for expiry.
    Initiation and drafting of the technical scope or requirements of new outsourced services contracts.
    Continuously monitor and evaluate performance of all fixed technical vendors and partners for preventive as well as corrective/reactive maintenance activities against set KPIs and SLA whilst maintaining a weekly record and carrying out an analysis of the same.
    Participate in regular Quality Assurance and Performance Audits of all service providers in all regions over all technologies and solutions.
    Document and agree with service provider on ways to improve service quality and availability.
    Identify key performance improvement requirements and timescales for delivery through continuous operational stakeholder meetings.
    Ensure the service providers comply with Root Cause Analysis requirements on faults as required with consistent trending to identify and monitor repeat fault trends then work with the vendor to reduce and eliminate where possible.
    Ensure the vendor is compliant with relevant Safaricom Health & Safety regulations
    Coordinate between all suppliers, key stakeholders and Safaricom operational teams when actions are required to improve and sustain performance.
    Setting up, managing, documenting(reporting) and tracking regular quarterly or annual review meetings with suppliers, contractors, key stakeholders and the user teams to ensure smooth partnership.
    Establish governance process for managing support services including governance review meetings to address contractual issues.
    Coordinate implementation of Improvement Plan for actions documented by the support partners.
    Coordinate monthly CAPEX/NOPEX per vendor spent reporting to finance and liaising with operations team to justify any deviation from set targets.
    Prepare annual forecast figures as may be required by Budget Team for both CAPEX and NOPEX spend.

    QUALIFICATIONS

    Degree in any Technical field e.g. electrical and electronics engineering or telecoms engineering, Computer Science, etc
    4 years and above working experience in a technical role in operations and customer experience.
    ITIL and project management certifications will be an added advantage
    Previous experience with partner management, procurement and budgeting is an added advantage.

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  • Records Management Clerk 

Senior Officer, Research and Compliance 

Principal Officer, Corporate Communications

    Records Management Clerk Senior Officer, Research and Compliance Principal Officer, Corporate Communications

    Job Purpose
    The position is responsible for the filing, retrieval, receiving and dispatching of mails, documents and files in line with approved standards and procedures.
    Key Responsibilities/ Duties / Tasks
    Managerial / Supervisory Responsibilities

    N/A

    Operational Responsibilities / Tasks

    Continuously identify and sort records for archiving and disposal to decongest storage space;
    Scan documents for faster retrieval of information;
    Receive, date stamp and record incoming mails;
    Serialise and file records in appropriate subject files;
    Collect mails from the post office;
    Record and dispatch outgoing mails;
    Arrange files in the Registry;
    Keep track of files in and out of the Registry;
    Maintain and repair torn and won out files;
    Deliver files and mails to action officers;
    Track file movement by taking daily census with action officers;
    Keep safe custody of keys to the Registry;
    Liaise with contracted couriers to dispatch mails;

    Job Dimensions:
    Financial Responsibility

    N/A

    Responsibility for Physical Assets

    Computers
    Filing cabinets, furniture and files

    Decision Making / Job Influence

    Operational

    Working Conditions
    Office setting
    Job Competencies (Knowledge, Experience and Attributes / Skills).
    Academic qualifications

    Diploma in Records Management or in a related field from a recognized institution

    Professional Qualifications / Membership to professional bodies

    N/A

    Previous relevant work experience required.

    Two years of relevant experience

    Functional Skills, Behavioral Competencies/Attributes:

    Meets the requirements of Chapter Six of the Constitution;
    Good interpersonal skills;
    Knowledge of relevant computer packages;
    High level of attention to detail;
    Ability to work well with teams; and
    Ability to work with minimum supervision under strict deadlines.

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    Interested and qualified persons are requested to submit their applications indicating their current salary together with detailed Curriculum vitae, copy of national ID, copies of academic and professional certificates and testimonials. Details of the positions are in the Commission website.Upon granting an offer of employment, the successful candidate MUST present and satisfy the requirements of Chapter Six of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 by providing copies of the following documents;Application to be submitted in a sealed envelope clearly marked at the top “Application for the position of……” and mailed OR delivered to:The Commission SecretarySalaries and Remuneration CommissionWilliamson House 6th Floor4th Ngong AvenueP.O. Box 43126 – 00100NAIROBITo be received on or before 25th April, 2022.Salaries and Remuneration Commission is an equal opportunity employer. Persons with disabilities, marginalized and minority groups who meet the job specifications are encouraged to apply. Canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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  • Data Scientist

    Data Scientist

    DESCRIPTION
     
    We are pleased to announce the following vacancy for Data Scientist in the Digital IT Department within Technology Division. In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below.
    Detailed Description
    Reporting to the Lead – Data Scientist, the position holder will be required to outline work requirements, coach, mentor and assign tasks to junior staff on a project basis and monitor performance within the team. He/ She should also harness their mastery of Data Science to consult on various aspects of these and other projects.
    To be successful in this position, one should use data to ultimately inform and promote the company’s expansion. This position will assume a prominent role in the development of junior staff and upcoming talent.
    Responsibilities

    Formulating, suggesting, and managing data-driven projects which are geared at furthering the business’s interests.
    Collating and cleaning data from various entities for use on various data science related tasks.
    Delegating tasks to Junior Data Scientists in order to realize the successful completion of projects.
    Mentoring, coaching and supervision of Junior Data Scientists and providing them with practical guidance, as needed.
    Selecting and employing advanced statistical and or machine learning techniques and procedures to obtain actionable insights.
    Validating models to ensure their generalizability.
    Producing and disseminating both technical and non-technical reports that detail the successes, and limitations of each project.
    Suggesting ways in which insights obtained might be used to inform business strategies.
    Staying informed about developments in Data Science and adjacent fields to ensure that outputs are always relevant.

    QUALIFICATIONS

    Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Actuarial science, Economics & Statistics, Computer science, or any quantitative degree.
    At least two years’ experience as a data scientist, and at least 1 year experience in a data-related field.
    In-depth understanding of SQL.
    Proficiency in Python and/or R and data visualization techniques.
    Familiarity with Spark will be an added advantage.
    Competent in machine learning principles and techniques.
    Strong skills in experimental design techniques and execution will be highly desirable.
    Strong problem-solving skills with an emphasis on product development.
    Demonstrable history of devising and overseeing data-centered projects.
    Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills. Ability to relay insights in layman’s terms, such that these can be used to inform business decisions.
    Drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques.
    Outstanding supervision and mentorship abilities.

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    safaricom.taleo.net