Company Type: Sector in NGO

Short-term Administrative Assistant, USAID/Kenya and East Africa Kenya Support Project, Kenya

Project Summary:
The project objectives are geared to support and strengthen the current USAID/Kenya East Africa strategy in meeting day to day information needs in order to make informed program management decisions, as well as to provide substantive support with qualitative, quantitative, and analytical information to assist in continually assessing and evaluating the Mission’s development hypothesis.
It also assists the Mission with its public education goals by providing qualitative and anecdotal evidence on the effects of projects on the lives of individual beneficiaries.
**Please Note: only Kenyan citizens are eligible for this position.
Position Summary:
MSI seeks to hire a short-term administrative assistant to coordinate all travel and events, support operations, finance and technical teams and perform other administrative duties including coverage for reception as requested. The expected period of performance is late September through early January, 2018.
Responsibilities:
Facilitate and coordinate travel needs, including flights, hotels and ground transportation.
Coordinate conferences and/or requested services including reserving conference rooms and facilitating participants’ needs.
Develop relationships with service providers, obtain quotes for services as required and compile bid analyses for all procurement documents relating to travel and general procurements.
Track and maintain event diaries and facilitate requested services.
Assist staff with overflow work including word processing, data entry and internet research tasks.
Maintain purchase order files, databases and update internal trackers as guided.
Welcome and attend to all office guests and answer the office telephone.
Any other assignments as determined by project needs .
Process payments ready for settlement by accounts.
Prepare tax refund forms.
Timely scanning of financial documents.
Qualifications:
Minimum two (2) years of experience in administrative and/or operational management with an international organization.
Bachelor’s degree in administration or other related discipline.
Strong ability to pay attention to detail and follow instructions.
Exceptional computer skills in MS office programs.
Excellent English writing skills and speaking ability.
Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.
MSI is an EEO/AA/ADA Veterans Employer.

Apply via :

chc.tbe.taleo.net

November 13, 2024
Investment Analyst

This is a great opportunity for an individual who is obsessed with industry trends, ways of forecasting founder success, and scenarios that might yield a positive return for investors. One who looks at a startup and think of ways that it might succeed, why it might fail. Who has expertise in either access to economic opportunity (health, education, financial services) or resource sustainability (energy, agriculture, water).
Detailed Responsibilities
Seek out and evaluate
Analyse the market to source and recruit companies into the Village Capital program
Define a criteria against which to evaluate the companies against market trends in the region or sector
Evaluate the companies based on the defined benchmarking criteria
Actively take part in the confirmatory qualitative and quantitative due diligence interviews of the companies that meet the benchmarking criteria
Prepare and support
Be the point person who actively assists the shortlisted companies define financial models
Create Investor Briefs and 3rd Party Verified Investment Memos for the shortlisted organisations
Lead the closing process with entrepreneurs and third-party service providers to ensure companies meet all regulatory requirements for receiving foreign investment
Collaborate
Put together rigorous Investment Memos on the selected companies for the co-investors
Support Village Capital in adding value to the existing portfolio of companies
Cultivate a network of strategic co-investors locally to participate in early-stage investments
Does this sound like you?
Have 2 – 5 years’ experience in investments, financial modelling
Have an understanding of how startup companies make money for investors
Are fluent in Excel, PowerPoint, and other tools to both analyze and promote companies
Have a proven ability to sell, fundraise, and hire
Finance experience desired, in particular, experience and familiarity with financial models and cap tables
Have a sense of urgency in solving problems that matter
Have empathy for entrepreneurs, particularly those in industries addressing large social and/or environmental challenges
Self-directed and independently motivated to design and execute on deliverables as well as manage investment closing timelines
Resourceful in developing and maintaining awareness of market comparables, transactions as well as trends especially particularly where data may not be readily available
Intellectually curious—you’re reading this job description and already have 3-5 revisions, suggestions, or “how about X?”

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www.linkedin.com

November 13, 2024
Orthopedic Residents

Medical Doctors willing to train in Orthopedic Surgery.
About the program: It is an Orthopaedic Surgery training through College of Surgeons of East Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA)
Requirements
Medical Doctor with MBChB or equivalent – for 5 yr Orthopaedic training
MCS (Cosecsa) – for 3yr Orthopedic training

Send your C.V and Cover letter quoting the job title in the email address to kenya.hr@cureinternational.org Application Deadline: 15th September 2017

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kenya.hr@cureinternational.org

November 13, 2024
Project Manager

Roles and Responsibilities
Oversee all project activities and be the main contact point for the main contact person Plan International and the field staff.
Ensure project activities comply with the policies and regulations of the donor organization and Childline Kenya
Develop a detailed project work plan to monitor and track progress
Responsible for overseeing the development and execution of project deliverables, lead project planning, budgeting, action plans, monitoring processes.
Responsible for submitting activity monthly, quarterly, and annual narrative and financial reports, and activity based project budgets in line with Childline Kenya practices and funding requirements
Capacity Building of Department of Children Services aimed at strengthening the capacity of county level child protection operations at county level
Provide support to other partners under the Nilinde project in the operationalization, demand and use of the county level child protection systems.
Skills and Competencies
A Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences or equivalent from a recognized university.
A Minimum of 5 years’ relevant experience working with Child Protection, or Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) programming, and in particular building child protection systems
Demonstrated experience in managing, coordinating and supervising a team working with local community organizations, families and communities.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively with government representatives, for-profit private sector entities, local community organizations, donors and other stakeholders, particularly at the sub-national level.
Strong communication skills, both written and spoken, about program activities, outcomes and impact
High level of integrity, values, ethics and attitudes that align with Childline Kenya’s Child Protection Policy.

Interested applicants should send their application letters and Curriculum Vitae, including names and contacts of three referees to: vacancy@childlinekenya.co.ke on or before 14th September 2017. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.The application should be addressed to theExecutive Director, Childline Kenya,P.O Box 10003-00100,Nairobi, Kenya

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vacancy@childlinekenya.co.ke

November 13, 2024
Emergency Project Administrator

JOB DESCRIPTIONThe collaboration will start in September / October 2017.
The collaborator will respond to the HQ Desk Officer.The Emergency Project Administrator will be supported and supervised by the Regional Administrator based in Nairobi.S/he will work in close collaboration with all the Area Managers and the Project Managers (PMs), both national and international.
Main tasks:
S/He will plan, supervise and deliver all project related administrative functions: accounting, budgeting, procurement, financial reporting and monitoring
S/He will ensure that the management of the program will comply with administrative procedures of Donors, local Law and Cesvi
S/He will ensure an adequate reporting to the Head of Mission/Desk Officer, related to the management/control of financial flows of the various projects, constantly monitoring expenses and cash flow (final balance and budget analysis)
S/He will collaborate with Logistic Manager, HR Manager, Country Administrator and administrative staff in Kenya and in Somalia to ensure the proper planning of expenditure and to ensure the correct preparation and filing of project documentation
S/He will plan, supervise and control project and programme logistic functions
S/He will assist Head of Mission, Area Managers and Project Managers in the preparation of contracts with suppliers, partners and service providers and will monitor contract administrative performance.
S/He will follow the project audit as scheduled by the donor
REQUIRED COMPETENCIES
Degree in Economics, Business Studies Accounting
Experience in management of emergency and/or development projects (min. 2 years)Knowledge of Donors’ administrative and procurement procedures (EU, ECHO, OFDA, Unicef, DFID)
Strong communication skillsProven team working skills, adaptability and flexibilityProven ability to work under stress and with tight deadlinesAccuracy and attention to details
Fluency in written and spoken EnglishExcellent IT skills
DESIRABLE COMPETENCIES
Knowledge of Somalia

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www.cesvi.org

November 13, 2024
Global Partnership Director (Consultancy)

Job description
The Global Cassava Partnership for the 21st Century (GCP21) was created in 2002, when 30 of the world’s leading cassava researchers gathered at The Rockefeller Foundation Centre in Bellagio, Italy, to create a partnership of institutions dedicated to leveraging the tools of modern biotechnology and plant breeding to transform cassava into a more productive and resilient crop.
Key Responsibilities:
Organizing the IV GCP21 International Cassava Conference, Benin, June 11-15, 2018
Secure funding for the next phase of GCP21
Generating and submitting concept notes about GCP21 to seek financial support from a range of donors
Writing full proposals to interested donors to support GCP21
Updating the different components of the GCP21 website.
Requirements:
PhD. level in applied/development/agricultural/environmental studies preferably with specialization on cassava value chains and systems
Minimum 5 years of field-oriented economics research experience relevant to cassava
Broad knowledge of the cassava agriculture sector and its interface with food and industrial processing
Demonstrated capacity for communication in various ways; presentations, documents, digital
Commitment to interdisciplinary R&D cassava development
Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
Terms of employment
The position is a two-year consultancy contract with an initial base in Nairobi, Kenya. The contract will be for two (2) years, subject to a probation period of six (6) months, and could be extended as an International position depending on performance and availability of resources. The position shall be under the supervision of CIAT Agrobiodiversity Research Area Director
CIAT is an equal opportunity employer, and strives for staff diversity in gender and nationality.

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www.linkedin.com

November 13, 2024
Chief Technical Officer

Job description
Lead our dev team in their day-to-day work using our Agile tools and methods, including Kanban, daily standups and retrospectives, Jira, Trello, GitHub and Slack, amongst others
Act as our senior-most developer in building our FrontlineSMS platform using the Groovy & the Grails framework, and our complementary FrontlineSync Android app
Ensure FrontlineSMS satisfies the requirements of all SaaS platforms, with focus on scalability, high availability and security, by maintaining and improving our AWS-based cloud hosting infrastructure
Lead in our DevOps efforts: maintaining and improving our continuous integration and delivery approaches and AWS infrastructure
Recruit, hire, mentor and manage all members of the Frontline dev team
Oversee the quality of scoping discussions, implementation and testing within the dev team, to ensure our ambitious, iterative platform improvements result in as few bugs as possible, high-quality and up-to-date documentation, and eliminates other forms of technical debt such as inflexible code architecture or poor scalability

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tlinesms.com

November 13, 2024
MEAL Field Officer

The Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Field Officers will be based in Dadaab and Kakuma Refugee Operation areas. S/he will work as the field technical lead in providing Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) guidance, leadership, supervision and recommendations to ensure that the M&E systems meet the needs of projects. The MEAL Field Officer will be expected to lead MEA system implementation including monitoring, accountability initiatives, support assessments, MEA budgeting and recruitment. The postion holder will mentor and/or capacity build existing field project staff in M&E, accountability and foster the documentation of learning processes.
Key Responsibilities
Responsible for developing and implementing the Area Program’s Monitoring and Evaluation framework.
Lead in the adoption and application of LWF World Service and ACT Alliance policies, systems, guidelines, procedures and action plans for accountability to Disaster Affected Persons (DAP’s) in LWF World Service operations and in line with donor requirements.
Responsible for building the capacity of program staff on MEAL.
Support the development of quality proposals and concept notes both offline and through the NEWDEA system (LWF World Service web based planning, monitoring and reporting system).
In liaison with Sector heads, support in the compilation and submission of quality and timely periodical reports – (Weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual reports) and provide graphic/illustrated feedback to management of standard indicators for all sectors.
Responsible for using accountability (and internal audit) reports and findings to improve LWF World Service internal processes and the quality of programs.
Responsible for the collection, analysis and dissemination of project data and follow up with specific sectors for the utilization of such data.
Facilitate the transformation of experiences and individual learning to institutional learning through the documentation of situational reports and updates, human interest stories, photographs and control on social media sharing for purposes of communicating and documenting LWF World Service work in the Area Program.
Responsible for the establishment, implementation and improvement of LWF World Service Complaints and Response Mechanism in all sectors and components of the operations in the Area Program.
Maintain a complaints database and manage the complaints feedback and referral system in close collaboration with the Focal Person(s)/sector heads and management.
Responsible for the management of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) and related accountability investigation processes.
Periodically assess capacity gaps in implementing effective accountability and CRM systems, and to design and facilitate appropriate training and capacity development sessions for staff.
Assess beneficiary accountability mechanisms in place and lead strengthening of such mechanisms including through appropriately structured dissemination of M&E findings.
Responsible for representing LWF World Service at MEAL Initiatives/forums and meetings.Professional Qualifications and Required Skills
Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences, Statistics or other related field.
Proven experience in implementing effective M&E tools and systems.
At least 2 years of progressively responsible and directly relevant professional experience in a humanitarian context, with at least 2 years management experience in preferably Protection, Education and Sustainable Livelihoods programs in INGO context.
Demonstrated management experience with the ability to engage and motivate staff in a challenging environment.
Possess working knowledge and experience of humanitarian principles, laws and standards – Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS), Sphere Minimum Standards, Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), Rights Based Approach (RBA) and Gender Age Marker.
Experience in dealing with sensitive socio-political situations and working and living under pressure in unstable security environments and with long and irregular working hours would be an added advantage.
Experience with Online Data Collection tools and techniques.
Practical experience in Training of Trainers/Training of Facilitators skills.
Demonstrated experience in conducting Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) and related accountability investigations.
Personal Attributes
Strong representation and negotiation skills in working with UN organizations, partner agencies, Government departments and community groups.
Excellent organizational and communication skills and extensive knowledge of Microsoft Office suit applications.
Excellent team player with demonstrated ability to forge/mentor strong teams.

Applications should reach the undersigned by close of business on 12th September 2017 and must include full contact details of 3 referees.The Human Resource Manager, Lutheran World Federation Kenya-Djibouti,Email: lwf.nbi.kenya@gmail.comKindly indicate the position and specify your location of interest on the subject line.Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.LWF World Service is an equal opportunity employer, irrespective of gender, race or religious affiliation.LWF World Service is a signatory to the Code of Conduct for humanitarian agencies.Our recruitment and selection procedures reflect the organization’s commitment to the prevention of abuse and exploitation of beneficiaries.

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lwf.nbi.kenya@gmail.com

November 13, 2024
Consultant to conduct Mid Term Review of KMAP project

Farm Africa is implementing the Kenya Market-led Aquaculture Programme (KMAP), a four year project that aims to create a vibrant aquaculture industry that generates sustainable income, food security and employment. KMAP has the following objectives:
Sustainably increase production and productivity of medium to large scale fish farmers, hatcheries and fish feed producers
Increase access to markets for medium to large scale fish farmers and input suppliers
Enhance the enabling environment to support aquaculture development.
The KMAP programme is seeking a consultant to conduct its mid-term review. This study is aimed to provide a mid-term assessment of the KMAP program to determine whether the interventions are contributing towards achieving the set objectives. The purpose of the Review is to assess:
Delivered outputs: To determine the extent to which the intervention has achieved its outputs in line with the TOC and generate insights into progress of the programme towards its planned objectives, and capture lessons that can be incorporated so as to enhance its impact.
Project outcomes and impact: To determine progress made to date and provide an assessment of whether the programme is on the right track to achieve its impact across the three result areas.
Sustainability: To analyse the risks that are likely to affect the persistence of Project outcomes in the short, medium and long term.
Specifically review the extent of synergies created with other relevant stakeholders across the aquaculture value chain.
Identify key challenges and successes in implementing the programme activities so far and understand why they occurred in order to generate lessons learnt and good practices.
Identify forward looking recommendations that could guide the programme in their interventions and to further strategic and programme planning, design and management.

We invite interested Consultant(s) to submit the following application documents:

Apply via :

kenyarecruitment@farmafrica.org

November 13, 2024
Tractor Driver

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION
Responsible for driving, operating and taking care of the organizations tractor and ensure compliance with allapplicable laws as well as organizations procedures regarding the use of the tractor.
Tractor Driver Job Responsibilities
Deliver goods including water while operating the tractor and ensure that they arrive timely and safely to the set destination.Take part in Loading and unloading of cargo from the trailer/bowser.
Record amount and type of cargo being delivered and places where they are being delivered.
Plough farms as instructed by the supervisor
Take part in measuring the farms to be ploughed and ensure that the clients are charged as per the size of the land.
Perform daily/periodic safety and maintenance checks of the organizations fleet including the tractor.
Perform fleet inspections and preventative maintenance before, during and after trips.
Keep the tractor and associated equipment, clean and in good working order.
Follow the regular fleet maintenance schedule and give timely advice on any needed repairs or special maintenance to the concerned parties.
Report any mechanical problems in good time to your supervisor.
Take part in the general procurement process especially related to fleet and their parts.
Develop comprehensive reports on the fleet including the tractor.
Advice the supervisor of any renewals i.e. Insurance, Inspection e.t.c. as well as general tractor services.
Maintain a positive attitude that promotes team work and a favorable image of RWMT/RTRC in the course of discharging duties.
Maintain accurate records and logs of the fleet.
Maintain follow-up system to ensure efficient processes and support supervision.
Perform any other duties and responsibilities which may be assigned by the Supervisor and management
from time to time and which are related to the achievement of RWMT’s mission and vision.
Actively participate in the Saturday Psycho-Social Support Program for Orphaned and Vulnerable
Children and build the community’s capacity to eventually run the Saturday PSS on their own.
Qualifications for the Tractor Driver
Should be able to communicate well in English and Kiswahili.
Should have at least two years’ hands on experience in Driving and operating a tractor.
Applicants with Mechanical training and experience in driving of motor-vehicles or riding of
motorbikes will have an added advantage
The incumbent must demonstrate the following personal attributes:
be honest and trustworthy
be respectful
be flexible

Interested candidates are required to submit the following application details at RWMT Offices by 15th September 2017, (1) Application Letter, (2) CV which must indicate at-least three referees, (3) Copy of Driving License Interested candidates may also email their application details to, jobs@rafikiwamaendeleo.org by 15th September 2017. All applicants should bring a personal commitment to Business and community development. Applicants should take time to reflect and make sure they resonate strongly with Rafiki wa Maendeleo Trust’s (RWMT) vision and mission before considering to apply.

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jobs@rafikiwamaendeleo.org

November 13, 2024