Starting Date: 1st March 2017
Duration of the Contract: 1 year renewable
2.Purpose of position
The DSA C will deputize the Safety Advisor (SA) for most of his tasks:
Drafting of high quality security reports
Supporting the delivering of NGO request services
Supporting the SA in the management of Field Monitors
3.Reporting
· Reports to the Safety Advisor
4.Key responsibilities:
The list of responsibilities is not exhaustive: other tasks may be requested to adapt operational needs.
Ø Provide NGOs with credible information and contextual analysis of the local and regional security situation.
Liaise closely with NGOs, the UN
Contribute to writing comprehensive bi-weekly and quarterly reports on the provincial and regional security situation, as it relates to NGOs
Pro-actively analyse the context, suggest and draft daily incident reports, threat warnings
Facilitate bi-weekly NGO security meetings in his/her region of responsibility on request and in link with the SA
Conduct regular field trip to develop local expertise of the context
Ø Assist in the delivery of other request INSO Services
Draft Area Brief / Travel Advisory on request of NGOs and in close collaboration with the SA
Perform security site review on request of NGOs and close collaboration with the SA
Review NGO security plans on request of NGOs and close collaboration with the SA
Respond pro-actively to any relevant request of NGOs in terms of safety and security
Support requesting NGOs in times of crisis on request, in close collaboration with the SA
Ø Support the SA in management
Support the SA in the management of field monitors
Ø Adhere to INSO security policies and procedures.
Fully comply with INSO policy directives;
Observe and maintain the confidentiality and security of all NGO information;
Observe and maintain the confidentiality and security of any documentation/procedures as outlined by Director
Ø Adopts professional conduct and positive attitude
Other tasks may be requested and should be executed diligently
Manage your time in the office effectively.
Work to ensure a positive working atmosphere by enhancing a cordial working relationship.
5.Posting details:
This position is based in Nairobi.
The position requires the holder to be able to undertake tasks at short notice with due regard to the security environment
The position requires the holder to be able to work effectively and efficiently without supervision.
The holder must display a high degree of ethic and responsibility for his/her own actions.
This position requires a degree of flexibility with respect to working hours
6.Mandatory Requirements: (Applicants MUST have all these)
Bachelor in IT, Security studies, Journalism, Communication, Political Sciences, History, or any other equivalent diploma
At least 5 years of security work experience at a mid-management level
Excellent English writing skills with ability to research and present complex issues in a clear and concise manner
A good understanding of NGO approaches to security
A proven ability to develop and maintain working relationships with key security interlocutors
Excellent Computer skills and knowledge of Windows and Office programs
Kenyan nationality
7.Preferred Characteristics: (Applicants SHOULD have 1 or more of these)
2 or more years of work experience with NGOs
Deep understanding of the Kenyan security environment and its historical context
Experience in high quality report production
Demonstrated capacity to work with minimal supervision and maintain a high level of engagement
Staff management experience
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Deputy Safety Adviser
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Accountant Driver
Job Purpose
Establishing and managing the company’s finance function, and all associated tasks and activities pertaining, but not limited to: budgeting, accurate accounting, effective implementation of controls across the company, strong cash management and cash forecasting, oversight of all statutory, governance tax and licensing matters, and all inventory payroll management and bank reconciliations.
Principal Accountabilities for the Accountant Job
In charge of VAT calculations and remittance
Daily bank reconciliation (Excel)
Preparing and remitting of Statutory deductions
Controlling credit and debt collection
Reconciling finance accounts and direct debits
Posting petty cash in QuickBooks
Receive and process all purchase orders, invoices, and request for payments.
Cash withdrawals and supplier’s postings
Perform daily, weekly and monthly reconciliations
Preparation of management accounts and other financial reports on a monthly basis.
Payroll management and issuing pay slips to employees
Provide accounting technical support and advice on management
Receiving and placing payment requests for cash and cheques transactions, ensuring that they have proper documentation, facilitates authorization and approval.
Maintaining the financial records, making payments, maintaining reconciled petty cash and bank accounts and producing basic financial reports as necessary.
Prepare bank reconciliations on a monthly basis and month end closure processes
Qualifications for the Accountant Job
Excellent communicator and presentable
Accuracy and keen to details
Must be proficient in using Quick books accounting software package
Degree/Diploma in Management, Accounting or any related other related field with at least CPA II
Must have strong analytical and communication skills
Must be a team player and proactive to learn.
Must be honest and of high integrity.
Must be able to work under pressure with strict deadlines and with minimal or no supervision.
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General Sales Trade Manager
He/she will be responsible to provide the company with increased sales productivity, meet revenue and cash collection targets, improve brand visibility, lead the sales team and manage tradition accounts relationships. He/she must have a minimum of 5 years experience working in a similar capacity, managing a sales team. FMCG experience IS A MUST.
Key Responsibilities:
• Drive, integrate and support all tradition trade strategy and its execution.• Achieve increase in coverage (increase in terms of the number of outlets and accounts).• Monitor sales in the market to ensure targets and objectives are met.• Ensure optimal availability of products over a long and short term.• Ensure Route to Market & Territory Management optimization.• Manage Allocation of Customer Trade Spend and debtors’ book.• Ensure cash collection as per agreed on terms with customers.• Compute, prepare and authorize credit and debit notes as required.• Implement and control pricing in all channels, inside and outside of promotional periods.• Drive and ensure strong in-store visibility and merchandising.• Develop and manage operational field sales force.• Liaise with corporate clients, build and develop working business relationships.• Prepare regular reports and analysis on key account activities.• Responsible for Dynamic Forecasting and Demand Planning.
Qualification:
• Bachelor degree from a recognised University in Business or Sales & Marketing.• MUST Have 5– 7 years of experience in sales of FMCG products.• Willingness to travel and work out of the office.• Proven ability to achieve sales quotas.• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.• Strong understanding of customer and market dynamics and requirements. -
Senior Business Development Manager, Consumer Finance Lead Videographer – Marketing Business Development Manager Associate Business Development Freelance Graphic Designers
The Role: We are looking for an entrepreneurial sales and marketing leader to join our fast-growing global sales team. The Senior Business Development Manager will be responsible for expanding Greenlight’s reach in Sub-Saharan African through large, strategic partnerships with financial services businesses. Key responsibilities for the role include prospecting, closing, and launching partnerships with banks, MFIs and consumer finance organizations to drive substantial growth of its portfolio.
Responsibilities for the role include:
Identifying and engaging suitable bank, microfinance and consumer finance channel partners
Understanding the nuanced operations and priorities of various banks, MFIs and consumer finance channels to effectively pitch the value of adding a business line centered around Greenlight’s range of Sun King solar home energy solutions to their core businesses.
Managing opportunities through prospecting and closing stages including: designing relevant partnership models to align with channel partners’ strategic priorities, crafting commercial and operational service models to enable scale and establishing new internal processes to serve consumer finance channels.
Transitioning newly established partnerships to Greenlight’s Account Management and Operations teams for ongoing sales and service.
Meeting aggressive sales and revenue targets
The ideal Sun King™ Senior Business Development Manager:
Has a college degree and at least 4-7 years of experience in commercial research, business development, lead generation and relationship management, preferably in a microfinance/ venture capital/ private equity/ private debt setting in sub-Saharan Africa.
Can understand the nuances of various channels’ operating models and create customized sales and service models.
Is a strong people-person, one that thrives off of the energy of navigating complex organizations and building relationships both within the organization and externally.
Can tell a great story, communicates clearly and can capture the interest and attention of 2, 20 or 200 people naturally.
Has a strong a record of meeting revenue targets and experience growing new business lines
Is entrepreneurial and excited about the opportunity to creatively build effective, non-traditional sales channels in a nascent product category
We are looking for someone that is excited about entrepreneurial sales and marketing to join our fast-growing global sales team. If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.
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Accountant – Naivasha Store keeper -Naivasha
The successful candidate MUST have experience in retail business.
Key Responsibilities:
• Prepare checks, banks’ letters, banks’ report and store receipts.• Prepare daily report, journal entries and biddings.• Prepare and follow up cash salesmen’s incentives.• Prepare weekly report, banks’ reconciliation and post purchase orders.• Follow up customers’ payments done directly in banks.• Follow up transfer from to warehouses.• Reconcile in/out movements, branches and warehouses.• Audit the journal, petty cash and cash box.• Audit banks’ charges and prepare banks’ charges report.
Qualifications:
• Must have a Degree in accounting, finance• Minimum 10 years’ work experience in accounting or finance department• Must have experience in the retail business.• Must be a CPA (K).• Ability to understand and apply current accounting guidelines.• Ability to conduct system and policy updates.• Ability and drive to work independently and solution oriented.• Ability to communicate effectively.
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Co-operatives Relationship Manager
Are you sales driven and passionate about business development?
If yes, The Co-operative Bank of Kenya “The Kingdom Bank” is the ideal place for you, here, you will find growth opportunities at every step of your career.
Reporting to the Head – Sacco Banking, the role holder will proactively manage Co-operative customers and grow business volumes by driving the Sacco Banking Proposition at the Eastern Region.
The Role holder will carry out deposit mobilization and also develop and oversee the execution of strategic account plans aimed at growing profitability through cross-selling the full range of Bank’s products and services.
The Role
Specifically, the successful jobholder will be required to:
Oversee the development and implementation of strategic initiatives for marketing and selling Bank products to Co-operative customers with a focus on growing business volumes, customer base growth, quality credit volumes and income.
Develop and implement initiatives for maintaining strong relationships with existing customers as well as develop new relationships that will add to the Portfolio of customers and raise profitability. Offer advice to customers on best business practices as well as implement client account plans in order to optimize returns from each client.
Develop and maintain regular structured customer contact through visits, follow-up and ensure action on issues derived from customer visits, ensure prompt resolution to all other customer issues/ complaints/ queries raised as well as attend [and participate where necessary] in customer Education Days and Annual General Meetings.
Effectively and proactively manage the cost of funds by mobilizing deposits from Co-operatives customers as well as developing and implementing initiatives that bring down the cost of doing business within the department.
Spearhead the development of products, solutions and services that are tailored to meet Co-operatives customer needs and requirements.
Ensure quality credit appraisals that result in disbursements and ensure compliance to credit procedures and processes as well as all other business guidelines.
Skills, Competencies and Experience
The successful candidate will be required to have the following skills and competencies:
A Bachelor’s degree in a business related field with at least 3 years’ experience in credit/relationship management role with in-depth knowledge and understanding of the Co-operative movement.
Must have worked in a team oriented environment and with good relationship management and business development skills.
Excellent planning and organization skills as well as excellent communication with the ability to set and meet stretch targets and deadlines.
Result driven with a track record of demonstrable networking, selling and influencing skills as well as ability to identify new opportunities.
Demonstrate solid awareness in operational risk and quality while driving service excellence.
Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build long term, high quality and trusted relationships. -
Laboratory Technologist Pharmaceutical Technologist Health Records Officer Laboratory Technologist
Job Details
Requirements:• Qualified with diploma in medical laboratory. • Two years’ experience. All certificates, transcripts. leaving certificates and a letter from a religious leader.
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Supply Chain Manager
The successful candidate MUST be a well-rounded with relevant experiences in a manufacturing company. The role requires someone with excellent experience in ensuring all suppliers and manufacturers are maintaining the desired quality of production and that both camps are engaged in ethical business practices.
Key Responsibilities:
• Be responsible for logistics, vendor relations, supply & demand forecasting.• Identify, develop & implement new solutions.• Coordinate strategic sourcing, planning and logistics activities for the business.• Facilitate activities with engineering and other departments.• Lead team in negotiating with vendors.• Lead supply chain in identifying risk mitigation requirements.• Facilitates organisation to mitigate risk.
Qualification:
• Must have manufacturing / engineering experiences.• Must have relevant education qualification.• Previous experiences dealing with suppliers in china is a distinct advantage.• Excellent ERP experiences.• Must have a minimum of 4 years in top management.• Must be detailed oriented, problem solver and excellent communication skills. -
Intern-Media Department
OVERVIEW & OBJECTIVE
Reinforce Andela’s brand in the US and Africa through engaging photos and videos assets
Support demand generation efforts that increase engagement and the speed of trust transfer to our audience
Work directly with the Nairobi Media Associate, to support projects across multiple departments including recruitment and in-country operations
QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS
Intermediate photography and videography skills. A photos/videos portfolio showing earlier works to where you are now.
An understanding of composition, sound, editing and storytelling
Experience with:
Adobe Premiere, Illustrator, Lightroom & Photoshop. Adobe InDesign is an added advantage
Sound editing and video production
Strong communication skills
The ability to meet deadlines and manage expectations in a high-pressure environment
Solid organizational skills to support the rest of the team
The willingness to listen to feedback and use it to continually improve
RESPONSIBILITIES
Setting up locations, capture and edit photos/videos to engage both recruitment & lead gen audiences across all mediums
Work with the media associate to create designs to be used for web and print & update and Nairobi Media Archives
Prepare assets for the organization newsletter
Ensure 100% brand consistency across work output
Support the team throughout the execution of campaigns
Benefits
Full compensation
Breakfast and Lunch provided daily
Beautiful working environment
Opportunity to work with the brightest minds on the planet
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Technical Business Analyst
You are brilliant, you drive results in a big way and you get things done. You are self-driven and have great follow-through. You have cultivated your technical and soft skills and established a respect for business analysis, software development and the importance of data in informing business decisions. You are highly analytical with a keen interest in Technical Business Analysis. Does this sound like you? If yes, then look no further; Co-operative Bank of Kenya, “The Kingdom Bank” is the ideal place for you, here, you will find growth opportunities at every step of your career.
We have an exciting opportunity for Technical Business Analyst to join our Business Change Management team, responsible for IT planning and Business/Process Analysis & Design. Reporting to the Head – Business Change Management, the role holder will be responsible for providing detailed functional & technical analysis of business requirements as well as providing IT solutions approach by building software and integration specifications to ensure they are in line with the enterprise architectural plan in collaboration with enterprise architects, application architects and data architects. The role holder will be charged with responsibility of providing input to the strategic direction of technology investments to assist in the development of the enterprise architecture and maximize return on technology investment.
The Role
Specifically, the successful jobholder will be required to:
Solution Analysis: Uses appropriate tools, including logical models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the development of systems specifications. Produces detailed component specifications and translates these into detailed designs for implementation. Identify major business-related dependencies that affect the delivery of the proposed IT system. Provides advice on technical aspects of system development and integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and ensures that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied correctly.
System Design: Specify and designs large or complex systems. Select appropriate design standards, methods and tools, consistent with agreed enterprise and solution architectures and ensures they are applied effectively. Evaluate and undertake impact analysis on major design options and assess and manage associated risks.
Analyze business processes; identify alternative solutions, assesses feasibility, and recommends new approaches. Contribute to evaluating the factors which must be addressed in the change program. Help establish requirements for the implementation of changes in the systems and business process.
Provide support to users and coordinate with IT staff to help review and provide input to the design of the IT system from the business perspective, resolve issues/conflicts among stakeholders, help organize comprehensive and quality UAT through assisting users in developing test cases, and help organize training with the aim of ensuring the deployed IT system is capable of meeting business needs and requirements as well as realizing the anticipated benefits.
Assist users and Business Process Analyst in identifying business problems, needs and functions, understand stakeholders’ concerns and requirements identify improvement opportunities, and contribute business input for developing the business case for the IT system development project.
Plan the scope, schedule and approach for performing the activities related to business analysis for the IT system development project, monitor the progress, coordinate with the Internal PM and report to Project Assurance Team or Project Steering Committee on changes, risks and issues wherever appropriate.
Maintains an in-depth knowledge of specific technical specialism, and provides expert advice regarding their application. Can supervise specialist technical consultancy. The specialism can be any aspect of information or communication technology, technique, method, and product or application area.
Skills, Competencies and Experience
The successful candidate will be required to have the following skills and competencies:
BSC in Computer Science, Information Technology and/or related fields as well as Project management or Business analysis professional training.
At least 5 years overall experience in a busy IT environment encompassing at least 2 years’ professional experience in software development and at least 1 year in business analysis and/or project management.
Solid grasp of design patterns and principles, particularly Object-Oriented Design (OOD), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA).
Excellent software development skills – Java, Spring framework, JBoss, Websphere Application Server, C#, Oracle databases, SQL server, DevOps, SOA/ESB, Cloud based solutions, Android, REST, XML/RPC, CORBA, PHP, Python, Business process management (BPM) & Business Rules Management (BRM).
Experience on systems like Mobile money transfer, USSD/SMS, ERP, CRM, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and other systems in a financial services ecosystem will be an added advantage.
A wild duck – out of the box thinker, Logical, analytical and investigative mind, as well as creative abilities with high level of mathematical aptitude and strong problem-solving skills.
Entrepreneurial flair with strong business acumen and excellent communication skills. Is influencing and results-oriented.