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  • Site Service Sourcing Category Manager Lead

    Site Service Sourcing Category Manager Lead

    Job Description
    Date: Oct 20, 2018
    Job Summary:
    We are now looking for a Site Services Sourcing Category Lead (Networks and Managed Service) – within the Networks sourcing MMEA organization. In this role, your contributions will be to develop, and implement Category Strategy, Sourcing strategy and methodologies, Business and supplier engagement models, Cost Reduction Targets and Key performance indicators (KPIs), maximizing supplier value, proactively managing business risks and contributing to the creation of value for the Customer and secure a Category Supplier base that supports Ericsson Service Area business model and service needs. By doing so, you are in charge of steering business awards to PSL suppliers, regulate risk, cost and demands, whilst securing quality and compliance.
    Responsibilities:

    You will develop, implement and drive Category Strategy for the category
    Administer supplier base and supplier classification
    Create cost effective category solutions and business models for the category
    You will optimize Site Services category performance
    You will identify and Perform business intelligence and benchmark for the category
    You will drive competence management of the SSM team
    Conduct resource management and distribute work load to SSMs
    And you will ensure execution of KSA Sourcing Category Plan
    You will define Supplier targets and critical metrics 

    Key Qualifications:

    Education: A first academic degree or equivalent qualification. (An MBA is a plus) 
    Min 3-5 years of sourcing experience and / or extensive experience negotiation telecom projects with subcontractors.
    Domain experience: Networks and Managed Service
    Sourcing Practice in negotiations, Methodology, Process & Strategy Knowledge
    Change & Improvement Management Skills
    Commercial Acumen & Skills
    Relating & Networking
    Financial Acumen & Skills
    Coaching & Mentoring Skills
    Knowledge Sharing & Collaboration Skills

    Why is Ericsson a great place to work?
    Ericsson enables communications service providers to capture the full value of connectivity. The company’s portfolio spans Networks, Digital Services, Managed Services, and Emerging Business and is designed to help our customers go digital, increase efficiency, find new revenue streams, and create new user experiences. Ericsson’s investments in innovation have delivered the benefits of telephony and mobile broadband to billions of people around the world ensuring our solutions – and our customers – are at the forefront of innovation.   We support networks that connect more than 2.5 billion subscribers. With over 100,000 employees and customers in 180 countries, we combine global scale with technology and service leadership.  40 percent of the world’s mobile traffic is carried over an Ericsson network.  And, our Technology for Good and Connect to Learn programs include creating technology that makes it easier to save lives, feed societies, bring technology to emerging markets and connectivity to remote areas, and grow businesses and prosperity.
    At Ericsson, we give our employees the freedom to think big and navigate their career, on a global scale.  We create technology that helps others, from helping people enjoy their favorite content to helping people recover from natural disasters by enabling better communications between rescue workers. Your ideas and innovations can turn into achievements that impact society and change the world, creating new connections, new possibilities, and new capabilities.  We find that Ericsson is at its best when we bring together the diverse skills of our people. Working across business areas, across cultures, across geographical borders, across technical disciplines. often, across ground-breaking solutions. Next generation technology can be staggeringly complex. But the simpler it is to use; the more people benefit from it. Join us and help build technology that makes it simple to connect with information, business, societies, and each other.

  • Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Officer (Grants Proposals) Business Development Director Director of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

    Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Officer (Grants Proposals) Business Development Director Director of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

    Reference: Amref/MEL/2018-01
    Reporting to: Director, Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning
    Department: Global MEL Department, Chief Programmes Officer’s office
    Physical location: Amref Health Africa, Headquarters
    The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Unit is part of the programme section and provides oversight, systems, support and advice to the organisation on all MEL matters in line with the organisation’s vision, mission and strategic priorities and in a manner consistent with its values.
    Job Purpose: As a member of the Global MEL team, the MEL Officer, Grants Proposals will ensure that monitoring, evaluation and learning is properly addressed during proposal design in line with Amref’s strategy and best practices.
    Key Responsibilities
    Proposal development:

    Lead the development of the MEL section of grant proposals
    Provide guidance on development of indicators for proposals.
    Support the harmonization of indicators used by Amref and donors.
    Develop a MEL checklist for proposal development and facilitate the systematic application during the development of grant proposals.
    Lead the development of Results Frameworks and Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Reporting Plans for grant proposals.
    Review proposals to ensure that all aspects of MEL issues are adequately addressed.

    Technical support:

    Advise and support Country Offices in the use of AIMS (Amref Information Management System) for grant monitoring and reporting.
    Together with the global MEL team Provide assistance to MEL and programme staff in developing indicators, result frameworks (including logical frameworks and Theory of Change), evaluation designs and data analysis.

    Organisational capability:

    Avail analytical data on Amref Health Africa’s projects for capability statements.
    Participate in finalizing past-performance references.

    Budget responsibility:

    Lead the development of the MEL component in the budget of grant proposals.
    Participate in the development of the MEL and BD budget at HQ.

    Capacity development:

    Build the capacity of BD staff on MEL considerations for proposals.
    Exchange with MEL staff the latest developments in business development.

    Skills and Competencies
    Essential:

    Excellent skills in the formulation of indicators, targets, Results Frameworks and Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Reporting Plans.
    Good insight in budget requirements and costing for MEL.
    Ability to train on-the-job fellow colleagues on MEL for proposals.
    Strong analytical skills.
    Good team player with excellent communication skills.
    Pragmatic in approach.
    Strong writing skills.
    Experience in analysing data using a range of statistical software packages like SPSS and EPI Info.
    Excellent skills in all relevant Microsoft Office packages.
    Fluent in English (spoken and written).

    Desirable:

    Proficiency in French.

    Academic Requirements:

    Bachelor’s degree in public health, social sciences, geography, monitoring & evaluation or similar.
    Master’s degree is an added advantage.

    Work Experience:

    A minimum of 5 years of experience in MEL in development settings.
    A minimum of 3 years of demonstrated experience in the development of results frameworks and Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Reporting Plans.
    Strong experience in MEL requirements of various donors.
    Experience in operations research.

    Desirable:

    A minimum of 3 years of experience in working with an INGO.

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  • Accounts Executive / Assistant

    Accounts Executive / Assistant

    Job Description

    Duties and Responsibilities

    Receiving monies from internal and external customers is acknowledged and accounted for by issuance of and official receipt;
    Ensuring safe custody of all Cash, Cheque and Cash equivalent through instant banking and lockable safe so as to safeguard company revenue;
    Ensuring submission of monthly Reports by generating accounts receivables and expenditure analysis to facilitate decision making;
    Preparing payment vouchers and schedules to ensure that suppliers and service providers are paid and statutory deductions are executed accordingly;
    Updating the accounts books to ensure payments are within budget;
    Managing the imprest register to ensure that there is cash flow for smooth daily operations;
    Ensuring safe custody of all accountable documents through lockable safes to avoid fraud through manipulation of old records;
    Liaising between the company and its official bankers through transacting on behalf of the company to limit access to the company’s accounts;
    Preparing and submitting statutory deductions so as to avoid penalties from non-remittance and late remittance of the same and comply with statutory obligation; and
    Entering data in the accounting system.

    Skills and Qualifications

    Degree or Diploma in Accounting
    Semi- qualified CPA / ACCA / Accounts graduate with good accounting and costing skills
    Experience of 3-5 years – hardcore experience in Accounts department – with multitasking skills
    knowledge of – Tally, Sage / SAP Business – desirable, Knowledge of MS Excel & Word mandatory
    Self-starter with initiative
    Inclination to take up position of Accounts Officer level in next 2 to 3 years
    Knowledge of VAT / WHT filing of returns and accounting mandatory
    Ability to work independently
    Good communication skills

  • Reinsurance Executive Senior Account Executive Senior IT Business Development Executive Showroom Sales Executives HR Officer Senior Strategy Officer (SSO)

    Reinsurance Executive Senior Account Executive Senior IT Business Development Executive Showroom Sales Executives HR Officer Senior Strategy Officer (SSO)

    Our client is an international boutique Insurance broker offering specialized, international insurance solutions. They desire to hire an experienced and a highly talented professional in the capacity of Reinsurance Executive. The Executive shall ensure timely and accurate administration and processing of reinsurance applications, endorsements and cancellations.  Process applications for, changes to, reinstatement of, and cancellation of reinsurance covers.
     Job Responsibilities:
    The Executive’s duties, which may be varied from time to time, will include amongst other responsibilities that arise during the day to day business of the Company:

    Efficient delivery of all client facing transactional service activities
    Pro-actively assisting in the day to day running of client’s risk and insurance programs ensuring that this meets the required quality levels in accordance with the agreements with clients
    Preparation of quote requests/risk notes/ renewal submission where appropriate
    Timely issuance of invoices and delivery to clients
    Timely collection of premiums from clients and an active management of the debtor’s book
    Delivering the co-ordination of global service, where appropriate, in conjunction with our international partners
    Contributing pro-actively to client satisfaction, retention and profitability
    Adherence to business processes, systems and procedures (including usage of electronic applications e.g. Navision, Outlook etc. as necessary)
    Being aware of regulatory requirements and comply with them at all times
    Responsible for working in accordance with the company’s internal compliance and risk management framework to protect the interests or reputation of the company at all times.

    Qualifications

    3 – 5 years in similar capacity with a reputable company
    Degree in Economics, Actuarial or any other relevant degree
    Experience handling International Insurance solutions across multiple continents will be an advantage.
    ACII professional qualifications will be an added advantage
    Proven record in meeting targets in a competitive environment
    Excellent communication and presentation skills.

    Deadline: 15th October 2018

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  • County Executive Officer

    County Executive Officer

    Job Responsibilities:

    Establish and maintain effective and positive relationships with Board members, stakeholders, clients, customers, suppliers, development partners and other government and business liaisons;
    Support the Board of Directors in developing short, medium and long-term corporate strategies and planning to achieve the organization’s vision and overall business objectives;
    Recommend policies to the Board in relation to a range of organizational issues including delegations of authority, consultancies and performance incentives and formulation and implementation of all growth strategies.
    Responsible for the management, development and maintenance of high performance team by providing transformative leadership and effective supervision and guidance
    Ensure compliance with the Memorandum and Articles of Association and all statutory, legal and regulatory compliance and comply with corporate policies and standards; and regulatory requirements of the Chamber and be able to propose changes to the Board.
    Cause to develop and provide high quality products and efficient services which are value-adding to members
    Provide support to the Board of Directors by organizing all Board and Sub Committee meetings, Annual and Extra-Ordinary General Meetings as and when required
    Advise the Board regarding the most effective organizational structure and oversee its implementation;
    Build and develop high and motivated team of employees through embedding performance development and couching through identification of staff training needs and enshrine them in the training and education programmes of the Association.
    Cause to prepare annual leave roaster for employees and coordinate the implementation so that the operations are executed smoothly
    Cause to ensure that the Chamber ICT systems are well designed in a risk-free manner to meet dynamic business requirements and relevant reports are maintained.
    Cause to ensure correctness of books of accounts, receipts and disbursements are maintained.
    Ensure safe custody of all funds and property belonging to the Chamber and ensure their safe keeping.
    Responsible for the Chamber financial planning, forecasting and budgeting in accordance with internationally accepted accounting & financial reporting standards
    Responsible for preparation of accounting reports for audit
    Provide support to all functional areas to enable Chamber goals, ensure planning and analysis of financial statements
    Cause to prepare monthly, quarterly reports on performance of the entire Chamber Key Result Areas [KRA] to the board and advise accordingly
    Ensure appropriate risk management practices and policies are in place;
    Keep minutes of all Committee, General meetings and meetings of the Board of Directors
    Make a financial report at the Annual General Meeting of the Chamber. Cause books of accounts to be audited.

    Requirements

    A bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, International Relations, Law or related field. A Master’s degree holder will have added advantage
    3-5 years’ experience in undertaking trade related activities
    Demonstrable understanding of business environment issues, policies & initiatives
    Passion/interest in economy and business sector issues
    Demonstrated familiarity with the County legal and policy framework related to business issues, economy, policies and government initiatives
    Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate and work collaboratively with stakeholders.
    Exhibit a total commitment to maintaining high quality service standards of KNCCI; demonstrate service excellence skills in dealing proactively with members and all KNCCI contacts.

  • Grants Finance Associate/Manager

    Grants Finance Associate/Manager

    Job Description
    We are seeking exceptional individuals to support our future fundraising objectives by leading our grant finance management and compliance function, working closely with both finance and business development leadership.
    This position could be hired at two different levels depending on experience and interview performance:
    Key Responsibilities Include
    The Grants Finance Associate will take ownership of grants finance execution. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of work experience in a corporate finance or grants finance role, with significant exposure to financial or grant budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes and deliverables.
    Design and own budgets for a >$50m grant portfolio: Develop tailored grant budgets for new funding proposals to fuel our ambitious targets. Prepare detailed budget narratives on current and future field strategy, based on a strong foundation of cross-country program knowledge.Manage grant maintenance through strong grant reporting and compliance: Combine strong analytical reporting and field context to create comprehensive grant reports for existing donors, from private foundations to bilateral organizations. Collaborate with finance leads in all countries of operation to prepare budget vs actual (BVA) reports, and ensure the responsible spend-down of all restricted grants.Innovate Grant finance policies, systems, and tool building: Drive continual improvement in our policies and processes through the pursuit of industry standards and technical innovation. Collaborate with internal stakeholders to build, update, and automate systems, tools, and templates to meet organization and donor need and minimize compliance risk.
    Additional Responsibilities Include

    The Grants Finance Manager will lead our grants finance function, overseeing the associate and execution while also driving strategy and communication with key stakeholders in Business Development and Finance. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience managing budget proposals and reports for large, multi-year grants for foundations and bilaterals, within a large, international NGO.
    Manage and innovate Grants Finance function: Oversee the workflow across reporting team with excellent execution of Grants Finance deliverables. Review and improve our current tools, systems, and strategy.
    Facilitate cross-department collaboration: Act as the key channel of communication between Business Development, Finance, country leadership, and external donors. Develop the systems and channels needed to facilitate this seamless collaboration.
    Advise and support strategic decision-making: Work closely with Business Development leadership and staff, to advise on investment priorities and fundraising ‘headroom’, and to manage and troubleshoot budget compliance challenges. Provide ongoing training and support to the Business Development team, to build financial fluency of all team members.

    Qualifications
    We are looking for extraordinary professionals who will help take One Acre Fund to the next levels of fundraising. Candidates who fit the following criteria are strongly encouraged to apply:
    Minimum Criteria

    3-5+ years of work experience in corporate or grants finance. Experience within foundations and donor institutions will also be considered.
    Experience managing large portfolio of grants, with individual budgets exceeding $1M, across complex government and private funding. Fluency in the grant management cycle, from budget development to close-out.
    Strength in developing or improving processes—both human and systems—that improve efficiency or execution.
    Familiarity with SAP and/or Salesforce a plus.
    Strong demonstrated leadership, management, and project experience, within and across teams.
    Ability to communicate in a logical and structured way with leadership and staff at all levels, representing varying backgrounds of financial expertise.
    Outstanding interpersonal skills, including both verbal and written communications.
    Willingness to travel (may be requested up to 10% of the time.)
    Language: English required.

    Career Growth and Development
    One Acre Fund invests in building management and leadership skills. Your manager will invest significant time in your career development. We provide constant, actionable feedback delivered through mentorship and through regular management consulting-style career reviews. We also have regular one-on-one meetings, where we listen to and discuss career goals, and work collaboratively to craft roles that each person can be passionate about. Because of our rapid growth, we constantly have new high-level roles opening up and opportunities in many functions. This results in fast career growth for our staff.
    Preferred Start Date
    As soon as possible.
    Compensation
    Commensurate with experience.
    Benefits
    Health insurance, housing stipend, annual flights and other quality of life benefits.
    Sponsor International Candidates
    No.

  • Head of Mobile Banking Showroom Sales and Customer care

    Head of Mobile Banking Showroom Sales and Customer care

    Sheer Logic Management Consultants is seeking to engage dynamic individuals for Head of Mobile Banking  Position for one of our clients
    Responsibilities

    Keep abreast with current and emerging trends in the industry proactively researching and investigating products and services suitable for the local market,
    Collaborate with sales, marketing, technical operations, business development, finance and other divisions to determine competitiveness of the services and to innovate them
    Working closely with compliance and technical teams to ensure product is within given regulation and respective USSD is at 100% up time for use by customers
    Work with pricing manager to ensure that the product price is in line with the intended business case for profitability.
    Coordinate commercial negotiations with vendors involved in product provision and manage agreement life cycle.
    Liaise with finance to negotiate pricing or revenue share with approved vendors
    Monitor performance of service to identify key trends that can be used to drive improved performance and results
    Working closely with key stakeholders to understand business requirements and expectations, coordinate with relevant internal functions for the product features, product concepts documentation, development, integration, quality assurance, testing and launch.
    Work together with IT to configure and deliver the Services on Money systems,
    Ensure services meet Customer requirements and are within given deadlines, with the required 3rd line support for after sales service
    Coordinate cross functional internal and external user acceptance tests for new enhancements and attain sign off for the same.
    Liaise with marketing to develop and implement a company-wide go to market plan, working with all departments to execute.
    Track and monitor performance of shared services sections to ensure merchant issues are resolved within given SLAs with internal functions
    Proactively gain feedback from market to ensure innovation of new products/services or improvement in the experience on the platform
    Provide required performance and operations reports as input to the money weekly, monthly report, including roadmaps and performance against target dates.
    Build relationships with key industry vendors to gain feedback on how to improve current product/service
    Provide day-to-day coaching to sales and support teams on the products; and contact quarterly performance reviews.
    Guide designated team leads in overall process of product execution

    Job Qualifications

    Bachelors in Marketing, Finance, Business, Commerce Administration or Equivalent
    Professional qualification: PRINCE 2 or PMP Certification
    3-5 years relevant experience in a management role within a financial services, having being exposed to all disciplines.
    Mobile Money product experience preferred

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  • Programme Officer

    Programme Officer

    Job Description

    Summary roles and responsibilities:

    The MNCH/FP Programme Officer, working under the guidance of the overall MNCH/FP lead will be responsible for implementing a range of RMNCH/FP strategies within the designated County health facilities in Nairobi under the USAID-funded Afya Jijini project.
    The MNCH, FP PO will provide technical support to the project activities to scale up quality Basic and Emergency obstetric and neonatal care (BEmONC and EmONC) in the county.
    S/he will be responsible for supporting the RMNCH TWG, and relevant quality improvement structures at both Sub county and facility level including Work Improvement Teams. S/He will strengthen the MPDSR committees to ensure that all maternal deaths and near misses including cases of obstetrics fistulas, emergency hysterectomies due to PPH from labor complications etc. have been documented and audited within 24-48 hours of occurrence.
    Further s/he will support the scale up of family planning services in the sub-county health facilities with a focus on availing choices at every supported facility.
    Working with the community engagement, the Programme Officer will develop innovative community level models that support uptake of FP, early ANC attendance and retention to 4th ANC, and finally increased facility based deliveries, aggressive MNCH approaches in informal settlement with high perinatal deaths.
    The PO will represent Afya Jijini project in relevant sub county and facility technical meetings. Working with the TB/HIV specialist and cluster leads s/he will support RH/HIV integration in the supported facilities.
    The PO will also be tasked with building the technical capacity of facility based health Care workers in RMNCH/FP, Preparing biweekly, monthly and semiannual and annual project reports to contribute the consolidated AFYA Jijini project reports.

    Essential (or desirable) skills, qualifications and experience

    Nursing /medical qualification (Diploma or Degree)
    At least 3-5 years’ experience in successful field implementation of RH/FP programs in Kenya.
    Demonstrable skills in rolling out GoK-endorsed approaches that result in improved uptake of services for, reproductive health, maternal health and family planning.
    Experience conducting training and capacity building related to data quality, data dissemination and information use, and other M&E related issues for health facility staff is critical.
    Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform; ability to manage several major multidimensional activities simultaneously.
    Experience working on U.S. government (PEPFAR) or other large donor-funded projects preferred.
    Proficient with Microsoft Office applications (Word, advanced Excel, and PowerPoint).
    Strong writing skills, including writing of reports.

  • Principal Officer Network Distribution & Operations Acquisition Manager – Home Channel

    Principal Officer Network Distribution & Operations Acquisition Manager – Home Channel

    Job Description
    Role purpose:
    Reporting to the Senior Manager – Distribution & Customer Fulfillment, the position holder will manage the Company’s Revenue Stream to meet company objectives by ensuring timely planning, processing and delivery of stock transfers, ensuring stock availability (nil out of stocks) across the distribution network, planning user training to ensure effective use of ERP systems, pursuing customer delight and reporting of Key Performance Indicators as per the supply chain metrics.
    Key accountability and decision ownership:

    Planning for stock transfers across all network distribution centers and ensure 100% stock availability (nil stock-outs)
    Manage load and route plans for retail and dealer transfer orders to optimize on delivery cost and resource utilization
    Carry out mini-store stock reconciliations to mitigate stock loss during transit, manage obsolescence and stock ageing
    Analyze monthly distribution costs against orders delivered, process payments and provide key cost statistics to support decision making by senior management
    Plan and carry out perpetual performance evaluations for dealer managed stores and identify opportunities for improvement
    Plan and train mini-store management staff on order processing, inventory, risk management and customer service to achieve set customer satisfaction levels
    Plan, develop and implement new mini-stores in consultation with regional stakeholders to boost product availability in the market and reduce order to cash cycle
    Initiate, develop, review and maintain sustainable stock transfer policies and standard operating procedures for compliant operations
    Collate data, analyse and generate accurate reports in accordance with the Supply Chain metrics.

    Qualifications
    Job Requirements

    Degree in a business discipline
    5 years working experience in a stock management environment, of which 3 years should be in Supervisory Role in a Distribution & Customer Fulfillment Environment
    Knowledge / Certification in supply chain professional course will be an added advantage
    Excellent knowledge of Safaricom products and services
    Excellent knowledge of Distribution & Customer Fulfillment and procedures
    Excellent written and verbal communication skills (articulate) coupled with good listening and critical reasoning skills
    Proactive, confident, energetic and able to work under pressure with a positive attitude and use good organization skills
    Mentoring/coaching skills/experience
    Excellent interpersonal skills
    Good decision making skills
    Good communication and presentation (oral and written) skills
    Experience in telecom, financial services or similar industries
    Analytics experience in one or more of these areas: End to end Reconciliation and trending of outcomes, Inventory Management, Sales Planning and forecasting, Post events and launch Impacts analysis, customer care resolution and tracking, etc.

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