Saturday, 1 December 2018

AAA Growers Job Vacancy : Supervisor

  • To be incharge of 1.5ha to 2Ha of roses
  • To execute the farm’s roses prediction program and ensure that predictions are within + or – 5% variance with the actual production.
  • To supervise crop establishment operations and all other cultural practices.
  • To ensure proper crop management and cut point management.
  • To ensure that each plant has a good foliage to support new growth in terms of nipping weak and short stems or good establishment of bending. It is important that the plant is never left naked.
  • To drive and supervise production of high quality roses in order to meet or exceed the set weekly/monthly/yearly budget.
  • To ensure that crop is well protected against pests and diseases by reporting pests and diseases problems in time to your senior supervisor, Assistant Production manager or the Farm Manager.
  • To ensure that crop is properly irrigated and fertigated by following up with the irrigation manager. Report incidences of dry beds/bays or greenhouses to the irrigation manager for immediate action or to the Assistant Production Manager.
  • To ensure that the greenhouses and areas around greenhouses are free of weeds and especially Oxalis which is a notifiable weed.
  • To ensure proper management of greenhouse curtains depending on weather conditions in order to avoid diseases and pests incidences.
  • To plan for labor and its allocations.
  • To ensure proper communication to employees working under you showing respect to the employees and ensuring that there is no use of abusive language while addressing employees.
  • To ensure that you follow the laid out company HR policies in addressing employees disciplinary matters.

Qualifications

  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Good organizational skills
  • Computer literacy
  • Form 4 education level certificate with a minimum grade C
  • Certificate or a diploma in any agricultural course will be an added advantage.
  • Leadership and Team Building skills
  • Good understanding of Pests and Diseases
  • Good communication and Interpersonal skills

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G4S Kenya Job Vacancy : Contract Manager

Reporting to the National Operations Manager , the Contract Manager will be responsible for the effective management of the contract financial performance.  Ensure effective and efficient management of resources and work processes that will ensure that all the contractual obligations to customer is achieved in a cost effective manner whilst the company prescribed procedures and standards are applied.

Responsibilities

Effective Management of the contract financial performance

  • Drive revenue growth by Identifying new business opportunities in the sphere of operations through an integrated security solutions approach
  • Ensure Organic growth in the contract
  • Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the competitor environment
  • Gross Margin Management
  • Implement cost saving controls
  • Ensure Labour efficiency controls
  • Ensure Overhead controls according to set targets
  • Achieve price increases and contract profitability according to set targets
  • Achieve existing revenue growth
  • Assist debt management

Efficient and effective operations management

  • Coordinate the provision of contractual and ad hoc security services
  • Ensure that resources are optimally deployed
  • Locate areas of improvement in the operations, eliminate waste and propose corrective actions that meet challenges and leverage growth opportunities
  • Reduce/ Eliminate incidents and customer claims by carrying out pre-deployment and continuous risk assessments
  • Ensure that operators within the contract are properly equipped to handle assignments

Effective people Management

  • Maintain excellent employee motivation , performance management and engagement
  • Ensure that no staff incidents occur, such as strikes, work stoppages, industrial action
  • Resolve disputes or disagreements promptly
  • Proper allocation of staffs to positions to fulfill contract requirements within the branch
  • Ensure appropriate level of employee training and development
  • Ensure adherence to G4S rules, regulations and  procedures by the operators

Ensure maintenance of customer service levels

  • Make  regular liaison and scheduled meetings with the customer
  • Address customer requests and complaints promptly
  • Ensure that all assignments in the branch have post instructions and emergency procedures
  • Properly investigate incidents and recommend preventive measures
  • Ensure that assignments within the contract are properly supervised
  • Ensure that the staff deployed within the branch are properly trained and equipped to undertake assignments

Ensure Health and safety at work

Qualifications

Knowledge and Qualifications

  • A degree in Business Management or other relevant qualification
  • Kenya market
  • Kenya legislation

Experience

  • Five years in operations dealing with people

Technical Skills

  • Financial acumen
  • Conflict Management
  • Negotiation
  • Microsoft Word – Intermediate level
  • Microsoft Excel – Intermediate level (Advance level are advantageous)
  • Microsoft PowerPoint – Basic level
  • Google suite of products

Behavioural Skills – Management

  • Awareness of the marketing environment
  • Delivering strategy
  • Driving change
  • Leading people
  • Delivering performance
  • Working with complexity
  • Managing professionally
  • Customer thinking
  • Collaborating and Co-operating

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Cellulant Corporation Job Vacancy : Data Engineer

  • Develop and support current and future Cellulant Enterprise Systems (e.g. Oracle Data Warehouse, Oracle Business intelligence, NetSuite ERP, TribeHR and eHorizon Payroll).
  • Work with other departments within the company to identify requirements and develop solutions (database design, scripts/ETL/ELT, workflows and user/data interfaces).
  • Configure and/or customize the Enterprise Systems to meet business requirements using various database and software tools.
  • Assist in presentations of system functionality to new users and departments.
  • Enhance and create user and system documentation as needed.

Reports To: Group Lead Enterprise Systems Analyst.

Responsibilities

Enterprise System Operations

  • Migrate all current standard and ad hoc transaction data scripts from HUB to the DWH considering the scripts’ functions and access rules.
  • Setup, maintain and modify reports/queries on an as-needed basis.
  • Periodically validate data and data scripts and critical reports in the Enterprise Systems to ensure data accuracy as the data applied has an impact on the integrity of the company.
  • Provide guidance to various analysis/reporting teams on the best data extraction/reporting practises (knowledge sharing).
  • Provide input in the design & implementation phases of various internal transaction processing Systems to ensure they adequately support transactional reporting requirements.
  • Design and develop front-end tier(s), middle tier(s), and /or back-end database tier(s) for business applications.
  • Map business information needs to the software and /or database components;
  • Perform data modelling to analyse and specify data structures within an application system;
  • Coding of all ETL and analytics processes used within the BI systems;
  • Provide input on design approach, performance and base functionality improvements for various procedures and applications
  • Create test plans, test data sets and perform automated testing to ensure all components of the developed systems meet specifications;
  • Formalize test plans and implement troubleshooting procedures;
  • Applying software patches as necessary;

Enterprise Systems Administration

  • Manage and support security implementations;
  • User administration in all Systems
  • Managing billing factors in NetSuite
  • Configuring scripts, triggers, schedules to meet user requirements in the various systems

Enterprise System Uptime

  • Continuous system monitoring to proactively identify and resolve any system issues.
  • Troubleshooting database connectivity issues;
  • Maintain/coordinate back-up and restore the ETL and reports repositories and other Systems binaries and source codes;
  • Work with the TechOps teams to resolve issues identified and escalated during daily operations;
  • Perform root-cause analysis for recurring incidents;

Qualifications

  • Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics or another technical-related field;
  • Oracle Certified Developer;
  • Certification in RDBMS;
  • 3 years development experience with development tools e.g. Java;
  • 3 years development experience with low level programming C++, C.;
  • 3 years’ experience RDMS preferably Oracle, MS SQL Server;
  • 3 years’ experience in data warehousing, business analysis, knowledge in Business Systems modelling and data retrieval;
  • Experience with Big Data Technologies (Hadoop, Hive, Hbase, Pig, Spark, etc.)
  • Python/R/Spark Data Mining experience will be an added advantage;
  • Systems Analysis and Solutions Architecting;
  • Programming and Systems Development;
  • SQL & Oracle database management;
  • Data Quality & Cleansing experience;
  • Advanced Unix scripting and user skills;
  • Experience in processes and procedures management;
  • Communication, interpersonal skills and attention to detail

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Cellulant Corporation Job Vacancy : Manager

TThe Service Assurance Manager will deliver an end to end view of service performance and customer experience across Cellulant services. Delivered through the agreement of service levels with customers, ensuring compliance and communicating performance to key stakeholders (internal and external). The role will instigate, develop and implement Service Improvement activity in the event of underperformance or in line with changing business requirements.

The service assurance manager is the single point of contact for escalation for service issues and they are responsible for follow through to resolution of end-user incidences. S/He will also be responsible for timely detection, resolution, escalation and communication as well as applying a problem management practice to mitigate against future recurrence. This includes follow-up and validation of service improvement mechanisms. The position holder is also responsible for the maintenance of a catalogue of all services provided to customers as well as reporting the status of the quality of service for each.

Reports To: Group Head of Service Assurance.

Responsibilities

Service management

  • Handle all daily service management issues including fully engaging with customers on service management issues
  • Provide an interface to service management on behalf of Banks and Merchants
  • Work with other internal teams to ensure that service issues receive prompt detection, escalation, resolution and communication.
  • Ensure accurate and fast incident management process is in place and is followed
  • Facilitate closure of level 2 escalations within the times stipulated within customer SLAs
  • Generate and share comprehensive incident reports for issues that occur within times stipulated within customer SLAs
  • Ensure a robust and clear change management process is in place and is adhered to.
  • Develop a view of customer experience and service performance and deliver this insight to shareholders and internally.
  • Understand business priority, ensure services are aligned to priority and translate and communicate priority (internally and externally).
  • Ensure delivery of new services, including service level requirements, measurement capabilities and agreement with shareholders and internal business areas.

Customer engagement

  • Ensure that all software released by the software team is deployed and that it operates correctly.
  • Co-ordinate the engagement with customers on matters around technology operations through proactive forums (such as regular service and change management discussions) and ensure that Cellulant’s perspectives are well represented and professional standards are maintained.
  • Facilitate scheduling and attendance of external service meetings with clients.
  • Track customer feedback to ensure issues raised during service meetings are closed and communicated to the clients.

Reporting

  • Ensure timely and constant generation of service reports for all customers as directed by your immediate supervisor
  • Facilitate internal review of reports

Knowledge Management

  • Ensure that all services are implemented and that they operate correctly.
  • Ensure that correct information is stored on the status of service, configuration and capabilities that have been availed to a customer.

Qualifications

  • 3 years of experience.
  • Confidence.
  • Customer Focus.
  • Excellent technical skills
  • Good numerical skills and an understanding of statistics
  • Leadership skills
  • Planning and organization skills
  • Communication and interpersonal skills
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Team Working skills

Key Performance Indicators

  • Consistent engagement of customers during business as usual and during service affecting incidents
  • Provision of timely support for speedy resolution of level 2 escalations
  • Provision of timely communication to all customer stakeholders regarding critical incidents or planned maintenance activities
  • Timely provision of Root Cause Analysis reports

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Cellulant Corporation Job Vacancy : SIP Engineering

The Hub SIP Engineer is responsible for supporting and maintaining Cellulant’s Hub that provides services to merchants and banks across 10 countries. The Hub SIP Engineer assists the Hub Manager who is responsible to senior management for the successful deployment Cellulant software releases onto production. This team member role is critical to the safety of the production environment and helps prevent the introduction of bad or untested code into production on which the organization’s internal and external Customers depend on. Hub SIP Engineer support the Hub Manager in the mission to continually lead, facilitate, and coordinate synchronized quality releases to maximize value delivered to Cellulant customers.

Responsibilities

Software Development

  • Identify and deliver service improvement across different markets. This will involve re-engineering existing software products to achieve high efficiency by eliminate bottlenecks and placing application logic fixes.
  • To actively monitor project risks to foresee/identify potential problems and proactively identify solutions to address in advance.
  • Advance and ensure applications meet continuous integration and deployment prerequisites for setup.

Software & Service Deployment

  • Ensure that all software released by the software team is deployed and that it operates correctly.
  • Ensure that all the relevant monitoring tools are deployed and setup for all services on Hub.
  • Ensure that the documentation of all deployments is developed and up to date.

Systems Management

  • Systems Utilization and Capacity Monitoring
  • Applications SLA tracking.
  • Analyse metrics of existing applications and enlist them on a service improvement track based on stipulated SLA.
  • Identify trends and process variations as part of establishing a continuous improvement monitoring system.
  • Ensure that services incidences that impact the business are identified, reported on and managed at all times.

Service Management

  • Ensure that all services are implemented and that they operate correctly.
  • Prepare System Uptime Reports for the service management meetings.
    Responsible for service improvement deliverables.
  • Respond to escalation from support team.
  • Post implementation reviews to ensure successful delivery and high performance has been achieved.

Systems troubleshooting & problem resolution

  • Application fault diagnosis
  • Problem resolution
  • Liaise with service providers for problem resolution

Quality Assurance

  • Provide feedback on test cases and test coverage to the quality assurance team.
  • Review code for potential performance issues, reusability, and/or anomalies.
  • Communicate best-practice on application development for delivery of better value.

System Documentation

  • Maintain Applications Inventory
  • Systems Architecture Diagrams
  • Maintain & Review Old documentations
  • Application configuration Documentation

Guidance and Mentoring

  • Participate in peer reviews
  • Arrange and execute training for other teams

Qualifications

  • Preferred: BSc. Computer Science/Software Engineering/IT;
  • Extensive experience with Java/PHP programming language;
  • Extensive experience with databases – database management, data structures, relational data models, Stored Procedures, PL/SQL;
  • Extensive experience of web technologies – XML, JavaScript;
  • Extensive experience of application monitoring tools- Grafana, Influx, Telegraf
  • Experience in creating bash scripts and text processing languages – Sed, AWK
  • Experience with application security technologies (e.g. SSL) to ensure secure applications;
  • Experience in software life-cycle development (SDLC);
  • Experience with management of Apache webserver.
  • Preferred experience with Apache Tomcat application server and SOA;
  • Preferred experience with Linux , Solaris or UNIX OS’s;
  • Candidate should have at least 3 years of experience in application development.
  • Candidate should have excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Candidate should have experience in high pressure environments/projects
  • Candidate should have good presentation skills
  • Candidate should have excellent report writing skills
  • Candidate should be a an excellent team player

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Cellulant Corporation Job Vacancy : iOS Developer

Reporting to the Product Lead – Core Platforms, The Sr. iOS Developer will be instrumental in the design, development and enhancement of innovative and robust iOS applications. The developer will participate in the entire app life-cycle from the research and concept stages through to delivery and post-launch support.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build applications for the iOS platform;
  • Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications;
  • Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features;
  • Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs;
  • Help maintain code quality and organization
  • Deliver scalable, robust, and simple software solutions to solve complex business problems
  • Implement new features and optimize existing ones to deliver maximum performance

Requirements 

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent from an accredited institution
  • 5+ years of software development experience
  • Experience developing iOS mobile applications using Objective-C/Swift.
  • Experience with iOS front-end/UI development (Apple Human Interface Guide), Web services & XML/JSON/REST connectivity/consumption, and local storage/databases/CoreData.
  • Experience using XCode and the iOS SDK and knowledge of the iOS developer ecosystem.
  • Experience in iOS development patterns – MVC, Delegates, APNS push notifications, Core Data, JSON/Rest APIs, and multi-threading/background tasks.
  • Solid experience with SVN/Git in a team environment
  • Demonstrated problem solving ability
  • Mastery of data types, algorithms, object oriented programming
  • Ability to work on multiple tasks and deliver results with aggressive timelines
  • Agile methodology experience
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to work with other teams
  • Strong understanding\experience of backend development (Java,PHP) a big plus

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Tala Job Vacancy : Automation Engineer

We’re looking for a QA Automation Engineer who happens to have a passion in testing and quality assurance. You will help plan, estimate, coordinate, and automate testing activities for our financial platform that is serving millions of users across the world. You will also work with product managers, developers, and customer service agents to ensure that quality issues and defects are appropriately identified, documented, tracked, and resolved.

About Tala

Tala is a mobile technology and data science company that is changing the way credit scoring and financial services work around the world. Tala’s smartphone app instantly evaluates customers for credit using only the data on their devices and delivers customized loans in minutes.

Tala, formerly known as InVenture, is backed by IVP, Ribbit Capital, Lowercase Capital, Data Collective, Collaborative Fund and other leading venture and impact investors. In 2016, Fast Company ranked Tala, formerly known as InVenture, as one of its top 10 companies in Money, and Forbes named Tala as one of the top 50 FinTech companies in the world. Tala is headquartered in Santa Monica with additional offices in Nairobi and Manila.

Responsibilities

  • Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases
  • Perform thorough regression/smoke tests before code deployments
  • Design, develop, and execute automated test harnesses around Android application and Backend APIs
  • Write scripts and perform load tests against Backend servers
  • Contribute to continuous integration and continuous deployment
  • Work with customer service, product, and development teams to identify and track bugs
  • Review requirements specifications and provide timely and meaningful feedback

Requirements

  • Experience – 4+ years experience in Software Engineering in Test role, deep knowledge of Automation
  • Detailed oriented – keen eye for details ranging from copy to pixels. Ability to communicate those details to others and translate to specs
  • Team player – enjoy working closely with engineers, product managers, and cross-functional teams
  • Initiative – highly motivated and self-disciplined. You can work independently and be productive
  • Startup ready – Excellent ability to prioritize and communication in a fast pace environment
  • Experience working in Agile development process (Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban)
  • Experience building test automation (Java, TestNG, Robolectric, Espresso, Appium, AWS Device Farm, Jenkins, Shell Scripting, Linux, Mac OS)
  • Java – 2+ years writing production Java code
  • Computer Science degree
  • Experience working closely with remote team members in different timezones

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Tala Job Vacancy : Engineering

We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to design and implement core components of our financial platform and scale it to serve millions of users across the world. The technical scope of the project is broad and calls for technical expertise across a wide range of problem domains.

About Tala

Tala is a mobile technology and data science company that is working to deliver financial access, choice and control to underserved people around the world. Tala’s smartphone app instantly evaluates customers for credit using only the data on their devices and delivers customized loans in minutes.

Tala, formerly known as InVenture, is backed by IVP, Ribbit Capital, Lowercase Capital, Data Collective, Collaborative Fund and other leading venture and impact investors. In 2016, Fast Company ranked Tala, formerly known as InVenture, as one of its top 10 companies in Money, and Forbes named Tala as one of the top 50 FinTech companies in the world. Additionally, Tala’s work has been highlighted by the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, TED, and Wired, among others.

Responsibilities

  • You will design and implement product features as defined in the roadmap
  • You will own and maintain substantial portions of the backend infrastructure
  • The opportunity to code using cutting-edge platforms and interact with our data science team
  • You will mentor and grow junior engineers on best practices and code efficiency

Qualifications

  • Detailed oriented – you are a proven developer who values clean and efficient code
  • Technology toolbox – you have all of the tools for development plus a few extras
  • Translator – you have experience working closely with product managers, cross-functional teams, and customers to translate requirements into technical design
  • Leader – you have the ability to keep pace with, and set pace for, your teammates. Able to learn and teach new technologies and solutions
  • Solutions Driven – experience thinking out loud to create the best solutions to complex, tricky problems, using the latest technical methodologies/processes
  • 4+ years experience working on backend software using modern languages and frameworks (Java, Scala, Python, Play, Django)
  • Advanced degree in Computer Science and/or Math
  • Expert proficiency in Agile development process
  • Working knowledge in API development for mobile/web use
  • Strong relational database experience (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MS SQL)

Preferred skills & experience

  • Highly motivated and self-disciplined
  • Strong Computer Science fundamentals
  • Excellent ability to prioritize and communication in a fast pace environment
  • Bonus: Experience in predictive analysis and machine learning

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Incentro Africa Job Vacancy : Software Developer

We believe happy people deliver excellent results. This is why we exist, to create a working environment where our staff can do what they were born to do: create software that makes impact. We build interesting web/app solutions for the Dutch and Kenyan market either commissioned by our customers or own solutions in interesting partnerships.

We manage this by being transparent, honest and giving full responsibility to our colleagues. We celebrate success and understand that in order to succeed, you need to be allowed to fail as well. By doing this, we already opened nine offices in the Netherlands, Spain and Turkey with almost 300 happy employees and 130+ happy customers. Do you want to pursue happiness with us? Join us now!

Profile Summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic, flexible, swift (iOS) developer with 2 to 5 years of work experience. Someone who likes to work on developing solutions for our apps; who likes to work in a complex environment with inspiring colleagues, inspiring clients and lots of learning opportunities.

With your ambitions and drive improving every day, you bring energy and inspiration to the team. You will assist in shaping our strategy and build a close relationship with both our team in Nairobi, and also with our specialists in the Netherlands.

Responsibilities

  • You will design and develop mobile software solutions in collaboration with our Dutch colleagues for our clients in Nairobi and the Netherlands.
  • You will have an important role in establishing a team for our office in Nairobi that will deliver great mobile apps.
  • You will discuss our products with our Dutch specialists and work towards the best possible solutions.

Requirements

  • Ability to write reusable swift code that follows good coding standards.
  • You must be up to date with everything iOS and on top of recent developments and new versions of the platform.
  • A good understanding of development and (automated) testing methodologies, and object-oriented programming best practices.
  • Experience with communication to backend services in the form of REST, JSON.
  • You are able to collaborate on code using version control systems, such as Git.
  • Previous experience with working in an Agile team would be a great advantage!
  • Minimum of 2 years of work experience as an app/iOS developer
  • Minimum a Bachelor’s degree in relevant areas e.g. ICT, web/app design, etc.
  • Strong English written and vocal communication skills.
  • Cultural awareness and the ability to work with Western management.
  • Entrepreneurial spirit, willing to assist in growing the office.
  • Energized and passionate about all you do in life.
  • Flexible, open for new challenges and able to think out of the box.
  • Responsible for finishing the work on time.
  • Real team player who works together with other specialists in order to create the best result.
  • Your assertive attitude enables you to collaborate remotely in a virtual team.
  • Willing to learn new technologies and ways of working with the aim of increased efficiency

Benefits

  • A competitive salary
  • Healthcare, lunch at work
  • Working with and receiving training and coaching from some of the best developers of The Netherlands.
  • Working in an agile environment with low hierarchy and lots of growing opportunities with a great focus on employee happiness.
  • Great employment opportunity with room for creativity, development of your own career and inspiring team building. In The Netherlands we were awarded the ‘Best Place to Work – Award’ in 2017.

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Incentro Africa Job Vacancy : ICT

We believe happy people deliver excellent results. This is why we exist, to create a working environment where our staff can do what they were born to do: create software that makes impact. We build interesting web/app solutions for the Dutch and Kenyan market either commissioned by our customers or own solutions in interesting partnerships.

We manage this by being transparent, honest and giving full responsibility to our colleagues. We celebrate success and understand that in order to succeed, you need to be allowed to fail as well. By doing this, we already opened 10 offices in the Netherlands, Spain, Turkey and now in Kenya with almost 300 happy employees and 130+ happy customers. Do you want to pursue happiness with us? Join us now!

About our Google Cloud solutions

Cloud is booming! And there are good reasons for it. Why would you invest in on-premise infrastructure if you can just pay for what you use. Having cost effective, secure and scalable cloud solutions gives ours customers great competitive advantage. Cloud is the future, and it is here now. We are the only Google Premier Partner in Kenya and offer the best of the Cloud to our customers in east Africa!

Profile Summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic, flexible person that understands the Cloud and help our customers make the transit smoothly.

With this opportunity you will get to know the Google Cloud inside and out, after which you are able to configure and transfer on-premise solutions to the Google Cloud. We offer an official training program and support you to get certified as Google Cloud Architect.

We are looking for someone who likes to work in a complex environment with inspiring colleagues, inspiring clients and lots of learning opportunities.

With your ambitions and drive to get better everyday, you bring energy and inspiration to the team of Google Cloud consultants that share different kinds of knowledges (from sales to programming). You will assist in shaping our strategy and build a close relationship with both our team in Nairobi and also with our specialists in the Netherlands.

Responsibilities

  • You will have an important role in establishing a team for our office in Nairobi that will deliver great Google Cloud solutions.
  • You will discuss our GCP migration and implementation with the Google tech support team, our Dutch specialists and work towards the best possible solutions.
  • You are all round and able to development and implementation of Google Cloud solutions together with our Dutch certified Google consultants

Requirements

  • Understanding of and experience in cloud platforms, and how to operate in them.
  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
  • You understand how networks and infrastructure works have and are familiar with their protocols.
  • Previous experience with working in an team would be a great advantage!
  • Minimum of 1 year of work experience as a network engineer
  • Minimum a Bachelor’s degree in relevant areas e.g. ICT, Computer Science, web design, etc.
  • Strong English written and oral communication skills and are not scared of discussing possible solutions with customers.
  • Cultural awareness and the ability to work with Western management.
  • Entrepreneurial spirit, willing to assist in a growing office.
  • Energized and passionate about all you do in life.
  • Flexible, open for new challenges and able to think out of the box.
  • Responsible for finishing the work on time.
  • Real team player who works together with other specialists in order to create the best result.
  • Your assertive attitude enables you to collaborate remotely in a virtual team.

Benefits

  • The opportunity to train and become a Google certified expert in Google Cloud.
  • Healthcare and a healthy lunch at the office
  • Working with and receiving training and coaching from some of the best developers of The Netherlands.
  • Working in an agile environment with little hierarchy, lots of autonomy and many growing opportunities with a great focus on employee happiness.
  • Play in the top league, work at the only Google Premier Partner in Kenya
  • Great employment opportunity with room for creativity, development of your own career and inspiring team building. In the Netherlands we were awarded the ‘Best Place to Work – Award’ in 2017.
  • A competitive salary

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Incentro Africa Job Vacancy : Quality Assurance

We believe happy people deliver excellent results. This is why we exist, to create a working environment where our staff can do what they were born to do: create software that makes impact. We build interesting web/app solutions for the Dutch and Kenyan market either commissioned by our customers or own solutions in interesting partnerships.

We manage this by being transparent, honest and giving full responsibility to our colleagues. We celebrate success and understand that in order to succeed, you need to be allowed to fail as well. By doing this, we already opened nine offices in the Netherlands, Spain and Turkey with almost 300 happy employees and 130+ happy customers. Do you want to pursue happiness with us? Join us now!

Profile Summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic, flexible, software tester with 1 to 3 years of work experience. Someone who likes to be critical about the quality of the apps we develop; who likes to work in a complex environment with inspiring colleagues, inspiring clients and lots of learning opportunities.

With your ambitions and drive improving every day, you bring energy and inspiration to the team. You will assist in shaping our strategy and build a close relationship with both our team in Nairobi, and also with our specialists in the Netherlands.

Responsibilities

  • Determination of a test strategy for each project
  • Reviewing and analyzing documentation and user stories
  • Performing risk analysis
  • Creating test scripts and procedures
  • Executing tests in different environments including web and mobile
  • Analyzing results and reporting on anomalies, bugs and risks
  • Being keen on improving the process of software testing in our organization

Requirements

  • An analytical and critical mind with an eye for detail
  • Strong communication skills, written and verbal
  • A quick understanding of both business goals and possibilities of software development
  • Understanding of agile development methodologies, such as Kanban and Scrum
  • Enthusiasm about and some working experience in test automation (for example with Selenium Webdriver, Fitnesse or SoapUI)
  • ISTQB Foundation Level certified tester or similar (nice to have)
  • Knowledge of programming languages, such as Java, Python or C# (nice to have)
  • Understanding of databases and SQL (nice to have)

Benefits

  • A competitive salary
  • Healthcare, lunch at work
  • Working with and receiving training and coaching from some of the best developers of The Netherlands.
  • Working in an agile environment with low hierarchy and lots of growing opportunities with a great focus on employee happiness.
  • Great employment opportunity with room for creativity, development of your own career and inspiring team building. In The Netherlands we were awarded the ‘Best Place to Work – Award’ in 2017.

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Arifu Job Vacancy : Relations Associate

Arifu, a high-growth edtech company in Nairobi, is looking to hire an ambitious  Partner Relations Associate to support the Business Development team to fuel the growth of our partnerships and platform. The Associate will gain valuable experience attending conferences, networking with multinational organizations, and writing proposals for projects across various sectors.

About Arifu

Arifu is a Nairobi-based edtech company making it possible for anyone to access the information and opportunities they need from the organizations they trust over any mobile phone. With Arifu, people seeking to learn can freely access the Arifu chatbot using interactive SMS or smartphone chat apps to master new skills, discover a world of free educational content, and earn rewards from our partners whether or not they have internet or airtime. The Arifu chatbot delivers personalized content designed in-house in close collaboration with our partners including financial service providers, mobile operators, agribusinesses and NGOs. Our partners use Arifu to engage, train, and capture data on underserved people across their value chains, especially hard-to-reach customers, retailers, and suppliers. Currently serving 700,000 learners in East Africa, Arifu has demonstrated results increasing people’s income and access to impactful products and services while creating shared value for partners.

To date, the Arifu chatbot has helped hundreds of thousands of smallholder farmers access information and improve their yield through digital agronomy skills training, access to essential inputs, and connections with buyers and suppliers. With the Arifu platform, agribusinesses, donors, and government ministries can easily deliver mobile training to millions of smallholder farmers, agrovets, and extension workers to strengthen farmer livelihoods, improve food quality and security, and deliver the next generation of high impact agricultural products.

Responsibilities

  • Contributing to the strategy of, as well as producing, client proposals and grant applications, including using excel to generate project budgets;
  • Conducting research to inform the Business Development team’s sector strategies and Arifu’s value-add;
  • Generating new leads through networking, attending conferences and industry events, and updating and managing various marketing channels;
  • Creating powerpoint presentations for conferences and clients as well as other marketing materials as needed;
  • Tracking team and company metrics through various documentation;
  • Tracking and updating CRM system;
  • Improving internal processes by contributing to brainstorming sessions, updating internal documentation based on changing processes, and working across teams to optimize our collaboration efforts.

Qualifications

  • Business Administration/Management or Social Sciences Diploma or related field required; University Degree preferred.
  • Minimum 1 year of professional writing experience;
  • Strong technical writing skills, preferably with experience in grant writing;
  • Strong Word, Powerpoint, and Excel skills;
  • Comfortable creating and analyzing budgets;
  • Detail oriented with strong analytical skills to exercise independent judgment and decision making;
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, resource-constrained, early stage work environment;
  • Fluency in English required; fluency in Swahili is an asset;
  • Experience creating marketing materials is an asset, particularly with blog writing, video editing, website development, and/or presentations;

Compensation and Benefits

First and foremost, we care about your success and will support you along your journey to achieving remarkable success. This is an entry-level position with immense room for growth. We aspire to be competitive on compensation although, as an early-stage social enterprise, many on the team work just below market rate. To make up for that, staff are able to participate in the Arifu employee share program. We also offer a comprehensive health insurance package and will cover the cost of a work permit for foreign staff. Other benefits include monthly airtime allowance, extra leave, a stocked kitchen, and plenty of ping-pong and foosball.

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Arifu Job Vacancy : Marketing Manager

Arifu, a high-growth edtech company in Nairobi, is looking to hire a creative and independent Marketing Manager. Your role will be that of the content creator and storyteller of the Arifu brand and vision.

About Arifu

Arifu is a Nairobi-based edtech company making it possible for anyone to access the information and opportunities they need from the organizations they trust over any mobile phone. With Arifu, people seeking to learn can freely access the Arifu chatbot using interactive SMS or smartphone chat apps to master new skills, discover a world of free educational content, and earn rewards from our partners whether or not they have internet or airtime. The Arifu chatbot delivers personalized content designed in-house in close collaboration with our partners including financial service providers, mobile operators, agribusinesses and NGOs. Our partners use Arifu to engage, train, and capture data on underserved people across their value chains, especially hard-to-reach customers, retailers, and suppliers. Currently serving 780,000 learners in East Africa, Arifu has demonstrated results increasing people’s income and access to impactful products and services while creating shared value for partners.

To date, the Arifu chatbot has helped hundreds of thousands of smallholder farmers access information and improve their yield through digital agronomy skills training, access to essential inputs, and connections with buyers and suppliers. With the Arifu platform, agribusinesses, donors, and government ministries can easily deliver mobile training to millions of smallholder farmers, agrovets, and extension workers to strengthen farmer livelihoods, improve food quality and security, and deliver the next generation of high impact agricultural products.

Responsibilities

  • Traveling to the field to capture pictures, videos and stories from our learners;
  • Creating compelling marketing materials from various medias for our website, blog, social media and presentations;
  • Designing and updating the Arifu website on a regular basis in line with our brand strategy;
  • Creating and managing all promotional materials and “swag” to increase brand visibility;
  • Using various software to create graphics for presentations and promotional material;
  • Leading our social media campaigns;
  • Collaborating and brainstorming with various teams to inform the marketing strategy.

Qualifications

  • Marketing/Communications Diploma or related field required; University Degree preferred.
  • 2-3 years of professional marketing and content creation experience required;
  • Experience and strong command of CSS, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and video editing software;
  • Compelling storyteller that translates into pictures, videos, blogs, and social media;
  • Strong proficiency in website design is required;
  • Working knowledge of photography and videography and comfortable with using a DSLR;
  • Professional video editing experience is preferred;
  • Understanding and vision to create social media campaigns;
  • Detail oriented with strong analytical skills to exercise independent judgment and decision making;
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, resource-constrained, early stage work environment;
  • Fluency in English and Swahili required;
  • Driver’s license and ability to travel throughout Kenya (up to 15% travel). Possibility of international travel.

Compensation and Benefits

First and foremost, we care about your success and will support you along your journey to achieving remarkable success. We aspire to be competitive on compensation although, as an early-stage social enterprise, many on the team work just below market rate. To make up for that, staff are able to participate in the Arifu employee share program. We also offer a comprehensive health insurance package and will cover the cost of a work permit for foreign staff. Other benefits include monthly airtime allowance, extra leave, a stocked kitchen, and plenty of ping-pong and foosball.

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Arifu Job Vacancy : Relations Associate

Arifu, a high-growth edtech company in Nairobi, is looking to hire an ambitious  Partner Relations Associate to support the Business Development team to fuel the growth of our partnerships and platform. The Associate will gain valuable experience attending conferences, networking with multinational organizations, and writing proposals for projects across various sectors.

About Arifu

Arifu is a Nairobi-based edtech company making it possible for anyone to access the information and opportunities they need from the organizations they trust over any mobile phone. With Arifu, people seeking to learn can freely access the Arifu chatbot using interactive SMS or smartphone chat apps to master new skills, discover a world of free educational content, and earn rewards from our partners whether or not they have internet or airtime. The Arifu chatbot delivers personalized content designed in-house in close collaboration with our partners including financial service providers, mobile operators, agribusinesses and NGOs. Our partners use Arifu to engage, train, and capture data on underserved people across their value chains, especially hard-to-reach customers, retailers, and suppliers. Currently serving 700,000 learners in East Africa, Arifu has demonstrated results increasing people’s income and access to impactful products and services while creating shared value for partners.

To date, the Arifu chatbot has helped hundreds of thousands of smallholder farmers access information and improve their yield through digital agronomy skills training, access to essential inputs, and connections with buyers and suppliers. With the Arifu platform, agribusinesses, donors, and government ministries can easily deliver mobile training to millions of smallholder farmers, agrovets, and extension workers to strengthen farmer livelihoods, improve food quality and security, and deliver the next generation of high impact agricultural products.

Responsibilities

  • Contributing to the strategy of, as well as producing, client proposals and grant applications, including using excel to generate project budgets;
  • Conducting research to inform the Business Development team’s sector strategies and Arifu’s value-add;
  • Generating new leads through networking, attending conferences and industry events, and updating and managing various marketing channels;
  • Creating powerpoint presentations for conferences and clients as well as other marketing materials as needed;
  • Tracking team and company metrics through various documentation;
  • Tracking and updating CRM system;
  • Improving internal processes by contributing to brainstorming sessions, updating internal documentation based on changing processes, and working across teams to optimize our collaboration efforts.

Qualifications

  • Business Administration/Management or Social Sciences Diploma or related field required; University Degree preferred.
  • Minimum 1 year of professional writing experience;
  • Strong technical writing skills, preferably with experience in grant writing;
  • Strong Word, Powerpoint, and Excel skills;
  • Comfortable creating and analyzing budgets;
  • Detail oriented with strong analytical skills to exercise independent judgment and decision making;
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, resource-constrained, early stage work environment;
  • Fluency in English required; fluency in Swahili is an asset;
  • Experience creating marketing materials is an asset, particularly with blog writing, video editing, website development, and/or presentations;

Compensation and Benefits

First and foremost, we care about your success and will support you along your journey to achieving remarkable success. This is an entry-level position with immense room for growth. We aspire to be competitive on compensation although, as an early-stage social enterprise, many on the team work just below market rate. To make up for that, staff are able to participate in the Arifu employee share program. We also offer a comprehensive health insurance package and will cover the cost of a work permit for foreign staff. Other benefits include monthly airtime allowance, extra leave, a stocked kitchen, and plenty of ping-pong and foosball.

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Pelings Kenya Limited Job Vacancy : Administrative Assistant

Pelings is a company involved in Environment, Health and Safety Management and Systems, Energy Audits ,Supply of Consumables and Equipment, Energy Audits,communication and other consultancy services.

Job Responsibilities

  • Short listing suitable candidates based on provided job description
  • Assist the Recruitment manager with scheduling and coordinating interviews
  • Understand all HR processes and continually seek opportunities for improvement.
  • Report writing and report generation

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or Higher diploma in Human Resource
  • Fresh Graduates preferred
  • Good Communication skills with an outgoing personality
  • Personal integrity and ability to maintain confidentiality
  • Fast to understand concepts with keen attention to detail and willingness to learn
  • Ability to multi-task and get things done to completion
  • Excellent planning and organizational skills

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Internet Solutions Job Vacancy : Enterprise Client Manager

Internet Solutions creates positive change so more people can experience the power and possibility of the Internet.

The incumbent will be expected to:

  • Manage your sales pipeline and prepare accurate sales forecasts and advance opportunities to close deals. Ensure all reporting related to the position are prepared and presented in a timely manner.
  • Meet and exceed revenue targets and ensure all metrics of YTD Sales and Retention are met and exceeded.
  • Develop and implement client account plans
  • Build strong strategic relationships at mid and senior level within customer base and have regular meetings, SIP (Service Improvement Plans), ensure customer concerns addressed. Grow account by understanding clients needs, to leverage IS Solutions to meet the customer’s business needs, to grow relationships with a longer term focus.
  • Proactively assess, clarify, and validate client needs on an ongoing basis.
  • Maintain high customer satisfaction ratings that meet company standards.
  • Be assertive in your approach and display excellent persuasion and influence ability.
  • Be an expert presenter and use your initiative to drive innovation and identify potential opportunities.
  • Have good understanding of all IS solutions with broad knowledge across multiple different solutions or areas with a sound level of industry knowledge and commercial acumen. Keep up to date with industry trends
  • Understanding of SEF, Segmentation, Virtual Teams, Account Plans, DC and other IS Sales tools.
  • Know all processes (ISPIC) and how to use all systems relevant to the position
  • Work with internal departments (Support, Projects, Finance and Networks) to escalate technical, financial and product issues as needed in order to meet account performance objectives and clients’ expectations.
  • Live IS’s High Performance Culture values every day

Most importantly, we need you to be passionate about service and the client’s business, show our clients how we can best deliver value to their business, drive sales and ultimately make sure that they are satisfied.

Here’s what we are looking for in candidates for this job:

Key requirements:

  • Bachelor’s or higher is required, preferably in Information Technology or Business
  • At least 3 years’ experience in Enterprise Account Management, preferably within the ICT sector.
  • Strong customer relation skills and account management skills
  • Proven sales leadership and client engagement experience
  • Strong communication and negotiation skills
  • Networking and experience in enterprise sales is required.
  • Proven success in consultative selling and collaborative sales models is required, having demonstrated success in delivering on sales targets consistently.
  • Enjoys selling, retaining and winning accounts.
  • Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of ICT industry environment and business needs.
  • Deep subject matter and product expertise would be an advantage.
  • A good understanding of the vast range of IS Solutions offerings
  • Computer literate with strong MS Office skills

Key abilities required:

  • Good client relationship building and account management skills
  • The ability to recognize opportunities for future business within an account and ensure account growth.
  • Proven Solution Selling and Consultative sales skills.
  • Proven over achievement of sales targets.
  • Effective interacting and relationship building at senior C levels as well as technical levels within the client environment and grow relationships with a longer term focus.
  • Team player able to collaborate with others in the sales process. Build relationships internally and externally. Interpersonal skills with the ability to develop and maintain solid stakeholder relationships
  • Possess the ability to persuade, negotiate and influence key stakeholders.
  • Possess excellent communication skills (both verbally and written) and excellent presentation skills.
  • Work independently, using initiative.
  • Attention to detail.
  • The ability to learn quickly and apply knowledge.
  • Possess the ability to manage urgent and complex tasks simultaneously.
  • Possess the ability to establish and manage processes and practices through collaboration and the understanding of business.
  • Self- motivated, hardworking, sociable, and driven by professional success

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Save the Children Job Vacancy : Regional Humanitarian Nutrition Adviser

Save the Children has been operational in Kenya since the 1950s, providing support to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered both directly and through local partners. Current programming focuses on child protection, child rights governance, education, health, HIV/AIDS, livelihoods, nutrition and WASH. In 2012, as part of a global reorganization process, Save the Children combined the programmes of SC UK, SC Canada and SC Finland to create a single operation in Kenya. In Feb 2014, we completed a second transition, which saw us join forces with the British INGO, Merlin, and merge their health and nutrition programmes with our own. Save the Children now has an operational presence in Bungoma, Dadaab Refugee Camp, Garissa, Mandera, Turkana and Wajir and a footprint in Kakamega, Kisumu, Migori and Kitui. In 2016, Save the Children established a new project office in Madagascar whose operations are managed by the Kenya CO. In total, we employ around 250 staff in both countries and had an operating annual budget in 2017 of approximately US$22million.

Fixed term contract for 12 months

Do you want to be part of an organisation that fights for children every single day? We are looking for a committed and experienced nutrition specialist to join us as Regional Humanitarian Nutrition Adviser (ESA), based in East Africa.

In our Humanitarian department, we fight for children every single day. We integrate emergency and development work, through our country programmes. We increase our capacity to meet the assistance and protection needs of children and their families affected by crises. We go the extra mile – and we don’t rest until the work is done.

As the Regional Humanitarian Nutrition Adviser you will be a member of the Regional Technical Team, the Save the Children Emergency Nutrition Working Group (ENWG) and will play an important role in coordinating and working closely with other SCI Member technical staff in Kenya and SCI Regional Office staff in East and Southern Africa. In addition you will:

  • Provide technical oversight to a large and dynamic humanitarian nutrition portfolio in the ESA Region, to support the delivery of quality humanitarian nutrition programs
  • Deploy to the field at short notice to set up new humanitarian nutrition programmes, and provide technical and project management support to country level Nutrition Specialists for humanitarian response including advisory visits as needed.
  • Provide quality and adaptive Monitoring, Evaluation Accountability and Learning (MEAL) tools and support to country programmes to ensure understanding of high quality programming, operations and advocacy in humanitarian nutrition programmes
  • Support country programmes and head office in the recruitment of humanitarian nutrition staff and ongoing mentoring to support staff development in humanitarian nutrition settings
  • Identify opportunities and progress existing partnerships with external health and nutrition institutes in the region, and UN agencies, to increase humanitarian nutrition capacity in the region
  • Represent SC in various technical and nutrition advocacy initiatives and partnerships and lead on specific areas of advocacy and representation directly related to humanitarian nutrition programming
  • Liaise with the relevant external regional stakeholders including donors, learning institutes, UN and NGO representatives identifying opportunities, synergies and partnerships for SC’s humanitarian nutrition work.

To be successful you will have significant and progressive experience in the field as well as regional or head office level in the implementation and management of humanitarian nutrition programmes. You should also be nutrition professional with post graduate qualifications in nutrition or a relevant subject. In addition you will have:

  • Proven experience in management of humanitarian nutrition programs
  • Experience of contingency planning/emergency preparedness planning
  • Experience of working with nutrition cluster coordination mechanisms in country and practical understanding of the cluster approach at country, regional and global level
  • Experience in team leadership and management with highly developed writing skills
  • Strong communication skills at a level appropriate for high level external representation and ability to tailor communications to different audiences.

At Save the Children we are committed to the safeguarding and protection of children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work with children are recruited to work for us. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a criminal records disclosure.

If you share our belief in the power of children, join the fight. It takes relentless determination, creativity and a real commitment to real change. Because every child should be able to make their mark on their world, and help to build a better future. We look forward to hearing from you.

Closing date: 3rd January 2019

Start date: 20 January 2019 (dependant on international police checks and references).

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Kilimall International Ltd Job Vacancy : Kili-Agent Pick-Up Station Mgt Officer, Security

Kilimall.co.ke is Kenya’s largest online shopping mall. We launched in July 2014 and our mission is to become No.1 E-commerce platform in Africa. We serve a retail customer base that continues to grow exponentially, offering products that span various categories.

Kili-Agent Pick-Up Station Mgt Officer

  • Job TypeFull Time
  • QualificationBA/BSc/HND
  • Experience1 year
  • Location Nairobi
  • Job Field Media / Advertising / Branding

The position holder will be in charge of Kilimall Agent pick-up station development and Management, ensure the KPI for Kili-Agents are implement and keep improving them. Cooperate with the Kili-Agents and courier companies and monitor their performance closely.

Responsibilities

  • Establish the Pick-up Stations in various parts of Kenya within the company’s SOP.
  • Manage the established and existing pick up station within the company SOP.
  • Maintain excellent relationship with all Kilimall Agent-Pick-Up Stations at all times
  • Daily reconciliation of the delivered big box verses the small box scan arrivals and customer order pickup
  • Daily communication with the Kili-Agents on the big boxes being delivered and their contents in terms of order numbers as well as informing them the courier company delivering the big box.
  • Manage Kilimall Agent Pick-Up Station returns by timely processing them physically and systematically.
  • Hand over all returns to the after sale section timely and accordingly.
  • Compile and check Kili-Agent’s monthly invoices and facilitate their timely payment from finance as well as any other relevant section of the company.
  • Daily record and updating Kili-Agents (successful) deliveries i.e customer pick-ups and the pending collection per station.
  • Counter check all Kili-Agent Submitted invoices.
  • Monitor the performance of every Pick-up Kili-Agent Station and report accordingly to the immediate supervisor.
  • Meet the KPI for the Pick-Up Stations.
  • Report any abnormal issues to the Pick-Up station Management manager right away.
  • Work closely with dispatch team to ensure that all Pick-Up station orders are timely processed for dispatch from our warehouse.
  • Train Kili-Pick-Up Station Agents on the DMS order management/ processing and customer issue/inquiry management.
  • Follow HR policy.

Note: Your annual objectives and/or any other tasks assigned by your supervisor from time to time shall become an integral part of your deliverables.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor degree or above, in any related course. Public Relation, Journalism& Mass communication or logistics is preferred.
  • Excellent MS office software skills.

Experience

  • 1 year or more working experience in a similar position in a busy organization.
  • Experience in an E-Commerce environment will be an added advantage.

Behavioral Competencies

  • Very strong personality and organizational skills.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • A good team player.
  • High level of commitment to duty, and discipline.
  • Demonstrable ability to put customer interests first.
  • Strong focus on impact.
  • Unquestionable level of integrity.
  • Third Party management skills.

Security

  • Job TypeFull Time
  • QualificationBA/BSc/HND
  • Experience1 year
  • Location Nairobi
  • Job Field Security / Intelligence

This role maintains safe and secure environment for the company’s property, customers and employees by patrolling and monitoring premises and personnel movements.

Responsibilities

Secures premises and personnel by patrolling property; monitoring surveillance equipment; inspecting buildings, equipment, and access points; permitting entry.

  • Obtains help by sounding alarms.
  • Prevents losses and damage by reporting irregularities; informing violators of policy and procedures; restraining trespassers.
  • Controls traffic by directing drivers.
  • Completes reports by recording observations, information, occurrences, and surveillance activities; interviewing witnesses; obtaining signatures.
  • Maintains environment by monitoring and setting building and equipment controls.
  • Maintains organization’s stability and reputation by complying with legal requirements.
  • Ensures operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturer’s instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repairs; evaluating new equipment and techniques.
  • Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Note: Your annual objectives and/or any other tasks assigned by your supervisor from time to time shall become an integral part of your deliverables.

Requirements

May be required from time to time to work beyond standard office hours.

Note: All job descriptions are subject to management review and may be modified based on business requirements. In case of any variation between this description and the actual duties performed, management has the right to make appropriate decision.

Qualifications

  • “O” Level School Ceertificate
  • Certificate in Security Management
  • Diploma in Security Management or related discipline will be an added advantage

Experience

  • One years working experience in a similar position in a busy organization
  • Experience in E-Commerce environment will be an added advantage.

Behavioral Competencies

  • Very strong personality and organizational skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Very strong sense of Security Surveillance
  • High level of commitment to duty, and discipline.
  • Demonstrable ability to put customer interests first.
  • Strong focus on impact
  • Unquestionable level of integrity.

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Butali Sugar Mills Job Vacancy : Legal Officer

Butali Sugar Mills limited is an ultra-modern sugar factory within the heart of Kakamega County in the Western part of Kenya.

BSML seeks to recruit suitable professional for the following open position.

Reporting to Administration Manager

Responsibilities

  • In charge of BSML legal issues.
  • Managing company’s litigation processes
  • Advisory on legal matters
  • Drawing contracts and BSML contractual obligations
  • Attending court hearings and representing company in all legal matters
  • Preparing witness(es) and evidence as well as presenting the same in court and updating the records for all court cases

Requirements

  • A degree in Law from a recognized institution
  • Must be an advocate of high court of Kenya
  • Must posses a current practising license
  • At least three (3) years experience

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The National Council for Law Job Vacancy : Internal Auditor, Legal Proof Reader

The National Council for Law Reporting is an award-winning state corporation. It is established under the National Council for Law Reporting Act, 1994.

Its mandate is:

a) To monitor and report on the development of Kenyan jurisprudence through the publication of the Kenya Law Reports;

b) To revise, consolidate and publish the Laws of Kenya under delegated authority from the Attorney General; and

c) To undertake such other related publications and perform such other functions as may be conferred by law.

The Council is Kenya’s focal point institution in providing access to public legal information. It is led by a Council of Members chaired by The Hon. Chief Justice and managed through a secretariat headed by the Chief Executive Officer /Editor. The Council’s principal office is in Nairobi.

The Council is seeking suitably qualified candidates to fill the following vacancies:

Internal Auditor

  • Job TypeFull Time
  • QualificationBA/BSc/HND
  • Experience6 years
  • Location Nairobi
  • Job Field Finance / Accounting / Audit

Job Grade: KLR 5

Job Ref. No.: NCLR/ HR/ 2018/01

Reporting to: Functionally to the Audit Committee of the Council and administratively to the Chief Executive Office /Editor

Basic monthly salary (excluding allowances and benefits): KES. 77,527 – 103,894 pm

Key responsibilities

The key duties and responsibilities tasks for this position will include:

  • Overall responsibility for performing audit procedures to verify that controls are operating through testing and interviewing techniques;
  • Develop a flexible annual plan, using an appropriate risk based methodology and including any risks or control concerns identified by Management, and submit the plan to the Audit Committee for review and approval
  • Implement the approved audit plan including any special tasks and projects requested by the Audit Committee, and Top Management
  • Guide and lead in the investigation of significant suspected fraudulent activities within the Board and notify the CEO/Editor and the Audit Committee of the results
  • Conduct regular audits (financial, regulatory, compliance or operational review/audits) to ensure effectiveness and efficiency of operations, compliance with relevant laws, policies, procedures and best practice;
  • Analyzing and determining effectiveness and efficiency of control environment, both financial and operational and identification of control gaps and opportunities for improvement
  • Co-ordination of work with all control related activities in the organization.
  • Developing and evaluating risk management reports after review of operational processes
  • Issue periodic reports to Management and the Audit Committee summarizing results of audit activities
  • Prepare reports that are in line with evidence obtained and forward reports to the CEO/ Editor and the Audit Committee
  • Liaise with the external auditors and regulators, as appropriate, for the purpose of providing audit coverage to Kenya Law at a reasonable overall cost;
  • Follow up on the prompt implementation of external audit findings and recommendations
  • Conducting special reviews and investigations as and when requested by the CEO/ Editor and the Audit Committee.

Professional Qualifications, Skills and Personal Attributes

The ideal candidate will be a citizen of Kenya who has the following minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in any of the following disciplines: Commerce, (Accounting/Finance) Finance, Business Administration or its equivalent qualification from a recognized institution;
  • Be a Certified Public Accountant (CPA-K) or a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA)
  • At least Six (6) years’ experience in auditing
  • Have IT Audit qualifications and knowledge of Computer Aided Audit Techniques
  • Demonstrable understanding of the principles and application of good corporate governance, business and operational risk and control processes and procedures.
  • Demonstrable knowledge of audit procedures including risk driven audit planning techniques and methods used to examine, verify and analyse business and financial operations, information, records, statements and reports
  • Excellent analytical and report-writing skills with a grasp of contemporary developments in ICT; and
  • Strong organizational and interpersonal skills with the ability to prioritize, multi-task and work under pressure amidst competing demands.

Personal Attributes

The ideal candidate will possess the following personal qualities:

  • Integrity – Excellent moral and professional standing;
  • Creativity, innovation and a passion for continuous learning and development;
  • Good interpersonal, team-building and communication skills; and
  • Highly motivated.
  • Excellent analytical skills
  • Sound cross-functional knowledge is required in order to ensure that advice given has taken into account the business context of the matter.
  • Strong creative, communication and interpersonal skills as the job is highly interactive.

All shortlisted candidates are required to demonstrate their compliance with Chapter 6 of the Constitution of Kenya by providing clearance certificates from the following institutions: Higher Education Loans Board, Kenya Revenue Authority, Ethic and Anti- Corruption Commission and a Credit Reference Bureau.

THE REMUNERATION AND TERMS OF SERVICE

The position is a job in the public service within the meaning of that term in the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 and is based in Nairobi. Successful candidates will be engaged on permanent and pensionable terms of employment.

Legal Proof Reader

  • Job TypeFull Time
  • QualificationBA/BSc/HND
  • Location Nairobi
  • Job Field Law / Legal

Job Grade: KLR 8

Job Ref. No.: NCLR/ HR/ 2018/02

Reporting to: Legal Researcher

Basic monthly salary (excluding allowances and benefits): KES. 30,472 -42,877 pm

Key responsibilities

The key duties and responsibilities tasks for this position will include:

  • Revision of the Laws of Kenya;
  • Identifying law reform issues emanating from copy reading;
  • Proof reading national legislations;
  • Assisting in legal research by identifying the amending statutes and repealed legislations;
  • Conducting online audits of the Laws of Kenya including national legislation and county legislation;
  • Maintaining updated lists of New Acts, amendment Acts, Legal Notices, Bills, County Legislation and any other relevant information pertaining to the Laws of Kenya;

Professional Qualifications, Skills and Personal Attributes

  • Diploma in Law from a recognized institution;
  • A good understanding of the local legislative framework and legal processes of Kenya;
  • Excellent ICT proficiency
  • Previous experience in legal research or copy reading will be an added advantage

Personal Attributes

The ideal candidate will possess the following personal qualities:

  • Integrity – Excellent moral and professional standing;
  • Attention to detail;
  • Creativity, innovation and a passion for continuous learning and development;
  • Good interpersonal, and communication skills; and
  • Highly motivated.

All shortlisted candidates are required to demonstrate their compliance with Chapter 6 of the Constitution of Kenya by providing clearance certificates from the following institutions: Higher Education Loans Board, Kenya Revenue Authority, Ethic and Anti- Corruption Commission and a Credit Reference Bureau.

THE REMUNERATION AND TERMS OF SERVICE

The position is a job in the public service within the meaning of that term in the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 and is based in Nairobi. Successful candidates will be engaged on permanent and pensionable terms of employment.

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Career Opportunities at The Kenya Nuclear Electricity Board (November, 2018 Recommended)

The Kenya Nuclear Electricity Board (KNEB) is a State Corporation established under the State Corporations Act (Cap 446) Legal Notice No. 131 of 16th November 2012, charged with the responsibility of implementing Kenya’s Nuclear Power Programme in line with the Government’s Vision 2030 development blue print.

The core mandate of the organization is to promote and expedite development of nuclear power for electricity generation in Kenya by developing policies, strategies and legislations, undertaking public education and awareness, identification of suitable sites for the construction of nuclear power plants and development of human resource capacity.

The mission of the organization is to promote safe and secure application of nuclear technology for sustainable electricity generation and distribution in Kenya.

To achieve this mandate, the Board of Directors of the Kenya Nuclear Electricity Board seeks to recruit a dynamic and competent person in the following positions:

Director – Legal & Regulatory Services and Company Secretary

  • Job TypeFull Time
  • QualificationBA/BSc/HND
  • Experience12 years
  • Location Nairobi
  • Job Field Law / Legal

Job Ref No. KNEB/HRA/DLRSC/03/2018)

Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, the Director Legal & Regulatory Services and Company Secretary will be responsible for developing, implementing and monitoring the legal and regulatory framework and offering Board secretarial services.

The specific responsibilities include the following:

  • Developing and advising on appropriate legal and regulatory framework for a successful Nuclear Power Programme in Kenya;
  • Providing guidance and legal advice to the Chief Executive Officer, the Board of Directors and Management;
  • Providing technical and strategic leadership in the development, implementation and review of the organisation’s legal and policy framework;
  • Advising on dispute prevention and resolution on all corporate legal issues;
  • Advising the organisation and the Board of Directors on regulatory compliance with government laws and regulations and ensuring compliance;
  • Providing Board secretarial services, maintaining minutes and corporate documents;
  • Coordinating development, implementation and review of good corporate governance within the organisation;
  • Advising the management and the Board of directors on effective management of contracts.
  • Perform any other duty as assigned by the CEO and the Board.

In the execution of this assignment, the Director Legal & Regulatory Services and Company Secretary will be expected to ensure and uphold exemplary Corporate Governance in line with KNEB’s core values and promote a robust performance-driven culture.

Academic and Professional Qualifications

Candidates must have the following:-

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Law from a recognized university;
  • Master’s Degree in Law from a recognized university;
  • Advocate of the High Court of Kenya;
  • Certified Public Secretary of Kenya, CPS (K);
  • Member, Institute of Certified Public Secretary of Kenya (ICPSK) in good standing;
  • Member of the Law Society of Kenya in good standing.

Related Job Experience

  • Must have at least twelve (12) years’ work experience, eight (8) of which should be in a senior management position.

Knowledge, Skills and Competencies

The candidate must possess the following skills and competencies:-

  • Demonstrable knowledge of the Energy Sector in Kenya;
  • Demonstrable knowledge of the linkages between Kenya and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA);
  • Demonstrable knowledge of the Nuclear Power Programme;
  • Demonstrate understanding of public service values;
  • Excellent leadership competencies including analytical skills, excellent organization and coordination skills and ability to make difficult decisions;
  • Demonstrate distinguished leadership and people skills in public sector organization, management and operations;
  • Meet the provisions of Chapter Six of the Constitution of Kenya;
  • Strategic capability with proven ability to relate emerging global issues with the organization’s mission, vision and strategy;
  • Proven ability to build and manage effective teams;
  • Be detail oriented, have ability to meet deadlines while delivering on high quality results.

Terms of Service and Remuneration

The appointment will be for a contractual term of three (3) years, renewable subject to effective performance and delivery of set targets.

The successful candidate will be offered a competitive remuneration package for the position.

Director – Strategy and Planning

  • Job TypeFull Time
  • QualificationBA/BSc/HND
  • Experience12 years
  • Location Nairobi
  • Job Field Administration / Secretarial   Engineering / Technical

Job Ref No. KNEB/HRA/ DSP/2/2018

Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, the job holder will be responsible for providing leadership and management of the corporate strategy, developing, implementing and reviewing the roadmap for Kenya’s Nuclear Power Programme, coordinating the organization’s international standards management systems, risk management framework and management of energy power planning studies in relation to the Nuclear Power Programme at the Board by;

  • Overseeing development, implementation and review of the organization’s strategic objectives, goals and targets;
  • Coordinating development, implementation and review of the organization’s strategic plan;
  • Monitoring, reporting and advising the organization on strategic direction and highlighting strategic drifts;
  • Coordinating the development and implementation of nuclear power strategies, policies and plans for the energy planning process;
  • Coordinating the organization’s performance contracting process and liaising with The National Performance Contracting Coordination Office and relevant Agencies;
  • Overseeing development, implementation and review of the organization’s management systems such as the risk framework, quality assurance framework (ISO) and Information Security Management System(ISMS);
  • Guiding on the organization’s transformative agenda.

In the execution of this assignment, the Director Strategy and Planning will be expected to ensure and uphold exemplary Corporate Governance in line with KNEB’s core values and promote a robust performance-driven culture.

Academic and Professional Qualifications

Candidates must have the following:-

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Social Science, Engineering, Commerce, Finance, Economics or any other relevant field from a recognized institution.
  • Master’s degree in relevant field.
  • Be a registered member of good standing with a relevant professional body where necessary.

Related Job Experience

  • Must have at least 12 years’ work experience, eight (8) of which should be in a senior management position.

Knowledge Skills and Competencies

The candidate must possess the following skills and competencies:-

  • Demonstrable knowledge of the Energy Sector in Kenya;
  • Demonstrable knowledge of the linkages between Kenya and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA);
  • Demonstrable knowledge of the Nuclear Power Programme;
  • Demonstrate understanding of public service values;
  • Excellent leadership competencies including analytical skills, excellent organization and coordination skills and ability to make difficult decisions;
  • Demonstrate distinguished leadership and people skills in public sector organization, management and operations;
  • Meet the provisions of Chapter Six of the Constitution of Kenya;
  • Strategic capability with proven ability to relate emerging global issues with the organization’s mission, vision and strategy;
  • Proven ability to build and manage effective teams;
  • Be detail oriented, have ability to meet deadlines while delivering on high quality results.

Terms of Service and Remuneration

The appointment will be for a contractual term of three (3) years, renewable subject to effective performance and delivery of set targets.

The successful candidate will be offered a competitive remuneration package for the position.

Director – Nuclear Energy Infrastructure Development

  • Job TypeFull Time
  • QualificationBA/BSc/HND   MBA/MSc/MA
  • Experience12 years
  • Location Nairobi
  • Job Field Engineering / Technical

Job Ref No. KNEB/HR/DNED)/1/2018

Job Summary: Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, the job holder will be responsible for providing leadership and direction towards development, implementation and review of strategic goals, policies and plans necessary for establishment and successful implementation of Kenya’s Nuclear Power Programme by;

  • Overseeing development, implementation and monitoring of strategies, policies and plans for nuclear development in Kenya;
  • Carrying out technical studies related to development and implementation of Kenya’s Nuclear Power Programme;
  • Overseeing the development and implementation of a framework and criteria for siting of nuclear power plants in Kenya;
  • Overseeing development, implementation and monitoring of strategies, policies and plans for Human Resource Development for Kenya’s Nuclear Power Programme;
  • Overseeing establishment and implementation of partnerships aimed at human and institutional capacity building for the development of the Nuclear Power Programme.

In the execution of this assignment, the Director, Nuclear Energy Infrastructure Development will be expected to ensure and uphold exemplary Corporate Governance in line with the organization’s core values and promote a robust performance-driven culture.

Academic and Professional Qualifications

Candidates must have the following qualifications: –

  • Relevant Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from a recognized institution.
  • Master’s degree in relevant field.
  • Be at least a corporate member of the Institution of Engineers of Kenya (IEK)
  • Be a registered professional engineer with Engineers Board of Kenya with a valid practicing license.

Related Job Experience

Must have at least twelve (12) years’ work experience, eight (8) of which should be in a senior management position.

Knowledge Skills and Competencies

The candidate must possess the following skills and competencies:-

  • Demonstrable knowledge of the Energy Sector in Kenya;
  • Demonstrable knowledge of the linkages between Kenya and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA);
  • Demonstrable knowledge of the Nuclear Power Programme;
  • Demonstrate understanding of public service values;
  • Excellent leadership competencies including analytical skills, excellent organization and coordination skills and ability to make difficult decisions;
  • Demonstrate distinguished leadership and people skills in public sector organization, management and operations;
  • Meet the provisions of Chapter Six of the Constitution of Kenya;
  • Strategic capability with proven ability to relate emerging global issues with the organization’s mission, vision and strategy;
  • Proven ability to build and manage effective teams;
  • Be detail oriented, have ability to meet deadlines, while delivering on high quality results.

Terms of Service and Remuneration

The appointment will be for a contractual term of three (3) years, renewable subject to effective performance and delivery of set targets.

The successful candidate will be offered a competitive remuneration package for the position.

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