Friday, 14 August 2020

Electrical Engineer at Aceleron

Aceleron is an innovative UK-based advanced lithium battery developer aiming to accelerate the global shift to cleaner, more renewable energy and to empower people to benefit from sustainable battery technology. With a presence in the UK, Caribbean and East Africa, we create innovative storage technology that makes it possible to easily service lithium battery packs, to upgrade features and capabilities at will, and to avoid expensive take back and disposal costs by continuously refilling energy cells. Our vision is to positively impact the lives of people globally. We are achieving this by continuously innovating our solutions and capabilities to provide the best lithium batteries available and the highest quality rapid testing for reuse.

About the Role:

Aceleron is looking for an Electrical Engineer who will be actively involved in the product development and implementation of the company’s product portfolio. They will also be getting intensely trained on li-ion technology and will eventually evolve into a more specialized role.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Work closely with the product development and engineering team in the UK to support the transfer of released designs to production.
  • Set up, record and document individual cell and pack testing.
  • Write detailed reports to explain and illustrate the report findings in a clear and concise manner.
  • Generate statistical data analysis for cell tests.
  • Propose new battery design and changes to optimize battery performance for different applications in the region.
  • Management of cell inventory in and out of the battery workshop.
  • Lead in the battery assembly processes and ensure proper battery tests are conducted before dispatch.
  • Develop process documentation including work instructions, control plans, and other manufacturing related documentation.
  • Champion for environmental health & safety.

Does this Sound Like You?

Must Haves:

  • Minimum 3 years of experience in the field of electrical engineering.
  • Experience in implementing and ensuring safety standards.
  • A degree in mechanical/electrical engineering, or in mechatronics.

Preferred Requirements:

  • Knowledge in li-ion battery design, installation, and in solar systems engineering and installation

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Business Development Manager at Aceleron

Aceleron is an innovative UK-based advanced lithium battery developer aiming to accelerate the global shift to cleaner, more renewable energy and to empower people to benefit from sustainable battery technology. With a presence in the UK, Caribbean and East Africa, we create innovative storage technology that makes it possible to easily service lithium battery packs, to upgrade features and capabilities at will, and to avoid expensive take back and disposal costs by continuously refilling energy cells. Our vision is to positively impact the lives of people globally. We are achieving this by continuously innovating our solutions and capabilities to provide the best lithium batteries available and the highest quality rapid testing for reuse.

About the Role:

Aceleron is looking for a Business Development Manager who will be responsible for the company’s business growth in the region. They will be involved in business development and sales and marketing strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Business development and sales of Aceleron’s battery products in the region.
  • Networking and active business development of existing and new clients.
  • Working closely with the country manager to grow regional sales.
  • Working with industry players and investors to create new projects and opportunities for the company.
  • Lead negotiations between company and potential clients.
  • Design and implement strategic business plans that expands the company’s customer base and ensures its strong market presence.

Does this Sound Like You?

Must Haves:

  • Bachelor’s degree in business or related field.
  • Minimum experience of 4 years in sales or business development.
  • Proven track record on achieving sales targets from previous roles.
  • Strong hold on leading negotiations.
  • Ability to use CRM systems as well as proficiency in MS Office 365.

Preferred Requirements:

  • Sales experience in batteries or solar systems would be highly preferred.

Cultural Attributes:

  • High level of ownership.
  • Focused, and with strong organizational skills.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills.
  • Strong negotiation skills along with influencing capabilities.
  • Insightful and forward looking.

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Front End Software Developer at Pawame

Pawame is transforming the lives of individuals and entire communities, starting with modern energy access. Pawame operates anywhere underserved people are, pushing boundaries deep into some of the most rural communities on the continent while functioning sustainably and with integrity. Pawame is a partner to its customers from their first interaction with a sales agent to the moment of installation by a technician and throughout their ascent up the energy ladder.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Front-End Web Developer who is motivated to combine the art of design with that of programming. Responsibilities will include translation of the UI/UX design wire frames to actual code that will produce visual elements of the application.

Responsibilities:

Building Front-End Features:

  •  Design and document frontend features.
  • Write manageable code to implement these features against an approved development plan.
  • Integrate health monitoring and logging tooling to maintain a healthy stack.

Development of Strategy and Plan around the Front-end Stack:

  • Contribute to the software development plan and the general strategy to a more robust and scalable stack.
  • Advise on new technologies to adopt for the stack.

Testing and Training of New Features:

  • Write automated and functional tests for front-end features.
  • Train users on new features working as well as improving the UX based on user feedback.

Support and Maintain The Full-Stack:

  • Offer support in the full stack when called upon. e.g. troubleshoot Zoho Creator used for field operations.

Qualifications:

Preferred Education:

  • Bachelors in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Technology or any related field of study.

Required Experience:

  • 3 years’ experience in Front-end environment.
  • 2 years’ experience in React.js workflows.
  • Proven experience with newer specifications of ECMAScript.
  • Proven experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js).
  • RESTful APIs.
  • Excellence in Testing knowledge.

Preferred Experience

  • Knowledge and proven experience in Gitlab.
  • Proven experience with Docker.

Technical Requirements:

  • Excellent communication skills.

Behavioral Requirements:

  • A proactive individual.
  • The ideal candidate should have a result-driven personality.
  • A team player.
  • The ideal candidate should be resilient.
  • Excellent Problem-Solving skills
  • Highly attentive to detail.

Benefits at Pawame:

We are a diverse team of highly energized local and international people, committed to listening to the needs of our consumers in the rural populations in East Africa without access to clean energy. Everyone from our intern to the founders contributes to our success in different ways. Every team member in Pawame has the same drive and excitement towards achieving our goals. Working hard and being creative are synonymous in our startup life. You will have the opportunity to directly impact low-income off-grid consumers, dramatically improving the lives of many families.

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Emergency Flight Nurse at Amref Kenya

Amref Health Africa in Kenya is the country programme office of Amref Health Africa, Africa’s largest International Health NGO. This is the largest and oldest country programme in Africa with an average annual budget of USD 40million. We have 19 innovative products and project models that have successfully been implemented and transformed 5.4 million lives.

Ref: AFD/MED/14-08/2020

2 Posts

Job Grade: C2

Unit: Medical

Physical Location: Inside Wilson Airport, Nairobi

AMREF Flying Doctors is seeking for Emergency Flight Nurses (2 positions).

Reporting to the Aeromedical Coordinator, the job holder will provide skilled pre-hospital and emergency life support care to patients to manage their care in the field and transfers by air or ground transport to more superior healthcare facilities.

Main Purpose Of Job

  • The Emergency Flight nurse is charged with rendering skilled pre-hospital and emergency life support care to patients to manage their care in the field and transfers by air or ground transport to more superior healthcare facilities.
  • The emergency flight nurse will consider flight and ground safety, be accountable for the care of assigned patients and practice autonomy whilst maintaining current knowledge on emergency care and skills.

Reporting Relationships: The position reports to the Aero-Medical Coordinator.

Scope of Job

Personnel

  • Personnel Reporting to the Job Holder: N/A
  • Reporting Directly or Through: N/A

Other Resources (in your custody)

  • Responsibility over company assets: Computers, telephones and any office equipment
  • Responsibility over confidential company data and information: Has access to confidential company data and intelligence.
  • Any other items that shall be listed under your responsibility

Principal Responsibilities

Key Areas

  • Accompany Air Ambulance flights in Eastern Africa, continentally and inter-continentally with and without a flight physician on a 24-hour duty roster;
  • Escort patients on commercial airline;
  • Provide advanced life support to casualties at accident sites, airstrips, in flight or on ground until hand over at the hospital, including stabilization and resuscitation;
  • Operate the 24-hour Control Centre and communicate as required using all other modes of modern communication available including radio communication.
  • Provide medical coverage at special events (Marathons, Horse shows, motor & field sports) by helicopter, ground ambulance or in a make shift medical facility (tents)
  • Handling and assembling all medical equipment needed for medical evacuations and proper storage after use.
  • Be available from home for emergency flights or other duties during night time, weekends and public holidays according to the on-call duty roster;
  • Follow up of in-patients and obtaining progress reports, whilst handling medical assistance case files
  • Write evacuation reports for fundraising or for Public Relations related purposes.
  • Participate in AMREF Flying Doctors marketing and or fundraising events

Extent of Discretion

In Consultation with the Aeromedical Coordinator & In collaboration with the Operations department.

Required Qualifications

Education

  • Kenyan Registered Nurse or its equivalent
  • Higher National Diploma in Intensive Care Nursing
  • Current certifications in: Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) with experience in Pre-hospital emergency patient care

Experience:

  • 4 years’ work experience as a Nurse, with 2 years’ experience in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

Skills and competencies

  • Compassion
  • Excellent communicator; with good command of English language both verbal and written
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Ability to work with teams and within a team
  • Ability to rise up to challenges
  • Ability to manage time effectively and meet deadlines
  • Ability to work calmly under high pressure
  • Commercial environment awareness (Going beyond the basic requirement)
  • Demonstrate high level of integrity and confidentiality
  • Demonstrate good work ethics
  • Dependability

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Senior Software Developer at Amref Kenya

Amref Health Africa in Kenya is the country programme office of Amref Health Africa, Africa’s largest International Health NGO. This is the largest and oldest country programme in Africa with an average annual budget of USD 40million. We have 19 innovative products and project models that have successfully been implemented and transformed 5.4 million lives.

Main Purpose Of Job

Amref Health Africa is seeking to recruit a senior software developer who will be tasked to maintain and redesign of an in-house developed programmes management system and knowledge management platform integrations as well as upgrade the architecture in all sections of AIMS with a seamless retirement of deprecated modules/functions among other duties.

Education and knowledge

  • A University degree in IT, Computer Science, or related field.
  • Knowledge of the Microsoft technical ecosystem.
  • Knowledge of building a monitoring and evaluation software is an added advantage
  • Knowledge in Angular js, React js or Vue js.
  • Knowledge of Sql Server optimisation is an added advantage.

Experience

  • 3+ years of experience as a software engineer
  • 4+ years professional experience in professional web development
  • Experience in working in a multi-programmer environment using collaborative tools such as code repositories, wikis and other collaboration platforms.
  • Experience in implementation of projects using agile methodology.
  • Experience building functional complex web-based systems on an enterprise level. .
  • Ability to take a project from scoping requirements to launch.
  • Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams and management to collect requirements, identify tasks, provide estimates and meet production deadlines
  • Proven experience in Domain-driven design architecture.
  • Experience with mission critical, 24×7 systems
  • Experience implementing and consuming large scale web services
  • Proven experience in implementation of micro service architecture
  • Proven experience in software development using Microsoft C# MVC, fluent API.
  • Experience Working in an Agile Environment

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Bi-Lingual Project Associate at African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET)

FEMNET – The African Women’s Development and Communication Network is a pan- African membership-based feminist network based in Nairobi with over 600 members across 46 African countries. FEMNET envisions an African society where gender equality is achieved and women and girls enjoy their rights and dignity while in its mission it seeks to facilitate and coordinate the sharing of experiences, ideas, information, and strategies for human rights promotion among African women’s organizations through networking, communication, capacity-building and advocacy at the regional and international levels.

FEMNET in partnership with her members and the European Union is implementing the Strengthened Network for Greater Impact (STITCH) Program that seeks to strengthen the capacities of national women’s networks in advocating for the implementation of existing women’s rights commitments through lobbying, research, mainstream campaigns and educational activities. The STITCH project is being implemented in 7 countries notably Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tunisia, Mali, DRC and Mauritius.  The project works with 13 partners across the 7 countries.

This person will be:

  • Providing routine project management support by ensuring the workplan activities are implemented in a timely manner and within budget
  • Provide language (French-English) interpretation and translation services for routine project interactions
  • Assist the Project Implementation Team in following up with partners, scheduling meetings
  • Responsible for timely delivery on project activities and prepare the subsequent financial and operational plans and reports as required.

Description Of Duties:

  • Support timely implementation of project workplan
  • Develop /adopt relevant materials to support field activities (if and when necessary)
  • Plan, implement and maintain record on STITCH related activities
  • Support Project Implementation Team in tracking project spending and reviewing and monitoring of partner reports
  • Provide support in monitoring, evaluation, and project learning
  • Liaise with relevant partners, stakeholders and collaborators at activity and implementation level
  • Support operations research within the project.
  • Provide administrative support including scheduling and organizing project meetings, documentation and record keeping and travel and logistics.

Accountability:

  • Supervision: Works independently and in collaboration with the team while reporting on regular basis to STITCH Regional Project Manager.
  • Decision Making: Is responsible for support project implementation with the guidance of the Project Implementation Team.
  • Responsibility over FEMNET project data or information: relevant data and material
  • Responsibility over assets: All assigned office equipment
  • Responsibility over Staff: None this is an entry-level part-time position with the potential of more subject to funding.

Job Specifications:

Required Qualification

Professional/qualifications

Minimal

  • French written and spoken proficiency at level B1
  • Proficiency in written and spoken English
  • Diploma in social sciences, business administration is an added advantage

Desirable

  • Higher level French proficiency
  • Degree or higher Diploma

(Proof of the same will be requested once hired for records purposes)

Relevant Experience  

Minimal

  • Hands on experience /exposure in activity implementation
  • Experience implementing projects for NGOs will be an added advantage

Length Of Experience

Minimal

At least six months

Desirable

At least one year

Key Skills

Minimal

  • Proficiency in written and oral English and French
  • Good Interpersonal communication skills
  • Good analytical skills
  • Good organizational skills – planning, implementation, and reporting

Personal Attributes

  • Creative, takes initiative and self-motivated.
  • Willingness to learn and work under a fast-paced environment

Performance Standards For This Job:

  • Implementation of activities leading to desired effects.
  • Organised documentation and timely reporting
  • Coordination and timely meeting attendance and updates.

Remuneration will be in line with the set procedures of the organizations which consider the experience and qualifications of the candidate.

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Sharepoint and Powerapps Engineer at Techsavanna Technology Limited

Techsavanna has provided a wide range of ICT services and software for Property Management, Project Management, Energy Management and Financial Management in diverse industry and client profiles. In Eastern Africa the firm has offices in Nairobi, in the region the firm comprises of with a total staff force of over 100.

Role Purpose: 

SharePoint and PowerApps Engineer role is to create and configure SharePoint websites, finding solutions to enhance business activity and customizing sites based on the client’s requirements and build business process apps that can support business processes and workflows.

Responsible to integrate add in utility programs and integrations to core systems to support business processes. focus on needs analysis, design, build and go-live in addition to support for a large Microsoft SharePoint environment.

To provide solutions on the Office 365 tools; SharePoint, PowerApps , planner , teams , to do , flows, power automate, in design , add ins , office package , database connections , forms and other solutions that can integrate with the office suite.

Job Responsibilities / Accountabilities:

  • Build scalable and secure SharePoint and office 365 suite solutions that will address business process needs and productivity.
  • Design and develop consistent branding sites for the organization.
  • Write and modify code to build applications and SharePoint sites based on their needs and requirements.
  • Provide second-level support and assist with third-level support. Troubleshoot and manage resolution of operational problems for assigned software or hardware technologies.
  • Build understanding of communications and collaboration technologies within the organization through the creation of self-service options.
  • Support departments in developing workflow applications, add on and utility programs to support on business process
  • Lead and direct others in the overall administration of SharePoint sites and integrations to other solutions.
  • Perform installation, configuration, and maintenance of SharePoint technologies, software and solutions following established procedures and change control standards.
  • Maintain up-to-date awareness of industry developments and best practices in their area of business process, workplace digitisation and SharePoint administration.
  • Have a basic knowledge and understanding of software development languages and tools to integrate communication and collaboration technologies with other applications and business systems.
  • Have a basic knowledge and understanding of one or more infrastructure technologies such as database, network, security, server, storage, and workstations.
  • Estimation of medium size projects related to SharePoint and power apps.
  • Understand client solution needs related to business improvement and business process workflows.
  • Architect, design and develop online SharePoint solutions and support in any additional solutions related to integrating to the SharePoint and PowerApps.
  • Solution deployment, configuration and administration
  • Customization of workflows, document management, lists, libraries, forms and sites ability
  • Train users on how to work with developed/deployed solutions or workflows on SharePoint

Core Skills Required

  • Teamwork –Work closely with their colleagues to find solutions to business problems.
  • Concentration –Work on programming tasks for long periods of time.
  • Creativity – Find solutions to problems and think outside the box to fix issues.
  • Attention to detail – Keen attention to details of identifying significant error in code and fixing.
  • Excellent presentation and communication skills (to both technical and non-technical audiences, written and verbal)
  • Proven track record to work to strict deadlines
  • Self-management and strong organization skills
  • Excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills
  • Strong analytical skills
  • Excellent problem-solving skills
  • Documentation skills
  • Knowledge of software development methodologies

Key Critical Competencies

  • A University degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, and/or related field.
  • Minimum 3 years of experience in Information Technology
  • Microsoft products (SharePoint, Windows Server, SQL Server)
  • Programming languages (C#.NET, ASP.NET, Visual Basic.NET)
  • Office 365 / SharePoint Online Development Experience
  • Microsoft Power Apps, Power automate, Flows and Infopath
  • Experience of working with the SharePoint App model (provider hosted and/or SharePoint hosted)
  • Competent project management skills
  • Experience of SharePoint Server Side and Client Side Object Model
  • Experience in SharePoint Designer Workflows
  • Experience in ASP.NET / MVC / C# .NET / HTML / CSS / JavaScript / jQuery / REST / OData / MVC / CDN
  • Experience in using Visual Studio and using Microsoft Team Foundation Services
  • Experience of working with the AGILE methodology
  • SharePoint 2013\2016
  • Microsoft SharePoint architecture

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UI/UX Designer (Nairobi) at Techsavanna Technology Limited

Techsavanna has provided a wide range of ICT services and software for Property Management, Project Management, Energy Management and Financial Management in diverse industry and client profiles. In Eastern Africa the firm has offices in Nairobi, in the region the firm comprises of with a total staff force of over 100.

Role Purpose: 

The UX designer will be required to understand business and user requirements and facilitate the organizations product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping and user-testing experiences for digital products.

The UX designer will also be expected to design the overall look and feel of the product in order to ensure a great user experience and iterate upon it in accordance with user- testing findings.

Key Responsibilities

  • Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product managers and stakeholders
  • Facilitate user experience design thinking sessions to identify business and technical requirements for technology, research and business initiatives to ensure that designs are successfully created and implemented to achieve the user goals.
  • Provide guidance on incorporating user research methodologies into the product design and development lifecycles.
  • Develop overall user experience, interaction design and information architecture for technology and business initiatives at the level of detail and rigor needed by those who must base their work on the design.
  • Use a variety of analytical techniques to gather and analyze design requirements (e.g. interviews, facilitated workshops, surveys, site visits, use cases, workflow analysis, observations, etc.)
  • This includes creating site maps, flows, wireframes, prototypes and design specifications; analyzing usability test results; and developing user experience design briefs.
  • Evaluate information gathered from multiple sources with the aim of resolving conflicts and providing information to support interaction design prioritization and tradeoff decisions.
  • Define process improvements for the user experience team and works with the leadership team to communicate and uphold user experience standards.
  • Work with creative & visual leads and technical leads to understand technical systems and constraints so that design solutions are technically feasible and optimal and to co-evolve experience solutions through an iterative design process.
  • Develop expert level knowledge of competitive and complementary design strategies to ensure a “best approach” design with every project
  • Establish and promote UX guidelines, best practices and standards.
  • Act as an internal consultant and subject matter expert by staying on top of changing UX design technologies, as well as corporate, organization, and industry standards to ensure leading-edge interpretation and execution of design applications and to provide business and technical guidance where appropriate

Agile / Digital Experience

  • Strong leader, collaborator, team player, and individual contributor
  • Strong communication skills with comfort in speaking with business stakeholders
  • Strong problem solver with ability to manage and lead the team to push the solution and progress
  • Passion to challenge the status quo and find new solutions and drive out of the box ideas – loves and embraces change

Candidate must possess the following Requirements

The successful jobholder will be required to possess the following qualifications: –

  • A Bachelor’s degree in an IT related field or Business related field with relevant IT Professional qualifications. Graphic or Visual Design, Digital Media Design, other visual specialty or any other related qualifications will be an added advantage.
  • At least 3 years’ relevant work experience in a role directly related to web design, UX Design / Front-end mobile-web development experience, product design, product management, production management, marketing.
  • Strong technical proficiency with UX tools such as Axure, Balsamiq, Sketch, and Adobe Creative Suite.
  • Creative problem solver with experience leading projects and building consensus with multiple stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
  • Demonstrated ability to scope and estimate efforts accurately, prioritize tasks and goals independently and rapidly produce deliverables in a fast-paced iterative environment.

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ICT Officer at Ruaraka Uhai Neema Hospital

Ruaraka Uhai Neema Hospital (RUNH) is proving every single day that it is possible to deliver healthcare to all with quality and commitment.

“Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares every person is entitled to the right to health. Ruaraka Uhai Neema Hospital (RUNH) is proving every single day that it is possible to deliver healthcare to all with quality and commitment. RUNH was founded by World Friends in partnership with the Catholic Archdiocese of Nairobi and CISP and has been offering quality healthcare at affordable prices to our Nairobi communities since 2009.

Job Summary:

The position is responsible for the establishment and maintenance of ICT to support the operations and service delivery by the Hospital.

The incumbent is responsible for providing technical support of computer hardware, software and accessories; ensuring proper installation and configuration of computer systems; ensuring that the computer systems and networks are properly maintained and functional

Key Responsibilities

General Management

  • Ensure compliance with policies, operating/administrative procedures, and systems established for the Hospital.
  • Develop and implement policies and procedures for electronic data processing and computer systems operations and development.
  • Manage the resources allocated for ICT services in a prudent manner.
  • Provide high quality IT support service to the Hospital and support to users of ICT systems.
  • Facilitate regular departmental team meetings to promote communication and information sharing, discuss performance standards and compliance, staffing, monitor general trends in client complaints and other concerns and/or developments.
  • Understand and promote emergency and evacuation procedures in line with relevant regulations and/or requirements.
  • Provide user management support for user accounts.
  • Undertake routine maintenance and check networked workstations and other peripherals; and troubleshoot hardware, software and network operating system.
  • Ensure the accurate recording, administration and management of lifecycle of assets and software licenses.
  • Manage effective systems for monitoring system security patches and malware updates.
  • Ensure that back-ups of data and information are undertaken in line with established policies and procedures, administer and analyze backup issues and backup and recovery operations, maintain backup equipment in serviceable and accessible condition.
  • Undertake web or system development as required.
  • Train and provide orientation to new users of existing technology.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Bachelor’s degree/Diploma in Information Technology, Computer Science or related fields.
  • Proficiency in basic computer programming html, CSS, PHP
  • Training and/or demonstrated experience in some of the following ICT related activities, including wide or local area network administration, desktop hardware or software support, ICT operations support, security support and database administration in a service delivery environment.
  • Outstanding organizational and time-management skills
  • In depth understanding of diverse computer systems and networks
  • Good knowledge of internet security and data privacy principles
  • At least three (3) years’ experience in a similar position

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Regulatory Affairs Specialist at Bayer

Bayer is a Life Science company with a more than 150-year history and core competencies in the areas of health care and agriculture. With our innovative products, we are contributing to finding solutions to some of the major challenges of our time. Bayer group An analysis by well-known branding agency Interbrand in 2015 valued the Bayer brand at a 6.3 billion. A growing and aging world population requires an adequate supply of food and improved medical care.

Ref No. 2020/HR/PH-010

Reporting to the Head, Regulatory Affais & Quality Assurance, the Regulatory Affairs Specialist will be responsible for registration, re-registration, life cycle management and regulatory compliance of Bayer Pharmaceuticals and Consumer Health products in Middle Africa and supporting maintenance of the local commercial operations Quality Management System, deputizing the Country Quality Head.

Major Tasks and responsibilities

  • Planning and execution of assigned Bayer Pharmaceutical and Consumer Health products, registration / re-registration and lifecycle management
  • Monitors Middle Africa countries requirements of registration and quality assurance of Bayer Pharmaceuticals and Consumer Health products;
  • Supports contacts with Ministry of Health and other authorities and the organisations participating in registration, expertise and quality assurance of Bayer Pharmaceutical and Consumer Health products
  • Business support of the Representation offices in Middle Africa ad in-Country distributors / customer and partners
  • Support implementation and regular monitoring of the local Quality Management Systems for local commercial operations;
  • Ensure and support adherence to industry-specific codes of practice or conduct, advertising codes, regulatory directives and guidelines, as applicable to the role and to the Program for Legal
  • Compliance and Corporate Responsibility at Bayer in Middle Africa

Experience / Qualifications

  • University Degree in Pharmacy, and registered by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board
  • 1-4 years of work experience in Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance, Product Development or Product Safety
  • Knowledge of medicines regulatory environment in Middle Africa
  • High self-motivated to complete processes even in challenging regulatory environment
  • Good command of English language (both oral and written), knowledge of French language is an added advantage
  • Good computer literacy
  • Readiness to business travel

Competencies: Manages Complexity, Customer Focus, Drives Results, Collaborates, Business Insights

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Field Service Engineer at Philips

In this role, you have the opportunity to

Be responsible for maintaining and installing professionally Healthcare equipment and maximizing customer satisfaction.

You are responsible for

  • Installing Philips Healthcare (PH) equipment according standards with respect to quality and installation time as set by the business
  • Performing planned maintenance and equipment modifications within the scheduled time and to the quality standards set by the business
  • Performing corrective maintainance, supported when necessary by  tier-2 support helpdesk
  • Demonstrating commitments to meet customer needs and requirements by ensuring all given quality standards
  • Submitting timely and accurate service data, job sheets, reports, expense claims, radiation film badges, field problem reports and other paperwork as assigned
  • Being aware of customer needs and potential commercial leads (Philips Lifecycle Solutions – PLS)  through customer visits and provide feedback and recommendations to the management, relevant people within the organization
  • Supporting the District Customer Services & Operations Manager and the Customer Services Account Manager as appropriate with contract renewals etc.
  • Using company property with care to ensure optimal results with minimal operational costs
  • Keeping abreast of new technologies likely to affect PH range of products
  • Being a professional representative for PH with respect to customer problems, ensuring personal acceptability by the customer in appearance and behavior in accordance with PH policy and targets
  • Executing service events (maintenance & Installation) in compliance with applicable version of Business Unit (BU) / Business Line (BL) service manuals and relevant PH quality standard policies
  • Completeness and accuracy of service records with particular attention to test & inspection results
  • Adopting appropriate ESD control while servicing PH equipment
  • Using appropriate electronic measurement equipment in calibration controlled cycle
  • Reporting identified device safety issues according to applicable PH quality standard policy
  • Reporting customer feedback according to applicable quality standard policy and follow up relevant assigned quality & regulatory training in a timely manner

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience

  • Degree/Diploma level education or equivalent
  • Experience in maintenance and troubleshooting of technical complex systems
  • Fluent in English, verbal and written in addition to local language

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Senior Capacity Development Advisor – LHSS East Africa at Abt Associates

Abt Associates is a global leader in research, evaluation and program implementation; driving innovation and measurable impact for more than 50 years. What sets us apart is our evidence-based and multi-disciplinary approach to solving tough challenges in health, social and environmental policy and international development. Specific areas we work in include:

Organization Overview

The International Development Division focuses on improving the lives and economic well-being of people in lower and middle-income countries. We command technical expertise in health, agriculture, climate change, food security and governance—as well as in international evaluation. Our multi-layered health portfolio includes policy, health promotion and disease prevention, health finance, and health systems management. In partnership with government clients and local experts, our high-quality programs in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East are known for impact and innovation.

Job Summary

Abt Associates seeks a qualified Senior Capacity Development Advisor for the Local Health System Sustainability Project’s East Africa Cross-Border Health Activity (LHSS/East Africa). The LHSS Project is USAID’s flagship initiative in integrated health systems strengthening, with a goal to help low- and middle- income countries transition to sustainable, self-financed health systems as a means to support universal health coverage. LHSS/East Africa in particular will work in partnership with USAID Kenya and East Africa (KEA) Regional Mission, bilateral Missions of the focus countries, regional intergovernmental organizations (RIGOs), national governments, private sector stakeholders, and relevant cross-border health authorities and health facilities (public and private) that are also in charge of the provision of health services to vulnerable and mobile populations that cross borders. At the end of two years, LHSS/East Africa will have increased access to and use of affordable and continuous quality health care in cross-border areas for this target population.

This is a full-time position based in Nairobi, Kenya with frequent travel to cross-border sites in the focus countries.

Key Roles And Responsibilities

The Advisor will have the following specific duties and responsibilities:

  •  Coordinate and facilitate stakeholder meeting workshops and consultation meetings with RIGOs and relevant actors to prioritize partnership capacity-building interventions aimed at addressing identified capacity gaps
  • Support the Chief of Party and other field office technical leads to facilitate the establishment and functioning of two technical working groups (TWGs) that focus on regional policies and regulatory frameworks regarding health financing and health information systems, respectively
  • In collaboration with technical leads, create trainings for selected RIGOs staff and relevant national government representatives on cross-border evidence generation and knowledge management in the areas of health service delivery, financing, and information systems
  • Support cross-border health officers in assessing cross-border health unit capacity, establishing relevant networks/associations and data governance structures, and building their capacity.
  • Identify and provide STTA on targeted capacity building support to public and private health facilities based on identified capacity gaps, and on strengthening the capacity of local networks and professional associations, in the identified six cross-border health unit areas
  • Provide support to institutionalize evidence-based annual cross-border health performance review meetings, and to share lessons learned across the RIGOs and cross-border areas
  • The Advisor will report to the LHSS/East Africa Chief of Party, and be supported by the LHSS consortium partner Training Resources Group, Inc. (TRG).

Preferred Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in organizational development, industrial psychology or management, and 8 to 10 years of experience in developing and managing capacity building programs
  • Experience designing and conducting meetings and workshops
  • Demonstrated experience in working in partnership with multiple host country governments/ government entities, donors, local partners, and other stakeholders
  • Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams and/or work groups
  • Proven record of excellent management, leadership, decision-making, and interpersonal skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English are required
  • Knowledge and communication skills in French and/or one or more national languages in the region will have an added value
  • Kenyan nationals and residents are encouraged to apply

Minimum Qualifications

(8+) years of experience and a master degree OR the equivalent combination of education and experience

Abt Associates is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse workforce. Abt Associates provides market-competitive salaries and comprehensive employee benefits. Local candidates strongly encouraged to apply.

Disclaimer: Abt Associates will never ask candidates for money in exchange for an offer of employment.

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Programme Officer at International Organization for Migration

Established in 1951, IOM is the leading inter-governmental organization in the field of migration and works closely with governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners. With 165 member states, a further 8 states holding observer status and offices in over 100 countries, IOM is dedicated to promoting humane and orderly migration for the benefit of all. It does so by providing services and advice to governments and migrants.

Job Description

The IBM programme is directly implemented by IOM without implementing partners, and most of the activities in the programme are delivered by the programme staff assigned to the project, which requires interaction with multiple Somali authorities whose needs and capacities are at different stages. The programme is funded by different donor governments and requires macro and micro-level attention to the political, security and socio-economic landscapes of the Horn of Africa in general and Somalia in particular.

With the current growth of the IBM programme, the unit seeks a proactive Programme Officer to strategically support its undertaking on 1) Project Co-ordination and Implementation 2) Budget management 3) Project development, 2) Donor and Government liaisons, 3) Communication, 4) Reporting and with close co-ordination with IBM programme staff, Resource Management Unit (RMU) and Project Support Unit (PSU) within the mission.

Under the overall supervision of IOM Somalia Chief of Mission, the direct supervision of the Programme Manager (IBM) and in close co-ordination with programme staff, the incumbent will be responsible for providing support in the implementation of IBM-related programmes in the mission.

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Logistician, P3, Nairobi, Dakar at World Health Organization

The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health. It was established on 7 April 1948, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

Objectives Of The Programme

To reduce mortality, morbidity and societal disruption resulting from epidemics, natural disasters, conflicts and environmental, chemical, radio-nuclear and food-related emergencies, as well as antimicrobial resistance, through prevention, preparedness and response in the context of the International Health Regulation (IHR 2005).To ensure that WHO regional office, inter-country teams and countries’ offices are adequately prepared and able to respond in a timely manner to outbreaks and emergencies with public health consequences.

Description Of Duties

The incumbent is assigned all or part of the following responsibilities which are performed according to the needs and agenda:

  • To support the development and implementation of a country plans for epidemics and emergency response in addition to emergency standard operating procedures, contingency plans, methodologies and tools to enable responsive and effective outbreak, epidemic and emergency logistics;
  • To provide support for the development and facilitation of required training to strengthen logistics capacity, including organizing simulation exercises for WHO staff and Member States to improve preparedness;
  • To support the development of plans, procedures and reports on material assessment and movements and other operational and logistics issues, including planning and estimating of financial operational costs and budgets;
  • To maintain accurate and complete accounting by maintaining fully functional reporting and internal control systems, for recording and retaining of all relevant records;
  • To participate in the identification, establishment and training of an emergency logistics roster to be deployed alongside rapid response teams;
  • To perform other related responsibilities as assigned, including replacing and backstopping for others as required.

Required Qualifications

Education

Essential: University degree in logistics or other related field with certified training in health logistics.
Desirable: Specialized training in logistics for emergency and/or humanitarian responses, transport, distribution and supply chain management.

Experience

Essential: At least five years’ experience supporting diverse logistics operations in outbreak, epidemic and/or emergency contexts in developing countries.

Desirable: Supporting logistics and/or supply operations in military, commercial or international organizations/institutions in the field or developing countries. Direct field logistics emergency deployment experience

Skills

Demonstrated expertise in supporting logistics responses to epidemics and emergencies in the field;

  • Knowledge of procurement, warehousing and stock control, goods distribution, transportation and vehicle fleet;
  • Programme management skills including monitoring and evaluation and conceptual and analytical capacity to identify priority activities and assignments and adjust priorities and conflicts as they arise;
  • Track record of success in supporting logistics training plans to address capacity shortfalls;
  • Excellent ability to multitask, explain technical issues and resolve problems in a proactive manner;
  • Proven commitment to quality and good client orientation and ability to take part in training activities with tact and diplomacy;
  • Ability to write in a clear and concise manner;

WHO Competencies

  • Communication
  • Producing results
  • Teamwork
  • Moving forward in a changing environment

Use Of Language Skills

Essential: Expert knowledge of English or French.

Other Skills (e.g. IT)

Good computer skills in Microsoft office.

REMUNERATION

WHO salaries for staff in the Professional category are calculated in US dollars. The remuneration for the above position comprises an annual base salary starting at USD 59,151 (subject to mandatory deductions for pension contributions and health insurance, as applicable), a variable post adjustment, which reflects the cost of living in a particular duty station, and currently amounts to USD 1779 per month for the duty station indicated above. Other benefits include 30 days of annual leave, allowances for dependent family members, home leave, and an education grant for dependent children.

Additional Information

  • This vacancy notice may be used to fill other similar positions at the same grade level
  • Only candidates under serious consideration will be contacted.
  • A written test may be used as a form of screening.
  • In the event that your candidature is retained for an interview, you will be required to provide, in advance, a scanned copy of the degree(s)/diploma(s)/certificate(s) required for this position. WHO only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU)/United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed through the link: http://www.whed.net/. Some professional certificates may not appear in the WHED and will require individual review.
  • Any appointment/extension of appointment is subject to WHO Staff Regulations, Staff Rules and Manual.
  • For information on WHO’s operations please visit: http://www.who.int.
  • WHO is committed to workforce diversity.
  • WHO has a smoke-free environment and does not recruit smokers or users of any form of tobacco.
  • WHO has a mobility policy which can be found at the following link: https://ift.tt/1En0Pu3. Candidates appointed to an international post with WHO are subject to mobility and may be assigned to any activity or duty station of the Organization throughout the world.
  • Applications from women and from nationals of non and underrepresented Member States are particularly encouraged.

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Electrical Engineer at Aceleron

Aceleron is an innovative UK-based advanced lithium battery developer aiming to accelerate the global shift to cleaner, more renewable energy and to empower people to benefit from sustainable battery technology. With a presence in the UK, Caribbean and East Africa, we create innovative storage technology that makes it possible to easily service lithium battery packs, to upgrade features and capabilities at will, and to avoid expensive take back and disposal costs by continuously refilling energy cells. Our vision is to positively impact the lives of people globally. We are achieving this by continuously innovating our solutions and capabilities to provide the best lithium batteries available and the highest quality rapid testing for reuse.

About the Role:

Aceleron is looking for an Electrical Engineer who will be actively involved in the product development and implementation of the company’s product portfolio. They will also be getting intensely trained on li-ion technology and will eventually evolve into a more specialized role.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Work closely with the product development and engineering team in the UK to support the transfer of released designs to production.
  • Set up, record and document individual cell and pack testing.
  • Write detailed reports to explain and illustrate the report findings in a clear and concise manner.
  • Generate statistical data analysis for cell tests.
  • Propose new battery design and changes to optimize battery performance for different applications in the region.
  • Management of cell inventory in and out of the battery workshop.
  • Lead in the battery assembly processes and ensure proper battery tests are conducted before dispatch.
  • Develop process documentation including work instructions, control plans, and other manufacturing related documentation.
  • Champion for environmental health & safety.

Does this Sound Like You?

Must Haves:

  • Minimum 3 years of experience in the field of electrical engineering.
  • Experience in implementing and ensuring safety standards.
  • A degree in mechanical/electrical engineering, or in mechatronics.

Preferred Requirements:

  • Knowledge in li-ion battery design, installation, and in solar systems engineering and installation

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Business Development Manager at Aceleron

Aceleron is an innovative UK-based advanced lithium battery developer aiming to accelerate the global shift to cleaner, more renewable energy and to empower people to benefit from sustainable battery technology. With a presence in the UK, Caribbean and East Africa, we create innovative storage technology that makes it possible to easily service lithium battery packs, to upgrade features and capabilities at will, and to avoid expensive take back and disposal costs by continuously refilling energy cells. Our vision is to positively impact the lives of people globally. We are achieving this by continuously innovating our solutions and capabilities to provide the best lithium batteries available and the highest quality rapid testing for reuse.

About the Role:

Aceleron is looking for a Business Development Manager who will be responsible for the company’s business growth in the region. They will be involved in business development and sales and marketing strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Business development and sales of Aceleron’s battery products in the region.
  • Networking and active business development of existing and new clients.
  • Working closely with the country manager to grow regional sales.
  • Working with industry players and investors to create new projects and opportunities for the company.
  • Lead negotiations between company and potential clients.
  • Design and implement strategic business plans that expands the company’s customer base and ensures its strong market presence.

Does this Sound Like You?

Must Haves:

  • Bachelor’s degree in business or related field.
  • Minimum experience of 4 years in sales or business development.
  • Proven track record on achieving sales targets from previous roles.
  • Strong hold on leading negotiations.
  • Ability to use CRM systems as well as proficiency in MS Office 365.

Preferred Requirements:

  • Sales experience in batteries or solar systems would be highly preferred.

Cultural Attributes:

  • High level of ownership.
  • Focused, and with strong organizational skills.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills.
  • Strong negotiation skills along with influencing capabilities.
  • Insightful and forward looking.

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Thursday, 13 August 2020

Regulatory Affairs Specialist at Bayer

Bayer is a Life Science company with a more than 150-year history and core competencies in the areas of health care and agriculture. With our innovative products, we are contributing to finding solutions to some of the major challenges of our time. Bayer group An analysis by well-known branding agency Interbrand in 2015 valued the Bayer brand at a 6.3 billion. A growing and aging world population requires an adequate supply of food and improved medical care.

Ref No. 2020/HR/PH-010

Reporting to the Head, Regulatory Affais & Quality Assurance, the Regulatory Affairs Specialist will be responsible for registration, re-registration, life cycle management and regulatory compliance of Bayer Pharmaceuticals and Consumer Health products in Middle Africa and supporting maintenance of the local commercial operations Quality Management System, deputizing the Country Quality Head.

Major Tasks and responsibilities

  • Planning and execution of assigned Bayer Pharmaceutical and Consumer Health products, registration / re-registration and lifecycle management
  • Monitors Middle Africa countries requirements of registration and quality assurance of Bayer Pharmaceuticals and Consumer Health products;
  • Supports contacts with Ministry of Health and other authorities and the organisations participating in registration, expertise and quality assurance of Bayer Pharmaceutical and Consumer Health products
  • Business support of the Representation offices in Middle Africa ad in-Country distributors / customer and partners
  • Support implementation and regular monitoring of the local Quality Management Systems for local commercial operations;
  • Ensure and support adherence to industry-specific codes of practice or conduct, advertising codes, regulatory directives and guidelines, as applicable to the role and to the Program for Legal
  • Compliance and Corporate Responsibility at Bayer in Middle Africa

Experience / Qualifications

  • University Degree in Pharmacy, and registered by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board
  • 1-4 years of work experience in Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance, Product Development or Product Safety
  • Knowledge of medicines regulatory environment in Middle Africa
  • High self-motivated to complete processes even in challenging regulatory environment
  • Good command of English language (both oral and written), knowledge of French language is an added advantage
  • Good computer literacy
  • Readiness to business travel

Competencies: Manages Complexity, Customer Focus, Drives Results, Collaborates, Business Insights

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Field Service Engineer at Philips

In this role, you have the opportunity to

Be responsible for maintaining and installing professionally Healthcare equipment and maximizing customer satisfaction.

You are responsible for

  • Installing Philips Healthcare (PH) equipment according standards with respect to quality and installation time as set by the business
  • Performing planned maintenance and equipment modifications within the scheduled time and to the quality standards set by the business
  • Performing corrective maintainance, supported when necessary by  tier-2 support helpdesk
  • Demonstrating commitments to meet customer needs and requirements by ensuring all given quality standards
  • Submitting timely and accurate service data, job sheets, reports, expense claims, radiation film badges, field problem reports and other paperwork as assigned
  • Being aware of customer needs and potential commercial leads (Philips Lifecycle Solutions – PLS)  through customer visits and provide feedback and recommendations to the management, relevant people within the organization
  • Supporting the District Customer Services & Operations Manager and the Customer Services Account Manager as appropriate with contract renewals etc.
  • Using company property with care to ensure optimal results with minimal operational costs
  • Keeping abreast of new technologies likely to affect PH range of products
  • Being a professional representative for PH with respect to customer problems, ensuring personal acceptability by the customer in appearance and behavior in accordance with PH policy and targets
  • Executing service events (maintenance & Installation) in compliance with applicable version of Business Unit (BU) / Business Line (BL) service manuals and relevant PH quality standard policies
  • Completeness and accuracy of service records with particular attention to test & inspection results
  • Adopting appropriate ESD control while servicing PH equipment
  • Using appropriate electronic measurement equipment in calibration controlled cycle
  • Reporting identified device safety issues according to applicable PH quality standard policy
  • Reporting customer feedback according to applicable quality standard policy and follow up relevant assigned quality & regulatory training in a timely manner

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience

  • Degree/Diploma level education or equivalent
  • Experience in maintenance and troubleshooting of technical complex systems
  • Fluent in English, verbal and written in addition to local language

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Senior Capacity Development Advisor – LHSS East Africa at Abt Associates

Abt Associates is a global leader in research, evaluation and program implementation; driving innovation and measurable impact for more than 50 years. What sets us apart is our evidence-based and multi-disciplinary approach to solving tough challenges in health, social and environmental policy and international development. Specific areas we work in include:

Organization Overview

The International Development Division focuses on improving the lives and economic well-being of people in lower and middle-income countries. We command technical expertise in health, agriculture, climate change, food security and governance—as well as in international evaluation. Our multi-layered health portfolio includes policy, health promotion and disease prevention, health finance, and health systems management. In partnership with government clients and local experts, our high-quality programs in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East are known for impact and innovation.

Job Summary

Abt Associates seeks a qualified Senior Capacity Development Advisor for the Local Health System Sustainability Project’s East Africa Cross-Border Health Activity (LHSS/East Africa). The LHSS Project is USAID’s flagship initiative in integrated health systems strengthening, with a goal to help low- and middle- income countries transition to sustainable, self-financed health systems as a means to support universal health coverage. LHSS/East Africa in particular will work in partnership with USAID Kenya and East Africa (KEA) Regional Mission, bilateral Missions of the focus countries, regional intergovernmental organizations (RIGOs), national governments, private sector stakeholders, and relevant cross-border health authorities and health facilities (public and private) that are also in charge of the provision of health services to vulnerable and mobile populations that cross borders. At the end of two years, LHSS/East Africa will have increased access to and use of affordable and continuous quality health care in cross-border areas for this target population.

This is a full-time position based in Nairobi, Kenya with frequent travel to cross-border sites in the focus countries.

Key Roles And Responsibilities

The Advisor will have the following specific duties and responsibilities:

  •  Coordinate and facilitate stakeholder meeting workshops and consultation meetings with RIGOs and relevant actors to prioritize partnership capacity-building interventions aimed at addressing identified capacity gaps
  • Support the Chief of Party and other field office technical leads to facilitate the establishment and functioning of two technical working groups (TWGs) that focus on regional policies and regulatory frameworks regarding health financing and health information systems, respectively
  • In collaboration with technical leads, create trainings for selected RIGOs staff and relevant national government representatives on cross-border evidence generation and knowledge management in the areas of health service delivery, financing, and information systems
  • Support cross-border health officers in assessing cross-border health unit capacity, establishing relevant networks/associations and data governance structures, and building their capacity.
  • Identify and provide STTA on targeted capacity building support to public and private health facilities based on identified capacity gaps, and on strengthening the capacity of local networks and professional associations, in the identified six cross-border health unit areas
  • Provide support to institutionalize evidence-based annual cross-border health performance review meetings, and to share lessons learned across the RIGOs and cross-border areas
  • The Advisor will report to the LHSS/East Africa Chief of Party, and be supported by the LHSS consortium partner Training Resources Group, Inc. (TRG).

Preferred Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in organizational development, industrial psychology or management, and 8 to 10 years of experience in developing and managing capacity building programs
  • Experience designing and conducting meetings and workshops
  • Demonstrated experience in working in partnership with multiple host country governments/ government entities, donors, local partners, and other stakeholders
  • Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams and/or work groups
  • Proven record of excellent management, leadership, decision-making, and interpersonal skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English are required
  • Knowledge and communication skills in French and/or one or more national languages in the region will have an added value
  • Kenyan nationals and residents are encouraged to apply

Minimum Qualifications

(8+) years of experience and a master degree OR the equivalent combination of education and experience

Abt Associates is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse workforce. Abt Associates provides market-competitive salaries and comprehensive employee benefits. Local candidates strongly encouraged to apply.

Disclaimer: Abt Associates will never ask candidates for money in exchange for an offer of employment.

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Programme Officer at International Organization for Migration

Established in 1951, IOM is the leading inter-governmental organization in the field of migration and works closely with governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners. With 165 member states, a further 8 states holding observer status and offices in over 100 countries, IOM is dedicated to promoting humane and orderly migration for the benefit of all. It does so by providing services and advice to governments and migrants.

Job Description

The IBM programme is directly implemented by IOM without implementing partners, and most of the activities in the programme are delivered by the programme staff assigned to the project, which requires interaction with multiple Somali authorities whose needs and capacities are at different stages. The programme is funded by different donor governments and requires macro and micro-level attention to the political, security and socio-economic landscapes of the Horn of Africa in general and Somalia in particular.

With the current growth of the IBM programme, the unit seeks a proactive Programme Officer to strategically support its undertaking on 1) Project Co-ordination and Implementation 2) Budget management 3) Project development, 2) Donor and Government liaisons, 3) Communication, 4) Reporting and with close co-ordination with IBM programme staff, Resource Management Unit (RMU) and Project Support Unit (PSU) within the mission.

Under the overall supervision of IOM Somalia Chief of Mission, the direct supervision of the Programme Manager (IBM) and in close co-ordination with programme staff, the incumbent will be responsible for providing support in the implementation of IBM-related programmes in the mission.

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Logistician, P3, Nairobi, Dakar at World Health Organization

The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health. It was established on 7 April 1948, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

Objectives Of The Programme

To reduce mortality, morbidity and societal disruption resulting from epidemics, natural disasters, conflicts and environmental, chemical, radio-nuclear and food-related emergencies, as well as antimicrobial resistance, through prevention, preparedness and response in the context of the International Health Regulation (IHR 2005).To ensure that WHO regional office, inter-country teams and countries’ offices are adequately prepared and able to respond in a timely manner to outbreaks and emergencies with public health consequences.

Description Of Duties

The incumbent is assigned all or part of the following responsibilities which are performed according to the needs and agenda:

  • To support the development and implementation of a country plans for epidemics and emergency response in addition to emergency standard operating procedures, contingency plans, methodologies and tools to enable responsive and effective outbreak, epidemic and emergency logistics;
  • To provide support for the development and facilitation of required training to strengthen logistics capacity, including organizing simulation exercises for WHO staff and Member States to improve preparedness;
  • To support the development of plans, procedures and reports on material assessment and movements and other operational and logistics issues, including planning and estimating of financial operational costs and budgets;
  • To maintain accurate and complete accounting by maintaining fully functional reporting and internal control systems, for recording and retaining of all relevant records;
  • To participate in the identification, establishment and training of an emergency logistics roster to be deployed alongside rapid response teams;
  • To perform other related responsibilities as assigned, including replacing and backstopping for others as required.

Required Qualifications

Education

Essential: University degree in logistics or other related field with certified training in health logistics.
Desirable: Specialized training in logistics for emergency and/or humanitarian responses, transport, distribution and supply chain management.

Experience

Essential: At least five years’ experience supporting diverse logistics operations in outbreak, epidemic and/or emergency contexts in developing countries.

Desirable: Supporting logistics and/or supply operations in military, commercial or international organizations/institutions in the field or developing countries. Direct field logistics emergency deployment experience

Skills

Demonstrated expertise in supporting logistics responses to epidemics and emergencies in the field;

  • Knowledge of procurement, warehousing and stock control, goods distribution, transportation and vehicle fleet;
  • Programme management skills including monitoring and evaluation and conceptual and analytical capacity to identify priority activities and assignments and adjust priorities and conflicts as they arise;
  • Track record of success in supporting logistics training plans to address capacity shortfalls;
  • Excellent ability to multitask, explain technical issues and resolve problems in a proactive manner;
  • Proven commitment to quality and good client orientation and ability to take part in training activities with tact and diplomacy;
  • Ability to write in a clear and concise manner;

WHO Competencies

  • Communication
  • Producing results
  • Teamwork
  • Moving forward in a changing environment

Use Of Language Skills

Essential: Expert knowledge of English or French.

Other Skills (e.g. IT)

Good computer skills in Microsoft office.

REMUNERATION

WHO salaries for staff in the Professional category are calculated in US dollars. The remuneration for the above position comprises an annual base salary starting at USD 59,151 (subject to mandatory deductions for pension contributions and health insurance, as applicable), a variable post adjustment, which reflects the cost of living in a particular duty station, and currently amounts to USD 1779 per month for the duty station indicated above. Other benefits include 30 days of annual leave, allowances for dependent family members, home leave, and an education grant for dependent children.

Additional Information

  • This vacancy notice may be used to fill other similar positions at the same grade level
  • Only candidates under serious consideration will be contacted.
  • A written test may be used as a form of screening.
  • In the event that your candidature is retained for an interview, you will be required to provide, in advance, a scanned copy of the degree(s)/diploma(s)/certificate(s) required for this position. WHO only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU)/United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed through the link: http://www.whed.net/. Some professional certificates may not appear in the WHED and will require individual review.
  • Any appointment/extension of appointment is subject to WHO Staff Regulations, Staff Rules and Manual.
  • For information on WHO’s operations please visit: http://www.who.int.
  • WHO is committed to workforce diversity.
  • WHO has a smoke-free environment and does not recruit smokers or users of any form of tobacco.
  • WHO has a mobility policy which can be found at the following link: https://ift.tt/1En0Pu3. Candidates appointed to an international post with WHO are subject to mobility and may be assigned to any activity or duty station of the Organization throughout the world.
  • Applications from women and from nationals of non and underrepresented Member States are particularly encouraged.

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Electrical Engineer at Aceleron

Aceleron is an innovative UK-based advanced lithium battery developer aiming to accelerate the global shift to cleaner, more renewable energy and to empower people to benefit from sustainable battery technology. With a presence in the UK, Caribbean and East Africa, we create innovative storage technology that makes it possible to easily service lithium battery packs, to upgrade features and capabilities at will, and to avoid expensive take back and disposal costs by continuously refilling energy cells. Our vision is to positively impact the lives of people globally. We are achieving this by continuously innovating our solutions and capabilities to provide the best lithium batteries available and the highest quality rapid testing for reuse.

About the Role:

Aceleron is looking for an Electrical Engineer who will be actively involved in the product development and implementation of the company’s product portfolio. They will also be getting intensely trained on li-ion technology and will eventually evolve into a more specialized role.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Work closely with the product development and engineering team in the UK to support the transfer of released designs to production.
  • Set up, record and document individual cell and pack testing.
  • Write detailed reports to explain and illustrate the report findings in a clear and concise manner.
  • Generate statistical data analysis for cell tests.
  • Propose new battery design and changes to optimize battery performance for different applications in the region.
  • Management of cell inventory in and out of the battery workshop.
  • Lead in the battery assembly processes and ensure proper battery tests are conducted before dispatch.
  • Develop process documentation including work instructions, control plans, and other manufacturing related documentation.
  • Champion for environmental health & safety.

Does this Sound Like You?

Must Haves:

  • Minimum 3 years of experience in the field of electrical engineering.
  • Experience in implementing and ensuring safety standards.
  • A degree in mechanical/electrical engineering, or in mechatronics.

Preferred Requirements:

  • Knowledge in li-ion battery design, installation, and in solar systems engineering and installation

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Business Development Manager at Aceleron

Aceleron is an innovative UK-based advanced lithium battery developer aiming to accelerate the global shift to cleaner, more renewable energy and to empower people to benefit from sustainable battery technology. With a presence in the UK, Caribbean and East Africa, we create innovative storage technology that makes it possible to easily service lithium battery packs, to upgrade features and capabilities at will, and to avoid expensive take back and disposal costs by continuously refilling energy cells. Our vision is to positively impact the lives of people globally. We are achieving this by continuously innovating our solutions and capabilities to provide the best lithium batteries available and the highest quality rapid testing for reuse.

About the Role:

Aceleron is looking for a Business Development Manager who will be responsible for the company’s business growth in the region. They will be involved in business development and sales and marketing strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Business development and sales of Aceleron’s battery products in the region.
  • Networking and active business development of existing and new clients.
  • Working closely with the country manager to grow regional sales.
  • Working with industry players and investors to create new projects and opportunities for the company.
  • Lead negotiations between company and potential clients.
  • Design and implement strategic business plans that expands the company’s customer base and ensures its strong market presence.

Does this Sound Like You?

Must Haves:

  • Bachelor’s degree in business or related field.
  • Minimum experience of 4 years in sales or business development.
  • Proven track record on achieving sales targets from previous roles.
  • Strong hold on leading negotiations.
  • Ability to use CRM systems as well as proficiency in MS Office 365.

Preferred Requirements:

  • Sales experience in batteries or solar systems would be highly preferred.

Cultural Attributes:

  • High level of ownership.
  • Focused, and with strong organizational skills.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills.
  • Strong negotiation skills along with influencing capabilities.
  • Insightful and forward looking.

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Business Development Executive at Homes Universal LTD

Homes Universal is a real estate consortium of more than ten subsidiaries that offer the full range of real estate services ranging from property development, sales and lettings, valuations, property management, property exhibitions, interior design and a host of other complementary services. Over the years, the group has continued to thrive by anticipating the needs of the market and quickly adapting so as to provide the required services conveniently under one roof through its wide network of subsidiaries.

Job Description

Responsibilities of the Business Development Executive:

The job holder will be responsible for

  • Creating awareness of the company’s existence in security services.
  • Generating sales and increasing company revenue and client base and retain existing clients by giving better services.
  • Conduct market research on the industry and region to ensure customer needs and requirements are exceedingly met.
  • Preparing, negotiating and analyse costs for tenders and contracts.
  • Assist in handling contract management issues
  • Hold weekly sales and marketing meetings with management to evolve viable working strategies and plans for the department.
  • Address all customer complaints on time and efficiently.
  • Deliver promptly customer care by response to queries concerning customer accounts and growing and nurturing customer relationships.
  • Expedite the resolution of customer problems and complaints to maximize satisfaction.
  • Prepare and deliver appropriate sales presentations on products/ services.
  • Analyze the territory/market’s potential, Initiate, negotiate, track and close sales and status reports.
  • Collaborate with team to achieve better results.
  • Actively use CRM as required.
  • Document necessary account information and offer solutions that benefit the customer.
  • Plan documented and measurable routine customer care visits.
  • Conduct formal client’s satisfaction survey on semi-annual basis for all clients and follow-up on recommended actions.
  • Train security personnel on quarterly basis on security and customer care.
  • Maintain a data base of all existing and potential clients and networks.
  • Come up with cost effective measures of expanding the business.
  • Identify new business and support for the Group.

Qualifications of the Business Development Executive

  • A Degree or Diploma in Administration, Sales & Marketing or any other related field.
  • At least 3 years’ experience in sales and marketing in various fields with at least 1 years’ experience in the security industry.
  • Experience with manned security solutions, electronic alarms, access control equipment, C.C.T.V and other sophisticated equipment.
  • Must poses excellent Presentation skills.
  • Exceptional communication skills,commitment, resourcefulness, results oriented and self-driven, customer focus, Initiative, Interpersonal Skills, self-management and sales skills.
  • Self-motivated with a results-driven approach and valid Driver’s License.

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