Experiments Coordinator at Educate!

Educate! works to transform education in Africa to teach youth to solve poverty for themselves and their communities. Educate! provides youth with skills training in leadership, entrepreneurship and workforce readiness along with mentorship to start real businesses at school. Our model is delivered through practically-trained teachers and youth mentors. Educate!’s goal is to make this practical, skills-based model part of national education systems.

Position Overview 

Educate! is seeking an enthusiastic and self-driven Experiments Coordinator to build out the management of our pilot program in Kenya, develop innovative program coordination structures and oversee monitoring, research and learning for Educate! in Kenya. Educate! aspires to be best in program performance management through real-time monitoring and systematic quality assurance.

The Experiments Coordinator will be at the center of building the necessary, underlying systems with this goal in mind. This involves innovating around the challenges of: empowering a new team to successfully launch the pilot in Kenya, managing and monitoring the program across far distances, and building real-time feedback loops to inform the program iteration to fit the needs of Kenya.

The Kenya Experiments Coordinator will have the opportunity to support the pilot of an impactful skills-based education model improving youth livelihoods in Kenya. The Kenya Experiments Coordinator is a mid-level position, with the opportunity to grow into manager level in 1-2 years.

Educate! needs a master trainer who is energized and driven to coordinate a new team ensuring the program creates a lasting impact on youth, and a pioneer, knowledgeable in quantitative and qualitative M&E approaches and in curriculum design, to drive program monitoring and learning forward.

Performance Objectives

Coordinate program implementation to ensure high student impact

• Empower and grow a strong team of trainers to lead program activities in the field, including the implementation of our Bootcamp Pilot
• Plan and coordinate high-impact program activities
• Build effective program coordination and communication systems
• Report on program progress and quality

Ensure high program quality through monitoring 

• Conduct targeted monitoring visits building and supporting the team
• Analyze feedback from monitoring visits to ensure program quality and standardization
• Ensure learnings are incorporated into program design and management practices

Build learning systems for continuous program improvement

• Develop efficient feedback structures for continuous stakeholder feedback
• Lead ex-post assessment of major program activities and derive lessons learned
• Conduct research to inform program design and adaptation

Contribute to curriculum development, testing, and implementation

• Participate in the development of the training curriculum
• Conduct early testing of key curriculum elements to capture areas of improvement
• Oversee implementation of of the curriculum by trainers in the bootcamp

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Science or similar
• 2-4 years experience in Programs, exposure to M&E and/or Curriculum Design
• Experience with program management (preferred)
• Engaging and interactive trainer with passion for coaching team members
• Knowledge of quantitative & qualitative research approaches
• High level of proficiency in Windows Excel
• Good skills in data analysis, presentation and report writing
• Excellent analytical skills combined with a proactive, energetic approach to problem solving
• Fits our Five Cultural Tenets (see What is Educate! About? below); Learn more by looking at Educate!’s culture deck here

Terms 

• Located in Nairobi, Kenya, with frequent travel to field locations necessary
• Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience.
• Benefits & perks include a generous vacation policy and health insurance.

Why You Will Brag About Working At Educate!

• We’ve got the impact.
• Educate! is designed for scale. We quadrupled operations in 2014, going from 54 to more than 200 schools served. We carefully measure our outcomes, and — here’s the best part — we are maintaining quality at four times the size.
• We believe in local leadership — 96% of our staff is African.
• Our model has gone nationwide in Uganda — Educate!’s model is now incorporated into the national curriculum and exams, impacting many thousands more students than we can reach directly.
• Educate is a well-oiled learning machine. We built our model by methodically testing hundreds of assumptions and we are constantly experimenting, evaluating, and improving.
• We’re honored that luminaries and leaders like Oliver Wonekha, the Ugandan Ambassador to the US, and Ann Veneman, a former Secretary of Agriculture and head of Unicef, believe in us enough to have joined our advisory board.

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Associate Managing Consultant, Advisors-2 at MasterCard

Mastercard is a leading global payments & technology company that connects consumers, businesses, merchants, issuers & governments around the world.

Our Purpose

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

The Data & Services team is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing the cutting-edge services that help our customers grow. Focused on thinking big and scaling fast around the globe, this agile team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base. We combine traditional management consulting with our rich data assets and in-house technology to provide our clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations. Centered on data-driven technologies and innovation, these services include consulting, loyalty and marketing programs, test-and-learn business experimentation, and data-driven information and risk management services. While specializing in the payments industry, Mastercard Data & Services also works closely with major retailers, airlines, and other enterprises, leveraging data and insights garnered from within and beyond its network.

We are looking for passionate and talented professionals, who share our vision for data-driven consulting, to join us and take a leading role in shaping the growth of our team.

Make an Impact as an Associate Managing Consultant

Key Deliverables

• To support Advisors to pitch for new business opportunities as well as manage a few key banks/issuers and partners to provide marketing consultancy as well as to deliver marketing solutions and executions of superior standard in a timely and efficient manner.
• He/she should be able to lead, influence drive and deliver the digital marketing agenda internally and with partners across all key marketing strategies and initiatives to achieve key business objectives and strong returns of marketing investments.

The key deliverables are as follows

• Campaign management & delivery – support, design, plan, execute and measure targeted marketing campaigns
• Customer acquisition strategies – initiate ideas and implement marketing initiatives with external agencies, banks and/or partners to design and execute marketing initiatives and programs
• New product launches and card conversions – experienced in end to end new product launches as new cards for issuers or retailers, new loyalty programs and/or card conversions, ability to analyze existing processes, strategize, plan, execute to go to market and post launch management.
• Digital marketing – experienced and well-versed in end-to-end digital marketing which includes analytical review of media strategies and plans, trouble shoot and work with partners to propose successful results-driven digital marketing strategies. Ability to hone in on trends and insights and propose innovative and strategic digital marketing solutions that drive value and results
• Analytics & portfolio management – leveraging, interpreting and analyzing data and insights to plan and implement marketing initiatives. This includes customer retention and loyalty marketing strategies
• Marketing Consultancy – review, analyze and present clear and strategic recommendations to deliver result-driven marketing solutions that span across different functions and disciplines. He/she should be able to leverage media insights and trends as well as consumer insights to design effective results-driven marketing and communication strategies.
• Media planning, channels management and deployment – Media management as well as ATL & BTL planning and implementation. Well-versed in digital, fully-integrated omni-channels planning, development and implementation
• Stakeholders management – strong interpersonal skills to liaise and co-ordinate with agencies, Mastercard stakeholders, issuers and partners
• Strategic planning & implementation – ability to strategize, ideate, plan and execute digital marketing strategies and campaigns as well as tracking and measuring results
• Marketing support and administration – support and co-ordinate with internal and external parties to process payments and to ensure timely submission for financials through Mastercard’s core systems

Capabilities

• Well versed with the payments market and media scene in Sub Saharan Africa. This includes on and offline channels so he/she is able to work with Mastercard and stakeholders to implement highly successful integrated, digital, ATL and BTL marketing campaigns
• Well versed in managing marketing and creative development processes end to end.
• Strong digital and social media knowledge and has managed major campaigns end-to-end. These should include: acquisition, contactless, spend, loyalty and brand initiatives,
• Ability to support and complement client’s various processes and overall marketing processes end to end
• Strong ability to manage multiple time sensitive projects across multiple disciplines at one go and is competent in managing projects of scale with multiple deliverables
• Highly analytical and results oriented; with adept ability to interpret internal and external data and insights to provide effective marketing recommendations and follow through the projects with immaculate and timely and hands-on execution
• Strong interpersonal communication and presentation skills with stakeholders of different seniority
• Expert in digital and offline marketing strategies and programs and these include understanding analytics and data, design and implement roadmaps and programs with the most impactful results
• Ability to adapt and is able to perform efficiently against tight timelines and is equally efficient in ambiguous situations and projects
• Autonomous and willing to travel if required (when possible)

Specific Requirements

• Must have related experience at a large financial institution
• Digital marketing knowledge and experience is a must
• Experienced in managing creative and media agencies
• Superb presentation skills
• Ability to critique media plan and review creative work strategically
• Credit/Debit cards experience preferred
• Strong P&L management
• Ability to implement and execute integrated marketing initiatives end to end – these include direct marketing, digital, above and below the line activities
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills across disciplines and seniority levels.
• Ability to work effectively well in a team and independently
• Well-versed in marketing and core banking processes
• Consultancy experience is a plus
• Comfortable to travel when the need arises occasionally
• Other language knowledge is valuable such as French

Due to COVID-19, most of our employees are working from home. We’ve implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview candidates by phone or video and are onboarding new hires remotely. We value the safety of each member of our community because we know we’re all in this together.

Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process, please contact reasonable.accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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Go-to-Market Strategist at Pyypl Ltd

With Headquarters in Dubai, and offices in other cities including Abu Dhabi, Manama, Nairobi, Maputo and Nursultan, Pyypl Ltd. is a pioneering FinTech company rolling out services across the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia. In Pyypl we are a family of highly experienced digital experts. We are a true product company, extremely results-driven, and always striving to positively surprise our customers.

The Team

In this role, you will be working directly with the Chief Market Expansion Officer (CMEO) as Pyypl’s first Go-to-Market Strategist and will get the opportunity to contribute in building and possible manage a team of strategists as the company grows and expands into new markets.

What you will be doing:

Pyypl is experiencing massive growth and is now looking for a Go-to-Market Strategist to join our family of experts. You will play a key role in developing and delivering strategic plans that can impact the whole organization and the wider MENA region.

You will spend most of your time working on market entry and expansion strategy plans, go-to-market strategy plans, business-wide digital transformation projects, commercial due diligence, long-term strategy roadmaps and business growth strategy plans. Your workday and tasks will be varied, but amongst other include:

• Be responsible for leading work streams and engagements to collect, analyze, and translate large amounts of qualitative and quantitative data into realistic plans, goals, and actionables
• Work closely with respective local teams and industry experts to define the objectives and scope of the Go-to-Market strategy in new markets
• Work with the CMEO to translate new market needs into game plans and deliverables
• Work with the CMEO to develop game plans using tools such as market analysis, customer research, macroeconomic forecasting, and portfolio optimization
• Structure and develop high quality of reports encompassing the relevant analysis, findings and recommendations. Develop competitive analysis and maintain analytical frameworks in order to evaluate and support decision making and allocation of resources, with respect to new business opportunities by Senior Management
• Build and maintain effective reporting solutions for executive-level presentations, including Project Steering Committee and Senior Management meetings

Requirements

What we need you to have to succeed in the role:

• Master’s degree from a top-tier University with outstanding academic record
• 2-4 years relevant strategy consulting experience with functional knowledge in Digital Technology, Digital Business Building, FMCG industry, Retail strategy consulting, Customer segmentation methodologies, B2C Marketing, etc. Experience at top-tier strategy consulting firms (MBB) is preferred but not required
• A high level of knowledge in business strategy, market entry strategy, finance, commercial operations, and data analysis techniques
• Excellent technical skills with extensive stakeholder management and presentation experience
• Strong analytical abilities, both quantitative and qualitative
• Ability to work collaboratively in a multinational environment, with teams at all levels
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Willingness and ability to take initiative and learn independently
• Intellectually powerful and agile: curious, rigorous, and creative
• Candidates from all academic backgrounds are encouraged to apply
• Openness to travel at least 20% of the time
• This role will be based in Pyypl headquarters in Dubai, UAE

Benefits

What we can offer you:

At Pyypl, we don’t just offer jobs but careers. Nothing can replace a start-up spirit with the following benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Employee incentive program
• Autonomy and trust
• Flexible working hours
• A chance to form and build a tech company and its culture from the ground up
• Continuous learning and development
• Fast career growth
• Regular team fun activities to promote open communication and collaboration
• Equal treatment to everyone

We are all about your Pyypl experience. Pyypl is for People!

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Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (Formerly AX) – Functional Consultant at Technobrain

With operations in Africa, USA, UK,India and UAE, Techno Brain is the first indigenous African company to be assessed at CMMI Level-5, achieving highest quality standards for software development. Currently operating in 21+ countries, creating 1200 high tech jobs in the continent, Techno Brain has achieved leadership positions in areas such as Public Financial Management, Digital Identity Management, Tax & Customs, IT Training, Business Process Outsourcing, host of e-Government solutions and Digital products.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The position is responsible for utilizing specialized expertise in AX technology towards the implementation of projects.

Required Skills & Experience:

Academic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field; Business, Accounting, Management Information Systems, Supply Chain Management, IT, computer science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, electrical engineering or any other.
• Any certification to the area an added advantage.

Required Experience

• Minimum of (8) years relevant experience.
• Must have Logistics n finance background.
• Working experience in implementations Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (formerly AX), preparing user documentation and performing data migration.
• Must have a certification in Supply Chain Management (Exam MB-330)
• Proficiency in Microsoft office tools including Visio and Ms Project with dominance in the creation and understanding pivot charts and tables and connecting to data source.
• Experience with SQL Server, SharePoint, EDI, and WMS is an added advantage.

Responsibilities

Requirements gathering and Documentation

1. Understand Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations and assist in requirement gathering.

1. Preparing requirements following meetings and input from the clients.

1. Organizing, categorizing and preparing all documentation.

1. Assisting with the preparation of the project status report, project timeline and project budget.

1. Responsible for identifying risks in the project discovered during any work for the client and reporting them to the project manager.

1. Ensure Signoffs on related activities.

System configuration and Testing

1. Assist in the design of the solution.

1. System installation and database setup.

1. Testing configured software modules (Unit and integration testing) against final requirements.

Delivery of End User Training

1. Preparing the training itinerary, materials and manuals.

1. Delivering training to end users as scheduled.

4.    Customer support

• Interface with senior management and end users and ensure high customer satisfaction.
  • Provide Onsite support at Client’s site.
  • Provide support to users in the UAT phase.
  • Providing go live and post-implementation support.

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Associate Technical Consultant at Technobrain

With operations in Africa, USA, UK,India and UAE, Techno Brain is the first indigenous African company to be assessed at CMMI Level-5, achieving highest quality standards for software development. Currently operating in 21+ countries, creating 1200 high tech jobs in the continent, Techno Brain has achieved leadership positions in areas such as Public Financial Management, Digital Identity Management, Tax & Customs, IT Training, Business Process Outsourcing, host of e-Government solutions and Digital products.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The position is responsible for providing crucial support to the consultants on client projects by frequently being assigned to develop business and functional/technical models for use on projects as well as identification/development of solutions for customers. The role has a degree of freedom in accepting a mix of assignments and project aspects that will allow one to develop in into a fully autonomous consultant

Required Skills & Experience:

Required Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Minimum of (2) years relevant experience for degree holders and (3) years relevant experience for diploma holders.
• Advanced Diploma in Engineering, Business IT, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics, Electrical Engineering or any other related field.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles.
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux).
• Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript.
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js).
• Knowledge of isomorphic React and Google Maps JS API is a plus.
• Good to have: exposure working on back-end preferably with Node.js.
• Familiarity with GraphQL APIs.
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token.
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools.
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git, SVN and Azure DevOps.
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization

Responsibilities

System Development

1. Developing new user-facing features using React.js
2. Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code
3. Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.

Analysis, Design and Implementation

1. Providing business analysis, business area assessment, and user needs analysis and business systems design for major projects
2. Provide technical architecture analysis, design, development and enhancement.
3. Assist in the implementation of end to end system life cycle development of projects.

 Monitoring of system integrity

1. Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.
2. Application of OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities.

Reporting

1. Provide periodic accurate and updated performance reports to support capacity planning.

Delivery of Training

1. Train and familiarize client’s systems administrators.

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Cook – Cysuites Apartment Hotel at Cytonn Investments

Cytonn Investments is an investments and real estate company, with offices in Nairobi – Kenya and DC Metro area – U.S. We are primarily focused on offering alternative investment solutions to global institutional investors, individual high net-worth investors, local institutional investors and diaspora investors interested in the East-African region. Our alternative investments solutions are based on four main products: real estate, structured solutions, private equity and advisory. Most of the investment opportunities in Sub Saharan Africa are not in the listed markets, hence our focus on alternative investments to find uncommon value and returns for our clients.

Cysuites Apartment is looking for a Modern and a well motivated candidate to fill the possition of a cook.

Responsibilities

1. Ensure preparation of food products are done effectively and correctly as per the laid down procedures
2. Set up workstations with all needed ingredients and cooking equipment
3. Keep a sanitized and orderly environment in the kitchen
4. Ensure all foods and produce received are well labelled, Date stamped and stored correctly
5. Ensure the standard recipes for all dishes are followed correctly and maintain uniformity of taste, Quality and portion control
6. Ensure food preparation procedures are followed with critical check on costs and wastage
7. Ensure all relevant documentations are maintained and report the same to immediate supervisor
8. Ensure all stock levels are maintained and correctly documented
9. Ensure to attend to any other duties that may be assigned by the immediate supervisor

Requirements

1. Diploma or higher national diploma in food production
2. Certificate in Food production
3. Experience as a cook for at least three years
4. Knowledge in HACCP
5. Excellent record in kitchen operations and procedures
6. Exceptional cooking skills
7. Computer skills is an added advantage

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Real Estate Sales and Collections Intern at Cytonn Investments

Cytonn Investments is an investments and real estate company, with offices in Nairobi – Kenya and DC Metro area – U.S. We are primarily focused on offering alternative investment solutions to global institutional investors, individual high net-worth investors, local institutional investors and diaspora investors interested in the East-African region. Our alternative investments solutions are based on four main products: real estate, structured solutions, private equity and advisory. Most of the investment opportunities in Sub Saharan Africa are not in the listed markets, hence our focus on alternative investments to find uncommon value and returns for our clients.

The role will allow successful candidates to in the Real Estate functions of the group. To manage its rapid growth, the company is looking for dynamic and hardworking individuals with strong quantitative skills, excellent people skills and exceptional admin skills who shall participate in an intense 12 weeks training program on the entire real estate sales process from reservation to registration, manage sales collections and coordinate with respective law firms on various sales documents until completion.

Responsibilities

1. Assist on the entire real estate sales process from reservation to registration
2. Assist on collection of receivables from clients and and enforce compliance with real estate sales policies and processes
3. Under supervision, review reservations, letters of offer, agreements for sale, and lease registration documents
4. You shall be part of the team that will coordinate with respective law firms on the various sales documents
5. Proactively drive the sales process from reservation to closure
6. Assist on the modeling real estate payment plans such as amortisation models and dynamics of the agreements
7. Assist on development of cash flow projections of project payables and receivables
8. Provide client support services to Real Estate clients
9. Ensure meticulous documentation and record keeping
10. Coordinate real estate sales process improvement and automation initiatives
11. Any other duties as shall be assigned from time to time

Requirements

1. A Bachelor’s degree in a business related discipline from a recognized university with a minimum of Second Class Honors, Upper Division
2. Minimum of B+ in KCSE
3. Good communication skills
4. A keen interest in investments and real estate
5. Proficiency in Microsoft Office
6. Strong numeracy, analytical, strategy and research skills
7. Ability to handle multiple tasks and prioritize accordingly

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

The position will afford the individual a unique opportunity to a clear path to a fulfilling career in Real Estate Sales and Collections, jump start their career through the Cytonn Young Leadership Program.

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Assistant Clerk of Works at Cytonn Investments

Cytonn Investments is an investments and real estate company, with offices in Nairobi – Kenya and DC Metro area – U.S. We are primarily focused on offering alternative investment solutions to global institutional investors, individual high net-worth investors, local institutional investors and diaspora investors interested in the East-African region. Our alternative investments solutions are based on four main products: real estate, structured solutions, private equity and advisory. Most of the investment opportunities in Sub Saharan Africa are not in the listed markets, hence our focus on alternative investments to find uncommon value and returns for our clients.

The Assistant Clerk of Works will work under the supervision of the Projects Manager to ensure that  the interests of Cytonn Real Estate are represented with regards to ensuring that the quality of both materials and workmanship are in accordance with the design information such as specification and engineering drawings, in addition to recognized quality standards

Responsibilities

1. Coordinate, monitor and inspect construction works by contractors for assigned projects on behalf of the Cytonn Real Estate
2. Review contractor’s shop drawings and provide comments on conformance/non-conformance to architect
3. Act as liaison between architect and contractor
4. Conduct on-site observation and spot-checks of work in progress
5. Ensure contract compliance by the contractor, such as conducting tests specified in contract and installing materials/equipment as specified in contract, and report deficiencies to Project Manager, Architect and contractor
6. Provide reports on all on-site matters, including third-party inspections, progress, safety concerns, and causes for delay
7. To be responsible for the inspection of the workmanship and practices of contractors and/or crews engaged in construction
8. Maintain job-site files, documents, reports and daily log; prepare periodic reports for the project manager and the architect as required
9. Measure, record and prepare monthly reports of works executed on site with the supervision of the clerk of works.
10. Report the Defects on the construction works post the handover of project/phase and pursue for closure of all the defects with contractors
11. Assist Facility Management team in handover of units to the clients
12. Report and track all the DLP issues to Project Manager and Facility Manager
13. Review the contractor applications of Bill of Quantities
14. Any other duties as shall be assigned from time to time

Requirements

1. A grade of C+ and above in KCSE (or equivalent) with good grades in mathematics and languages
2. Diploma or higher national diploma in Civil Engineering, building Construction, Quantity Surveying or Structural Engineering and above would be preferable or any other relevant building construction qualification. Registration at the Institute of Clerk of Works of Kenya will be an added advantage.
3. Work experience of 5 to 8 years in a busy mixed use development
4. Practical Knowledge of project plan development and implementation
5. An in-depth knowledge of the construction industry
6. A sound knowledge of building regulations
7. Responsible and work under pressure depending on site program deadline
8. Good organizational and project management skills
9. Excellent problem-solving skills
10. Excellent communication and negotiating skills
11. Good written and oral communication skill
12. The ability to liaise with staff at all levels
13. The ability to meet targets
14. Innovative and solution oriented individuals

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

Working on diverse projects within the real estate sector thus integration of new technical know-how.

Site project management and experience.

Quality control and budgets for projects.

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Chief of Party (COP) at Palladium International

Palladium develops and delivers solutions that create positive impact for communities, businesses, societies and economies. We transform lives and create enduring value by working with governments, corporations and non-profit organisations.

Position Overview:

The Chief of Party (COP) will lead the Palladium team in achieving all project objectives and will be based in Kenya. The COP for the Kenya Strengthening Health Supplies activity will be the principle point of contact for the USAID Agreement Officer’s Representative (AOR) in country and will have the authority to make decisions on behalf of Palladium and will have primary accountability for project requirements. S/He will coordinate and liaise with other stakeholders, including government agencies, other donorfunded projects, implementing partners, and USAID and other donors. The COP will support timely implementation across all activities by working with technical leads and operations staff to maintain a general organizational order of all ongoing activities. This role requires strong project management and organizational skills and an understanding of how to translate theories of change and project workplans into daytoday activities to achieve desired outcomes to ensure project success. The COP will also manage incountry project staff by providing direct supervision to senior project leadership.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serve as key point of contact for daytoday program management. Oversee and manage country team to ensure project implementation runs smoothly.
• Lead the development and execution of highquality country strategic plans relevant to the local context and reflecting the global priorities.
• Oversee the recruitment, orientation, and performance of senior staff and development of middle management staff.
• Collaborate with technical leaders to ensure all workplan activities are not only taking place as planned but are also of high quality.
• Liaise between technical and ops teams to ensure activity plans are translated into contracts, consultancies, travel, etc., and support financial management by ensuring case forecasts and spending reports reflect planned/completed technical activities.
• Oversee project workplanning, budgeting, and progress/financial reporting, in collaboration with country team, technical, and HQ staff.
• Interface with clients and other project stakeholders, to plan, implement, review, and report on projects and deliverables or products as needed.
• Ensure staff compliance with project guidelines and SOPs.
• Perform other related duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in international development working with donors (including USAID) is required.
• Experience as a Chief of Party or in a senior leadership position of a project that is implemented at the country level that required the assembling, managing, and supervising complex teams.
• Experience with health supply chain management, procurement, warehousing or logistics programs strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge of supply chain, 4PL, and 3PL logistics, including experience with LMIS, WMIS, TMIS, and control tower software.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating and collaborating with stakeholders including government agencies, host country governments and counterparts, and international donor agencies.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Experience in monitoring and documenting project activities and outcomes.
• Ability to exercise leadership, build teams, maintain effective communication, motivate, and generate commitment within a team.
• Knowledge of USG procurement regulations.
• Excellent written and spoken English and ability to communicate across technical disciplines and nontechnical audience required.

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Deputy Chief of Party at Palladium International

Palladium develops and delivers solutions that create positive impact for communities, businesses, societies and economies. We transform lives and create enduring value by working with governments, corporations and non-profit organisations.

Position Overview:

Under the leadership of the Chief of Party (COP), The Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP) will serve as colead in achieving project objectives and will be based in Kenya. Along with the COP, s/he will coordinate and collaborate with other donorfunded programs and governmental stakeholders in Kenya. The DCOP will also work with the COP to develop and implement the project work plan and assure timely provision of highquality deliverables and routine project reports. The DCOP is the secondary point of contact for the USAID Agreement Officer’s Representative (AOR) in country and will serve as the acting COP as necessary.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serves as a member of the senior leadership team of the program and supports the COP in leadership and oversight of project staff and activities. As such, provides senior leadership, management oversight, and coordination on all matters projectwide.
• Collaborate with different stakeholders to foster countrydriven, inclusive, locallyrelevant strategies to improve and assure supply chain management.
• Work with the COP and other project staff to continuously refine implementation processes by integrating lessons learned and best practices.
• Leads and/or reviews and monitors programmatic functions, i.e., development of work plans and budgets and quarterly/annual reports and ensures effective implementation of program strategy as articulated by in the work plan.
• Ensure that program implementation is in accordance with Palladium’s and USAID’s regulations and procedures.
• Serve as the COP’s primary point of contract for current information about the status of activity implementation.
• In collaboration with local staff incountry, identify program opportunities and potential local partners as needed.
• In collaboration with the M&E officers ensure relevant staff use, maintain and regularly upload data to the project M&E system.
• Participate, and represent the organization as needed, in outside associations, conferences, and symposia.
• Serve as acting COP when s/he is unavailable.
• Perform other related duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in international development working with donors (including USAID) is required.
• Experience with activity design as well as development and management of projects, preferably including both communitylevel and nationallevel activities.
• Experience with health supply chain management, procurement, warehousing or logistics) programs strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge of supply chain, 4PL, and 3PL logistics, including experience with LMIS, WMIS, TMIS, and control tower software.
• Experience engaging with the private sector in support of improving the performance of health supply chains would be particularly beneficial
• Demonstrated experience coordinating and collaborating with stakeholders including government agencies, host country governments and counterparts, and international donor agencies.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Experience in monitoring and documenting project activities and outcomes.
• Ability to exercise leadership, build teams, maintain effective communication, motivate, and generate commitment within a team.
• Knowledge of USG procurement regulations.
• Excellent written and spoken English and ability to communicate across technical disciplines and nontechnical audience required.

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Communications Intern at Elimu Fanaka Initiative Company Location

Elimu Fanaka Initiative (EFI) is a registered nonprofit organization working with underserved communities in Kenya, providing opportunities for learners in rural public primary schools to access quality education and improve their experience. At Elimu Fanaka, we believe if we can strengthen the education system, we can use it as a tool for community transformation – and thus, EFI views schools as centres for community transformation and education as a tool to bring about the change. Through our work, we engage learners, teachers, and parents to find practical, community-led solutions to create a sustainable and dynamic environment for learners to thrive.

About the role:

As a Communications Intern, you will work closely with the ICT Associate and under the supervision of the Programs Manager to support our digital communication and maintaining all the social media platforms. From time to time, you will be involved in traveling to the site to connect with teachers and learners and create relevant stories to share with our stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Content creation

• YouTube and TikTok Series development, including assisting in ideation, storyboarding, and content creation
• Assist with graphics production on Canva and Adobe Creative Suite
• Organize content and identify storylines for video production
• Content creation for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and Instagram stories based on market trends

Research

• Research Elimu Fanaka articles, stories, and resources to develop into the digital marketing content

Social media management

• Maintain and organize current content management systems in a cloud-based system
• Upload finalized content to the content management system
• Support with template designing, video editing, and graphics designs
• Provide support in maintaining content calendar and weekly workflows
• Support with maintaining all Elimu Fanaka social media accounts
• Support with YouTube platform management, including community engagement, video uploads, SEO optimization, and analysis

Qualifications and Experience

• Currently enrolled in University with at least two to three years undergraduate studies, or recently graduated (within the past six months) in Marketing, Business Studies, Communications, Public Relations or other related fields.
• Content creator enthusiast
• Excellent oral and written communication
• Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Experience with Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop;
• Excellent understanding of content creation for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube;
• Video editing skills, with Adobe Creative Suite;

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Actuarial Valuations Specialist at Old Mutual Kenya

Old Mutual Kenya is based in Nairobi and is part of a larger group that offers solutions in long-term savings, asset management and investment. We offer solutions to individuals and corporates underpinned by our core values which are: Respect, Integrity, Accountability and Pushing beyond boundaries.

Job Description

• Ensure provision of Actuarial Services to UAP Old Mutual East Africa Group by working closely with the five business entities) and other Group Functions to meet their needs. This includes reserving, pricing, product reviews, experience reviews and solvency and capital management
• Conducts accuracy checks, and analyses data to draw conclusions and make recommendations
• Generate actuarial reports on various technical issues to Head of Actuarial and senior management
• JOB SUMMARY
• Ensure provision of Actuarial Services to UAP Old Mutual East Africa Group by working closely with the five business entities) and other Group Functions to meet their needs. This includes reserving, pricing, product reviews, experience reviews and solvency and capital management
• Conducts accuracy checks, and analyses data to draw conclusions and make recommendations
• Generate actuarial reports on various technical issues to Head of Actuarial and senior management
• KEY TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Technical Actuarial Support; Conduct and/or review internal actuarial liability valuations for Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and South Sudan
• Review of external actuaries’ report for Kenya and collaboration with the appointed actuaries to produce the Financial condition report for Kenya.
• Product Pricing and Review; Pricing products, profitability analysis, experience analysis, and other relevant actuarial investigations for UAP Kenya, UAP Uganda, UAP Tanzania, UAP Rwanda and UAP South Sudan to inform business decisions.
• Experience Monitoring; Conduct claims experience analysis and expense investigations and expense allocation exercises and other relevant actuarial investigations for UAP Short term insurance subsidiaries to inform business decisions.
• Solvency and Capital management; Carry out solvency computation for UAPIK on a risk-based capital basis including solvency stress tests.
• Carry out solvency review for the Uganda and Rwanda businesses which are moving to a Risk Based Capital regime.
• Financial Modeling; assist with financial modeling of business scenarios/projects to inform business decision making.
• Strategy and Business Planning Support; assist with business planning financial projections and solvency projections for the UAPIK.
• Special Projects; participate in special projects as would be requested by the insurance companies within the group e.g. IFRS17 and mapping out of OPEX Standard Operating Procedures.
• Reinsurance Support; Carry out a reinsurance P&L analysis for the East Africa subsidiaries to explore ways to optimise on reinsurance arrangements.
• Reporting and Documentation; Presentation of results and reports to businesses and subsidiary boards committees. Preparation of Board Papers and regulatory solvency and valuation reports.
• SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
• Analytical Skills
• Data Handling knowledge
• Business Awareness
• Problem Solving Skills
• Communication and Presentation skills
• Ability to prioritize and work on a wide range of deliverables at once
• Working under minimal supervision
• Good interpersonal skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft office packages

Knowledge & Experience

• Familiar with the current Insurance regulations, Capital markets and Central Bank regulations
• Strong actuarial technical skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong data programming skills

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Actuarial Science or other related finance or mathematics degree
• Minimum 4 years actuarial experience
• An actuarial student with minimum 8 credits from recognised actuarial body

Skills

Education

Bachelor Of Finance: Actuarial Science (Required)

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Regional Airport Services Manager – East Africa at Qatar Airways

Qatar Airways is proud to be one of the youngest global airlines to serve all six continents, and thanks to our customers’ response to our offerings, we are also the fastest-growing airline in the world. We connect more than 150 destinations on the map every day, with a fleet of the latest-generation aircraft, and an unrivalled level of service from our home and hub, the state-of-the-art Hamad International Airport in Doha, the State of Qatar. Travel today involves a mix of short, medium and long-haul segments, with more people travelling than ever before. With the breadth of network coverage today, virtually no destination is unreachable. This is why the commitment to service is paramount; as our guests are travelling farther and more frequently than ever before, the experience on board is an important part of the journey itself. Since our launch in 1997, Qatar Airways has earned many awards and accolades, becoming one of an elite group of airlines worldwide to have earned a 5-star rating by Skytrax.

About The Role

We have an open position for Regional Airport Services Manager – East Africa based in Nairobi – Kenya. The role is responsible for ensuring that Airport and other airport operations falling under jurisdictions run smoothly, cost effectively and aligned with the safety and security requirement. You will ensure to provide customers with Qatar Airways 5-star service promise. You will manage stations performance within your portfolio and ensure that service consistency is adhered based on set KPIs and targets. You will manage the Airport Manager performance and will liaise closely with Senior Management.

Specific accountabilities for the role includes

• Implementing Ground Services strategy at a grass roots level.
• Accountable for stations overall Operational requirements including Safety & Security, Business and Contingency plans and Emergency and Accident response.
• Ensuring that overall airport operations meet QR’s standard, policies and procedures whilst satisfying local and international standards and conforming to aviation regulatory requirements.
• Responsible for all areas of Airport operations.
• Ensuring that QR staff, service providers and handling agencies always provide highest level of service to both customers and colleagues whilst delivering QR’s product and services at a 5-star level.
• Managing the services and day-to-day operations within the respective Lounges.
• Ensuring that Lounge usage policy and standards are maintained across the respective Lounges and are reviewed regularly.
• Managing the station’s budget and operating costs.
• Enhancing and protecting revenue without compromising customer’s satisfaction, safety and security.
• Optimizing the work force at stations level to minimize cost and ensure adequate coverage.
• Managing the Handling agent and Suppliers to ensure that they deliver services and products as stipulated in the contract.
• Establishing the department or teams objectives and priorities to align with and support business objectives.

Be part of an extraordinary story

Your skills. Your imagination. Your ambition. Here, there are no boundaries to your potential and the impact you can make. You’ll find infinite opportunities to grow and work on the biggest, most rewarding challenges that will build your skills and experience. You have the chance to be a part of our future, and build the life you want while being part of an international community.

Our best is here and still to come. To us, impossible is only a challenge. Join us as we dare to achieve what’s never been done before.

Together, everything is possible

Qualifications

About you

To be successful in this role, you must have the following qualifications and skills.

• Relevant College or University qualification to minimum Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum 7years of job-related experience
• Experience within an airline, customer service environment or GHA operations environment
• Experience as an Airport Manager with a major airline.
• Extensive overall knowledge of all areas and the airline/ airport operation
• Work experience in a multi-cultural environment.
• Leadership/ Management skills

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Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (Formerly AX) – Functional Consultant at Technobrain

With operations in Africa, USA, UK,India and UAE, Techno Brain is the first indigenous African company to be assessed at CMMI Level-5, achieving highest quality standards for software development. Currently operating in 21+ countries, creating 1200 high tech jobs in the continent, Techno Brain has achieved leadership positions in areas such as Public Financial Management, Digital Identity Management, Tax & Customs, IT Training, Business Process Outsourcing, host of e-Government solutions and Digital products.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The position is responsible for utilizing specialized expertise in AX technology towards the implementation of projects.

Required Skills & Experience:

Academic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field; Business, Accounting, Management Information Systems, Supply Chain Management, IT, computer science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, electrical engineering or any other.
• Any certification to the area an added advantage.

Required Experience

• Minimum of (8) years relevant experience.
• Must have Logistics n finance background.
• Working experience in implementations Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (formerly AX), preparing user documentation and performing data migration.
• Must have a certification in Supply Chain Management (Exam MB-330)
• Proficiency in Microsoft office tools including Visio and Ms Project with dominance in the creation and understanding pivot charts and tables and connecting to data source.
• Experience with SQL Server, SharePoint, EDI, and WMS is an added advantage.

Responsibilities

Requirements gathering and Documentation

1. Understand Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations and assist in requirement gathering.

1. Preparing requirements following meetings and input from the clients.

1. Organizing, categorizing and preparing all documentation.

1. Assisting with the preparation of the project status report, project timeline and project budget.

1. Responsible for identifying risks in the project discovered during any work for the client and reporting them to the project manager.

1. Ensure Signoffs on related activities.

System configuration and Testing

1. Assist in the design of the solution.

1. System installation and database setup.

1. Testing configured software modules (Unit and integration testing) against final requirements.

Delivery of End User Training

1. Preparing the training itinerary, materials and manuals.

1. Delivering training to end users as scheduled.

4.    Customer support

• Interface with senior management and end users and ensure high customer satisfaction.
  • Provide Onsite support at Client’s site.
  • Provide support to users in the UAT phase.
  • Providing go live and post-implementation support.

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Associate Technical Consultant at Technobrain

With operations in Africa, USA, UK,India and UAE, Techno Brain is the first indigenous African company to be assessed at CMMI Level-5, achieving highest quality standards for software development. Currently operating in 21+ countries, creating 1200 high tech jobs in the continent, Techno Brain has achieved leadership positions in areas such as Public Financial Management, Digital Identity Management, Tax & Customs, IT Training, Business Process Outsourcing, host of e-Government solutions and Digital products.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The position is responsible for providing crucial support to the consultants on client projects by frequently being assigned to develop business and functional/technical models for use on projects as well as identification/development of solutions for customers. The role has a degree of freedom in accepting a mix of assignments and project aspects that will allow one to develop in into a fully autonomous consultant

Required Skills & Experience:

Required Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Minimum of (2) years relevant experience for degree holders and (3) years relevant experience for diploma holders.
• Advanced Diploma in Engineering, Business IT, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics, Electrical Engineering or any other related field.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles.
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux).
• Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript.
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js).
• Knowledge of isomorphic React and Google Maps JS API is a plus.
• Good to have: exposure working on back-end preferably with Node.js.
• Familiarity with GraphQL APIs.
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token.
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools.
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git, SVN and Azure DevOps.
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization

Responsibilities

System Development

1. Developing new user-facing features using React.js
2. Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code
3. Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.

Analysis, Design and Implementation

1. Providing business analysis, business area assessment, and user needs analysis and business systems design for major projects
2. Provide technical architecture analysis, design, development and enhancement.
3. Assist in the implementation of end to end system life cycle development of projects.

 Monitoring of system integrity

1. Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.
2. Application of OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities.

Reporting

1. Provide periodic accurate and updated performance reports to support capacity planning.

Delivery of Training

1. Train and familiarize client’s systems administrators.

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Cook – Cysuites Apartment Hotel at Cytonn Investments

Cytonn Investments is an investments and real estate company, with offices in Nairobi – Kenya and DC Metro area – U.S. We are primarily focused on offering alternative investment solutions to global institutional investors, individual high net-worth investors, local institutional investors and diaspora investors interested in the East-African region. Our alternative investments solutions are based on four main products: real estate, structured solutions, private equity and advisory. Most of the investment opportunities in Sub Saharan Africa are not in the listed markets, hence our focus on alternative investments to find uncommon value and returns for our clients.

Cysuites Apartment is looking for a Modern and a well motivated candidate to fill the possition of a cook.

Responsibilities

1. Ensure preparation of food products are done effectively and correctly as per the laid down procedures
2. Set up workstations with all needed ingredients and cooking equipment
3. Keep a sanitized and orderly environment in the kitchen
4. Ensure all foods and produce received are well labelled, Date stamped and stored correctly
5. Ensure the standard recipes for all dishes are followed correctly and maintain uniformity of taste, Quality and portion control
6. Ensure food preparation procedures are followed with critical check on costs and wastage
7. Ensure all relevant documentations are maintained and report the same to immediate supervisor
8. Ensure all stock levels are maintained and correctly documented
9. Ensure to attend to any other duties that may be assigned by the immediate supervisor

Requirements

1. Diploma or higher national diploma in food production
2. Certificate in Food production
3. Experience as a cook for at least three years
4. Knowledge in HACCP
5. Excellent record in kitchen operations and procedures
6. Exceptional cooking skills
7. Computer skills is an added advantage

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Real Estate Sales and Collections Intern at Cytonn Investments

Cytonn Investments is an investments and real estate company, with offices in Nairobi – Kenya and DC Metro area – U.S. We are primarily focused on offering alternative investment solutions to global institutional investors, individual high net-worth investors, local institutional investors and diaspora investors interested in the East-African region. Our alternative investments solutions are based on four main products: real estate, structured solutions, private equity and advisory. Most of the investment opportunities in Sub Saharan Africa are not in the listed markets, hence our focus on alternative investments to find uncommon value and returns for our clients.

The role will allow successful candidates to in the Real Estate functions of the group. To manage its rapid growth, the company is looking for dynamic and hardworking individuals with strong quantitative skills, excellent people skills and exceptional admin skills who shall participate in an intense 12 weeks training program on the entire real estate sales process from reservation to registration, manage sales collections and coordinate with respective law firms on various sales documents until completion.

Responsibilities

1. Assist on the entire real estate sales process from reservation to registration
2. Assist on collection of receivables from clients and and enforce compliance with real estate sales policies and processes
3. Under supervision, review reservations, letters of offer, agreements for sale, and lease registration documents
4. You shall be part of the team that will coordinate with respective law firms on the various sales documents
5. Proactively drive the sales process from reservation to closure
6. Assist on the modeling real estate payment plans such as amortisation models and dynamics of the agreements
7. Assist on development of cash flow projections of project payables and receivables
8. Provide client support services to Real Estate clients
9. Ensure meticulous documentation and record keeping
10. Coordinate real estate sales process improvement and automation initiatives
11. Any other duties as shall be assigned from time to time

Requirements

1. A Bachelor’s degree in a business related discipline from a recognized university with a minimum of Second Class Honors, Upper Division
2. Minimum of B+ in KCSE
3. Good communication skills
4. A keen interest in investments and real estate
5. Proficiency in Microsoft Office
6. Strong numeracy, analytical, strategy and research skills
7. Ability to handle multiple tasks and prioritize accordingly

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

The position will afford the individual a unique opportunity to a clear path to a fulfilling career in Real Estate Sales and Collections, jump start their career through the Cytonn Young Leadership Program.

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Assistant Clerk of Works at Cytonn Investments

Cytonn Investments is an investments and real estate company, with offices in Nairobi – Kenya and DC Metro area – U.S. We are primarily focused on offering alternative investment solutions to global institutional investors, individual high net-worth investors, local institutional investors and diaspora investors interested in the East-African region. Our alternative investments solutions are based on four main products: real estate, structured solutions, private equity and advisory. Most of the investment opportunities in Sub Saharan Africa are not in the listed markets, hence our focus on alternative investments to find uncommon value and returns for our clients.

The Assistant Clerk of Works will work under the supervision of the Projects Manager to ensure that  the interests of Cytonn Real Estate are represented with regards to ensuring that the quality of both materials and workmanship are in accordance with the design information such as specification and engineering drawings, in addition to recognized quality standards

Responsibilities

1. Coordinate, monitor and inspect construction works by contractors for assigned projects on behalf of the Cytonn Real Estate
2. Review contractor’s shop drawings and provide comments on conformance/non-conformance to architect
3. Act as liaison between architect and contractor
4. Conduct on-site observation and spot-checks of work in progress
5. Ensure contract compliance by the contractor, such as conducting tests specified in contract and installing materials/equipment as specified in contract, and report deficiencies to Project Manager, Architect and contractor
6. Provide reports on all on-site matters, including third-party inspections, progress, safety concerns, and causes for delay
7. To be responsible for the inspection of the workmanship and practices of contractors and/or crews engaged in construction
8. Maintain job-site files, documents, reports and daily log; prepare periodic reports for the project manager and the architect as required
9. Measure, record and prepare monthly reports of works executed on site with the supervision of the clerk of works.
10. Report the Defects on the construction works post the handover of project/phase and pursue for closure of all the defects with contractors
11. Assist Facility Management team in handover of units to the clients
12. Report and track all the DLP issues to Project Manager and Facility Manager
13. Review the contractor applications of Bill of Quantities
14. Any other duties as shall be assigned from time to time

Requirements

1. A grade of C+ and above in KCSE (or equivalent) with good grades in mathematics and languages
2. Diploma or higher national diploma in Civil Engineering, building Construction, Quantity Surveying or Structural Engineering and above would be preferable or any other relevant building construction qualification. Registration at the Institute of Clerk of Works of Kenya will be an added advantage.
3. Work experience of 5 to 8 years in a busy mixed use development
4. Practical Knowledge of project plan development and implementation
5. An in-depth knowledge of the construction industry
6. A sound knowledge of building regulations
7. Responsible and work under pressure depending on site program deadline
8. Good organizational and project management skills
9. Excellent problem-solving skills
10. Excellent communication and negotiating skills
11. Good written and oral communication skill
12. The ability to liaise with staff at all levels
13. The ability to meet targets
14. Innovative and solution oriented individuals

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

Working on diverse projects within the real estate sector thus integration of new technical know-how.

Site project management and experience.

Quality control and budgets for projects.

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Chief of Party (COP) at Palladium International

Palladium develops and delivers solutions that create positive impact for communities, businesses, societies and economies. We transform lives and create enduring value by working with governments, corporations and non-profit organisations.

Position Overview:

The Chief of Party (COP) will lead the Palladium team in achieving all project objectives and will be based in Kenya. The COP for the Kenya Strengthening Health Supplies activity will be the principle point of contact for the USAID Agreement Officer’s Representative (AOR) in country and will have the authority to make decisions on behalf of Palladium and will have primary accountability for project requirements. S/He will coordinate and liaise with other stakeholders, including government agencies, other donorfunded projects, implementing partners, and USAID and other donors. The COP will support timely implementation across all activities by working with technical leads and operations staff to maintain a general organizational order of all ongoing activities. This role requires strong project management and organizational skills and an understanding of how to translate theories of change and project workplans into daytoday activities to achieve desired outcomes to ensure project success. The COP will also manage incountry project staff by providing direct supervision to senior project leadership.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serve as key point of contact for daytoday program management. Oversee and manage country team to ensure project implementation runs smoothly.
• Lead the development and execution of highquality country strategic plans relevant to the local context and reflecting the global priorities.
• Oversee the recruitment, orientation, and performance of senior staff and development of middle management staff.
• Collaborate with technical leaders to ensure all workplan activities are not only taking place as planned but are also of high quality.
• Liaise between technical and ops teams to ensure activity plans are translated into contracts, consultancies, travel, etc., and support financial management by ensuring case forecasts and spending reports reflect planned/completed technical activities.
• Oversee project workplanning, budgeting, and progress/financial reporting, in collaboration with country team, technical, and HQ staff.
• Interface with clients and other project stakeholders, to plan, implement, review, and report on projects and deliverables or products as needed.
• Ensure staff compliance with project guidelines and SOPs.
• Perform other related duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in international development working with donors (including USAID) is required.
• Experience as a Chief of Party or in a senior leadership position of a project that is implemented at the country level that required the assembling, managing, and supervising complex teams.
• Experience with health supply chain management, procurement, warehousing or logistics programs strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge of supply chain, 4PL, and 3PL logistics, including experience with LMIS, WMIS, TMIS, and control tower software.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating and collaborating with stakeholders including government agencies, host country governments and counterparts, and international donor agencies.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Experience in monitoring and documenting project activities and outcomes.
• Ability to exercise leadership, build teams, maintain effective communication, motivate, and generate commitment within a team.
• Knowledge of USG procurement regulations.
• Excellent written and spoken English and ability to communicate across technical disciplines and nontechnical audience required.

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Deputy Chief of Party at Palladium International

Palladium develops and delivers solutions that create positive impact for communities, businesses, societies and economies. We transform lives and create enduring value by working with governments, corporations and non-profit organisations.

Position Overview:

Under the leadership of the Chief of Party (COP), The Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP) will serve as colead in achieving project objectives and will be based in Kenya. Along with the COP, s/he will coordinate and collaborate with other donorfunded programs and governmental stakeholders in Kenya. The DCOP will also work with the COP to develop and implement the project work plan and assure timely provision of highquality deliverables and routine project reports. The DCOP is the secondary point of contact for the USAID Agreement Officer’s Representative (AOR) in country and will serve as the acting COP as necessary.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serves as a member of the senior leadership team of the program and supports the COP in leadership and oversight of project staff and activities. As such, provides senior leadership, management oversight, and coordination on all matters projectwide.
• Collaborate with different stakeholders to foster countrydriven, inclusive, locallyrelevant strategies to improve and assure supply chain management.
• Work with the COP and other project staff to continuously refine implementation processes by integrating lessons learned and best practices.
• Leads and/or reviews and monitors programmatic functions, i.e., development of work plans and budgets and quarterly/annual reports and ensures effective implementation of program strategy as articulated by in the work plan.
• Ensure that program implementation is in accordance with Palladium’s and USAID’s regulations and procedures.
• Serve as the COP’s primary point of contract for current information about the status of activity implementation.
• In collaboration with local staff incountry, identify program opportunities and potential local partners as needed.
• In collaboration with the M&E officers ensure relevant staff use, maintain and regularly upload data to the project M&E system.
• Participate, and represent the organization as needed, in outside associations, conferences, and symposia.
• Serve as acting COP when s/he is unavailable.
• Perform other related duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in international development working with donors (including USAID) is required.
• Experience with activity design as well as development and management of projects, preferably including both communitylevel and nationallevel activities.
• Experience with health supply chain management, procurement, warehousing or logistics) programs strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge of supply chain, 4PL, and 3PL logistics, including experience with LMIS, WMIS, TMIS, and control tower software.
• Experience engaging with the private sector in support of improving the performance of health supply chains would be particularly beneficial
• Demonstrated experience coordinating and collaborating with stakeholders including government agencies, host country governments and counterparts, and international donor agencies.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Experience in monitoring and documenting project activities and outcomes.
• Ability to exercise leadership, build teams, maintain effective communication, motivate, and generate commitment within a team.
• Knowledge of USG procurement regulations.
• Excellent written and spoken English and ability to communicate across technical disciplines and nontechnical audience required.

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Communications Intern at Elimu Fanaka Initiative Company Location

Elimu Fanaka Initiative (EFI) is a registered nonprofit organization working with underserved communities in Kenya, providing opportunities for learners in rural public primary schools to access quality education and improve their experience. At Elimu Fanaka, we believe if we can strengthen the education system, we can use it as a tool for community transformation – and thus, EFI views schools as centres for community transformation and education as a tool to bring about the change. Through our work, we engage learners, teachers, and parents to find practical, community-led solutions to create a sustainable and dynamic environment for learners to thrive.

About the role:

As a Communications Intern, you will work closely with the ICT Associate and under the supervision of the Programs Manager to support our digital communication and maintaining all the social media platforms. From time to time, you will be involved in traveling to the site to connect with teachers and learners and create relevant stories to share with our stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Content creation

• YouTube and TikTok Series development, including assisting in ideation, storyboarding, and content creation
• Assist with graphics production on Canva and Adobe Creative Suite
• Organize content and identify storylines for video production
• Content creation for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and Instagram stories based on market trends

Research

• Research Elimu Fanaka articles, stories, and resources to develop into the digital marketing content

Social media management

• Maintain and organize current content management systems in a cloud-based system
• Upload finalized content to the content management system
• Support with template designing, video editing, and graphics designs
• Provide support in maintaining content calendar and weekly workflows
• Support with maintaining all Elimu Fanaka social media accounts
• Support with YouTube platform management, including community engagement, video uploads, SEO optimization, and analysis

Qualifications and Experience

• Currently enrolled in University with at least two to three years undergraduate studies, or recently graduated (within the past six months) in Marketing, Business Studies, Communications, Public Relations or other related fields.
• Content creator enthusiast
• Excellent oral and written communication
• Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Experience with Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop;
• Excellent understanding of content creation for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube;
• Video editing skills, with Adobe Creative Suite;

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Actuarial Valuations Specialist at Old Mutual Kenya

Old Mutual Kenya is based in Nairobi and is part of a larger group that offers solutions in long-term savings, asset management and investment. We offer solutions to individuals and corporates underpinned by our core values which are: Respect, Integrity, Accountability and Pushing beyond boundaries.

Job Description

• Ensure provision of Actuarial Services to UAP Old Mutual East Africa Group by working closely with the five business entities) and other Group Functions to meet their needs. This includes reserving, pricing, product reviews, experience reviews and solvency and capital management
• Conducts accuracy checks, and analyses data to draw conclusions and make recommendations
• Generate actuarial reports on various technical issues to Head of Actuarial and senior management
• JOB SUMMARY
• Ensure provision of Actuarial Services to UAP Old Mutual East Africa Group by working closely with the five business entities) and other Group Functions to meet their needs. This includes reserving, pricing, product reviews, experience reviews and solvency and capital management
• Conducts accuracy checks, and analyses data to draw conclusions and make recommendations
• Generate actuarial reports on various technical issues to Head of Actuarial and senior management
• KEY TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Technical Actuarial Support; Conduct and/or review internal actuarial liability valuations for Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and South Sudan
• Review of external actuaries’ report for Kenya and collaboration with the appointed actuaries to produce the Financial condition report for Kenya.
• Product Pricing and Review; Pricing products, profitability analysis, experience analysis, and other relevant actuarial investigations for UAP Kenya, UAP Uganda, UAP Tanzania, UAP Rwanda and UAP South Sudan to inform business decisions.
• Experience Monitoring; Conduct claims experience analysis and expense investigations and expense allocation exercises and other relevant actuarial investigations for UAP Short term insurance subsidiaries to inform business decisions.
• Solvency and Capital management; Carry out solvency computation for UAPIK on a risk-based capital basis including solvency stress tests.
• Carry out solvency review for the Uganda and Rwanda businesses which are moving to a Risk Based Capital regime.
• Financial Modeling; assist with financial modeling of business scenarios/projects to inform business decision making.
• Strategy and Business Planning Support; assist with business planning financial projections and solvency projections for the UAPIK.
• Special Projects; participate in special projects as would be requested by the insurance companies within the group e.g. IFRS17 and mapping out of OPEX Standard Operating Procedures.
• Reinsurance Support; Carry out a reinsurance P&L analysis for the East Africa subsidiaries to explore ways to optimise on reinsurance arrangements.
• Reporting and Documentation; Presentation of results and reports to businesses and subsidiary boards committees. Preparation of Board Papers and regulatory solvency and valuation reports.
• SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
• Analytical Skills
• Data Handling knowledge
• Business Awareness
• Problem Solving Skills
• Communication and Presentation skills
• Ability to prioritize and work on a wide range of deliverables at once
• Working under minimal supervision
• Good interpersonal skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft office packages

Knowledge & Experience

• Familiar with the current Insurance regulations, Capital markets and Central Bank regulations
• Strong actuarial technical skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong data programming skills

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Actuarial Science or other related finance or mathematics degree
• Minimum 4 years actuarial experience
• An actuarial student with minimum 8 credits from recognised actuarial body

Skills

Education

Bachelor Of Finance: Actuarial Science (Required)

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