Finance Officer at International Planned Parenthood Federation Africa Region (IPPFAR)

IPPF is a global service provider and a leading advocate of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for all. We are a world-wide movement of national organisations working with and for communities and individuals. The purpose of this job is to contribute to IPPF’s global technical leadership in quality comprehensive service delivery (including HIV and abortion). By showcasing innovative and successful approaches from Member Associations within the Federation and to donors, taking lessons from other organisations and emerging best practice this post holder shall contribute to advancing the SRHR community. As a catalyst for technical centres, and hubs they will build upon our internal capital for the benefit of the Federation as a whole.

JOB PURPOSE

This postholder will be responsible for assisting and tracking finance related activities and processes including budgeting, financial management, close monitoring and financial reporting of an IPPF EC funded multi country project, Breaking Barriers: Act Now for women and girls in forgotten crisis (ACT NOW!). The project aims to empower women and girls, specifically refugees, internally displaced persons, and returnees living in forgotten crisis settings. The project works in Cameroon, Chad, Mali and Sudan to assert SRHR and influence decision-making processes in an environment that is conducive for gender equality and elimination of all forms of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV).

To assist in building stronger Accounting systems, ensuring high level of accountability and transparency both at the IPPF Africa Regional Office (SARO) and partnering associations in country. To ensure timely payments and maintenance of all accounting and other subsidiary books of accounts and records to ensure timely and accurate statutory compliance and reporting relating to operations of this project.

Education & Qualifications

• Post graduate qualification (Commerce / Accountancy) or Intermediate Chartered Accountant. Any further qualification will be an added advantage.
• Minimum 6 years’ experience in grants finance management, maintaining accounts, preferably in the voluntary / development sector in developing countries,
• Experience of using global accounting software like NetSuite, SUN system• Thorough technical knowledge of budgeting, financial analysis, costing and audit management and compliance requirements.
• Thorough technical knowledge of applicable statutory regulations and compliance requirements.
• Experience managing projects funded by the European Commission is desirable.

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Business Development Officer – Medical at CIC Group

CIC Insurance Group Limited, commonly referred to as CIC Group, is an insurance and investment group that operates mainly in Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan and Malawi

PURPOSE:

The jobholder shall be responsible for generating revenue and sustaining intermediary relationships for Medical Business growth.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Generating profitable new business by growing sales and meeting the allocated annual target.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships intermediaries to achieve continuous flow of revenue.
• On board new schemes in a timely manner so as to ensure seamless access to services.
• Recruit, train and manage intermediaries.
• Preparations and submission of quotations and tenders within the TATs;

Person Specifications

Academic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a business related field.
• Additional qualification in sales and marketing will be an added advantage.
• Strong Industry and Market knowledge.
• Technical competence in insurance will be an added advantage.

Experience

Up to three (3) years’ in Business development or Sales operations.

Skills and Attributes

• Excellent communication, customer care and presentation skills.
• Relationship Management skills.
• High degree of maturity and self-drive.
• Ability to thrive in high pressure, fast paced environment with minimum supervision.
• Good reporting skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Good negotiation skills.

If you have the aforementioned professional and academic qualifications and you are ready to execute the above mandate.

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Strategic Programs Lead at Roche Kenya

Roche is a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics focused on advancing science to improve people’s lives. The combined strengths of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics under one roof have made Roche the leader in personalised healthcare – a strategy that aims to fit the right treatment to each patient in the best way possible. Roche is the world’s largest biotech company, with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and diseases of the central nervous system. Roche is also the world leader in in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a frontrunner in diabetes management. Founded in 1896, Roche continues to search for better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases and make a sustainable contribution to society. The company also aims for improving patient access to medical innovations by working with all relevant stakeholders.

Roche Diagnostics in Midrand is seeking a Strategic Program Lead to lead, develop and deliver a pipeline of Strategic Programs within Roche Diagnostics Management Center South Africa (serving sub-Saharan African Markets). The pipeline and the programs within are focused on shaping access to healthcare – understanding and overcoming barriers while developing approaches that transform healthcare delivery and striving towards Universal Health Coverage and the health and wellbeing of all Africans. The pipeline is developed and delivered in line with the broader Healthcare Transformation strategy and objectives and aligned with achieving the medium to long term growth objectives for Management Center South Africa.

Key Responsibilities

Situational Analysis

Leading the process to understand the broader Healthcare Landscape through the lenses of the patient (and patient journey’s), the healthcare system and data & analytics to support the broader vision of the Head of Healthcare Transformation. This landscape is inclusive of Market Situation /Scope /Opportunity/ Segment or Product Portfolio including:

• Problem & Users needs definition
• Stakeholder analysis
• Mapping & Segmentation
• Force-field analysis (or other techniques like Paper-computer)
• Definition of the “Problem Statement”
• Definition of Impact on Stakeholders.

Innovation and Disruption

• Propose and develop disruptive patient-centric innovation approaches that seek to overcome identified barriers and identified market challenges.
• Lead and coach the Strategic Programs Team to explore new business models and innovative approaches to drive Roche’s strategic portfolios and drive future competitive advantage.
• Identify potential external parties who can participate in innovative approaches to tackle identified challenges within the markets served.
• Support the broader Healthcare Transformation team to understand emerging futures and to identify areas for innovation and disruption.

Road-Mapping and Strategy Development

Lead the road-mapping process and drives the following activities (working in collaboration with SPMs, sRHCs and other parties)

• Analysis of the opportunities
• Ideation
• Outlining of Solutions
• Creating a broad-based strategic roadmap Incl Goal Setting
• Creating a Vision
• Communication of the above outputs to Management/Leadership

Framework Support

• Translate the internal Project Management Standards into actionable Program Management to ensure that all projects, both concurrent and longitudinal, are standardized in their execution and quality.
• Define and maintain a Quality Framework for the SPM team
• Ensure that the Strategic Projects link to broader strategic goals
• Provide Prioritization guidance
• Execute and manage “checks & balances” for all strategic projects
• Ensures that Milestones are SMART
• Provide external measurement of Milestones and drive accountability to deliver
• Synthesize high-level communication to Management and the Leadership team for all Strategic Projects.

Communication

• Ensure adequate and timely communication of Strategic Programs to internal stakeholders within the Management Centre and within the Region and the Global Business Areas.
• Ensure strong stakeholder management in a highly matrixed environment

Staff Leadership and Management

• Define staff requirements, resourcing the team by retaining, recruiting, selecting and appointing staff as required, inducting new staff members, monitoring and managing performance and managing staff development.

A full job description will be made available to candidates invited to the interview process.

You, as an ideal candidate, will have the following skills, experience and education:

• Required Qualification: NQF 7/8 in a Science related field or similar
• Required Experience: At least 3 years experience in sales, marketing or similar in the medical / healthcare industry. At least 1 year experience in strategic thinking or strategic management is required.  A solid understanding of project management principles is required. Experience within an innovation environment will be beneficial.

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Data Engineer – People Insights EMEA at Roche Kenya

Roche is a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics focused on advancing science to improve people’s lives. The combined strengths of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics under one roof have made Roche the leader in personalised healthcare – a strategy that aims to fit the right treatment to each patient in the best way possible. Roche is the world’s largest biotech company, with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and diseases of the central nervous system. Roche is also the world leader in in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a frontrunner in diabetes management. Founded in 1896, Roche continues to search for better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases and make a sustainable contribution to society. The company also aims for improving patient access to medical innovations by working with all relevant stakeholders.

People and Culture vision is built on the premise that what makes companies great is people, and analytics is able to unlock their full potential. We wish to unleash exponential people & business impact through data driven decisions, surfacing insights and embracing cutting-edge technology.

As a People and Culture Data Engineer, your work will impact the way Roche functions throughout our candidate and employee lifecycle.  Your work will impact every facet of our quest to cure and treat diseases for our patients and you will personally help shape and define this journey. If you are interested in helping us transform into a more diverse, transparent, inclusive, collaborative and agile team – this role is for you.

We are looking for a Data Engineer to work on our impactful and dynamic team. This Data Engineer will work closely with other Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Business Intelligence Developers, Insights Partners and Product Owners to deliver products to our employees including the most senior leaders.  Key technical role in the design and build of data management systems and data pipelines related to advanced analytics and data science platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain scalable data pipeline(s)
• Build new API integrations
• Design data integration and framework
• Work closely with data governance and technology practice areas
• Understand and maintain data schemas and architectures
• Choose proper storage technologies to drive both Data Science and Applications
• Understand and architect ETL processes
• Architect and maintain analytics data lake/warehouse
• Architect and build front-end applications
• Synthesize requirements from non-technical stakeholders

Qualifications, Skills & Knowledge:

Required:

• AWS (S3, EC2, Glue)
• RDBMS and NoSQL technologies
• Python
• Production software development experience (git, testing, code reviews)
• Production Deployment of Machine Learning models
• Javascript (Vue.js)

Familiar (and willingness to learn more of):

• Docker
• CSS
• HTML

Preferred experience & background:

• 5 to 10 years experience in the data engineering field, with strong analytical, solution architecting and design skills / background.
• University degree in Computer Science or comparable education.

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Data Scientist, People Insights EMEA at Roche Kenya

Roche is a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics focused on advancing science to improve people’s lives. The combined strengths of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics under one roof have made Roche the leader in personalised healthcare – a strategy that aims to fit the right treatment to each patient in the best way possible. Roche is the world’s largest biotech company, with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and diseases of the central nervous system. Roche is also the world leader in in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a frontrunner in diabetes management. Founded in 1896, Roche continues to search for better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases and make a sustainable contribution to society. The company also aims for improving patient access to medical innovations by working with all relevant stakeholders.

People and Culture vision is built on the premise that what makes companies great is people, and analytics is able to unlock their full potential. We wish to unleash exponential people & business impact through data driven decisions, surfacing insights and embracing cutting-edge technology.

As a People and Culture Data Scientist, your work will impact the way Roche functions throughout our candidate and employee lifecycle.  Your work will impact every facet of our quest to cure and treat diseases for our patients and you will personally help shape and define this journey. If you are interested in helping us transform into a more diverse, transparent, inclusive, collaborative and agile team – this role is for you.

We are looking for a Data Scientist to work on our impactful and dynamic team. This Data Scientist will work closely with other Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Business Intelligence Developers, Insights Partners and Product Owners to deliver products to our employees including the most senior leaders.

Key Responsibilities

1. Leadership of projects and initiatives
2. Thought leadership on how to use advanced statistics, ML and AI in the HR domain
3. Synthesize requirements from non-technical stakeholders
4. Drive decision making by clearly tell stories with data
5. Promote (both your own and others on the team) ideas and vision to external stakeholders and potential customers
6. Inspire and collaborate closely with team members and stakeholders across the company to drive success

Technical Experience

Required

• Experience building models, executing statistical analyses, and manipulating data
• Python (Numpy, Scipy, Pandas, scikit-learn,NLTK)
• SQL RDBMS
• Statistical expertise
• Data Visualization (QlikSense,Tableau etc.)

Familiar (and willingness to learn more of)

• AWS (S3, EC2, Sagemaker, Glue)
• R
• Docker
• Agile processes
• Plotly and Plotly-Dash
• Deep Learning (Tensorflow, Pytorch)
• Production software development experience (git, testing, code reviews, etc.)

Preferred Experience & Background

• PhD or MS in Statistics and computer science. Mathematics/Actuarial Science background desirable, people analytics experience a plus
• 5+ years of experience in the field of data science, analyzing company data sets (structured, unstructured) to find opportunities and drive improvements through data-based insights

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BSS Engineer at Safaricom Kenya

Safaricom is a leading communications company in Kenya with the widest and strongest coverage. The home of the famous Mobile Money service- M-PESA

DESCRIPTION

We are pleased to announce the vacancy for BSS – Engineer within Technology. In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below.

Detailed Description

Reporting to Team Manager Regional Network & Implementation, the position holder will manager network elements fault clearance to ensure TCH availability of 99.8%, average NUR of less than 10min per week, and proper preventive maintenance of the BSS network, transmission equipment and the related power supply in owned sites.

Job Responsibilities

• Network element fault clearance.
• Perform proper preventive maintenance of all network elements and document results for owned sites on a monthly basis.
• Ensure proper site acceptance.
• Ensure proper contractors control.
• Proper works Orders execution.
• Proper use of defined processes and procedures in daily work

Qualifications

Job Requirements

• University /HND/ Diploma in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with a bias in Telecomm.
• Undergraduate degree in either Electrical, Telecommunications Engineering or equivalent from a reputable institution;
• 1 year telecommunications experience in GSM related field;
• 1 year valid Driving License.

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Fuel Distribution System Operator at KBR

KBR, Inc. is an American engineering, procurement, and construction company, formerly a subsidiary of Halliburton.

Job Description:

• Monitor and maintains the amount of fuel in the tanks of a fuel farm.
• Performs usage calculations and requests service time and amount for tank filling..
• Prepares and checks receiving or shipping documents.
• Visually inspects samples of fuel, and checks gravity and flashpoint.
• Gauges tanks for water, temperature, and fuel levels. Performs preventive maintenance and repairs on terminal systems.

Requirement

• Typically requires 2-5 years of related experience

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

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