Ongoing Graduates Recruitment at UNDP (2018 Recommended Jobs Update)

1. Editor – National and Zonal Analytical Reports

Scope of work

The consultant will work on five reports:

• National Adolescent and Youth Report
• Somaliland Adolescent and Youth Report
• Puntland Adolescent and Youth report
• National Population Situation Analysis Report
• Somaliland Population Situation Analysis Report

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2. SHDS Survey Database Developer

Objective

The post holder will work together with the unit demographer and statistician to develop mobile data collection applications (CAPI) for the SHDS tools under the leadership of the P&D unit head.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop inception report detailing, objective, methodology and timelines for the key activities;
• Develop data dictionaries that can support both computer based data entry and mobile data collection activities for the SHDS;

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Check Out Now!!! Entry Level Jobs For Diploma & Degree Holders @ Unison Sacco

Apply here for the latest entry level jobs in Kenya for Diploma and Degree holders. There are vacancies in ICT and Marketing.

1. Unison Sacco ICT Assistant Job 2018

The position holder should have a Diploma in Computer Science and at least one year experience in the same or related position.

Apply here for the Unison Sacco ICT Assistant Job

2. Unison Sacco Marketing Manager Job

The candidate should have a Bachelors Degree in Marketing as well as at least two years experience in a similar capacity or banking experience.

Apply here for the Unison Sacco Marketing Manager Job

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Farsight Africa Group Job Vacancy : Finance Internship

Farsight Africa Group is a leading full-service Pan-African communications and research company that delivers impact solutions to companies, governments, development organizations’ and individuals across Africa. Farsight is recruiting a Finance Intern with demonstrated experience in finance and accounting. Working closely with Finance departments, the finance intern is instrumental in supporting program activities through his/her services.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Receive and process all cash advances on time and arrange for bank runs in coordination with the Finance Officer to ensure cash is availed to staff and sub recipients on a timely basis.
• Receive and examine payment requests supporting documents
• Assist with recording invoices into the accounting system
• Follow up on positing of captured invoices for timely payment processing
• Processing all payment requests submitted from suppliers and staff
• Maintain an unpaid invoices file
• Ensure that all recurrent invoices and utility bills are paid on time
• Recording and updating financial books of accounts with payments
• Record grant liquidations after review by Finance Officer
• Assist in preparation of journals/ Filing all financial documents
• Reviewing of supplier reconciliation/accounts payable and ensure accounts payable are up to date
• Assist in the production of monthly financial reports
• Other duties as requested by the supervisor
• Purchase of office supplies.
• Reports Directly To: Finance Officer

Knowledge and Experience

• Relevant Degree in Finance or Accounting
• Atleast CPA Part 2
• Atleast 1 year of experience
• Strong organizational skills.
• Excellent oral and written English skills.
• High computer skills on MS Office programs, especially in MS Excel.

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African Institute for Development Policy Job Vacancy : Finance Assistant

Reporting to the Finance and Administration Manager, the Finance Assistant will efficiently execute finance and accounting operations, supporting the other functions of operations – administration, logistics and human resources – in ensuring effective support to the Institute’s programmes. The role is expected to ensure the financial and legal integrity of the Institute within the framework of policies, procedures and statutory requirements. In addition, he/she will provide support to project teams on compliance to donor rules and regulations providing budgetary oversight on project activities. He/she is expected to maintain appropriate books of accounts, transaction activities and their relevant documentation.

Responsibilities

Finance and Accounts

Operations

• Keep records and undertake data capture for income and expenditure
• Maintain individual GL accounts and ensuring authenticity of data
• Keep imprest and related expenditure vouchers and ensure approval as per authority and designated AFIDEP staff
• Management of payables
• Prepare payments and settlements ensuring they are supported by appropriate documentary evidence
• Maintain proper debtors and creditors statements and schedules
• Manage and maintain staff advances accounts and recoveries
• Maintenance of proper financial transaction documentations

Budgetary and funds management

• Cash flow management and reconciliations
• Monitor bank accounts to ensure funds are available when needed and prepare monthly reconciliations
• Monitor expenditure by the approved budgets and budget lines
• Monitor and manage disbursement and receipts of funds
• Contribute to development of institutional and activity budgets

Reporting

• Support production of monthly management accounts
• Support production of quarterly financial statements
• Produce ad hoc reports as requested
• Filing statutory returns and deductions
• Issue receipts for all income

Human Resources Management

• Staff benefits management
• Payroll processing and settlement
• Maintenance of staff benefits accounts – pensions, education allowance, transport allowance, holiday allowances, e.t.c.
• Staff benefits accounts reconciliations
• Ensuring proper staff benefits documentation

Administration

• Procurement systems support
• Receiving supplies and signing off delivery notes
• Stock reconciliation reviews
• Ensuring proper procurement documentation

Qualifications, Skills, Knowledge

• At least a business degree from a recognised University
• Professional accounting qualification – CPA, ACCA, CIMA
• Proficient with automated financial management system. Proficiency with Microsoft Dynamics Navision software will be an added advantage
• Proficient with MS office, especially advanced excel and able to deal with complicated worksheets
• High integrity and accountability
• Team player with excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent communications skills – written and spoken

Experience

• Proven experience in performing operations of a busy finance department. Experience in international development organisation will be an added advantage
• A minimum of 2-3 years relevant experience in similar environment
• Ability to work independently with minimum supervision
• Proven experience in operating an automated financial management systems

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Norwegian Refugee Council Job Vacancy : Human Resource Internship

NRC’s Horn of Africa & Yemen operation comprises of large-scale multi-country humanitarian and early recovery interventions spread across nine countries (Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti, South Sudan and Yemen), and most recently Eritrea, Uganda and Tanzania.

NRC’s overall strategy in the region is to ensure a greater number of vulnerable people in hard to reach areas get access to humanitarian assistance, become resilient to future disasters and find durable solution. The regional office is based in Nairobi and works with country programmes to ensure standardization of programmatic and operational approaches, promote multi country programming and ensuring quality and coordination.

NRC is seeking to recruit a Human Resource Intern in its Regional office. NRC encourages fresh graduates to apply for this position. Female applicants are highly encouraged to apply.

This is a 6 months internship contract that is intended to help the fresh graduates to gain work experience for future employments opportunities in the market.

The Norwegian Refugee Council is an equal opportunity employer, with no discrimination in terms of sex, age, religion, ethnic origin or political affiliation.

Roles & Responsibilities

The Intern will have the following main tasks:

Learning & Development

• In liaison with the other support functions at the Regional Office, ensure that the learning event timelines are implemented and adhered to.
• Assist with the preparation of reports for the intensive learning programs and one off learning events.
• Assist the Regional HR Coordinator (Capacity Building) in preparing training materials
• Assist with the updating of the regional training database and the compilation of monthly/ quarterly learning updates.
• Undertake research, write, create presentations and produce briefs on training and development.
• Assist with pre and post learning/ training events tasks (preparing support materials for facilitators , follow up of participants, and creating action items post learning events)

Recruitment & Selection

• Assist the Regional HR unit in recruitment processes, including:
• Schedule and invite candidates for interviews and written tests
• Administer written tests and submit coded tests for grading
• Administration of Webcruiter (recruitment software), including updating candidate status’, sending correspondence to candidates through the system; closing out vacancies
• Assist in preparation of Interview Guides
• Assist in interviews, though note taking and preparation of recruitment summary documents

Administration

• Assist in filling HR documents
• Complete other administrative tasks when needed
• Any other duties as assigned

Period required:

• 6 Months Full Time

Qualifications

• University/Higher Diploma in Business Administration/HR
• Computer skills in MS Office Word and Excel, and Internet
• Academic college / University

Personal qualities

• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Good cultural awareness and sensitivity
• Ability to plan and coordinate
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Attention to detail and follow-up with excellent organizational and prioritization skills
• A flexible working style, absolute discretion
• At ease dealing with people and tasks at different levels in a multicultural environment
• Responsive, efficient and a positive manner and the ability to work as part of a team.
• Fluency in English.
• Computer literate and numerate.
• Willingness to learn and to accept new challenges

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Finplus Group Job Vacancy : Mid-level Software Engineer

This is a hands-on software development role. It will encompass all aspects of the software development life-cycle working with a small engineering team and demands a high understanding of application design and architecture.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with the Engineering team in developing the whole suite of Finplus Group products (web, mobile apps, sms, USSD).
• Be a major contributor to the Agile Software Methodology which we use at Finplus Group
• Work with partners on integrations that will require involvement in all aspects of the software development cycle from requirement analysis to implementation
• Develop software using our development stack which includes Ruby on Rails, Postgresql, Android, Apache, Phusion Passenger, Ubuntu Linux, AWS, jQuery, Angular.js, Bootstrap and use tools such as JIRA, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Redis among others.
• Interfacing with clients to understand their business, goals and visions for products and solutions being supported by Finplus Group.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Readiness to give all the effort necessary to do an excellent job – even if it means putting in extra time to research the problem you’re facing or deal with challenging deadlines.
• Develop features across multiple subsystems within our application by collaboration during requirements definition, designing, coding, testing and deployment.
• Have the ability to leverage asynchronous programming, queuing, caching, logging security and persistence when appropriate.
• Have experience in building data-driven applications using significant relational database engines as part of the application architecture.
• Have a vibrant personality and exceptional communication skills (English, verbal and written).
• Perfectionism: knowing how it should be done and not stop until it’s done right
• You should be comfortable with system architecture and component design and be able to use design patterns
• Understand how our applications (Rails, Android, SMS, USSD) operate, are structured, interact with external systems and how our customers use them
• Document proposed solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams etc.
• Ruby experience is necessary
• Be able to operate in an agile, fluid and uncertain environment wearing ‘multiple hats’
• Demonstrate success at having been able to ‘ship’ products individually or as part of a team. You need to be able to get things done.

What else to expect

Our team uses a combination of digitization, smart process design and automation software to reduce waste of time and other resources but this ethos of efficiency begins with our own engineering. Aside from building high impact solutions and obsessing over the intricate to make it simple for our users, a big part of your job will involve automating all the repetitive grunt-work typically associated with setting up, supporting and extending an integrated suite of specialized, mission-critical applications serving hundreds of clients and millions of customers. This means that if you’re doing your job right you’ll automatically be working on something new every 6-12 months.

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UNDP Job Vacancy : SHDS Survey Database Developer

This position is based in Nairobi with travel to the field. The candidate will work under the overall guidance of the UNFPA Representative and direct supervision of the Population and Development Program Manager. The consultant will contribute to the co-ordination and management of quality, timely and integrated programme and technical support to national statistical, population and related institutions. The Specialist will support national mechanisms for a multi-sectoral approach to capacity development of population and socio-economic statistics in Somalia, ensure that that UNFPA’s programs on population and development are implemented in the context of the ICPD Programme of Action and UNFPA Strategic Plan; and ensure that Population and Development issues are firmly placed within national development processes and national strategic frameworks.

Purpose of Assignment

Building on the experience of the 2014 Population Estimation Survey (PESS), Ministries of Planning and Health requested the support of UNFPA, development partners and donors to conduct a Somali Health and Demographic Survey (SHDS) as a next step in filling the most important health and demographic data gaps, further strengthening the capacities of Planning and Health Ministries and fostering the use of objective indicators for policy formulation, planning and measuring progress.

The Somali Health and Demographic Survey (SHDS) will collect vast amount of data broadly covering demographic characteristics, fertility, health issues (including maternal and child health; sexual and reproductive health and rights including family planning; and gender issues including GBV), and relevant socio-economic variables.

The data collected in this survey will assist the authority to monitor indicators in the National Development Plan (2017-2019) especially quality basic education, health, water and sanitation services; improved health outcomes, reduced maternal and child mortality, reduction in malnutrition rates as well as prevention and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases.

The survey will also build the capacity of new staff at planning and health institutions in Somali authorities and intends to fully utilize the personnel involved in PESS and further build their capacities in generating reliable statistics for Somalia.

The collection of high quality SHDS data will largely depend on the establishment of robust quality control frameworks.

Why mobile data collection?

Speed: Mobile phone can greatly speed up the data collection process. Near-instantaneous transmission of data to a central coordinating group reduces the amount of time between local data collection and delivery saving weeks or even months of time in the overall data collection process. In addition, an early warning system can be established, allowing survey coordinators to quickly identify potential problems with data collection efforts and (potentially) correct them in almost real time. Where mobile connectivity is not available, data can be stored on the phone and transmitted later once a phone is within sufficient range of a cell tower.

Accuracy: Digital data capture at the source can greatly reduce transcription errors, and data transmission over mobile networks may ensure that no data are lost ‘in transit’. Capture and transmission of data digitally may also ensure that it is easier to store and access them at later dates, should this be required. Skip logic, filters, controls, prompts etc can be created to minimize data collection errors.

Training: Because people may already know how to use the devices, less technical training may be necessary in some circumstances. In addition, help files and on-screen prompts may provide useful relevant supporting documentation and guidance that may reinforce messages from training.

Can combine with other data: Textual data captured via mobile phone can be combined with photographic images, audio, and video. In addition, GPS data can be captured to help map the location of individuals, facilities or services as well as offer ‘proof’ that an enumerator visited a place.
Low cost: All of these characteristics and affordances may mean that data collection enabled through the use of mobile phones can be done at substantially lower costs than is possible via traditional means.

The timelines for conducting SHDS fieldwork require a careful choice of a data collection platform that will fast track the process, minimize errors and enhance efficiency. If pilot tested and proven practical in the Somali context, mobile data collection will be the preferred option.

The complexity of SHDS tools requires advanced programming skills and extensive experience in programming mobile data collection application. At the moment the P&D unit is lacking these skills.

Duties and Responsibilities

 

Purpose of the consultancy

The consultant will develop a data collection/entry system using Census and Survey Processing System (CSPro) for both Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing System (CAPI) and paper-based health and demographic household data collection. The final deliverable is a ready-to-use, fully documented Data Collection/Entry and Management System in CSPro that will minimize data error, ensure data integrity, and protect respondent privacy with practical methods.

Objective

The post holder will work together with the unit demographer and statistician to develop mobile data collection applications (CAPI) for the SHDS tools under the leadership of the P&D unit head.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop inception report detailing, objective, methodology and timelines for the key activities;
• Develop data dictionaries that can support both computer based data entry and mobile data collection activities for the SHDS;
• Incorporate appropriate skip logic, consistency checks, filters, controls, prompts and other appropriate validation commands into the databases to enhance efficiency and minimize data collection/entry errors. These will include range-checking of numerical and alpha-based questions, consistency checks among questions during data collection/entry, in-depth consistency checks of the data files made post-entry, running in batch mode, skip pattern checks to ensure consistency with the data entered at the point of the skip request to the skip location requested;
• Develop user visual friendly forms mirroring the questionnaire layout to ensure that the data collection/entry applications do not differ from the questionnaires;
• Develop mobile data collection applications (CAPI) and data entry screens for the SHDS household, MMR, ever married woman and never married woman questionnaires;
• Develop a data transfer and synchronization platform, with the web server, peer to peer with supervisor checks and controls;
• Establish a back-up system and automate creation of an integrated dataset;
• Conduct appropriate tests and verification of the developed applications to ensure that they are free of bugs and will collect data in the required format;
• Create a platform to generate summary reports (executed in the office on data collected/keyed to that point) which flag quality control issues encountered during field collection;
• Ensure compliance with data handling and security requirements;
• Ensure existence of formats and procedures for field data reporting requirements, data transmission schedules, and recommended data backups;
• Provide system user manuals and training support as needed;
• Provide back end support to the application throughout data collection period;
• Support any other activities as required by section head in relation to SHDS.

Deliverables

• A ready-to-use, fully documented mobile/tablet and laptop based computer-aided interviewing system (CAPI) in CSPro with inbuilt skip logic, consistency checks, filters, controls, prompts and other appropriate validation commands;
• A supervisor control interface;
• CSPro data archiving system;
• Documentation and test results exhibiting the system’s compliance with the ToR;
• Full source code, user training manuals and any documentation;
• Technical support and guidance provided to the in-country survey teams as needed, to ensure sufficient training and high-quality implementation of the data collection/entry system.

Work Relations

The consultant will work under the overall guidance of the UNFPA Representative and direct supervision of the Population and Development Program Manager. S/he will work closely, with the Population and Development team in the UNFPA Country office and in the field offices. In addition, the Specialist will also work closely with the Ministry of Planning and other line ministries and other all organizations supporting capacity building in statistics in Somalia including I/LNGOs, UN agencies and donors. The consultant will support national mechanisms for a multi-sectoral approach to capacity development of statistics in Somalia, ensure that that UNFPA’s programs on population and development are implemented in the context of the ICPD Programme of Action and UNFPA Strategic Plan; and ensure that Population and Development issues are firmly placed within national development processes and national strategic frameworks.

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