Tuesday, August 16, 2011

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Education Specialist (Child Friendly Schools), P-4, Nairobi Regional Office

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 11:22 AM PDT

Organisation:?

UN Children's Fund
Country:?

Kenya
Closing date:?

26 Aug 2011

Purpose:

Under the supervision of the Chief of Education, the Education Specialist International with strong technical expertise in data collection, analysis and dissemination will be responsible to build the capacity of the national EMIS (Education Management and Information Systems) and in general for the planning, development and implementation of the integrated monitoring and evaluation strategies in support to the Education Programme.

Qualification:

Advanced university degree in Education with a specialization in Statistics, Demography, or a related technical field preferred. A first level university degree with a relevant combination of academic qualifications and experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.*

Five years of progressively responsible professional work experience at national and international levels in programme monitoring and evaluation. Practical experience in community-based research.

Fluency in French and English is required. Knowledge of the local working language of the duty station is desirable.

*A first level university degree with a relevant combination of academic qualifications and experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Key Expected Results:

  1. Contribute to build the capacity of the national EMIS (Education Management and Information Systems) to allow for more complete and transparent data collection for the most vulnerable. Contributes towards the preparation of the Situation Analysis. Prepares Education Programme integrated monitoring,evaluation and research plans.

  2. Participates in Programme mid-term review, annual reviews, previews, meetings. Analyzes and evaluates data to ensure achievement of objectives and recommends corrective actions, when necessary. Provides technical advice to programme staff, government officials and other counterparts on planning and management of integrated monitoring and evaluation.

  3. Designs data collection methodologies and research related to programme interventions (Sentinel Site Survey, Rapid Assessment Procedures (RAP), CAP, etc.). Conducts research and data analysis. Assists in the introduction of new approaches and methods in project monitoring and evaluation.

  4. Assesses trends and measures outcomes relating to achieving NPA goals, in context of Education programme. Maintains a data bank of social indicators on the situation of women and children.

  5. Prepares the Monitoring and Evaluation sectoral documents for the Education Programme and Country Programme Action Plan (CPAP), Rolling work plan.

  6. Participates in the development of the Monitoring and Evaluation section’s workplan, ensures compliance to specific assigned objectives. Provides guidance and support to staff.

  7. Assists Ministry of Basic Education to plan and organize M&E training programmes. Identifies training needs for the purpose of capacity building in monitoring and evaluation. Liaises with the National and regional M&E Officer and the Evaluation and Research Office at UNICEF Headquarters in this regard.

  8. Prepares the programme status reports required for management, board, donors, budget reviews, programme analysis, annual reports, etc.

  9. Participates in intersectoral collaboration with operations and programme colleagues in tracking programme financial inputs and outputs. Collaborates with the Information/Communication staff in the selection and dissemination of statistical results from the Situation Analysis in Education to national and local levels.

  10. Ensures the accurate and timely input of programme information in the computerized programme system, and issuance of status reports for monitoring and evaluation purposes.

Competencies:

Communicates effectively to varied audiences, including during formal public speaking.

Able to work effectively in a multi-cultural environment.

Sets high standards for quality of work and consistently achieves project goals.

Has good leadership and supervisory skills; co-ordinates group activities, ensuring that roles within the team are clear.

Translates strategic direction into plans and objectives.

Analyzes and integrates diverse and complex quantitative and qualitative data from a wide range of sources.

Quickly builds rapport with individuals and groups; maintains an effective network of individuals across organizational departments.

Identifies urgent and potentially difficult decisions and acts on them promptly; initiates and generates team- and department-wide activities.

Demonstrates, applies and shares expert technical knowledge across the organization.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organisation.
If you want a challenging career while improving the lives of children around the world UNICEF, the leading children's rights organization, would like to hear from you.

Visit us at www.unicef.org/about/employ to register in our new e-Recruitment system and apply to this and other vacancies, quoting E-VN-2011-001320. Applications must be received by 26 August 2011.
Please note that only candidates who are under serious consideration will be contacted.

In the selection of its staff, UNICEF is committed to gender balance and diversity without distinction as to race, sex or religion, and without discrimination of persons with disabilities: well qualified candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

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Education Specialist (Child Friendly Schools), P-4, Nairobi Regional Office

Planning Specialist, P-4, Nairobi Regional Office

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 11:20 AM PDT

Organisation:?

UN Children's Fund
Country:?

Kenya
Closing date:?

31 Aug 2011

Purpose:

Under the general guidance of the Regional Chief of Programme Planning, responsible for supporting the programme planning function within the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office and providing programme planning support to at least twenty country offices.

Qualification:

Advanced university degree in Social Sciences or other related field.*

Eight years progressively responsible professional work experience at the national and international levels in social development, management, monitoring and evaluation.

Fluency in English and another UN language required. Knowledge of the local working language of the duty station is an asset.

*A first level university degree with a relevant combination of academic qualifications and experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Key Expected Results:

  1. Provide technical support to the preparation of the RO AWPs and the ROMP, the preparation of Regional Management Team (RMT) meetings, and Deputy Representatives and Operations Officer (DROPs) meetings.

  2. Provide technical assistance and quality assurance to country offices in the preparation of Country Programme Documents (CPDS) and Country Programme Acton Plans.

  3. Supports the preparations of regional training events such PPP, RBM, HRBAP trainings.

  4. Provide technical support for decentralization of the development and implementation of plans for the improvement of the situation of children and women in the region.

  5. Undertakes country office support missions to ensure the quality of programme planning processes.

  6. Provide support to planning to DaO countries and UNDAF roll-out countries where required.

Competencies:

Communicates effectively to varied audiences, including during formal public speaking.

Sets high standards for quality of work and consistently achieves project goals.

Able to work effectively in a multi-cultural environment.

Has good leadership and supervisory skills; co-ordinates group activities, ensuring that roles within the team are clear.

Analyzes and integrates potentially conflicting numerical, verbal and other data from a number of sources.

Negotiates effectively by exploring a range of possibilities.

Translates strategic direction into plans and objectives.

Quickly builds rapport with individuals and groups; maintains an effective network of individuals across organizational departments.

Contributes and tries out innovative approaches and insights.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organisation.
If you want a challenging career while improving the lives of children around the world UNICEF, the leading children's rights organization, would like to hear from you.

Visit us at www.unicef.org/about/employ to register in our new e-Recruitment system and apply to this and other vacancies, quoting E-VN-2011-001308. Applications must be received by 31 August 2011.
Please note that only candidates who are under serious consideration will be contacted.

In the selection of its staff, UNICEF is committed to gender balance and diversity without distinction as to race, sex or religion, and without discrimination of persons with disabilities: well qualified candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

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Planning Specialist, P-4, Nairobi Regional Office

Planning Specialist, P-3, Nairobi Regional Office

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 11:16 AM PDT

Organisation:?

UN Children's Fund
Country:?

Kenya
Closing date:?

31 Aug 2011

Purpose:

Under the direct supervision of the Regional Director, you will be accountable for the design, planning, implementation and monitoring of a variety of Regional Director's Office activities and processes, including quality control, data analysis and progress reporting, in accordance with strategy, plans and decisions made by Regional Management Team (RMT) and Regional Office Management Team (ROMT); provide professional technical assistance and support for the cost-effective, efficient and secure management of functions related to overall administration and management of the Office of the Regional Director, in strict compliance with rules and regulations;

Qualification:

Advanced university degree in Social Sciences, International Relations, Government, Public Administration, Public Policy, Business Administration or financial management.*

Five years of relevant professional work experience.
Both national and International work experience in planning, office management, public administration, monitoring and evaluation. Knowledge of finance, accounting, ICT, human resources, supply and administration an asset.
Work experience in emergency duty station an asset.

Fluency in English and in French or Portuguese. Knowledge of the local language (Kiswahili) an asset.

*A first level university degree with a relevant combination of academic qualifications and experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Key Expected Results:

  1. Ensure effective management of information in the Regional Director's Office, through collection and analysis of data/documents, and accurate reporting; Maintains a constant and fluid communication flow on events, agendas, follow-up, and common work-plans, with Regional Advisors, Country Offices, other Regionals Offices and NYHQ; Ensures that the web-based ESARO Calendar of Events is up-to-date, through constant information exchange; Decide on most appropriate systems to ensure the easy and prompt retrieval and accessibility of Regional Director 's Office key documentation and its dissemination as required.

  2. Supervise the effective and efficient management of the administrative, logistical, protocol and support functions of the Office of the Regional Director, establishing, monitoring and evaluating work-processes, identifying bottlenecks and areas for improvement, recommending solutions and changes required for long-term improvements. Answer and coordinate responses to the ESARO generic e-mail and website.

  3. Support the preparation of ESARO monthly programme and management meetings (such as the monthly Travel Free Week) and of other key events, coordinating and monitoring follow-up on agenda and objectives

  4. Monitor and maintain the Technical Assistance Management (TAM) system; generate periodic reports related to the provision of technical assistance, oversight, quality assurance and regional representation.

  5. Prepares status reports, key briefing materials, and presentations for the Regional Director's Office for internal and external meetings, the Executive Board, budget reviews, as required; analyze monthly programme and management reports and identify areas of concern for the attention of the Regional Director

  6. Contribute to the design and organization of Regional Management Team Meetings and of other high level Regional meetings, ensuring quality technical and logistical preparation and execution of these meetings.

  7. Support the Regional Director in maintaining effective relationships with regional partners -including those of the UN and national partners, NGOs, intergovernmental organizations, international financial institutions, NGOs and civil society- and in contributing to the integration of UNICEF initiatives into broader UN activities.

  8. Work with the Planning, M&E, Operations, HR and Communication Sections to support the RD's role to provide effective country programme support for programme preparations, resources, budget preparations, and fundraising efforts. Task includes the review of documentation requiring signature of the Regional Director to ensure they are consistent with established internal procedures and quality standards.

Competencies:

Communicates effectively to varied audiences, including during formal public speaking.

Able to work effectively in a multi-cultural environment.

Sets high standards for quality of work and consistently achieves project goals.

Has good leadership and supervisory skills; co-ordinates group activities, ensuring that roles within the team are clear.

Analyzes and integrates potentially conflicting numerical, verbal and other data from a number of sources.

Translates strategic direction into plans and objectives.

Negotiates effectively by exploring a range of possibilities.

Quickly builds rapport with individuals and groups; maintains an effective network of individuals across organizational departments.

Contributes and tries out innovative approaches and insights.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organisation.
If you want a challenging career while improving the lives of children around the world UNICEF, the leading children's rights organization, would like to hear from you.

Visit us at www.unicef.org/about/employ to register in our new e-Recruitment system and apply to this and other vacancies, quoting E-VN-2011-001302. Applications must be received by 31 August 2011.
Please note that only candidates who are under serious consideration will be contacted.

In the selection of its staff, UNICEF is committed to gender balance and diversity without distinction as to race, sex or religion, and without discrimination of persons with disabilities: well qualified candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

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Planning Specialist, P-3, Nairobi Regional Office

Ops Manager Job Vacancy in Kenya

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 06:59 AM PDT

Position Required: Ops Manager?

Coordination and Supervision?Coordinate, manage and monitor the workings of the following departments within the organization: Finance,…



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Human Resources Assistant (Recruitment) Job Vacancy in Kenya

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 06:58 AM PDT

Position Required: Human Resources Assistant (Recruitment)?

Reporting to the Project Director, the HR Assistant will assist in building a professional team for the development of a Graduate…



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SDM Planning Engineer Job in Kenya

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 06:57 AM PDT

We are pleased to announce the following vacancy in the VAS Technical Department within the Technical & IT Division.?

In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a…



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Business Development, Account Manager, & Engineer Jobs.

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 04:57 AM PDT

Our client a part of Computer Point Group with a turnover of more than US$ 45 million with offices across East Africa having the largest number of deployments for enterprise class Storage, Servers and Contact Centre Solutions seeks to recruit the most Qualified and competent candidates to fill in the following positions.

Planning and Managing the full relationship between business and most important customers.

Identify and generate new ICT business opportunities to further improve market share and awareness by
gaining an understanding of customer needs.

Intelligence gathering on customers and competitors generating sales leads.

Provide customers with a quality service, building good rapport and loyal relationship.

Follow up on overall sales activity; undertake formal proposal writing and business model design.

Attend workshops, trade shows and seminar to keep up with changes and representing the company in a responsible professional and mature way.

Adopt a team approach, works with the accounts manager in pursuit of common goals and making corporate business decisions..

Support and manage existing customers and develop new sales leads.

Provide customers with a quality service, building good rapport and loyal relationship.

Use effective sales techniques to acquiring new accounts.

Manage complete sales cycle right from prospection, relationship management up to collections.

Create quality leads by cross selling and up selling products.

Data Analysis data and provide commercially useful information to existing and prospecting accounts.

Adherence to all business, departmental projects and customer policies, procedures and processes.

Ensure accurate and timely reporting of sales and business.

Keep up to date with products & pricing, making good use of their systems, to ensure correct information is given to the customer and their needs matched.

Bachelors of Engineering or B sc. Computer sciences or equivalent qualifications.

5 years experience in area of IT products and services.

Must have 2- 3 yrs experience in accounts management.

Competent in IT packages.

Previous experience in sales across eastern Africa will be an added advantage.

Excellent communication skills and comfortable dealing with people at all levels.

Proactive and confident in approach.

Leadership abilities.

Ability to maintain a high level of self motivation and to work with minimum supervision

An ability to understand the needs of potential customers

Proven ability to overcome objections

A desire to make the most of opportunities available

Able to build strong customer relationships based on trust and service delivery

Competent in IT packages.

Support and manage existing customers and develop new sale leads.

Provide customer with quality services, building good transport and loyal relationship.

Ensures that client issues are dealt with in an efficient manner, informing the development manager of any problems that may arise.

Use effective techniques to acquiring new accounts.

Meet office and personal targets and ensure customer retention by closing profitable, commercial sound deals.

Works closely with the project team in order to maintain a continuous knowledge of project status in order to identify potential issues and/or opportunities within or related to the project.

Ensures that all processes and procedures are completed, quality standards are met, and that projects are profitable.

Managing complete sales cycle right from prospecting, relationship management up to payment collections.

Aware and in pursuit of opportunities for account growth and new business, involving the development manager

Data analysis data and provide commercially useful information to existing and prospecting accounts.

Adherence to all business, departmental projects and customer policies, procedures and processes.

Understanding of company capabilities and service, and effectively communicates all offerings to the client.

Reports to the business development, providing regular input on all account activity, including status and call reports on a weekly basis.

Minimum Bachelor's degree.

Masters of Business Administration is an advantage

Minimum 2-3 years of work experience in the area of IT Products & Services Sales.

Minimum 1 years of Account Management experience Proven Account Management skills required in order to create, maintain and enhance customer relationships

Extremely detail oriented

Technical competence (understand software, hardware, networks, etc)

Motivated, goal oriented, persistent and a skilled negotiator

High level of initiative and work well in a team environment

Excellent written and oral communication skills

Handles stressful situations and deadline pressures well

Plans and carries out responsibilities with minimal direction

Should have strong analytical and problem solving skills.

Support of Windows and Linux operating systems and applications network applications and desktop applications and desktop applications like Active directory and Microsoft office.

Experience in working with Enterprise IT solutions.

Knowledge and experience in Windows server environment and systems (mid-range to high –end).

Attending day to day support Calls as assigned by help desk.

Providing daily reports to help desk.

Completing assigned activities b the project team and reporting to project team on daily basis.

Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in IT/Computer Science/Electronics.

Minimum 1-2 years of work experience in the area of implementation and support if windows/Linux operating systems.

Experience and certification for implementation of Intel based servers from HP or IBM or Dell (A MUST).

A Microsoft certification required like MCSE, A+ etc.

CCNA certificate will be an added advantage.

Certifications in storage technologies like HP, Net App will be an advantage.

Knowledge of deploying and Managing Active Directory is required.

If you are the person we are looking for, send an application letter, CV, attach the relevant testimonials and 3 referees, a daytime telephone contact to careers@kcr-hr.com before 23rd August 2011.Applications received past the deadline will not be accepted.

Nb. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.


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HR Officer Temporary Job Nairobi Kenya.

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 04:42 AM PDT

Working under the guidance of Managing Director, the HR Officer will provide functional and operational support in the areas of personnel administration, salary and benefits administration and ensuring HR policies and procedures are implemented.

They will assist in recruitment and selection processes ensuring compliance to recruitment procedures and
best practices. Maintain personnel files and staff records, staff contracts, induction process, leave management, and assist in implementation of HR policies and initiatives.

· Someone who can train

· 2 years experience in HR

· 2 years experience in job reviews

· Minimum age – 27 years

· Very professional

If you are up to the challenge, posses the necessary qualification and experience, please send your CV and application letter indicating why you are the most suitable candidate for the role clearly quoting the job title on the email subject to reach us by 25th January 2011

Please indicate current or last and desired salary.

The Recruiting Manager

Corporate staffing Services

Suite 3, 13th Floor, Development house, Moi Avenue, Nairobi.

Via email to: jobs@staff-kenya.com

N.B: We do not charge any fee for receiving your CV in our database no for interviewing.


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Facilities Manager Job Vacancy in Kenya

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 03:30 AM PDT

Job Description: Facilities Manager?

1) Routine Outputs: Site Services, Asset Management and Control?

Key Performance Indicators:?

Technical Services?

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Part Time / On Call IT Technician Job Vacancy in Nairobi Kenya

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 03:29 AM PDT

Job Location:?Nairobi

We are a Tours & Travel Company in need of a?Computer Repairs Technician to perform the following duties on a call basis:?Troubleshoot hardware,…



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