Security Guard Jobs in Kenya at WRAP

Job Title: Security Guard (KES 11,500)

Organisation: WRAP

Location:  Nairobi

Women’s Right Awareness Programme is a non-governmental organization with a client base of women and children committed to the institution for protection and care.

We are urgently seeking to recruit a person for the position of security guard with the following qualifications:

Qualifications

• KCSE D+ and above
• At least 2 years working in a similar position
• Must be physically fit with strong stature
• Must be above 35 years of age
• Excellent communication skills (English and Kiswahili)
• Reference letter from previous employer
• A valid certificate of good conduct
• Chief’s and/or Religious Leader introduction letter
• Valid driving license will be an added advantage
• Gender sensitive and child friendly(Experience working with women and Children an added advantage)

Note: Salary is Kshs 11,500 p.m

If you meet these requirements please send your detailed CV to;

The Chairperson

Women’s Rights Awareness Programme (WRAP)

P.O. Box 3006-00200

Nairobi.

Email address: wrapkenya@hotmail.com

Closing date for applications: 12th December 2013

Availability: Immediately

Jobs at Danya International in Kenya

Job Title: Regional Monitoring and Evaluation Manager

Organisation: Danya International

Location:  Nairobi

Summary Scope of Work: The Regional Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Manager will support the Regional M&E Advisor to provide technical leadership and implementation oversight for all of Danya’s monitoring and evaluation initiatives in the region.

The position will be responsible for providing technical assistance to USG agencies, USG partners, and national government partners, designing and leading high impact M&E strategies and implementations.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading M&E technical approach across multiple projects
• Represent Danya before stakeholders and oversee implementation of activities throughout the Africa region
• Contribute to annual work planning
• Establish and maintain a productive relationships with key stakeholders, including government officials, NGOs, project staff and community groups for smooth implementation
• Work collaboratively with other project team members to ensure necessary program planning, development, resource availability and management activities function smoothly and efficiently
• Work collaboratively with project staff and US-based headquarters staff to assure proper financial projections, reporting, spending and compliance with project terms and conditions.
• Contribute to ensure projects meets set targets
• Promote and support the dissemination of best practices among the project teams
• Contribute to timely, accurate and appropriate reporting of program activities and results to the donor, including progress reports, and annual reports

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Relevant bachelor degree with Master’s or PhD level training in public health or agriculture preferred
• A minimum of 6+ years of senior level experience in designing and implementing M&E strategies
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to present materials in meetings, at conferences and to write project documents (including research and evaluation design plans, logic models, data collection and data analysis plans, and final reports) and proposals with minimal revisions from the supervisor.
• Knowledge of research and evaluation (process, outcome, impact) concepts and principles, and the ability to apply them during the implementation of project tasks; ability to design large evaluation and health communication or food security studies and product development plans.
• Data collection (key stakeholder interviews, focus groups, surveys, and secondary data analysis techniques), data management, and data analysis skills, experience with SPSS and good working knowledge of SAS and Nud*ist a plus.
• Demonstrated experience providing training and technical assistance to public health or food security projects of over $1,000,000 US per year in developing countries
• Experience developing successful, replicable and sustainable projects
• Expertise in research to practice – identifying best practices and adapting them to program realities
• Solid publication record in area of M&E
• A team player accustomed to building team capacity, delegating working teams, and developing communities of learning among host country partners and counterparts
• Excellent interpersonal, writing, and oral presentation skills
• Strong change management, results oriented and decision making skills
• Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform
• Fluency in English
• Experience and understanding of Global Health Initiative or Feed the Future frameworks
• Ability to travel nationally and internationally

How to Apply

Interested applicants please email CV together with a covering letter which explains how you meet the criteria in this job description to: recruitmentafrica@DANYA.com with copy to lwoldu@danya.com

Important: Please entitle your email subject line with: Your name, position title and save letter together with CV in one attached file.

Closing Date 5^th January 2014

Billing Planning Engineer Job Vacancy in Kenya at Safaricom Limited

Job Title: Billing Planning Engineer

Job Ref: TECHNOLOGY_BPE_DEC_2013

Company: Safaricom Limited

Job Location: Nairobi, Kenya


Responsibilities:

• Create KPI for new products/services, Marketing proposals, products & services vendor evaluation process - weighted evaluation for new hardware, features and services;
• Analyze billing infrastructure on a weekly basis against the KPI;
• Design Convergent Billing System to integrate new elements;
• Minimize network and service impact for any change;
• Scheduling all the planned works;
• Using RACI model to share responsibilities and information in cross-functional teams;
• Create and update handover system configuration documentation after software/hardware installation or upgrade;
• Configure data for new systems with vendor engineer;
• Create/adopt necessary work instruction for existing systems;
• S.W.O.T analysis of projects on regular basis;
• Provide recommendation reports to identify opportunities for improvement and optimization of existing services;
• Create tools/identify method(s) to obtain statistical data from the system;
• Analyze the effect of a new/improvement change before & after implementation;
• Setup internal training to update teams on new changes;
• Transfer knowledge to billing planning engineers;
• Build internal and external relationships with key customers and suppliers to deliver continuous quality solutions to business.

Job Requirements:

• University degree in Degree in one of the following: Telecommunications; Electronic Engineering; IT (Computing) – Operating systems, databases, system development, LAN design and configuration, TCP/IP or equivalent from recognized institution;
• 3 years working as an engineer in a telecommunications environment (vendor or operator)
• Experience of GSM Intelligent Networks or billing systems an advantage
• Experience of Huawei Convergent Billing System (CBS) will be an added advantage
• Analytical & innovative problem solving skills;
• Must be able to work without supervision & meet tight deadlines/schedules, attend meetings and implement action plans;
• Proactive in support & being self-motivated and collaborating with other teams to achieve common objectives.

How to Apply:

If you feel that you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualification and experience please send your resume and application letter indicating your experience and why you are the most suitable candidate for the role clearly quoting the job title and job reference to the address below.

The Head of Talent and Resourcing,
Safaricom Limited
Nairobi

Via E-mail to: hr@safaricom.co.ke

Application Deadline: 13th Dec 2013

Receptionist Careers at Hilton Worldwide Kenya

Job Title: Receptionist (Front Desk)

Job No.:  OPE01XDL

Company: Hilton Worldwide Kenya

Job location: Nairobi, Kenya

Principle Responsibilities & Position Purpose: To offer guests friendly and efficient service at all times, taking account of the established brand standards and management guidelines such as memos, training and policy guidelines.

Responsibilities:

• Offer guests friendly and efficient service at all times, taking account of the established brand standards and management guidelines.
• Ensures smooth operation of the shift and adherence of the laid down procedures.
• Ensure team members are aware of ongoing hotel communication and policies.
• Carry out updating of profiles and registration cards as per laid down standards.
• Ensures all messages are promptly delivered to respective guestrooms.
• Performs rebates and paid outs as per laid down policies and procedures.
• Ensures highest level and achievement of Brand Service Standards.

Qualification Standards:

• Front Office Operations Course from a certified college.
• Ideally a recent graduate from the tourism industry.
• Excellent command of the English language and either Basic French, Italian, Arabic.
• Must be conversant with Opera PMS.

Specific Job Knowledge, Skill and Ability:

• Ability to read, listen and communicate effectively in English.
• Ability to access, read and accurately input information using a moderately complex computer system.
• Ability to effectively deal with both internal and external customers, some requiring high levels of patience, tact and diplomacy. This involves listening to the nature of the concern, demonstrating empathy with the customer and providing positive and proactive solutions.
• Friendly personality.
• Meticulous/Attention to detail.
• Good organizer.
• Adaptable to a multicultural and multiracial working environment.

How to Apply:

Excellent future career opportunities are available within the organization. Compensation and benefits are commensurate with background and experience.

Interested candidates are invited to apply through: www.hiltonworldwide.com/careers

Hilton Nairobi is an equal opportunity employer and as such, canvassing in any form will lead to automatic disqualification.

  

Application Deadline: 16th Dec 2013

Engineering Manager Jobs in Kenya at Dorbeleit Recruitment

Job Title: Engineering Manager

Company: Dorbeleit Recruitment

Job Location: Nairobi, Kenya


Responsibilities:

• Implement preventative maintenance for all equipment and facilities
• Ensure factory facilities, grounds, loans and fences are well maintained.
• Prepare and control maintenance budget
• Ensure utilities are available at all times and in the case of power outage, follow up to minimize downtime.
• Supervise, train and develop an effective and efficient engineering team.
• Develop processes and procedures for engineering operations and ensure safety principles and guidelines are applied at all times before, during and after maintenance shutdowns.
• Carry out any other duties as assigned by immediate supervisor

Minimum Qualifications:

• A holder of B.Sc. Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering with 3 Years work experience in a busy food / beverage FMCG manufacturing firm
or
• A holder of a Diploma / Higher National Diploma in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering with over 5 years work experience in a busy food / beverage FMCG manufacturing firm
• Experienced in maintenance of boilers, milk processing and packing machines, compressors

NB: Candidates with prior work experience in a milk processing and packing company will be preferred.

Skills Required:

• Proficiency with office computer applications
• Excellent analytical skills
• Excellent report writing skills
• Good negotiator
• Time management skills and attention to detail
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Demonstrated supervisory skills
• Team player
• Proactive
• Goal focused

Salary: KShs. 70,000 – 100,000 gross

How to Apply:

If you are interested in the position and have the skills and competencies our client is looking for, we would like to hear from you.

Please upload a copy of your updated resume, and your current salary and benefits package at: hr@dorbeleitrecruit.co.ke

Only successful candidates will be contacted

Application Deadline: 11th Dec 2013

Voice Engineer Jobs in Kenya at Wananchi Group

Job Title: Voice Engineer

Company: Wananchi Group

Job Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Job Summary

As a Voice Engineer you will be primarily responsible for maintaining, upgrading and developing Wananchi’s voice infrastructure and implementing changes in response to user requests and project work.

The voice infrastructure includes the Class 4 and 5 softswitch, internal IP Telephony platform (asterisk), media proxy and media gateways, session border controllers and the associated integration into the OSS and ESS systems as well as integration with PSTN providers and Internet based providers.

You will be required to be a mentor to less experienced staff and deal with escalated issues from other members of the team and other departments.

Job Role

• Diagnose and resolve faults on the VoIP softswitch, internal IT IP-PBX and associated components such as the media gateways, media proxies, and session border controllers.
• Ensure the VoIP platform performance and availability is within the stipulated
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Produce network designs to meet tactical and commercial expectations
• Ensure key VoIP performance parameters are monitored by the NOC and propose improvements in monitoring to accurately measure the overall performance of the network
• Liaise with third-party vendors in the resolution of VoIP equipment faults
• Handle second or third level escalations from the NOC or from other team members
• Identify operational problems and contribute to their resolution
• Act as the technical lead for projects in the Voice platform
• Liaise with OSS and BSS teams to ensure these tools interact optimally with the VoIP platform

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT, Engineering, Telecoms or related field
• At least 3 years experience, two of which will be in a Service Provider or large enterprise environment
• Must hold Cisco CCVP or equivalent certification
• Advanced knowledge of voice protocols such as SIP, MGCP, SS7, H.323, H.248
• Advanced knowledge of voice systems (softswitches, media gateways, ATAs, SBCs and Voice Mail systems)
• Must have working knowledge of Asterisk IP-PBX or equivalent
• Proficient in written and spoken English
• Experience in leading a project team
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Ability and interest in learning technology related skills
• Ability to present and articulate technical issues to non-technical staff

How to Apply:

Send your resumes and CV to: recruit@ke.wananchi.com

Application Deadline: 11th Dec 2013

Developer Internships at Indepth Research in Kenya

Job Title: Developer Interns - 2 Posts

Company: Indepth Research

Job Location: Nairobi, Kenya


Description:

We are an international training and consultancy organization offering technical training and education services designed for individuals, and organizations working in the agriculture, climate change and environment; disaster management; education; food and nutrition; health;  humanitarian relief; logistics and telecommunication; recovery and reconstruction; safety and security; water sanitation and hygiene sectors .

Allowances: The starting allowances for these positions is KES 15,000.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Writing specifications, designing, building (developing), testing and implementing (installing a program into production) programs.
• Breaking down program specifications into their simplest elements and translating this logic into a programming language.
• Provide innovative solutions to complex business problems, interface with clients and gather business requirements and objectives, translate the clients’ business requirements and objectives into technical applications and solutions.
• Establishing a detailed program specification through discussion with clients, clarifying to clients what actions a program is intended to perform.
• Working as part of a team, which may be established purely for a particular project, to write a specific section of the program
• Testing sample data-sets to check that output from a program works as intended
• Reacting to problems and correcting  program as necessary, devising possible solutions to anticipated problems
• Evaluating and increasing  program's effectiveness, adapting  program to new requirements if necessary
• Conducting user acceptance testing to ensure a program can be used easily, quickly and accurately
• Writing detailed documentation for the operation of a program by users and computer operators
• Reviewing , updating, repairing, modifying and developing existing IRES information systems
• Customizing existing IRES programs to clients’ needs and specification.
• Presenting ideas for system improvements, including cost and writing prospective proposals
• Maintaining IRES and clients’ systems once they are up and running
• Consulting manuals, periodicals,  technical reports, attending seminars and workshops to learn new ways to develop programs, and for continuous improvement of existing skills and knowledge

Qualifications:

• A degree in computer science, software engineering or any other related field
• Knowledge and Skills Required
• Excellent Ajax skills (mandatory)
• Excellent PHP programming skills
• Strong skills in Java
• Proven experience in developing mobile applications using J2ME
• Proven experience in android development
• Experience with Java development tools
• Knowledge of databases and database systems
• Understanding of Web technologies
• Experience working with common Internet technologies (e.g. CSS, HTML, and JavaScript)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain technical issues to a non-technical audience
• Strong ambition to adapt and learn new development technologies
• Knowledge in Content Management Systems (CMS) will be an added advantage.

How to Apply:

If you meet the above criteria, please send your application and a detailed CV to: jobs@indepthresearch.org

Application Deadline: 7th Jan 2014