Saturday, May 29, 2010

PROJECT MANAGER


Date Placed 2010-05-21 11:05:13
Job Title PROJECT MANAGER
Profession Project Manager
Level of Employment Senior Management
CategoryCatering & Hospitality
InstitutionCatering & Tourism Development Levy Trustees,
SectorPrivate Sector
Country of placementKenyaTown/CityNairobi Province
Deadline02/06/2010

DescriptionCatering and Tourism Development Levy Trustees (CTDLT), a body Corporate established under Cap.
494 - Laws of Kenya, wishes to hire a highly motivated, proactive and energetic individual for the post of Construction Project Manager.
This post is offered on contract basis.
CTDLT is in the final stages of executing a plan to put up an Office Block of 14 floors of a total area in excess of 100,000 square meters (M²) on its Valley Road plot No. L.R 209/269/1.
Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be responsible for: -
• Co ordination with contractors
• Review, Evaluate and monitor construction works
• Full supervision of the property in review
• Make monthly reports to Management and quarterly reports to the Board of Trustees
• Liaison between Management and the Contractor
• Ensure full compliance by the Contractor of the design, standard and obligations by the Contractor
Requirements:
1. Must be a degree holder – B. Civ. Eng., Bachelor of Architect or equivalent
2. At least 4 years experience in handling Commercial and Residential Projects
3. Should have creative, innovative abilities as well as, Management skills
4. Basic accounting skills will be an added advantage
5. Must have completed at least three (3) projects for which proof must be demonstrated.
6. Must be aged 35 years and above
7. State current and expected remuneration
8. Give names and contacts of three Referees.
Prospective Candidates who meet the requirements are asked to submit applications with detailed
Curriculum Vitae to : -
The Chief Executive Officer,
Catering & Tourism Development Levy Trustees,
NHIF Building Parking Tower 5th Floor,
Clearly indicate on the Envelope CTDLT/PM/5/2010
Applicants are informed that:
CTDLT is an equal opportunity employer.
CTDLT is not bound to give any reason for rejecting any application.
Any form of canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
CTDLT IS ISO 9001:2000 CERTIFIED
Qualification
Undergraduate
Application and employer's details
Company Name Catering & Tourism Development Levy Trustees,
Address P.O. Box 46987 – 00100 GPO, Nairobi.
Emailinfo@ctdlt.co.ke

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR


te Placed 2010-05-21 11:05:40
Job Title EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR POSITION
Profession Economist
Level of Employment Senior Management
CategoryOther
InstitutionKENYA LAND CONSERVATION TRUST
SectorPrivate Sector
Country of placementKenyaTown/CityNairobi Province
Deadline04/06/2010

DescriptionThe Kenya Land Conservation Trust (KLCT), a charitable Trust incorporated in April 2005, aims to promote and facilitate the conservation of land, biological diversity and natural resources in Kenya for public benefit through the use of different innovative and existing legal instruments such as purchase, easements, and leases, and to contribute to poverty reduction by promoting innovative sustainable economic activities in resource dependent communities. This position is initially for one year and will be based in Nairobi.

The successful candidate would:
• Oversee day to day management of the Trust.
• Review and lead a land conservation program that will identify, prioritize, acquire, protect and manage critical properties for conservation while providing benefits to communities.
• Negotiate land agreements and policies to secure these lands.
• Establish an efficient organization, including setting up the office and communications infrastructure, building capacity and putting in place systems, standards and policies.
• Lead the implementation of a strategic plan in order to realize the vision and mission of the Trust.
• Foster strong relationships with key institutions, individuals, landowners and stakeholders to harness support and create a positive environment for the Trust nationally and internationally
• Develop a funding plan, prepare fundraising proposals and undertake fundraising activities.
• Build a positive image, and create public awareness of and interest in KLCT.
• Serve as Secretary to the Board of Trustees.
Key Skills and Abilities:
• At least five years experience in a management or leadership position in a reputable organization.
• A Masters Degree (or appropriate undergraduate degree and significant experience) in the Natural Resource Management. Experience working in Environmental Law, Property Rights or Economics a benefit.
• Exposure to and a strong grasp of land issues in Kenya, wildlife management, private land conservation, conservation easements, leases, land acquisition, evolving trends in wildlife conservation in Kenya
• Demonstrated ability to fund raise
• Strong financial planning and management skills
• Excellent communication skills, ability to persuasively communicate to diverse groups and individuals
• Outgoing, self driven and able to work with minimal supervision
• Commitment to and passion for wildlife conservation and land conservation
Interested candidates can go online to the KLCT website - www.klct.or.ke, to obtain a detailed copy of the Job Description. Those candidates who fully meet the requirements should submit via email a letter of motivation addressing their experience and skills related to the job, a detailed CV and three referees to The Executive Director, KLCT through the email given and before the dateline indicated below.
Only short-listed candidates shall be contacted.
Qualification
Masters
Company Name KENYA LAND CONSERVATION TRUST
Address -
Phone-
Emailinfo@klct.or.ke

VACANCIES AT KAMPALA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY-NAIROBI CAMPUS


Date Placed 2010-05-12 11:05:05
Job Title VACANCIES AT KAMPALA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY-NAIROBI CAMPUS
Profession Lecturer
Level of Employment White Collar
CategoryEducation/Teaching
Institution KAMPALA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
SectorPrivate Sector
Country of placementKenyaTown/CityNairobi Province
Deadline20/06/2010

DescriptionKampala International University (KIU) established in 2001 in the Republic of Uganda, is a community of students, Scholars and Staff committed to provision of high quality educational services. With a history of ten years, KIU is the only private university that boasts of a fully fledged medical school with the second largest teaching hospital in Uganda.
Having been chartered by the Government of Uganda in 2009, KIU has now set its target on consolidating into a world class university. Our strategic priority is to provide an enabling environment for high quality teaching, learning, research and community service. We aim at producing graduates who are globally competitive and driven by the spirit of entrepreneurship and service.
KIU is therefore looking for senior experts who are passionate about contributing to our vision through sharing their accumulated academic and other professional experiences with our staff and students.
Specifically we are looking for experts in the following areas;
1. Paediatrics and Child Health
2. Internal Medicine
3. Accident and Emergency medicine
4. Anaesthesiology
5. Radiology
6. Dentistry
7. Biomedical Sciences (Professors) in:
i) Human Anatomy
ii) Human Physiology
iii) Biochemistry
iv) Pharmacology
v) Pharmacy
8. Business Management (Professors)
9. Computer Science (Professor)
10. Engineering (Professors in Civil and Electronic Engineering)
11. Law (Professors)
12. Social Science (Professors)
13. Education (Professor, Associate Professor and Lecturer with a PhD)
14. Mathematics (Professor and Lecturer with a PhD)

If you feel you are the right person for this opportunity, please apply by clearly stating the areas of your specialization, your Telephone contact and yourCV tothe following email chairpersonAB@kiu.ac.ug
and copy to kiunairobi@gmail.com before the dateline indicated.

Qualification
Graduate
Company Name KAMPALA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Address P. O Box 26351-00100 Nairobi,Kenya
Phone+254(0)202244217/0202210176

DATABASE PROGRAMMER


Date Placed 2010-05-21 10:05:16
Job Title DATABASE PROGRAMMER
Profession Database administrator (DBA)
Level of Employment White Collar
CategoryIT
InstitutionDN/A 613
SectorPrivate Sector
Country of placementKenyaTown/CityNairobi Province
Deadline04/06/2010

DescriptionSummary
The successful candidates will be responsible for analyzing, designing,
developing, maintaining, and documenting the company’s database
applications.
Duties
• Provide technical support in designing and developing database
applications.
• Setting up, Implementing and testing new databases.
• Supporting, maintaining and upgrading existing database applications.
• Monitoring database efficiency.
• Creating query definitions that allow data to be extracted.
• Controlling access to the database.
• Maintaining the security and integrity of information.
• Developing training materials for the systems developed and providing training to the end –users of the systems.

Qualifications/Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate must possess the following qualifications and
competencies:-
• A university degree in Computer Science/Information Technology or related field from a recognized university.
• Extensive knowledge of Relational Database Management Systems.
• Experience in systems release management.
• Understanding of various platforms and ability to work with different languages will be an added advantage.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.

If you fulfill the above requirements and wish to be considered, please write to us enclosing your detailed CV with details of qualifications and experience by dateline and address indicated above to:
DN/A 613

Qualification
Undergraduate
Company Name DN/A 613
Address P. O. BOX 49010, 00100, GPO NAIROBI
Phone-

SYSTEMS ENGINEER/ JAVA PROGRAMMER – 3 Posts


Date Placed 2010-05-21 11:05:55
Job Title SYSTEMS ENGINEER/ JAVA PROGRAMMER – 3 Posts
Profession Programmer
Level of Employment White Collar
CategoryIT
InstitutionSYSTEMS ENGINEER AND JAVA PROGRAMMER POSTS
SectorPrivate Sector
Country of placementKenya
Deadline04/06/2010

DescriptionThe Academic Model for Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) is a project under the auspices of Moi University and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital whose aim is to provide sustainable efforts in HIV prevention and primary health care. Besides the MTRH site, AMPATH also runs satellite clinics at 24 outreach sites in Rift Valley, Nyanza & Western provinces.

Applications are invited from qualified candidates for the above vacant position in AMPATH Program.

The Role:
• Working with the Medical Informatics group at AMPATH to design, develop and modify java-based applications.
• Designing and creating java programs, and to develop applications on top of OpenMRS (www.openmrs.org) software.
• Installing software applications and operating systems under predetermined guidelines as well as monitoring, testing and troubleshooting existing application system.
Qualification and experience
• Bachelor’s degree in IT/ computer Science or related field.
• Be in possession of a minimum of at least one year of related work experience in Information Systems or programming.
• Ability to interact and verbally communication with co-workers.
• Ability to write reports and operational correspondence.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Intermediate or advanced java programming skills.
• Working knowledge and experience with Subversion, Spring, Hibernate and SQL
• Awareness of basic concepts, practices, and procedures in programming, systems development, and software engineering (including but not limited to object-oriented techniques and languages, database principles and programming, and opensource
methodologies)
• Experience with OpenMRS development (www.openmrs.org), including at least one patch successfully reviewed and applied
to openMRS core code will be an added advantage.
• Aptitude to learn clinical processes and clinical terminology.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Design, program, test, implement and troubleshoot assigned systems.
• Assist with health information analysis documentation upon request
• Assist with effective interface of assigned systems with other systems
• Implement algorithms to integrate with existing and emerging systems
• Ensure assigned systems have assigned systems have required security support.
• Complete assignments in a quality and timely manner with minimal errors
• Supports development and maintenance needs as specified by his or her supervisor
• Assist with research on various technologies and other topics.
• Seeks input and feedback from team members to improve individual work activities.
• Other duties as assigned.
APPLICATION SUBMISSION
Applications should be e-mailed to email address below with the subject line “Systems Engineer/ Java Programmer Application.
• Applicants are encouraged to submit a patch to one or more OpenMRS ticket(s).
• Include a link to a successful project accomplished
• Introductory developer materials:http://openmrs.org /wiki/developers
• Suggested introductory tickets:http://dev.openmrs.org/report/20
So as to reach on/before the dateline indicated.

NB. ONLY SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES WILL BE CONTACTED.
Qualification
Graduate
Company Name SYSTEMS ENGINEER AND JAVA PROGRAMMER POSTS
Address -
Phone-
Emailjobs@ampath.or.ke
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