Assistant HR Officer, Secretary, Assistant Quality Assurance Officer, Security Officer and Assistant Customer Service Officer Jobs in Eldoret Kenya

Eldoret Water and Sanitation Company limited, a Water and sewerage Service Provider, invites applications from suitably qualified candidates to fill the following vacant positions:

1. Assistant Human Resource & Admin. Officer

Job Grade 6

Reporting to the Human Resource & Administration Manager

Key duties and responsibilities will be:

• Recruitment and training of staff
• Performance management and improvement tracking systems;
• Employee orientation, development, training, logistics and recordkeeping;
• Assisting with employee relations;
• Compensation and benefits administration and recordkeeping;
• Employee safety, welfare, and wellness;
• Maintaining employee files and the HR filing system;
• Knowledge of New Labour Laws
• Implementation of services, policies, and programs through HR staff and assists company managers with HR issues
• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation and communication skills

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Human Resource Management ,
• Post graduate Diploma in Human Resources or HND in Human Resource Management
• Three years working experience in similar position
• Must be Computer literate

2. Executive Secretary

Job Grade 6

Reporting to Managing Director

Key duties and responsibilities;

• Provide Secretarial and Clerical support to the Managing Director
• Manage Managing Director’s Diary
• Manage incoming and outgoing telephone calls and messages.
• Attend to Managing Director’s office guests
• Handle and distribute all incoming and outgoing correspondences and faxes

Minimum Qualifications:

• A degree in Business Administration or Human Resources Management from a recognized University
• Secretarial Training
• Minimum three years experience in a similar position
• Excellent knowledge and hands-on working experience in operating Microsoft Office Suite
• Confident, excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Keen on initiative and creativity.
• Flexible with ability to multi-tasking
• Good organizational and planning skills

3. Assistant Quality Assurance Officer

Job Grade 6

Reporting to Quality Assurance Manager

Key duties and responsibilities:

• Overall supervision of quality assurance staff.
• Ensuring the dispensation of the right dosage of treating chemicals at optimal costs without unduly affecting water quality standards.
• Developing programmes for expansion of quality assurance for the company’s products (water quality and sewage effluent) and support research and special projects.
• Analyze samples for approval of applications to discharge trade effluent into sewer.
• Sampling and analyzing of trade effluent
• Verification of compliance with trade effluent By-Law. National environmental Management Authority (NEMA) guidelines, trade effluent discharge agreement and laws and regulations of trade effluent discharge
• Advice on pre-treatment and the effects of trade effluents on treatment process
• Compile and submit monthly, quarterly and annual reports to the Head of Department and departmental meetings.

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Ability to identify and implement efficient paths of action to finish the assigned work.
• Ability to exercise independent judgment.
• Ability to establish and maintain solid working relationships with others.
• Should be able to test, calibrate, diagnose, and take action.
• Good communication and organization skills.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors’ degree or equivalent in Microbiology.
• Two years working experience in a water laboratory.
• Computer literate.

4. Water Technician

Job Grade 5

Reporting to Water Treatment and Distribution Manager

Key duties and responsibilities:

• Supervise the operations and maintenance of the water intake, raw water pipelines, treatment works and/or distribution in the designated area
• Ensure that the flow of river at the intake is maintained by initiating Maintain the plant and equipment on a regular basis to avoid interruptions in distribution.
• Maintain records for all the operations and prepare the necessary reports on time.
• Supervise, assign duties, train and motivate staff in water production and distribution unit.
• Make annual budget proposal for the unit.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Diploma in water engineering.
• Higher National Diploma in Water Engineering will be added advantage.
• Two years working experience in water supply management.
• Computer literate.

5. Security Officer

Job Grade 5

Reporting to Human Resource and Administration Manager.

Key duties and responsibilities;

• Observe, monitor and report flow of visitors to the company’s property.
• Observe and report any unlawful or inappropriate activity.
• Provide protection and ensure safety for staff, visitors and property.
• Manage emergency situations and report to authorities as appropriate.
• Maintain appropriate documentation of all security tours and any incident reports.
• Ensures the personal safety of staff, visitors, and property.
• Responsible for investigations and other suspicious activities or security violations that require intervention.

Minimum Qualifications;

• Must have at least KCE division III or KCSE C plain.
• A retired member of the disciplined forces with the capacity to prosecute.
• Three years working experience in similar capacity.
• Computer literate.
• Must have a certificate of good conduct.

6. Assistant Customer Service Officer

Grade 6

Reporting to Customer Services Manager

Key duties and responsibilities;

• Work closely with support organizations in the development of proposals and implementation of projects.
• Prepare and execute a yearly plan of customer services activities.
• Develop the public awareness and network with local/international organizations and stakeholders to enhance the public image of the Company.
• Prepare and execute customer surveys to assess the performance and level of satisfaction with services provided.
• Supervise all work and functioning of subordinates of customer service staff and assess them on basis of their performance.
• Updating customer service staff about last minute changes and monthly meeting outcomes regarding targets
• Has to take care of target fulfillment assigned to customer service department and has to take responsibility if any mismanagement occurs within the customer service department.
• Has to help new customer services trainees and needs to be attentive during working hours.

Skills and Specifications

• Should have excellent communication skills to handle difficult customers.
• Must be able to divide the job responsibilities and day to day targets to subordinates.
• A customer service assistant should be able to organize the entire work in absence of customer service manager.
• Strong organizational and interpersonal Skills, and must also understand public relations issues.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in social sciences or equivalent and community development or a post graduate qualification will be added advantage.
• Three years working experience in similar capacity.
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills, excellent communication skills.
• Must be Computer literate

Basic Salary

• Job Grade 6 – 41184 x 894 – 46974 x 1320 – 53514 per month
• Job Grade 5 - 34128 x 798 – 34926 x 798 – 35810 x 814 – 36714 x 894 – 45654 x 894 – 48294 per month

All Grades are on Permanent and Pensionable Terms

Interested applicants to submit their applications with detailed C.V’s, copies of relevant certificates and testimonials, daytime contacts, names and three referees to reach the undersigned on or before 14th July 2011,

Managing Director
Eldoret Water and Sanitation Company Ltd
P.O. Box 8418-30100
Eldoret

Email: info@eldowas.org

Please note that any canvassing will lead to disqualification

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Accountant World Vision - Intercompany Accounts & Payroll Job in Kenya

Job Title: Accountant – SA’S (Intercompany Accounts) & Payroll

Country: Kenya

Location: Nairobi

Closing Date: July 08 2011

Employing Office: East Africa Regional Office

Purpose of position:

To manage the Settlement Advice (SA) Database (Intercompany Database) and SA processing, reconcile the international and national staff payrolls and process taxes (Income and withholding) and prepare bank reconciliations.

Major Responsibilities:

• Prepare reconciliation for the month to month movement in the East Africa Regional Office International/National Staff payroll to ensure correctness and prepare the monthly journal to the Senior Financial Accountant for posting.
• Prepare quarterly benefits analysis for East Africa Regional Staff and Hosted Unit staff for compliance with approved thresholds and recover the excess from the staff through the Finance Manager.
• Analyze the East Africa Regional and Hosted Units Home country International (HCI) staff Income Tax Deductions and ensure that the tax remitted to the Government is recovered through the International Payroll and remitted together with all other statutory deductions by the 9th in compliance with the statutory requirements.
• Manage the Settlement Advice System/database (SAS – Intercompany Account Settlement System) by preparing the monthly outgoing Settlement Advices (SAs) with the supporting documentation to ensure that these are sent to other WV entities and Global Centre on a timely basis and follow-up for approvals by these entities.
• Create the Pre-Approvals (PAs) in the Settlement Advice System (SAS) database and review monthly Pre-Approval reconciliation detailing unutilized PAs and recommending way forward for the unutilized PAs.
• Review and prepare journal entries to record incoming SAs.
• Prepare Bank Reconciliations for all the bank accounts and ensure outstanding items are dealt with in a timely manner.
• Balance Sheet Accounts Analysis and Reconciliation.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• University degree and Qualified Accountant (CPA/ACCA) and experience in accounting, preferably within World Vision.
• Knowledge of MS Office, Lotus Notes and Sunsystems.
• 3 years of experience in an Accounting field preferably within World Vision.

Job Details

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How to Apply

All application letters and detailed CVs together with names of three referees, should be sent to reach the undersigned not later than July 8th, 2011.

Director
People and Culture
World Vision East Africa
Nairobi, Kenya
Email: wvaro_recruit@wvi.org

Please indicate clearly on the subject line the position you are applying for.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Disclaimer: World Vision East Africa has not engaged any recruitment agencies in this recruitment process, neither are we charging any fees to potential employees for job opportunities.

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Economist Job Vacancy in ILRI Kenya (USD 50,000)

Vacancy Number: ECON/PGI/06/11

Department: Poverty, Gender and Impact team

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Duration: one year with the possibility of renewal

Base salary from USD 50,000 plus attractive international staff benefits package

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) works at the crossroads of livestock and poverty, bringing high-quality livestock science, communications and capacity building to bear on poverty reduction and sustainable development.

ILRI is one of 15 centres supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). ILRI has campuses in Kenya (headquarters) and Ethiopia, with other offices located in other regions of Africa (Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria) as well as in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka), Southeast Asia (Laos, Thailand, Vietnam) and East Asia (China).

ILRI seeks to recruit an Economist as part of its Poverty, Gender and Impact team. Under the leadership of the team leader and in coordination with other research staff within the team and the Institute, the appointee will develop and implement research on the multiple roles of livestock in rural livelihoods and how livestock’s contribution to poverty alleviation can be enhanced.

Specific responsibilities will include developing and leading implementation of monitoring and evaluation strategies for the CGIAR research program of Livestock and Fish and other large ILRI programs. The appointee will bring strong quantitative skills to a multi-disciplinary team working with mixed methods and approaches to identify and evaluate livestock-based strategies and options to reduce poverty, inequity and vulnerability for livestock-dependent people and communities.

Responsibilities

• Quantify the contribution of livestock to the livelihoods of the poor and the actual/potential impact of livestock-related strategies and interventions on poverty and vulnerability;
• Develop and support implementation of monitoring and evaluation strategies for ILRI programs including the CGIAR research program on livestock and fish, leading the collection, management, analysis and reporting of baseline, evaluation and impact assessment data;
• Identify factors that constrain or enhance the ability of the poor to keep livestock or to benefit from innovations along the livestock value chain, and extract lessons for policy and program design;
• Participate in team resource mobilization efforts, including donor relations and proposal development;
• Working closely with the team leader and others, contribute to defining ILRI’s research agenda in the area of livelihoods, evaluation and impact assessment and in the building and managing a team to implement it;
• Contribute to the formation and strengthening of strategic partnerships that are relevant to the research theme;
• Serve as an ambassador for ILRI and represent the Institute in research, donor, partnership and other fora as required. This includes developing and delivering effective external communications about the PGI team and ILRI as a whole.

Requirements:

• A Ph.D. in agricultural economics, economics, or other agricultural or social science with strong minor in economics or statistics;
• Expert disciplinary knowledge related agricultural and rural development, poverty analysis, and evaluation and impact assessment methods;
• Excellent skills in data base management and quantitative data analysis, and experience analyzing farm and household surveys and panel data sets;
• At least 5 years’ experience working on poverty analysis and quantitative evaluation of agricultural and rural development programs;
• Experience with mixed-methods (e.g. qualitative, quantitative, spatial) evaluations and gender analysis will be highly desirable;
• Work experience in developing country(s) and willingness to travel extensively;
• Experience with livestock or livestock-related research and development;
• Well developed understanding of the interface between research and development and experience using research and evaluation results to improve development programming
• Well developed research ability with proven originality, creativity and innovation culminating in a substantial contribution to knowledge;
• Demonstrated ability to form and work effectively in multi-regional teams with members drawn from a diverse range of nationalities, cultures and scientific disciplines
• Well developed oral and written communication skills;
• Understanding of electronic communications, standard office computer software and analytical packages;
• Knowledge of other languages including French and Portuguese will be highly desirable.

Location: Nairobi, Kenya with frequent travel to areas where there are ILRI activities.

Terms of appointment: The position is Scientist/Research Level 2 and is on a two year term appointment with possibility for renewal for one year contingent upon individual performance and continued funding.

ILRI offers a competitive international remuneration and benefits package which includes: – Medical insurance – Life insurance – and allowances for: – Children’s Education – Housing and baggage.

Applications:

Applicants should send a cover letter explaining their interest in the position, what they can bring to the job and indicating earliest availability, curriculum vitae and the names and addresses (including telephone, fax and email) of three referees who are knowledgeable about the candidate’s professional qualifications and work experience to email: recruit-ilri-Ken@cgiar.org by 23 July 2011.

The position title and reference number ECONOMIST: ECON/PGI/06/11 should be clearly marked on the subject line of the email applications. Due to the high volume of applications that we receive, we regret but only online applications will be considered and only short listed candidates will be contacted.

To find more about ILRI, visit our Website at www.ilri.org

ILRI is an equal opportunity employer.

Qualified candidates from African countries, particularly women, are encouraged to apply.


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ILRI Post-Doctoral Scientist Job Vacancy in Nairobi Kenya (USD 35,000)

Vacancy Number: PD/PGI/IBLI/06/11

Department: Poverty, Gender and Impact team

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Duration: two years with the possibility of renewal

Base salary from USD 35,000 plus attractive international staff benefits package

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) works at the crossroads of livestock and poverty, bringing high-quality livestock science, communications and capacity building to bear on poverty reduction and sustainable development.

ILRI is one of 15 centres supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). ILRI has campuses in Kenya (headquarters) and Ethiopia, with other offices located in other regions of Africa (Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria) as well as in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka), Southeast Asia (Laos, Thailand, Vietnam) and East Asia (China).

The position: ILRI seeks to recruit a Postdoctoral scientist within its Poverty, Gender and Impact team. This position would be part of the team developing, piloting, assessing the impact of, and scaling-up index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) products.

A comprehensive pilot has already been commercially launched in Marsabit District of Northern Kenya and research into its implementation in Southern Ethiopia has already begun (see, www.ilri.org/ibli).

Interest from donors, development partners, and government requires scaling up of the Marsabit pilot into other arid districts of Northern Kenya.

With this position we seek someone to help spearhead the design and evaluation of IBLI products for the scaling up effort in Kenya. IBLI is currently modelled by fitting a statistical relationship between remotely-sensed NDVI (Naturalized Difference Vegetation Index) and area-average livestock mortality data.

As this relationship changes across space, different statistical relationships need to be modelled and different products designed and priced. The successful candidate will develop improved modelling techniques to expand contract precision and coverage. Ideally, the candidate will also contribute to evaluation of IBLI product impacts on household and individual behaviour and well-being.

Responsibilities

• Design IBLI contracts for select arid districts of Northern Kenya: model the product and price risk across a range of possible contract options;
• Develop modeling techniques/methods that allow for greater spatial coverage and improved precision of IBLI product with the use of a minimal set of data;
• Lead the design of a data collection instrument for data relevant to the development of IBLI contracts and help field these efforts;
• Help design and operationalize impact evaluation of IBLI products;
• Liaise with local insurance companies and international reinsurance companies;
• Contribute to the development of an industry-wide capacity in the design and comprehension of IBLI products;

Requirements:

• A PhD in Agricultural Economics, Development Economics, Financial Economics, Operations Research, Statistics, Computational Finance or any related field;
• Have a demonstrated understanding of risk analysis, risk pricing and design;
• A record of publications that demonstrates strong analytical, empirical and writing skills and shows promise and high capacity;
• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teamsand a strong and effective communicator;
• Knowledge and experience of handling large GIS and remote sensing data.

Post location: The position is based at ILRI’s Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.

Terms of appointment:

This is an Internationally Recruited Staff (IRS) position with initial appointment of two years with the possibility of renewal for one year, contingent upon individual performance and the availability of funding. ILRI offers a competitive international remuneration package – Medical insurance – Life insurance – and allowances for: – Housing – baggage – and children’s education.

Applications:

Applicants should send a cover letter explaining their interest in the position, what they can bring to the job and indicating earliest availability, curriculum vitae and the names and addresses (including telephone and email) of three referees who are knowledgeable about the candidate’s professional qualifications and work experience to email: recruit-ilri-Ken@cgiar.org by 22 July 2011.

The position title and reference number POST DOCTORAL SCIENTIST: PD/PGI/IBLI/06/11 should be clearly marked on the subject line of the email applications.

Due to the high volume of applications that we receive, we regret but only online applications will be considered and only short listed candidates will be contacted.

To find more about ILRI, visit our Website at www.ilri.org

ILRI is an equal opportunities employer.

Qualified candidates from African countries, particularly women, are encouraged to apply.

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ILRI Research Officer – IBLI Job Vacancy in Nairobi Kenya (KShs 164,833)

Vacancy Number: RO/PGI/IBLI/06/11

Department: Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI)

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Duration: two years with the possibility of renewal

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) works at the crossroads of livestock and poverty, bringing high-quality livestock science, communications and capacity building to bear on poverty reduction and sustainable development.

ILRI is one of 15 centres supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). ILRI has campuses in Kenya (headquarters) and Ethiopia, with other offices located in other regions of Africa (Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria) as well as in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka), Southeast Asia (Laos, Thailand, Vietnam) and East Asia (China).

This position would be part of the team developing, piloting, assessing the impact of, and scaling-up index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) products. A comprehensive pilot has already been launched in Marsabit district of Northern Kenya and research into its implementation in Southern Ethiopia has already begun (see, www.ilri.org/ibli).

The successful applicant will play a central role in managing and coordinating the research operations for the team. The IBLI project conducts two large annual household surveys in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia and several other specialized modules throughout the year. It also utilizes a suite of remotely sensed data.

This position involves coordinating and supervising the implementation of these surveys and will be expected to contribute to survey and research design as well as data analysis This position also entails overseeing data cleaning and storage, writing reports based on analyzed data and contributing to research papers.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design of the IBLI research for development agenda (survey instruments, implementation strategy, implementation, data collection and analysis).
• Oversee management of project data: data cleaning and storage, data inventory, data analysis, data mapping.
• Prepare comprehensive survey codebooks that fully describe the survey design, data collection methods, cleaning and inventory process.
• Prepare research reports analyzing and summarizing data.
• Communicate and disseminate research findings which should include participation in meetings and workshops, giving periodic presentations to participating institutions, and communicating to policy makers through web and popular media.
• Contribute to help strengthen existing partnerships and build new and innovative research partnerships.

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Requirements

• A Masters in Agricultural Economics, Development Economics, Statistics, Rural Development or other relevant discipline
• Minimum of 6 years experience in quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis; experience must involve both field work and survey implementation as well as data analysis and report writing.
• Sound knowledge and experience of STATA, a statistical software package.
• Demonstrated experience with data management and relevant applications.
• Knowledge and experience of GIS and related remote sensing applications is a huge plus.
• Knowledge and experience of programming language such as Fortran 90 is also beneficial.

Terms of appointment:

This is Nationally Recruited Staff (NRS) position based at ILRI’s Nairobi campus and is on initial 2 year contract renewable subject to satisfactory performance and availability of funding. Salary and benefits will be in line with those provided within ILRI’s NRS scheme.

Job level and salary: This position is job level 3A and starting salary is KES 164,833 per month. This is exclusive of other benefits provided by ILRI.

Applications addressed to the Human Resources Director, a cover letter, curriculum vitae and the names and addresses (including telephone and email) of three referees who are knowledgeable about the candidate’s professional qualifications and work experience should be emailed to: recruit-ilri-Ken@cgiar.org by 8 July 2011.

The position title and reference number “RO/PGI/IBLI/06/11” should be clearly marked on the subject line of the email applications.

To find more about ILRI, visit our Website at www.ilri.org

ILRI is an equal opportunity employer.


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