Langata Hospital is a privately owned Hospital within the suburbs of Langata certified to offer both inpatient and outpatient services.

Summary

The Hospital is rapidly expanding and seeking to recruit a dynamic team for the following position:

Reference Number: HR/PHM/443/2021

Category: Medical

Responsibilities

• Dispensing prescribed drugs and providing necessary and accurate information to patients about medication and their application.


• Compound extemporaneous preparations and mix certain intravenous medications as per laid down procedures.


• Provide periodic information on availability and stocks levels of various drugs to the relevant supervisor.


• Maintain a presentable arrangement and atmosphere within the pharmacy and ensure it meets the requirements as per the regulating body.


• Comply and observe the environmental health and safety measures and regulations by proper handling, storage, and dispensation of medications.

Requirements

• Diploma or Degree in any relevant field


• 2 years of experience in a busy Hospital.


• Registered with relevant governing body.


• Available to start immediately.

Professional Competencies

• Integrity and Trust


• Customer Focus


• Functional/Technical Skills


• Written/Oral Communications


• Interdisciplinary Skills


• Team Oriented


• Excellent organizational and time management skills


• Sensitizing patients and clients, through health talks on preventive and promotive health.


• Confidentiality.

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The Commission is responsible for conducting or supervising referenda and elections to any elective body or office established by the Constitution, and any other elections as prescribed by an Act of Parliament and, in particular, for; The continuous registration of voters and revision of the voter’s roll; The delimitation of constituencies and wards; The regulation of political parties process; The settlement of electoral disputes; The registration of candidates for elections; Voter education; The facilitation of the observation, monitoring and evaluation of elections; The regulation of money spent by a candidate or party in respect of any election; The development of a code of conduct for candidates and parties; The monitoring of compliance with legislation on nomination of candidates by parties. The Commission shall exercise its powers and perform its functions in accordance with this Constitution and national legislation. Our Vision “A credible electoral management body committed to strengthening democracy in Kenya.” Our Mission “To conduct free and fair elections and to institutionalize a sustainable electoral process.”

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Initiate payment process, prepare and examine vouchers received from the Constituency Office Clerks in the County;


• Prepare payroll for the temporary hired election officials for the County;


• Maintain cashbooks and bank reconciliation for the County;


• Disbursement of funds to constituency offices within the County and check off returns;


• Advise the CEM on all County financial matters;


• Certify and verify returns and vouchers in the County;


• Write cheques and arranging for withdrawal of cash for County office use;


• Ensure settlement of bills for the services and goods supplied to the County offices;


• Handle leave records, office accommodation, medical issues, and any other administrative matters in the County;


• Manage and update the risk register on electoral operations in the County;


• Maintain leases, County assets titles and ensure security of IEBC owned and hired premises;


• Deal with procurement matters promptly as may be directed in collaboration with Supply Chain Management Assistant;


• Identify constituency needs and supplies and address them for the County;


• Coordinate and maintain proper staff files, personnel, and accounting records;


• Certify and verify returns from the constituencies;


• Prepare expenditure returns in the County.

REQUIREMENTS FOR APPOINTMENT

• Have Bachelor’s degree in, Finance, Commerce or equivalent from a recognized institution;


• Must be a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) (K) or its equivalent qualifications;


• Must be a member of ICPAK; d) Must have at least three (3) years relevant work experience in a reputable organization;


• Must have good interpersonal and communication skills;


• Must be proficiency in Computer Applications;


• Must be a person of undoubted integrity


• Must hail from the County he/she is applying for as indicated in national identity card

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The Commission is responsible for conducting or supervising referenda and elections to any elective body or office established by the Constitution, and any other elections as prescribed by an Act of Parliament and, in particular, for; The continuous registration of voters and revision of the voter’s roll; The delimitation of constituencies and wards; The regulation of political parties process; The settlement of electoral disputes; The registration of candidates for elections; Voter education; The facilitation of the observation, monitoring and evaluation of elections; The regulation of money spent by a candidate or party in respect of any election; The development of a code of conduct for candidates and parties; The monitoring of compliance with legislation on nomination of candidates by parties. The Commission shall exercise its powers and perform its functions in accordance with this Constitution and national legislation. Our Vision “A credible electoral management body committed to strengthening democracy in Kenya.” Our Mission “To conduct free and fair elections and to institutionalize a sustainable electoral process.”

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide management support, develop and oversee the implementation of strategies, policies, plans and budgets at the constituency level while ensuring the alignment of these to the regional and overall Commission strategies;


• Ensure that election operation activities at the constituency level comply with internal controls and budget restrictions;


• Ensure provision of administrative support services at the constituency level including distribution of election materials, transport management, implementation of security policies and protocols and ensuring the safe custody of the Commission’s assets;


• Be responsible for sound financial management and prudent use of all Commission funds at constituency level in line with Commission’s financial policies;


• Liaise with the County Election Manager to implement training programmes for registration and election officials at the constituency level;


• Identify, inspect suitable polling, nominations and tallying centers;


• Liaise with regional administrative and security officials at the constituency level to ensure safety of Commission Assets;


• Undertake the verification, compilation and revision of Constituency voter’s register as required by law from time to time;


• Liaise with political parties with respect to elections and related activities;


• Develop accountability measures, monitor the performance indicators at the constituency levels and ensure the timely preparation of periodic reports;


• Be the Returning Officer during elections and the Voter Registration Officer during voter registration exercise


• Perform any other duties as assigned by the Commission.

REQUIREMENTS FOR APPOINTMENT

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree from a recognized university;


• Proven experience in results-based management, monitoring and evaluation or managing election process is an added advantage;


• Must have a minimum of Six (6) years working experience, two (2) of which must be at management level; d) Additional training, professional qualifications and experience of fieldwork will be an advantage;


• Must be proficient in computer literate;


• Should possess good negotiation, planning and coordination skills;


• Must be a team player and possess good management and leadership skills;


• Must be a person of undoubted integrity


• Must hail from the Constituency applied for as indicated in the National Identity card;

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Brenntag is the global market leader in chemicals and ingredients distribution. The company holds a central role in connecting customers and suppliers of the chemical industry. Headquartered in Essen, Germany, Brenntag has more than 17,000 employees worldwide and operates a network of more than 670 sites in 77 countries. In 2020, Brenntag generated sales of around 11.8 billion EUR. The two global divisions, Brenntag Essentials and Brenntag Specialities, provide a full-line portfolio of industrial and speciality chemicals and ingredients as well as tailor-made application, marketing and supply chain solutions, technical and formulation support, comprehensive regulatory know-how, and digital solutions for a wide range of industries. In the field of sustainability, Brenntag pursues specific goals and is committed to sustainable solutions in its own sector and the industries served. Brenntag shares have been listed at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2010, initially in the MDAX and since September 2021 in the DAX. In addition, the Brenntag SE shares are listed in the DAX 50 ESG and DAX ESG Target.

YOUR ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage 30-40 customers in a dedicated manner with regular visits, sales activity and debt collection.


• Sourcing and introduction of new products/ideas.


• Providing timely customer and market intelligence reports.


• Support Uganda and Tanzania to build up the food business.

YOUR PROFILE

• Should preferably be a food technologist with exposure to sales.


• Preferably techno-commercial person with ability to multi task


• Person must have a minimum of 7-10 years experience in the relevant area of business.


• Knowledge of SAP/CRM would be an added advantage.

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TOP is an integrated agency network providing powerful and full-service solutions for the world. We spread ideas, and we help to grow brands. We’re proudly independent and composed of subject matter experts and award-winning thinkers, designers, content creators, digital storytellers, and developers. We’ve become the world’s fastest-growing PR, social, and digital agency because of our unique story-based and data-driven approach.

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The Capital Markets Authority (CMA) is a statutory agency charged with the responsibility of regulating and developing efficient Capital Markets in Kenya.

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The Capital Markets Authority (CMA) is a statutory agency charged with the responsibility of regulating and developing efficient Capital Markets in Kenya.

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The Capital Markets Authority (CMA) is a statutory agency charged with the responsibility of regulating and developing efficient Capital Markets in Kenya.

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The Commission is responsible for conducting or supervising referenda and elections to any elective body or office established by the Constitution, and any other elections as prescribed by an Act of Parliament and, in particular, for; The continuous registration of voters and revision of the voter’s roll; The delimitation of constituencies and wards; The regulation of political parties process; The settlement of electoral disputes; The registration of candidates for elections; Voter education; The facilitation of the observation, monitoring and evaluation of elections; The regulation of money spent by a candidate or party in respect of any election; The development of a code of conduct for candidates and parties; The monitoring of compliance with legislation on nomination of candidates by parties. The Commission shall exercise its powers and perform its functions in accordance with this Constitution and national legislation. Our Vision “A credible electoral management body committed to strengthening democracy in Kenya.” Our Mission “To conduct free and fair elections and to institutionalize a sustainable electoral process.”

Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission seeks to employ competent personnel to fill the following vacant positions:

1. Deputy Commission Secretary/Operations 

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2. Commission Secretary/Chief Executive Officer 

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3. Assistant Election Officer II 

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4. County Accountant for Turkana County

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5. Senior Elections Officer 

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The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is a leading Africa-based, African-led, international research institution headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. APHRC conducts policy-relevant research on population, health, education, urbanization and related development issues in sub-Saharan Africa.

Summary

The APHRC seeks to recruit a Countdown Liaison Officer to work in the Countdown to 2030 within the Global Financing Facility (GFF) secretariat.

Background:

The Countdown to 2030 for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (WCAH) is a network of global, regional and country academic institutions, working closely with UNICEF, WHO and other international organizations, as well civil society and core funding from the Gates Foundation.

As a unique global collaboration with academic institutions at its core, the Countdown to 2030 is well-positioned to address the need for generating evidence for progress and performance of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition (RMNCAH-N) programs with countries and strengthen the country institutional capacity for analysis and use.

Countdown to 2030 has prioritized the development of and support to regional lead institutions and networks in sub-Saharan Africa and other regions. As part of the consortium, APHRC is leading the Countdown work in SSA. Through regional networks, the Center brings together research and public health institutions with ministries of health from countries in the region to strengthen the evidence and advocacy in support of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and nutrition programs.

The Global Financing Facility (GFF) is a nationally driven catalytic finance mechanism that helps governments bring together a variety of stakeholders to jointly formulate an investment case (IC) by defining a set of high-impact priority interventions needed to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Committed to ensuring all women, children and adolescents can survive and thrive; the mechanism supports the governments of 36 low and lower-middle income countries to accelerate progress in reducing preventable maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent mortality. Since 2019, the Countdown is closely working with the GFF and country governments to accelerate measurement and monitoring of the GFF Investment cases in 13 sub-Saharan Africa countries. The engagement includes strengthening the analytic capacity of country public health institutions, linked to country-led annual and midterm health sector reviews.

Objectives

• To strengthen the institutional linkages between GFF and Countdown to 2030, particularly with the African technical institutions part of the Countdown collaborations.


• To facilitate active collaboration between GFF and Countdown to 2030, and uptake and use of Countdown-supported analytical outputs.


• To strengthen the ability of the GFF to accelerate a program of work aiming to support countries to routinely estimate levels, trends and equity of coverage based on analysis of all relevant data sources.

Specific Responsibilities

• To serve as a liaison and strengthen coordination and collaboration between Countdown to 2030 and the GFF;


• To facilitate communication and engagement between the African technical institutions participating in Countdown and the GFF, in a manner that helps strengthen the role of in-country and regional technical institutions within the GFF country engagement model (e.g., in support of Investment Case development and monitoring, including annual review of progress and quarterly meetings to follow through on issues identified and examine and use new data that have become available in the last quarter);


• To serve as a ‘results buddy’ for specific countries within the GFF portfolio (to be chosen from among those with active Countdown engagements) to provide support to the Focal Point-led GFF country team on issues related to data and results measurement;


• To lead a technical workstream within the GFF on supporting countries to routinely estimate levels, trends and equity of coverage of priority interventions across the RMNCAH-N continuum based on analysis of all relevant data sources, in collaboration with the Countdown technical network; and


• To contribute to the development of the repository of analytical tools and methods that Countdown is bringing together and to support uptake and use by GFF countries for improved analysis and use of RMNCAH-N data.

Qualifications and Experience

• PhD in Public Health, Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology, Population Sciences or other relevant areas; a minimum of 2 years’ post-doctoral experience.


• Strong in either quantitative or qualitative analytical skills with a good working knowledge of the other.


• Demonstrated experiences in health research, with peer-reviewed publications on the subject will be an added advantage.


• Strong writing skills and good record of publications which utilize defined analytical methodologies.


• Experience in developing proposals. Evidence of previous successful grants will be an advantage.


• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills and ability to work in a culturally diverse team.


• Experience working in sub-Saharan Africa.


• Must be fluent in French and English.


• The Liaison Officer will spend about 30-50% of time at the GFF secretariat in Washington DC.

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Migori County is a county in the former Nyanza Province of southwestern Kenya. It is located in western Kenya and borders Homa Bay County, Kisii County, Narok, Tanzania and Lake Victoria to the West. The county also borders Uganda via Migingo Island in Lake Victoria.

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PricewaterhouseCoopers is one of Kenya’s leading professional services firms focused on providing Audit & Assurance, Advisory and Tax services. Our primary strategic goal is to create value for our clients and deliver a competitive advantage to their operations. Our blend of international and Kenyan expertise is fundamental to the high quality of advice and assistance that we offer. As elsewhere in the world, PricewaterhouseCoopers in Kenya uses the benefit of its hands-on experience to provide a strong level of local understanding and support, in accordance with the international professional standards of the PricewaterhouseCoopers worldwide organisation. With over 350 employees we stand firm on our commitment to provide highly qualified professionals to assist private companies and public institutions with our first-hand knowledge and expertise-within Kenya and internationally.

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Corporate Staffing Services is a leading recruitment agency in Kenya providing complete recruitment services. In the last ten years we have been partners to local and foreign businesses looking to hire Kenyan professionals. We have recruited for diverse clients in different sectors and industries.

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Corporate Staffing Services is a leading recruitment agency in Kenya providing complete recruitment services. In the last ten years we have been partners to local and foreign businesses looking to hire Kenyan professionals. We have recruited for diverse clients in different sectors and industries.

Summary

Our client is in the Hospitality industry and they seek to hire a Hotel Manager. He/She will be tasked with providig overall leadership and management of the hotel that include employees, facilities, operations, sales and marketing, costs, profits and budgets to improve the overall service culture and guest satisfaction.

Key responsibilities

• Take responsibility, create and maintain good working conditions, create the climate to motivate staff to excel and maintain standards, must have a friendly positive personality.


• Analyze financial performance, current performance relative to budgeted standards.


• Develops accurate and aggressive long and short-range financial objectives consistent with the shareholder’s mission statement.


• Planning, setting standards, priorities and ensuring policies, SOPs and procedures are followed.


• Ensure maximum guest satisfaction in accordance with the hotel’s standards.


• Executes marketing and digital, sales, and operational activities, producing results that meet or exceed the hotel’s business plan.


• Monitors the performance of the hotel through verification and analysis of guest satisfaction systems and financial reports and initiates corrective action.


• Maintains product and service quality standards by conducting ongoing evaluations and investigating complaints and initiates corrective action.


• Strong business acumen with the ability to produce acceptable return on investment, aware of competition and evaluate its effectiveness.


• Strong Food and beverage background, rooms division, conferencing, procurement, security and HR.


• Maintains an appropriate level of community public affairs involvement.


• Implements and maintains effective open-door communication system that crosses departmental lines in order to reach all employees.

Key Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Hospitality Management.


• 3-5 years’ experience managing a hotel.


• Hands on experience manager.


• In-depth understanding of finance and operations.


• Must possess excellent leadership skills with the ability to effectively manage subordinate executives and managers in various roles and responsibilities.


• Sound business acumen, with a strong F&B background


• People skills and emotional intelligence.

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Corporate Staffing Services is a leading recruitment agency in Kenya providing complete recruitment services. In the last ten years we have been partners to local and foreign businesses looking to hire Kenyan professionals. We have recruited for diverse clients in different sectors and industries.

Summary

Our Client is an IT Solutions firm based in Nairobi and they seek to hire an experienced Navision Technical Consultant to take the lead consultant role within the application delivery team for Dynamics NAV, provide effective delivery of consultancy, through quality implementation and delivery as well as knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics NAV products and services.

Responsibilities:

• Managing client’s Data with efficiency and professionalism during migration


• Training Users on the functionality of enterprises application.


• Creating /Developing Dynamics NAV and other Enterprise Applications


• Integrating Enterprise Applications to other systems within or outside the enterprise.


• Ensuring Enterprise applications are bug-free


• Supporting Enterprise application clients


• Research and developing (RD) Enterprise systems that are future-oriented.


• Formulating System processes based on client requirements.


• Advising clients on the based practices in the financial industry.


• Constant improvements of the existing applications to make them keep up with growing client needs.


• Ensuring Enterprise applications are secure and protected against fraud.


• Controlled sharing of enterprise code and protection of company’s intellectual property.


• Provide expertise in both technical and financial processes when needed.

Key Qualifications.

• Degree in IT, BBIT, Business Information System or equivalent


• Minimum 5 years experience in Dynamics NAV consultancy .


• Experience with Microsoft 365 Business Central.


• NAV certification


• Strong understanding of Microsoft Dynamics NAV and its modules.


• Experience in providing pre-sales demonstrations.


• Experience in working on full life cycle implementations across multiple versions of Dynamics NAV.


• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.


• Ability to create high-quality functional documentation and strong requirements gathering skills.


• Understanding of Microsoft SQL Server.

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SunFunder is a mission-driven solar finance business based in Nairobi unlocking debt capital for solar energy in emerging markets, where over 2.2 billion people live without access to reliable energy. We offer borrowers a deep solar market expertise, an efficient due diligence process and strong customer partnerships, while simultaneously providing investors with diversified, high-impact, fixed income debt offerings of emerging market solar investments. We are proud to have unlocked over $135 million through our blended debt funds and deployed $82 million to 46 solar companies and projects. In doing so, we have helped over 7 million people with access to clean, reliable energy while 611k tons of CO2 is mitigated annually

Summary

This role will be responsible for the core of our business: our people! For this key strategic role, we seek a dynamic self-starter who is committed to our values, passionate about nurturing a thriving work environment, and as fired up about developing our (40 person) team’s individual and collective talent as solving the global climate crisis. You will help us attract, retain and develop the great talent needed to fulfil our high impact and ambitious mission to pioneer and scale clean energy and climate investments in underserved markets. This role is well-suited to an exceptional people-centric leader with 10+ years professional experience in early stage and fast-growing enterprises who may have had a non-traditional route into a professional HR and people strategy role.

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We are a group of passionate individuals working together under one shared goal: to ensure that every cent spent to alleviate poverty has the greatest possible impact on the lives of the 2.4 billion men, women, and children afflicted by it. Our mission is to empower leaders in the social, public, and private sectors to improve the impact of social programs in developing countries by tying funding to results. You can read more about what each of us contributes to our mission here.

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Migori County is a county in the former Nyanza Province of southwestern Kenya. It is located in western Kenya and borders Homa Bay County, Kisii County, Narok, Tanzania and Lake Victoria to the West. The county also borders Uganda via Migingo Island in Lake Victoria.

County Government of Migori seeks to employ competent personnel to fill the following vacant positions:

1. Office Assistant / Human Resource Officer 

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2. Pharmaceutical Technologist III 

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3. HTS Counsellors

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4. Project Accountant

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5. Fire Men

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6. Fire Women 

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7. Deputy Director Natural Resources And Forestry Development 

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8. Deputy Director of Environment, Climate Change And Disaster Management

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9. Clinical Officers 

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10. Adherence Counsellors 

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11. Pharmaceutical Technologist II

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The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and our other free knowledge projects. We want to make it easier for everyone to share what they know. To do this, we keep Wikipedia and Wikimedia sites fast, reliable, and available to all. We protect the values and policies that allow free knowledge to thrive. We build new features and tools to make it easy to read, edit, and share from the Wikimedia sites. Above all, we support the communities of volunteers around the world who edit, improve, and add knowledge across Wikimedia projects.

Summary

Reporting to the VP of Product, you will be a key member of the Foundation’s team and an active participant in strategic decision-making for the Product department. You will play an active role in supporting the sustainability of the Wikimedia movement. As one of three Directors of Engineering in the Product department, you will lead a group of engineering managers across multiple teams.  You will also collaborate with Product Managers, other Directors of Engineering and our volunteer communities as you help shape a better future for the Wikimedia projects.

The Product department is responsible for delivering user-facing experiences for readers, editors and other participants in the suite of products, as well as specific engineering functions needed to execute on delivery.

You are responsible for:

• Fostering an equitable, inclusive, and supportive team environment and coaching your reports in the same


• Supporting and mentoring engineering managers and software engineers in their career development


• Delegating outcomes rather than tasks to truly empower others to solve problems


• Representing engineering expertise, opportunities and constraints within the organization and the Wikimedia communities


• Participating in hiring high-quality, diverse teams that are inclusive to people of all backgrounds


• Identifying opportunities to improve engineering processes and culture


• Set technical strategy in collaboration with other engineering and product partners


• Own delivery of technical and product roadmaps for your area of oversight


• Budgeting, staffing, and expense management

Requirements

Skills and Experience:

• Deep experience in leading engineering teams and mentoring engineers


• Experience leading engineering teams in delivering consumer-facing web platforms at scale


• Excellent technical acumen in order to participate in technical and architectural strategy


• Demonstrated ability to balance competing interests in a complex technical and social environment


• Experience collaborating with product and design counterparts to set aligned strategies and deliver on goals


• Proven success at all stages of the engineering process and product lifecycle, leading to significant, measurable impact


• Experience building, managing, and leading intentionally diverse, inclusive, international and remote-first engineering teams

Qualities that are important to us:

• A passion for people development, team culture and the management of ideas


• A desire to make meaningful contributions to knowledge equity, free culture, and open access


• Clear communication in both synchronous and asynchronous channels

Additionally, we’d love it if you have:

• Fluency in one or more regional languages of Africa or Asia


• Experience as a professional or volunteer in open source of open knowledge communities


• Spent time having lived or worked outside your country of origin


• Experience as a member of a volunteer community


• Experience with products backed by machine learning, especially human-in-the-loop capabilities


• Experience with native app delivery for Android and iOS / iPadOS

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Our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. By listening to you and understanding your vision, we can help you overcome the challenges you face. Whether you are a large global organisation, a government body or a family-owned private business, we have the experience and expertise to help you.

Our expertise is backed up by a network of firms in 158 countries with more than 250,000 people committed to delivering quality in assurance, advisory and tax services. Our strong global network enables us to collaborate across the world. We combine this knowledge and expertise with our in-depth understanding of African operating environments to offer our clients tailored advice and services. By tapping into our global network, we can connect you with the right people at the right time. So whether you are looking to keep track of the numbers, make tax simple or need help adapting to changing operating environments, we can assist.

Line of Service:  Internal Firm Services

Specialism :  IFS – Human Capital (HC)

Management Level :  Manager

Job Description & Summary

We are seeking to strengthen our Human Capital team in Kenya by recruiting a highly motivated individual for the position of a Human Capital Business Partner to support the Assurance Line of Service. The person should have eight to ten years of experience in a human resource operations role with two to four of these at a managerial level.

The key responsibilities of the Human Capital Business Partner will be to:

• Be part of the Human Capital team in delivering the Human Capital strategy and the PwC People Experience


• Develop a comprehensive HC strategy aligned to the business’ long term strategy and design relevant programmes / initiatives / road map to operationalize the HC strategy.


• Be a trusted advisor to the leadership in the various human resource deliverables around talent acquisition, development, performance management, people engagement, onboarding & off-boarding, employee wellness & welfare


• Support the Line of Service in implementation of the action plans from the employee engagement survey through relevant staff & leadership engagement.


• Strategic partnering with the business on resource planning to ensure that we source for sufficient numbers of skilled people to deliver business goals


• Support the business in retaining the right people and skills to optimize business performance and efficiency


• Coordinate the implementation of the Learning and Development (L&D) activities for the technical & non-technical business skills for the Line of Service


• Delivery of leadership & staff training on respective human capital areas – onboarding, performance management & coaching, business skills training etc.


• Ongoing engagement with Line of Service leaders and managers to ensure consistent and quality support for our people


• Grow and maintain relationships with the business leaders, staff and external stakeholders and provide support on employment legislation matters and policy issues including policy development and review to ensure compliance with employee legislation and best practice trends


• Preparation and analysis of HR management reports regularly as and when required by the business

The successful candidate will be required to have the following demonstrable skills and competencies:

• Degree in Social Sciences with a post graduate diploma in Human Resource Management


• Possess an IHRM practicing certificate


• Minimum of 8-10 years in a HR generalist role a minimum of 2-4 of these at a managerial level


• In-depth knowledge of employment legislation, human capital best practices and policy development experience


• Excellent time management & organization skills


• Demonstrable facilitation skills


• Proactive and high level of initiative


• Good IT skills and experience in working with HR management systems & tools


• Excellent interpersonal and relationship management skills

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Government Clearance Required?

Yes

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