Contract Type: Open-ended (Based in Nairobi, Kenya)

Salary: £26,843 Net per annum + competitive benefits package

The role is a senior management post reporting to the Regional Director and a member of the regional management team (RMT).

This role provides regional technical and strategic leadership in humanitarian programmes across Horn, East & Central Africa (HECA).

The post holder contributes to the shaping of the Oxfam GB corporate humanitarian strategy and the role is accountable for the development and implementation of the regional humanitarian preparedness strategy.

The role has people management responsibility of the rapid response team at the regional center, matrix management of country humanitarian programme coordinators and manages a small regional budget. The role is the regional security focal point.

To find out more and apply, visit our website and search using Ref: INT4265

If you believe you fit the job and person profile please send your application to hecajobs@oxfam.org.uk or apply online at www.oxfam.org.uk/jobs using ref INT4265.

The closing date for applications is Friday, 15th Jan 2011.

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A Rural based daily organization is looking for a results oriented, self driven Office administrator cum accountant to run its overall operations in Nyandarua District.

The person will be reporting to the Board of Directors

Duties and Responsibilities

* Maintain close supervision on the daily functions of the staff, ensuring productivity and checking the quality of the output.
* Marketing coordination and talking to the farmers.
* Orient, educate and train fresh employees, acquaint them with their specific responsibilities, communicate in clear terms what is expected from them, and introduce them to the institution’s vision and mission statement.
* Conduct assessment and evaluation on a continuous basis regarding the performance of the staff.
* Conduct close observation and make all the essential recommendations to the management regarding more effective and more organized handling of specific operations within the institution.
* Manage all organization assets from any misuse.
* Serve as the receiver of important mail, documents and ordered items delivered to the organization’s address.
* Maintain a detailed record of the payments that are due to be made to farmers ad other creditors
* Review and process All payments.
* Keep proper records and books of accounts.
* Other duties as often as may be required by the Board.

Other requirements

* The person should portray management and financial literacy preferably holding a CPA part 1 Certificate.
* A mature, responsible person who is able to command respect between peers, community and the management.

If you strongly feel that you meet the above apply indicating your salary requirements.

Email: newnmpl@gmail.com

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Our client is a global multinational Food & Beverage company, worldwide leader in most of its
category portfolio. With global or local specific brands and products, the core focus is to meet the
diverse needs and preferences of consumers all over the world.

Operating in Africa for more than 80 years, the Company has 5 markets within, the Equatorial
African Region (EAR) being amongst them. The regional operations are co-ordinated from Nairobi,
Kenya to offer shared service across countries in Central, East, part of Southern Africa including the
Island markets and Horn of Africa.

With this regional expertise, the Company aims at enhancing the business potential of this region,
which is seen as an important source of future growth, and bring it up to the level of performance
that the Company experiences in other regions of Africa and the world.

By reinforcing business and product categories focus, making operations more efficient, developing
cross fertilization or enhancing peoples’ knowledge transfer and empowerment, this shared service
expertise is expected to accelerate growth and meet the company’s high ambition for the Region.
Our client continues to be viewed as one of the leading global companies in Corporate Social
Responsibility, particularly in the developing world. Being a committed leader in environmental
performance, they ensure that natural resources are preserved and that waste management enjoys
much attention in all operations worldwide. The company is an equal-opportunity employer with
robust talent management policies, and systems. They value and reward individual and team
contributions to business results.

Job Summary
Reporting to the Head of Supply Chain, the Supply Chain Development Manager will deliver a full
logistics, purchasing and planning service to meet the current and future needs of the organization;
support the Business units with supply chain development and projects in order to optimize returns
and earnings; ensure Supply Chain staff in the region are suitably selected, trained, developed and
motivated to meet current and future business needs.

Responsibilities
•Contribute, as part of the management team, to the development of the company’s strategy
and analyze and resolve issues related to company management.
•Define, propose and monitor the implementation of the department(s) strategy under his/her
responsibility in line with the company strategy including implementation of the department(s)
plans and objectives in line with departmental strategy.
•Ensure that the organization is adequately organized and structured, and has effective methods
and procedures as well as the appropriate technical resources to achieve the agreed mission
and objectives including ensuring acquisition of right personnel to achieve mission and
objectives.
•Manage the Countries and Corporate Supply Chain teams to ensure that customer expectation
for Customer Service is met.
•Manage the Distribution operation by road and sea to ensure that cost targets are reached and
achieve Best in Class status within the market as bench marked externally.
•Represent the organizations’ Supply Chain with the trade and develop strategies to ensure that
organization achieves competitive advantage through Logistics.
•Provide a cost effective Purchasing service for Raw Materials Commodities Packaging and Goods
and Services to Regions’ business liaising with the Purchasing team as required and ensure a
planned reduction in costs of production.
•Implement effectively Supply Chain Best Practices for the EAR Countries and Head office
ensuring that implementation dates are met, with minimum disruptions of business.
•Ensure all inter-market supply is effectively managed for the affiliate markets as well as the
EAR and that all Supply chain Key Performance Indicators are achieved.
•Contribute to the achievement of business growth including support to the Food and Nutrition
Business Units with Supply Chain initiatives to ensure that it achieves targets, growth and that
the business takes opportunities within the market place
•Contribute to support of development of an effective Zone Supply Chain organization to meet
the future and current needs of the business.
•Organize the EAR Monthly Operational Review with an 18 months business outlook, The EAR
New product Development Planning and Currencies and Commodities planning meeting.
•Manage materials planning and Production planning for all factories.

Requirements
•Degree in Economics/ Supply and Purchasing/ Engineering
•Minimum of 5 years experience in Supply Chain Development
•Working knowledge of customer service with ability to create positive and effective
relationships with customers and suppliers
•Knowledge of general business, management processes and Supply Chain Best Practices
•Knowledge of existing regulatory affairs, customs clearance procedures, inter-markets supply
operations.
•2-3 years experience of people management that includes motivating direct and cross
functional teams.
•Strategically and operational management abilities.
•Effective presentation skills.
•Ability to influence colleagues from other functions as to the supply chain needs and
perspective
•Highly numerate and ability to assimilate large amounts of data

How to apply:
Send your application including a cover letter indicating your desire to work with our client; a
detailed CV highlighting relevant experience, details of current and expected salary, a daytime
phone contact, email address, and the names of three professional referees by close of business
Friday, 31 st December 2010.

Adept Systems
MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS
P O Box 6416, Nairobi, GPO 00100
Email: recruit@adeptsystems.co.ke
Web: www.adeptsys.biz

Only short listed candidates will be contacted. Please note that we do not charge fees for receiving or
processing job applications. Visit our website for more vacancies

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PwC is a leading provider of industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services for public and private sector clients. We use our network, experience, industry knowledge and business understanding to build trust and create value for clients. It is our range of viewpoints that helps us answer the big business questions.

We are strengthening our growing Assurance business in Kenya and we are recruiting for an experienced Procurement Specialist to join our team. These are exciting times for us and we want you to experience the period of growth with us.

You have an opportunity to work with multi-disciplinary assignment teams in a number of roles, including servicing clients. You can make your experience count and the team and our clients will value your technical expertise and advice in procurement practices in the public and non-governmental sectors.

Your experience in donor funded procurement processes and practical experience in public sector procurement will be critical to your success in this role. Previous experience in procurement audits for the public sector will put you in good stead and counts for a lot in consideration for this role.

You will need to have had at least 5 years experience in the areas mentioned above as well as a professional qualification in procurement with at least a first degree in a related field.

If this resonates with you and making your mark in our firm then visit us at
www.pwc\ke\careers or send an application to recruitment. ke@ke.pwc. corn

The closing date is 31 December 2010.

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The International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Kenya serves vulnerable populations in the Turkana region and refugees in the Kakuma and Dadaab (Hagadera) camps.

The IRC implements programs in the areas of comprehensive primary health care, nutrition, sanitation and hygiene and HIV/ AIDS.

The IRC provides an open ended contract, competitive salary and benefits package to its staff as well as a well planned staff development opportunity.

Applications are invited for the position of: Psychiatric Nurse (Hagadera Based)

IRC is currently looking for a Psychiatric Nurse who will be based in Hagadera Refugee Camp.

The Psychiatric Nurse will be working under the guidance and supervision of the Mental Health Officer and will be directly responsible for improving psychosocial treatment and care of beneficiaries at Hagadera Refugee Camp- Dadaab.

For a detailed Job Description and person specification, send an email to jobs7@kenya.theirc.org

All interested candidates are requested to submit a cover letter and an updated CV (Do Not attach Certificates) to the following email address: hr@kenya.theirc.org by 29th December, 2010.

IRC is an equal opportunities employer

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The Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) is a national, non-governmental organisation with the mission to promote, protect and enhance the enjoyment of all human rights by all individuals and groups.

We are looking for dynamic and result oriented people to fill the following positions:

1. Programme Officer – Trade Business and Human Rights (TBHR)

Purpose of the job

To provide leadership for advocacy in trade, business and human rights related to legal, policy or institutional reforms.

Primary tasks

Conceptualising TBHR projects / interventions and preparing periodic / progress reports;Designing relevant campaign and advocacy strategies (research, power mapping, capacity building, lobbying and influencing media campaigns for TBHR);Developing position papers and policy briefs on the human rights and governance perspectives on TBHR;Liaising with the Civic Action team on the co-ordination of various human rights issues related to TBHR and their implementation in the local and national levels ;Developing budgets and monitoring program expenditure ;Stimulate a vibrant constituency/network at the local and national level;Perform any other tasks as assigned, from time to time, by management and/or the supervisor.Demonstrable understanding of the relationship amongst trade, business ,human rights and social justice;University degree preferably in social sciences;A post graduate diploma in project management with demonstrable experience in project cycle;At least 4 years experience in human rights advocacy;Demonstrable understanding of regional and international economic blocs;Demonstrable research and analytical skills;Capacity to develop and sustain functional networks;Demonstrable ability to write and analyse reports and proposals;Fluency in written and spoken English and Swahili.2. Programme Associate - LGBTI

Purpose of the Job
To provide leadership with respect to the KHRC’s interventions on equality and non-discrimination with specific reference to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and intersex (LGBTI) communities. The programme associate will work in collaboration with the Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya (GALCK).Primary tasks

The incumbent will be expected to:

Conceptualise, design, budget for, implement, monitor and report on work on equality and non-discrimination (including through research) especially with respect to LGBTI communities in collaboration with GALCK;Continually assess the human rights situation of LGBTI communities and advocate around the same in a timely manner in collaboration with GALCK;Urgently take action to address and mitigate human rights violations against the LGBTI communitiesPerform any other tasks as assigned, from time to time, by management and/or the supervisor.Demonstrable understanding of human rights, social justice and social change;A university degree in a relevant social science;At least two years’ experience work on the human rights of LGBTI communities, experience working on equality and non-discrimination with a legal background;Experience in presenting information in a clear and objective manner to a variety of target audiences;Experience in community mobilisation;Experience in advocacy and programme implementation;Ability to work well under pressure and to take urgent decisive actions;Demonstrable ability to write and analyse reports;Fluency in written and spoken English and Swahili;Applicants should send in a sealed envelope BY POST a cover letter attaching a detailed CV, photocopies of certificates and testimonials, current telephone/mobile numbers, names and addresses of three referees and present and expected gross salary before the end of the day, January 7, 2011 to:

Human Resources Officer
The Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC)
P O Box 41079, Nairobi 00100 (GPO)

The KHRC is an equal opportunity employer and will seek to recruit the most qualified person for the job irrespective of ability, age, colour, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, HIV status, marital status, religion or any other ground of discrimination.

All qualified persons are encouraged to apply.

Only qualified candidates will be contacted.

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Advise on and provide concrete recommendation regarding how to strengthen the Monitoring and Evaluation Framework of the UNSASProvide a detailed plan, with clear responsibilities, for the monitoring and evaluation activities under the UNSASDevelop monitoring and evaluation tools for monitoring and evaluation of the UNSAS for the UNCT and the RCOAdvise the UNCT on how to conduct real-time evaluation of the UNSASDevelop a costed and phased proposal for the UNCT for how to carry out real-time evaluationAdvise on the possible contributions and training needs of national institutions on joint monitoring and evaluationFunctions / Key Results Expected

Scope of Work

The Consultant will be based in Nairobi for the duration of the contract. Travel to relevant areas of Somalia, specifically Puntland and Somaliland, may be required. Other travel may be arranged at the discretion of the Resident Coordinator’s Office.

Methods and outputs

The consultant will:

advise the RCO and UNCT on how to strengthen the existing monitoring and evaluation framework for the UNSASProvide a detailed plan, with clear responsibilities, for the monitoring and evaluation activities of the UNCT and RCO under the UNSASDevelop monitoring and evaluation tools for the UNCT and RCODevelop a proposal for how to carry out real-time evaluations of UN programmes.Monitoring and Progress controls

The consultant will be supervised by the Head of the Resident Coordinator’s Office and the quality of the consultant’s works will be assessed by the Monitoring and Evaluation Group of the UNCT.

Final product/deliverable

An improved and complete monitoring and evaluation framework for the UNSAS, including baselines and indicators;A detailed plan, with clear responsibilities, for the monitoring and evaluation activities of the UNCT and RCO under the UNSASDevelop monitoring and evaluation tools for the UNCT and RCODevelop a costed and phased proposal for how to carry out real-time evaluations of UN activities and programmes throughout Somalia, including in areas where access is difficult.Advise the RCO on how to strengthen the monitoring and evaluation framework of the UNSAS;Advise the RCO on how to complement agency level monitoring and evaluation;Contribute to knowledge sharing amongst UN staff on issues relating to the UN Reform Agenda and post conflict transition;Ensure that regional disparities, inter-sectoral linkages, and cross-cutting issues are taken into account in all monitoring and evaluation activities; andCompetencies

Corporate Competencies:

Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standardsPromotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of the UNDisplays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptabilityTreats all people fairly without favoritismStrategic vision and strong technical and analytical capabilitiesVery good political judgmentExcellent organizational and management skillsHigh level of self-management capacity and proactive self-drive under very low supervisionAbility to handle effectively multiple tasks without compromising quality, team spirit and positive working relationshipsStrong written, interpersonal and oral communication skillsExcellent command of MS Office applications; ability to use information technology as a tool and as a resourceAbility to work under pressure and meet strict deadlinesMaintain balanced and positive attitude even under continued high stress levelKnowledge of current development policies and activitiesExcellent partnership management skillsExcellent analytic and written abilityThe ability to work well with others and build good relations internally and externallyExperience in closely working with colleagues and counterparts of different nationalities and religions in challenging operational and living conditionsMaintain balanced and positive attitude with all counterparts even under challenging working, living and security situation during phases of continued high stress levelExcellent understanding of organizational development and change management processes and techniquesStrong understanding of results-based management (RBM) principles and human rights-based approaches to programmingStrong ability to collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative data, including sex disaggregated dataExperience in managing and carrying out monitoring and evaluation, including real-time evaluation, in post-conflict and/or conflict affected countries a requirementRecruitment Qualifications

Education: - Masters Degree or higher in Development, International Relations, Political Science, Economics or a related subject

Experience: -

A minimum of 7 years progressive, related professional work experience at the national or international level.
Experience must primarily relate to senior levels of programme management, change management and the monitoring and evaluation of programmes and reform interventions.Experience in crisis or post-conflict countries or experience in Islamic societies and/or in Africa and the Arab worldsHands-on experience in design, monitoring and evaluation of development projects is requiredPrevious experience designing and conducting real-time evaluations is requiredSound knowledge of the UN system’s procedures and operational activities for development is desirable.Familiarity with the UN, particularly the UN Reform Agenda is desirable.Solid experience in using MS Office package and web-based management systems.Language requirements:- Fluency in English, both written and oral communication skills

How to apply

Please send your curriculum vitae, marked “ RC Consultant: Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor” By 30th December 2010 to:

The Deputy Resident Representative (Operations),
United Nations Development Programme - Somalia,
P.O. Box 28832,00202 Nairobi, Kenya,
fax: 254-20- 4183641,
e-mail: registry.so@undp.org

Closing date: 30 Dec 2010

Women are strongly encouraged to apply.

Applicants are required to fill the P11 Form and submit it together with the application.

Find the P11 Form for SSA Holders on this link
http://www.so.undp.org/index.php/Download-document/43-P11-form-for-service-contract-and-SSAs.html

UNDP will only be able to respond to those applications in which there is further interest.

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