Stores & Procurement Assistant Job in Kenya (KShs 16,500) - San Valencia

San Valencia Ltd, a leading player in the hospitality industry, would like to fill the following job position.

Job Title: Stores & Procurement Assistant (Male)

Reports to: Business Manager (Supply Chain)

Job Location: Nairobi.

Start Date: Mid October, 2011 or earlier if possible

Duties and responsibilities:

• Maintaining the suppliers register and participating in month end inventories.
• Receiving goods from suppliers and dispatching them to the relevant destinations.
• Processing orders for goods and services.
• Liaising with internal customers with regard to their requisitions for supply of goods and services.
• Tracking orders made to ensure timely receipt of the same.
• Recording all purchase transactions and updating purchase records on the online system.
• Compiling support documents necessary for payment for goods and services.
• Conducting market surveys on sources and availability of supplies.
• Ensuring that stock houses are kept tidy and temperatures for either cold or dry holding are within the acceptable range.
• Assisting in the disposal of idle assets.
• Perform any other duties that may be assigned by the Business Manager.

Person Specifications:

• A diploma in Purchasing and Supplies from a recognized institution.
• At least one year’s working experience in purchasing and supplies management.
• Demonstrable experience in the use of inventory management software.
• Good written and oral communication skills.
• High level of integrity and ethics.
• A team player with strong analytical skills.
• Should have a certificate of good conduct.
• Possession of a food handler’s medical certificate from a city council recognized institution will be an added advantage.

Terms of Employment

• This is a two year renewable contract.

Remuneration

The gross pay for this position is Ksh.16, 500 per month.

How to apply

All prospective candidates should send their application letters and current resumes by email to kmbui99@gmail.com by 24th September, 2011.

Application letters should be addressed to the Recruiter, P.O. Box 30800 00100 Nairobi and should not exceed two pages.

Copies of certificates and recommendation letters should not be sent at this stage.

Applicants will not be charged any fee for services rendered.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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Administrative Assistant Jobs in Kenya - Bridge International Academies

The Administrative Assistant is responsible for supporting Trainers to implement an intensive 7 week training program designed to develop strong future teachers.

The Administrative Assistant position requires a team player with initiative, problem solving skills and enthusiasm for teaching. Training occurs in a very fast-paced environment and requires a dedicated and organized Administrative Assistant.

The Administrative Assistant will facilitate some activities and provide support to Trainers.

Description

Locations:

 

• Nairobi - 4
• Nakuru - 2
• Naivasha - 1
• Eldoret - 3
• Embu - 1
• Kisumu - 3

Administrative Assistant (Conferences)

2 months contract

About Bridge International Academies

Bridge International Academies is a startup revolutionizing education across Africa with a truly unique business model. The company has launched a large-scale franchise-like network of ultra low-cost for-profit private primary schools across Africa.

Our schools profitably deliver high-quality education for less than $4 per child per month, enabling local school managers to operate their school businesses profitably, while creating a highly successful business at the central level.

We have launched 37 schools in Kenya, with approximately 35 more opening in January and plan to rapidly scale the Company to serve more than 1 million students across continents.

About this position

Bridge International has developed an extremely detailed and rigorous instructional approach to enable a broad universe of potential teachers from local slum neighbourhoods to be extremely effective in the classroom. Our teachers come to us with a minimum of secondary school certificates, some with and some without previous teaching experience.

The Administrative Assistant is responsible for supporting Trainers to implement an intensive 7 week training program designed to develop strong future teachers. The Administrative Assistant position requires a team player with initiative, problem solving skills and enthusiasm for teaching.

Training occurs in a very fast-paced environment and requires a dedicated and organized Administrative Assistant. The Administrative Assistant will facilitate some activities and provide support to Trainers. This is a 3 month position, extendable to the right candidate.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide assistance to conference trainees to answer their questions during attendance and breaks.
• Assist with gathering information about trainees and updating records using a computer.
• Make phone calls to trainees for attendance purposes.
• Document trainees’ concerns, questions and other information on a computer and share this data with Trainers on a daily basis
• Use a form to record trainees’ participation during training sessions and document any questions they asked.
• Work within a team to oversee detailed documentation of attendance, scoring of tests, and trainees’ participation scores
• Observe practice classroom lessons and fill out observation forms for individual trainees.
• Give short reading tests to trainees and record results.
• Provide support in other areas, as requested by Trainers.

Position Requirements:

• Must have experience as an administrative assistant, preferably to support a large training group
• Computer literacy, including MS Office
• Must demonstrate a high level of professionalism and integrity in speech and behaviour
• Outgoing, energetic and friendly personality who is able to manage stress well
• Excellent oral and written communication skills required
• Must be comfortable giving and receiving feedback in order to improve performance.
• A Bachelor’s degree is required
• Experience in customer care is preferred
• Must be able to manage multiple tasks and be well organized

In order to be considered for this position all candidates must register and upload their CV’s on our website at www.bridgeinternationalacademies.com

And specify the location for which you are applying.

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Computer Trainers Jobs - Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN)

Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN), an International NGO facilitating information and knowledge exchange between /informediaries/ in the arid lands of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania wishes to recruit a to recruit a dynamic, energetic and committed individuals ICT trainers.

The trainings will be conducted through ALIN's Maarifa (Knowledge) centres spread in the Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The trainers will undergo an initial induction and will be conduct free computers and Internet training to members of the public at Maarifa centres are located in the following areas

Kenya: Isinya in Kajiado, Nguruman in Magadi, Ng'arua in Nyahururu, Marigat in Baringo, Kyuso in Mwingi, Mutomo in Kitui, Ndhiwa in Homa Bay

Uganda: Koro and Awach in Gulu

Tanzania: Shinyanga and Kayanga in Karagwe

Desired Qualification, skills and experience

• A Degree or Diploma in related field.
• Relevant Computer training from a recognised institution (ICDL desirable).
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office, Explorer
• Demonstrated skills and experience in delivering a training package.
• Mature, responsible and a person of high integrity
• Prepared to travel stay in at the Maarifa centre for a period of not less than 3 months
• Knowledge of a local languages where Maarifa is located
• Able to work under minimal supervision

Closing date: 28 th September 2011

Interested candidates should forward their applications including a motivation letter stating their expected remuneration, curriculum vitae and telephone contacts or email and addresses of 3 referees by 28th September 2011:

E-mail your applications to:

The Selection Panel,
ALIN,
E-mail: trainers@alin.net

 

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Data Warehouse Senior Technical Manager Job in Kenya - Futures Group

Job Position: Data Warehouse Senior Technical Manager

Reports To: Chief of Party

Project Description:

Established in 1971, Futures Group develops and delivers innovative, locally relevant, evidence - based solutions to improve the health and well- being of people around the world.

We have assisted governmental and non-governmental agencies, foundations, and the private sector by designing, implementing and evaluating programs in HIV, sexual and reproductive health, population and family planning, maternal and child health, infectious diseases, and gender.

Futures Group has deep expertise in policy and advocacy, research and strategic information, health markets and private sector engagement, modeling and economic analysis, patient monitoring and management/HMIS, strategic consulting, and program management.

Futures Group provides HMIS support to the Government of Kenya (GoK) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Under a new contract, the Futures team provides a range of technical assistance including: support for the continued development and implementation of the national HMIS strategy; improving information flow to guide policy and program decisions; facilitating interoperability between disparate HMIS including specific efforts to harmonize and integrate laboratory, pharmacy, and electronic medical records (EMR) sub-systems; and developing a data warehouse.

Job Position Summary:

The Data Warehouse Senior Technical Manager will advise and provide technical expertise to the Chief of Party, and the broader project team.

This individual will lead the project’s strategy for and implementation of the data warehouse, define the business and information requirements, resolve high-level business and information issues, coach both the HMIS/NASCOP and Futures Group team in the development of the data warehousing solution, provide continuity in all major data warehousing solution decisions, and determine how technology can be applied to meet the client’s needs.

The work requires innovation, often with very little guidance. There is an organizational reliance on the knowledge, initiative and experience of the Data Warehouse Senior Technical Manager. Work is very technical in nature and knowledge is specialized.

Minimum Qualifications, Skills and Knowledge:

• Demonstrated technical expertise in design, development, deployment and maintaining large data warehouse (DW) or very large databases
• Deep technical understanding of data warehouse model and design methodologies, ETL, Data Marts, OLAP, OLTP,Metadata, normalization, 3NF, Dimensions, SCD Slowly Changing Dimensions,
• Experience in requirements gathering for DW, creating Use Cases, UML , Enterprise Architect, ER Diagrams, Data Dictionary, Test Cases,
• Demonstrated technical experience integrating different data sources (e.g health, finances, vital statistics, education, planning) from different databases (MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle) while addressing issue of data quality;
• Strong operational experience in improving in database performance, optimization, data aggregation, SQL queries for coding for interactive dashboards, charts and reports
• A minimum of 5 - 7 years’ proven technical experience is required
• Desired Datawarehouse business intelligence (BI) experience, software tools (Business Objects, Cognos, Microstrategy) or any open source BI software tools (Pentaho, JasperSoft, SpagoBI, icCube)
• Strong understanding of public health information systems in Kenya, including EMRs.
• Oral and written communication skills, Good writing skills are required to develop and articulate data warehouse strategy and implementation plan and present ideas to various audiences
• A university degree in computer science or information technology or any related discipline is required as a minimum, post graduate qualification and /or relevant certification courses will be an added advantage

Essential Functions:

• Design , develop, test, deploy, maintain, large, robust data warehouse at MOH
• Lead technical responsibility for development of national health data warehouse and identified data sources
• Lead in design, modeling, architecture of robust data warehouse platform;
• Lead technical responsibility to integrate data from different data sources (health, finances, vital statistics, education) into data warehouse solution
• Lead the information gathering and documentation process in consultation with the Ministries of Health
• Lead in development of data warehousing standards and SOPs , and test cases
• Resolve performance, database issues associated with maintaining and enhancing large data warehouse

Additional Information

Equipment to be used: General office equipment; Computers

Physical demands: N/A

Must be available for domestic and international travel for up to 30% of the time.

All applications for this position should be submitted online at www.futuresgroup.com via the Careers page before September 27, 2011.

Futures Group provides equal employment to all participants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran or marital status.

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