AutoCAD Designer Job in Kenya (USD 2,000 - 2,500)

A well established Engineering & Construction Company is looking for an experienced AutoCAD Designer. 

The successful candidate must be able to manage and deliver small to large scale projects and produce civil/structural/electrical/mechanic engineering drawings to satisfy or exceed client requirements. 

It will include new build and refurbishment projects in a variety of sectors.
 

Responsibility:

• Perform complex drafting assignments utilizing both manual and computer aided design and drafting software; plan, sections, elevations, details, construction documents for review and approval
• Provide CAD (computer-aided design) and drafting support to the Supervising Consultant’s engineering and surveying teams
• Study preliminary project design drawings and requirement
• Correct and modify drawing based on Design Engineer's recommendations
• Calculate weights, volumes, and stress factors and their implications for technical aspects of designs.
• Review rough sketches, drawings, specifications, and other engineering data received from civil engineers to ensure that they conform to design concepts.

Required skills:

• A degree in civil engineering or equivalent tertiary degree.
• Minimum of 5 years of work experience as an AutoCAD designer/draughtsman.
• Proficient with the latest AutoCAD applications.
• Proficient with FrameCAD ProDesign and FrameCAD Detailer
• Excellent working knowledge of the REVIT suite of software.
• Working knowledge of Google Sketch Up.
• Commercial awareness of design.
• Solid understanding of architectural, structural and civil design.
• Understanding of both mechanical and electrical engineering systems.
• Intimate knowledge of current international building codes.
• Surveying experience and experience with software to link total station data to AutoCAD

Monthly gross salary: 2,000 – 2,500USD depending on experience 
 

Deadline: 15th January 2014
 

Applications:
 

Send your up to date CV to: 

application@summitrecruitment-kenya.com
Summit Recruitment & Training, 

Blixen Court, Karen road, 

Karen
 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. 

Please indicate in your email which position you are interested in. 

Only candidates stating current salary will be considered. 
 

Please do not apply if you do not meet the requirements of the job

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Electrical Design Engineer Job in Kenya (USD 3K - 4K)

A well established Engineering & Construction Company is looking for an experienced Electrical Engineer. 

The successful candidate should be keen, progressive, versatile individual who can adopt a flexible approach to their role to provide support to all teams across the office as workload dictates. 

An individual who is willing to go the extra mile to ensure work is delivered correctly and accurately and on time which may, on occasion, include working outside of normal office hours.
 

Responsibility:

• Carry out electrical engineering analysis & produce calculations.
• Develop designs from clients/project specifications.
• Check and evaluate design and material specifications for tender.
• Review electrical designs & construction drawings.
• Designing of power generation and distribution systems including associated load, fault current and voltage drop calculations.
• Responding to site RFIs, conducting reviews of specialist suppliers or contractor prepared designs, and attending site meetings to resolve construction issues.
• In-depth knowledge of local electrical regulations, international design standards and codes of practice; as well as a basic knowledge of local and international building codes, and structural / architectural industry practices.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops.

Required skills:

• Must possess a degree in electrical engineering.
• Must have Chartered Engineer (CEng) or Professional Engineer (PE) status.
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a design engineer preferably in multiple disciplines.
• Experience of renewable energy desired.
• Comfortable in a highly entrepreneurial and continuously changing environment.
• Commercial awareness of design.
• Excellent written, verbal, and cross-cultural communication skills.
• Track record of interacting effectively and collaboratively with a broad range of government, private sector, and civil society counterparts.
• Professional proficiency in English.
• Previous experience in Africa and/or the Middle East preferred.
• Must be competent in working to both British Standard (BS) and US (NFPA/NEC) codes.
• Familiar with developing specifications and standards.
• Computer skills (CAD design skills, MS Office experience (in particular EXCEL).
• Travel within African continent as and when needed for proposal management and business development purposes

Monthly gross salary: 3,000 – 4,000USD depending on experience
 

Deadline: 15th January 2014
 

Applications:
 

Send your up to date CV to: 

application@summitrecruitment-kenya.com
Summit Recruitment & Training, 

Blixen Court, Karen road, 

Karen
 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. 

Please indicate in your email which position you are interested in. 

Only candidates stating current salary will be considered. 
 

Please do not apply if you do not meet the requirements of the job

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Oshwal Aid / HELB Scholarship 2013/2014

Oshwal Aid / HELB Scholarship 2013/2014

Oshwal Aid, a welfare arm of the Oshwal Education and Relief Board (OE&RB), in association with Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) wish to invite eligible university students to apply for Scholarships.

Vision: Oshwal Aid envisages healthy communities, prospering in harmony with natural environment and in which people are inspired to improve the quality of their own and lives of others.
 

Mission: Oshwal Aid assists communities around East Africa through a wide range of programmes in education, health, disaster relief and sustainable development, where such aid is delivered efficiently and effectively by Oshwal Community members throughout East Africa.

The scholarship will fund 20 students for the total tenure of study, for an undergraduate degree programme. The fund supports needy entrants, in local universities, to a maximum of Kshs.100,000.00 per annum.

This scholarship will finance the following courses of study:

• Business Studies and Management
• Fine Arts
• Political Science
• Law
• Architecture
• Information systems and technology

Eligibility
 

The applicant must:

• Be a Kenyan citizen with a residential status in Kenya;
• Have sat for the KCSE or equivalent level not more than one year prior to the application;
• Have obtained a mean grade of B+ or above, with at least B plain in English and Mathematics;
• Demonstrate need for financial aid;
• Demonstrate leadership qualities, community service/spirit, concern for others, talent, concern about the environment and solid character; and
• Provide reference letters from two referees, one of whom must be the secondary school head teacher.
• Provide a hand written personal statement of at least 300 words giving reasons why you deserve the scholarship

Conditions of the Scholarship
 

The applicant must;
 

a. Show proof of placement at a university before the scholarship is awarded; and
 

b. Provide academic progress reports and reference letters from the university on a yearly basis to maintain funding for the ongoing period of study. 

Oshwal Aid and Higher Education Loans Board reserve the right to discontinue the scholarship for students who fail to obtain the required grades for promotion in the course of study, or are not able to obtain satisfactory reference letters from the university. 

Beneficiaries will undertake to provide academic transcripts to HELB at the end of each semester/academic year.
 

Application forms maybe downloaded from the HELB website (www.helb.co.ke).
 

The deadline for the submission of the applications is 20th January 2014. 

Applications should be submitted to:

The Chief Executive Offi cer/Board Secretary
Higher Education Loans Boards
18th Floor, Anniversary Towers
P.O. Box 69489 -00400
Nairobi

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mothers2mothers Database Development for KMMP National Scale-up Project Short Term Consultancy

Short Term Consultancy
 

Database Development for KMMP National Scale-up Project 

A. Background
 

mothers2mothers (m2m) is an international non-governmental organisation headquartered in Cape Town, SA, dedicated to providing education and support to pregnant women and mothers living with HIV, and preventing mother-to-child transmission. 

m2m empowers HIV-positive pregnant women and new mothers to become role models in their communities by promoting AIDS awareness, testing and services. m2m currently operates in 6 countries in Africa and receives funding from a diverse set of funders.

m2m has been implementing its Mentor Mother Model in Kenya since 2008, and has successfully adapted peer education and psychosocial support to the Kenyan context to improve client PMTCT and maternal, new born, and child health (MNCH) outcomes and currently operates 30 health facilities across the country.
 

m2m Kenya also provides implementation support services to Ministry of Health (MOH) and implementing partners (IPs) in order to facilitate standardization and scale up the mentor mother model  under the Kenya Mentor Mother Program (KMMP).

B. Purpose of Assignment
 

Each of the two inter-related m2m Kenya programmatic appraoches require an effective Monitoring and Evaluation system, including databases. 
 

M&E - Direct implementation 
 

Mentor Mothers provide group, one-on-one and couples education, facilitate support groups and conduct defaulter tracing and referrals under the KMMP. 

They document their activities in M&E tools that collect client and program data on daily and monthly basis.  

m2m already has in place an SQL database that is used to manage this data.
 

M&E  - National Scale up Support activities
 

The goal of m2m Kenya’s KMMP National Scale-up Project is: elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (eMTCT) and improved maternal child health through two interrelated strategic objectives (SO):

• SO1:  Kenya has an enabling policy environment and systems for financing and implementing the KMMP
• SO2:  Implementing partners and the MOH deliver quality KMMP services at scale

Several activities, processes and intermediate results track the project’s contribution towards the goal of eMTCT.

m2m is seeking to engage a consultant or service provider to develop a database that will support and consolidate data management and M&E of KMMP National Scale-up project performance over time.  

It will enable various stakeholders to keep track of the activities in a timely, consistent way and hence make informed decisions regarding the effectiveness of programs and the efficient use of resources.  

Some information will be reported quantitatively while others will be needed to report qualitatively/narratively.  

m2m Kenya will use the database to consolidate activities, inputs, reports  for implementation support services provided to MoH and IPs. 

Reports from the database will be reported to stakeholders including donors, and Head Office on a regular basis. 

m2m therefore anticipates having a user-friendly data management system which facilitates timely use of reliable strategic information by stakeholders, for improved program quality, communication and reporting.

C. Database Requirements and Priorities 
 

The following are core requirements and priorities for the M&E database, presented to serve as a guide.

The  selected service provider will be expected to develop and share additional innovations that may enhance the efficiency and functionality of the database:

1. Data Management

• Different users able to access data and reports at different levels
• Flexible for periodic  upgrades (in house) to accommodate new or modified variables
• Automatic query generation
• Audit trail for query monitoring, resolutions and data revisions
• Automatic reminders for overdue monthly data
• Ability to document data quality issues, log changes to data after submitted
• Ability to document/archive program level issues that impact upon data
• Integration with other m2m data sources
• Built in user help/troubleshooting option

2. Data Entry

• Simple data entry screens and prompts
• Improved check and data validation functions
• Option for multiple data entry locations with iincreased decentralization of data entry
• Data entry access in locations with limited internet access
• Ability to track who is entering and updating data

3. Content

• Addition of new indicators in future; the source codes must remain with m2m for future changes or update to the software
• Ability to access and store other strategic information data sources in country

4. Data Reporting

• Customized report generation with flexible to use report generation at country and HQ level
• Ability for basic analysis in database
• Ability to develop static and flexible reports
• Ability to access online and offline reports
• Access to database by key users while maintaining security
• Data graphic dashboard displaying achievement towards targets

To Apply:
 

Interested applicants should submit their costed proposals to mothers2mothers via email to kmmprecruitment@m2m.org by 10 January 2014. 
 

Only short listed candidates will be contacted. 

If you do not hear from us after one month of the closing date,  please consider your application unsuccessful.

For further information please visit www.m2m.org.

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CARE International MWA KIWASH Senior Technical Advisor Job in Nairobi Kenya

CARE International in Kenya is looking for a well organized and highly motivated individual who is result oriented to fill the following position:
 

Job Title: Senior Technical Advisor, WASH Governance and Resilience
 

Department / Project: MWA KIWASH Project            
 

Supervisor: Chief of Party (CoP) Millennium Water Alliance (MWA)        
 

Location / Duty Station: Nairobi                
 

Date of Employment: This position is contingent on the awarding of funding by the donor.                                

Ref: STA/12/2013

Grade: TBD                
 

Job Score: TBD                    

Job Summary & Purpose:
 

The Millennium Water Alliance seeks a program specialist in WASH governance and resilience for an anticipated 5-year USAID funded WASH program. Kenya Integrated Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (KIWASH) aims to provide at-scale adoption of sustainable models by a range of program components towards achieving this goal. 

Under this arrangement, CARE will contribute to KIWASH one objective namely strengthened WASH services and water resource institutions. 

The project will incorporate sustainability of resources and services, upstream/downstream integration, and effective strategies to scale. 

CARE is looking for a candidate with appropriate expertise to fill the position of program advisor/specialist on WASH governance and climate change resilience to KIWASH program. 

This position entails developing, designing and monitoring of strategies towards addressing water sanitation and hygiene structures governance as well as embracing appropriate community based approaches in resilience to climate change related disasters.

Tasks and responsibilities

R 1: Technical oversight

Tasks

• Facilitate linkages between the different actors in the water sector both at National and county levels  to enhance the ongoing WASH devolution process as embraced in the new national constitutions
• Promote transformation of WRUAs to professional bodies upholding accountability and serving as learning laboratories/models in water resource management and ensure sustainability.
• Take stock of existing  water resource users associations (WRUAs) and conduct capacity assessment to determine training needs
• Design systems to facilitate WRUAs to develop functional sub catchment management plans (SMPs)
• Advise partners on all technical aspects of project implementation, ensuring a unified and effective approach to achieving project impact.
• Develop guidelines and tools as required for partner KIWASH staff to implement key project activities consistently and effectively.
• Identify and collate evidence base of context specific promising practices and support dissemination workshops to improve existing practices and introduce new practices and/or ideas among project partners.
• Ensure that effective engagement is maintained with communities and with local government partners, to ensure responsive and sustainable programming.

R 2: Project monitoring
 

Task

• Oversee the WASH Governance and resilience component of the KIWASH project, with a focus on keeping activities on track for completion.
• Develop detailed activity, budget plans and monitoring tools for the project, and monitor progress against plans ensuring that objectives and indicators are achieved.
• Maintain regular contact with the KIWASH local implementing partner staff through regular field visits to ensure that the WASH Governance and resilience component of the project is carried out promptly, to a high quality and according to the project strategy.
• Support the timely preparation of annual work plans and reports to the donor

R3: Coordination & representation
 

Task

• Organize and participate in national, county and local stakeholder forums to deliberate, clarify and understand issues on the devolved WASH services and its implication at the community level.
• Ensure integration across components, learning, sharing and adoption of best practices
• Represent the project to local communities, government departments, international agencies, local partners and donors as required.
• Attend relevant meetings as required.
• Ensure regular communication with CARE Kenya and MWA technical staff for feedback, updates and guidance as required.
• Create linkages with private sector for sustainable partnerships to address Governance and Resilience of WASH services.

R4: Operations (HR, Logistics and Finance)
 

Task

• Ensure that high priority purchases are monitored and prioritized by the logistics team.
• Ensure that tenders are prepared in accordance with the projects logistics requirements.
• Monitor and ensure spending against plan, and analyze monthly financial reports.
• Identify training needs and ensure that members of the project team receive appropriate training to enable them to implement the project strategy and activities effectively.

Authority:
 

1. Spending Authority: TBD             
 

2. Supervision: The position report administratively to the Chief of Party (CoP) Millennium Water Alliance (MWA) with technical reporting to the Livelihoods Sector Manager CARE Kenya.
 

3. Decision Making: Key decisions making with Livelihood Sector Manager and MWA Chief of Party regarding KIWASH implementation as per the contractual obligation.
 

Contacts/Key Relationships (Internal & External):

Internally: Works closely with MWA KIWASH Chief of Party, Livelihood Sector Manager and other Senior Management Team members of CARE Kenya.

Externally: Members of the Millennium Water Alliance and provides Technical support to local implementing partners on behalf of CARE Kenya. 

Working Conditions: The position shall be based in Nairobi with 50% travel to the field in Eastern and Western Kenya.
 

Qualifications:

• Education: Master’s degree in environmental studies, natural resource management, social studies or equivalent 
• Experience: Minimum of 5 years of experience in a technical or program management role in WASH programming and in particular water governance
• Experience with institutional arrangements, governance, strengthening and capacity building in the water sector
• Competencies: Strong Leadership, assessment, management, project planning, analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Good skills in M&E, donor reporting, good command in written and spoken English and basics in computer software.
• Experience working on USAID contracts preferred

Applications
 

Qualified candidates are invited to send their application letters indicating the reference number, title of the position along with an updated CV and email & telephone contacts of three professional referees to; 

The Human Resources & Development Manager, 

CARE International in Kenya, 

email: Vacancies@care.or.ke 

so as to be received not later than 5th January, 2014. 

Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
 

CARE is an equal opportunity employer and promotes gender equity. 

Canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.

CARE International in Kenya does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process. (Application, interview, meeting, processing, training or any other fees).

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HelpAge International Gardener / Groundsman Job in Nairobi, Kenya

HelpAge International is a global network of not-for-profit organizations with a vision of a world where older people fulfill their potential to lead active, dignified, healthy and secure lives. 

To facilitate this and in service to the older people, we seek to fill below vacancy.

Job Title: Gardener / Groundsman

Department: Finance & Administration
 

Location: Nairobi, Kenya
 

Responsible To: Senior Administrative Officer
 

Relations with Others: Providing support to EWCARDC staff.
 

Purpose: Responsible for the general maintenance of the grounds and gardens at the office, keeping the office compound tidy.
 

Responsibilities:
 

1.1 Cleaning

• Carry out gardening duties, requiring a minimum amount of supervision.
• Soil cultivation, digging, forking, mulching, watering, raking, weeding, edging, pruning, bed preparation and planting.
• Wash and keep tidy the parking area external washing areas, toilets, and assist in cleaning inside the office when needed.
• Lawn maintenance and cultivation, use mower properly, adjusting to correct heights and quality of grass cutting
• The use and maintenance of hand tools and basic light machinery.
• Keep the borders thoroughfares and lawn paths clear and free from litter at all times
• Empty litter bins around the compound
• Assist with the erection and dismantling of lawn sheds whenever necessary
• Prepare and plant flowers
• Assist staff and visitors with car parking
• Cleaning of office vehicles
• Loading and unloading office supplies, arranging files and consumables in the stores

1.2 Health and Safety

• Understand and ensure the implementation of the office health and safety policy and emergency fire procedures
• Report any faulty appliances, damaged equipments or any potential hazard.
• Promote safe working practices within the office compound
• Monitor the work of the company security and report any issue to the Senior Admin Officer

1.3 Others

• Switching on and refueling the generator, informing the Admin team when the generator needs service and fuel procurement
• Carry out any other duties as requested by supervisor(s)

Person Specification:
 

Essential:

• Good working knowledge of gardening and landscaping
• Ability to work independently and make good decisions with minimum supervision.
• Ability to communicate in English and Kiswahili, both written and oral

Experience:

• At least 2 years working experience in a similar role

Education Criteria:

• Primary school education qualification

Desirable:

• Team player
• Culturally sensitive, good public relations and flexible

How to Apply

To apply for this position, please send an updated CV and covering letter, explaining how you meet the criteria for this role to the Regional Human Resource Coordinator on helpage@helpage.co.ke by 10 January, 2014, clearly indicating the position you are applying for on the subject of your email.

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HelpAge International Office Assistant Job in Nairobi, Kenya

HelpAge International is a global network of not-for-profit organizations with a vision of a world where older people fulfill their potential to lead active, dignified, healthy and secure lives. 

To facilitate this and in service to the older people, we seek to fill below vacancy.

Job Title: Office Assistant

Department: Finance & Administration
 

Location: Nairobi, Kenya
 

Responsible To: Administrative Assistant
 

Relations with Others: Providing support to both EWCARDC staff and external parties.
 

Purpose: The Office Assistant provides support to EWCARDC team by giving support in the areas of: cleaning, tidying up offices, catering services, redirecting mails/documents to relevant staff and support the Administrative Assistant when need arises.

Responsibilities:
 

1.1 Cleaning

• Keep the office clean and tidy, including cleaning floors, dusting furniture and windows etc, and emptying rubbish bins each day
• Replenish tissues, air freshener and hand wash in the washrooms
• Keep the kitchen and utensils tidy and clean at all times
• Ensure water dispenser is clean and has clean drinking glasses at all times
• Provide catering services during meetings carried out within HelpAge offices / conference room.
• Keep accurate records of kitchen / cleaning consumables and ensuring timely restocking
• Submit procurement request to logistics function for kitchen consumables required for the office keeping within the designated budget
• Supervising the general cleaning on Saturday, this includes mopping, scrubbing, dusting, removing cobwebs, vanishing the wooden floors and removing dust from the cabinets in the resource centre

1.2 Admin/Reception

• Collection of post and delivery to staff
• Assist with attaching invoices with the relevant documents for payment
• Assist the staff in photocopying documents when required
• Assist staff in document filling when required
• Attach taxi vouchers with travel authorization/taxi requisition form
• Assist in receiving and making calls through the switchboard and re-direct them as appropriate.
• Receive all visitors and re-direct them to relevant staff as appropriate
• Assist with making appointments with partners, suppliers and other third parties on behalf of staff

1.3 Others

• Assist in arranging for internal general and departmental staff meetings
• Taking minutes of general and departmental staff meetings
• Maintenance of Resource Centre and board-rooms
• Assist making travel and hotel bookings
• Any others duties if required

Person Specification:
 

Essential:

• Good working knowledge of computer packages including word processing, and database packages.
• High typing speed
• Ability to work independently and make good decisions with minimum supervision.
• Good customer care and telephone etiquette
• Excellent command of English and Kiswahili both written and oral

Experience:

• At least 2 years working experience in an administrative or Office Assistant position.
• Experience in front office activities/management

Knowledge/Skills:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Good organizational and time management skills and ability to prioritize tasks.
• Managing a household budget

Education Criteria:

• Certificate in Secretarial and Front office Management

Desirable:

• Previous experience in a NGO setting
• Team player
• Culturally sensitive, good public relations and flexible

How to Apply

To apply for this position, please send an updated CV and covering letter, explaining how you meet the criteria for this role to the Regional Human Resource Coordinator on helpage@helpage.co.ke by 10 January, 2014, clearly indicating the position you are applying for on the subject of your email.

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