British-American Jobs in Kenya

British-American is a leading financial services Group in the country offering a wide range of Insurance and Asset management services to individuals, small businesses, corporations and government entities.

As part of our growth strategy and to strengthen the team to achieve ambitious performance objectives, the Company wishes to recruit experienced, dynamic and innovative individuals to fill the following positions at British-American Asset Managers
Company Limited.

Relationship and Sales Manager

Reporting to the Managing Director, the jobholder will be responsible for driving production of all products through all distribution channels.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide overall leadership, training and support for asset management product sales through the single distribution channel and the independent financial advisory channel;
• Partnering with the management of the single distribution channel to drive production of asset management products while complimenting the production of other lines — life, general, etc.
• Lead origination of segregated, discretionary and pension scheme mandates with focus on the possibility of selling alternative products such as property and private equity;
• Institutional sales of both fund management and cash management to key institutions;
• Managing relationships for property and private equity and origination ofnew opportunities;
• Placement of property and private equity products;
• Origination of wealth management clients and managing these client relationships;
• Responsible for coordinating the independent financial advisor network;
• Responsible for affinity group marketing to chamas, Saccos, etc.

Qualifications, Knowledge, Experience

• Bachelor of Commerce degree or equivalent;
• Professional certification;
• At least S years experience in related field;
• Experience in managing a team in achieving and exceeding stated objectives;
• Strong inter-personal skills and ability to work in a team-oriented and collaborative environment;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
• Business to Business relationship management experience;
• A demonstrated track record of sales dealing with high caliber clients;
• Customer focus and orientation.

Portfolio Manager - Fixed Income

Reporting to the Managing Director, the jobholder will be responsible for analyzing investment portfolios to determine asset allocation opportunities to maximize return or minimize investment risk.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure delivery of superior risk adjusted returns to client portfolios;
• Analyze trends in global and local markets to manage primary risk factors in client portfolios and produce meaningful long term returns;
• Ensure adherence to the company’s investment strategy and detailed processes;
• Execute asset allocation decisions amongst client portfolios and general management of all publically traded asset classes;
• Serve as representative of the company in client servicing;
• Coordinating the dealing team to ensure timely and efficient execution of investment decisions.

Qualifications, Knowledge, Experience

• Bachelor degree in Finance, Economics, Statistics or Mathematics with strong academic record (masters degree in a quantitative discipline would be an added advantage);
• 5 to 7 years work experience in financial markets;
• Professional qualification in Finance/Investment e.g. attained CFA status or actively studying for CFA;
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills with strong knowledge of investments;
• Strong inter-personal skills and ability to work in a team-oriented and collaborative environment;
• Excellent communications skills both oral and written.

Investment Associate - Property

Reporting to the Portfolio Manager, the Investment Associate will be involved in sourcing and analyzing of deals across the Eastern Africa region as they support the company’s efforts to tap into the Private Equity space.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and tap the existing network to create a deal pipeline;
• Conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis to support potential investment opportunities in line with the Investment Process;
• Evaluate the performance of potential investments;
• Prepare materials and internal memoranda that supports the investment plans and fund marketing material;
• Evaluate the present market conditions as well as potential alternative investment categories;
• Perform responsibilities of generating information and analysis for the purpose of developing and supporting asset allocation decisions including geographic and sector research;
• Prepare various investment reports, transaction documents, marketing materials and memorandums;
• Perform any other duties assigned by the Portfolio Manager.

Qualifications, Knowledge, Experience:

• Bachelor degree is a required minimum;
• 2 to 3 years work experience in financial services with prior hands on experience in Real Estate, Project Management and/or program management with regards to property investments;
• Extensive knowledge of analyzing property deals & developing financial models with strong analytical and conceptual skills and comprehensive knowledge of Real Estate Valuation techniques;
• Knowledge of the practices of private equity including financial tools and theories;
• Goal-oriented with good verbal and written communication skills;
• Strong inter-personal skills and ability to work in a team-oriented and collaborative environment.

Risk Associate

Reporting to the Managing Director, the jobholder will be responsible for identifying and analyzing the areas of potential risk threatening the company assets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct research on current and future events on the economy and anticipate their possible effect on the financial success of the business;
• Identify and find out the potential areas of risks that threaten the success and working of the company;
• Predict the future trends based on the latest developments in the market;
• Propose methodologies and solutions to overcome the identified risks and their effects;
• Recommend the changes to the management based on the solutions to adopt newer strategies to overcome the risks;
• Compile the reports, presentations to highlight the effects of risks;
• Evaluate the implementation of risk reduction strategies;
• Monitor the post-period implementation of risk management strategies.

Qualifications, Knowledge, Experience

• Bachelors Degree in Finance, Economics, Commerce, Statistics or a related discipline;
• Professional qualifications in Finance/Investments/Risk i.e. a qualified or in the process of attaining the qualifications;
• Working experience of at least 3 years in financial markets, corporate finance, investment banking or stock broking;
• Excellent financial modeling skills;
• The aptitude to investigate and assess technical risks and to retain large amounts of technical knowledge;
• Excellent communications skills both oral and written.

Legal and Compliance Assistant

Reporting to the Legal and Compliance Manager, the jobholder will provide administrative support to AU members of the Legal Department in handling the Administrative and Clerical tasks that accrue to the department.

Key Responsibilities:

• Dealing with the various correspondence that come to the department under guidance of the Advocates;
• Overseeing and enforcing the safe management procedures and in particular, ensuring up to date records of documents in the safe are maintained;
• Preparing monthly status reports on the litigation matters;
• Efficient record keeping by maintaining an appropriate bring up system, legal library sourcing for Kenya Gazettes and updating the statutes annually;
• Attending to various legal tasks at government registries;
• Filing and general office assistance;
• Perform any other duties as required.

Qualifications, Knowledge, Experience

• A Diploma in Law;
• At least three (3) years experience in a busy law firm;
• A team player willing to work with minimum supervision;
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills;
• Ability to plan, prioritize and organize;
• High integrity;
• Demonstrated interactions with the Lands, Company’s and any other Governmental Registry

An attractive remuneration package will be offered to successful candidates. In-house training and a professional office environment will also be offered.

If this position is of interest to you, please email your detailed curriculum vitae and covering letter explaining how you would meet the demands of this challenging and exciting position giving full names and contacts of 3 referees to hr@british-american.co.ke.

Hard copies will not be accepted.

Applications should be received not later than 30th April 2012.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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Tullow Kenya Jobs and Careers

Tullow Kenya BV is a subsidiary of Tullow Oil Plc, Africa’s leading independent oil & gas exploration and Production Company.

We have a strong presence in Kenya and are looking for exciting talent to join our exciting team in these exciting times. At Tullow, T = Talent and our ‘T for Talent’ development program enables all our employees to reach their full potential. Currently, we are looking for:

Asset Protection (Security) Manager

Job Purpose:

Provide leadership through development and delivery of the Asset Protection strategy for Tullow operations in Kenya in order to ensure appropriate operational security controls are in place and corresponding emergency response preparations have been made.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Asset Protection team and security contracts.
• Plan and execute Tullow security strategies to protect people, assets, operations and projects within Kenya.
• Develop and implement Asset protection standards and procedures (e.g. Security Plan, CEM plans, business continuity plan).
• Collate and analyse security related information to allow summary reporting of relevant risk information and adaptation of appropriate security controls.
• Oversight of travel security for visitors and journey management across Tullow operations in Kenya.
• Oversight of the Kenya Incident Management Team and coordination of emergency response training in alignment with the Group Crisis and Emergency Management (CEM) Programme.
• Business continuity planning and preparedness
• Manage oversight of investigations into security breaches, incidents or loss of assets.

Qualifications and experience:

• A degree in a relevant area of study in security risk management, disaster management, international relations or other related discipline;
• experience and knowledge of security management crisis & emergency management, disaster preparation and business continuity planning; programme and project management;
• experience working within the oil and gas or similar industry;
• experience of working in Kenya or East Africa, with an active network with authorities in Kenya;
• experience of working in remote and hazardous environments.

Environmental Advisor

Job Purpose:

To advise in-country operations on all aspects of environmental compliance by developing and managing an operational and environmental permitting and licensing plan to enable the activities of the company to proceed in full compliance with national, international, Tullow and industry based standards; and by establishing, documenting, implementing and maintaining an EMS that fulfills the requirements of ISO 14001:2004.

Responsibilities

• Establish regulatory and permitting requirements.
• Manage compilation of environmental reports (EIA’s) and submission of environmental permitting and licensing applications to relevant Government authority/agency
• Compile, collate and disseminate permitting/license status reports to all relevant internal and external parties
• Compile, collate and maintain all relevant records relating to environmental permits and license applications, and status thereof
• In collaboration with Group Environmental Manager, establish, document, implement and maintain EMS for the Kenyan operations that fulfills the requirements of ISO 14001:2004.
• Manage field officers to implement environment management plan and ensure compliance with all legislation.
• Establish, document, implement and maintain project specific environmental management, waste management and oil spill response plans.
• Support local management by establishing and maintaining relationships with Government agencies and departments
• Provide assistance and support to Local Management.
• Ensure Tullow compliance with all applicable environmental legislation within the organisation and contractor operations.

Qualifications and Experience:

A degree in Environmental Sciences or related field with 8-10 years working experience in environmental related practices, preferably in the oil and gas industry; working knowledge of the Kenyan environmental legislation and Kenyan ESIA assessment and approvals process; skills in environmental compliance auditing and monitoring.

Field Environmental Health & Safety Superintendent

Job Purpose:

Monitor and supervise the implementation of Tullow Kenya policies and procedures on all field operations sites for drilling and related activities. Provide advice, support and training in the development and implementation of operational safety plans and procedures in compliance with Tullow EH&S Management System including functional EHS authority/oversight over all activities.

Responsibilities

• Support the implementation of the requirements of Environmental Health & Safety Management Systems (EHSMS).
• Provide technical advice and support in relation to the development, implementation and monitoring of EH&S plans and procedures;
• Advise on issues of compliance to Company EH&S policies and local regulatory Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) requirements industrial best practices;
• Carry out monitoring, inspection, reporting and resolving audit issues.
• Implement risk management procedure in respective operations, monitor Permit to Work (PTW), Job Safety Analysis (JSA) and maintain risk registers;
• Active monitoring and periodic reporting on EHS activities and EHS performance indicators.

Qualifications and experience:

• A degree in Sciences with core Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) qualifications such as NEBOSH oil and gas international/national certificate.
• At least 5 years proven experience of managing EHS in a corporate operational environment of oil and gas operations;
• knowledge of identification & control measures of operational risks/hazards.

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, valid email address, and the names and telephone contacts of three professional referees.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
Closing date: Friday 4th May 2012

Off Muthithi Road, Tausi Court, 3rd Floor
P O Box 6416, Nairobi, GPO 00100

e-mail: recruit@adeptsystems.co.ke

Website: www.adeptsys.biz

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Prowriters Kenya writing Careers

Prowriters Kenya is one of the leading academic writing company based in Nairobi, Kenya. In keeping with our current business needs, we seek to recruit talented and highly experienced writers to join our team of professionals.

Job Description:

• Preparing high quality academic papers within the specified deadline.
• Providing progressive reports on assigned projects to clients and administrators.

Requirements:

• Diploma/Degree/Masters in any academic field
• Experience in writing academic papers - essays, term papers, dissertation
• Excellent grammar and ability to write non-plagiarized papers
• Access to internet and PC.
• Experienced in using APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, Vancouver etc referencing styles.

Payment Rates:

From Ksh 300 per double spaced page, and higher rates for Masters and PhD work.

If you feel that you are up to the challenge and posses the necessary academic writing experience please send your CV and application letter highlighting your writing experience and why you are the most suitable candidate for the role clearly quoting the job title to the address below.

HR Manager
Prowriters Kenya
Nairobi

prowriterskenya@gmail.com

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

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