Base Titanium Limited Senior Human Resources Advisor / Manager, Project OH&S Manager and OH&S Officer Job Vacancies

Base Titanium Limited, the Kenyan subsidiary of the Australian company, Base Resources Limited, is developing the globally significant Kwale Mineral Sands Project about 50km south of Mombasa.

This project is now funded, with the construction phase commencing in the 3rd quarter of 2011 in order for production to start in the 2nd half of 2013.

Base is a creative resource company which places a strong emphasis on being part of the community in which it operates and on attracting and developing good people.

Kwale is the first large mine in Kenya since 1911 and represents an exciting opportunity for high performing candidates seeking to be part of the successful development of this project.

Pragmatic people who are proactive, have strong integrity, and who work well within a team environment are encouraged to apply.

You will live close to a world class beach area (Diani beach) that is well serviced by shops, medical facilities and sports amenities and is close to Mombasa.

Exciting opportunities currently exist for the following key residential positions:

Senior Human Resources Advisor / Manager 

Ref. 2001216IG

This role will be responsible for the development, implementation and control of the HR function at Kwale and will be required to:

• Support leaders to succeed in engaging and developing their people in line with the corporate culture
• Administer the site operation of the key HR systems
• Manage the recruitment processes
• Contribute to the development and improvement of HR Systems, standards and procedures
• Provide advice and administer industrial relations processes

We are seeking suitably qualified candidates with significant HR experience, preferably in the resource or industry sectors who has a sound knowledge of Kenyan human resource requirements.

Project OH&S Manager 

Ref. 2001201IG

The OH&S Manager will have overall responsibility for establishing and maintaining a high quality health and safety system for the project during the construction phase and then
lead this function into the operational phase.

This will include working with site contractor safety representatives, ensuring compliance with all legal requirements and ensure that the system is able to be complied with by all contractors and employees.

Key responsibilities include:

• Establish a coherent safety management system for the project
• Implement the system and monitor compliance
• Developing and maintaining an emergency response system
• Maintain safety reporting and statistics
• Establish and maintain the operational training systems
• Coaching and mentoring the OH&S Officer and other safety staff.

We seek a highly experienced OH&S Manager, with previous experience in establishing safety systems for new projects, particularly in Africa.

OH&S Officer 

Ref. 2001215IG

Reporting to the OH&S Manager, the OH&S Officer will provide support and up to date advice on OH&S matters.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Assist with the development, review and implementation of site OH&S policy and procedures
• General data entry and OH&S records management to meet site and statutory needs
• Conduct site specific induction and general OH&S awareness training
• Identify specific OH&S education and awareness needs and develop programs to suit
• Conduct various audits and inspections as required
• Assist with various site OH&S activities as required by the OH &S Manager
• Assist other Training & Safety staff and with the provision of first aid services.

We seek an enthusiastic OH&S Coordinator, with relevant experience and qualifications, who has an interest in developing and progressing their career in this exciting project.

To apply, please send your resume to applications@globe24-7.com and quote the reference number for the position in the subject line

TechnoServe Regional Monitoring & Evaluation Manager Job Vacancy

Regional Monitoring & Evaluation Manager

Strengthening Rural Youth Development through Enterprise

General Information

TechnoServe is a nonprofit international development organization founded in 1968. Its mission is to help entrepreneurial men and women break the cycle of poverty by building businesses that create jobs, income, and economic opportunities for their families, their communities, and their countries.

Our work focuses on identifying promising business opportunities with a positive economic role for and impact on the rural poor.

Our approach is based on hiring high-performing people who share our vision of private sector solutions to generate sustainable solutions to poverty. We believe in hard work, creativity, and leveraging the dynamism of talented people.

We are committed to innovation, learning, and results, with a global team drawn from world-class industry and management consulting firms. We are currently working in more than 20 countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia.

Purpose

Provide management of the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) components of the regional Strengthening Rural Youth Development through Enterprise (STRYDE) program, which will operate in Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda.

The Regional M&E Manager will work closely with the STRYDE Regional Program Manager, other program and country management, as well as TechnoServe’s East Africa regional M&E Manager.

S/he will be responsible for enabling evidence-based decision-making processes by program leadership, timely development of STRYDE M&E systems, and effective implementation of STRYDE M&E activities.

Duties & Responsibilities

M&E Systems and Processes:

• Establish a framework, methodology, procedures, and responsibilities for monitoring and evaluating program performance in accordance with the logical framework and reporting requirements;
• Develop M&E systems for use throughout project lifecycle;
• Undertake regular visits to the field to support implementation of M&E activities;
• Ensure quality control and identify where adaptations might be needed;
• Update existing IT systems that will allow for regular and ongoing aggregation, analysis and reporting of monitoring data;
• Establish an M&E calendar for the duration of program that lays out start and end dates for major M&E deliverables, regular periodic analysis of data to identify and communicate lessons-learned, and regular periodic presentation of data and analyses to program management;
• Work with senior program management to integrate M&E data into program planning and decision-making processes;
• Plan and oversee M&E data collection and analyze such data to ensure relevancy and accuracy on a regular basis;
• Review, monitor, and analyze reports for impact evaluation;
• Help to identify the cause of potential bottlenecks in implementation;
• Ensure that all M&E processes adhere to corporate, contractual, and donor standards;
• Support the production of narrative and financial reports for internal and external consumption;
• Contribute to determining the effectiveness of technical training packages.

Regional Coordination and Personnel Management:

• Overall coordination and quality monitoring of STRYDE M&E team’s input and work content;
• Manage program M&E staff assigned to each country;
• Work closely with Regional Program Manager and EA Division Regional M&E Manager to help ensure that program workplans are on target to meet deliverables in a timely and effective manner;
• Share analyses and trends with program team members to help synchronize program decision-making processes with M&E results;
• Provide coaching, direction, and leadership support to program team members in achieving results;
• Interface with other country, regional, and HQ staff;
• Coordinate with Regional M&E Advisor on regional and corporate initiatives;
• Ensure M&E information is shared and flows transparently within the program team and to other organizational levels, as appropriate;
• Ensure that lessons learned in one area of operation are applied elsewhere, as appropriate;
• Create, disseminate, and support country-level adaptation and use of standard templates and tools for key program deliverables, including but not limited to: key M&E indicators and templates, selection criteria, training materials, country-level work plans and other management and quality assurance tools;
• Work with program staff to identify M&E needs at both regional and country levels and provide training, as appropriate.

Evaluation of Partners & Sub-contractors: 

• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with local partners/ contractors in countries of operation;
• Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of partners and sub-contractors;
• Make recommendations to senior program management on the quality of partners’ and sub-contractors’ services.

Requirements

• Qualifications in business, economics, statistics or international development-related studies required;
• At least 5 years of experience with M&E methods and approaches, including designing, planning, and implementing M&E systems, analyzing and reporting using a logical framework and other strategic planning approaches;
• Strong interpersonal and management skills required;
• Excellent oral and written communication skills a must;
• Ability to develop well written, cohesive analyses and reports;
• Strong analytical, program management, and financial analysis skills;
• Personnel management experience required;
• International development experience, entrepreneurship skills, and experience working with youth training and/or mentorship programs preferred;
• Fluency in English required; Swahili and/or French language skills preferred;
• Willingness to be based in Nairobi (or another capital city in the area of operation), ability to travel internationally, and ability to travel to remote rural locations in East Africa.

Reports To: STRYDE Regional Program Manager

Location: East Africa

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TechnoServe Country Director Job Vacancy - Tanzania

Country Director, Tanzania

Reports to: Regional Director for East Africa

Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Travel: Moderate travel within Tanzania and internationally

TechnoServe Background: 

TechnoServe is an international, non-profit economic development organization founded in 1968 out of a conviction that a vibrant private sector is an essential foundation for economic growth and poverty reduction.

TechnoServe undertakes targeted, catalytic technical assistance and other programming to increase the competitiveness of entrepreneurs, businesses and industries that in-turn provide sustainable employment, inclusion of the poor and increased incomes.

TechnoServe operates in 25 developing countries with over 900 employees. A substantial portion of our work is in agriculture, enhancing farm productivity and commodity quality and addressing gaps in processing and other agribusiness capacities.

Our programs increase smallholder access to new technologies, aggregation and storage mechanisms, markets, critical information and finance.

TechnoServe also undertakes structured programs to identify and support high potential entrepreneurs in various sectors through leadership mentoring networks, formalization support, access to capital and development of sustainable business services such as accounting, finance, marketing and human resource management.

Program Description:

TechnoServe Tanzania is an emerging flagship platform working with more than 100,000 direct beneficiaries to help them improve their incomes and livelihoods.

Our 150+ staff work across multiple value chains - including staple crops such as maize, rice and cassava, and cash crops including coffee, cocoa, cotton and tomatoes, among others - to help farmers shift from subsistence to commercial enterprise by improving productivity, establishing farmer-owned enterprises and creating market linkages with reliable buyers in local, regional and international markets.

In addition, our teams work with many of Tanzania’s agro-processors to increase the growth of their businesses and strengthen the agro-processing sector overall with technical assistance and business advisory services.

Primary Purpose & Function:

Lead all aspects of TechnoServe’s operations in Tanzania to achieve sustainable economic development in a cost-effective manner.

Impact: Strategically select areas of work, partnerships and methodologies that most effectively contribute to poverty reduction, and assure excellence of implementation through total quality management and evidence-based decision-making.

Leadership: Develop, inspire and enable a team of Tanzanian and international professionals to deliver high quality results, and effectively manage human resources, finance and back office functions to optimize cost-effectiveness.

Fundraising: Secure funding to sustain and grow TechnoServe’s contribution to the economic development of Tanzania.

Duties & Responsibilities:

The duties and responsibilities of this position fall into four broad categories: Fundraising, Operations, Leadership (people and strategy) and Administration.

Leadership

• Regularly develop and adapt the country strategic vision and direction and execute it in keeping with TechnoServe’s overall strategic plan;
• Establish and foster relationships with a broad network of donors, practitioners, government representatives and business leaders in the Tanzanian economic development field, assimilating and contributing to new developments in the sector;
• Recruit, orient and provide for the professional development of highly effective staff in all functions;
• Motivate, inspire and enable a team of Tanzanian and international professionals to deliver high quality results
• Identify and pursue innovative solutions to poverty reduction

Fundraising

• Identify opportunities where TechnoServe can play a role in catalyzing more competitive, inclusive industries and entrepreneurship;
• Undertake industry assessments, market research and other analytical exercises that generate insight into opportunities for TechnoServe to achieve its mission
• Secure funding for the country program by developing concepts, leading sound project design and writing winning proposals;
• Cultivate and maintain TechnoServe in-country partner and donor relationships with USAID and other US government agencies; local government, bilateral and multilateral development/donor organizations; foundations and relevant local NGOs; private sector associations and corporations.

Operations

• Oversee the design, planning and high quality, timely execution of TNS programs in the field;
• Plan for and execute robust monitoring and evaluation of program outputs and outcomes;
• Ensure cost-effective delivery of donor and client commitments
• Contribute to the documentation and sharing of knowledge within the broader TechnoServe community

Administration

• Ensure high quality and timely donor reporting;
• Oversee all TechnoServe Tanzania financial affairs, including budgets, adherence to effective internal financial controls and review of monthly financial reporting;
• Act as legal representative of TechnoServe in Tanzania, conducting all affairs with the government, the media and partners in keeping with TNS policies and procedures;
• Maintain good governance practices for all TechnoServe related entities in Tanzania in accordance with Tanzanian law;
• Responsible for participation and compliance with all TNS corporate processes such as the annual planning process, attendance at the annual CD meeting, preparation of Program Status and pipeline reports and overseeing the correct and complete updating of the core indicator database.

Knowledge & Expertise:

• Advanced degree in business, economics, agriculture or related field with 10-15 years solid professional experience with progressively higher levels of responsibility
• A minimum of 2 years experience leading a business unit or large-scale project with responsibility for all aspects of operations
• A minimum of 5 years experience working in a developing country, preferably in east or southern Africa.
• Demonstrated ability to form, motivate and lead a diverse team to achieve results
• Proven capacity to represent your organization among a diverse range of stakeholders and to fundraise effectively
• Clear evidence of operations management and administration skills
• Strong diplomatic skills to support effective work with government, implementing partners and donors
• Prefer private sector experience and entrepreneurial skills
• Strong analytical as well as oral and written communications skills a must
• Fluent reading, writing, speaking and computer literacy skills in English
• Good working knowledge of economic development, agricultural value chains and entrepreneurship promotion

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TechnoServe Regional Program Manager - East Africa - Job Vacancy

Regional Program Manager, East Africa

Strengthening Rural Youth Development through Enterprise

General Information

TechnoServe (TNS) is a nonprofit international development organization founded in 1968. Its mission is to help entrepreneurial men and women break the cycle of poverty by building businesses that create jobs, income, and economic opportunities for their families, their communities, and their countries.

Our work focuses on identifying promising business opportunities with a positive economic role for and impact on the rural poor.

Our approach is based on hiring high-performing people who share our vision of private sector solutions to generate sustainable solutions to poverty. We believe in hard work, creativity, and leveraging the dynamism of talented people.

We are committed to innovation, learning, and results, with a global team drawn from world-class industry and management consulting firms. We are currently working in more than 20 countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia.

Purpose

• Provide overall management of the regional Strengthening Rural Youth Development through Enterprise (STRYDE) program, which will operate in Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda. 
• The Regional Program Manager will work closely with respective country management and TechnoServe’s East Africa regional team, and will be responsible for timely and effective implementation of program activities and achievement of the program’s goal to train 15,000 rural youth to increase their productive economic engagement. 
• S/he will thus be responsible for program planning and oversight, quality implementation, and delivery of results and milestones as agreed with the donor.

Duties & Responsibilities

Program Management:

• Establish and maintain program management and implementation systems, including a program workplan with clearly defined milestones;
• Ensure STRYDE is implemented with sound managerial, technical, financial, human resource, and overall programmatic practices;
• Ensure that all processes and activities adhere to corporate policy, legal and contractual obligations, and corporate and donor standards;
• Provide coaching, direction, and leadership support to team members to achieve results;
• Manage a regional program budget and monitor country budgets to ensure spending rates are on target;
• Produce narrative and financial reports for internal and external consumption;
• Ensure program targets are achieved;
• Ensure technical training packages are of good quality, are appropriate to a given context, and that trainings are effectively reaching participants.

Regional Coordination and Personnel Management:

• Overall coordination and quality monitoring of STRYDE team’s input and work content;
• Manage a regional program team of technical experts and support country program teams;
• Interface with other country, regional, and HQ staff;
• Ensure information is shared and flows transparently within the program team and to other organizational levels, as appropriate;
• Ensure that lessons learned in one area of operation are applied elsewhere, as appropriate;
• Manage regional stakeholder relationships
• Create, disseminate, and support country-level adaptation and use of standard templates and tools for key program deliverables, including but not limited to: key M&E indicators and templates, selection criteria, training materials, feasibility studies and market assessments, country-level work plans and other management and quality assurance tools;
• Work with program staff to identify TNS technical assistance needs at both regional and country levels;
• Work with country directors to ensure appropriate support for respective teams;
• Facilitate communication of technical program staff with other regional staff;
• Support new business efforts within the region, as requested.

Representation:

• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with donor representatives;
• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with local partners/ contractors in countries of operation;
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with relevant stakeholders in each of the program countries and across the region, including government ministries, private sector companies, business associations, and civil society organizations;
• Identify and lead opportunities to establish TNS as a leader in the sector, as appropriate;
• Represent STRYDE and TNS at internal and external functions.

Requirements

• Qualifications in business-related studies required;
• Strong program management and financial analysis skills;
• Personnel management experience required;
• International development experience, entrepreneurship skills, and experience working with youth training and/or mentorship programs preferred;
• Excellent interpersonal and oral and written communication skills a must;
• Ability to develop well-written, cohesive analyses and reports;
• Track record of building strong client and stakeholder relationships;
• Fluency in English required; Swahili and/or French language skills preferred;
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in business development and management, program design and planning;
• Willingness to be based in Nairobi (or another capital city in the area of operation), ability to travel internationally, and ability to travel to remote rural locations in East Africa.

Reports To: TechnoServe’s Deputy Director for East Africa

Location: East Africa

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TechnoServe is an equal opportunity employer. Women are encouraged to apply