Quality Assurance Manager Job

We are a highly specialized industrial concern in the core business of manufacture of Metal Crowns and Plastic Closures for blue chip customers. We are located at industrial area, Nairobi.

We are interested in recruiting a highly qualified Quality Assurance Manager (QAM) to effectively maintain quality standards and ensure food safety for all company products as well as implement new guidelines from our major customers.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A Bachelors/Masters Degree in Science - Chemistry, Bio-Chemistry and related discipline.

Experience:

• A minimum of five (5) years of active work in a busy manufacturing environment.

Computer Skills:

• The right candidate must be thoroughly conversant with all computer applications.

Managerial Competencies:

• Coordination and implementation of Quality Management System (QMS) relating to food safety and product compliance.
• Maintenance of an effective Quality Assurance System such as internal audit, gap assessment, verification, traceability exercise etc.
• Train and develop staff on Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and competitive quality.
• Train staff on various production systems per customer requirements.
• Coordinate Factory Laboratory activities.
• Develop and keep in place good communication and follow up of quality performance indicators.
• Plan and advise management on any quality issue relating to the products from the factory.
• Institute quality control schedules for packaging and raw materials, in process, finished products as well as environment.
• Review all quality monitoring schemes for production and engineering departments in order to achieve set target standards.
• Plan and organize with other department the introduction and maintenance of proper and acceptable sanitary and house-keeping schedules for the entire factory and for specific production areas per hygiene standards for different products.
• Make sound decisions on matters affecting product quality and take prompt and appropriate corrective measures in conjunction with other departments.
• Play a leading role on various Audits both internal and external in the way of generating, keeping and availing for Audits standard product process documents. Competently deal and handle ISO Certifications and other Food Related Systems.
• Be keen, ready and competent enough to fulfill the various functional responsibilities related to the position in a pro-active way.
• Be a mature person above thirty (30) years of age.

Interested candidates should send their application letter together with detailed curriculum vitae, testimonials, three professional referees and a day time telephone/cell phone contact by 15th Nov 2011:

DN.A 1138
P.O. Box 49010-00100
Nairobi

Sales & Marketing Manager, Project Manager and Graphics Designer Jobs

An International Organization with offices in most major towns in the country is looking for suitable candidates to fill the positions below urgently.

A) Sales & Marketing Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Sales force management
• Formulate and implement strategic and tactical sales and marketing plans.
• Identify and approach potential new clients, convert enquiries from potential clients to sales.
• Develop relationships with existing clients and maximize revenue potential.
• Develop existing marketing activities to ensure awareness of the company among all target groups.
• Responsible for the conduct of market research to determine market requirements for existing and future clients
• Provide timely and reliable management information.
• Work towards building the overall strength and performance of the sales and marketing teams.
• Responsible for formulation and execution of sales and marketing policies.
• Key account management

Knowledge, Skills and Experience required

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or relevant degree plus post-graduate diploma in marketing
• Five years plus experience in Sales and Marketing within the service industry. FMCG industry experience will be an added advantage.
• Excellent understanding of marketing dynamics
• Excellent organizational and administrative skills
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, verbal and written skills
• Proactive team player with good analytical skills, results oriented and able to meet tight deadlines
• Proven experience in the Banking industry will be a definite advantage.

(B) Project Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and implementation of multiple projects
• Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables
• Define project tasks and resource requirements
• Develop full scale project plans
• Assemble and coordinate project staff
• Manage specific project(s) budget(s)
• Manage project resource allocation
• Plan and schedule project timelines
• Track project deliverables using appropriate tools
• Provide direction and support to project team members.
• Quality assurance
• Constantly monitor and report on progress of the project to all stakeholders
• Present reports defining project progress, problems and solutions
• Implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs
• Project evaluations and assessment of results

Knowledge, Skills and Experience required

• A bachelors degree plus postgraduate diploma in project management or equivalent
• At least five years project management experience in a busy environment
• Knowledge of both theoretical and practical aspects of project management
• Knowledge of project management techniques and tools
• Direct work experience in project management capacity
• Proven experience in people management
• Proven experience in strategic planning
• Proven experience in risk management
• Proven experience in change management
• Proficient in project management software

(C) Graphics Designer

Key Responsibilities

• Developing the visual design for the company's website in collaboration with team members to contribute to creative concepts
• Translating usability findings and feedback into design improvements

Knowledge, Skills and Experience required

• Higher National Diploma in Graphics Design, Digital Media Design or related field with at least 3 years experience in a busy web design environment
• Good knowledge in use of Adobe CS design tools including flash development
• Highly skilled scripting especially in Flash action scripting html, css, javascript and ajax
• Skilled in server side scripting including but not limited to JSP, PHP, ASP and Database development
• Skilled in translating requirements of internal stakeholders into web designs
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Willingness to work in a fast-paced, collaborative and team-oriented environment.

Terms of Employment:

These are permanent positions and attractive remuneration commensurate with qualifications and experience will be offered.

If you meet the above requirements, send in your CV stating your current remuneration and day time telephone contact to: positions.vacant2011@gmail.com latest by 12th November, 2011.

Candidates not meeting the above requirements need not apply

USAID FANIKISHA Institutional Strengthening Project Call for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) Expression of Interests (EOI)

The FANIKISHA Institutional Strengthening project is a five-year cooperative agreement (2011-2016), funded by USAID/Kenya and implemented by Management Sciences for Health (MSH), Pact Inc., Danya International, and the Regional AIDS Training Network (RATN).

FANIKISHA aims to strengthen the capacity of four- eight national level CSOs to build/strengthen their financial, human resources and management systems, monitoring and evaluation systems, strategic planning skills, leadership and governance skills, and advocacy capacity to play a more strategic role in working with the Government of Kenya and other stakeholders to deliver effective health services at the community level.

Mentored institutional strengthening (IS) sub-grants will be provided to participating CSOs in project year (PY) 1 and 2 while additional sub-grants to strengthen their affiliate institutional capacity and for program implementation will be provided from PY 3.

FANIKISHA now seeks EOI applications from Kenyan CSOs with a national mandate.

The EOI will be used by the independent FANIKISHA Institutional Strengthening Committee of Advisors (FCA) to invite prequalified applicants to submit the Technical Institutional Strengthening & FANIKISHA engagement proposal.

For the complete application information and materials i.e. full EOI and Application form along with additional information on method of submission, application address and the prequalification criteria, send an email to: info@fanikisha.org copying rmwaura@fanikisha.org with subject heading: Request for Full EOI and Application Form - (Name of CSO).

This EOI announcement will remain open until the submission deadline of 8.00 a.m. 21st November, 2011

Finance Co-ordinator - Cash Consortium

Role: Finance Co-ordinator - Cash Consortium

Contract: 12 months contract

We are the world’s leading independent children’s charity; we inspire really dramatic change for children around the globe. We work with children in vulnerable situations. Providing safeguards for them against any form of abuse is a priority in all our work.

Combining short-term relief with long-term development, our programmes represent a huge undertaking. And this is why we need you.

Role Purpose

To support the Somalia Cash Consortium Coordinator in delivering the finance objectives related to the Cash Consortium project [4 partners, and approx 45m USD in size] and includes.

Overseeing the Consolidated Programme Budget, Core Costs Budget and M&E budget, ensuring reporting deadlines are fully met, ensuring that financial controls systems, processes and procedures are robust, efficient, and compliant with Save the Children accounting policies, donor guidelines, generally accepted accounting principles.

Meeting any ad hoc deadlines and requirements set by the Consortium Steering Committee, Consortium Coordinator and donors among others.

Qualifications and experience

• University degree in finance, accounting or other related academic discipline,
• minimum 5 years relevant financial management, procurements, and/or cash and bank management
• experience in a corporate or INGO environment,
• in-depth knowledge of financial management, and the uses and presentation of financial information,
• knowledge of the nature, purpose and execution of cash programming and excellent planning, coordination, and reporting skills with the ability to organise a substantial workload comprised of complex, diverse tasks, responsibilities and knowledge of donor compliance and donor reporting requirements – including preparation of donor reports and presentations.

For additional information on the job description, working context, person’s specifications, please visit:www.somaliangoconsortium.org

Our selection processes reflect our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Our people are as diverse as the challenges we face.

Due to the urgency of this position, short listing will be done as applications are received.

Forward your applications to: jobssomalia@scuk.or.ke.

Save the Children is an equal opportunities employer and highly encourages women to apply.

Application Closing Date: 7th November 2011, 15:00 pm

Only short listed individuals will be notified