Sunday, 6 November 2011

UN Women - Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Officer - Nairobi, Kenya

Position: Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Officer

Type of Appointment: Service Contract

Post Level: SB4

Duty Station: Nairobi, Kenya

Duration of the Initial Contract: 12 Months

Application Deadline: 16th November 2011

Background

United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) Country Office in the East and Horn of Africa, including Kenya focus on addressing issues of women's poverty, violence against women (VAW) and governance in post conflict situation and in peace through initiating and supporting mechanisms and processes that call for accountability of duty bearers to the principles of gender equality and women's Human rights; contributing to the increase of women's security in both the private and public sphere; and providing concrete support to women's organizations and networks.

UN Women is seeking a Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Officer (PME & R Officer) to support the Kenya country office in ensuring that results are well articulated in the programme development processes; results are tracked and documented; and that both internal and external reports capture the actual changes that are happening as a result of the UN Women initiatives. Special emphasis of the monitoring process will be on monitoring qualitative changes based on the theory of change stated in the programme design.

Qualifications
  • Advanced degree in Gender or women's studies, social sciences, international relations, or a related field
  • A minimum of 7 years experience in monitoring, evaluation and results-based management
  • A minimum of 5 years of experience in reporting (internal and donors) using results based management principles
  • Demonstrated knowledge of bilateral and multirateral donors reporting requirements
  • Demonstrated experience of assessing progress and sustainability of projects/ programmes of identifying timely corrective action
  • Demonstrated experience of building and maintain a reliable M&E database on the status of project implementation, delivery, evaluations and reporting
  • A minimum of 2 years of experience of supporting capacity of the partner organizations in the 3 areas of planning, M&E and reporting
  • Experience of evaluating the effective and efficient use of project inputs and impact.
  • Experience of working in teams and coordinating with project/programme personnel located in distant offices
  • Experience of producing M&E Guidelines, frameworks, training material
  • Demonstrated experience in capturing learning and documenting knowledge
Application procedure

Interested and qualified Kenyan Nationals are advised to apply online after a careful perusal or the Terms of References with the details of the duties and responsibilities, competencies, qualifications and experience required.

Apply through: http://jobs.undp.org

The successful applicant shall be entitled to an attractive remuneration package as per advertised grade and commensurate with his/her qualifications and experience applicant.

UN WOMEN reserves the right to offer the position to the best suited candidate with re-classification to a lower salary grade, if none of candidates meet all the requirements.

Incomplete applications or applications received after the closing date (16th November 2011) will not be given consideration.

Please note that only applicants who are short-listed will be contacted

Senior Accountant Career in Kenya (KShs 100,000 - 150,000 p.m.)

Male Asian Gujarati Speaking Preferred.

This is a highly demanding role responsible for overseeing the company's financial accounting, monitoring and reporting systems; ensuring compliance of financial statements with IFRS and IAS policies and procedures and guidelines and professional ethics.

This role requires a high degree of self confidence and resilience to handle a high stress, high pressure environment which demands long working hours and constant crisis management.

The role holder is expected to perform undertake the following duties:
  • Compiling and preparing company annual budget and ongoing budget monitoring and reporting
  • Preparation of annual and management accounts;
  • Ensuring timely preparation of accurate monthly expenditure reports
  • Monitoring and interpreting cash flows and proactively managing the financial position of the company and predicting future trends
  • Researching and reporting on factors influencing business performance
  • Participate in internal audits as scheduled and provide auditors with accounting documents as requested and provide explanation on audit queries
  • Performance analysis and reporting
  • Supervising and appraising the performance of assigned staff
Minimum Criteria:
  • An undergraduate degree in Finance or Accounting; CPA(K) ACCA or its equivalent
  • Over 5 years post qualification experience in a similar or related position
  • Experience in a business/commercial environment with demonstrable entrepreneurial and business skills
  • Strong financial numeracy and analytical skills with ability to interpret financial data
  • Working knowledge of Kenyan tax laws and excellent knowledge of local and international financial regulations and legislation
  • Excellent technical knowledge of budgeting and financial analysis processes in a commercial set up
  • Excellent and effective communications skills, both orally and in writing and ability to effectively engage the business owners in matters pertaining the company
  • Well developed ability to multi-task and handle multiple ongoing issues concurrently
  • Ability to take charge and control over varied situations that emerge in the department and ‘think on their feet’ for solutions to problems
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and strong personal impact to command respect with internal and external stakeholders
  • High degree of honesty and integrity
If qualified send CV only to jobs@staff-kenya.com indicating the title on the subject line.

Do not attach certificates.

Corporate Staffing Services
Suite 3, 13th floor, Development House, Nairobi.
Email: jobs@staff-kenya.com

N.B. We do not charge any fee for interviews and neither for having your CV in our database

Senior Accountant Career in Kenya (KShs 100,000 - 150,000 p.m.)

Male Asian Gujarati Speaking Preferred.

This is a highly demanding role responsible for overseeing the company's financial accounting, monitoring and reporting systems; ensuring compliance of financial statements with IFRS and IAS policies and procedures and guidelines and professional ethics.

This role requires a high degree of self confidence and resilience to handle a high stress, high pressure environment which demands long working hours and constant crisis management.

The role holder is expected to perform undertake the following duties:
  • Compiling and preparing company annual budget and ongoing budget monitoring and reporting
  • Preparation of annual and management accounts;
  • Ensuring timely preparation of accurate monthly expenditure reports
  • Monitoring and interpreting cash flows and proactively managing the financial position of the company and predicting future trends
  • Researching and reporting on factors influencing business performance
  • Participate in internal audits as scheduled and provide auditors with accounting documents as requested and provide explanation on audit queries
  • Performance analysis and reporting
  • Supervising and appraising the performance of assigned staff
Minimum Criteria:
  • An undergraduate degree in Finance or Accounting; CPA(K) ACCA or its equivalent
  • Over 5 years post qualification experience in a similar or related position
  • Experience in a business/commercial environment with demonstrable entrepreneurial and business skills
  • Strong financial numeracy and analytical skills with ability to interpret financial data
  • Working knowledge of Kenyan tax laws and excellent knowledge of local and international financial regulations and legislation
  • Excellent technical knowledge of budgeting and financial analysis processes in a commercial set up
  • Excellent and effective communications skills, both orally and in writing and ability to effectively engage the business owners in matters pertaining the company
  • Well developed ability to multi-task and handle multiple ongoing issues concurrently
  • Ability to take charge and control over varied situations that emerge in the department and ‘think on their feet’ for solutions to problems
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and strong personal impact to command respect with internal and external stakeholders
  • High degree of honesty and integrity
If qualified send CV only to jobs@staff-kenya.com indicating the title on the subject line.

Do not attach certificates.

Corporate Staffing Services
Suite 3, 13th floor, Development House, Nairobi.
Email: jobs@staff-kenya.com

N.B. We do not charge any fee for interviews and neither for having your CV in our database

Thursday, 3 November 2011

Standard Chartered Graduate Programme Opportunities for Kenyans



About the Standard Chartered graduate programme


The Consumer Bank International Graduate Programme is an 18-month broad-based programme designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to quickly move into a leadership position. Whether it’s leading a
team, running a budget or delivering transformational change for our customers, we expect you to lead as soon as you graduate.


During the programme you’ll develop:

  • A broad understanding of every aspect of the Consumer Bank – from risk to products, and everything in between.

  • People management skills to equip you to lead diverse teams with an unwavering commitment to serving the needs of our customers.

  • Business management skills that enable you to see the big picture, and also give you the skills needed to dive into the detail if required.



To prepare you for a demanding role as a future leader we’ll teach you how a retail bank works – from how to identify and mitigate risk to product innovation, to aligning the operations of the business behind our strategic intent. By teaming you up with our best senior leaders, you will build the management skills necessary to run the business, shape our agenda and lead diverse teams in some of the world’s most dynamic markets.


And we’ll stand right behind you, supporting you to develop the necessary skills and knowledge covering every aspect of our Consumer Banking business.

Programme structure


The programme content changes each year to keep pace with our strategy and the current environment, though you can expect to take part in:
  • A demanding academic programme to learn the fundamentals of retail banking.
  • A programme of rotations in the core component parts of our business.
  • Technical training delivered by experts in-country.
  • An action learning programme solving real business challenges.

Countries

We are recruiting for this programme in the following countries:
  • Bangladesh
  • Botswana
  • China
  • Hong Kong
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Kenya
  • Korea
  • Malaysia
  • Nigeria
  • Pakistan
  • Singapore
  • Taiwan
  • United Arab Emirates
  • United Kingdom

To apply and for more details. Please click here Standard Chartered Graduate Programme for Kenyans

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