Partner Africa Lead Auditor - Nairobi, Kenya

Partner Africa is a pioneer in ethical and socially responsible business practice, providing ethical audits, impact assessments, training and consulting services across 20 countries to international brands, retailers, producers and the smallholder sector.

We are now recruiting for the following position:

Title: Lead Auditor

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Due to an internal re-organisation, Partner Africa is seeking full-time social auditors for its team, to be based in Nairobi, Kenya.

The roles will include the provision of social audit services, along with providing support to the Head of Audits and Assessments.

The successful candidates will show evidence of a strong ability to work as team players, supporting the expansion and development of our Audit and Assessment Department.

This position will involve significant travel within Kenya, but also to a variety of countries across the continent.

Requirements:

The successful candidates will have

• A degree in law, social science, environment, or business administration;
• Completed 35 audit days;
• SA 8000 and ISO 9000-1 qualifications;
• A proven ability to plan, implement and generate high quality audit reports.
• Ideal candidates will be able to multitask and to act on their own initiative. Audit experience in agriculture, manufacturing, food safety, textile and environment will be an advantage, as will proficiency in French.

Candidates should indicate an expected salary for the full working month.

Further details are available upon request

Interested candidates are asked to send a copy of their CV, along with a cover note, and salary expectations to info@partnerafrica.org.

The closing date for consideration of candidates is December 16, 2011.

We will review all applications and respond to the successful candidates after December 12th with details regarding an interview. We kindly ask for no phone calls as this process will be managed via email

Partner Africa - Head of Capacity Building, Enterprise and Partnerships

Partner Africa is a pioneer in ethical and socially responsible business practice, providing ethical audits, impact assessments, training and consulting services across 20 countries to international brands, retailers, producers and the smallholder sector.

We are now recruiting for the following position:

Title: Head of Capacity Building, Enterprise and Partnerships

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Partner Africa is seeking to fill a new role with the organisation, to lead on capacity-building, enterprise and partnerships.

This position is full-time and will be based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Partner Africa is committed to improving its programme development and quality across all its current partnerships, projects and capacity building work as well as new initiatives in ethical trade.

This post will build and manage our international and local partnership agreements in ethical trade and support the development of our capacity building activities within the training department.

This post will support our ethical trade programme work through programme development, effective preparation of major funding proposals, and project management, building capacity of all partners.

Requirements:

The successful candidate will have:

• A degree in rural enterprise, business, development or a related discipline
• At least eight years’ experience of working in a senior project/programme role
• Existing knowledge of and relationships in international values chains – tea, coffee, vegetables, flowers, fruit etc
• Experience of working on ethical trade standards in public private partnerships in Africa
• Knowledge and experience of programme cycle management
• Previous experience in preparation of programme proposals for funding agencies

Further details are available upon request

Interested candidates are asked to send a copy of their CV, along with a cover note, and salary expectations to info@partnerafrica.org.

The closing date for consideration of candidates is December 16th, 2011.

We will review all applications and respond to the successful candidates after December 12th with details regarding an interview.

We kindly ask for no phone calls as this process will be managed via email

Partner Africa - Executive Director - Nairobi, Kenya

Partner Africa is a pioneer in ethical and socially responsible business practice, providing ethical audits, impact assessments, training and consulting services across 20 countries to international brands, retailers, producers and the smallholder sector.

We are now recruiting for the following position:

Title: Executive Director

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Partner Africa is seeking to appoint an Executive Director, to be based in Nairobi, Kenya.

The position will have a dual focus. Partner Africa offers ethical trade services, audits, assessments and training to multinational companies operating in and sourcing from Africa.

We also develop and implement trade development projects funded through institutional bodies, governments and public private partnerships.

The Executive Director has lead responsibility for these streams of work throughout Africa, as well as for the accounting, finance and reporting functions of our work.

The Executive Director will manage a team of employees in Nairobi, Egypt and South Africa as well as associates within 20 countries across the continent.

This role will be supported by a Director of Programmes and a Director of Business Development.

Experience Required

The successful candidate will:

• be a graduate with a professional management qualification;
• have worked in a senior management role for over 10 years;
• possess excellent financial, analytical and managerial skills;
• be capable of building, managing and motivating teams;
• have experience within the ethical trade sector, audit sector and/or trade development projects.

Further details are available upon request.

Interested candidates are asked to send a copy of their CV, along with a cover note, to info@partnerafrica.org.

The closing date for consideration of candidates is December 16, 2011.

We will review all applications and respond to the successful candidates after December 12th with details regarding an interview.

We kindly ask for no phone calls as this process will be managed via email

The Banda School - Headmaster / Headmistress

The Board is seeking an inspirational and energetic Head to lead this successful and well established IAPS Prep School.

This is an outstanding opportunity for a highly committed individual with appropriate experience of successful management and teaching to lead this large school with an outstanding reputation for academic excellence, scholarships, boarding, extra-curricular activities, sport and pastoral care.

Applications with CV, photograph and names, addresses and telephone numbers of two referees should reach the School Office by Friday 9th December 2011.

Fax: 8890004 Tel: 8891220 / 60 / 3547828

E-mail: office@bandaschool.com

The Banda School
P.O. Box 24722, Nairobi 00502, Kenya.
IAPS Co-educational Weekly Boarding and Day 400
www.bandaschool.com