Customer Engineer - Electrical / Electronics Engineering

A large technology service company with country wide operation requires fresh graduate with a minimum of Diploma in electrical and or electronic engineering

Position name: Customer Engineer - Electrical / Electronics Engineering

Position Description

The Customer Engineer responds to all customer concerns or problems by resolving them or by escalating them to the Technical/Service Manager.

The Customer Engineer will have ownership of the customer problems or incidents until the situation has been resolved to the customer’s satisfaction and/or within the parameters of the agreed upon Service Level Agreement (SLA).

Education and Experience

Education: A Minimum mean grade of C+ at O level or equivalent is a mandatory requirement.

Training

• An ordinary level diploma or equivalent from a recognized institution in electrical or electronics.
• Computer Skills will be of added advantage.

Experience Preferred: Fresh graduates only

Please send application and CV to: electronics_electricals@yahoo.com by 18-01-2012

Clerk of Works - Nairobi, Kenya

Urgent recruitment: Immediate availability required.

Contract period: 1 year, full-time, extendable.

Work location: Nairobi.

Qualifications: Construction Management Grade II or equivalent

Experience: Over 10 years.

Please send CV stating Minimum Salary requirement

To: reception@geoafrica.com
& copy to info@geoafrica.com

Hilde Back Education Fund - Form One Scholarships for the year 2012

Available for candidates from Garissa, Githunguri, Homa Bay, Kibwezi, Kilifi, Likuyani, Narok, Tharaka South, Turkana, Voi and West Pokot Districts.

The Hilde Back Education Fund (HBEF) is an Organization that is committed to the promotion of Education as a Fundamental Human Right. The Fund sponsors academically gifted students from poor families to secondary school.

HBEF hereby invites applications from suitably qualified and eligible Form One students for the 2012 scholarships. One hundred and fifty (150) Scholarships tenable in any duly registered Public Secondary School in Kenya will be awarded.

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible for consideration, the applicant student must:

1. Be a Kenyan citizen.

2. Have sat K.C.P.E. in the year 2011 in a public primary school in Garissa, Githunguri, Homa Bay, Kibwezi, Kilifi, Likuyani, Narok, Tharaka South, Turkana, Voi and West Pokot Districts and obtained at least 380 marks.

3. Be an orphan or from a poor family.

Sponsorship Duration

The sponsorship will be for a period of four years of secondary education effective 2012.

Beneficiaries will be expected to maintain goodacademic performance.

Application Procedure

Interested students should:

Complete and submit the HBEF Scholarship application form available at HBEF offices in Nairobi & Githunguri and in all the respective District Education offices.

The following supporting documents should be included in the application:

1. A certified copy of KCPE result slip.
2. Relevant recommendation letters as outlined in the application form.
3. Copy of birth certificate.
4. A copy of Form one-admission letter/joining instructions where available.
5. Evidence of being an orphan where applicable.

The duly completed forms should be forwarded to the respective District Education Officers by Friday January 13, 2012.

Applications from students who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be considered.

Similarly, late or incomplete applications will be disqualified.

Shortlisted applicants will be contacted by HBEF for interview details and final award.

Canvassing or giving of false information by or on behalf of the applicant will lead to disqualification of the application concerned.

Successful applicants and their host schools will be notified on or before 1st February 2012.

Funding

HBEF will make direct payments to schools where successful applicants have been called effective on or before 10th February 2012.

Application forms and supporting documents should be sent or hand delivered to the respective District Education offices or to the HBEF Nairobi office at the address below:

The Director
Hilde Back Education Fund
Haven Court, Block B5, Westlands,
P.O. Box 14741-00100,
Nairobi

Note: Applicants who will not have received any communication from HBEF by 28th February 2012 should consider themselves unsuccessful

Mercy Corps - Pastoralist Livelihood Diversification Advisor - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Pastoralist Livelihood Diversification Advisor

This position is based on award of funding.

Program / Department Summary:

The Pastoralist Livelihood Diversification Advisor will play a key leadership role in the implementation of a proposed five-year $32 million + program to support increased resiliency and incomes for pastoralist communities in Ethiopia.

General Position Summary:

The Livelihood Diversification will lead components of the program focusing on diversifying vulnerable and chronically populations’ household assets and/or integrated into value chain activities.

The individual will work closely with the Deputy Chief of Party/ Pastoral Livestock Production and Marketing Advisor, counterparts with other donor funded programs, and other private sector actors in designing and implementing innovative livelihood diversification approaches.

Organizational Learning

As part of our commitment to organizational learning and in support of our understanding that learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the communities they serve - we expect all team members to commit 5% of their time to learning activities that benefit Mercy Corps as well as themselves.

Accountability to Beneficiaries

Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts towards accountability, specifically to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding international relief and development work, while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.

Supervisory Responsibility:

Direct supervision of: Livelihood Diversification program team

Reports Directly To: Deputy Chief of Party

Works Directly With: NRM/Climate Change Advisor, Pastoral Health Advisor, Operations and Finance team.

Knowledge and Experience:

• MA/S in Business, finance, livestock, agriculture, agribusiness, agricultural economics, or related field
• 5+ years’ work experience with for profit organization, non-governmental organization (NGO) or profit agribusiness working with vulnerable, marginalized and pastoralists/agro-pastoralist groups.
• 5+ years’ proven experience in innovative value chain development or business models using best practices.
• Strong written and oral communication skills in English, including report development, writing and editing.
• Strong management skills, with good understanding of relevant cross-cultural issues.
• Previous experience in Ethiopia or the Horn of Africa is required.

Success Factors:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, M&E skills and experience.

Living Conditions/Environmental Conditions:

This position will be based in Addis Ababa and is accompanied for spouse and children.
Addis Ababa is the political and commercial heart of Ethiopia. Founded by Emperor Menelik in 1877, it is now a sprawling, hospitable city of 4 million people located at an elevation of 2,200 meters in the foothills of Mount Entoto.

Modern buildings and wide-open boulevards stand side by side with historic churches, palaces and monuments as well as simple country-style huts. Addis Ababa has basic health services and adequate international schools, K-12.

There are ample opportunities for in-country vacations. The weather is temperate year-round with a heavy rainy season in the summer months. Addis Ababa hosts many international organizations including the OAU, the Economic Commission for Africa and other multi-national bodies, many of which have their headquarters there.

Mercy Corps Team members represent the agency both during and outside of work hours when deployed in a field posting or on a visit/TDY to a field posting. Team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner and respect local laws, customs and MC's policies, procedures, and values at all times and in all in-country venues.

To see the full job postings and to apply online, please go to our job board: www.mercycorps.org/jobs.