CARE - Human Resources Officer (Staff Wellness) - Dadaab, Kenya

CARE International in Kenya is looking for well organized and highly motivated individuals who are result-oriented to fill the following positions:

Job Title: Human Resources Officer (Staff Wellness)

Ref: HRO/01/2012

Department / Project: HR – ERO Dadaab

Supervisor: Human Resources Coordinator

Location / Duty Station: Dadaab

Grade: FB1

I: Job Summary

Reporting to the Human Resources Coordinator, the Human Resources Officer-(Staff Wellness) will be responsible for the development and implementation of short and long term staff wellness programs for CARE staff attached to the Refugee Assistance Program in Dadaab.

The job holder will provide leadership in the development of the Psycho- Social Support initiatives and strategy, Sports and Games as part of the larger functions of promoting the well being of the CARE staff in Dadaab.

The job holder is expected to educate staff on their benefits and prepare leave and personal activity reports among other HR responsibilities. The incumbent will also work with the internal and external programs to exploit linkages which will make the staff psycho social program as well as sports and games activities more successful.

II: Responsibilities & Tasks

R1: Psycho- Social Program Development and Implementation

1.1 Planning, co-ordination and management of the psycho-social activities within the program in close collaboration with the other members of the RAP team to ensure objectives are achieved

1.2 Lead the development and implementation of psycho-social support activities, day to day activities and long term strategy for RAP, including changes of program direction or priorities

1.3 Ensuring that staff who have undergone distressing experiences have access to activities, networks and resources that will assist in the re-establishment and normalization of life

1.4 Assure coherence and referral mechanisms exist, for staff suffering from trauma-related mental illness that need specialized treatment, between RAP programs and other mental health, medical and psycho-social systems and networks.

1.5 Encourage staff participation in activities to ensure the long term ownership and effectiveness of the program.

1.6 Training key staff members to identify and manage cases of psychological trauma and stress

1.7 Identify issues and participate in preparation and writing of donor proposals and reports in collaboration with Program staff

R2: Promote Sports/Games for and among CARE staff

2.1 Develop and implement strategies encouraging staff to participation diverse games/sports and recreational activities

2.2 Organize Inter-Camp sports/games tournaments as measure of enhancing staff wellness

2.3 Be instrumental in encouraging and promoting sports/games among implementing agencies in Dadaan as part of promoting team

2.4 Design, construct and assist in the management of indoor and outdoor sports facilities.

2.5 Initiate sports committee at the camps level to enhance staff participation in promoting their wellness

2.6 Assist the HR Coordinator in developing annual sports/annual budget for sports/games

R3: Monitoring and Evaluation

3.1 Prepare the program monitoring and reporting protocols and data collection forms in collaboration with representatives and other mental health and psycho-social actors. Ensure the team is fully conversant with and trained in the use of the protocols and forms

3.2 Prepare monthly activity reports for inclusion in the monthly situational report

3.3 Evaluate the depth of the psychosocial trauma of the staff and undertake psychosocial evaluations of unmet needs where required and guide activities accordingly.

3.4 Evaluate and improve the knowledge of RAP staff concerning the identification of trauma-related mental illnesses, and develop and organize relevant interventions

3.5 Responsible for acting as a liaison and point of contact between the Sub Office and Head office for national and international staff health.

R4: Benefits Management

4.1 Ensuring that the project is up to date on statutory deductions including NSSF, NHIF and KRA registration.

4.2 Liaising with the HR Nairobi office and ensure that all staff have their in patient, outpatient and Flying doctors medical cards.

4.3 Supporting to seek reimbursement of expenses incurred when seeking medical treatment services as regulated in the medical cover policy.

4.4 Ensuring that staff understands the Pension, Maternity/Paternity, Well Being, Catastrophic, GPA, GLI, Medical Discharge Severance, COLA, benefits.

R5 Leave and Personal Activity (PARs) Management

5.1 Management of Leave including study, maternity, sickness and paternity

5.2 Preparing monthly leaves status report and sharing with all staff before submitting to Nairobi with approval of the HRC

5.3 Coordinating completion of the Personal Activity Reports (PAR) and ensuring their accuracy and correctness as relates to Hours worked, holiday, leaves, PN and FC.

5.4 Preparing monthly PARs completion reports and discussing with HR Coordinator

5.5 Ensuring staff understands their leave allowance and month such allowances are paid

III: Authority

• Has authority on the nature of psycho-social support activities to develop and implement
• Referral for staff that have undergone distressful experiences/trauma
• Training for key staff members
• Reporting protocols and data collection forms

1) Supervision

Supervise Assistant HR Officer and HR Assistant and HR temporary staff

IV: Contact / Key Relationships

Works closely with other

• NGO/IPs,
• UNHCR,
• WFP and professional bodies
• RAP Sectors

V: Working Conditions

The position is based at Dadaab Main Office (DMO) with frequent movements to Hagadera, Ifo and Dagahaley camps as well as any other extension camps and program sites. This is a non-family working station.

Hot weather is prevalent throughout the year with limited basic amenities. Road movement to and from work station to Garissa as well as inter-camp movement must be under police escort (Scheduled convoys).

Strict adherence to security instructions all the time. It is a six days work station with a compensatory time off according to CTO policy. The incumbent will be required to travel to Nairobi office and perform official responsibilities on need basis.

The incumbent shall reside in the CARE compound while executing official duties and shall obey and adhere to residential compound regulations.

VI: Qualifications, Experience and Competencies

• Bachelor’s degree in Psychological Counselling or Guidance and Counselling and a Higher/ Diploma in Human Resources Management
• Certificate or Diploma in sports/games or Physical Education from a recognition institution of learning, in addition to the above qualifications is an added advantage
• Three years work experience in a busy environment
• Strong communication skills, with excellent written and spoken English
• Qualification or extensive experience in trauma, hardship environments and working with diverse and stressed populations
• Experience in program start up
• Flexibility towards psycho-social approaches and ability to incorporate advice from local partners when developing psycho-social approaches
• Confident and proficient in the use of MS Office packages
• Experience in conducting assessments, impact analysis, program development and proposal writing
• Ability to work in and maintain a positive team dynamic in insecure environments
• Level-head, resilience, and stress management skills for self and team
• Ability to learn quickly and assimilate information from multiple sources
• Self-starter who takes initiative with excellent management and interpersonal skills
• Good training skills and a commitment to national and expatriate staff capacity development.
• Ability and flexibility to understand the cultural and political environment and to work well with local authorities and other humanitarian actors
• Problem solving skills in day-to-day and crisis situations
• Experience of a flexible approach to managing and prioritizing a high workload and multiple tasks in a fast paced environment with tight deadlines
• Experience of proactively identifying and addressing issues

Competencies

• Planning and organizing
• Stress tolerance
• Contributing to team Success
• Proactive Problem solving
• Communicating With Impact
• Initiating action
• Coaching

The detailed job descriptions can be viewed on our website; www.care.or.ke

Applications

If you feel you meet the requirements for any of these positions, send your application letter indicating the reference number, title of the position along with an updated CV and telephone contacts of three professional referees to:

The Human Resources & Development Manager,
CARE International in Kenya,
Email: vacancies@care.or.ke

so as to be received not later than 13th January, 2012.

Only short listed candidates will be contacted.

CARE is an equal opportunity employer and promotes gender equity.

Canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.

CARE International in Kenya does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process. (Application, interview, meeting, processing, training or any other fees)

The Star Newspaper - Layout Designer

The fastest growing newspaper in Kenya is looking for a highly creative, seasoned and talented print/graphic designer to join our design team as a Layout Designer.

Reporting to the Chief Designer, the incumbent will be responsible for making up news and feature pages for the Star.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure an efficient and seamless turn around time for page layouts while maintaining a high level of creativity in implementing the editor's brief.
• Book all received pages with the Chief Designer
• Ensure close working relationship with editors and the revise team and seamlessly implement any changes while ensuring that the newspaper deadlines are met.
• Research, develop and continuously improve the layout design in line with the template and the Star's objectives
• Source for new ideas, trends and design strategies to improve the quality of output
• Leverage on innovation and technology to develop designs that are unique and meet required guidelines.

Qualifications

• Degree in graphic design or related field
• At least one year's work experience in a similar position
• Interested candidates who do not have a degree but hold a diploma in design and rich experience in the field are encouraged to apply

The Person

• A highly creative individual
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work under pressure while maintaining a keen eye for detail
• A high degree of flexibility with seasoned coordinating skills
• Impeccable personal integrity
• Great attitude with excellent team spirit
• A passion for constant improvement in artistic abilities
• Ability to embrace and learn new design and production software technologies
• Advanced conceptualization abilities

The Star Newspaper is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will offer a competitive package to the successful candidate.

Applications clearly indicating position reference and current remuneration should be addressed to the Group Human Resource Manager together with the designer's portfolio and dropped off at Lion Place, 2nd Floor, off Waiyaki Way, so as to reach us by 18th January 2012.

Please include your daytime telephone number and names and contact addresses of 3 professional referees.

Any application received without the designer's portfolio will be disqualified.

Only short listed candidates will be contacted

The Star Newspaper Creative Advertising Sales Executives

The Star newspaper the fastest growing national newspaper in Kenya, is looking for Creative Adverting Sales Executives to serve its increasing client base.

We seek to recruit applicants with the following qualities, qualifications and background:

• A sales diploma, certificate from a recognized institution;
• 2-3 years work experience ;
• Be ready to work under pressure and meet sales targets;
• Be self motivated;
• Have a positive attitude;
• Be a go getter and
• Be a team player.

Remunerations are on Commission Basis only.

If you have these qualities and have a passion to succeed and make money, drop your curriculum vitae addressed to:

The General Manager,
The Star Publications Limited,
AMBank House, Nairobi.

Applications should reach no later than 10th January 2012

East African Wild Life Society - Project Coordinator and Project Officer - Nairobi, Kenya

The East African Wild Life Society (EAWLS) is a membership organization that was founded in 1961 when the Wildlife Societies of Tanzania and Kenya – both founded in 1956 – together with Ugandan wildlife enthusiasts joined hands.

EAWLS has been at the forefront in the efforts for protecting endangered, rare or threatened species and habitats in East Africa. EAWLS hosts the secretariats of the Kenya Forests Working Group (KFWG), the Kenya Wetland Forum (KWF) and the Kenya Wildlife Conservation Forum (KWCF) and is involved in the implementation of field based projects that include conservation of marine resources.

Through the financial support of the Government of Sweden/DFID under Act!’s (formerly Pact Kenya) Natural Resources (Changieni Rasili Mali) Facility for Non State Actors, EAWLS is implementing a project that aims at strengthening Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and private sector county government legislative engagement process through formation of “County CSOs/Private Sector Natural Resources Management Networks”.

This project is being piloted in four counties namely: Kwale in Coast Province, Laikipia, Samburu and Nakuru in Central and northern Kenya. Under this project, EAWLS wishes to recruit a project coordinator and a project officer to implement this project.

1. Project Coordinator

Overall Responsibilities:

Coordinate the work and activities of County CSOs/Private Sector Networks and the EAWLS project secretariat with the overall objective of supporting the sustainable management of Kenya’s Natural Resources through partnerships with community-based and non-governmental organizations, government agencies and departments, national and international organizations and the private sector in the 4 Counties.

Duty Station: Nairobi with extensive travel to the 4 counties

Specific Responsibilities:

• Reporting and advising the 4 County CSOs/Private Sector Networks on emerging conservation issues and matters brought to the attention of the EAWLS secretariat.
• Supervising the staff of the project together with the EAWLS Management.
• Making sure that the 4 County CSOs/Private Sector Networks works with and learns from similar initiatives in Kenya.
• Provide technical expertise in publications and in development of project materials (leaflets and policy briefs).
• Write project concept papers and proposals for fund-raising.
• Publicize the vision, mission and activities of the 4 County CSOs/Private Sector Networks.
• Monitoring and evaluation of activities of the 4 County CSOs/Private Sector Networks and report the findings to EAWLS, Act! and other partners.
• Preparation of the necessary information and agenda for monitoring meetings organised for EAWLS and Act!.
• Maintain an overview of national conservation issues.
• Provide information on these issues to the 4 County CSOs/Private Sector Networks and alert them on opportunities and possible action items.
• Contribute to formulation and analysis of national and county policies, strategies and laws in liaison with the 4 County CSOs/Private Sector Networks.
• Initiate and support the 4 County CSOs/Private Sector Networks in advocacy campaigns based on findings of surveys, assessments and suggestions by the county and national networks.
• Strengthen the linkages/partnerships of county networks with members of the national networks (KFWG, KWF and KWCF).
• Identify county conservation issues that can be taken up by the national networks in support of the county networks.
• Working with the national networks, identify appropriate means of addressing the above issues and any conservation issues that cut across counties that may require additional support from the national networks and other organizations.
• Using lessons learnt from the project, scale up activities of the networks in the 4 counties and promote their replications in other counties.
• Produce quarterly work plans and budgets.
• Produce quarterly technical and financial progress reports.
• Be responsible for project equipment.
• Manage budgets of the project, based on the quarterly budgets approved by Act!, EAWLS and on accounting procedures of the EAWLS and Act!.
• Respond to requests for advice and assistance on projects and initiatives related to the 4 County CSOs/Private Sector Networks.

Qualifications, Experience, Skills and attributes

• A Degree in Natural Resource Management (NRM), preferably at Masters level.
• Over 5 years experience in NRM and atleast three years at a supervisory level.
• Experience in working with the private sector, donors, non-governmental organizations, community-based organizations, as well as public sector.
• Knowledgeable in local and national NRM and environment matters.
• Fundraising and resource mobilization skills.
• Advocacy and negotiation skills.
• Excellent report writing and presentation skills.
• Good public relations and communication skills.
• Excellent computer skills in various computer packages (Ms. Word, Excel and Power Point).
• Good organizational and analytical skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines.
• Driving experience.

2. Project Officer

Duty Station: Nairobi with extensive travel to the 4 counties

Specific Responsibilities:

Under the guidance and supervision of the project coordinator, the project officer will:

• Identify who the key players in natural resource management at the 4 counties are; what their roles and obligations are; how they are fulfilling their various roles and obligations; and what their engagements and partnerships are.
• Identify conservation issues at the 4 counties and the specific needs of counties and how these needs can be fulfilled by formation of county CSOs/private sector networks.
• Publicize the vision, mission and activities of the 4 County CSOs/Private Sector Networks.
• Prepare all necessary information and agenda for meetings and workshops organised or envisaged in the project.
• Facilitate meetings of the 4 County CSOs/Private Sector Networks, workshops and exchange visits envisaged in the project.
• Provide technical supports in publications and in development of project materials (leaflets and policy briefs).
• Support the 4 County CSOs/Private Sector Networks to prioritize conservation issues, identify appropriate strategic means of intervention and alert them on opportunities.
• Provide a supportive role to 4 County CSOs/Private Sector Networks in formulation and analysis of national and county policies, strategies and laws, and in advocacy.
• Using lessons learnt from the project, scale up activities of the networks in the 4 counties and promote their replications in other counties.
• Assist the project coordinator in production of quarterly work plans, progress reports and budgets.

Qualifications, Experience, Skills and attributes

• A Degree in Natural Resource Management (NRM).
• Over 3 years experience in NRM.
• Experience in working with the private sector, donors, non-governmental organizations, community-based organizations, as well as public sector.
• Knowledgeable in local and national NRM and environment matters.
• Excellent report writing and presentation skills.
• Good public relations and communication skills.
• Excellent computer skills in various computer packages (Ms. Word, Excel and Power Point).
• Good organizational and analytical skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines.

The initial assignment for the two positions is two years with potential extension depending on availability of funds and satisfactory performance.

If you possess the above qualities, please send your application, a one page write up on why you feel you are the most suitable person for the job and a detailed C.V., a day time telephone contact, and names and telephone contacts of three referees by 20th January 2012 to:

The Executive Director,
The East African Wild Life Society,
P. O. Box 20110, 00200, Nairobi

Email: info@eawildlife.org