GA Insurance - Branch Manager Job in Kisumu, Kenya

Job Title: GA Insurance Branch Manager – Kisumu

Reports to: General Manager

Job Summary: Overall Branch management as per the company set standard operating procedures ensuring business growth in the Branch and proper underwriting standards are adhered to.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Business growth through offering competitive quotations
• Intermediary relationship with management by ensuring they are informed
• Risk surveys and offering recommendations thereafter
• Marketing activities by visiting clients
• Offering advisory services to clients and more so on keen and unique policies
• Reporting the progress on new business and renewals
• Advising on various rates and policies to be applied.
• Attending to direct clients.

Knowledge, skills and Abilities

• Marketing skills
• Insurance Business Technical Knowledge.
• IRA, AKI and other statutory bodies compliance knowledge.

Credentials and experience

• University degree in a business related field from a recognized University.
• Marketing Experience/qualification desirable.
• At least 7 years experience

Special Requirements

• Willing to work long hours, the job involves a lot of travelling.
• Able to meet and surpass targets

If you meet the above minimum requirements, send your c.v to henry@gakenya.com indicate the position applied for on the email subject line so as to be received on or before February 15, 2012

GSMA - Development Fund Mobile Agriculture Programme Specialist Job

GSMA mFarmer initiative, Mobile Agriculture Programme Specialist

Based in London, UK or Nairobi, Kenya: Fixed term Contract

Please note - to apply for this role you must have had demonstrable experience in applying the use of IT/mobile communications that improve the impact of agriculture value chain projects - actual experience of this must be in your CV.

GSMA: The GSMA represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide. Spanning 219 countries, the GSMA unites nearly 800 of the world’s mobile operators, as well as more than 200 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem, including handset makers, software companies, equipment providers, Internet companies, and media and entertainment organisations. The GSMA also produces industry-leading events such as the Mobile World Congress and Mobile Asia Congress.

GSMA Development Fund: The GSMA Development Fund Exists to accelerate economic, social and environmental development through the use of mobile technology. We believe that providing tangible, accessible mobile services to people in developing countries is invaluable to society and can help improve people’s lives. The Development Fund leverages the industry expertise of the GSMA and its members, as well as the development expertise of international agencies and non-profit organisations to accelerate mobile services.

Together with our partners we incubate and replicate new mobile services in communities where they can make a positive difference.

GSMA mAgri Programme and mFarmer Initiative: The GSMA Development Fund’s mAgri Programme works to catalyse the deployment of mobile solutions that benefit the agricultural sector. These solutions are designed to address the problems of low yield, income and the value chain inefficiencies that beset the world’s poorest farmers.

The mFarmer Initiative was launched in 2011 in partnership with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and USAID.

The scope of the initiative is to facilitate the creation and scaling of modern agriculture solutions that bridge the information gap and increase the yield and income of rural small-holders.

The mFarmer initiative achieves its aims by working closely with mobile network operators (GSMA members) and other public and private sector agriculture organisations who are implementing agricultural services.

To foster innovation and accelerate deployments – the mFarmer initiative will award challenge funds, technical assistance and an electronic content database to circa 4-6 projects in Sub-Saharan Africa and India.

The GSMA mAgri team will work closely on the ground with these projects to ensure their success.

The mAgri team will also work to raise advocacy for agriculture value added services more broadly within the industry, by ensuring that key industry developments, learnings and best practices are appropriately packaged and shared; and convene the industry in order to better understand and resolve key issues facing agriculture VAS initiatives.

For more information, visit http://gsmworld.com/mfarmer

Responsibilities The GSMA mAgri Programme seeks an experienced agriculture consultant to work closely with the Director and other key advisors to oversee and implement the mFarmer projects in line with donor and GSMA strategy.

The consultant will be the agriculture SME for the GSMA mAgri team. They are required to work across a number of projects and projects teams with multiple priorities. It will be a complex and continuously changing environment across many cultures.

The incumbent must possess a unique blend of agriculture and a business appreciation; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality. They should enjoy spending time in the market to understand needs, and find innovative solutions for the broader market.

Main Accountabilities:

Technical Assistance (60%) – to work directly with 4-6 mFarmer services and provide agricultural consultancy to guide new innovative approaches to use mobile to deliver in demand information to farmers.

They will oversee the design and implementation of market needs assessments, agriculture content plans and gender plans with each service provider. The consultant will support service providers to ensure the agricultural service is designed and implemented to provide a high-quality of service and impact to farmers; and can be scaleable and sustainable.

They will develop and manage key stakeholders relationships critical for the programme’s success, including agriculture and farmer’s institutes, mobile phone operators, and donor agencies. They will work with potential agriculture partners to market the mFarmer initiative and its benefits.

Best practice and knowledge sharing (20%) – through product and service development with mFarmer services the consultant will refine best case practices and tools for wider publication and use in future programme development.

This could be in the form of writing case studies and online reports and conducting knowledge sharing sessions via working groups, webinars and workshops (in collaboration with the other mAgri team members).

The consultant will develop knowledge sharing plans with other key donor agriculture partners to learn and share lessons from other key initiatives. The consultant will be the agriculture evangelist to the industry for the mAgri programme and represent GSMA and the GSMA mAgri programme and mFarmer Initiative to donors, governments and other key stakeholders.

Programme and project monitoring (20%) – to oversee the initiative’s monitoring and evaluation function. Deliver project reports to donors and partners including USAID and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The best candidate for this position matches this profile:

• Advanced degree in agriculture science, agribusiness, agriculture economics, or an equivalent related field.
• Solid experience of working on complex agriculture projects in Sub-Saharan Africa and/or South Asia.
• Experience managing and implementing donor projects (experience with USAID program management preferred)
• Demonstrated knowledge on approaches to use information and communications technology that improve the impact of agriculture value chain projects. This must be in your CV.
• M&E skills and experience
• Experience of working on gender initiatives preferred
• Knowledge of donor reporting systems and requirements, including programmatic and financial reporting
• Proactive consultant who can creatively identify opportunities and suggest ways of improving existing processes
• Strong interpersonal skills and highly professional - comfortable interacting with internal and external stakeholders, including C level executives
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional and cross-organisational teams without formal authority
• Excellent team player, able to work in fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Must be able to travel 30-40% of the time including global travel
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

The GSMA is able to provide suitably motivated candidates with a first class working environment, access to all of the key decision makers in one of the planet’s largest and most progressive industry’s and the context to keep a curious mind engaged.

Many of our alumni have now taken key roles in the development of the industry.

This position is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development and the GSMA.

How to apply:

Please email your CV to rwilliams@gsm.org, clearly showing that you have had demonstrable experience in applying the use of IT/mobile communications that improve the impact of agriculture value chain projects - actual experience of this must be in your CV

icipe - ICT Support Technicians Job in Kenya

icipe is an intergovernmental organisation funded by government aid agencies, UN organisations and private foundations to carry out research and training in environmentally sound and sustainable management of arthropods for improved health and agricultural productivity in the tropics.

icipe has approximately 350 staff to support its research and capacity building programmes, located at various sites in Kenya and Ethiopia.

icipe wishes to urgently recruit two suitable people to fill the positions of ICT Support Technicians to be based at Duduville campus, Kasarani, Nairobi. These are local (national) positions that offers a two-year contract that is renewable.

The position is central to ensuring the efficient use of ICT equipment, applications and resources on the campus through the resolution of high-end problems and passing-on of their knowledge and experience. They will be responsible for resolving requests logged by users on campus.

Reporting to the ICT Manager, the Support Technician will perform the following duties, among others:

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to the users and “non-core application users” on the campus by diagnoses and resolution of ICT problems.
• Take over the resolution of problems that have been escalated by the “power users” and have them resolved within the assigned timeframe.
• Lead ICT projects that are implemented by the ICT Support team, including the roll-out of new applications and equipment.
• Provide the link between ICT Support Services and the Infrastructure team to ensure that essential tasks are carried out and do not fall between the two teams.
• Keep the helpdesk status for requests up-to-date, attempt to resolve the problem as soon as possible but definitely within the timeframe set by the priority level and close the call as soon as the problem has been resolved to the satisfaction of the customer.
• Supervise students that are on attachment to the ICT Unit.
• Monitor the implementation of policies, procedures and standards on the campus and make the necessary corrections where necessary.
• Identify commonly recurring requests for assistance and provide advice on how these can be prevented or minimised, through training, user awareness, changes in configuration etc.
• Research into finding more effective ways of using and configuring applications that can then be rolled out across the campuses or posted to the intranet and communicated to staff for their use.
• Keep up-to-date with changes and advancements in ICT Support Services and the type of applications that are supported and make suggestions for improvements to the services provided.

What are the performance standards & indicators for the job?

• Smooth day-to-day running of ICT resources at the desktop
• Customer satisfaction among the users on campus.
• Monthly helpdesk reports show that service requests are being resolved within the expected time frame and that recurrence of common problems is reduced.
• Efficient use of ICT equipment, applications and resources by staff on the campuses.
• Annual customer satisfaction surveys indicate high levels of actual and perceived satisfaction with the support provided by the Unit.
• Useful user awareness documents are posted the Intranet.
• Projects are well planned and implemented in a timely manner.

Requirements

• Be a holder of a First Degree in Computer Science.
• Certification as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) or equivalent and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
• Computer Applications and Customer service training
• Working knowledge of graphics design software packages.
• At least five years working experience as an ICT SUpport Technician in an international organisation or newspaper.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to pass on information clearly to users and to grasp difficulties perceived by users.
• Strong customer service orientation that establishes a good working relationship with customers, with the attitude of wanting to assist people and pass-on their knowledge and experience to others.
• Organized, dynamic self-starter who sees the position as a step in their career development.
• Good logical diagnostic skills and ability to exercise good judgement in the resolution of problems.
• Ability to multi-task in dealing with several different problems at a time.
• Advanced proficiency in the core applications used at icipe including MS Office Suite and knowledge in BackOffice products supported by the ICT Unit.
• Ability to meet deadlines, monitor and follow-up on pending matters under minimum supervision.
• Ability to work under high pressure to tight deadlines.
• Ability to communicate fluently in English.
• A minimum of 5 years experience in an ICT support environment similar to icipe’s.

Applications will be accepted up to 22 February 2012.

Only applications of shortlisted candidates will be acknowledged.

Please send an application with a detailed CV, names and addresses of 3 referees including e-mail addresses, fax numbers and remuneration package to:

icipehr@icipe.org

The Human Resources Department
icipe - African Insect Science for Food and Health
P.O. Box 30772-00100
Nairobi
Kenya

icipe is an Equal Opportunity Employer

icipe Web Designer Job in Kenya

icipe is an intergovernmental organisation funded by government aid agencies, UN organisations and private foundations to carry out research and training in environmentally sound and sustainable management of arthropods for improved health and agricultural productivity in the tropics.

icipe has approximately 350 staff to support its research and capacity building programmes, located at various sites in Kenya and Ethiopia.

icipe wishes to urgently recruit a suitable person to fill the position of a Web Designer to be based at Duduville campus, Kasarani, Nairobi. This is a local (national) position that offers a two-year contract that is renewable.

Reporting to the ICT Manager, the Web Designer will perform the following duties, among others:

Responsibilities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following.

Other duties may be assigned as required.

• Develop new Web applications as identified by supervisor and management through packaged and customized applications.
• Ensure that the main icipe portal and other websites are up-to-date through collaboration with scientists and other users.
• Maintain and enhance existing Web applications and all internal systems are integrated.
• Perform complete testing of Web applications unit and system, engaging users as necessary.
• Conduct all user acceptances testing, and report results.
• Design and implement user-driven templates, databases and interfaces for ease of use.
• Develop external Web portals allowing users to input and retrieve accurate information.
• Candidate must be a team player and willing to teach and to learn.

Requirements

• A University degree from a reputable University in Computer Science
• Have at least 5 years of relevant experience in website production
• Possess excellent knowledge of (X) HTML CSS mark up and current web standards
• Proficiency of Content Management Systems such as Joomla, Wordpress, among others.
• A good understanding of web graphics, typography, page layout and illustration
• Experience in using graphic design software tools (Photo shop, Illustrator, GoLive)
• Be willing to learn and share new skills.
• Excellent communication (oral and written), interpersonal, organizational, and presentation skills.

Applications will be accepted up to 22 February 2012.

Only applications of shortlisted candidates will be acknowledged.

Please send an application with a detailed CV, names and addresses of 3 referees including e-mail addresses, fax numbers and remuneration package to:

icipehr@icipe.org

The Human Resources Department
icipe - African Insect Science for Food and Health
P.O. Box 30772-00100
Nairobi
Kenya

icipe is an Equal Opportunity Employer