Finance, Supplies and Administration Manager Job in Athi River, Kenya

Our client in the Hospitality Industry based in Athi River is looking for a Finance, Supplies and Administration Manager.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Assess options for co-ordinating the activities, procedures and systems so as to promote common policies and practices.
• Prepare and draft the organisation’s Annual Report.
• Identify development opportunities consistent with the aims of the organisation and the operating environment.
• Maintain an awareness of organisational and technological developments and ensure that the service operates in ways which make best possible use of the resources available.
• Maintain day-to-day financial control of the service within budget heads agreed by the board.
• Ensure that all finances are properly administered and monitored, including credit control.
• Managing multiple stakeholders
• Handling of the procurement function

Qualifications

• Degree in accounting or equivalent.
• Professional accounting qualification, CPA (K) or its equivalent.
• Four years of experience in increasingly responsible financial positions.
• Experience with, and/or understanding of, the special requirements of operating in a Service business setting.
• Experience with, and/or understanding of, Information Services functions.
• Excellent written and oral presentation skills.
• Superior leadership, management and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent creative and problem solving skills.
• Strong team player orientation.

How to apply:

If you are interested in the position and have the skills and talents our client is looking for, we would like to hear from you.

Please forward a copy of your updated resume, and your current salary and benefits package to info@dorbe-leit.co.ke before close of business 15th February 2012.

Only successful candidates will be contacted

Executive Chef Job in Nakuru, Kenya (Salary : 100,000/- Gross)

We are urgently looking for an Executive Chef to be based in Nakuru.

• Manage the kitchen as a whole.
• Ensure that quality culinary dishes are served on schedule.
• Approve all prepared food items that leave his or her kitchen.
• modify and create new menus
• Create a wide variety of new dishes for his or her kitchen.
• Performs many administrative duties, including ordering supplies and reporting to the head of the establishment.
• estimate food consumption and requisition or purchase food
• standardize production recipes to ensure consistent quality
• plan and price menus
• selected items or for select occasion

Salary is 100,000/- Gross.

Special qualifications: The ability to manage in a diverse environment with focus on client and customer services is essential to success in this role.

Experience: Previous experience with control food and labor cost, demonstration cooking, menu development, and pricing and development of culinary team preferred. Premise and liability accountability and contract-managed service experience is desirable.

Education: The ideal candidates will possess a bachelor's degree or related culinary degree with five or more years of industry and culinary management experience.
Core competencies: Leadership, Management, Planning

Deadline:27th of February 2012

Applications:

Please send an up to date CV, stating position you are interested in, current salary, accompanied by at least 3 referee telephone numbers/email addresses to; harriet@summitrecruitment-kenya.com

Summit recruitment & Training,
Rhino House, Karen Road, Karen

Only short listed candidates will be contacted.

Please indicate in your email which position you are interested in.

Please do not apply if you do not meet the requirements of the job

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