Mechanical Engineer

Position: Mechanical Engineer
 

Company Profile:
 

Our client is one of the leading Global oil and industrial gas Manufacturer/ distributor
 

Job Purpose: Support Designs mechanical and electromechanical power generation and systems by developing and testing specifications and methods as requested by customers.
 

Mechanical Engineer Job Duties:

• Read and interpret blueprints, technical drawings, schematics, or computer-generated reports.
• Develop and test models of alternate designs and processing methods to assess feasibility, operating condition effects, possible new applications and necessity of modification.
• Conduct research that tests or analyzes the feasibility, design, operation, or performance of equipment, components, or systems.
• Specify system components or direct modification of products to ensure conformance with engineering design and performance specifications.
• Confer with engineers or other personnel to implement operating procedures, resolve system malfunctions, or provide technical information.
• Recommend design modifications to eliminate machine or system malfunctions.
• Research, design, evaluate, install, operate, and maintain mechanical products, equipment, systems and processes to meet requirements, applying knowledge of engineering principles.
• Assist drafters in developing the structural design of products using drafting tools or computer-assisted design (CAD) or drafting equipment and software.
• Develop, coordinate, or monitor all aspects of production, including selection of manufacturing methods, fabrication, or operation of product designs.
• Research and analyze customer design proposals, specifications, manuals, or other data to evaluate the feasibility, cost, or maintenance requirements of designs or applications.
• Write performance requirements for product development or engineering projects.
• Investigate equipment failures and difficulties to diagnose faulty operation, and to make recommendations to maintenance crew.
• Study industrial processes to determine where and how application of equipment can be made.
• Provide feedback to design engineers on customer problems or needs.
• Perform personnel functions such as supervision of production workers, technicians, technologists and other engineers, or design of evaluation programs.
• Oversee installation, operation, maintenance, or repair to ensure that machines or equipment are installed and functioning according to specifications.
• Design test control apparatus or equipment or develop procedures for testing products.
• Establish or coordinate the maintenance or safety procedures, service schedule, or supply of materials required to maintain machines or equipment in the prescribed condition.
• Estimate costs and submit bids for engineering, construction, or extraction projects, and prepare contract documents.
• Solicit new business and provide technical customer service.
• Apply engineering principles or practices to emerging fields, such as robotics, waste management, or biomedical engineering.

Skills/Qualifications:
 

Requirements Analysis, Design Skills, Presenting Technical Information, Equipment Maintenance, Conceptual Skills, Quality Focus, General Consulting Skills, Control Engineering, Production Planning, Technical Zeal, Job Knowledge.

To apply for this position send your CV to mycv@myjobseye.com quoting the position in the subject line and preferred location. 

Kindly also mention your current/ last salary and benefits. 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

Registered KRN Nurse Vacancy

A children’s Home urgently requires a registered KRN nurse.

Minimum requirements:

* Nursing qualifications from a recognized institution.

* Be a registered KRN nurse
* Minimum 5 years working experience in a busy hospital or clinic setting.

* A flexible pleasant personality

* Computer Literate
*Pediatric working experience an added advantage

If you meet the above requirements please e-mail, detailed CV on or before Friday 20th July 2012 to:scotdavid840@yahoo.com

Indicate current and expected remuneration. 

UNICEF - WASH Specialist Job in Nairobi Kenya

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office

Vacancy Announcement
Duty Station: Nairobi

Post: WASH Specialist – NO-C             

Type of Contract: Temporary Appointment

Date of Issue: 15 August, 2012                

Closing Date: 28 August, 2012

Applications are hereby invited from suitably qualified candidates to fill the above Temporary Appointment in the WASH Section of UNICEF Regional Office, Nairobi, Kenya.

Purpose of the Post:  The Temporary Appointment is expected to support hygiene and sanitation activities related to the promotion, monitoring and operationalization of sanitation and hygiene promotion efforts in the Region.
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Major Duties and Responsibilities:

Poor hygienic conditions and practices have a major contribution in the disease burden in developing countries. 

At the same time, hand-washing with soap (HWWS) is the most effective way of reducing the incidence of acute watery diseases such as diarrhoea and under-5 child mortality. Hygiene promotion can create awareness and aims to change behaviour of those most vulnerable to WASH-related diseases. 

Additionally, six countries in ESAR have targets for eliminating Open Defecation and together with hygiene promotion, eliminating OD is a priority action for reducing under-5 child mortality.

Globally, 83 UNICEF country offices are engaged in HWWS programming. While the importance of HWWS is widely acknowledged and documented, the results and impact on behaviour of large-scale hygiene promotion campaigns are less known. 

Understanding effective ways of changing behaviours as well as effective ways of measuring those changes are critical to strengthening ongoing hygiene promotion efforts and optimizing the life-saving benefits of key WASH behaviours such as HWWS.

In the context of an emergency, the need for support in Hygiene Promotion is even greater., HWWS and effective excreta disposal are critical to eliminating the main transmission routes of cholera. Cholera is endemic in Somalia and Ethiopia while it occurs in Kenya as well, and a large scale outbreak could devastate an already vulnerable population. 

Improving the implementation of hygiene promotion activities in the affected countries can reduce the scale of the outbreak, as well as support effective monitoring of impact and is therefore a critical element in WASH disaster risk reduction efforts.

The Sopo campaign aims to reach especially children, and promote HWWS across countries in the ESAR region. Reaching children is critical, as they are the segment of the population most affected by diarrhea and other pathogenic diseases caused by poor hygienic practices. The countries currently rolling out the Sopo campaign are: Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Zambia and Tanzania. 

As Sopo is regionally accepted as a useful vehicle for hygiene promotion efforts, Sopo campaigns allow insight into what messages are working, what communication channels are useful and how can these lessons be applied in various country/emergency contexts. 

The insights of the Sopo evaluation study have relevance beyond Kenya and for this reason, ESARO will undertake a consultant to support the study and distill lessons and insights for use in other regions.

The UNICEF WASH Programme on Sanitation and Hygiene has a strong emphasis on elimination of open defecation, handwashing with soap practice at critical times and providing a comprehensive WASH package in schools. 

Scope of work

Under close supervision of the OIC Regional WASH Advisor, carry out the following tasks:

• Provide support to the implementation and review process for a study monitoring impact of the Sopo campaign in Kenya. This work is on-going and is expected to be finalized in May 2012
• Support the adaptation of the evaluation’s findings that supports emergency hygiene monitoring, development of messaging, and impact, as feasible.
• Provide support to ESAR countries on WinS analysis and Level 3 monitoring as required.
• Support Emory University and Care International to finalize actions and report of the WinS regional meeting held in June 2012.
• Support the Regional WASH Specialist in strengthening Community Approaches to Sanitation capacity and rollout in the Region.
• Support the Regional WASH team in strengthening sanitation monitoring systems in the Region, particularly for ensuring sustainability of ODF declarations by communities.
• Carry out any other task related to the technical area of the assignment, as required

Expected Deliverables

• Finalization of the impact evaluation survey on Sopo in Kenya in collaboration with the selected research agency and in collaboration with C4D and WASH Kenya Country Office.
• Final synthesis of the evaluation survey on Sopo for regional use and dissemination.
• Provision of support to other countries, namely Zambia, involved in large-scale HWWS programs.
• Compilation of a database of regional emergency materials on hygiene promotion and cholera preparedness compiled electronically.
• Finalization of the WinS report from the regional meeting  - following up on action points, analysis in the Region.
• Compilation and production of GHD regional Newsletter for 2011 activities, support to preparatory activities.
• Development of a community of practice on hygiene promotion within the HoA to support ongoing promotion and preparedness activities, capacity and monitoring efforts.
• Support the review of ODF evaluation and monitoring strategies in six countries.
• Support WinS analysis in at least two countries and dissemination of the regional snapshot on WinS.

Qualifications/Competencies:

• Advanced University Degree in Public Health or WASH, with orientation to WASH issues in problems in developing countries.
• Ability to work in a stressful working environment
• Good communication and writing skills
• Good leadership and negotiation skills
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to work in multi-cultural environment
• Knowledge of computer applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• At least 5 years professional work experience in nutrition of which at least 3 in developing countries
• Fluency in English. 
• Experience in consultations with UNICEF is an advantage
• Working with people
• Drive for Results
• Planning and Organizing

Interested and suitable candidates should ensure that they forward their applications along with their curricula vitae, (internal candidates should attach copies of their last two Performance Evaluation Reports), to;
 

The Human Resources Manager
UNICEF Kenya Country Office
Email address: kenyahrvacancies@unicef.org

Please indicate Reference No. “ESARO/WASH/2012-036” in the email subject.
 

Interested candidates should also complete the Personal History (P11) form, which can be downloaded from the UNICEF Kenya website (http://www.unicef.org/kenya).

“Qualified female candidates are encouraged to apply”
 

Zero tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse
 

UNICEF is a smoke-free environment

UNICEF - Health Systems Specialist

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Kenya Country Office

Health Systems Specialist - NOC 
 

Fixed Term Appointment

Date of Issue: 15 August 2012

Closing Date: 28 August 2012

Applications are hereby invited from suitably-qualified candidates who are Kenyan Nationals to fill the above position on a Fixed Term Appointment in the Health Section of UNICEF Kenya Country Office.

Purpose of Post:
 

The overall assignment of the Health Systems Specialist is to manage the UNICEF support to the government and its partners to strengthen the Health System’s service provision capacity. 

The key areas of responsibility for the post includes: strengthening emergency preparedness and response capacity; strengthen health information system to provide reliable information for planning and resource allocation purposes; support establishment of Community Health Strategy to address the inequity in access to basic health services; and building the capacity of the newly formed Counties Health Systems to effectively manage the delivery of health services within their respective geographic areas.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manages the health emergency preparedness and response activities including: 1) strengthening the health sector coordination mechanism to effectively predict emergencies and provide overall leadership to build Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) mechanisms;  2) procurement and prepositioning emergency drugs and medical supplies; 3) strengthen disease surveillance capacity to enable early detection of diseases with outbreak potential; and  4) Provide routine reports to UNICEF and donors;
• Facilitates the development of well-functioning health information system including:  generating key health program information from national level surveys, research document, service delivery reports, and other reliable sources; managing organizing, analyzing, and presentation of data for effective planning, resource allocation and fundraising  purposes; promoting the culture of evidence based planning including the use of MBB tools  to undertake bottleneck analysis; and providing leadership and routine technical support for the design, implementation, and use of operational research and program evaluation results.
• Oversees and support implementation of Community Health Strategy including: finalizing the policy, strategy, and  guidelines documents at the national level;  Modelling actual implementation of Community Health Strategy within diverse set-up; and facilitate coordination of  partners for  allocation of resources
• Supervises two professional positions (Community Health Strategy Specialist and Health Information Officer)
• Participate in inter-sectoral collaboration with other programme colleagues for the systematic delivery of an integrated package of MNCH services.   

Required Qualifications: Master’s degree in Health Systems Development, Public Health, Monitoring and Evaluation, and Health Economics

Competencies:

• Communication
• Drive for  Results
• Formulating Strategies and Concepts
• Relating and Networking
• Applying Technical Expertise
• Working with People
• Leading and Supervising 

Experience:

• At least Five (5) years progressive experience in public health or related field with focus on child survival and development programs. 
• Knowledge of the current issues in Health Systems Development and Maternal Newborn and  Child Health activities in Kenya and the region with experience in planning, implementing and monitoring and evaluation.   
• Experience in developing policy and strategy documents and dissemination of the same to a wider government, donor and key NGOs and the community.
• Ability and experience in undertaking qualitative and quantitative data collection, review and analysis

Language(s): Fluency in English and another UN working language required.  Knowledge of Kiswahili would be an asset.

Interested and suitable candidates should ensure that they forward their applications along with their curricula vitae (internal candidates should attach copies of their last two Performance Evaluation Reports), to:

The Human Resources Manager
UNICEF Kenya Country Office
Email address: kenyahrvacancies@unicef.org

Please indicate Reference No. “KCO/HLTH/2012-035”in the email subject.

“Qualified female candidates are encouraged to apply”
 

Zero tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse
 

UNICEF is a smoke-free environment