Agile Digital Project Manager Position

Agile Digital Project Manager Position 

Dotsavvy

At Dotsavvy, we view our role as problem solvers – not order takers. Simply stated, we think strategically before thinking tactically. 

That’s why we work closely with our clients to identify and understand their unique digital business challenges before determining the best ways in which our offerings can help. 

Our philosophy is to understand the needs of our clients, develop a digital plan to produce deliverables that generate results, give great customer service and complete engagements on time, on budget and with no surprises.

 

Dotsavvy is a creative, fun and challenging digital business agency that is committed to helping our clients' businesses succeed. We look for team members who are up for a challenge and are equally committed to work and fun. 

We're seeking talented and enthusiastic professionals to join our team of digital business professionals who drive positive results for our clients. 

As a Dotsavvy employee, you can come to work dressed casually, participate in our company outings, enjoy a work environment where contributions are valued and rewarded, and grow your career as far as your talents can take you. 

The Role: Dotsavvy is currently looking for an Agile Digital Project Manager to manage multiple multiple client projects with outcomes that impact the continued success of our agency. 

He/she will work collaboratively with our business development, digital production and account management teams to deliver and meet our clients’ digital business requirements. 

The ideal candidate will possess a strong passion and enthusiasm for quality transformational digital project management, drive innovation and the soft skills and experience to lead and manage challenging projects while mitigating risks and schedule slippage.

Job Responsibilities:

• Manage a broad portfolio of digital projects by establishing direction, aligning people and resources, and inspiring them to get the job done.
• Work face-to-face with clients throughout the delivery cycle, understand their problems, deliver an quality digital solutions, and ensure that customer satisfaction remains high.
• Continuously work on defining and refining the agile project management model (i.e. SCRUM) employed by Dotsavvy as our service offerings expand and our methodology continues to evolve and mature.
• Define and refine project management methodologies followed within Dotsavvy; improving the processes and driving innovation and modernization of our service delivery.
• Detailed tracking and communication of project progress from a task, time, schedule, and cost perspective.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date project plans enabling intelligent decision making by all stakeholders.
• Identify change orders, generating necessary documentation, and negotiating such change orders with the client.
• Identify risks and escalate them to relevant team members for intervention and resolution
• Un-block project issues by engaging appropriate management and resources where necessary.
• Support the professional development of your project team members – be aware of their career aspirations and provide written performance evaluations as part of our project closeout process.
• Motivate the people in your team, through strong leadership, and maintain a good pulse of your project and risk mitigations.
• Work with the account management, business development and production teams to identify, scope, and estimate additional business opportunities with your current clients.
• Work closely with our business development, account management and production teams to help close new business.
• Assist in responding to incoming RFPs, participate in strategic scoping initiatives and new business presentations/pitches, review and approve outgoing proposals.
• Ensuring that scope, budget, resources, schedule, and engagement terms are correctly modelled and that effort is always accurately estimated.
• Perform internal project audits to ensure that the project management process is being followed and organisational risk is minimised. Must be able to quickly and objectively identify key risks & mitigations on a given project already in progress.
• Provide day-to-day mentoring and oversight for team members and help them grow professionally.
• Participate in the training & ramp-up for new team members as and when required.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in a computing sciences, engineering, business, or information technology related field of study
• Minimum 2 to 5 years of professional services consulting experience, working with external clients
• Experience having successfully rescued a major "failed" project through superior project management performance
• Minimum 2 to 5 years of applications development, digital marketing, or consulting experience, including at least 1-2 years as a team lead with a proven track record of delivering complex solutions on time
• Experience in implementing enterprise-grade digital business solutions
• Minimum 2 to 5 years of project management experience with both waterfall and agile methodologies, with a proven track record for project planning, executing, controlling and closing
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with minimal supervision.
• Detail-oriented, self-motivated and highly organised with solid problem solving skills.
• Diplomatic ability to influence others without having authority to do so
• Superior project management software experience
• Strong and demonstrated ability to build lasting relationships with key stakeholders
• Ability to mediate disagreements competently and negotiate a win-win resolution for all parties
• Excellent ability communicating internal and external executive stakeholders
• Ideally but not mandatory experience working within a digital agency or professional services firm environment
• Ideally but not mandatory experience in managing digital projects and processes
• Ideally but not mandatory PMP and/or ScrumMaster or Agile Certification designation or working towards the same.

Apply for this position: If you think that your that special talent we may be looking for, kindly send us your CV on jobs@dotsavvyafrica.com with the subject line ‘ Agile Digital Project Manager’ by 5.00 pm East African Time (EAT) on Friday the 12th February 2016 

About Dotsavvy: Dotsavvy is a Nairobi based digital business agency focused on creating the best possible digital outcomes and ROI for our clients. 

We are passionate about all things digital, and our holistic approach combines strategies, tactics, and continuous measurement and improvement — all working together within clients budgets to deliver. We have proven the success of this process over the past 13+ years where we’ve helped 100s of clients build successful digital business programs and delivered 1000+ digital projects. 

Dotsavvy is a creative, fun and challenging company that is committed to helping our clients’ businesses succeed. We look for team members who are up for a challenge and are equally committed to work and fun. We’re seeking talented and enthusiastic professionals to join our team of digital experts who drive positive results for our clients.
 

Sales Merchandising Rep

Nuru Kenya Social Enterprises ltd is a fully in-cooperated company under companies act that funds sustainable poverty eradication in rural communities by investing in local entrepreneurs and incubating a diverse portfolio of profitable businesses in the developing world.

Nuru Kenya Social Enterprises is looking for an experienced professional to fill the position of sales merchandising representatives

Job Title: Sales Merchandising Rep (4)

Location: Isebania / Sirare

Education: Diploma in sales & Marketing or equivalent

 

Experience: At least 1 year sales in FMCG – food category added advantage

Job Type: Full-time

Travel: 90-100%

Job Description: Nuru Social Enterprises Kenya Limited has an Opening for a Sale Merchandising Representative. 

The Sales Merchandiser provides merchandising support to accounts within an assigned territory. They are responsible for developing account base to meet route objectives including selling, ordering and merchandising functions while identifying and meeting customer expectations.
 

Territory will consist of but not limited to the following areas: Nyanza and Western

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for top line sales growth thru expansion of products sold, using principles of the “Nuru Way to Sell”.
• Responsible to monitor in-stock conditions to meet customer needs with minimal returns and expiries at store level.
• Responsible for working closely with the Business line Manager on orders and/or inventories, per account specifications, and within the guidelines of the applicable inventory replenishment system.
• Keeping in contact with existing customers in person and by phone

1. Making appointments with and meeting new customers
2. Agreeing sales, prices, contracts and payments
3. Meeting sales targets
4. Promoting new products and any special deals
5. Advising customers about delivery schedules and after-sales service
6. Recording orders and sending details to the sales office
7. Giving feedback on sales trends

• Responsible for all merchandising of product, keeping customer shelves full of product, using established rotation procedures to pull damaged, short or out-of-code, or heat shocked products from the shelf.
• Responsible for securing or retaining our advantaged position placement in targeted accounts.
• Responsible for development and execution of product displays and associated POS.
• Performs merchandising and selling duties as defined by Company standards;
• Must be able to work any days, including holidays and weekends;
• Provides superior Customer Service for account base;
• Follows safe work habits;
• Coordinate and communicate with the Sales & Marketing Manager on a regular basis;
• Performs other duties as assigned

Job Requirements

• Must have reliable transportation and live within the core territory as defined.
• May possess a valid driver’s license and clean driving record;
• Merchandising or sales experience preferred, two year college certificate preferred;
• Excellent verbal/written skills, with ability to read product labels, SKU and product numbers;
• Skills in organization, time management, prioritization, attention to detail and be able to multitask and adapt to organizational and operational needs;
• Physical requirements include ability to perform repetitive bending, lifting, twisting, standing, walking, kneeling during the work day; ability to lift and carry products cases 

Nuru Social Enterprises Kenya Ltd is an Equal Opportunity employer; 

This is a “Drug-Free Workplace”

Applicants to send their CVs and supporting documents specifying their current and expected salary 

to procurement@nurusocialenterprises.org 

address to the 

Recruiting Manager, 

Nuru Social Enterprise ltd, 

P.O Box 176-40414 

Isebania, 

to reach us not later than 1st February, 2016, 5.00 PM

Accounts Assistant

Nuru Kenya Social Enterprises ltd is a fully in-cooperated company under companies act that funds sustainable poverty eradication in rural communities by investing in local entrepreneurs and incubating a diverse portfolio of profitable businesses in the developing world.

Nuru Kenya Social Enterprises is looking for an experienced professional to fill the position of Accounts Assistant

The person shall directly report to the Finance Manager

Location: Isibania

Qualifications

• Business degree in Accounting or Finance option
• Equivalent to CPA part 2
• 1 year working experience in a profit making Organization will be an added advantage

Skills & Ability

• Be computer literate and excellent skills in Ms. Excel and familiarity with accounting software, preferably Quick books
• Must be flexible to work in odd hours as situation may sometimes call for.
• Certificate of good conduct is a must.
• Ability to meet strict deadlines

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain proper records, in regard to office expenses and revenue from all the business unit.
• Perform routine reconciliation of all the daily transactions.
• To ensure proper filling of documents and maintenance of accounting records.
• Day to Day office administration
• Perform other duties as may be assigned from time to time

Applicants to send their CVs and supporting documents specifying their current and expected salary 

to procurement@nurusocialenterprises.org 

address to the 

Recruiting Manager, 

Nuru Social Enterprise ltd, 

P.O Box 176-40414 

Isebania, 

to reach us not later than 1st February, 2016, 5.00 Pm.

Senior Accountant

Job Title: Senior Accountant
 

Industry: Consulting
 

Location: South Sudan
 

Kazini Africa Trust is recruiting a Senior Accountant for a short term assignment in South Sudan for one of our clients. 

Due to continuous growth and demands, our client is seeking a self-driven, target oriented, energetic, ambitious, self-motivated individual; keen on a career enhancing opportunity to fill the Senior Accountant Position.

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of asset, liability, and capital account entries by compiling and analyzing account information.
• Documentation of financial transactions by entering account information.
• Recommending of financial actions by analyzing accounting options.
• Preparation of Audit Schedules and providing explanation to audit queries.
• Maintains accounting controls by preparing and recommending policies and procedures.
• Reconciles financial discrepancies by collecting and analyzing account information.
• Secures financial information by completing data base backups.
• Maintaining financial security by following internal controls.
• Preparing payments by verifying documentation, and requesting disbursements.
• Answers accounting procedure questions by researching and interpreting accounting policy and regulations.
• Preparation and submission of VAT and withholding tax payment.
• Ensuring all subsidiary ledgers are reconciled to Control Accounts in General ledger.
• Payment of import duties and taxes and ensuring compliance with import procedures.

Requirements:

• Qualified Accountant CPA (K) /ACCA a mandatory requirement.
• Preference experience in the NGO sector.
• 5 years’ experience in an accounting position.
• Strong consolidation knowledge and experience.
• Statutory understanding (companies act and Tax).
• Experience in preparing financial statements. A Key requirement.
• Financial Accounting packages would be advantageous.

NB: Please note this is a short term assignment in South Sudan.

If you are motivated and energetic, possessing the necessary qualification and experience, please send your CV quoting the job title on the email subject to hr@kaziniafrica.org before 29th January, 2016.

Only candidates short-listed for interview will be contacted.