Accounts & Admin Officer

Job Vacancy: Accounts & Admin Officer

Summary: A young but growing ICT Company is inviting a suitably qualified individual to fill in the above position. 

The incumbent shall be responsible for the Company’s Accounts, Administration, customer relations and offering support to different work group within the Company.
 

Duties
 

Accounts

• Prepare Payroll and Statutory returns (PAYE, NHIF, NSSF)
• Prepare and Submit VAT Returns
• Prepare Daily Sales Summary
• Handle Accounts receivables and customer accounts and statements
• Follow up payments of accounts receivables with clients
• Handle credit control
• Handle accounts payable and supplier accounts
• Maintain cash receivable as well as petty cash
• Book keeping & account reconciliation
• Make sure all statutory obligations and other bills are paid on time

Customer Service

• Receive, make telephone calls, and schedule appointments
• Handling on customer enquiries on telephone and email
• Prepare quotations for clients and respond to RFQs
• Preparation and update of clients data base
• Making follow up on customers order and ensure timely execution of same

Administration

• Preparation and dispatch of documents and parcels from the company
• Receives, sorts, distributes, files and dispatches all correspondence received by Company
• Supervising the support staff and stores/dispatch staff
• Responsible for timely replies to customer enquiries on email and telephones

Person Specification
 

The right candidate should possess accounting qualification with a minimum of 2 years experience in similar position. S/he must show that they have the right attitude, integrity and performance track record.
 

How to Apply
 

Eligible candidates for the above position should send their application stating the expected salary together with updated CV in one document clearly marked “APPLICATION FOR ACCOUNTS & ADMINISTRATION OFFICER” and stating their current or last salary to career@hrpartner-ltd.com

Arduino Instructor

Tinker Education, EMCAST
 

Job Vacancy: Arduino Instructor
 

Location: Nairobi

Qualification Level: Certificate / Diploma / Degree

Description: Our business is involved in solutions for Kenya’s innovative education through Teacher Training, STEM curriculum, e-Learning Platform, Digital Book Platform, Digital Content Creation, and Pilot Project Implementation.
 

 

At Tinker Academy, our program teaches STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) Education with computer science/ coding.

We aim to demonstrate that the computer is a powerful tool for creativity and invention as we nurture children and youth to be a future innovators and idea makers.

Details: Candidates must have mid-level to expert knowledge in micro-controller boards and an ability to show his/her competency in a technical skills interview. 

Additionally and key to this role, the candidate chosen should demonstrate an enthusiasm towards educating youth to be critical thinkers and inventors.
 

The candidate should have proficiency with advanced skills of micro-controller programming such as Arduino, and knowledge, understanding and work experience of electrical electronics. Being skilled at various electronic parts and electronic circuits is also required.
 

Our instructor will be responsible for preparing lessons and guiding students through a project-based curriculum to design and implement electronic objects.
 

Excellent organizational and planning abilities are needed to study and deliver resource materials in teaching. 

The candidate should exhibit strong customer service coordination with head office and management.
 

This teacher will collaborate with the Tinker Education and EMCAST team to and report to the managers as we focus on delivery of an exceptional IOT program. 

As part of a start-up, please note, our work environment is cooperative, flexible, fast-paced, and deadline driven.
 

Requirements:
 

Required skills and experience

• Advanced skills of micro-controller programming such as Arduino
• Experience with Arduino Uno, Mega and Nano
• Knowledge, understanding and work experience of electrical electronics
• Be skillful at various electronic parts and electronic circuits
• Be able to conduct projects using bluetooth and wiFi
• Equipped with teaching skills or experience
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Great attention to detail.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills; ability to work across boundaries.
• Ability to build rapport and trust with internal stakeholders. Honesty is integral to our business practice! Must possess a high level of integrity.

Responsibilities:

• Prepare lessons with a focus on circuits, electricity, maintenance and hands-on activities.
• Correspond with management concerning the materials/devices/kits required.
• Set up each class and guide students in their assignments and projects.
• Draft, demo and execute a lesson with the aid of teaching resources and self-study.
• Utilize the Tinker Education Learning Sequence and encourage collaboration amongst students.
• Review and assess students understanding of electricity and circuits
• Guide students to maintain equipment and ensure safety
• Ensure that all lessons and student report deadlines (internal and external) are met.
• Facilitate and actively participate in strategy sessions with the Tinker Education team.
• Effectively communicate with the team (and clients) with respect to content delivery, progress reports and student participation.
• Answer inquiries from internal business partners using your local knowledge of Kenya. 
• Promote efficiency, consistency, and professionalism.
• Assist with miscellaneous projects as needed, such as administrative support and training.

Please send your CV and cover letter to neene@tinkeredu.net outlining your interest and suitability for this position. 

Deadline for applications 31st October 2017.

Doctor in Charge

Our client is a well-established hospital in Nairobi. 

As a part of our major expansion program, we wish to recruit a highly competent and proactive key staff to fill in the following positions on Locum basis
 

Nurse
 

Responsible to: Doctor in Charge

Core Tasks

 

Clinical Duties

• Establish standards of nursing care for the clinic
• Applying evidence-based standards and health care research.
• Monitor patient care to ensure it meets the facility's standards, and review patient records to analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of the care provided by the unit.
• Assist nurses in the management of a patient and may recommend treatment options.
• Address questions or complaints brought forward by patients or their families.
• Assures quality of care by developing and interpreting hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care
• Enforcing adherence to Nursing practice requirements and to other governing agency regulations
• Measuring health outcomes against standards

Selection Criteria

• Registered nurses and have at least a Bachelor of Science in nursing.
• Proven experience in managing a busy office
• At least 4 years’ experience in busy hospital position

How to Apply

Applicants should forward their applications enclosing detailed CV’s and copies of relevant certificates by e-mail to BlumeAfrica@gmail.com.  

Only successful candidates will be contacted.

Senior Business Advisor

TechnoServe
 

Recruitment Notice
 

Job Vacancy: Senior Business Advisor

TechnoServe Background: TechnoServe works with enterprising people in the developing world to build competitive farms, businesses and industries. 

We are a nonprofit organization that develops business solutions to poverty by linking people to information, capital and markets. With more than four decades of proven results, we believe in the power of private enterprise to transform lives. 
 

Program Description: TechnoServe is supporting the implementation of a pilot program that aims to address shortcomings in financial inclusion primarily, financial literacy training and existing digital payment systems in the dairy sector by tailoring experiential, participative and innovative training tools coupled with digital financial tools for disbursements and input purchases alongside the adoption of improved operations management (DOM) systems to facilitate use of digital transactions to expand credit provision. 
 

The end goal of this pilot program is to increase the incomes of small-scale dairy farmers and agribusinesses by addressing shortcomings in existing digital financial service systems.  

The intended outcomes of the pilot are to:

1. Refine the value proposition of digital financial tools in the dairy sector and define strategies to overcome barriers and risks to adoption (including financial, mobile and product literacy)
2. Test new digital financial tools as a model to increase access to working capital credit and other tailored financial services (including asset finance, insurance).

If this pilot program demonstrates that the new digital financial tools can effectively advance rural financial inclusion, there would be numerous opportunities to scale the model across other agricultural sectors.  

Position Description:
 

The individual will facilitate the following activities to achieve the project objectives:

• Provide technical assistance to pilot partner SACCOs in adopting and adapting the financial literacy training tools; including technical assistance to scale.
• Provide technical assistance to pilot partner SACCOs in developing and implementing their digital financial strategy for the dairy sector.
• Build partnerships to address key financial service needs of dairy co-ops, processors, input SMEs and farmers (e.g. working capital, asset credit, insurance)
• Provide technical assistance to pilot partner banks and SACCOs in extending their digital financial solutions into the informal dairy sector.
• Identify and enable opportunities to work with additional SACCOs
• Collect relevant data for monitoring and evaluation purposes and support the production of narrative reports and case studies.

Minimum Skills and Experience required

• Degree in Marketing, Banking, ICT and/or related fields
• Minimum 5 years relevant experience
• Training and experience working in M4P projects a must
• Experience working in the banking sector or in marketing
• Track record of building and managing strong client and stakeholder relationships with private, public sector and government
• Confident with project management and reporting
• Excellent communication, analytical and strategy skills
• Confident with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

Desired Skills

• Is a self-starter, energetic, and friendly
• Comfortable with new ways of thinking and working
• Engages people and empowers them to deliver on promises
• Maintains integrity and personal reputation
• Ability to analyse complex issues and propose solutions
• Reviews information quickly and does not hesitate to try out solutions
• Is passionate about knowledge learning and sharing

How to Apply:
 

Please submit your application (by email only) to ke-recruit@tns.org  with the position title placed in the subject line. 

Please include (1) cover letter describing your interest, (2) curriculum vitae.

Please include all requirements in a single document (pdf). 

Applications will be treated confidentially. 

Deadline for applications is 20th October 2017. 

Note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

TechnoServe is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females and Individuals with Disabilities.