CATHARINA FOUNDATION PROGRAMMES DIRECTOR JOB IN NAMANGA KENYA

PROGRAMMES DIRECTOR
Catharina Foundation Namanga (CFN) is a local NGO facilitating and implementing education initiatives and community empowerment projects within Namanga Division in Kajiado County.
The Programmes Director will provide overall Leadership for CFN and ensure that the principles and objectives upon which CFN was established are effectively and efficiently achieved.
Location: Namanga - Kenya

Key Responsibilities
• Provide overall leadership in CFN’s strategic direction and specifically lead the Resource
Mobilization process of CFN, manage the Human Resources, the finance portfolio and all NGO
assets.
• Ensure that CFN operates under the laid down strategic principles and ethics by holding to the
highest ethical standards, other laws and all regulations made there under.
• Provide Leadership in the dissemination of the CFN’s vision, mission and goals through setting up requisite systems and structures to support the strategy implementation process.
• Ensure proper leadership of the work of CFN management staff and develop work schedules in
relation to duties, tasks, methods and systems which effectively and efficiently accomplish the
NGO’s objectives.
• Maintain liaison with other organizations and stakeholders regarding matters of common interest
and concern e.g. GoK agencies, development partners/donors, community leadership, etc
• Ensure that the general management and functioning of CFN operates efficiently and remains
within the policy and budgets established by the Board and Development Partners.

AIDSPAN EDITOR , WRITER , SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER, SENIOR EDITOR,EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR JOBS IN KENYA

Aidspan (www.aidspan.org), a Kenya-based international NGO with a global mandate, serves as an independent watchdog of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. Aidspan also publishes Global Fund Observer, subscribed to by nearly 10,000 development professionals globally.
Aidspan seeks to monitor, critique and explain the Global Fund, with the objective of increasing the effectiveness of the Fund and of the implementers of its grants. Aidspan has a worldwide reputation within the Global Fund community for performing high quality work and for producing clear, succinct, independent writing.
Aidspan seeks to recruit exceptional individuals to fill the following Nairobi-based positions.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Salary c. KSh 960,000/month, $140,000/year, plus generous benefits.

The founder of Aidspan will hand over the Executive Director position in mid-2012. During the past decade Aidspan has relocated from New York to Nairobi and grown in influence and regard. A successor is sought to provide leadership for the next phase, managing a team of 13 staff and a $2 million budget, networking globally, and writing incisive analyses and commentaries. The global search for this position is being managed by the London office of Heidrick & Struggles.

For more details, please copy the link below as your web address:

http://www.aidspan.org/index.php?page=jobs&menu=aidspan

The closing date for this position is 3 February 2012.

SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER
Salary c. KSh 550,000/month, $80,000/year, plus generous benefits.
This person will support, and partially lead, a new programme of research and analysis designed to make Aidspan the world’s foremost repository of knowledge about the Global Fund. Applicants must have a history of high-quality research publications in the field of international health, and superb analytical and writing skills.
The search for this position is being managed by the Nairobi office of Career Connections. The closing date for this position is 25 January 2012.

For more details, please copy the link below as your web address:

http://www.aidspan.org/index.php?page=jobs&menu=aidspan

SENIOR EDITOR
Salary c. KSh 550,000/month, $80,000/year, plus generous benefits.

SEO EXECUTIVE JOB IN KENYA

General Job Description and Focus

We are seeking a full-time person to join our team as an SEO Executive.

The person will have functional knowledge and expertise in the following key areas: SEO, PPC, On Page Optimization, Social Media Marketing, Forum/Blog Marketing, Video Marketing and Article/PR submission.

The right person will be able to execute all these functions (not just planning but execution), at a minimum.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Strong SEO Fundamentals and should be an expert in On Page and Off Page optimization techniques
• Strong understanding of social media optimization techniques.
• Understanding of Link building/PR optimization/Directory submissions/Article submissions.
• Complete understanding of search engine trends & algorithm
• Must have done SEO for E-commerce websites

TEMPORARY RECRUITERS - BRIDGE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIES

Brief Description

Bridge International Academies is looking for an energetic, dynamic individual to support this large scale recruitment drive for our schools which are located in low income areas of Nairobi and beyond.

Because of the eventual size of our operations, the company will ultimately need to hire thousands of new teachers each year and hundreds of new school managers to manage this undertaking.

Description

Temporary Recruiters (Schools) 

1 month contract

(starting on February 27th)

Location: Nairobi and beyond

Several Positions

About Bridge International Academies

Bridge International Academies was conceived in 2007 out of the belief that giving every child access to a high quality education would have the greatest impact on reducing poverty worldwide.

With that guiding insight, Bridge International developed a strategy that would enable it to launch a large-scale network of high-quality, ultra low-cost, for-profit primary schools.

Operating a network of schools supported by a strong central headquarters gives Bridge International the scale, experience, and capacity to invest in systems of management, support, training, and innovation that allows individual schools to dramatically increase their effectiveness.

FINANCE MANAGER JOB IN KENYA

Purpose of the Job

To ensure that the Finance and Administration function in the all the organization’s businesses in the country provide strong support towards continuous development of the country in line with the countries strategic and operating plan.

Specifically the job needs to ensure establishment of strong internal / operating control environment, financial disciplines, accurate, timely & complete reporting of financial information, management of cash flows and ensuring legal, fiscal & other financial compliances per local country requirements & the organization group policies & procedures

Scope

Country: Kenya

Authority and Resources

Authorised to control all staff, vehicles, equipment and systems employed within the finance department in line with approval levels agreed with the Managing Director. 

Administer and approve capital expenditure in line with local approval levels set in accordance with the organization capex guidelines.

Authorised to ensure Accounting & Financial reporting accuracy & completeness.

Authorised to set out local policies & procedures in line with the Group requirement to ensure strong Internal Control environment.

Performance Measures

• On time submission of P&L and Balance sheet
• Country target of:
• Budgeting and Forecasting
• Earning Before Interest & Tax (EBIT)
• Economic profit
• Working Capital
• Treasury Functions
• Timely reporting of month end variances (weeklies & monthlies)
• >60 days debt%