Deadline of this Job: 27 December 2022
JOB DETAILS:Liaison Officer
• Qualification BA/BSc/HND , Diploma
• Experience 2 years
• Location Nairobi
• Job Field Administration / Secretarial
Main Purpose:
Give support to external administrative work and to the project team in obtaining official contacts, procedures and coordination of activities, in order to ensure the smooth running of MSF operation.
Other tasks include, but are not limited to:
• Together with the Project Coordinator (PC), ensure to keep and facilitate information on legal and administrative procedures.
• Maintain the support for travel service and keep PC informed about ongoing processes, specific situations or changes in the procedures related to the context.
• Know all the procedures that MSF needs to follow in order to import goods from any country and assist the mission in following these procedures, in cooperation with the PC and the logistic department of the project and mission.
• Follow up clearances of MSF cargos and informs about any possible planned or extraordinary needs.
• Establish and maintain professional contacts with relevant authorities, depending on the context and the needs of the mission.
• Arrange meetings related to administrative issues for the PC as well as attend them.
• Keep a complete and updated detailed list of all useful contacts in the project area with names, telephones, addresses and other relevant details.
• Ensure, together with the PC that all MSF activities are running lawfully and in agreement with the Memorandum of Understanding in all administrative or customs-related issues and inform about any possible risks or problems.
• Ensure that no illegal money is paid to any authorities or any individual, promoting and sharing MSF principles and values at all levels.
• Additional HR/ Admin tasks as delegated by the Personnel Administration Manager.
• Keep all documentation and files updated, properly filed and easily accessible for internal users.
• Maintain thorough knowledge of the area/context, as well as an understanding of how that impacts the organization.
• With guidance from the PC, monitor, coordinate, and communicate the strategic objectives of the organization to the population, authorities and stakeholders.
• Collaborate and communicate successfully with other entities outside MSF on the ground and facilitate easier communication, understanding and rapport with the population, authorities and stakeholders.
• Organize and facilitate all necessary arrangements, protocols and activities for the organization on the ground.
• Work with other stakeholders (MOH, local authorities and community) to ease and foster links between MSF and them.
• Develop and foster relationships with the community, stakeholders, and other entities.
• Collect, analyze, and utilize data and feedback to identify opportunities to improve the relationship between the stakeholders and the organization.
• Compile reports about incidents, events, or updates about an important issue for the operation of the organization.
• Proactively solve conflicts and address issues that could occur between the organization and the community, local authorities and partners.
• Promptly respond to incidents and other events as necessary.
• Act as a positive representation of the organization to the community, local authority and partners.
Requirements
Education:
• Essential: Diploma/Degree in any related field.
• Desirable: Administration or communication-related studies. Experience
• Essential: previous experience of at least one year in related relevant positions, in MSF or other NGOs.
• Desirable: 2+ years of experience in a related role.
Language
• Essential: Fluency in English & Somali (written & spoken)
• Desirable: Fluency in Kiswahili (written & spoken)
Knowledge
• Essential: Computer literacy (Microsoft office, internet, outlook). Analytically and mathematically minded to analyze data and create necessary reports
• Desirable: SharePoint,
Competencies
• Results and Quality Orientation
• Behavioural Flexibility
• Service-oriented
• Stress Management
• Teamwork & cooperation
Deadline of this Job: 27 December 2022
JOB DETAILS:Product Manager
• Job Type Full Time
• Qualification BA/BSc/HND
• Experience 2 years
• Location Nairobi
• Job Field Product Management
Responsibilities
The Product Manager responsibilities include:
• Working with customers and engaging directly to onboard and ensure active consumption of Azure Security services. Leverage quantitative and qualitative data to reach out to customers to drive usage, remove barriers to agility and enable the wider team to shift priorities quickly without losing productivity while driving maximum impact. Create diverse and inclusive work environment where each employee can effectively engage, thrive, and do their best work.
• Drive objectives and key results to enable the services to reach escape velocity. Capture the voice of the customers and synthesize quantitative and qualitative feedback into actionable recommendations for the product development engineering teams in a prioritized manner. Contribute to the wider ecosystem of blogs and documentation. Effectively tell the story of our security solutions in public and internal events (Executive Briefing Center - EBC).
• Continual Engineering Improvements: Relentlessly champion and advocate for our customers in representing their voice to engineering teams and be a change agent to develop innovative ways to resolve complex issues.
• Lead and drive partnership with Field account team and Security specialist including the leadership team. As a member of CxE team, you will use your engineering & business skills to improve our security services, help customers get and stay secure and champion in delivering measurable security value to the customer.
• Collaborate across CxE security, Microsoft Field and Partner Team supporting skills transfers across our Microsoft Partners ecosystem to empower our customers, drive scalability and reach escape velocity.
Qualifications
• 2+ years of experience selling and delivering security solutions to customers.
• 2+ years of experience leading technical discussions, presentations & PoV’s in a fast-paced environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent industry experience
• Understanding of cybersecurity domains, cloud computing technologies with focus on Azure security
• Personal drive for impact: a desire to “roll up your sleeves” and make things happen.
• Good background of security solutions.
• Strong passion and focus on delivering the right customer experience.
• Ability to innovate and drive change.
• Ability to build a deep technical relationship with internal teams and customers.
Deadline of this Job: 22 December 2022
JOB DETAILS:• Association for Aid and Relief, Japan (AAR Japan) is an International Non-Governmental Organization that reaches out to the most vulnerable populations around the globe. Since the year of 2014, AAR Japan has been operating an education project and a food distribution project to respond to humanitarian needs in Turkana West Sub-County. Currently, AAR Japan is seeking for a Country Director for Kenya Office to take the main lead of the abovementioned projects. The successful candidate will be mainly on duty at AAR Japan Kakuma Office, which is located in Kakuma, Turkana West, Turkana County. The details of the position in concern are as follows.
Duties:
• Provide direct supervision to approximately 20 Kenyan national staff to implement the projects;
• Bear all responsibilities for office management, project management, security of staff members, organization’s properties, protocols, regulations;
• Take a leading role in recruitment, human resources, procurement, accountant, financial reporting to be transparent and accurate;
• Liaise with stakeholders (Kenyan national government, local authorities, UN agencies, local-led organizations in communities or other agencies in respective sectors) to harmonize and coordinate project implementation;
• Communicate with donors, mainly Government of Japan, on project design, budget planning, beneficiary selection, project implementation, budget consumption for accountable project running;
• Report to headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on office management and project management.
Qualifications (must);
• More than 3 years’ experience in humanitarian work;
• Fluent language skills, at native level, of English and Japanese (writing, listening, speaking, reading)
• Work experience in project management, including supervising and leading a team of 20 or more members;
• Good understanding on humanitarian work, human rights, refugees;
• PC skills (especially Microsoft Office).
Period (subject to change due to internal circumstances);
From as soon as possible to 31st December, 2023 with 3-month probation period
Salary (Gross);
170,000 KES to 200,000 KES per month (amount will be determined based on experiences or skills)
Other Benefits;
• Medical insurance
• Work injury benefits
• Accommodation, including utilities
• Telecommunication (only for work-related purposes)
• Paid leave in accordance with AAR Japan’s work regulation
Deadline of this Job: 04 January 2023
JOB DETAILS:Duties and responsibilities
Summary of responsibilities
• Analyze and understand the nutritional and functional properties of DTCs in relation to their ability to address nutritional challenges of hunger and malnutrition in Kenya.
• Conceptualize and develop scaling strategies for nutritious value-added recipes and Ready-to-eat (RTE) and Ready-to-Cook (RTC) food products, based on understanding of the local dietary diversity gaps and dietary requirements of specific target groups.
• Work with youth in scaling up the local ecosystem for value addition to DTCs through innovative product development and entrepreneurship development.
• Coordinate capacity building and providing technical support for/to beneficiaries on agri-nutrition issues, including innovative agri-nutrition sensitive technologies and strategies/interventions for dietary diversification.
• Learning and support to develop market opportunities that increase adoption of DTC products.
• Coordinating nutrition messaging and social and behavior change communication activities in the target counties.
• Assist in project administration.
• Coordinate and lead project field activities in project counties
Requirements
• Master's degree in Nutrition, Home Economics, Food science and technology or any other relevant food and agriculture related discipline.
• Experience of nutritional analysis, food product development and knowledge of Food Safety Management Systems (FSMS) and value addition processing equipment (primary and secondary processing
• Experience of establishing and operationalization of food processing units, especially among rural communities, will be and added advantage.
• Previous experience in conducting agri-nutrition activities in livelihood projects in arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) settings is desirable.
• Understanding of youth-integrated agriculture concepts and ability to integrate gender into nutrition-sensitive approaches
Personal attributes and competencies:
• Strong analytical skills and applied statistical experience.
• Good scientific writing experience.
• Fluency in English and Swahili, both verbal and written.
• Good communication, presentation and report writing skills.
• Experience in training and capacity building.
Education, knowledge and experience
• Analyze and understand the nutritional and functional properties of DTCs in relation to their ability to address nutritional challenges of hunger and malnutrition in Kenya.
• Conceptualize and develop scaling strategies for nutritious value-added recipes and Ready-to-eat (RTE) and Ready-to-Cook (RTC) food products, based on understanding of the local dietary diversity gaps and dietary requirements of specific target groups.
• Work with youth in scaling up the local ecosystem for value addition to DTCs through innovative product development and entrepreneurship development.
• Coordinate capacity building and providing technical support for/to beneficiaries on agri-nutrition issues, including innovative agri-nutrition sensitive technologies and strategies/interventions for dietary diversification.
• Learning and support to develop market opportunities that increase adoption of DTC products.
• Coordinating nutrition messaging and social and behavior change communication activities in the target counties.