Reporting to:Head of Marketing - MFS

Responsible for all reporting to the Telkom Kenya MFS Management and Finance, including but not limited to reporting on MFS operational performance, investment plans, key performance areas and various other areas as required by the Telkom Kenya.

Responsibilities

• Planning of the key MFS commercial strategies and the measurement of it against pre-defined criteria on a monthly and weekly basis.
• Responsible for information delivery across all business units.
• Provision of support to business users in relation to reporting and analytics. Liaise with senior management of the business unit to prioritize throughput.
• Research and screen potential MFs opportunities and advice on which ones need to be pursued further- included in the Strategy Road Map.
• Business requirements gathering and assessment of the impact of business changes on the data warehouse.
• Provision of technical training and user groups to business community.

Qualifications

• Degree in Business, IT or other relevant field (or equivalent).
• 3-5 years relevant experience in a role within a business environment, having being exposed to all disciplines.
• Business experience preferred over pure technical experience.
• Mobile money experience is a distinct advantage.

Professional Skills

• Strong knowledge of BI reporting tools with SQL experience
• Exceptional report writing skills
• High level of problem solving skills, competency in Microsoft office applications , commercial sense – able to develop and assess financial impact through assuming and forecasting projections
• Project Management – experience with co-ordination of project teams achieving deadlines
• Partner Management – delivery of results through partners and SLA’s
• Customer focused – passionate about delivery of results to internal and external customers
• Strategically Oriented – solid understanding of the integrated set of products and services included within the MFS portfolio; able to identify opportunities and define and implement these opportunities into reality

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Reporting to the Head – E-Channels and E-Commerce, the role holder will be responsible for internet banking propositions and will lead the ideation, conceptualization, management and enhancement of internet banking strategy, programs, initiatives, research and projects.

Requirements
Specifically, the successful jobholder will be required to:

• Lead in new product development and implementation i.e. the conceptualization of new ideas, researching, and evaluating them objectively from a market and financial standpoint.
• Manage the entire development process from conceptualization, design, delivery, launch and return on investment.
• Promote product awareness via appropriate internal training and marketing as well as ensuring overall attainment of all cash management sales target.
• Regularly review and monitor the sale of Internet Banking to current and prospective customers of the Bank in order to generate maximum income and return on investment.
• Develop all customer wireframes and user cases, ensure optimal level of customer services, analyze all customer requirements, monitor all requests, and manage all defects in products for all monthly releases.
• Administer and approve all final new product delivery and recommend improvements to all products and prepare all business requirements documents and ensure compliance to all product schedule and coordinate with departments to provide an effective interface.
• Collaborate with information technology and business units to deliver all releases, prepare work schedule for all projects, and provide support to all strategies to achieve all marketing strategies.
• Effectively determine Internet Banking strategy and pricing to expand market share.
• Effectively segment the target market, gather market intelligence and identify opportunities for the bank to position Internet Banking in the market.

Skills
The successful candidate will be required to have the following skills and competencies:

• A Bachelor’s degree in business or Information technology related degree with at least 5 in business management/product development & management/ system analysis in the financial sector.
• Experience in regional delivery, with extensive knowledge in Internet Banking.
• Excellent knowledge of operational and systems user requirements for financial products.
• Commercial awareness to understand and apply commercial and financial principles to business thinking.
• Sound understanding of marketing principles, ideally backed with suitable experience.
• Knowledge and effective application of all relevant banking strategies, policies, processes, procedures, guidelines and project management methodology and to consistently achieve required compliance standards or benchmarks.

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Reference Number: DM-4/09/18

To work in team responsible for data capture, data quality and data analysis routines as part of a routine clinical surveillance/quality improvement project and a multicentre randomized controlled trial taking place in a number of hospitals in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The incumbent will be responsible for continued development of a set of analysis scripts using R that can be applied to data collected from hospitals and turning the raw data into informative visualizations. This work will be conducted with a larger group of analysts to provide hospitals with regular reports on their patient populations and quality of health care services. The post will require someone with skills in programming in R, some experience with web-based graphic libraries, conversant with the LINUX operating system as well as data management skills who is a good team player. Some support for data management and optimising operating environments is also anticipated.

REPORTS TO: Senior Data Manager, Senior Researchers
BUDGET AND RESOURCE RESPONSIBILITY:  Some responsibility for ICT hardware maintenance to support data collection and planning for updates / additions

Dimensions

• Ability to develop analytical code in R, Stata, or python
• Ability to transform data and processes into informative visualizations
• Responsible with Data Management and Analysis Team Leader for data archiving and documentation of analysis scripts (familiarity with Github an advantage)
• Responsible with Senior Data Manager and Information Team Leader for production of regular hospital reports outputting analyses into MS Office or other documents
• Ability to perform analyses on request for research team leaders
• Understand and help configure the LINUX based operations on the servers (including managing data archiving, security etc)
• Understand and help configure synchronization tools we use for peripheral sites to the server
• Help upgrade our data management platform moving towards web-based systems if/when internet connectivity improves in sites
• Understand and manage the statistical programming approach being used in R
• Providing training / support to other staff and hospital collaborators
• Good communication with senior personnel in the research team and with partnering hospitals
• Data archiving and documentation of analysis scripts (familiarity with Github an advantage)

Responsibilities

• Developing analytical code in R to provide routine reports and graphical displays of large hospital datasets
• Working to ensure data appropriately managed and archived and that all analytic code is documented and archived with version control
• Working with data managers and other researchers to integrate analytic tools with data collection
• Performing analyses on request of senior team members and interpreting results
• Providing training / support to other staff and/or hospital staff

Qualifications

• Degree in Statistics / Computer Science (either Statistician with good programming skills or Computer Scientist with sufficient training in Statistics)
• At least 1 year of relevant experience
• Ability to program in R and clearly document code
• Ability to use scripting languages
• Data management skills – ideally experience with large databases including development of data dictionaries, data cleaning logs – (knowledge of REDCap an advantage)
• Good level of ICT skill (understanding of basics of Linux and MySQL)
• Good presentation and communication skills
• Ability to work with limited supervision
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Good team player

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Reference Number: SDM-3/9/18

Lead a team responsible for data capture, data quality and data analysis routines as part of a routine clinical surveillance/quality improvement project and a multicentre randomized controlled trial taking place in up to 15 hospitals around Kenya and three in Uganda and Tanzania. The work will involve use of REDCap and other data collection applications in multiple sites ; use of the statistical software package R and its related interface function R studio; use of LINUX as an operating platform; work with DHIS2 and interaction with providers of electronic medical record systems in Kenya including Open MRS to foster harmonisation of data collection.
Description:

REPORTS TO: Principal Investigator and Senior Researchers
DIRECT SUPERVISE: Data Manager/s
INDIRECTLY SUPERVISE Hospital based data clerk/s
BUDGET AND RESOURCE RESPONSIBILITY: Some responsibility for ICT hardware maintenance to support data collection and planning for updates / additions

Job Dimensions

• Supervise & mentor data management team, set objectives and help conduct appraisals
• Preparing, updating and documenting systems requirements; overseeing design of data capturing systems and formulation of reports
• Developing systems, QCs and tools for collecting, entering, editing, cleaning, storing, validation, archiving, retrieving, organizing, and transferring of data; and carrying out data review, validation, query generation and resolution, and report generation of all records generated from the database.
• Assisting with development of screening logs and case report forms.
• Conducting recurrent information queries and baseline statistical analyses and report results generated by study sites according to the project specification
• Developing and implementing processes and procedures for data management and movement.
• Implementing and enforcing regular data security activities such as storage, backups, archiving and user administration and resolving queries that arise
• Liaising closely with programmers to create databases, and to test and implement the various case report forms as per the project requirements.
• Providing a link between ICT and the department study teams and data managers
• Overall responsible for training, supervising and managing the departments data management and processing teams and monitoring their performance.
• Documenting system and data management procedures and processes in a manual and updating them periodically
• Performing study specific data management duties as assigned
• Responsible for preparing work plans and for managing QC of data and systems

Responsibilities

• Coordinate roles and monitor progress of Data Management Team and Analytics team – build capacity of team through on-job training as required – provide at least monthly updates to PIs
• Provide oversight of HSU team ICT requirements for hardware and software ensuring equipment fit for purpose including server management (Linux and other as required)
• Lead implementation of progamme wide data governance / data management strategies – training team members as required – and liaison with Kilifi ICT / Data Management unitsDesign and develop adaptations to / programming enhancements to REDCap and participate in the REDCap user group and other forums to understand the latest developments Help develop strategies using R to improve data quality and perform data analysis routines that can be incorporated into routine reports, and clinical trial monitoring.
• Develop and update web applications (supervising work of others as appropriate) maintained by HSU
• Take the lead in and provide oversight of HSU project and data archive development and access – to include use of DataVerse, Github and other platforms as required and to enable team to deliver ‘Open Access’ to data and tools
• Provide support in training of field data collection teams including developing training materials, preparation of hardware / software, training schedules and conducting training.
• Liaison with companies / groups who are developing electronic medical records to foster harmonization of key data across EMR platforms
• Maintain study databases as required including ensuring regular updates, cleaning, backups and archiving and ensure all related records and reports are handled and managed in line with data governance protocols.
• Ensure compliance with programme ICT policies that span data storage, description, security e.t.c across the research team
• And any other duties that may be assigned from time to time.

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Data Management /Information Science or Computer Science
• At least three years’ experience as a Data Manager in a similar position in a research or health institution.
• Demonstrated competence in information management and statistical analysis
• Excellent skills in systems analysis, data management, database design and structures
• Excellent computing skills, including LINUX, REDCap, OpenClinica and R and other Open Source software
• Experience in managing multisite, distributed data collection and integration
• Experience of developing system documentation
• Business analysis and basic SQL skills
• Ability to handle large databases and troubleshoot issues involving complex data integration
• Expert knowledge of maintaining and debugging live software systems and of writing and editing program documentation

Desirable Criteria

• Experience with data management for large multi-centre clinical trials
• Experience with report development for data quality assessment
• Experience with use of R for statistical programming and R Studio
• Experience with GitHub
• Prior work related to health care and ideally experience of analysing health data and writing research reports
• Solid understanding and experience with MySQL, PHP. Knowledge on Python would be an added advantage.
• An interest in developing team management skills
• Experience in eHealth and web development
• Experience with report writing for data quality
• Experience in server management

Competencies

• Experience in using LINUX, MySQL and version control
• Experience in using data collection tools preferably REDCap, ODK, openClinica and openMRS
• Experience in managing multisite, distributed data collection and integration
• Excellent skills in data analysis preferably R, STATA, Python.
• Understanding of database design and maintenance, quality control and data cleaning
• Well-developed troubleshooting capacity and clarity of thought
• Excellent customer support and communication skills
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment and to multi-task
• Ability to interact with users/ office colleagues in simple non-technical languageGood communication and interpersonal skills (verbal and written)
• Team worker, able to work in a multi-cultural environment and with multi-disciplinary teams

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REF: ISE/7/9/2018 – INFORMATION SECURITY ENGINEER

The Job holder will be part of the bank’s management team and will be responsible for  safeguarding the Bank’s computer networks and systems. The role will plan and carry out security measures to monitor and protect sensitive data and systems from infiltration and cyber-attacks.

Responsibilities
The Incumbent will report to the Senior Manager – Information Security and will be responsible for:

• Implementing the Information Security Plans and Policies
• Implementing security standards and best practices for the organization, and recommending security enhancements to management as needed.
• Developing strategies to respond to and recover from security breaches.
• Reviewing firewalls and data encryption programs, to protect organizations’ sensitive information.
• Assisting computer users with installation or processing of new security products and procedures.
• Conducting periodic scans of networks to determine existence of any vulnerabilities.
• Conducting penetration testing, to simulate cyber-attacks on systems to highlight any weaknesses that might be exploited by a malicious party.
• Forming part of the incident response team that investigates security breaches
• Designing secure networks, systems and application architectures

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or an Equivalent from a recognized institution.
• A security certification including but not limited to CEH, CISA, CISM, CCNA Security, etc.
• At least 4 years relevant experience.
• Significant practical knowledge in the following areas:

        Unix, Linux, Windows, operating systems
        Well-known networking protocols and services (FTP, HTTP, SSH, SMB, LDAP, etc.)
        Exploits, vulnerabilities, networks and network attacks
        Packet analysis and Regular expressions
        Database structures and queries

• Direct experience with anti-virus software, intrusion detection, firewalls and content filtering
• Knowledge of risk assessment tools, technologies and methods
• Knowledge of disaster recovery, computer forensic tools, technologies and methods
• Experience in planning, researching and developing security policies, standards and procedures
• Professional experience in a system security administration role supporting multiple platforms and applications
• Ability to communicate network security issues to peers and management
• Ability to read and use the results of mobile code, malicious code, and anti-virus software
• Strong understanding of endpoint security solutions to include File Integrity Monitoring and Data Loss Prevention.
• Understanding of common network services (web, mail, FTP, etc.), network vulnerabilities, and network attack patterns
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; ability to communicate: write clearly and speak authoritatively to both business and tech audiencesDemonstrated critical thinking, analytical and problem solving skills to diagnose and troubleshoot technical issues
• Strong planning and organization skills;
• Keeping abreast with latest technology and ability to learn new technologies and concepts quickly
• Ability to operate within 24 Hour shifts as and when required

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REF: ISA/7/9/2018 – INFORMATION SECURITY ANALYST

The Job holder will be part of the bank’s management team and will be will be responsible for assessing and monitoring the Bank’s application and digital products, including their network setup and document any security issues or breaches identified for resolution.

Responsibilities
The Incumbent will report to the Senior Manager – Information Security and will be responsible for:

• Performing an oversight role on the security of web/mobile applications and software development activities for digital applications.
• Maintaining and administering tools necessary to secure end points and provide recommendations for improvements specifically web/mobile application firewalls.
• Event remediation and incident response activities for web/mobile applications.
• Recommending security measures and operating the software to protect systems and information infrastructure, including firewalls and data encryption programs.
• Working with the Cyber Security team to perform tests & uncover network vulnerabilities.
• Fixing detected vulnerabilities to maintain a high-security standard.
• Researching on security enhancements on applications and make recommendations to management.
• Developing and executing formal web/mobile application security test plans to ensure the delivery of quality software applications.
• Test planning, preparation and communication with relevant departments.
• Performing web/mobile application attack & penetration (A&P) testing to find security issue such as risks, defects and logical errors on developed applications.
• Collecting and analyzing security data from manual, automatic and static source code review of web/mobile applications
• Documenting all web/mobile application related issues and assisting in their resolution prior to application go live.
• Delivery of security training and education to technical staff with findings and acts as an internal security consultant to advise or influence business or technical partners.
• Maintaining suitable knowledge of threats, risk assignment, remediation strategies, security tools, testing techniques, and security research
• Understanding of Web/mobile Services technologies such as XML, SOAP, and SAML

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or Equivalent from a recognized institution.
• A security certification including but not limited to CEH, CISA, CISM, OWASP, etc.
• At least 5 years relevant work experience in conducting web/mobile application security testing of mission critical applications.
• Knowledge of web/mobile application and application development security testing Processes and Strategies
• Experience with commercial and open source web/mobile application assessment and auditing packages
• Secure code review experience using automated toolsets
• Demonstrated proficiency with CSA controls matrix, OWASP Top 10 and industry standard of web/mobile security and application development security standards
• Ability to demonstrate understanding of vulnerability remediation
• Familiarity with malicious code identification and common hacker attack techniques
• Significant practical knowledge in the following areas:

        Exploits, vulnerabilities, networks and network attacks
        Unix, Linux, Windows, operating systems
        Well-known networking protocols and services (FTP, HTTP, SSH, SMB, LDAP, etc.)
        Packet analysis and Regular expressions
        Database structures and queries

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; ability to communicate: write clearly and speak authoritatively to both business and tech audiences
• Demonstrated critical thinking, analytical and problem solving skills to diagnose and troubleshoot technical issues
• Strong planning and organization skills;
• Keeping abreast with latest technology and ability to learn new technologies and concepts quickly
• Ability to operate within 24 Hour shifts as and when required

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Reporting to: Manager – IT Billing Support

We are seeking an individual who is dynamic by nature and passionate about people with a track record of delivering results to join our IT Team. The job holder will be required to administer and support BI and Mediation applications. In addition he/she should ensure that all the applications are available 24/7 with up to date information and liaise with the business to ensure expectations are met on time.

Responsibilities

• Monitor BI and Mediation applications ensuring that all downstream applications receive inputs.
• Perform data catch-up and other corrective actions in the event of faults.
• Perform data quality and consistency checks on data in the BI and Mediation applications.
• Generate and circulate daily, weekly and monthly application QOS reports
• System administration of BI and Mediation system by ensuring system and user configurations are set up correctly.
• Handling business requests which involves carrying out feasibility study and implementation on BI & Mediation systems
• Perform troubleshooting, first/second level support and resolution of issues with respective system vendors
• Document BI and Mediation processes/systems and ensure they are up to date
• Project involvement in procuring and implementation of BI and Mediation systems / upgrades
• Redundancy and back up management - ensuring redundancy for BI and Mediation are backed and that backup system is available and working.
• Carry out system maintenance together with system administrators and database administrators to ensure Mediation and BI systems are functioning optimally e.g. disk space check/expansion, memory & CPU checks
• Generate on-demand reports for the business users & Training of users

Requirements

• A degree in Computer Science or Information Technology(2nd  Class Upper)
• At least 3 years’ experience in B.I. and Mediation

Professional Knowledge

• Proficient in Unix & Microsoft OS, Unix Scripting, programming and SQL
• Industry work experience
• Demonstrable ability to work with confidential information

Professional Skills

• Commercial orientation and business acumen
• Drive and Initiative
• Customer focus
• Ability to work well as a part of a team
• Problem solving
• Ability to work long hours to meet deadlines
• Good interpersonal skills, innovative and creative
• Ability to work without supervision

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Reporting to the Chief Internal Auditor, the Information Systems auditor (IS) is responsible for execution of internal audits covering all aspects of business process; assessing risks on information systems, business operations and evaluating internal controls to provide an independent appraisal of internal control environment across the Group. It is expected that this position will include responsibility for the execution of complex audit projects in accordance with plan. Work performed will include coverage of functional and operating units. The focus will be on information systems, operational processes, credit and departmental audits.

The Role
Specifically, the successful jobholder will be required to:

• Utilize extensive understanding of business activities to recommend scope and objectives of assigned audits, execute audit procedures, perform detailed analyses, reach sound conclusions, and document results for assigned audit activities.
• Participate in the execution of multiple audit projects to achieve the scope, timing, and objectives of each assignment while ensuring applicable regulatory guidance is included in scope for assigned audits where applicable.
• Proactively identify risks, evaluate controls and make recommendations to improve internal control and operational effectiveness and efficiency.
• Analyze and verify transactions and representations as well as performing review of test work completed by assigned staff.
• Prepare excellent work paper documentation ensuring quality of such documentation in accordance with professional standards, as well as establishing departmental standards and deadlines.Recommend departmental improvements to automate procedures, methods, and standards to improve departmental efficiency, productivity and quality.
• Prepare clear and concise recommendations for correction of unsatisfactory conditions, improvements in operations, and reductions in cost and effectively gain concurrence and support for recommended control improvements.
• Facilitates the communication of audit results and special projects via written reports and oral presentations to management;
• Assist in the annual risk assessment process and generation of annual audit plan.
• Identify and analyze level of threat and potential risk to the organization’s information assets
• Ensure that access to electronically stored corporate information is adequately protected and managed appropriate to the risks
• Test adequacy and effectiveness of control measures on information systems, operational processes, credit, department operations and recommend corrective measures to be undertaken in areas of weakness.
• Perform special audits as and when called upon and make maximum use of Computer Assisted Audit tools e.g. Teammate, ACL etc.
• Assist in training/mentoring of staff and develop and maintain the skills, knowledge and expertise to make valuable contribution to the internal audit team.

Skills
The successful candidate will be required to have the following skills and competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems or Computer Science from a recognized university. Possession of an MSc or other relevant postgraduate qualification will be an added advantage.
• Professional Certification in IT Audit, Risk and Security e.g. CISM, CISSP, CISA, CRISC
• Excellent understanding of auditing concepts and practices with a minimum of 3 years’ experience in a management role in IT and operations or IT and operation audit.
• Skilled in project management, and maintaining composure under pressure while meeting multiple deadlines.
• Demonstrable knowledge in risk assessment and control concepts/methodologies.
• Skilled in negotiation and conflict management to resolve problems that may arise during an audit.
• Excellent oral and written skills; a strong verbal communicator, analytical writer and able to clearly and concisely convey personal observations of processes, risks and controls.
• Excellent analytical ability both qualitative and quantitative to draw sound conclusions coupled with demonstrated knowledge and proper application of sampling techniques.
• Excellent attention to details and organizational skills.

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APHRC, under the Population Dynamics, Sexual and Reproductive Health Program seeks to recruit a Data Analyst intern for a period of 6 months. The Internship will provide an opportunity to gain practical work experience related to their academic background and in-depth understanding on management and analysis of longitudinal, cross-sectional and intervention data.

Responsibilities

• Data cleaning including doing all required consistency checks
• Document data sets according to the APHRC guidelines on data documentation, archiving and sharing
• Develop template syntax files for research staff to use in creating various data sets, and
• Perform exploratory statistical analysis of data.

Qualifications

• A recent Master’s degree graduate in statistics, medical statistics, biostatistics or equivalent in a relevant area from a recognized university. The successful candidate should have graduated within the last one year.
• Knowledge of statistical software’s – preferably STATA
• Advanced competency in Microsoft packages (Word, PowerPoint, and Excel)

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