Reporting to:Head of Marketing - MFS

To perform business development for MFS and support the enterprise team in regards to selling MFS products into various industry verticals within and outside Kenya. The person will be responsible for managing the development of MFS channels, eco-systems, merchant networks, paybill and pay for goods partners. The role will be responsible for the appointment and management of partners. The person will analyse, prioritize and deliver against MFS business growth opportunities within a strategic framework.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage the Business Development strategy to ensure growth and development of existing and any new services, including but not limited to pay bill, merchant payments, agent network, banking partners and e-commerce payments.
• Research and screen potential MFs opportunities and advice on which ones need to be pursued further- included in the Strategy Road Map.
• Develop, foster and maintain effective relationships with various businesses through the stake holders.
• Manage the development and execution of contracts and processes. Ensure that all negotiations are completed by the under the scope of Telkom Kenyas guidelines.
• Research MFS opportunities and advice on which ones need to be pursued further- included in the Strategy Road Map.
• Provide regular management briefings minimum in a monthly status forum both written or in person on channel, competitor and overall market.
• Following up new business opportunities and setting up meetings/Communicating new product developments to prospective clients taking from end to end.
• Manage and communicate the full pipeline of opportunities being pursued and commutate the status regularly (monthly) to the MFS management team.

Qualifications

• Degree in Marketing or other relevant field (or equivalent).
• 5  years hands on experience in Business Development in a highly competitive commercial environment, MFS experience preferred.
• Have strong business/financial acumen with experience developing metrics and pricing and compensation programs.
• Relevant post graduate diploma or degree, Marketing/commercial focus preferred
• Swahili & English (fluent)

Professional Skills

• Sales Management – experience with management of large sales teams achieving targets
• Partner Management – delivery of results through partners and SLA’s
• Customer focused – passionate about delivery of results to internal and external customers
• Commercially astute – solid understanding of market, competitor, & customer
• 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
• Strong Analytical skills – able to assess reports, identify issues, root cause, and recommend solutions, expert spread sheet skills a distinct advantage.
• Financial Management – develop and manage budgets, drive down costs wherever possible.
• Presentation and communication skills – superior, both written and oral.  Experience in report writing an advantage, expert word processor and PowerPoint skills a distinct advantage

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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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Reporting to the Head E-Channels and E-Commerce you will be responsible for e-commerce and m-commerce propositions and you will lead the ideation, conceptualization, implementation and management of the E-Banking platforms i.e. online cards and online mobile money payments.

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 e-Commerce & m-Commerce 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 e&m - Commerce strategy and pricing to expand market share.
• Effectively segment the target market, gather market intelligence and identify opportunities for the bank to position e&m - Commerce in the market.

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

• A Bachelor’s degree in a Business or Information Technology related field.
• 5+ years of experience in business management/product development & management/ system analysis in the financial sector.
• Experience in regional e&m-Commerce delivery with extensive knowledge in mobile and online card payments industry and technology.
• 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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Reporting to the Head, Projects and Facilities, within the Sourcing and Facilities team, the Energy Manager will be charged with the responsibility of meeting regulatory requirements by identifying, monitoring and recording of energy levels and usage within the bank.

Requirements
Specifically, the successful jobholder will be required to:

• Prepare checklists and circulate to capture weekly, monthly and annual energy consumption in the business.
• Prepare and maintain records of diesel, water and electricity consuming equipment for all premises.
• Identify high energy consuming facilities and implement energy efficiency practices to reduce energy consumption.
• Monitor costs and control capital expenditure for projects within the agreed budget.
• Prepare reports, propose and set minimization measures to be taken by those companies contracted by the Bank.
• Arrange and ensure energy audits are carried out regularly and keep up to date with changes in legislation in accordance with the Energy Management Regulations ACT 2012.
• Keep up to date with changes in legislation and initiatives, including ERC energy performance directives.
• Educate and train all staff by having innovate ideas to raise awareness on how to act in an energy efficient way.
• Be proactive in driving new initiatives and adopting new more energy efficient technologies.
• Control Capital Expenditure for projects ensuring that they are within agreed budget, time and quality during design and implementation/supervision stages.

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

• A Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering
• Certification as an Energy auditor by ERC or postgraduate diploma in energy management will be an added advantage.At least 3 years’ experience in a role handling, monitoring, reporting energy consumption trends.
• Knowledge of industry requirements and regulatory compliance coupled with a good understanding of legislation energy management.
• Ability to work well in a team, as well as manage multiple priorities in the quick time frames.
• Excellent business skills and knowledge of managing budgets, leading a team and liaising with suppliers.
• Excellent communication & interpersonal skills coupled with the ability to deal professionally, confidently and effectively with staff and vendors at all levels, internally and externally.

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Reporting to Manager Middle Office, the role holder will be responsible for ensuring integrity of Treasuries’ business risk control, P&L monitoring, reconciliation and reporting, positions keeping, KPI/KRI reporting whilst ensuring compliance with accounting standards, prudential requirements and the bank’s policies. The role holder will also be tasked with a responsibility of addressing any adhoc reporting/product support requests for treasury and mitigating any risks that may arise.

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

• Ensure reporting is done under compliance with International Accounting Standards and International Financial Reporting Standards. Highlight key risk indicators and actively escalate any potential operational risk issues or unusual events in Middle Office activities.
• Distribute the foreign exchange, fixed income and ALM P&L flash, provide P&L commentary explaining key drivers and respond to adhoc/new product reporting requests.
• Perform open positions reconciliation across all asset classes, ensuring that the front office managed positions reconcile to those settled in the ledger. Ensure adequate review of trades with significant P/L and ensure adequate commentary and documentation is in place.
• Perform the adequate reconciliation of the treasury transaction processing system to the general ledger for P/L and M-T-M Accounts, as well as substantiation of M-T-M Balance Sheet back to deal level detail.
• Oversee the exception based monitoring of cancel and amends and off market rate deals as well as trades with negative spread across all asset classes and correct valuation of treasury balance sheet across all asset classes.
• Work with the back office and market risk to ensure accuracy of end of day rates used to revalue open positions. Highlighting and escalating of off—market transactions or cancelled and amended deals.
• Work in liaison with the front office to obtain dealer estimates for all product lines and to resolve exceptions between estimates and flash P/L satisfactorily before distribution.
• Ensure all deals are posted correctly on T+1 and where with issues adequate follow up and closure of issues is done.

Qualifications
The successful jobholder will be required to possess the following qualifications:-

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting or other business related field preferred.
• Professional Qualification – ACI accreditation or Risk Management certification, CPA, ACCA, CISA, CFA qualification is desirable.
• Overall exposure in the financial services sector and preferably 7 years’ experience in the Banking Sector with a minimum of 4 years’ experience in Treasury Middle Office.
• Excellent understanding of Treasury Operations, Risk Management Knowledge, analytical with a general knowledge of the Banks’ Treasury Products, pricing& experienced in Treasury Finance.
• Excellent analytical and numerical skills twinned with an active and avid interest in finance & trading.
• Good understanding of the CBK and Banking acts/prudential guidelines and their implications on the organization as well as Knowledge of the banks KYC, AML, Risk Management and Compliance policies.
• Good Communication skills both written and oral with the ability to maintain detailed and accurate record of transactions and handle complex information with accuracy and attention to detail.
• Strong leadership, organizational, Strong problem solving skills and an ability to demonstrate sound judgment to execute solutions.

Competencies

• Leads from the front
• Delivers and owns results
• Values and respects others
• Drives innovation
• Fosters Communication
• Inspires trust and integrity
• Customer Centric

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ResponsibilitiesResponsibilities will include:

• Executing Input Distributions throughout the growing season – this includes planning for and setting up hundreds of market points in rural areas that will allow farmers to access life-changing inputs within walking distance of their homes.
• Serving as a lynchpin coordinator between departments for major annual One Acre Fund distribution processes.
• Managing a team of warehouse and logistics professionals. This includes roughly 15 warehouse teams as well as an office staff dedicated to critical activity planning, providing key oversight, and managing third-party partnerships.
• Building a managing a network of third-party service providers including transportation, warehousing, and input suppliers.
• Implementing scalable policies and procedures to enable our program model to grow effectively as we expand our geographic density and reach.Overseeing inventory flows.

Career Growth and Development
One Acre Fund invests in building management and leadership skills. Your manager and a global support team will commit significant time in your career development. We provide constant, actionable feedback delivered through mentorship and through regular management consulting-style career reviews. We also have regular one-on-one meetings, where we listen to and discuss career goals, and work collaboratively to craft roles that each person can be passionate about.  Because of our rapid growth, we constantly have new high-level roles opening up and opportunities in many functions.
Qualifications
We are seeking exceptional professionals with 2-5 years of work experience and ideally a demonstrated passion for our mission. Candidates who fit the following criteria are strongly encouraged to apply:

• Strong work experiences. Examples include a demanding professional work experience, or successful entrepreneurial experience, e.g. starting a field program in a developing country, leading a conference, starting a business, solid Volunteer Service Organization accomplishments, etc.
• Experience in supply chain, logistics, or other operational management.
• Strong analytical skills – ability to quickly review, synthesize, analyze and communicate data.
• Strong educational background; a related degree in Supply Chain Management, applied mathematics, systems engineering, or operational management is preferred but not required.
• Demonstrated leadership experience at work, or outside of work, enthusiasm for learning, and openness to feedback.
• Ability to build teams and collaborate with colleagues from diverse backgrounds.
• Language: Fluent English required.  A knowledge of Swahili or regional Kenyan languages are highly desired.

Preferred Start Date: Flexible
Location: Kakamega, Kenya
Duration: Minimum 2-year commitment, full-time job
Compensation: We offer a modest starting salary that affords a high quality of life in our areas of operation. This is a career-track role with performance-based raises and the ability to expand responsibilities over time.
Benefits: Health insurance, immunizations, flight, housing.
Sponsor International Candidates: No

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Nova Pioneer is looking for a superstar Receptionist for our Athi River Campus. This is an opportunity to be a part of an innovative network of schools that is developing generations of innovators and leaders who shape the African Century.

Responsibilities
Key responsibilities for the role include:

• Perform a wide variety of clerical and other office functions and activities related to the administration of diverse programs and operations at the school.
• Make and receive phone calls on the school’s telephone lines.
• Schedule meetings for The Principal in line with the diary.
• Facilitate the Public Relations function of the front office.
• Prepare documents ahead of internal meetings as directed by the Principal (photocopying, binding, filing etc.)
• Prepare of documents ahead of external meetings as directed by the Principal (photocopying, binding, filing etc.)
• Prepare documents for internal display on pin-boards or notice boards.
• Respond to routine correspondences and send out scheduled communications.
• Keep custody of the pupils’ attendance registers and any confidential documents on behalf of the Principal.
• Manage petty cash.

Qualifications
Skills and Qualifications required:

• You have a minimum of 1-year experience working in a school-based environment or fast-paced office setting.
• You have a project and event management diploma/ degree, operations management is desired but not required.
• You have a proven track record of holding yourself and your teammates to high standards of operational excellence.
• You have excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• You are a thoughtful planner able to multi-task, prioritise effectively, take initiative, and deliver for many stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
• You are a proactive, creative, and measured problem-solver. You have an ability to quickly and calmly identify and analyse problems and to recommend or implement effective solutions.
• You possess a demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Office Applications (particularly Word and Excel) and Google Suite.

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Responsbilities
In this role, you will:

• Build and lead a team to consistently meet the ambitious talent-related goals of a rapidly-growing organization.
• Design and implement innovative policies and procedures to promote cooperation and workplace harmony, consistency, and fairness.
• Build a high performing HR function that cultivates an organisational culture that cares for employees and helps Nova Pioneer employees to feel fulfilled and satisfied in their jobs.
• Use data and analytics to drive decisions and improve HR practices and systems.
• Develop and support effective working relationships with key internal stakeholders.
• Implement efficient communication strategies for providing the entire organisation with up to date HR policies and other important documents and processes.
• Ensure standards of excellence are achieved and maintained across all campuses, and the central team.
• Develop a strong external network of HR and related professionals.
• Empower and develop others - coach, train and mentor others to further improve their effectiveness and impact.
• Liaise with counterparts in other regions to ensure consistency and best practice in Human Resources across the organisation.

Qualifications
Skills and Qualifications required:

• A Bachelor’s degree  in Human Resources/Industrial Psychology ; Higher National Diploma in Human Resources Management will be an added advantage.
• You have 5 - 8 years experience in a high growth, high expectations environment. Experience in an HR department is highly preferred.
• You have experience leading people and do so according to a deep set of culture principles and values.
• You have excellent organisational, planning and time management skills - you are able to handle many moving parts while maintaining high standards of excellence.
• You are able to design, plan and implement  innovative HR systems and processes.
• You are a great communicator. You are able to provide clear and effective written and verbal communication and you bring energy and enthusiasm to the HR function.
• You are flexible and open to change - you handle uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity well.
• You remain composed and resilient. You can tolerates stress levels and are composed when dealing with high pressure situations.
• You are a problem solver - you are proactive in identifying issues and address these thoroughly by making effort to find appropriate solutions.
• You plan and think ahead. You are able to translate future direction into measurable, tangible and operational goals and targets.
• You have meaningful impact and influence others. You can persuade, influence and make a positive impression on others to gain cooperation and commitment.
• You uphold high standards and ethics. You are discreet and maintain confidentiality of information.
• You are excited about our organizational culture—and in particular, you are fired up to challenge yourself by embracing mutual vulnerability and a firehose of feedback.

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Responsibilities

• Designs and prepares standard operating procedures (SOPS and MOPs) for studies within the unit
• Leads the process of obtaining ethical approval
• Coordinates the recruitment, training and supervision of field team
• Develops study tools, training manuals and field guides to use for data collection
• Manages field operations including data collection, supervision, data quality checks and documentation
• Organizes and leads community and respondents mobilization in relation to the research projects
• Participates in the development of research proposals
• Conducts literature review and participates in writing scientific papers
• Prepares project progress reports
• In collaboration with PEC department, prepares dissemination materials and participates in dissemination of research findings and policy dialogue with appropriate audiences
• Presents results/findings at internal/external meetings
• Identifies and works with the Software Development team, Data Analysts and Quality Control team to resolve data conflicts arising for research projects
• Other duties as required

Qualifications and Experience

• Master of Science in Demography, Health Economics, Public Health, Epidemiology, Applied Statistics, Quantitative Economics, or related disciplines
• At least 3 years’ post qualification experience in a research setting
• Experience managing high level quantitative and qualitative studies and surveys;
• Proficiency with statistical software such as STATA and/or Nvivo is required;
• Experience in writing peer-reviewed scientific papers and/or reports is desirable.
• Experience conducting field research and managing research team
• Excellent oral and written communication in English and Swahili
• Ability to work independently, set priorities, juggle tasks and meet tight deadlines.

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