Mombasa County Assembly Service Board Member Job in Kenya

Republic of Kenya

Mombasa County Assembly
 

Vacancy: Member of the County Assembly Service Board
 

Article 176 (1) of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 establishes a County Assembly for each County Government.
 

To enable affective executive of the functions a County Assembly, the County Government Act No. 17 of 2012 has established the County Assembly Service Board which shall be responsible for the following function:.
 

a) Providing services and facilities to ensure the efficient and effective functioning of the County Assembly;
 

b) Constituting office in the County Assembly Service and appointing and supervising office holders;
 

c) Preparing annual estimates of expenditure of County Assembly Service and submitting them to the ideals of parliamentary democracy; and the County Assembly for approval and exercising budgetary control over the services;
 

d) Undertaking, singly or jointly with the relevant organizations, programmes to promote the ideals of parliamentary democracy; and
 

e) Performing other functions necessary for the well-being of the member and staff of the County Assembly or prescribed by National Legislation.
 

Section 12 of the Act further states that the County Assembly Service Board shall comprise the Speaker of the County Assembly as the Chairperson, the Leader of the Majority Party, the Leader of the Minority Party and one person resident in the County, appointed by the County Assembly from among persons who have knowledge and experience in public affairs, but is not a member of the County Assembly.

Pursuant to this statutory requirement, the Mombasa County Assembly wishes to invite applications from suitably qualified to be considered for the position of a Member of the County Assembly Service Board.

How to Apply
 

a) Each application should be accompanied by detailed curriculum vitae, copies of relevant academic and professional certificates, National Identity Card or Passport and testimonials.
 

b) A letter from the Area Chief confirming that one is a true resident of the County;
 

c) All applications should be clearly marked “Application for the position of a Member of Mombasa County Assembly Service Board on an envelope and hand delivered to:
 

The Interim Clerk/Secretary
County Assembly Service Board
Mombasa County Assembly
P O Box 90440-80100
Mombasa
 

So as to reach him not later than Thursday 2nd May, 2013 before 1700 Hours.

Only shortlisted candidates will be invited for interview. 

Women and persons with disability are encouraged to apply.

Interim Clerk, Mombasa County Assembly.

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Safaricom Limited Departmental Administrator Job in Kenya

Safaricom Limited is the leading mobile telecommunications company in Kenya. 

We are at the forefront of the industry and always seek to attract and retain talented, creative and innovative team players who are excited by the opportunity of pushing the frontiers of this evolving technology, growing our services, exciting our customers and contributing to our community. 

At Safaricom, we take pride in our talent and develop them to realize their maximum potential!

Departmental Administrator

Ref: TECHOLOGY-NE-DA-APR-2013
 

Reporting to the HOD Network Engineering, the position holder will provide departmental support to the Head of Department, Network Engineering and the general Administration support to the department.

The job holder’s key responsibilities will be to:

• Responding to enquiries, correspondence both telephone and written directed to the HOD office;
• Book/schedule all meetings for the HOD in liaison with concerned parties. Follow up on all meetings the HOD is scheduled to attend to confirm time & logistics ;
• Organizing & coordinating all logistics for the HOD meetings (Both internal & external);
• Prepare and consolidate the departmental reports and presentations e.g. Annual reports, weekly Management reports;
• Prepare presentations on behalf of the HOD and Organize and schedule Departmental meetings;
• Coordinate the Department’s transport & travel I.e. issue taxi vouchers, hotel accommodation and manage departmental fleet;
• Managing departmental pool cars ensuring availability and proper usage;
• Manage servicing of vehicles and repairs, and coordinate with Finance on fuel usage, licences, insurance, TLC and inspection;
• Coordinate events/projects e.g. Teambuilding, etc by providing administrative support;
• People management –manage all staff assigned (selection/growth, performance management/development);
• Coordinate and monitor new staff induction program in liaison with HR ;
• Raise Purchase Requisitions (Opex and Capex) as requested and ensure they’re posted in correct accounts;
• Follow-up with Finance and ensure the corresponding PO is received and delivered to the supplier;
• Ensure accurate and updated leave records for the department;
• Manage the contractor timesheet records;
• Review monthly cost centre reports and analyze variance between budgets and actuals and making recommendations to the management on resolving the variance;
• Making stationary request and ensuring that the Office has sufficient stationary stock levels at all times;
• Accurately monitor Office stationary expenditure against budget and red flag over expenditure to the HOD.

The ideal candidate should possess the following skills & competencies:

• Degree in secretarial or a Diploma in Secretarial/Office Administration;
• C.P.A qualification is desirable;
• At least 2-3 yrs experience as a Personal Assistant to a Head of Department in a blue chip company preferably in an Engineering/Construction environment;
• Excellent knowledge and hands on working experience in operating Microsoft Office suite- Ms Word, Ms Excel & Ms Outlook is a must. Knowledge of Oracle financial is essential;
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills;
• Numerical and analytical skills;
• Project management experience will be an added advantage;
• Patient and a positive attitude towards customers ( Internal and external);
• Personable and presentable with impeccable grooming & etiquette;
• Must be proactive with ability to take pre-emptive measures to contain a situation;
• Good telephone handling skills;
• Team player;
• Fluency in both oral and written English and Kiswahili.

If you feel that you are up to the challenge and posses the necessary qualification and experience please send your resume and application letter indicating your experience and why you are the most suitable candidate for the role clearly quoting the job title to the address below. 

The deadline for application is Thursday 25th April, 2013.

The HOD – Talent and Resourcing
Safaricom Ltd
Nairobi
 

Via E-mail to hr@safaricom.co.ke

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Safaricom Limited Senior Business Systems Planning Developer (Business Intelligence) Job in Kenya

Safaricom Limited is the leading mobile telecommunications company in Kenya. 

We are at the forefront of the industry and always seek to attract and retain talented, creative and innovative team players who are excited by the opportunity of pushing the frontiers of this evolving technology, growing our services, exciting our customers and contributing to our community. 

At Safaricom, we take pride in our talent and develop them to realize their maximum potential!

Senior Business Systems Planning Developer (Business Intelligence)

Ref: TECHNOLOGY_SBSPD__APR _2013
 

Reporting to the Senior Manager Business Systems Planning, the role holder will be in charge of Development and 3rd line support of Safaricom Management Information Systems (Data Ware-house and Business intelligence (BI)) and all reporting and analytics systems. 

This will include, but not limited to, Churn management tools, Fraud management and Revenue assurance systems, Data Mining Systems, Campaign Management Systems and Dealer Incentive Management systems; Work with other departments within the company to identify requirements and develop solutions (database design, workflows, user/data interfaces) ;Configure and/or customize BI and analytics systems to meet business requirements using various database and software tools; Assist in presentations of system functionality to new users and departments ;Enhance and create user and system documentation as needed.

The job holder’s key responsibilities will be to:

Testing, Troubleshooting and 3rd line Support

• Create test plans, test data sets and perform automated testing to ensure all components of the developed systems meet specifications;
• Work directly with the IT support personnel and teams to resolve issues identified and escalated during daily operations;
• Perform root cause analysis for recurring incidents;
• Formalize test plans and implement troubleshooting procedures;
• Upgrading products and applying patches as necessary;
• Maintaining and modifying reports/queries on an as-needed basis ;
• Managing and supporting the security implementation ;
• Scheduling batch jobs with the IT operations staff;
• Troubleshooting database connectivity issues;
• Providing assistance to other technical areas as required;
• Maintaining, coordinating back up and restoring the ETL and Reports repositories and other Systems binaries and source codes.

Systems analysis

• Conduct business user requirements analysis and specification;
• Specify computer system requirements for the solution of complex business problems and formulates designs for their solutions;
• Perform the necessary technical design and development functionality to ensure that business application systems can be effectively developed and implemented;
• Interact with clients to gather and refine requirements.

Software Design and Programming

• Design and development of front-end tier(s), middle tier(s), and /or back-end database tier(s) for business applications. Capturing of business applications information needs and mapping of the same to the software and /or database components;
• Performs data modeling to analyze and specify data structures within an application system;
• Coding of all ETL and analytics processes used within the BI systems;
• Perform the necessary technical design and development functionality to ensure that reporting needs can be effectively developed and implemented.

Research and Development

• Research and provide input on design approach, performance and base functionality improvements for various procedures and applications;
• Generation of ideas to improve efficiency in software and application services offered to the business, and/or generate revenue for business;
• Participation and membership in various technical fora for the purpose of increasing the collective knowledge base of the team.

Minimum Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Statistics or technical related field;
• Oracle Certified Developer;
• Certification in RDBMS;
• 3 years development experience with development tools e.g. Java ;
• 3 years development experience with low level programming C++, C.;
• 3 years’ experience RDMS preferably Oracle, MS SQL Server;
• 3 years’ experience in data warehousing, business analysis, knowledge in Business Systems modeling and data retrieval;
• 4GL for programming - Visual Basic/Oracle Application builder;
• SAS/SPSS Data Mining experience will be an added advantage;
• Systems Analysis and Solutions Architecting;
• Programming and Systems Development;
• SQL & Oracle database management ;
• Data Quality & Cleansing experience;
• Advanced Unix scripting and user skills;
• Experience in processes and procedures management;
• Communication, interpersonal skills and attention to details.

If you feel that you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualification and experience please send your resume and application letter indicating your experience and why you are the most suitable candidate for the role clearly quoting the job title to the address below. 

The deadline for application is Friday 26th April, 2013.

The HOD – Talent and Resourcing
Safaricom Ltd
Nairobi
 

Via E-mail to hr@safaricom.co.ke

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