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JOB DETAILS:
Supervisor - Admin & Operations

Job Purpose
Responsible for coordination and support to the division in relation to administration, reporting and coordinating of the department’s operational activities.

Operational Responsibilities / Tasks
• Compile the department’s budgets, procurement plans, stakeholder engagement plans and training plans in line with corporate procedures.
• Preparation of management reports and presentations for review.
• Coordinate all Performance contracting processes for the department.
• Organize and coordinating key departmental events and meetings.
• Update the department’s staff establishment records.
• Follow-up on the implementation status for all Projects at the departmental Level.
• Liaise between the Department and relevant offices to ensure timely
• dissemination of information.
• Day-to-day operations, supervision, management of performance and development of staff in the unit.
• Update and maintain training records

Job Competencies (Knowledge, Experience and Attributes / Skills).
Academic qualifications
• Bachelor degree in Business Studies, Economics, Statistics, or any other degree from a recognized university.

Professional Qualifications / Membership to professional bodies
• Professional Qualification in the areas of administration, project management, reporting or quality assurance will be an added advantage.

Previous relevant work experience required.
• At least 3 years working experience in work experience in similar role

Functional Skills, Behavioral Competencies/Attributes:
• Honesty and integrity of character.
• Good planning, organizational and analytical skills
• Resilient, focused and results oriented
• Excellent oral and written communication, presentation and interpersonal skills
• Motivated, dynamic and dedicated team player
• Team player with strong interpersonal skills


JOB DETAILS:
The County Government of Kwale, Office of the Governor wishes to recruit competent and qualified persons to fill the following position: -

1. County Secretary - Job Group T (I post)

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Job Experience: No Requirements


JOB DETAILS:
Technical Recruiter

Are you interested in a career in recruiting, staffing or human resources? Do you like to work with people? We are currently hiring for a technical recruiter, where you will use your technical knowledge to hire candidates to join our IT, cloud, security, network and data science teams. Use your negotiation skills to help us staff bright and talented people who are looking to make an impact in our fast-paced environment. Grow our company and your career will grow along with it. When you become a valued member of our team, you will be rewarded with advancement opportunities, competitive pay rates and benefits.

Job Responsibilities
• Develop recruiting strategies that meet anticipated staffing needs
• Review job orders and employment applications to match applicants with job requirements
• Search for job candidates using various sources such as databases, internet recruiting resources, networking, job fairs, media advertisements, recruiting firms or employee referrals
• Select job applicants, confirm their qualifications and refer them to hiring managers, making recommendations when appropriate
• Interview job applicants as part of the screening process to get information on their work history, job skills, training and education, and inform them of the position’s duties and responsibilities, compensation, benefits and working conditions
• Analyze employment data related to the position and create reports based on your findings
• Advise management on implementing, organizing and preparing recruiting programs while providing them with training on interviewing, counseling techniques, performance appraisals or documentation of performance issues
• Contact applicants to inform them of their application statuses and conduct background or reference checks on job applicants, particularly those who will be given job offers

Job Skills & Qualifications Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in IT or Related fields
• Negotiation skills
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills
• Strong social aptitude and ability to build relationships
• Technical knowledge to be able to talk to job prospects and understand qualifications

Preferred:
• Previous work experience ( 2-4 years) in information technology, a technical recruiter role, or other related jobs.


JOB DETAILS:
Position Summary:
Support the Activity Manager with managing the rapid roll out of activities focused on food security with support from technical advisors and the ATI team.

Qualifications
• Bachelor’s Degree required
• 7+ years of relevant experience


JOB DETAILS:
Specifically, he/she will support the continental multi-hazard situation room at the Humanitarian and DRR Directorate in the setting up and operations of the situation room, ensuring a seamless implementation of the MHEWS. In the exercise of his/her functions the consultant shall:
• Support the Director at the Social Affairs and Gender and the Director at the Humanitarian and DRR Directorate in developing the regional situation room for natural hazards;
• Liaise with the DRR Director and team on all activities related to the design and realization of the situation room;
• Support the Director in ensuring full a workflow and identifying solutions for staffing needs;
• Coordinate the start-up and operations of the situation room;
• Convene regular weekly regional meetings with relevant regional stakeholders and keep concise minutes of the meetings;
• Participate in coordination and technical meeting with the other continental and regional situation rooms;
• Ensure exchange of information with the continental and other regional situation rooms ad relevant technical bodies;
• Ensure reporting on project implementation
• Lead the technical set-up and management of the situation room
• Coordinate installation of EWS software (myDEWETRA) for exchange of early warning information and ensure testing and operation of the system
• Liaise with EWS experts at AUC, ACMAD, IGAD, SADC and with hydro meteorological experts at Centre Regional de Formation et d'Application en Agrométéorologie et Hydrologie Opérationnelle (AGHRYMET), IGAD and SADC to improve the existing mechanism for the coordination of data exchange at the continental and the regional levels
• Provide input for the AUC situation room for EWS and situation reports and coordinate the preparation of bulletins and situation reports based on information collected through the new regional coordination mechanism established
• Design the regional multi-hazard early warning bulletin in consultation with other the relevant bodies at ECOWAS
• Coordinate the development of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the situation room in close consultation with the Member States; review and foster the development of data sharing policies and system of warnings and policy framework for sharing risk information
• Develop a system for warning and information dissemination
• Initiate the development of an institutional framework at the level of ECOWAS and facilitate the endorsement of the continental framework developed by AUC
• Anticipate obstacles realistically and plan for contingencies - create plans that factor in time for unexpected problems and uncertainties.
• Establish mechanisms to facilitate and encourage knowledge sharing

Qualifications/special skills
• Academic Qualifications: Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) , environmental science, geography, governance and disaster risk management, hydrology, meteorology or a related field is required. A first-level university degree in combination with at least two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• Experience: At least five(5) years of experience in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) with two (2) years of progressive experience in Early Warning Systems (EWS) development and implementation is required.
• Experience working in Africa at the regional or national level on Disaster Risk Reduction/Management (DRR/M), on humanitarian action with linkages to EWS is required.
• Experience in Emergency preparation and response planning, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Emergency information management, data management and emergency operations is desirable.
• Experience as a professional forecaster, including data management, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Early Warning Systems (EWS) management of emergency information, coordination of people and tasks, for the generation of Early Warning (EW) messages is desirable.
• Experience in managing projects/teams is desirable.
• Language: English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this position fluency in English and French is required.

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