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LATEST KENYAN JOBS AND VACANCIES: NGO Jobs in Nairobi, Kenya - 2015







Vision Fund Kenya Limited is a fast

growing financial service company and an investment of the World Vision Kenya.


We wish to recruit a highly

competent, proactive and self driven person to fill the position of: 





Project Manager – Strategic

Partnership 


As part of the Vision Fund’s

Leadership Team, the main purpose of the job is to supervise all lending

functions of the institution at the strategic partnership level, they will

oversee strategic partnership project including operations, business

development, systems and processes in line with the company overall operations

strategy and within the local and World Vision International regulations. 


The position is stationed in Nairobi

and reports to the Operations Director, with occasional local travel 


Specific areas of

responsibility: 

  • Implement the agreed operational plan focusing

    on increasing the outreach of the microfinance institution through

    supporting the strategic partner to open the agreed new areas of operation

    and development of new credit products; 

  • Support the modification and refinement of the

    exiting credit products; 

  • Support the development of new market oriented

    products such as microcredit, SME, micro-saving, fund transfer and

    micro-insurance; 

  • Implement the efficient and effective

    portfolio management to ensure the optimal use of company resources 

  • Analyse the business environment and make

    recommendations on the development of new products and enhance existing

    products to grow the institution’s customer base and outreach 

  • Develop strategies to minimize customer

    complaints and suggest ways of managing the public image of the

    institution 

  • Supervise the VFK staff that are assigned to

    work with the strategic partner and provide them with adequate support to

    make sure that collections are always on time and that the quality of the

    portfolio remains excellent; 

  • Prepare monthly and other periodic operational

    reports for the Operations Director and Senior management team 

  • Lead the delinquency management strategy,

    including analysis reviews, legal actions against customers and employee

    when appropriate 

  • MUST hold a relevant social science or

    Business related degree and or master’s degree in Business Administration,

    Finance or Economics,

  • a minimum of 3 years relevant experience in

    microfinance field operations, 

  • extensive and proven track record in financial

    institution administration, operations and procedures, advanced computer

    skills, 

  • fluency in English with strong written and

    verbal communication skills, 

  • excellent analytical, communication and

    interpersonal skills, and experience in people management, 

  • ability to work in a challenging environment

    with poor infrastructure and human capacities, 

  • highly motivated with a strong interest in

    development and social issues 


Senior Business Analyst 


As part of the Vision Fund’s

Leadership Team, the main purpose of the job is to review, analyze and

occasionally modify systems including encoding, testing, debugging and

installing to support application systems. 


The incumbent will consult with users

to identify current operating procedures and to clarify business objectives and

requirements. 


The incumbent will also be

responsible for writing documentation to describe custom configuration of

applications and operating procedures in liaison with 3rd party application

development consultants in line with the company overall operations strategy

and within the local and World Vision International regulations. 


The position is stationed in Nairobi

and reports to the ICT Director 


Specific areas of

responsibility: 

  • Provide technical expertise and

    recommendations in assessing new IT software projects and initiatives to

    support and enhance our existing systems. 

  • Participate in weekly meetings with the IT

    team to discuss progress and issues to be resolved, and report progress on

    a weekly basis to the ICTD 

  • Coordinate application development for

    multiple projects 

  • Troubleshoot technical issues and identify

    modifications needed in existing applications to meet changing user

    requirements. 

  • Provide programming for some in-house IT

    projects 

  • Assist in the creation of the system design

    and functional specifications for all new development projects. 

  • Updating and amending existing databases 

  • Setting up and testing new database and data

    handling systems 

  • Monitoring database efficiency 

  • Sustaining the security and integrity of

    data 

  • Creating query definitions that allow data to

    be extracted 

  • Analyze data contained in the corporate

    database and identify data integrity issues with existing and proposed

    systems and implement solutions. 

  • Analyze, present and communicate data through

    data warehouse and data mining tools. 

  • Write technical procedures and documentation

    for the applications including operations, user guide 

  • Produce technical documentation for new and

    existing applications 

  • Develops the documentation for processes and

    ensures the overall scope, quality and effectiveness of the documentation

    continues to grow 

  • MUST hold a Minimum of Bachelor degree in in

    Computer Science, Information Systems or Business Information

    Technology, 

  • Should have a minimum of 4 years of technology

    experience with hands-on technical roles in the field and relies on

    experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals, 

  • extensive knowledge of data processing,

    hardware platforms, and enterprise software applications, 

  • technical experience with systems networking,

    databases, Web development, and user support, 

  • technical certification in IT disciplines or

    technology, 

  • good background in Data Base design in

    Microsoft SQL and MySQL, 

  • good background in Microsoft .NET, Java, PHP,

    HTML and other web applications development languages, 

  • good working knowledge skills with Microsoft

    Office Products, Microsoft Visio, and Microsoft Project, 

  • working knowledge of UNIX based operating

    systems and T24 would be an added advantage.


Risk & Compliance Manager 
 


As part of the Vision Fund’s

Leadership Team, the main purpose of the job is to ensure the day-to-day

management of the risk related activities, coordinating, monitoring and

facilitating compliance with existing laws, rules and regulations in risk

management in line with the company overall operations strategy and within the

local and World Vision International regulations. 


The position is stationed in Nairobi

and reports to the Chief Executive Officer, with occasional local travel 


Specific areas of

responsibility: 

  • Develops annual risk management plan that

    outlines the activities to be undertaken and submit for approval to

    Operations Director 

  • Develop check list to conduct follow up the

    implementation of risk mgt. framework of the institution; 

  • Conducts risk assessment on the company

    business situations, economic trends, future customer needs, company past

    performance, its key assets and areas of weaknesses and strength 

  • Conducts risk mgt. strategies trainings and

    awareness programs; 

  • Develops risk management principles,

    processes, methodologies and standards and monitors their proper

    implementation; 

  • Calculates the degree of risks involved owing

    to changes the major management decisions 

  • Assesses solvency using appropriate financial

    analysis tools 

  • Identifies risks inherent in MFI’s business

    and measure and prioritized identified risks and develop adequate risk

    mitigating factors; 

  • Performs risk assessment on at least

    significant risk exposure of VF MFI and proposes risk management

    strategies, for deliberation by the management or the Board; 

  • Ensure implementation of audit findings across

    the branch network; 

  • Ensure branch compliance with established

    credit policies and procedures; 

  • Ensure compliance with regulatory

    requirements; 

  • Make recommendations to mitigate risk of any

    new products and/or target market segments 


The ideal candidate MUST hold a first

degree in Business Administration/Management/Economics/Accounting (MBA holders

are preferred), must have at least 10 years of working experience out of which

4 years in middle level management position in a Micro Finance Organization,

Retail banking or Enterprise lending institutions, Knowledge of the VF- MFI’s

policy, procedures and overall strategic direction, determined personality with

initiative, perseverance and the ability to motivate and manage a team. 


All candidates must be professing and

practicing Christians whose conduct and depth of character are governed by

personal Christian convictions. 


Interested and suitably qualified

individuals should forward their applications, attaching copies of their

academic and professional certificates, detailed CV indicating work experience,

daytime contact and addresses of 3 professionally relevant referees to reach

the undersigned by 31st August 2015. 


The position should be the subject of

the email application.


Send applications to:

hr@visionfundkenya.co.ke
 
 



Vision Fund Kenya Ltd – Empowering

Communities, Giving Hope”



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