Head of Administration at WTS Energy

The Head of Administration will be responsible for driving excellence in the administration of the Embassy’s activities that fall under thir docket. To achieve this, key competencies will be required and this will include:

• Delivery of results, ensuring high quality and optimal use of resources, with accurate monitoring and reporting.
• Ability to progress multiple projects successfully.
• Excellent management skills with experience of managing budgets and people.
• Analytical and conceptual thinking, seeing relationships between issues, identifying coherent solutions; capacity to think strategically and creatively.
• Upholds the highest standards of honesty and integrity.
• Leadership, management and decision making.
• Takes responsibility for challenging tasks and delivers on time and to a high standard.
• Excellent people management skills and confidentiality.
• Maximises the contribution of the Embassy team, encouraging ownership and providing support.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to present information in a clear, concise and convincing manner at a senior level.
• Strategic thinking and ability to provide evidence-based advice to senior management.
• Representation and networking.

Essential requirements candidates must be able to demonstrate

• Candidates must hold a degree, ideally in Business Administration, financial management, or Human Resource Management.
• +10 years’ experience, out of which minimum of five years’ experience at senior level post. Candidates must demonstrate knowledge of Human Resource management skills, and financial management skills.
• Resourceful and results-orientated, candidates should be able to demonstrate an ability to problem-solve working both independently and as a team member.
• Demonstrable experience of dealing with Kenyan government offices, INGOs and Bilateral/Multilateral Agencies and strong network of contacts.
• Ability to work closely and proactively with senior management.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills are essential, as is a proven ability to demonstrate initiative, resourcefulness and perseverance.
• High degree of integrity and trust and ability to maintain confidentiality over personal information and client relations.
• Proficient with MS Office Suite including Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint; additional IT applications would be beneficial (e.g. working with datasets, social media).
• Candidates must be able to travel in Kenya if required.
• The successful candidate must have a legal entitlement to live and work in Kenya prior to recruitment.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of Human Resource management in a similar organization

The successful candidates will be hired on an initial 2 year fixed-term contract and will be based at the Embassy Nairobi office.