Vacancies at KCB Bank Kenya

Job Description

• Provide technical support for existing Agency, Mobiloan, Internet Banking, Mobi, C2B, MTS, Channel Manager systems (herein later referred to as Digital Channels) and implementation of related projects.
• Delivering business solutions by ensuring that they are well tested and are rolled out in a manner that does not adversely affect business processes.
• Work closely with IT Security to ensure that the Digital Channels money transfer services are well secured and in implementing SSL and other encryption certificates for ensuring robust and secure Digital Channels services
• Roll out of business solutions, ensuring that they are well tested and are rolled out in a manner that does not adversely affect business processes, and providing processes and training to the users.
• Recommend and implement upgrades or changes to the Digital Channels solutions for performance, security or business benefits
• Provide first level IT training and support to users in addition to keeping track of user issues and oversee their prompt resolution. Develop subject matter expert knowledge of Mobile, digital Commerce and other payment banking technologies
• Continuously analyze user requirements to develop and provide solutions
• Enhance and develop new channels for delivering services to customers
• Maintain and manage up to date system configurations and user documentation, also develop Business Continuity plans for both mobile channel solutions

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Job Description

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: MUST NOT BE MORE THAN 10 

• Design and implement structured quality management policy, strategy, and methodology across the organization. 
• Establish and maintain quality management systems and metrics and monitor and review compliance with the Technology quality goals and standards and regulatory requirements. Ensure approved software development and architecture standards, processes and procedures are adhered to, as well as make recommendations on the adoption of industry best-practices.
• Participates in developing, distributing, and coordinating in-depth business requirement reviews and analysis for modified and new systems or applications. 
• Maintains and administers test management tools, manages test environments, and ensures that they are in ready states for both functional and non-functional tests of software projects and changes. 
• Leads the reviews of test plan/strategy and other test basis documents and ensures that testing activities allow applications to meet business and technical requirements, fulfill end-user requirements, and identify existing or potential issues. 
• Manage and oversee test management including test planning, preparation, execution, monitoring and reporting for all test levels and test types.
• Leads the reviews the state of readiness of changes and projects for deployment to production environment and communicates the deployment plans to the change management team. 
• Manage the team’s performance and nurture skills that advance the IT Quality Assurance strategy and establish sustainable practices in QA standards, controls and policies. 
• Conduct internal audits to measure and assure adherence to established QA standards for software development, application integration, and information system performance, and corresponding documentation.
• Identify, log and track for closure any deviations from approved technology standards by any solution deployments.ir futue ate

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Knowledge and understanding of software architecture, design and development as well as interconnectivity between platforms and applications
• Strong teaming, problem solving, and communications skills will be required
• Hands on technical experience in developing and delivering QA automation frameworks, technology, and tools
• Demonstrate knowledge using version control and defect tracking methods, including understanding of associated tools
• Experience with performance and load testing, reporting, and monitoring
• Rich technology experience and good exposure to latest advancements in Testing
• Domain experience in payments, cards, banking and/or trade business a plus
• Experience managing systems or application testing projects of all sizes and complexities, including large systems
• Proven experience in software development
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Good understanding of UML.
• Deep experience in estimating, prioritizing, planning, and coordinating quality testing activities
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations.
• Team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus.
• Strong situational analysis and decision-making abilities.

Academic & Professional

Particulars    Detail    Specific Field or Qualification 

Education 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study    RQ
• Professional Qualifications    ITIL, ISTQB, TOGAF    RQ     
• Project Management/Agile Certifications    Prince2, PMP, AgilePM / PMI-ACP / Certified Agile Project Manager (IAPM) / Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Scrum Master Certified (SMC)    AA    
• Masters Degree    Business Administration or Project Management    AA

Experience

• Total Minimum No of Years’ Experience Required Seven 

Detail    Minimum No of Years    Need Type[2]

• 7 years progressive experience in Information Technology with focus on Business Analysis, Software Development, Quality Assurance    7    RQ
• Experience in at least two IT disciplines such as (Application development, middleware, and SOA, MSA) and Software Quality Assurance    5    ES
• Operating systems (windows, Unix)    3    ES
• Database management systems    3    DE
• Prior working experience Software Quality Assurance    5    ES
• Exposure to Software Testing Automation    3    ES
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation    3    ES
• Excellent planning and organizational skills with ability to breakdown complex items to manageable components    5    ES
• Ability to liaise with all levels of management and subject matter experts across the industry and within the organization    3

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Job Description

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: MUST NOT BE MORE THAN 10 

• Prioritize and champion the definition, implementation and adoption of QE best practices, frameworks, and standards and definition of QE and test automation strategies and approaches in alignment with overall organizational goals.
• Provide strong technical leadership to QE & testing team to ensure adherence to software engineering and solution architecture standards and best practices and manage various QE activities including regression, performance, stress, load testing.
• Lead the reviews of functional and non-functional requirement specifications and technical design documents to ensure completeness and adherence to enterprise architecture and QA & Engineering principles and standards.
• Provide oversight over automated testing instrumentation and CI/CD infrastructure to ensures that they are in ready states for both functional and non-functional tests. 
• Participates in the reviews of test plan/strategy documents and ensures that testing activities comply to the defined standards and are of value to the end users. 
• Manage and mentor team of Quality Assurance Engineers and Software Development Engineers in Test (SDETs) to facilitate their career growth and build capacity of this function and model a test-driven engineering and development culture that drives improvements in software quality.
• Actively participate in solution architecture and design reviews and source code reviews to ensure adherence to defined principles and standards.
• Lead the set-up, maintenance, and performance of test automation frameworks on multiple application platforms, such as Mobile, Desktop, and Web, and oversee development and maintenance of automated test cases and test scripts.
• Oversee the management of Test Environments ensuring their fitness for purpose and safety of personal data through data masking and other techniques.
• Manage deployments on non-production environments and testing of deployment scripts and run books.
• Lead in non-functional testing planning and execution – performance, load, stress, high availability, business continuity tests etc.
• Research and pioneer the adoption and use of new tools & techniques for maintaining and improving quality.

Skills & Experience

• Knowledge and understanding of software architecture, design, and development as well as interconnectivity between platforms and applications.
• Ability to work on all aspects of quality and using different testing methods and tools to test applications.
• Proficiency in QA methodologies, software testing principles, concepts, verification/ validation techniques, and test management
• The ideal candidate should be a seasoned QE Lead with a mix of QA, Project Management and Stakeholder Management skills. 
• Excellent analytical, research, documentation, project planning and implementation skills.
• Skills to communicate effectively cross-functionally across various teams, organizations, and internal and external stakeholders to drive engineering effort.
• Experience with API testing to ensure functionality, reliability, performance, and security.
• All-rounder who can perform various types or levels of testing such as manual testing, automation testing, security testing, performance engineering.
• Experience with performance and load testing, reporting, and monitoring
• Strong knowledge of Agile methodology, software QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
• Ability to write unit, integration, and functional tests with understanding of testing frameworks and writing of automation test case tools s like Selenium Web driver, Katalon Studio and JMeter.
• Experience with containerized platforms, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery tools including creation of pipelines.
• Proven programming experience in at least one modern programming language and SQL.
• Good industry knowledge on emerging trends in Software Quality Assurance.
• Extensive knowledge of Testing lifecycle and professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, automation, and operations 

MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Particulars    Detail    Specific Field or Qualification 

Education

•  Bachelor’s Degree    Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related field of study    RQ
• Professional Qualifications     AT*SQA, ISTQB, ICSB, QAI    RQ     
• Cloud & DevOps Certifications    AWS, GCP, Azure, DevOps    AA     

Experience

Detail    Minimum No of Years   

• Total Minimum No of Years of progressive experience in Information Technology with focus on Business Analysis or Architecture or Software Development or Quality Assurance    7    RQ
• Total Minimum No of Years in Software Development    2    ES
• Total Minimum No of Years in Technical Software Quality Assurance    4    RQ
• Exposure to Software Testing Automation    3    ES
   

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Driving the requirements engineering and design activities of products delivery, set direction and quality check the associated deliverables within the project context.
• Oversee the elicitation, analysis, validation, and verification of business and technical requirements information from business users and product experts, and technical teams ensuring that requirement are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable, and negotiate with stakeholders to understand and prioritize the requirements.
• Conduct peer reviews of Business Analysis artifacts and documentations ensuring review comments are clearly documented and articulated and all concerns addressed to the expectation of all stakeholders.
• Contributes to the specification of functional and non-functional Test strategy documents, test cases and scenarios, and undertakes their reviews and validations for accuracy, coverage, and conformity to requirements.
• Manage business relationships with different business functions and stake holders and participates in the prioritization of initiatives based on business needs and requirements.
• Working and aligning with the risk, compliance, and data protection teams to complete new products and services risk assessments and ensure services reach the bank’s risk and compliance standards.
• Contributes in creation of solution architecture and designs to meet business requirements through existing systems or new solutions and maintains the detailed understanding of the system designs and architectures in order to validate requirements and define functional behavior of the services and systems.
• Engages business and technology stakeholders in process reviews to ensure that technology systems are aligned with business processes, maximum cost optimizations and improved turnaround time.
• Contributes towards proper release planning to guarantee successful solution deployments and adherence to business needs and priorities while keeping stakeholders constantly up to date on progress. 
• Review the current deployment approaches and evaluates / proposes opportunities for enhancing the deployment model for new and existing solutions. 
• Manage, coach, mentor and grow staff within the function while instilling the discipline of business analysis and design within the organization.

Academic & Professional

Detail    Specific Field or Qualification 

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study    RQ
• Professional Qualifications    ITIL Foundation, Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), TOGAF Certification    RQ     
• Project Management    PRINCE II (Practitioner) / AgilePM / PMI-ACP / Certified Agile Project Manager (IAPM) / Certified Scrum Master (CSM)    AA     
• Master’s Degree    Business Administration or Project Management     AA     

Experience

Detail    Minimum No of Years 

• Progressive experience in Information Technology     7    RQ
• Business analysis and architecture.     4    RQ
• IT Projects     4     ES 
• Emerging Technologies (e.g. Mobile, Internet Banking, Cloud, Microservices etc)     2     ES 
• Systems & Applications Support     2    DE 
   

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for building, maintaining, and supporting high-performance, fault-tolerant, scalable and distributed Platform as a Service systems with Kubernetes and Kubernetes flavors such as RedHat OpenShift Container Platforms.
• Responsible for interfacing with application development teams to ensure applications fit within the infrastructure with scalability, reliability and security designed and implemented from the onset. 
• Responsible for establishing and improving team processes and workflows to maximize efficiency and productivity of people and systems. 
• Lead in automation of infrastructure at massive scale to support scaling of digital services.
• Lead the ‘Open source first ‘as a fit for the future initiative within the function.
• Provide team management to the cloud infrastructure team.

Academic & professional

• Education: Bachelor’s degree   ICT related field or Electrical Engineering; RQ
• Professional Qualifications: Kubernetes or RedHat OpenShift Container Platform, RedHat or Linux Certifications, AWS or Azure Architect/SysOps/; RQ
• Professional Qualifications:  CI/CD, DevOps, Automation certifications; AA

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Development, customization, deployment, and maintenance of the reliable and scalable test automation frameworks for all systems and applications.
• Conducting code reviews and ensuring the developed softwares conform to approved standards, design patterns and best practices.
• Create unit tests and Integration mock services, perform Unit Testing and API Testing and Integration Testing, and collaborate with developers to conduct end-to-end defect analysis and resolution of defects, and in reviewing test results for maximum test coverage.
• Execution of performance and security testing and ensure that solutions meet the minimum baseline standards and performance benchmarks. 
• Test strategy formulation which includes decomposing the business and technical requirements into test scenarios, defining test data requirements, managing test case creation, devising contingencies plans and other testing preparation activities.
• Formal reviews of test plans, designs, test scenarios, test cases, and requirements documents with cross-functional teams for both functional and non-functional testing.
• Executes and reports on planned tests, report and manage defects, regress software fixes for new and existing products, assist development with replicating and debugging problems.
• Participate in CI/CD delivery models, create execution pipelines and integrate automation scripts into CI/CD pipeline.
• Supporting solution deployments and in resolving low level systems issues and taking part in resolution of such issues.
• Participate in solution architecture and design discussions and make recommendations to have appropriate changes in design and architecture.
• Coach and mentor other QA Engineers in test automation best practices, frameworks and SDET discipline.
• Management and maintenance of Test Environments.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCES

• Should have a solid understanding of testing principles, testing types, and methodologies.
• Highly proficient at debugging issues – learn debug tools like – Chrome Web Debugger.
• They should be able to write reusable code/scripts and hence they should be proficient in at least one scripting language e.g Java, python.
• Knowledge and experience in API testing using POSTMAN and Soap UI
• Experience in White box testing tools and techniques – like Mocking frameworks (Mockito)
• Good Understanding of architecture principles and standards of applications and general client-server model.
• Good understanding of Object-Oriented Programming concepts and programming languages like Java, C#,.NET
• Good understanding DevOps, Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery concepts (CI / CD) and experience in using CI tools like Jenkins/Bamboo and code versioning tools like Git. 
• Experience with at least one automation frameworks such as Selenium and Katalon studio. 
• Good understanding and experience in performance testing as well as writing simple scripts using open-source performance testing tools like JMeter.
• They should also be aware of the fundamental concepts of Security testing and knowledge of basic coding standards (like OWASP) which ensures that there are no security flaws left unaddressed software applications.
• Knowledge of agile development methodologies using the Sprint/Scrum methodology of agile.
• Knowledge of public cloud technology platforms like – Amazon AWS, Google GCP, or Microsoft Azure.
• Exposure to Behaviour Driven Development.

Academic & Professional

Particulars    Detail    Specific Field or Qualification

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study    RQ

Professional Qualifications  

•  ISTQB / ISTQB Agile Tester Certification / Certified Test Engineer (CSTE) / Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) / Certified Associate in Software Testing (CAST) / CMSQ (Certified Manager of Software Quality)    RQ     
• Project Management    PRINCE II (Practitioner) / AgilePM / PMI-ACP / Certified Agile Project Manager (IAPM) / Certified Scrum Master (CSM)    AA     
• Masters Degree    Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related field of study or Business Administration or Project Management    AA

Experience

• Total Minimum No of Years’ Experience Required 5

Detail    Minimum No of Years 

• Software Quality Assurance     3    RQ
• Software Development    2    ES
• Software Test Automation    2    RQ
• Emerging Technologies (e.g. Mobile, Internet Banking, Cloud, Microservices etc)     2     ES
• IT Projects    4    ES
• Software Applications & Support     2    DE

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Job Description

• To maintain the quality of check off loans’ portfolio through effective loan administration, monitoring and control for corporate and mortgage loans.
• Be the custodian of all credit and lending policies and governance frameworks including their periodic reviews and updates.
• Manage credit information sharing with the CRBs a in line with the CRB regulations Act. 
• Reviewing, developing, and implementing credit policies and strategies and ensure that the Bank maintains a sound loan portfolio with respect to compliance with state laws and regulations, Bank lending policies and procedures, risk appetite and best practices.
• Ensure adherence to risk management framework in identifying, controlling, monitoring and reporting of all risks. Work with respective unit heads to drive the development and execution of the Business Continuity Plans (BCP) and operational risk and implement effective control measures and monitoring plans for compliance and operational risk management.
• Ensure the portfolio management controls for grades 10 and 20 are effective at branch level and at regional portfolio management office level.
• Lead periodic reviews of credit portfolios to mitigate exposure to non-performing facilities.
• Ensure the Business teams under Retail Banking and Corporate Banking Credit authorities adhere to the policy regarding the credit authority discretions and excess.
• Generate Management information reports for control of the credit portfolio for the bank and for regulatory purposes.
• Maintain the SLA standards for credit information sharing complaints raised by customers.
• Monitor the construction loans to ensure that the conditions precedents are complied with.

Academic & Professional
Particulars    Detail    Specific Field or Qualification

Education

• Bachelors Degree    Business related    RQ

Professional Qualifications

•  Accounting or business related    RQ
• Master’s Degree    Business Administration    AA

Experience

Total Minimum No of Years Experience Required

• 10 years

Detail    Minimum No of Years

• Credit management    10     ES
• Credit administration     8     ES
• Credit/lending policy development and management    5    ES
• Lending products development    5     ES
• People management    8    ES
• Stakeholder management    8    ES
• Credit data analytics and analysis tools    5    ES
• Bank operations    5    ES
• Customer relationship management    5    ES
   

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage and participate in the development and implementation of goals, objectives, policies and priorities for assigned programs. Recommend, develop and administer policies and procedures. Recommend, within divisional policy, appropriate service and staffing levels. 
• Plan, direct, coordinate and review the work plan for Applications Support staff. Assign work activities, projects and programs. Review and evaluate work products, methods and procedures. Meet with staff to identify and resolve problems. 
• Implement system changes through automation, process change, management solutions and training. 
• Conduct diagnostic investigations of system errors and implement or recommend solutions or methodologies for resolution. Consult with vendors regarding system functionality.
• Prepare various documentation including project reports, process and user manuals, presentations, strategic and technical plans and other related information on assigned application analyses. 
• Develops risk management procedures, business continuance scenarios, contingency and disaster recovery plans for central and distributed systems and networks to maintain operations during downtime and/or major disasters. Identifies and makes recommendations regarding critical points of failure. Develops and implements policies and procedures for business continuance and disaster recovery plans. Proactive in building processes to minimize/eliminate downtime. 
• Responsible for researching, developing and implementing testing methods and procedures. Ensures that products meet the highest quality standards. Monitors and reports on defects.
• Review proposed systems software for compliance with applicable quality assurance standards before acquisition or implementation

POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Particulars    Detail    Specific Field or Qualification 

Education

• Bachelor’s degree    Computer Science or Information Technology or Information Systems or related    RQ
• Master’s degree    Management / IT    AA     

Professional Qualifications 

• MCP/MCSA/MCSE /MCITP/ITIL    RQ     
• LINUX/UNIX Administration    AA          
• Database Management    AA          

Experience

Total Minimum No of Years’ Experience Required

• 4 Years 

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work with the technology integration teams to provide exceptional integration support.
• Develop and maintain processes and procedures for the support and maintenance of the bank's integration components. Develop and maintain the bank's technical documentation and procedures for integration support.
• Collaborate with the bank's technology and operations teams, development teams, architecture team, and channel support to ensure the smooth and efficient exchange of data between systems.
• Ensure all integration components follow relevant regulations and standards, including cybersecurity and data privacy requirements.
• Manage vendor relationships for integration components, negotiating service agreements and ensuring vendor performance meets the bank's expectations. 
• Conduct regular preventive maintenance checks and routine health checks on integration components and Implement observability of the integration landscape putting in place a mechanism to proactively identify and escalate exceptions.
• Develop and implement plans to upgrade and modernize the bank's integration infrastructure, including the transition to an enterprise-grade design with practices built in to ensure operational efficiency.
• Work collaboratively with other support teams to troubleshoot integration platforms, server performance issues and tune the environment based on findings to achieve desired outcomes.

POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Particulars    Detail    Specific Field or Qualification

Education

•  Bachelor’s Degree IT/Computer Science or Technical related    RQ

Professional Qualifications    

• Any Middleware/integration training/certification    RQ     
• Master’s Degree    Technical or Business Related    AA     

Experience

Total Minimum No of Years’ Experience Required  

•  3 Years 

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborate closely with the project team, partners, and stakeholders to coordinate and plan all field project activities. 
• In partnership with stakeholders, identify and recruit Trainers of Trainers (TOTs) and women's groups. 
• Serve as a key intermediary between the project team, partners, and targeted women's groups, engaging stakeholders regarding planned project activities. 
• Plan and execute training activities for women's groups and Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). 
• Keep the project implementation team regularly informed about the project's progress toward achieving its targets and objectives.
• Work alongside communication teams to identify and document success stories and case studies from the project. 
• Facilitate effective data collection activities and strategies in close collaboration with the monitoring and evaluation team. 
• Take the lead in the development and regular updating of databases for women's groups and MSMEs.
• Provide support in the disbursement process and monitor loan repayments, ensuring necessary follow-up actions.

Academic & Professional 

Particulars     Detail     Specific Field or Qualification  
Education 

• Bachelor’s degree in education, social studies or related field   RQ 

Professional Qualifications

• Community Development/Project Management    AA 
• Masters Degree     Project Management/Community development   AA 

Experience 

 Total Minimum No of Years Experience Required 

• 4 Years 

Detail     Minimum No of Years

• Stakeholder engagement  4 ES 
• Conflict resolution 3 ES 
• Commercial Awareness 1 ES 
• People Management 3 ES 
• Risk Management  1 DE 
• Project Management  3 ES 

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead in the implementation and monitoring of all aspects of the program in collaboration with technical staff, Internal and external partners, program partners, and short-term consultants. 
• The Project Manager will also be responsible for the management of the project and will serve as key liaison with the donor, KCB Bank Kenya and implementing partners. 
• Work with the Digital Financial Services and Marketing functions on developing and implementing the go-to-market strategy for the digital product. 
• Ensure appropriate reporting, financial oversight and compliance of the project in accordance with donor rules and regulations. Ensure program partners’ Job Description Document 2 compliance with donor policies on marking and branding and donor rules and regulations. 
• Ensure effective and transparent use of financial resources for timely and informative reporting in line with donor policies and procedures through collaboration with program, finance and administrative staff. 
• Oversee the development and implementation of the program monitoring and evaluation plan to ensure program activities are tracked, reviewed in line with the overall goal and implementation plan and have the desired impact to achieve program goals and objectives. 
• Visit assigned sites on a regular basis and oversee implementation and execution of ongoing project tasks. 
• Create and sustain a work environment that promotes learning through documentation and knowledge sharing around best practices and lessons learned. 
• Ensure monthly, quarterly and annual programmatic reports and information for submission to the donor as appropriate. 
• Effective people management ensuring highly skilled staff are recruited, properly inducted, empowered to provide leadership and decision-making within a team setting, and effectively managed to perform to a high standard and meeting their objectives.

Academic & Professional 

Education

•  Bachelors Degree Business-related area RQ
• Master’s Degree Project Management, Business, Economics, Development or any other related field    AA 

Professional Qualifications 

• Project Management/M&E/   RQ 

Experience

Total Minimum No of Years’ Experience Required 

• 8 Years  

Detail   Minimum[2] No of Years

• Donor-funded project management   8 RQ
• Budget management of over USD 1 million project  5 RQ
• Program design, oversight and implementation  5 RQ
• Grant Management  5 ES
• Stakeholders management 8 RQ
• People Management   5 RQ
• Monitoring and Evaluation   3 RQ
• Relationship Management 7 RQ
• Donor reporting    6 RQ
• Enterprise development 5 RQ

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KEY RESPONSIBILIITIES:

• Ensure that the project’s gender and inclusion policy and other relevant gender and inclusion principles, policies and regulations are applied consistently throughout the project cycle. 
• Provide technical expertise and inputs on women’s empowerment and gender mainstreaming related to project’s objectives and activities, to project leadership, team leads, and the Communications and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) focal points. 
• Oversee the mainstreaming of gender and inclusion activities and considerations into the project work plan, MEL and branding and communication plan and adjust implementation strategies and activities in consultation with team leads to be responsive to issues identified during the gender and inclusion analysis. 
• Provide technical guidance across the various objectives and outcomes of the project to ensure mainstreaming of gender and inclusion in project strategies and activities. 
• Ensure inclusion of gender-sensitive indicators in the MEL plan and collection of disaggregated data by sex, age, etc. and support KCB Foundation MEL Manager with compilation, analysis and interpretation of gender and inclusion issues
• Conduct regular gender and inclusion assessments to measure progress and adapt project strategies and activities. 
• In collaboration with the Project Manager, develop a capacity building plan and mentor and train project staff, partners and other stakeholders on mainstreaming women issues, tools, policies, and practices. Job Description Document 
• Identify and document successful practices in the project that can be showcased in publications, communication materials and conferences. 
• Prepare communications materials that highlight the project’s gender programming, and inclusion related initiatives, their successes, and lessons learned in collaboration with the Communications Manager; and, 
• Ensure coordination between the project and BMG Foundation on issues related to gender equality, women’s empowerment and social inclusion.

MINIMUM POSITION REQUIREMENTS 

Academic & Professional 

Education   

•  Bachelor’s Degree    Gender Studies, Sociology or any other relevant discipline  RQ 

Professional  Qualifications  

• Project Management/Gender Inclusion/Sustainability/Any relevant area   AA        

Experience & Proficiencies 

Total Minimum No of Years’ Experience Required 

• 5 Years 

 Detail  Minimum[1] No of Years

• Gender and Social inclusion Services  5 ES
• Project Management  4 ES
• Relationship Management 5 ES
• Enterprise development and management 4 DE
• Stakeholders/partnerships management  4 ES
• International Donor-Funded Projects 5 ES
• Capacity building and facilitation  4 ES
• Monitoring and Evaluation  3 DE
• People Management  3 ES
• Program advocacy 3 ES