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KASNEB was established by the Government of Kenya on 24 July 1969. The Accountants Act, Cap 531 of the Laws of Kenya, which was enacted in July 1977, gave KASNEB retroactive recognition since its inception in 1969. The Accountants Act, Cap 531 of the Laws of Kenya was repealed and replaced with the Accountants Act, No. 15 of 2008 which took effect from 30 D...
Ref: HCA/CSHL/2/2017
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Overall Purpose: The Corporation Secretary / Head of Legal is the Head of the Legal and Compliance Unit and will be expected to provide advice to the Board and Management on governance, legal, regulatory and compliance matters and provide corporate secretarial services to the organisation.
1.1 Key duties and responsibilities:
Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, the Corporation Secretary/Head of Legal will be responsible for:
(i) Advising the Board on their duties, responsibilities and obligations, relevant laws and governance matters including implementation of Mwongozo: The Code of Governance for State Corporations.
(ii) Coordinating the governance, legal and compliance audit.
(iii) Assisting in preparation of Board and Committee work plans and charters.
(iv) Assisting in carrying out Board induction, training and evaluation.
(v) Coordinating the timely preparation and circulation of Board and Committee meeting papers and taking minutes thereof. (vi) Keeping safe custody of the seal and other relevant documents.
(vii) Overseeing the legal function and providing well researched legal advice and opinion, legal interpretation on various matters and handling legislation and litigation matters relating to KASNEB.
(viii) Ensuring compliance with laws, rules and regulations by the Board and management.
(ix) Preparing and coordinating the implementation of Intellectual Property Rights policy and guidelines for the products and services of KASNEB.
(x) Preparing, vetting and negotiating official legal documents including contracts and leases and participating in settlement and arbitration of disputes to protect the interests of KASNEB.
(xi) Liaising with the office of the Attorney General and external lawyers handling legal matters on behalf of KASNEB and attending Court hearings.
(xii) Preparing and implementing the Unit’s operational plan, work plan and budget. (xiii) Ensuring risk management in the Unit.
(xiv) Overseeing the implementation of ISO Quality Management System in the Unit.
(xv) Ensuring performance management within the Unit through a target-based system.
(xvi) Providing leadership and effective supervision to staff in the Unit.
(xvii) Performing any other duties as may be assigned from time to time.
1.2 Academic / Professional Qualifications and Experience
The ideal candidate shall possess the following:
(i) Bachelor’s degree in Law from a recognised university.
(ii) Master’s degree in Law from a recognised university.
(iii) CPS qualification and member in good standing of the Institute of Certified Public Secretaries of Kenya (ICPSK).
(iv) Diploma from the Council for Legal Education.
(v) A current practising certificate as an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya.
(vi) At least (8) years relevant experience in legal/corporate secretarial practice six (6) of which should be in a senior management position and minimum of six (6) years experience as Manager for serving members of staff.
1.3 Key personal attributes / functional skills
The ideal candidate should:
(i) Be honest, trustworthy and possess a high degree of personal integrity and professionalism.
(ii) Demonstrate sound judgement, excellent analytical, interpersonal, communication, presentation and reporting skills.
(iii) Be results oriented and willing to multitask and meet strict deadlines.
(iv) Have strategic leadership skills.
(v) Be a team player with ability to motivate staff.
(vi) Demonstrate ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with varied stakeholders.
(vii) Be customer centric and resourceful in problem solving.
(viii) Exhibit an intimate understanding of traditional and emerging marketing channels including familiarity with varied digital marketing platforms.
(ix) Advanced computer skills.
(x) Satisfy the provisions of Chapter Six of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010.
Ref: HCA/MCA/HMCA/2/2017
Overall Purpose: The Head of Marketing and Corporate Affairs is the Head of Marketing and Corporate Affairs Unit and the adviser to the Chief Executive Officer on matters relating to marketing the qualifications of KASNEB nationally, regionally and internationally and on corporate affairs.
2.1 Key duties and responsibilities:
Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, the Head of Marketing and Corporate Affairs will be responsible for:
(i) Developing and implementing a marketing strategy for the qualifications of KASNEB within the national, regional and international markets.
(ii) Developing and implementing a corporate brand and communication strategy.
(iii) Developing and implementing a Business Development Policy.
(iv) Conducting market intelligence, market surveys and market needs analysis.
(v) Ensuring high quality customer service and customer care.
(vi) Liaising with the Kenya National Library Service (KNLS) and other libraries to establish information on the activities of KASNEB and reading centres for the qualifications of KASNEB.
(vii) Developing appropriate information, education and communication (IEC) materials, including publishing and distributing journals, newsletters, relevant study and reading materials.
(viii) Coordinating collaborative agreements and linkages with strategic business partners nationally, regionally and internationally.
(ix) Lead all areas of content generation and production across all media platforms.
(x) Developing and implementing the Corporate Social Investment (CSI) strategy.
(xi) Coordinating advertising initiatives.
(xii) Preparing the Unit’s operational plan, work plans and budget.
(xiii) Implementing quality management system (QMS) in the Unit
(xiv) Ensuring risk management in the Unit.
(xv) Ensuring staff performance management in the Unit through a target-based system.
(xvi) Performing any other duties as may be assigned from time to time.
2.2 Academic / Professional Qualifications and Experience
The ideal candidate will possess the following:
(i) Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communication, Public Relations, Media Studies or related discipline from a recognised university.
(ii) Master’s degree in Marketing or relevant business related discipline from a recognised university.
(iii) Professional qualifications in leadership or business related field from a recognised institution.
(iv) Membership in good standing of a recognised professional body.
(v) A minimum of eight (8) years relevant work experience six (6) of which should be at Senior Level.
(vi) A minimum of six (6) years’ experience in Marketing and Corporate Affairs for serving members of staff.
2.3 Key Personal Attributes / Functional Skills
The ideal candidate should:
(i) Be honest, trustworthy and possess a high degree of personal integrity and professionalism.
(ii) Demonstrate sound judgement, excellent analytical, interpersonal, communication, presentation and reporting skills.
(iii) Be results oriented and willing to multitask and meet strict deadlines.
(iv) Have strategic leadership skills.
(v) Be a team player with ability to motivate staff.
(vi) Demonstrate ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with varied stakeholders.
(vii) Be customer centric and resourceful in problem solving.
(viii) Exhibit an intimate understanding of traditional and emerging marketing channels including familiarity with varied digital marketing platforms.
(ix) Advanced computer skills.
(x) Satisfy the provisions of Chapter Six of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010.
Ref: HCA/ICT/SODM/2/2017
Overall Purpose: The Senior Officer, Database Management will be responsible for the design, configuration and maintenance of all databases.
Key duties and responsibilities:
Reporting to the Head of Information Communication Technology, the Senior Officer, Database Management will be responsible for:
(i) Monitoring performance and managing parameters to provide fast query responses to front-end users ensuring performance of databases including systems logs, events and event correlation and maintaining performance statistics and setting baseline statistics.
(ii) Performing database server administration for data availability of key systems.
(iii) Participating in the selection, installation, qualification, testing, and validation of enterprise database systems and applications.
(iv) Documenting all database installations and configurations.
(v) Designing, developing and maintaining databases, database security and other database objects including stored procedures.
(vi) Creating and maintaining jobs/scripts with automated scheduling and alerts, configuration and monitoring for all current and future databases.
(vii) Monitoring the status of scheduled backups for databases.
(viii) Ensuring database security and the analysis and application of database patches and upgrades to database servers and components.
(ix) Performing imports, exports and data conversion from one system to another as needed.
(x) Developing, implementing and maintaining standard operating procedures (SOPs) for database administration including backup, restoration, administration, and disaster recovery.
(xi) Enforcing and maintaining database constraints to ensure integrity of the database.
(xii) Administering all database objects, including tables, clusters, indexes, views, sequences, packages and procedures.
(xiii) Tracking and reviewing database license requirements.
(xiv) Implementing approved disaster recovery policies and plans that support KASNEB’s operational continuity.
(xv) Undertaking training of end users on the implemented systems and supervising assigned staff as may be applicable.
(xvi) Ensuring risk management in the area of operation.
(xvii) Ensuring the implementation of the ISO Quality Management System in the area of operation.
(xviii) Performing any other duties as may be assigned from time to time.
Academic / Professional Qualifications and Experience
(i) Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or IT equivalent qualification from a recognised university.
(ii) Masters degree in ICT related field will be an added advantage.
(iii) Good knowledge of systems design and development tools such as Visual Basic, C++, Java, Ms-SQL Server, MySQL and statistical packages.
(iv) Good knowledge of operating systems such as Windows series, Linux and Unix.
(v) Membership in good standing of a relevant professional body.
(vi) A minimum of five (5) years relevant experience three (3) of which should be in middle management in ICT in a large organisation and three (3) years relevant experience for serving officers.
Key personal attributes / functional skills
The ideal candidate should:
(i) Be honest, trustworthy and possess a high degree of personal integrity and professionalism.
(ii) Have demonstrated leadership qualities and management capability for responsibilities at this level.
(iii) Be result oriented and willing to multitask and meet strict deadlines.
(iv) Be a team player.
(v) Demonstrate ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with varied stakeholders.
(vi) Be customer centric.
(vii) Demonstrate sound judgement, excellent analytical, interpersonal, communication, presentation and reporting skills.
(viii) Be computer literate.
(ix) Satisfy the provisions of Chapter Six of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010.
Ref: HCA/ICT/MISSS/2/2017
Overall Purpose: The Manager, Information Systems Security and Support will be responsible for liaising with Heads of Divisions and Units to achieve and maintain information and system security.
Key duties and responsibilities:
Reporting to the Head of Information Communication Technology, the Manager, Information Systems Security and Support will be responsible for:
(i) Designing, implementing and maintaining information security strategies, policies, procedures and standards.
(ii) Monitoring and ensuring compliance with ICT system security and information security standards, policies and procedures.
(iii) Reviewing and assisting in the preparation of the disaster recovery plan.
(iv) Advising on information governance and security awareness and training programmes.
(v) Ensuring effective ICT incident management for business continuity.
(vi) Providing creative solutions for effective service delivery.
(vii) Managing the implementation of new hardware, software acquisitions and software upgrades.
(viii) Ensuring risk management within the Unit.
(ix) Ensuring the implementation of the ISO Quality Management System.
(x) Ensuring staff performance management in the Unit through a target-based system.
(xi) Performing any other duties as may be assigned from time to time.
Academic / Professional Qualifications and Experience
The ideal candidate will possess the following:
(i) Bachelor’s degree in Information Communication Technology or related discipline from a recognised university.
(ii) Master’s degree in Information Communication Technology or related discipline from a recognised university.
(iii) CICT or other professional qualification in ICT from a recognised body.
(iv) Membership in good standing to a recognised professional body.
(v) Knowledge of legislation, regulations, national and international IT security policies and standards.
(vi) Knowledge of data protection principles and experience in facilitating data protection audits.
(vii) Extensive experience of working in an information security environment.
(viii) Strong ability in developing and applying Information Risk Management frameworks.
(ix) A minimum of seven (7) years relevant experience six (6) of which should be in middle management position in a large organisation and six (6) years relevant experience as Senior Officer in Systems Security Administration for serving officers.
Key personal attributes / functional skills
The ideal candidate should:
(i) Be honest, trustworthy and possess a high degree of personal integrity and professionalism.
(ii) Have demonstrated leadership qualities and management capability for responsibilities at this level.
(iii) Be a team player.
(iv) Demonstrate ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with varied stakeholders.
(v) Be customer centric.
(vi) Demonstrate sound judgement, excellent analytical, interpersonal, communication, presentation and reporting skills.
(vii) Satisfy the provisions of Chapter Six of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010.
Ref: HCA/SCM/SOP/2/2017
Overall Purpose: The Senior Officer, Procurement will be responsible for ensuring that the procurement process is undertaken within the applicable laws, rules and regulations.
Key duties and responsibilities:
Reporting to the Manager, Supply Chain Management, the Senior Officer, Procurement will be responsible for:
(i) Receiving and recording requisitions for goods and services.
(ii) Ensuring accuracy of specifications and requisition authorisation.
(iii) Coordinating the invitation for tenders, proposals and quotations from prospective bidders to ensure efficiency and effectiveness of the processes.
(iv) Assisting in the preparation of invitation for tenders and request for proposals.
(v) Maintaining up to date tender, proposals and quotation registers.
(vi) Coordinating opening and evaluating of bids.
(vii) Recommending adjudication of bids within the threshold of the Tender Committee and Procurement Committee.
(viii) Assisting in the provision of secretariat services to the Tender Committee.
(ix) Communicating the results of tenders to all the bidders.
(x) Submitting tender securities and performance securities to the bidders.
(xi) Ensuring efficient issuance of orders for goods and services.
(xii) Ensuring efficient expedition of orders for goods and services.
(xiii) Undertaking periodic pre-qualification of suppliers.
(xiv) Undertaking periodic market surveys.
(xv) Ensuring efficient filing of procurement records and documents.
(xvi) Preparing consolidated requirements for procurement planning.
(xvii) Coordinating internal and external audits audit of procurement processes.
(xviii) Undertaking periodic boards of survey.
(xix) Undertaking risk management in the Procurement Section.
(xx) Performing any other duties as may be assigned from time to time.
Academic / Professional Qualifications and Experience
The ideal candidate will possess the following:
(i) Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Procurement and Supplies management, Business Administration or any other relevant discipline from a recognised university.
(ii) Master’s degree in related field will be an added advantage.
(iii) Professional qualification or Higher Diploma in Supply Chain Management, Procurement and Supplies management or relevant discipline from a recognised certifying body.
(iv) Knowledge of Government IFMIS system is an added advantage.
(v) Member in good standing of the Kenya Institute of Supplies Management.
(vi) A minimum of five (5) years relevant experience three (3) of which should be in middle management in a large organisation and three (3) years relevant experience for serving members of staff.
Key personal attributes / functional skills
The ideal candidate should:
(i) Be honest, trustworthy and possess a high degree of personal integrity and professionalism.
(ii) Have demonstrated leadership qualities and management capability for responsibilities at this level.
(iii) Be result oriented and willing to multitask and meet strict deadlines.
(iv) Be a team player.
(v) Demonstrate ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with varied stakeholders.
(vi) Have thorough knowledge of the Public Procurement and Disposal Laws and Regulations.
(vii) Be customer centric.
(viii) Demonstrate sound judgement, excellent analytical, interpersonal, communication, presentation and reporting skills.
(ix) Be computer literate.
(x) Satisfy the provisions of Chapter Six of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010.
Interested and qualified candidates should send their applications enclosing detailed curriculum vitae, copies of transcripts, academic and professional certificates, national identity card, testimonials, current and expected salary and names and addresses of three referees so as to reach the undersigned not later than Thursday, 9 March 2017.
The envelope should be marked “CONFIDENTIAL” and indicate the “REFERENCE NUMBER” of the position applied for and be addressed to:
Chief Executive Officer KASNEB P.O. Box 41362-00100 Nairobi, Kenya
“KASNEB is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate any applicant on the basis of their ethnic background, sex, religion, disability, HIV status or marital status yet is attentive to gender, regional and ethnic balance”.
Kindly note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.
E-mail: info@kasneb.or.ke
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