Jobs at Dorber-Leit

Our client is one of the leading Law firm committed to providing excellent legal service in Criminal Law, Banking & Finance, Aviation Law, Corporate & Company Law, Conveyancing & Alternative Disputes Resolution.

Are you an aggressive Litigation Advocate who is confident, ambitious, resourceful and good with legal matters? Are you interested in being part of a team focused towards transforming the legal sector in Kenya and beyond the East African region? If so, then this is the job you are looking for.

Our client would like to fill the position of a Litigation Advocate who will be reporting to the Managing Partner.

Purpose Statement of the Position

Responsible for handling a variety of complex assigned legal matters within the department. Applies subject matter knowledge; requires capacity to understand specific needs or requirements to apply skills/knowledge. May provide functional advice or training to less experienced advocates.

Job Responsibilities

Litigation:

• Drafting and reviewing of litigation documents including pleadings, notices, affidavits & correspondence;
• Furnishing legal opinions and advice on any areas of the law arising in civil & commercial litigation
• Consultations with clients and counsel
• Reviewing new legislations
• Attending court at the High Court and Magistrate’s Court
• Conducting negotiations with a view to settling potentially litigious matters
• Conducting the administration of an attorney’s practice, including file management and electronic time-keeping

Drafting Ability:

• Draw up contracts and other legal documents ensuring attention to detail

Case & Transaction management:

• To be able to demonstrate that they are technically very able across a sufficiently wide area, able to work without significant supervision and have developed a particular strength and reputation in their work area.
• To be able to show a track record of achieving their fee targets and time targets and that the targets are appropriate for their position and level of qualification.

Advocacy Skills:

• To provide a high quality legal service to all clients.
• Offering advice on the law, legal procedures and a wide range of associated issues
• Research on diverse range of assigned issues, documents and case history to ensure accuracy of advice and procedures
• Keeping up-to-date with changes in the law

Client care & Practice support:

• Receive requests for legal advice from current and potential clients and deciding on the most appropriate responses to make to these requests.
• To develop and maintain good client relationship skills, gaining clients’ confidence and that of other professionals

Business Development:

• To be strategic and commercially aware and be fully familiar with the firm’s current strategy. Be able to have knowledgeable discussion about the market the firm operates in, the threats and opportunities the department faces and the future plans for the Department and their role in those plans.
• Attract additional business from new and existing clients.

Professional Development:

• To have a clear understanding of what it would take to develop a career to the next level.
• Attend internal training and external training as and when required.
• Maintain high standards of professional conduct while generating adequate practice income, ensuring that the fees earned sufficiently exceed total costs and expenses incurred.

Reliability:

• Proven track record of effectively delegating work to other members of the department and supervising the work effectively.
• Successfully be in charge of a matter that involves other departments.

Dedication to the firm:

• Participate in team meetings
• Ability to identify projects and use their initiative to get them up and running.

Requirements

• LLB Degree from a recognised University
• Must hold the most current Practising Certificate as an Advocate of the High court of Kenya.
• A minimum of 5 years’ work experience in a busy Litigation department preferably with a top tier law firm is highly desirable.
• Experience in handling defamation cases is highly desirable.
• A successful track record in Civil & Commercial litigation will be an added advantage.

Competencies and Skills required

• Broad base of legal practice experience
• Excellent communication, presentation, research & analytical skills.
• Demonstrate excellent writing and communication skills
• Developed interpersonal skills with the ability to interact effectively and work diplomatically with clients and individuals at all levels across the Firm
• Ability to foster positive relationships with all individuals across the Firm
• Must have high moral integrity and character
• Highly organized and good time management skills
• PC and other relevant technology competencies (e.g., Microsoft applications)
• Focused on performance and results
• Poised to work under pressure with very little supervision
• Focused and inquisitive learner, proactively pursues opportunities to build expertise and skills
• Desire and ability to learn from and confer on an ongoing basis with other Advocates of the Firm when the handling matters with a view to continuously developing professional knowledge and expertise;
• Flexibility to adapt to changing priorities and focus

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Our client is a leading animal health company in East and Central Africa since 1906; The Company has delivered high quality products and solutions for livestock farming that is unparalleled in the region. Our client is a principal supplier of tried, tested and trusted brands in animal health and crop farming sectors, all developed with the key objectives of increasing production and productivity on the farms. The quality of their Brands that make up the range of high quality products and solutions is unparalled in the region.

Are you a process oriented professional who is confident, ambitious, resourceful and imaginative with the desire to challenge yourself? Are you interested in being part of a team focused towards transforming livestock farming in Kenya and beyond the East African region? If so, then this is the job you are looking for.

Our client would like to fill the position of a Group ICT Manager.

Purpose Statement of the Position

The jobholder is mandated to support the group business through implementation of information & communication technology.

Roles 

• Implement packages and provide training
• Develop IT training schedule
• Ensure quarterly hardware and software maintenance is implemented
• Provide adhoc troubleshooting of computer hardware, software and network infrastructure
• Maintain the integrity of business data held on the systems
• Implement and maintain ICT security and computer resource access
• Develop in-house solutions for business solutions according to best ICT practice.
• Generate business proposals following analysis of user requirements
• Manage and coordinate resources for implementation of IT projects
• Facilitate information technology disaster recovery undertakings
• Manage ICT suppliers portfolio
• Address User Support Requests/Help Desk Calls
• Maintain IT equipment inventory

Key Performance Indicators

• Implement packages by agreed date
• Develop IT training schedule quarterly
• Ensure ICT services are 100% available Monday to Friday
• Priority1 Fixes within 2 business hours
• Priority 2 Fixes within 24 hours
• Priority 3 Fixes within 1 week
• Zero ICT security breach and computer resource access
• Implement in-house solutions by agreed date.
• 50% of business proposals continue to implementation
• 100% information technology real disaster recovery simulation every quarter
• ICT suppliers delivery as per contract

Job Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or Computer Science.
• Proven work experience in handing ERP integrations of systems such as Syspro, Sage, VIP, Premier HR, LIMS, Sun System, Fidelio & Micros.
• IMIS, MCSE & CCNA qualifications are highly desirable
• Minimum of 5 years relevant experience in a comparable ICT environment.
• Proven work experience in managing IT policies & procedures on architecture, security, disaster recovery, standards, purchasing, & service provision.
• Prior experience in Database administration of SQL & Oracle LIMS.
• Proven work experience in in end user support & SLA contracts management.

Competencies and Skills required

• Knowledge of current and emerging ICT trends
• Knowledge of the specific software and hardware preferable
• Training skills
• Change management
• Good communication skills
• Presentation skills
• Understanding the business processes and requirements
• Good negotiation skills
• Project management and implementation

Salary Budget: Kshs.100,000 Gross

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We are recruiting for one of our clients, a farm in Isinya.

Purpose Statement of the Position

To ensure the farm develops and achieves the appropriate sales objectives/targets aimed at delivering on the farms’ overall strategy. The jobholder will be responsible for selling tomatoes, capsicum and farm animals to institutions and companies.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Actively seeking out new sales opportunities from institutions and companies in order to grow the customer base.
• Achieve growth and hit sales targets by successfully managing the sales operations.
• Design and implement a strategic sales plan that expands company’s customer base and ensure its strong presence.
• Build and promote strong, long-lasting customer relationships by partnering with them and understanding their needs.
• Present sales, revenue and expenses reports and realistic forecasts to management.
• Identify emerging markets and market shifts while being fully aware of new products and competition status.
• Manage and balance sales, inventory and debt levels.
• Assist the farm in meeting their customer acquisition and revenue growth targets by keeping the farm competitive and innovative
• Work with the transport personnel to facilitate timely deliveries to customers.
• Recruiting farmers for training and also marketing their produce to different retail outlets.

Minimum Requirement

• Bachelor’s Degree in Agribusiness or related field.
• Must have at least 3 years working as a sales representative or sales manager, consistently meeting or exceeding targets.
• Work experience in vegetable and animal farming.
• Conversant with green house technology in tomato and capsicum farming.
• Working knowledge on vegetable and animal markets and their consumption patterns in Nairobi and its environs.
• Should have rich and precise strategies on disposing huge volumes of vegetable and beef cattle to the various markets.
• Should be able to create and sustain a huge client base for consumption of vegetable and beef cattle.
• Should be ready to work and reside on the farm, at Isinya.

Competencies & Skills

• Practical knowledge of basic farm accounting, budgeting & procurement procedures.
• Practical experience
• Excellent Communication and interpersonal Skills
• Excellent Problem Solving Skills
• Result oriented & a team player.
• Organised, rigorous & precise.
• Recognises & resolves problems quickly & efficiently.
• Ability to effectively communicate & deal with clients & team members.
• Must have good reporting skills.

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Our client is a 3 star hotel offering accommodation services, a restaurant and bar with conference facilities designed to cater for travellers and corporate events. The hospitality sector has been vibrant offering a range of service package with the modern traveller and corporates in mind.

Are you a service centred sales and marketing professional with a keen eye for offering clients with excellent hospitality services? Are you able to negotiate for good business deals and make powerful presentations to a variety of high level audiences? If so then you are the person we would like to hear from right now. The role reports to the General Manager.

Purpose Statement of the Position

The jobholder will be in charge of all accounting aspects that pertains to the hotel to include but not limited to Financial reporting, budgeting, ensuring efficient& effective operation as pertains to account receivables, account payables, cashiering, banking, procurement systems, among others.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Monitors compliance with generally accepted accounting principles and hotel procedures.
• Reviews, investigates, and corrects errors and inconsistencies in financial entries, documents, and reports.
• Assures compliance with government, county, local and corporate policies, regulations and laws.
• Reviews accounts payables and weekly check runs and reconciles.
• Determines proper handling of financial transactions and approves transactions within designated limits.
• Compiles and analyses financial information to prepare entries to general ledger accounts, cost centres and documents business transactions.
• Responsible for daily Stock takes, reconciliation and timely of daily sales reports against expenses.
• Responsible for verification of income auditing, receivables & debtors reconciliation
• Distributes monthly comparison reports and cost centre reports according to schedules.
• Prepares financial statements and other reports to summarize and interpret current and projected company financial position.
• Analyse transactional processes and identify areas where additional accuracies and efficiencies can be achieved.
• Applies cost accounting methods to achieve accurate representation of cost centre performance.
• Assist with monthly forecast & annual budgets prepares all allocations;
• Coordinate monthly closing process and reconciliation of general ledger accounts
• Responsible for all taxes obligations.
• Maintain system of accounts and keep records on all company transactions and assets
• Report, analyse, and ensure integrity of all financial information.

Minimum Requirement

• Holder of a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce or related from a reputable institution
• CPA (K) or equivalent holder
• Minimum of 3 years working experience in a similar position in a reputable hotel or institution preferably 3-4 star rating.
• Strong knowledge of property management systems. Prior experience with hotel operating systems (Fidelio/opera, Delphi, micros, related).
• In-depth technical proficiency in Microsoft applications.

Competencies and Skills required

• The ability to display a high degree of professionalism and integrity as befitting a member of management.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills, with the ability to set priorities for self and others.
• Excellent listening skills.
• Deep and advanced accounting and mathematical skills.
• Quality cautious and keen on detail
• Good planning and organizational skills.
• Good communication skills both written and spoken.