One Acre Fund Project Programmer Job Opportunity in Kakamega, Kenya September 2014
Organization Description: One Acre Fund is a start-up NGO in Kenya, Rwanda, and Burundi that is innovating a new way of helping farm families to achieve their full potential.
We are growing quickly. In six years, we have grown to serve 135,000 farm families with more than 1,000 full-time field staff.
Job Description: One Acre Fund is a rapidly growing organization; increasing the number of sublocations and districts we work in each year.
Contract details: Project and subject to performance, possibly leading to a permanent position
Candidate Profile
Interested Applicants must meet the following criteria and requirements (all of equal importance):
- Experience of working construction projects is preferable, but not essential;
- IT literate, good level of skill with Microsoft Project or similar software is preferable;
- Pro-active problem solver;
- Good ability of working in a team situation;
- Strong work ethic;
- Attention to detail;
- Good computer literacy and database management abilities;
- Quick learner and team player;
- Excellent written and verbal communicator in English and Kiswahili;
- Strong sense of accountability and responsibility;
- A logical mind with the capacity to overcome difficult problems creatively;
- Good organizational skills;
- A strong sense of ethics, honesty and integrity;
- Ability to work under pressure, producing quality work with little supervision;
- To regularly update the project progress of both sites throughout the construction phase;
- To produce a robust and realistic project programme in the pre-construction phase;
- Produce weekly progress reports to be issued to the One Acre Fund Construction Manager and Infrastructure Associate;
- Manage the production and compilation of project progress photos;
- At the pre-construction phase to be working with the Finance Assistant to produce a projected cash-flow throughout the construction phase;
- Making programme assessments of the time implications of variations to the scope of works;
- Represent One Acre Fund in a professional manner, reporting on progress and anticipated issues arising;
- Report to One Acre Fund Construction Manager;
- Provide constructive feedback to One Acre Fund of ways to improve the financial reporting procedure, and to be constantly looking to deliver a high quality project and ensure that best practice is followed.
Location: Kakamega, Kenya
Preferred Start Date: As soon as possible
Compensation: Competitive Salary.
Career development: Twice annual career reviews and constant feedback. Your manager will invest significant time in your career development.
One Acre Fund Kenya is an equal opportunity employer; both women and men of integrity are invited to apply.
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
To Apply: Email cover letter and resume to Kenyajobs@oneacrefund.org (Subject line: Project Programmer + the place you heard of the position).
Interested Applicants to submit their resumes and cover letter by the 8th of October 2014.