Chief Executive Officer and Program Officer Jobs in Kenya - NGO

The Federation of Community Tourism Support Organizations -Kenya (FECTSO-K) is a consortium of Community Based Tourism Enterprises (CBTEs) in Kenya and a number of organisations that support the initiative.

FECTSO aims to work as a one stop business centre that enables CBTEs achieve competitiveness in the mainstream tourism industry.

To achieve its mandate, FECTSO has vacancies for the following positions:

Chief Executive Officer

Reporting to the Board of Trustees, the CEO will drive the Vision of FECTSO through the following:

Duties and responsibilities
  • Overall responsibility of strategic direction, organisation, Administration of FECTSO-K.
  • Develop and implement the FECTSO-K strategic plan.
  • Oversee development and implementation of programmes.
  • Fund raising and resource mobilisation.
  • Financial and human resource management.
  • General coordination between FECTSO and stakeholders.
  • Networking at different levels of society.
Qualifications and skills requirements
  • A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences or a relevant field, an MBA degree will be an added advantage.
  • Minimum of 5 years working experience at Senior management level in a medium to large size organization.
  • Good leadership qualities, team player with good communication skills.
  • Fundraising and resource mobilization skills.
  • At least 35 years of age.
  • Have working knowledge in ICT.
  • Good knowledge of the tourism industry will be an added advantage
Program Officer

The Program Officer will be the implementing agent of FECTSO.

Duties and responsibilities
  • Membership recruitment, awareness and sensitization activities.
  • Maintaining communication with the CBTEs at the regional and grassroots level.
  • Preparation of project proposals.
  • Implementation of FECTSO-K’s programmes.
  • Reporting, monitoring and evaluation.
  • Preparing annual and quarterly reports / budgets.
Qualifications and skills requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, Community Development,Tourism or any other relevant field
  • Minimum 3 years experience in project management.
  • Aged 27 years and above.
  • Have working knowledge in ICT.
  • Experience in managing donor financed programmes.
  • Excellent communication skills in English and Swahili.
Applications and CVs to reach the undersigned by 17th June 2011.

Only successful applicants will be notified.

The Recruitment Panel, FECTSO-K
P O Box 47998, 00100 Nairobi
e-mail: wmg@wmgconsultants.org

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