Massive Recruitment in Andela Kenya (Many Vacancies)

About Andela
Andela is a global engineering organization that connects leading technology companies and talented software developers from around the world.
We enable companies to build high-performing engineering teams while providing a platform for talented technologists to accelerate their expertise.
Backed by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, GV (Google Ventures) and Spark Capital, Andela is building the next generation of global technology leaders.

Guest Relations and Travel Internship 

Andela’s Internship programmes provide a chance for brilliant minds to kick start their careers in a company that offers world class experience in everything we do.
The Guest Relations and Travel intern will offer support to the department in managing logistics around the key aspects of incoming and outgoing travel.

Responsibilities

Travel
Outgoing Travel
(International)
·         Assist in liaising with all other Andela Centers to ensure that adequate notice is given for all scheduled travel
·         Help in ensuring that the intended personnel traveling has all necessary documentation required for travel
·         Arranging and follow-up for all necessary documentation and requirements to facilitate travel, e.g. Passports, Invite letters, Visas, Yellow fever, Tickets, Insurance etc. Experience in dealing with processing of passports and visas is not a requirement but would be an added advantage.
·         Liaising with all departments to ensure the travelling personnel has everything they need for purposes of their travel.
·         Liaising with other centers to ensure they are prepared to receive the travelling personnel.
Incoming Travel
·         Helping to ensure we give the different centers adequate support to facilitate the travel of their personnel or proposed guests to Andela Kenya on request.
·         Assisting in receiving all incoming guests and ensuring that we can cater for all special needs as and when they come in.
·         Following up with guests to ensure they complete surveys that can guide us on how and where to improve.
Guest Relations
·         Updating the guest schedule
·         Updating departments and/or personnel that may be required to provide support in ensuring the success of a visit.
·         Assisting in Internal communication to the Andela Kenya community on oncoming guests
·         Any other duties as may be assigned
How to Apply
Operations Associate

Responsibilities
Meals and kitchen management
·         Gather feedback on meals; quantities, quality from kitchen staff and any issues arising
·         Monitor the hygiene levels observed by support staff while handling food, utensils and the kitchen supplies
·         Update transport usage  and trends on a monthly basis on the Cost trackers
·         Review usage per department per month
·         Manage monthly  invoicing and costs breakdown for each department
Workspace management
·         Identify, communicate and share the space needs based on expected fellows and hires with facilities department.
·         Ensure workspaces have adequate resources: chairs, desks, power connections, monitors, ethernet ports
·         Ensure all workspaces, common areas are used for the intended purposes.
·         Ensure that meeting spaces are used efficiently and effectively
Procurement
·         Review suppliers and their service regularly.
·         Support LPO issuance from Finance
·         Liaise with suppliers for invoices and support Invoicing for payments to be done by Finance
·         Track all office supplies i.e stationary, kitchen supplies etc and restock depending on usage
·         Manage and disburse procurement requests as they are requested or submitted by departments and fellows
Worktools management
·         Allocate new hires worktools when and as they join Andel
·         Customer Service
·         Keep employees updated on all activities that  will affect their day to day as they arise as reported by Facilities, Operations, IT departments and other departments
Data collection, tracking, analysis and reporting
·         Keep track all cost consumption areas e.g meals, stationery
·         Observe trends and report on usage and ways to make things better e.g space usage, meeting rooms usage, meals costs reduction proposals etc
·         Support  process documentation, process creation and process automation
·         Any other duties as may be assigned by supervisor.
How to Apply
Talent Operations Coordinator

About You:
You are passionate about building and designing systems and process that increase efficiency and you have a love for finding and supporting unique individuals that, given the right role have the power to change the world.
You are excited to represent Andela to a wide variety of candidates across levels of seniority and thrive in a multi-functional role in fast-paced, innovative environments, and solving key issues enabling recruiting functions to thrive and aiding in finding and empowering Africa’s top engineers.
You have strong analytical and time/project management skills. You are a confident self-starter and be a results-oriented individual excited by the mission that you apply your skills towards.

Responsibilities

·         Define and lead coordination systems, measurement, and accountability in Andela’s rapidly scaling and dynamic Talent function – including managing interview scheduling for key/senior technology roles
·         Delivering an incredible candidate experience by being the scheduling point of contact for key technology hires
·         Providing a key role in talent mapping and insight to ensure Andela is an expert in technology market trends
·         Maximise the efficient and quality of Talent / Recruitment operations by finding, selecting and overseeing the implementation of third party softwares, tools and internal process that empower and enhance Talent / Recruiting at Andela
·         Screening online applicants and ensure SLA’s are met regarding responses to candidates, updates to referrers and in internal client delivery

Qualifications

·         Experience in coordination and/or project management
·         Experience in technology companies or staffing environments, exposure specifically to technology recruiting would be a bonus
·         The ability and desire to innovate and “think-outside-the-box” to constantly seek to improve the overall division and Andela while operating in an environment of constant change
·         Knowledge of recruiting functions and experience managing projects/initiatives would be preferred
·         Strong time-management skills and ideally across gSuite
·         A passion to optimise/empower a recruiting function through problem solving, coordination and seeking to find solutions and positively impact the Talent team
·         The ability to work independently, with some ambiguity and develop process and structure as needed
How to Apply
Communications Manager

Andela Nairobi is seeking an experienced marketing and communications professional to broadcast our vision and achievements to the world.
Based in Nairobi, the Marketing & Communications Manager will be responsible for shaping and executing on a multi-faceted marketing strategy that drives business growth, supporting marketing initiatives that recruit the most talented developers in Africa, and build Andela’s brand as an elite engineering organization.

Roles

·         Lead the Andela Nairobi Marketing & Communications team in planning and executing a number of strategic initiatives across PR, field marketing and digital marketing to bolster Andela’s presence in Nairobi
·         Own all Nairobi press relationships, working closely with Nairobi leadership and the global Andela Marketing organization to secure high-quality media coverage
·         Build a scalable marketing program across digital and in-person touch points, designed to significantly bolster the number of Fellowship applications
·         Support the Nairobi Country Director in driving engagement among the Andela Fellows through a variety of employee communications initiatives
·         Serve as the Nairobi liaison to the global Andela Marketing organization, ensuring all Nairobi marketing initiatives are aligned with the company’s core messaging and brand identity

Requirements

·         5 years minimum experience in communication/ marketing / public relations, technology preferable
·         Strong existing relationships with key business and technology press
·         Excellent written & verbal communicator
·         Creative and critical thinker with an ability to craft narratives
Deep understanding of social media platforms
Being a good person; we have a “no jerk” policy at Andela
How to Apply
Financial Planning and Analysis Associate

About the Role
The FP&A Associate serves as a seasoned finance staff supporting or leading a variety of sub–functions: financial analytics, metrics, and reporting. The FP&A Associate will demonstrate a proven track record and work in a fast–paced corporate finance environment.
They should be able to adapt to change on a regular basis and deliver quick and accurate analysis. Further, they should be able to gather and interpret complex financial data.
In doing this, they should be able to collaborate with key parties across the business to incorporate all relevant information into financial analytics to enable them develop insights and perspectives, identify business trends, and recommend action plans on core functions supporting the organization..

Responsibilities

·         Assist in income statement and cash flow forecasting, budgeting
·         Transaction analysis and reporting, including budget vs. actual analysis for different locations
·         Assist in developing and updating financial systems/models
·         Build and nurture strong working relationships with other team members and functional heads
·         Engage and collaborate with other teams across the region and beyond on ad hoc projects and modelling

Qualifications

·         Requisite academic qualification (University degree/ CFA/CPA/CIFA)
·         2-4 years’ experience in a similar role
·         Sound knowledge of corporate finance
·         Proficiency in extraction of reports from ERP systems
·         Proficiency in MS Excel and other MS Office tools
·         Ability to communicate clearly
·         Strong interpersonal skills
·         Ability to meet strict deadlines
·         Ready to embrace start up pace with a good sense of humour
·         Passion to help transform the world
How to Apply
Project Manager

About the role
The Project Manager is an operational powerhouse, and resource allocation maestro that guides us to deliberately execute and deliver on our product roadmaps.
This individual is a machine; process-driven, data-driven, and results oriented. They consistently exceed the standards of everyone around them, but rarely exceed their own standards.
They are passionate about “servant leadership.” They believe that they do the dirty organizational work so that the team can focus on what they do best: execution.
Every rocket ship needs an engine. The right person for this role desires to build the engines that enable the rocket ships of human transformation to take off and land smoothly.

Responsibilities 

·         Keep track of all resources (human and non-human) available for deployment within Learning product teams
·         Efficiently deploy all resources to yield optimal product and learning velocity of Learning product teams
·         Guides learning product teams to stay on track using the best project management practices and tools for software development
·         Mentors and guides apprentices on the best practices for effective project management

Qualifications

·         successfully worked as a project manager. You’ve actuated teams operationally to materialize the goals of projects on time while maintaining quality.
·         (with and without a team) have created workflow and resource allocation systems designed for maximum throughput for projects.
·         believe that the future is what we make it to be. So you seek opportunities to define future states of progress and rally teams to execute towards materializing those future states.
How to Apply
Head of Security

About the role
Reporting to the Country Director, the overall purpose of this role is to develop security risk control capabilities and pro-actively lead security management through continued education, training and prevention initiatives.
We are looking for an intelligent and highly networked individual who has a passion for Corporate Security. If this is you, then we’d love to welcome you to a fast-paced team of innovators that know how to get the job done.

Responsibilities

·         Develop, implement, review and maintain a viable Security Strategy for the organization to ensure an effective & efficient security process at Andela Kenya.
·         Constitute a disaster management team and offer leadership and training to the team.
·         Formulate an overall security policy for senior management acceptance.
·         Develop, implement and review security standards operating procedures and practices.
·         Effective liaison, coordination and networking with governments authorities, law enforcement agencies, relevant national and international agencies and security stakeholders.
·         Ensure an effective risk analysis, threat assessment and response capability.
·         Initiating special security measures during periods/instances of increased threat.
·         Ensure that all critical areas of security concern are adequately covered in the security plan and are effectively managed, monitored and controlled.
·         Represent the company in operational, coordinative and consultative security meetings and forums.
·         Ensure good working relationship with the Government, Kenya Police, INTERPOL as well as Security divisions of diplomatic offices for up to date information.
·         Prepare, monitor & control the security budget to ensure effective cost control.
·         Undertake regular audits, research, surveys and investigations to continuously improve security management through regular review of policies, procedures and processes in relation to findings.
·         Source and monitor the effectiveness of third party security services in liaison with the Facilities Manager.
·         Provide specialized advice to line management in all security functions, protection, Intelligence, information and investigation.
·         Ensure ongoing compliance with all regulatory requirement, organization standards and local security procedures.
·         Carry out conclusive investigations on incidents and accidents in order to create a safe environment and prevent recurrence.
·         Act as a link between the organization and the police in security matters.
·         Prepare weekly reports on the general security status of the organization to keep management updated on security issues.
·         Plan for and ensure consistent maintenance of all security equipment such as CCTV, Access control system to ensure they are in good serviceable condition.
·         Institute security internal controls to prevent occurrence and recurrence of security threats.
·         Any other duties as assigned by immediate supervisor.
How to Apply


HR Operations Manager
About the Role
Human Resource function needs 1 Operations Manager to assist in the building of efficient HR systems and processes to improve the customer experience. HR department in Andela is referred to as the People and Culture Department which will be abbreviated as P&C in this description.

Responsibilities

·         Create a comprehensive people operations procedures and protocols to influence lasting change and culture in Andela.
·         Provide HR support and consultation to the business, answering employee questions about HR programs, policies, and other HR-related items.
·         Build efficiency and effective responsiveness into existing operations. Anticipate and address needs before they are raised by our employees.
·         Drive the identification, assessment and execution of ongoing process and improvement opportunities in terms of P&C Analytics, Policies, SOC II compliance, P&C Workflow etc.
·         Partner with the Engineering team and other key constituents to translate the current people operations team’s requirements into cutting-edge product enhancements or entirely new applications.
·         Drive operational requirements for tools, systems, and processes across multiple integrated P&C processes.
·         Architect, develop and automate data and analytics solutions. Build and prototype dashboards iteratively to provide insights at scale.
·         Manipulate and analyze large data sets to distill insights, and connect disparate ideas into cohesive, well-grounded recommendations using creative, structured and analytical thinking.
·         Create effective, scalable, and easy to understand reporting solutions. Provide insightful data to guide decision making and provide proactive solutions.
·         Drive key People and Culture Programs such as implementing our values, performance management and feedback, and employee engagement programs.
·         Help conceive of and plan events (office events, off-sites). Initiate programs that help our culture continue to thrive.
·         Employee Relations: You will be a trusted resource to the team. You’ll handle day to day employee inquiries as well as ad hoc, sensitive matters with the utmost discretion and fairness.
How to Apply