Position: Bancassurance Direct Sales Representative
Location: Nairobi
Job description
Are you looking for an employer who promotes individual
excellence and mutual respect in a team-driven culture with a key focus on
social empowerment? The Co-operative Bank of Kenya, “The Kingdom Bank” is the
place for those looking to new horizons.
We are looking for a dynamic, creative, self-driven and
highly motivated experienced professional with a good Knowledge of the basic
principles and practices of Bancassurance, keen, aware of market patterns and
with a genuine interest of the Insurance Industry.
The role holder will be responsible for the development and
execution of sales and marketing programs in line with the Bancassurance
strategy as well as generation of business from the Bank’s existing Corporate,
Asset Finance and Personal Banking portfolios.
The role holder will be responsible for the development and
execution of sales and marketing programs in line with the Bancassurance
strategy as well as generation of business from the Bank’s existing Corporate,
Asset Finance and Personal Banking portfolios.
Responsibilities
- Drive
growth in Bancassurance business across and outside the bank channels.
- Prospect
and market various insurance products to prospective clients and advice
customers on the adequacy of cover requested for in relation to the
policies available.
- Oversee
the operational aspects of Bancassurance business at the branch i.e.
underwriting, claims, finance and customer service as well as preparation
quotations, negotiating terms for customers and closing sales.
- Ensure
all collaterals and assets that have the Bank interest are properly and
comprehensively insured and the Bank’s interest properly noted.
- Ensure
that the Bank, customers and staff insurable assets insured under the
branch are renewed on time and that the premium is paid up.
- Carry
out market research and provide customer feedback to our head office
Bancassurance team for the development of new products and enhancement of
existing ones to suite the various market segments.
- Ensure
that all queries on technical insurance issues from customers and branch
staff are addressed promptly while providing technical guidance.
- Ensure
compliance with all regulatory and internal procedures in regard to
Bancassurance business.
- Prepare
relevant production and financial reports.
Qualifications
- Must
have a minimum Mean grade of C+ in K.C.S.E with a C+ in Mathematics and
English
- University
Degree preferably in a business field from a recognized University.
- Knowledge
of the basic principles and practices of Bancassurance.
- Strong
business acumen and strategic thinking capacity with strong analytical and
presentation skills.
- Ability
to work effectively in a diversified set up and in a highly collaborative
team environment.
- Proven
ability to respond quickly, independently and appropriately to competing
priorities under tight deadlines, excellent analytical, interpersonal,
communication and advocacy skills.
- Knowledgeable
in compiling data and preparing a variety of reports as well as ability to
verify the accuracy of documents and information presented.
How to Apply
Position: UNIX & Storage Engineer
Location: Nairobi
Job description
Are you looking for an employer who promotes individual
excellence and mutual respect in a team-driven culture with a key focus on
social empowerment? The Co-operative Bank of Kenya, “The Kingdom bank” is the
place for those looking to new horizons.
We seek individuals who will provide guidance, standards and
statements of direction for the bank’s server/storage farms in line with the
banks desire to gain a competitive advantage in the market. This requires good
analysis and ongoing knowledge of current and changing business, financial
(budgetary) and technological environments and the ability to translate those
environments into blueprints to lead the migration to the new environment.
The UNIX & Storage Engineer will be responsible for end-to-end and proactive UNIX
servers including storage, backup solutions design & administration,
performance monitoring & management of server, storage & backup of
Infrastructure, and general ICT systems. This will involve setting up of
optimal performance benchmarks and use of modern and appropriate tools coupled
with best practice. The holder will also ensure high systems availability and
improvements to meet business growth demands, ensure timely intervention by key
stakeholders, improved performance, enhanced system security, business
continuity and competitiveness in product and service development.
Responsibilities
- Monitor
performance and manage parameters to provide fast responses to the various
applications and databases running on the infrastructure stack. This
includes systems logs, events and event correlation and maintaining
performance statistics and setting baseline statistics
- Monitor
and manage Mission Critical servers including Oracle Supercluster, Oracle
ZFS and IBM Power Systems.
- Develop,
manage and test back-up and recovery plans and ensuring that storage,
archiving, back-up and recovery procedures are functioning properly
- Allocate
and manage Data Storage Systems including SAN, NAS, Tape Libraries, etc.
and perform server/storage tasks such as systems design, capacity
planning, maintenance, trouble shooting, and change control activities.
- Take
lead role in the various I.T. audits in providing necessary information
and enforcing closure of audit, change management and compliance issues
- Manage
key I.T. risks for all servers, storage & backup sub-systems and
ensure proper mitigation.
- Take
lead role in BCP and disaster recovery preparedness through periodic
testing as scheduled, update of disaster recovery procedures and sharing
the results with management
- Team
up with applications support, development and DBA team in the development,
implementation, management applications, infrastructure, and monitor
system health in order to proactively identify weaknesses and address
them.
- Create
new servers using best practice and Minimum baseline Security
Configurations.
- Ensure
compliance with all OEM license agreements and maintain upgrades and
critical patches for the various systems including storage sub-systems.
- Create
and maintain infrastructure documentation, including security standards,
procedures & definitions and maintain all technical documentation
relating to server/storage management.
- Communicate
regularly with technical, applications and operational staff to ensure
system integrity and security.
- Establish
and maintain business relationships with vendors, consultants and other
outside entities providing services to the bank. monitor performance of
the SLAs to ensure that the server and storage stacks get maximum value
from the SLA contracts.
- Handle
queries from application/DBA support, resolve problems in a timely manner
and advice accordingly.
- 24/7
availability for support of the bank’s mission critical systems.
- Continually
monitor security events in the systems, take corrective actions and
generate reports for management.
- Develop
and maintain system documentation.
- Keep
abreast of latest security, legislation, regulations, advisories, alerts
and vulnerabilities and plan proactive actions accordingly.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s
degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Information
Technology, or related field from a recognized university.
- Minimum
of 3 years’ experience in a similar role with hands on experience in
planning, systems analysis, design, support and development in
server/storage/backup infrastructure.
- A
specialist in IT/ Engineering background with competences in EMC storage,
Linux, IBM AIX, IBM DS8800, IBM TSM, Oracle Solaris, Oracle Supercluster
& Exadata ,Oracle ZFS Storage and project management.
- Excellent
knowledge of ICT system architectures, platforms and Infrastructure.
- Strong
analytical skills; ability to analyze and correlate complex data.
- Good
knowledge of various storage and server performance-monitoring tools.
- Ability
to effectively communicate complex technical issues.
- Excellent
knowledge of the bank’s information security policy and the legal
implications.
How to Apply