Programme Officer Job in Nairobi Kenya


Vacancy for an Africa Programme Officer based in our Nairobi Office

Computer Aid is looking for an 
Africa Programme Officerto further extend the number of beneficiaries to receive ICT from Computer Aid through outreach to promote the application of low-cost ICTs to education and social development.

The successful post-holder will need to be a dynamic, self-motivated individual with the leadership, marketing and relationship-building skills that will be necessary to achieve set objectives.

The post-holder will be confident in communicating, and in relationship-building, with all key actors from government, international organisations, NGOs and grassroots organisations.

This is a challenging and exciting post where the post-holder will be able to see the direct and concrete outcomes of their work impacting positively in education as well as in civil society organisations that play key roles in social change in the region.

The post-holder will have scope to shape product and service delivery and the satisfaction of driving growth in provision and in establishing a new self sustaining unit within the wider organisation.

The post holder will be assigned specific countries to manage and targets to attain.

Remuneration: There is a salary of 18,238 GBP per annum inclusive of all taxes and benefits for this post.

Key performance indicators will be the number of new beneficiaries identified and served, as well as the total income from orders generated compared with the total of funds expended in that provision.

There will be no empirical performance indicators in the first three months of contract, during which time there will be scheduled induction.

Thereafter the post-holder will aim to increase delivery as per set targets. Computer Aid already provides high levels of computers to the region.

The post will be located in Computer Aid’s Nairobi office in Kenya, and it will include regular travel across the region (between 10 and 14 days per month)

The post-holder must be free of any health, familial or other factors that would restrict their ability to make frequent trips often at short notice.

For a job description and application form send
a blank email to programmes@computeraid.org

Closing date for applications is 10.00 am on the 16th April 2012.

Interviews will be held during April