The Salaries and Remuneration
Commission is an independent Commission established under Article 230 of the
Constitution of Kenya 2010, with the mandate to set and regularly review the
remuneration and benefits of all State Officers and to advise the National and
County governments on the remuneration and benefits of all other public
officers.
The Commission seeks to recruit
qualified and competent staff to fill the following vacant position:
ICT Officer
SRC 7
1 Position
Job Summary: The job holder will be responsible to the Deputy Director ICT and will assist a team of
dedicated and innovative ICT professionals to develop ICT systems and enhance the ICT capacity of the Commission to enable it achieve its mandate.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Provide adequate and timely user support,
diagnosis and troubleshooting of any hardware / software faults.
- Maintain up to date comprehensive hardware and
software inventory.
- Facilitate user training and optimal use of
installed systems.
- Ensure implementation of ICT Policies and
Procedures.
- Report and follow up on vendor problem
resolution by ensuring compliance to Service Level Agreements (SLA) and
contracts.
- Ensures compliance to system security
requirements.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or Higher National Diploma
in Computer Studies, Information Technology, Telecommunication or relevant
field.
- ICT Certifications i.e. A+,N+,CCNA etc. will
be added advantage.
- At least 3 years working experience in the ICT
Field.
- Excellent hands-on technical & problem
solving skills, ability to assess technology needs; ability to work as
part of a team.
- Ability to communicate clearly, tact and
ability to work effectively with people of all cultural backgrounds.
- Hands-on networking experience and LAN
troubleshooting, knowledge of Wireless technologies will be added
advantage.
- Hands-on experience with office automation
integrated packages i.e. windows 2012 advance server, windows 8 operating
system, MS office 2013 packages and knowledge of exchange server 2012
troubleshooting.
Key Competences
- High integrity with ability to apply need to
know principle.
- Demonstrate excellent interpersonal and
communication skills.
- Team player with strong managerial and
leadership skills.
- Result oriented individual who has ability to
conceptualize and convert ideas into solutions.
- Ability to operate under an environment of
Performance Management and Contracting and enforce the realization of
Commissions mandate through the set team and individual performance
targets.
Systems Administrator
SRC 6
1 Position
Job Summary: The job holder will report to Deputy Director,
ICT and will be in charge of both systems administration and network
administration.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Set up, configure, and support internal and/or
external networks.
- Develops and maintains all systems,
applications, security, and network configurations.
- Troubleshoot network performance issues.
- Create and maintain a disaster recovery plan.
- Develop and maintain service level agreements.
- Recommend upgrades, patches, and new
applications and equipment.
- Provide technical support and guidance to
users.
- Install new software releases, system
upgrades, evaluates and installs patches and resolves software related
problems.
- Perform system backups and recovery.
- Maintain data files and monitor system
configuration to ensure data integrity.
- Update system as to conform to new version of
OS and application software.
- Implement the policies for the use of the
computer system and network.
- Setup security policies for users.
- Perform Network management and support for
wired and wireless connections for SRC.
- Manage exchange mail server.
- Manage emails clients: including setup and
outlook connectivity.
- Maintaining, upgrading and administering
internet services.
- Prepare Specification for software and
hardware.
- Maintain and upgrade system anti-virus
products to secure the SRC network from attack.
- Assists in implementing SRC ICT and security
management policies.
- Ensure proper administration of all operating
systems and applications.
- Implement efficient preventative maintenance
schedules of the SRC IT systems.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in IT / Electronic /
Business Information Technology / Telecommunication Engineering or
Computer Science.
- CCNA/MCSE/Certified Unix administrator or any
other relevant Certification.
- At least 5 Years’ experience in a busy
environment.
- Very strong understanding of IP network.
- Knowledge and experience of switching and
routing protocols.
- Knowledge of Open source software / hardware
configurations / support / troubleshooting.
- Knowledge and experience in network / systems
monitoring tools and protocols.
Key Competences
- High integrity with ability to apply need to
know principle.
- Demonstrate excellent interpersonal and
communication skills.
- Team player with strong managerial and
leadership skills.
- Result oriented individual who has ability to
conceptualize and convert ideas into solutions.
- Ability to operate under an environment of
Performance Management and Contracting and enforce the realization of
Commissions mandate through the set teams and individual performance
targets.
- Ability to withstand work pressure
- Self-Motivated
Deputy Director, Policy and Planning
SRC 4
1 Position
Job Summary: The job holder will report to the Director,
Research, Compliance, Policy and Planning, and will ensure the planning and
implementation of relevant policies resultants from the research and compliance
role in line with the continuous validation of the commissions mandate,
functions and principles.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Undertaking periodic fiscal sustainability
analysis of the impact of various Remuneration and Benefits packages to
ensure affordability and sustainability of the total Public Compensation
Bill.
- Undertake macro and micro economic studies on
Remuneration and Benefits and advice on harmonization and equity to ensure
implementation of smooth Remuneration and Benefits cycles.
- Generating processes for alignment of
Remuneration and Benefit's policies as per the Commission mandate with
other fiscal policies.
- Interrogate various Government policies
impacting on Remuneration, Benefits and Pension and advice on best
practice to the Commission.
- Develop a quantitative modeling approach to
various salary cycles and proposals received by the Commission to inform
recommendations on the Remuneration and Benefits structure.
- Continuous benchmarking of the Commissions
mandate and functions with relevant comparators and advice of various
recommendations.
- Undertaking relevant analyses of critical
development and Remuneration and Benefits policies.
- Leading the Commission strategic planning
function, work plans and reporting.
Minimum Requirements
- Master’s degree in Economics, Policy Analysis,
Statistics or a related field from recognized University.
- Relevant work experience of at least eight (8)
years at senior management level in a strategic organization.iii.
Bachelor's degree in Economics, Policy Analysis, Statistics or any
relevant field of study from a recognized university.
- Knowledge of Public Financial Management
Principles and Processes and financial analysis.
- Relevant professional qualification.
- Good numerical skills and demonstrated successes
in the field of financial analysis, project formulation, planning,
monitoring and evaluation.
- Practical knowledge in the field of project
monitoring and evaluation techniques.
Key Competencies
- Demonstrated possessions of policy formulation
and planning techniques.
- Excellent presentation, interpersonal and
organizational skills.
- Outstanding appreciation of the local and
global macro and microeconomic issues
- Significant expertise and experience in
identifying, reviewing, analyzing and summarizing complex policy papers
and electronic sources of quantitative and qualitative data with a high
level of numerical and statistical ability.
- ICT competencies in relevant statistical
packages.
- Have initiative in identifying issues and
producing quality work.
- Have Tax and EACC clearance certificate.
Application Process
Qualified candidates should submit
their applications together with detailed Curriculum vitae, copies of academic
and professional certificates and testimonials in a sealed envelope clearly
marked at the top “Application for the position of………..(indicate the position
applied for)” and mailed OR delivered to:
The Commission Secretary
Salaries and Remuneration Commission
Williamson House 6th Floor
4th Ngong Avenue
P.O. Box 43126 – 00100
Nairobi
You should also indicate your current salary and give the names of three referees who must be familiar with your previous work/academic experience indicating their telephone, postal and email address.
The Commission will carry out
reference checks and vetting before a successful candidate is given an offer of
appointment.
Deadline for application 5th September, 2014
All applicants for these positions must be compliant with Chapter 6 of the Constitution on integrity and leadership and Article 232 on values of the Public Service.
Salaries and Remuneration Commission
is an equal opportunity employer.
Canvassing will lead to automatic
disqualification.
Qualified persons irrespective of
their gender, age, race, culture, religion or disability are encouraged to
apply.
Only short listed candidates will be
contacted.