FEMNET is a pan-African regional
women’s rights network that has been in existence since 1988 and has been at
the forefront championing gender equality, equity and women’s rights through
delivery of critical information, and strengthening linkages and collaboration
among women’s rights organizations.
To consolidate her work and move to
the next level, FEMNET with financial support from Sida and other partners, is
seeking to recruit suitable persons on a 3-year renewable full time contract in
the following vacant positions to be based at the Secretariat in Nairobi-Kenya.
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Ref: FNT-MEO 2018
Functionally Reports to: Programme Manager
Overall Purpose of the Job: The person will be in charge of Monitoring, Evaluation and
Learning (MEL). Among other responsibilities, the MEL Officer will work closely
with colleagues to review the MEL system, assess and identify FEMNET’s MEL
needs, develop a MEL framework and establish necessary practical procedures and
measures in order to operationalize the framework in general for FEMNET’s
programmes.
Main Duties include:
General:
·
Document best practices and share
them in different formats to ensure that others learn from them and adopt them
where appropriate;
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Compile quarterly, bi-annual and
Annual Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning reports for the Secretariat;
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Represent FEMNET in external meetings
related to her/his work as deem appropriate;
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Monitoring regional developments on
gender equality and women’s rights and providing political and programmatic
analysis;
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Work with management in programmatic
monitoring and evaluation, and continual quality improvement;
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Developing program concepts, managing
proposal process and timeline for proposal submissions, drafting program
objectives, results and indicators, and, contributing to program strategy;
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Ensure that the narrative and
financial reports for FEMNET Programmes are compiled and submitted in a timely
manner to keep all stake holders informed.
·
Tracking FEMNET’s regional and global
program work and impact especially related to advocacy and communication
program areas;
·
Managing assigned program areas and
anticipating program and administrative needs;
·
Travelling as necessary to support
field-based teams in program implementation, reporting, and monitoring and
evaluation.
Review MEL systems:-
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Review the current programme areas
and future strategies to have an understanding of the institutional needs for
MEL;
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Identify key issues around MEL
current practices and gaps in ensuring programme quality and MEL systems;
·
Review the reporting needs of
FEMNET’s partners to have an understanding of the demand for reporting results;
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Assess the capacity needs in FEMNET’s
Programme Heads, programme teams and partners in monitoring, evaluation and
learning methods that measure outcome/impact at different levels;
·
Support the program and departmental
heads to review and improve programme planning and implementation performance
against objectives.
Development of MEL Framework:-
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Revise FEMNET’s MEL Framework so as
to ensure programme activities continue to improve in quality to ensure
transparency and accountability in compliance with FEMNET’s overall strategic
direction;
·
Refine current MEL systems,
procedures and tools, both installed electronically in FEMNET systems and make
it available in printed manual form;
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Ensure MEL is integrated into
everyday work and planning and learning cycles.
Capacity development:-
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Review reports, audits and
evaluations, identify learning opportunities based on identified problems,
review solutions and identify how to feedback this information into programmes,
training and capacity building;
·
Identification of FEMNET staff
capacity development gaps in terms of MEL and work with programme Heads to
improve the quality of the MEL;
·
Once the draft system with the
relevant tools are ready, conduct a training and continuous capacity to
FEMNET’s relevant staff members and partners/members;
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Any other duties as may be assigned.
Qualifications and experience
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Be a Bachelor and a Master’s degree
holder in social sciences or other relevant disciplines from a recognized
university,
·
Persons with additional relevant
trainings in monitoring and evaluation will have added advantage.
·
At least 5 years relevant work
experience at international, regional or sub- regional level.
·
Experience in MEL system design and
implementation;
·
Proven experience in, exposure to,
and capability for collaborative work, nurturing of networks and alliances and
motivate people.
·
Sound knowledge on gender and its
mainstreaming strategies, leadership development and generally women’s rights
issues in Africa
·
Have good and proven knowledge on
different monitoring and evaluation frameworks and tracking tools.
·
Proven experience in, exposure to,
and capability for collaborative work, nurturing of monitoring and evaluation
skills at FEMNET.
Remuneration: will be in line with the organization’s set scales, which
consider qualifications, experience, and delivery by a candidate.
Capacity Building
Officer
Ref: FNT-CBO 2018
Functionally
Reports to: Programme Manager
Overall
Purpose of the Job: FEMNET is seeking to recruit a
suitable person to be in charge of her Capacity Building Programme.
The Capacity Building Officer will
work closely with the Management team to strengthen the capacity of the
Secretariat as well as grow and strengthen the partnership and empower members
to effectively contribute to FEMNET’s vision of “an African society where gender
equality is achieved and women and girls enjoy all their rights and live in
dignity”.
In particular, the Capacity Building
Officer will focus on building the capacity of FEMNET members, and secretariat
on digital and creative strategies aimed at amplifying African women and girls’
voices in FEMNET strategic priorities.
The Capacity Building Officer will
also be responsible for leading and developing best practices across the
membership, including guidance on structures and systems, governance and
leadership, training and a culture of respect, achievement, accountability and
learning.
Main Duties
include:
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Through consultation with the
management and colleagues, and key stakeholders design, and develop a Capacity
Building Program for the Network;
·
Initiate and implement capacity
development initiatives, and these could be organized at the regional, sub-
regional or national level;
·
Take the lead in mobilizing resources
required to implement the Capacity Building Program activities;
·
Identify key partners, resource
persons and experts in different fields to support the implementation of the
Capacity Building Program of FEMNET;
·
Develop tools and training materials
for FEMNET members on various issues around women’s rights;
·
Advise FEMNET on capacity issues and
gaps within the FEMNET membership outlined in the Capacity Needs Assessment
(2017) and come up with strategies to address the gaps;
·
Design and provide skills-building on
how to generate and communicate new knowledge on women’s rights, advocacy work
from their own experiences;
·
Organize capacity building sessions
both inner-facing and outer-facing on effective use of social media tools and
on building strategic media relations;
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Support the Communications team to
design and re-package a variety of communication and knowledge products
including website, social media infographs, publications (journal, annual
reports, policy briefs, newsletters, e-bulletin, project related reports etc)
so as to enhance FEMNET’s corporate communications, visual brand and identity;
·
Compile on quarterly basis FEMNET’s
media reach and coverage (of both online and offline articles, sound bites and
clips);
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Undertake research and contribute to
knowledge generation in key thematic focus areas on gender equality and women’s
rights;
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Work in partnership with other
Programmes to identify training needs for staff through a capacity assessment,
develop a capacity building plan and coordinate its delivery for FEMNET staff
collective, and for individual FEMNET staff;
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Represent FEMNET at various platforms
and lead partnerships such as the Fight Against Inequality Alliance;
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Put in place a monitoring mechanism
to assess the extent to which the capacity building program activities are
contributing to improved organizing around women’s rights in Africa and to ensure
progress towards the organizational strategic goals;
·
Ensure that the narrative and
financial reports for the Capacity Building Programme are compiled and
submitted in a timely manner to keep all stake holders informed;
·
Liaise with other staff to document
best practices and prepare communications for different audiences, including
the general public;
·
Any other duties that may be assigned
to the office holder.
Person
Specification:
Required
knowledge and skills
·
Driven with genuine passion and
commitment to work for the advancement of gender equality, women and girls’
rights and feminist principles.
·
Dynamic and creative person with
skills in digital design, branding and can quickly turn around policy briefs,
and program information into captivating infographs that are succinct and
relevant for the audience.
·
Highly motivated, result oriented and
self-driven person able to adopt FEMNET’s policies, rules and regulations with
understanding of due process, financial transparency and accountability.
·
Very good communication skills both
written and spoken including expertise in social and new media and giving
presentations to a variety of audiences.
·
Knowledgeable of training
methodologies and developing easy to use materials and tools such as handbooks
and toolkits.
·
Well-developed interpersonal skills
and experience working with multi- cultural teams.
·
A team player who promotes of an
environment of support conducive to cooperation, collegiality, consultation and
collaboration in all engagements.
·
Willing and able to travel mainly in
the Africa region.
·
Willing to adhere to FEMNET’s
beliefs, values and principles that guide its work and programming framework.
Qualifications
and experience
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Have a Bachelor’s degree in social
sciences or any other relevant discipline from a recognized university.
·
Master’s degree with additional
relevant trainings will be an added advantage.
·
At least 5 years relevant work
experience at international, regional or sub- regional level preferably at a
Not-for-Profit organization.
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Experience in organizing and
providing/ supporting training and experience sharing events
·
Proven experience in, exposure to,
and capability for collaborative work, nurturing of networks and alliances and
motivate people.
·
Experience in at least two of FEMNET
strategic priorities that include women’s economic justice and rights, sexual
reproductive health and rights, women’s transformational leadership and
governance and ending violence against women including harmful traditional
practices, early and forced child marriage and female genital mutilation.
·
Sound knowledge on gender and its
mainstreaming strategies, leadership development and generally women’s rights
issues in Africa.
·
Knowledge of strategies for women’s
movement building and feminist leadership including key regional and global
women’s rights policy frameworks.
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Experience in overseeing and
implementing digital campaigns and strategies including global calls to action
and experiential activation and content.
·
Proven skills in digital and creative
design, creating creative briefs and using various branding software and is
highly desirable.
·
Strong English and French writing
skills for report and proposal development.
Remuneration: will be in line with the organization’s set scales, which
consider qualifications, experience, and delivery by a candidate.
Member Liaison
Officer
Ref: FNT-MLO 2018
Functionally
Reports to: Head of Administration
Overall
Purpose of the Job: FEMNET is seeking to recruit a
suitable person to be in charge of the affairs of her diverse members across
the continent and diaspora.
Among other responsibilities, the
Members Liaison Officer will support implementation of various activities
across the various programme areas, nurturing partnerships, monitoring and
evaluating, capacity building related activities and other activities meeting
the set standards required and agreed upon by the Network in line with the
organizational Strategic Plan.
Main Duties
include:
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Work with other team members to
coordinate FEMNET’s membership to ensure that FEMNET meets its obligations to
its constituency in Africa and Diaspora;
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Develop and implement a holistic
membership recruitment and retention strategy that ensures none is left behind;
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Revise membership guidelines and
policies including the proposed “freemium” membership services;
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Lead in production of information for
use in data and analytics relating to membership;
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Maintain and improve the membership
database, member administrative systems and maintain a members section on
FEMNET’s website;
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Manage registration of new members
and renewals and providing analysis of such records quarterly;
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Lead as the interface between the
Secretariat and her members, to ensure symbiotic information sharing and
communication;
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Source for and share information with
members on opportunities for training and fundraising that will be beneficial
to members;
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Facilitate cross networking amongst
FEMNET members on the one hand and the Secretariat and her members on the other
hand;
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Liaise with other staff to support
members in identifying and developing best practice stories and sharing them
with other members;
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Establish hubs and zones of expertise
to boost specialization of the members within thematic areas of the network;
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Interest FEMNET members in the use of
social media and other forms of networking tools;
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Work in partnership with colleagues
to raise funds in support of the triennial FEMNET General Assembly and
Programming Conference;
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Develop and implement innovative
resource mobilization approaches that will provide technical support to
members;
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Liaise with other FEMNET programmes
on member related issues and ensure existing networks and partnerships with
projects’ stakeholders and partners are maintained;
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Represent FEMNET at selected
meetings, conferences and other relevant events;
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Advise FEMNET on membership issues
that the Network would take on arising from the information collected through
the capacity building activities;
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Contribute content to the production
of communication for web, print, and social media use;
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Fulfilling other duties as assigned.
Person
Specification
·
Driven with genuine passion and
commitment to work for the advancement of gender equality, women and girls’
rights and feminist principles;
·
Highly motivated, result oriented and
self-driven person with understanding of due process, financial transparency
and accountability, equity issues and how they relate to human rights;
·
Very good communication skills both
written and spoken including public speaking and giving presentations to a
variety of audiences;
·
Ability to network with like-minded
organizations, pooling resources and expertise for greater synergistic impacts
·
Well-developed interpersonal skills
and experience working with multi- cultural teams;
·
A proven team player and promoter of
an environment conducive to cooperation, collegiality, consultation and
collaboration;
·
Willing and able to travel mainly in
the Africa region;
·
Willing to adhere to FEMNET’s
beliefs, values and principles that guide her work and programming framework.
Required
Knowledge Skills and Qualifications and Experience
·
A minimum Bachelor degree in a
relevant discipline from a recognized university, any additional relevant
trainings will be an added advantage;
·
At least 4 years relevant work
experience at international, regional or sub- regional level;
·
Experience in handling people of
diversity, and multicultural backgrounds;
·
Proven experience in, exposure to,
and capability for collaborative work, nurturing of networks and alliances and
motivate people;
·
Knowledge of and experience in
advocating for at least two of FEMNET strategic priorities that include women’s
economic justice and rights, sexual reproductive health and rights, women’s
transformational leadership and governance and ending violence against women
including harmful traditional practices, early and forced child marriage and
female genital mutilation;
·
Sound knowledge on gender and its
mainstreaming strategies, leadership development and generally women’s rights
issues in Africa;
·
Knowledge of strategies for women’s
movement building using inclusion principles and feminist leadership including
key regional and global women’s rights policy frameworks;
·
Experience coordinating pan African
women’s movement using on-premise or cloud based IS, IT and innovative
strategies is highly desirable.
·
Must be bilingual with strong English
and French writing skills for report and proposal development.
Remuneration: will be in line with the organization’s set scales, which
consider qualifications, experience, and delivery by a candidate.
Human Resource and
Admin Assistant
Ref: FNT-HRA 2018
Functionally
Reports to: Finance HR and Admin. Manager
Overall
Purpose of the Job: The organization needs a
generalist who will perform a broad range of duties relating to Human
Resources, Procurement, logistics and general administrative duties
Main Duties
include:
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Supporting recruitment and training
and development of staff and interns.
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Working together with programme,
finance and admin staff to make sure that staff get paid correctly and on time.
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Handle pensions and benefits administration.
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Support in drafting job descriptions
in line with established job design and applicable policies and generally
accepted practices.
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Support actions geared at looking
after the health, safety and welfare of all FEMNET staff.
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Support organization of staff
training sessions and activities.
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Advising line managers and other
employees on employment law and the employer’s own employment policies and
procedures.
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Support the negotiation of salaries,
contracts, working conditions or redundancy packages with staff and
representatives.
·
Support the procurement processes
especially documentation of technical evaluation during staff and consultants’
recruitment, and bid analysis for procurement of goods and non-consultancy
services.
·
Support general administrative and
logistics duties (booking of tickets, organization airport transfers, etc).
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Any other duties that might be
assigned.
Required
Knowledge Skills and Qualifications and Experience
Qualifications
and experience
·
A Bachelor’s degree or higher
national diploma (HND) in a relevant subject such as HR management or any
relevant discipline.
·
Candidates with relevant
apprenticeship, such as a higher apprenticeship in HR management may be
considered
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A professional qualification in HR
management and membership with recognized professional bodies will be an added
advantage.
Other key
skills
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At least 3 years’ experience in an
not-for-profit or similar set up for a degree holder and 5 years for higher
diploma certificate holder
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Commercial awareness and effective
organizational skills
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Ability to form working relationships
with people at all levels
·
Teamwork and interpersonal skills
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Meticulous attention to detail
·
Basic numerical and IT and IS skills
Remuneration: will be in line with the organization’s set scales, which
consider qualifications, experience, and delivery by a candidate.
Finance Officer –
Accounting and Reporting
Ref: FNT-FO 2018
Functionally
Reports to: Finance HR and Admin. Manager
The Overall
Purpose of the job: Accountable for all aspects of
financial and management accounting, and donor reporting. The person will be
expected to prepare financial statements and audit schedules in line with
applicable International Standards (IAS, ISA, IFRS, IPSAS), and other generally
accepted practices.
Main Duties
Include:
Financial, Management Accounting and Control
·
Support the Finance HR and Admin.
Manager in ensuring full compliance with policies & procedures,
particularly around cash, advances, banking and assets.
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Being the main data entry person into
the accounting system to produce periodic and end of year Income and
expenditure, financial position, cash flows, fully reconciled bank
reconciliations etc;
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Professionally draft multi-year
organisational and specific programme activity budgets.
·
Support in safeguarding of the assets
of the organisation, including the maintenance of the Fixed Asset register
·
Support finance and admin. department
in its function as procurement focal centre, to drive the implementation of
procurement policies and plans, aimed at cost effective acquisition of high
quality materials, goods, consultancies and non-consultancy services;
·
Producing monthly and quarterly
actual v budget (variance) analysis and other management information that may
be required from time to time,
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Preparing cash forecasts to identify
monthly funding requirements
·
Contributing on operational and
strategic issues as a member of the Finance and Admin. Team.
Donor Compliance
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Ensure compliance with all financial
reporting and forecasting requirements of donors and others, and ensuring the
smooth flow of funds from funding sources.
·
Ensure expenditure are incurred and
reported in line with contractual agreements;
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Provide financial guidance and
supervision to staff that might be assigned to work under him/her including
interns, with regards to donor reporting
Administration, Logistics, Legal and Statutory Compliance
·
Ensuring transactions processed fully
comply with host country- Kenyan laws and regulations
·
Assisting Finance HR and Admin.
Manager in identifying and implementing financial, legislative and /or
statutory changes that may affect the organisation’s operations
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Undertaking any other duties that
might, from time to time, be assigned;
Other Duties:
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Making capital investment decisions
using the most popular methods (ARR, PP, NPV, IRR);
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Carrying out Cost -Volume-Profit
analysis through deep understanding of Fixed and stepped fixed costs, variable
and semi variable costs and the relationships between the costs, volume and
profit;
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Carrying out Break-even analysis and
associated risk analysis (doing marginal analysis for short term decisions,
operating gearing etc) for pricing decisions, efficiency in use of resources
–limiting factor, closing or continuing operations etc.
Person
Specification
Required
Knowledge Skills and Qualifications and Experience
·
A Bachelor’s degree (B.com accounting
option or any other business, accounting or economics related discipline), from
a recognized reputable university;
·
Must be a fully qualified accountant
(CPA, ACCA, CMA), with at least 3 years post qualification experience in a busy
organization;
·
Experience in a similar position at
an international or regional Not-for-Profit organization deep working knowledge
in NGO accounting and reporting is required;
·
Must have hands on experience in use
of networked common accounting and/or ERP, on-premise or cloud based systems,
using QuickBooks, Sun system, oracle etc;
·
Fully understands and applies
relevant and irrelevant costs for decision making;
·
Conversant with Cost Benefit Analysis
(CBA);
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Assessing risks using sensitivity
analysis approach especially using margin of safety for the relevant factors,
and scenario building (for more than one factor);
·
Resilient person- able to maintain
personal effectiveness by managing own emotions in the face of pressure,
setbacks or when dealing with provocative situations. Can demonstrate an
approach to work that is characterized by commitments, motivation and energy.
Remuneration: will be in line with the organization’s set scales, which
consider qualifications, experience, and delivery by a candidate.
Applications:
Interested applicants are requested
to send to the Executive Director; their CVs with 3 referees (two of whom must
be professional), salary expectations with a 1 page application cover letter
explaining why they are best fit for the relevant position by email to:
recruitment@femnet.or.ke.
Please indicate the reference of the
position you are applying for on the subject line e.g. Capacity Building
Officer – (Ref: FNT-CBO 2018).
Deadline for submission of
applications is on Monday 5th February, 2018.
Eligibility: The applicants for the positions of Finance Officer,
Member Liaison Officer, HR and Admin Assistant must be Kenyan Nationals or
persons with Kenyan work permits. The other two positions are open to African
citizens.
Please note: Only complete applications will be reviewed, and only
candidates who have been selected for interview will be contacted, no telephone
inquiries, canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.
