Design Assistant Job in Kenya

Company Profile: A property development company 
 

Role: Design Assistant 
 

Responsibility: The Design Assistant will be reporting to the In-house Designer. 
 

Qualifications:

• Must be a graduate or a Diploma holder in a Architecture.
• Minimum of one year experience in general knowledge of graphic design skills.
• Knowledge in Construction and basic land surveying.
• Knowledge in ARCHICAD, AUTOCAD, ATLANDS, PIRANESI.
• Skill in hand sketching.
• Ability  to organize and prioritize work while juggling on several projects at once
• Must be a quick Learner and Attentive to details.
• Ability to make power point presentations.
• Knowledge in SD MAX will be an added advantage.

All interested candidates should send their applications to mycv@myjobseye.com.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

EPC RFPs for Research on Nigeria Export Market Development Activities, EXPO 2015 Milano, Stand Designer / Architects, Documentary and Coffee Expert / Barrister

Request for Proposals

The Export Promotion Council is a State Corporation whose Mission is to develop and promote export of Kenya’s goods and services, and harmonize export related activities.

EPC/ PRO/RFP/ 003/2013-2014: Consultancy Services for a Research on Export Market Development Activities in the Republic of Nigeria
 

The Republic of Nigeria is one of the fastest growing economies in the African region.
 

The EPC seeks to engage the services of a competent consultant to undertake a comprehensive niche market study with a view to enabling Kenyan exporters and economic operators increase their engagements in the Nigerian market.
 

EXPO 2015 Milano (Milan, Italy)
 

Kenya is a member of the International Bureau of Expositions (BIE), the body mandated to organize world Expos. 

The Expos are unique events in which participating countries, international organizations, corporations, civil society and millions of individuals come together to interact, based on a given theme statement. 

Countries use this opportunity to showcase their trade, cultural and tourism potential. Kenya has confirmed participation at the Expo 2015 Milano, which will be held from 1st May to 31st October, 201 5. 

The Expo will be driven by the theme “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life:’ 

The Kenya pavilion is located within the coffee cluster of the Expo.
 

EPC/ PRO/RFP/ 004/2013-2014: Stand Designer / Architects 

To develop designs, including interactive 3D exhibit elements, interiors, artifacts, displays, from conceptual stage through final drawings.
 

EPC/ PRO/RFP/ 005/201 3-201 4: Documentary
 

Development of a documentary for viewership at the Kenya pavilion in the Expo, and an edition for the Kenyan public.
 

EPC/ PRO/RFP/ 006/2013-2014: Coffee Expert / Barrister
 

To provide expertise in coffee brewing, quality management with particular emphasis on the unique attributes of Kenya’s coffee as a leading international brand.
 

Submission of Requests for Proposal: Interested bidders in the respective areas of expertise are invited to submit their bids, which should be in sealed plain envelopes, and marked Request for Proposal Reference No. ...... 

Detailed information on the Tenders can be accessed from the EPC website www.epckenya.org

The Applications, indicating the specific Request for Proposal, should be sent to the Export Promotion Council and addressed to:
 

The Chief Executive Officer
Export Promotion Council
Anniversary Towers, 16th Floor, University Way
P.O Box 40247, 00100
Nairobi
 

Or be deposited at the Tender Box provided in the Administration Block, so as to be received on Monday 14th April, 2014 at 12.00 noon. 

The Requests for Proposals will be opened immediately thereafter in the presence of the bidders, or their representatives who choose to attend.

Graphic Designer Job in Kenya

Graphic Designer

Position Type: Full time
 

Starting Salary: Negotiable

Are you freelance Graphic designer? 

Or have experience of over two years design in advertising? 

We are seeking to recruit one talented graphic designer

Responsibilities

• Meeting clients, sales executives or social media executives to discuss the business objectives and requirements of the job
• Interpreting the client's business needs and developing a concept to suit their purpose;
• Estimating the time required to complete the work
• Developing design briefs by gathering information and data through research;
• Thinking creatively to produce new ideas and concepts;
• Using innovation to redefine a design brief within the constraints of cost and time;
• Presenting finalized ideas and concepts to clients or account managers;
• Proofreading to produce accurate and high-quality work;
• Contributing ideas and design artwork to the overall brief;
• Edit photos and Videos
• Train the social media agents on simple graphic design and photo editing
• Assist in taking client product photos for our clients as well as covering events
• Developing interactive design
• Working as part of a team with the photographer, graphic designer, social media executives and sales executives

Requirements

• Must have a laptop and design software’s
• A passion for the internet and all things digital
• Experience of  over 2 years design in advertising
• Must have excellent photo editing skills
• A portfolio is a must
• Must have a desire to work and success
• Must be business minded
• Ability to work in a team and handle extra demands
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Analytical
• Creative
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

To apply send a cover letter describing how you meet the above requirements, an up to date CV with a minimum of 3 references, recommendation letters if any and portfolio  to hr@mmaxdigital.co.ke
 

N/B mention the job title on the subject

Architectural Competition for the Design of Karura Forest Environrnental Education Centre at Karura Forest, Nairobi

The Karura Forest Environmental Education Trust

Request for Expression of Interest (EOI)

Architectural Competition for the Design of Karura Forest Environrnental Education Centre at Karura Forest, Nairobi

The Karura Forest Environmental Education Trust seeks expressions of interest from suitably qualified and experienced registered firms forming a Consortium, to participate in an Architectural Competition. 

The Consortium should comprise of Architects, Engineers, Landscape Architects, Quantity Surveyors and Environmental Management Experts. 

The purpose of this EOI is to select the best qualified candidates to participate in the design competition for the proposed education centre at Karura Forest. 

Accordingly, we are not soliciting specific proposals for activities at this stage. interested qualified Consortia are invited to apply for pre qualification, indicating the Consortia’s respective areas of competency, qualifications and experience by submission of the information in accordance to the terms of Reference to be availed to interested firms and to be picked up at the address below.
 

The complete Expression of Interest documents should be received no later than 6th September, 2013 at 17:00hrs in plain sealed envelopes bearing no identification of the tenderer and marked as “Expression of Interest for an Architectural Competition for “THE KARURA FOREST ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTRE” to the following address:
 

Competition Secretary
Karura Forest Environmental Education Centre
c/o Vivo Energy Kenya,
1st Floor, Laibon Centre, Lenana Rd,
P.0. Box 63777- 00619, 

Nairobi Kenya.
 

The Competition Secretary: angela.munyua@vivoenergy.com
 

Only selected qualified firms will be invited for the competition.

Handicraft Products Designer Job in Kenya

Vacancy: Designer for Handicraft Products

The Company
 

Our client in the Handicraft Industry is hiring a product designer. 

The company creates and develops handicraft products for the local and export market. 

The products include home décor’, interior design and fashion items.
 

The job
 

The designer will be responsible for designing and developing handicraft products as well as overseeing and supervising the mass production of approved product items. 
 

Responsibilities

• Design and development of Handicraft Products
• Research on tailor-made handicraft products designed for ecotourism
• Create new handicraft designs for production
• Guide a team of designers
• Review craft designs from the team
• Supervise a team of artisans

Requirements

• Experience and talent in Fine art, illustrations
• A good understanding of the handicraft market
• Portfolio of products that have sold
• Ability to work with a team
• Ability to supervise a team of artisans
• An understanding of the import and export market is a good advantage

Interested and qualified candidates should send a CV and Application letter only to jobs@fanisi.net by 10 Aug 2013. 

Please do not attach large files and portfolios. 

Only successful candidates will be contacted.

CAP Creative Designer Job in Kenya

Creative Designer

CAP Youth Empowerment Institute Kenya, supported by MasterCard Foundation, is established to provide Basic Employability Skills Training (BEST) for disadvantaged youth with particular focus on women to get equitable, qualitative learning and access to promising labour market oriented opportunities, savings and credit that support their pathways to safe and positive futures. 

The key purpose of the organization is to assist 10,000 disadvantaged youth to make informed choices, develop labour-market oriented employability skills and access job placements, savings and enterprise development support.

About the position

We are looking for a young person with potential and passion to work as our creative designer. 

He/She must be creative, intelligent and able to come up with great ideas. 

Successful candidate will be based at CAP offices in Westland’s with occasional travel to the field to collect information. 

He/she will be tasked to develop content for website, develop and design newsletters, develop articles prepare presentations.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Fostering creation of local fact sheets.
• Gathers and verifies factual information regarding story through interview, observation, and research.
• Use the written word to express story lines and ideas.
• Interviewing various stake holders and getting their feedback and using that to prepare articles.
• Conduct extensive research on various topics.
• Write outlines and rough drafts for various articles.
• Create content using various multimedia formats that can be read, listened to, or viewed onscreen.
• Develop original content for short stories and case studies.
• Edit content for correct spelling and grammar.
• Developing content for the organizations website
• Responsible for the social media strategy in the company
• In charge of creating and distributing newsletters
• Work with editors to revise and rewrite sections.
• Write books or content for magazines, newsletters, and blogs.
• May take photographs or shoot video to illustrate stories.
• Designing newsletters.
• Preparing presentations to be presented in various forums.
• Designing fliers and brochures.
• Collects and analyzes information about newsworthy events to write news stories for publication.
• Any other job assigned by your seniors. 

Competencies required 

• Ability to meet deadlines and handle diverse tasks simultaneously using prioritization. 
• Strong oral and written communication skills. 
• Past experience as a reporter is desirable. 
• Excellent Presentation skills. 
• Dynamism, creativity and flexibility. 
• Networking skills a must. 
• Must be flexible. 

Requirements 

• One (3) year working experience as a Creative Designer, creative writer. 
• Must be mature and with the right attitude. 
• Must have relevant training in Marketing, Journalism or PR. 
• Must be flexible and always willing to go an extra mile. 
• Past experience in social medial management is desirable. 
• Open minded and willing to take different challenges. 
• Photography skills are a must.

How to apply

This position is on full time basis. 

To express interest in this opportunity, send your CV to hrcapyei@gmail.com by 30th May 2013. 

Cover letter should be pasted on the body of the email and not as an attachment. 

Applicants are required to quote their current and expected pay. 

Only short listed candidates will be contacted.

Interior Designer (With Project Management Experience) Job in Kenya

Job Title: Interior Designer with Project Management experience
 

Reports to: The C.E.O
 

Purpose and Scope
 

Our client is in need of an Interior Design with Project Management experience who will coordinate and oversee the project Life Cycle of the group companies projects from inception through Completion. 

They will coordinate the work of the project and design teams, under the direction of a senior staff member for confirmation of issues related to the success of the total project to include; Communication, Timeframe Management, Budget Management and Expectation Management.
 

Key Roles Include:

• Manage Project Resource allocation
• Track and Report on Project deliverables/milestones and provide project tracking reports
• Understand the program analysis as well as create a program analysis deliverables document.
• Delegate and oversee sections of a project with other design team members to meet deadlines. Generate and maintain project team task list.
• Maintain accurate project records of accountable time, billable percentages, project status, 70% GP profitability or higher and scheduling timeline.
• Handle Project accounting Coordination
• Monitor project creep, and work towards minimization and management of delays
• Effectively manage Project scope by ensuring any changes to scope are documented and approved
• Re-prioritize or Safely crash unsuccessful projects
• Resolve any issues and solve problems throughout project Life cycle

Candidates Profile
 

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years experience in a Project Management role in a related field
• Relevant tertiary level training in the Interior Design, Engineering or Building & Construction fields but strong emphasis on Interior Design.
• Familiarity with Project Management tools and/or Software packages

Attributes

• Possess effective communication, presentation, leadership and relationship building skills
• Demonstrate ability to implement and deliver short, medium and long-term strategies
• Strong customer account focus
• Ability to multitask while staying orderly and flexible

If you believe you qualify for this position, please send your CV and details of your current and expected remuneration to resume@interviewupconsulting.com

**** Only qualified candidates will be contacted and please DO NOT email copies of your certificates or any other supporting documentation at this time… CV’s only *****

Safaricom Principal IT Strategy & Design Engineer Job in Kenya

We are pleased to announce the following vacancy in the Strategy and Planning Department within the Technology Division. 

 

In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below:

Principal IT Strategy & Design Engineer

 
Ref: TECHNOLOGY_PISDE__JULY _2012

Reporting to the Senior Manager – Network Strategy and Architecture, the position holder will be responsible for developing a strategic road map that re-aligns the IT Strategy to the business priorities aimed at delivering operational transformation by optimizing existing IT investments and incorporating new capabilities into your infrastructure.

The job holder’s key responsibilities will be to:

• Develop organizational IT strategy aimed at delivering both short-term and long-term business goals
• Establishment of an enterprise-wide integrated IT architecture to fill in identified gaps
• Setup of a future-ready and flexible IT infrastructure strategy that can adapt to changing trends and technologies
• Enhance business value by helping ensure a strong alignment with business demands
• Convert high-level strategies into architectural designs for a more successful technical implementation
• Align IT strategy with internal business units ensuring the need for service fulfillment, assurance and billing are met
• Based on validated IT strategy, create recommendations and align with delivery and operations teams
• Based on validated architectures create concept papers, high level design principles and related dependencies
• Preparation of an IT supplier strategy in coordination with Supply Chain Management
• Formulate objectives for Business Continuity Planning in the IT domain area
• Translate BCP objectives for IT into technical requirements, implementation guidelines and budget estimates
• Organize quarterly strategy control meetings with delivery teams, business units and supply chain 

The ideal candidate should possess the following skills & competencies:

• Six (6) years of experience in information systems and analysis in a busy service provider environment
• Knowledge of and experience with: LANS/WANS; Cloud Environments; Disaster Recovery; Security Systems; Server-Client architectures; Backup systems; Enterprise Applications
• Experience in OSS/BSS software, architecture or implementation on vendors like Cisco, NSN, Huawei, Ericsson
• Good appreciation of telecom Value Added Services applications/products based on 3GPP and non-3GPP
• Experience in Rating, Billing and Collection (BSS related functions) an added advantage
• Possess understanding and knowledge of eTOM/ITLv3 framework and other industry standards/models
• Proven ability to manage and lead groups of people, not directly reporting to the individual
• Strong analytical, excellent presentation and planning skills; proficiency in MS Office required
• Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications, Engineering, Computer Science

If you feel that you are up to the challenge and posses the necessary qualification and experience please send your resume and application letter indicating your experience and why you are the most suitable candidate for the role clearly quoting the job title to the address below. 

 

The deadline for application is Wednesday 3rd October, 2012.

The Senior Manager – Talent Acquisition
Safaricom Ltd
Nairobi
 

Via E-mail to:  hr@safaricom.co.ke

Furniture Designer Job in Mombasa, Kenya

Manager - Furniture Designer

A middle level furniture & fittings Manufacturing Company is seeking for a person to fill the above mentioned position

Key Responsibilities

• Design and quote for all kinds of furniture and fittings
• Directly co-ordinate the operations and overall responsibilities related to designing, quotation, Production and delivery of finished products.
• Implementation of the designs to customer’s satisfaction.
• Implementation of the negotiated contracts between company and the clients.
• Ensure there is effective communication between the company and the stake holders.

Minimum Qualifications

• A Bachelors Degree in related field or Equivalent, Interior design Degree will be an added advantage.
• Minimum Five years Experience in a similar position.
• Proven good management and leadership skills.
• Must be a computer literate and able to use auto card software and other design related programmes.

Interested candidates who meet the above minimum requirements, may apply by email attaching their detailed CV, certified copies of academic/professional certificates and testimonials stating their current position, remuneration and telephone contacts to:

Chief Executive Officer,
Island Homes Developers Ltd.
P.O Box 2930-80100
Mombasa
info@islandhomedevelopers.com

BrandMasters Jobs in Kenya

BrandMasters is a growing Brand Agency, offering world leading services to our clients in creative design, digital and offset printing, marketing promotions and advertising. 

To meet the growing requests from our wide range of clients, we are seeking to recruit for the following positions to boost our team of high notch professionals
 

General Manager

Ref: BMAL/GM/001:
 

Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, the General Manager will be a business though leader who will be responsible for the day-to-day activities of the agency. 

This position requires an individual with a consistent track record of delivering on a pre-agreed business plan. 

He/she will be required to demonstrate ability to think strategically, maintain relationships with stakeholders while keeping an eye for detail. 

A Masters degree from a recognized university coupled with minimum three years' experience in a creative agency environment is required.
 

Business Executives

Ref: BMAL/BE/002:
 

Reporting to Head of Business Development, the business executives will have the overall responsibility of promoting and developing effective relationships with existing and new clients with a view to maximizing sales volumes and revenue.

If you are an aggressive go-getter with a knack for meeting and exceeding sales targets, this is your ideal job. 

If you are a self-starter, fast thinker and innovative, you are the person we are looking for. 

To succeed in this role, you will need to possess proven superior sales, leadership, negotiating, interpersonal, communication, reporting and presentation skills. 

In addition, you will be required to develop and implement marketing, direct sales and business development plans to achieve or exceed agreed levels of profitable sales revenue. 

The ideal candidate will need to possess a University Degree coupled with a Diploma in Sales & Marketing with over 3 years' experience in Sales and Marketing;

• Ability and readiness to work long and odd hours;
• Results oriented;Ability to work independently and under pressure;
• Excellent client service skills;
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills;
• A good understanding and experience in the media industry will be an added advantage.

Creative Designers

Ref: BMAL/BE/003:
 

Reporting to Head of Creative Resources, the creative designers will translate customer requirements into cutting edge creative concepts. 

This will require a high degree of talent, creativity, out-of-the-box thinking as well as personal initiative. 

The ideal candidate will possess a degree in creative arts coupled with minimum two years experience in a creative agency environment
 

If you meet the above criteria, please send your application and a detailed CV online to jobs@brandmasters.co.ke before 19th June 2012.