East Africa Region Marketing Development Executive Job Re-advertisement

Re-advertisement: Marketing Development Executive – East Africa Region
Availability: Immediately

Salary: £800-£1,000 per month depending upon experience.

Main Purpose of the Role

The main purpose of the job is to provide effective Sales and Marketing support to units within the region which include Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Mozambique. 

The successful candidate shall implement Marketing actions within the region in liaison with both Vimto international and the local Vimto licensee.

Main responsibilities

• Create, foster and develop relationships with both the local licensee and other partners including distributors and wholesalers within the region.
• Define and execute brand strategies that support and contribute to growth in both the short term and

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Unga Holdings Limited Talent Development Manager and Human Resource Assistant Jobs in Kenya

Unga Holdings Limited wishes to recruit individuals to fill the following positions.
 

Talent Development Manager
 

Manage and develop a learning and development framework that reflects organisational, regulatory, job and individual needs
 

Ensure identification and implementation of career paths, succession planning and related development
 

Drive Organisational design & development to meet company needs
 

Coordinate Performance Management & employee recognition & retention programs

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CABI Publishing Outreach Internship in Nairobi Kenya

Internship: Publishing Outreach
 

CABI, Nairobi, Kenya
 

Established over 100 years ago, CABI is a not-for-profit science-based development and information organization. CABI improves people’s lives by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment. Our mission and direction is influenced by our member countries who guide the activities undertaken. 

These include scientific publishing, development projects and research, and microbial services. Our activities are based principally in 2 major sites in the UK and 5 scientific centres globally. 

Please see our website www.cabi.org for further details.
 

CABI publishes CAB Abstracts, the world-leading bibliographic database covering agriculture and environment, and Global Health covering public health information. We also publish multimedia compendia,

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Newport Africa Security Advisor Job in Kenya

Newport Africa is seeking highly skilled and internationally experienced senior line managers with a background and expertise within the security sector for the position of Security Advisor in Kenya. 

The ideal candidates will have spent a minimum of 10 years serving with the military, police force or international organisations in a security role. 

The candidates must have experience working internationally with personnel and organisations at the operational level and must have a strong command of both written and spoken English.

The candidate will be comfortable presenting complex briefs and security solutions at Country, Senior Management level and must be computer literate to International Computer Driving License (ICDL) standard or equivalent. 

They should be fully conversant with writing complex reports, security plans, routine operational orders and

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GEMS Education Solutions Events Manager - CEI Programme Job in Nairobi Kenya

Events Manager - CEI Programme
 

Nairobi, Kenya
 

Fixed Term Position to January 31st 2014
 

GEMS Education Solutions is a division of GEMS Education, an established education provider with over 50 years of experience. 

We harness the insights and expertise gained from the largest network of international schools worldwide to improve standards in public education provision globally. 

Our experienced professionals partner with governments to deliver efficient, high quality public education to meet and raise the expectations of families and communities around the world.
 

Our team comprises leading experts in education reform, curriculum development, teaching and learning

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Who’s to blame for the half- baked graduates?

An article that was published in the Daily Nation last Tuesday, in the Smart Company pullout, was titled, ‘Who’s to blame for the half- baked graduates? Some readers offered these suggestions:

Guru Mwangi- If intellectual hunger means an absentee lecturer dishing out handouts, then what is the essence of coming to campus? We should stay at home; the lecturers to send us the handouts and we (students) read on our own. Intellectual hunger comes about because one feels inspired to be part of that team that advances knowledge but who is there to inspire the undergraduates? Majority of students in campus really try to achieve excellence but without proper guidance, they can only go so far. Many times it is not lecturers but largely the university administrations with their 'analogue' bureaucracy are to blame for half baked graduates. Students are not receiving value for their money which is hardly a surprise: the university administrations are busy searching for property to acquire to expand the reach of education to all.

True research is an exception rather than the rule. Half-baked graduates are a result of a systemic rot. It does not however mean that all students are guided by vision and determination. On the contrary, we have university students who have absolutely no sense of academic direction. But like I said, the university

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