Google to build Wireless networks in Kenya, Africa.

Google intends to build and help operate wireless networks from sub-Saharan Africa hoping to connect a billion or so people in emerging countries to the Internet.

The Internet search giant - which has for years espoused universal Web access - is employing a patchwork quilt of technologies and holding discussions with regulators from South Africa to Kenya, according to insiders.

Many countries lack the infrastructure to bankroll an internet infrastructure, which means many

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Inside Mathari Mental Hospital, Kenya's worst Hospital.

Patients at Kenya's only psychiatric hospital are often confined and immobilized using drugs that put them in a comatose-like state, factors that may have led to the recent escape of 40 male patients, an advocacy group points out in a new report.

Edah Maina, the chief executive officer, of the Kenya Society For the Mentally Handicapped said the Mathari psychiatric hospital is violating its patients' rights under Kenya's constitution.

Patients at Mathari are recognized as people with psychosocial disabilities under the new constitution, which

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Oxfam NGO Employment Jobs Vacancies

Oxfam NGO Jobs in Kenya.
Deputy Regional Director (Humanitarian) - Oxfam GB 
Contract Type: Open ended
Based in Nairobi
Salary Range: £33,107 - £44,820 Net per annum.

A competitive salary package will be negotiated with the right candidate based on skill and experience.

Oxfam will meet the tax and social security liabilities, plus attractive benefits including Housing, 
Medical, School Fees up to 3 children, among others. 

Background
Oxfam is one of the world's leading International Humanitarian Agencies, assisting people affected by poverty, natural

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Sales Careers Global Clothing Company.

Sales & Marketing Kenyan Jobs

Global Clothing Company Ltd is a fast growing importer of second hand products.

We are seeking a Sales and Marketing Executive

The successful candidate must have
    3 years experience in sales and marketing

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Tetra Tech Finance Job Vacancies

Finance Jobs in Kenya 2013
Finance Manager

Tetra Tech ARD, headquartered in Burlington, Vermont, is currently accepting expressions of interest from qualified candidates for a potential Finance Manager position on a USAID-funded program in Kenya.

Position Description/Summary: 
The Finance Manager will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of financial management of a large and decentralized, devolution/governance project, including financial systems implementation, 

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Finance Careers Netsol Kenya Limited

Finance Careers in Kenya
Head Of Finance

Summary
Our client Netsol Kenya Limited is seeking to engage a self driven and experienced Head of Finance. You will be expected to take charge of the finance management function of the company, ensuring that appropriate financial plans are put in place, that the company’s resources, cash and non cash are secured from potential loss and deployed

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Finance & Admin Jobs Vacancies.

Finance& Admin Jobs in Kenya
Finance & Administration Manager

The World Society for the Protection of Animals(WSPA), is a not for profit organisation and has been in operations for more than 30 years. We seek the protection of animals around the globe through our collective skills and knowledge to move individuals, organisations and governments to transform animals’ lives.  

From our International Office in London, UK and regional offices in 17 countries, worldwide, we work 
in more than 50 countries, creating positive change by exposing cruelty and pioneering sustainable solutions to animal suffering.

We are in the process of opening a regional office in Nairobi, Kenya to serve the Eastern Africa region and seek to hire a result driven Finance and Administration Manager. Reporting to the Regional Director you will have overall responsibility

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AIC Kijabe Hospital Careers 2013.

Medical Careers in Kenya
Assistant Newborn Community Health Program Officer

Purpose: To give glory to God by assisting the NCH team in developing best practices to achieve Kenya’s Millennium Development Goals 4&5 promoting maternal and newborn health.

Duties and Responsibilities:  
(approximately 85% of time will be spent in program planning and delivery; 10% in monitoring and evaluation; 15% in resource mobilization)
    Participate in community mobilization and education regarding newborn and maternal health, 
identifying the causes of morbidity and mortality and prevention, as well as developing linkages with communities and

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Laboratory Technician Job Openings

Lab Technician Jobs in Kenya
Position: Laboratory Technician

Tononoka Rolling Mills Ltd is a specialist manufacturer of international standard quality building and construction material. Our employees are our main asset.

We support individual growth and encourage employee development through training, sharing ideas and providing the freedom to explore and strengthen their talents while gaining experience.

We encourage and reward dedication, creativeness and hard work. Fairness, teamwork, good

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Sales Vacancies For Key Account Manager

Sales Job Vacancies in Kenya
Key Account Manager 
Reporting to: National Sales Manager

We are seeking to recruit for our client a position based in Nairobi.

Key responsibilities
    Identify new business while continuing to develop greater levels of business with existing clients through consistent client relationship management and customer service.
    Motivating /managing and guiding the sales to achieve sales and margin targets.
    Effective marketing and brand positioning of the company

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Finance & Admin Jobs National Land Commission

Finance &Admin Jobs in Kenya
Director, Finance and Administration

The National Land Commission, a constitutional Commission established under S. 67 of the Constitution wishes to fill the following positions.

The Director, Finance and Administration will report to the Chief Executive Officer and will be responsible for the finance and administration function including advising the Commission, the Chief 

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Legal Careers With National Land Commission.

Legal Jobs in Kenya.
Director, Legal Affairs and Enforcement

The Director, Legal Affairs will report to the Secretary of the Commission and will be responsible for the provision of leadership and advice on all legal matters.

Specifically, the director will be responsible for:
    Developing appropriate legal and institutional frameworks for the implementation of the mandate of the Commission.
    Coordinating litigation or court cases for the Commission. 
Overseeing drafting of legal opinions and other relevant legal documents for the Commission;
    Undertaking legal transactions including recovery, conveyance, agreements, leases and partnerships.
    Developing and reviewing legal instruments for the Commission.

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National Land Commission Job Vacancies.

Latest Job Vacancies in Kenya
Director, Surveying and Planning

The Director, Surveying and Planning will report to the Chief Executive Officer and will be responsible for coordinating surveying and planning functions including advising the Commission, the Chief Executive Officer and Management on all aspects and types of surveys and related planning tasks the Commission may wish to undertake.

Key Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will be a hands-on and participative manager and will lead and develop an 
internal team to operate the following areas: cadastral surveys, topographical surveys, and compulsory acquisition

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NGOs, insurance lead the pack as best-paying employers, says report.

Courtesy of Daily Nation: You would want to know where the money is if you are making a career move. The most rewarding job in terms of wages and salaries in Kenya for the last five years has been in the Non-Governmental Organisations, a survey has said.

According to the Economic Survey 2013 conducted by Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, an average monthly salary for an employee in NGO’s was Sh194,000 last year, the highest amount in both the private and public sector.

This is despite the fact that the remuneration has been reducing over the last five years, where an employee used to take home Sh202,000 in 2008 on average.

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After Graduation, Keep Your Friends First, Career Second.

Adapted from The Harvard Business Review Blog: Community is the heart of university. Students mix with other similarly aged people in an environment ripe with social activity, friendship, ideation, and discussion. It's the most powerful element of college or university— and also the most nostalgic to leave behind.

Social isolation often follows graduation. Many graduates find themselves unfulfilled, lonely, and restless — struggling to rediscover the community and connection they’d taken for granted when they were in college.

A publication recently lamented the difficulties in making new friends as a person enters their mid 20s (the age at which many are leaving college or university), largely because the three essential ingredients to forging friendship are lacking or harder to find post-university — "proximity; repeated, unplanned

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