Inua Foundation Business Manager Job in Kenya

Inua Foundation Business Manager Job in Kenya
INUA, a Swahili name, means to lift up, raise or to elevate. The Inua foundation wants to improve life for disadvantaged mothers and children in Kenya’s slums. We help children to gain access to quality education and empower the mothers economically through gainful employment, micro-credit and entrepreneurship.
We believe that only aid in the sense of giving money, goods, healthcare and education is not a structural solution and will even lead to dependency. We think that aid has to be combined with economic empowering activities.
We provide employment opportunities through our income generating projects and use the profit to support food programs at schools and pay school fees for children who otherwise would not be able to go to school.
We set up a workshop in the Nairobi slum Kibera making jewelry and other crafts items to give disadvantaged women skills and employment. Disadvantaged could be in skills, education, health or history. At the moment we are exporting these items, but we want to start selling in Kenya as well.
Hereunder are the millennium goals 2015 from the UN. With INUA we contribute in achieving goals nr 1, 2,3,6,8.

Position: Business Manager
Organization: Inua Foundation
Location: Nairobi

Responsible To:Program Manager
Position Outline:
Inua Foundation is a young non-profit organization whose vision is to empower slum dwelling women economically through and to sponsor education related costs for needy children.

The organization currently produces jewellery and crafts for sale as an income generating activity to support its activities.

The Business Manager will be responsible for managing current activities and setting up new income generating activities for the organization to supplement current income stream.

He/ she will provide administrative and logistical support to the office. This is a full time job with a one year contract.

Tasks and Responsibilities:
    * Prepares weekly records to monitor and assess production.
    * Prepares and generates monthly reports to give status accounts of the business performance to management/board.
    * Sourcing for and maintaining sales avenues and partners for the various business activities.
    * Ensures statutory compliance for the business.
    * Making requisitions and sourcing for purchase of material and equipment needed for production/business.
    * Supervise jewellery production (quantity, quality, productivity, planning, material procurement)
    * Set quality and quantity standards for jewellery production
    * Managing, supervising and assessing production personnel
    * And any other duties assigned

Job requirements
Qualifications and skills
    * Proven experience in starting up/running a successful small/medium business enterprise including writing business proposals.
    * You have strong business acumen
    * You are a team player and problem solver
    * You have excellent planning and coordination skills
    * Ability to multitask and work with strict deadlines.
    * You have strong attention to detail and ability to work under pressure
    * You appreciate aesthetics and have good fashion colour-coordination.
    * You are flexible, creative and resourceful
    * You are competent in MS Office applications and have excellent communication skills.
    * You have good accounting skills.

Personal profile
The Business manager is an outgoing person who is able to recognise opportunities and tap them.

This person is a team leader, works well without supervision, is innovative and has a good balance between office and field work, being able to manage both. You are able to work in a multicultural setting adapting positively to the differences. Does this description fit and interest you? K

Kindly forward your online application containing;
    * 2-page CV
    * Motivational letter explaining
   1. why you are interested in this job
   2. Why you are best suited for this job
   3. Current and expected salary.
   4. Availability

DO NOT forward any other documents. Deadline for application is 3rd November 2010, applications sent after this date will not be considered.

Successful candidates will be requested to carry their supporting documents to the interview between 8 and 11th November 2010. Qualified females are encouraged to apply.

Send application to info@inuafoundation.org