Introduction
Our Client an investment company seeks to recruit a General Manager. The General Manager plans, directs, and coordinates the operations of the Portfolio. The duties and responsibilities for this position include formulating policies, managing daily operations, and planning the use of materials and human resources. Additionally, she/he will develop strategic plans for business growth based on short-term and long-term goals.
Reporting to: Board of Directors and Beneficiaries Location: Nairobi
•Develops strategic plan by studying opportunities; presenting assumptions; recommending objectives.
•Manages investment portfolios by developing both short-term and long-term investment plans, recommending investments and monitoring, managing and allocating assets.
•Accomplishes subsidiary objectives by establishing plans, budgets, and results measurements; allocating resources; reviewing progress; making mid-course corrections.
•Review financial statements, sales and activity reports, and other performance data to measure productivity and goal achievement and to determine areas needing cost reduction and program improvement.
•Prepares monthly management reports explaining operational effectiveness, trends and variances.
•Monitors businesses and agencies to ensure that they efficiently and effectively provide needed services while staying within budgetary limits.
•Establish and implement policies, goals, objectives, and procedures, conferring with board members, beneficiaries, organization officials, and staff members as necessary.
•Builds portfolio’s image by collaborating with customers, government, community organizations, and employees; enforcing ethical business practices.
•Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.
•Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; bench marking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.
•Increases management’s effectiveness by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, coaching, counselling, and disciplining staff; communicating values, strategies, and objectives; assigning accountabilities; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; developing incentives; developing a climate for offering information and opinions; providing educational opportunities.
•Manage staff, preparing work schedules and assigning specific duties.
•Communicate and embody the portfolio’s vision and values.
RELEVANT KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
●Administration and Management — Knowledge of business and management principles involved in financial and strategic planning, performance management, developing standards, resource allocation, human resources modelling, leadership technique, decision making, production methods, process improvement, quality management, coaching, and coordination of people and resources.
●Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
●Law and Government — Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
●Personnel and Human Resources — Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, termination, labour relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
•Economics and Accounting — Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
Requirements
●A Bachelor’s Degree in business related field.
●Masters’ Degree is an added advantage.
●At least 8 years of experience with 2 years in Senior Management
