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Wednesday, June 8, 2011

FECTSO: Chief Executive Officer and Program Officer

The Federation of Community Tourism Support Organizations -Kenya (FECTSO-K) is a consortium of Community Based Tourism Enterprises (CBTEs) in Kenya and a number of organisations that support the initiative.

FECTSO aims to work as a one stop business centre that enables CBTEs achieve competitiveness in the mainstream tourism industry.

To achieve its mandate, FECTSO has vacancies for the following positions:

Chief Executive Officer

Reporting to the Board of Trustees, the CEO will drive the Vision of FECTSO through the following:

Duties and responsibilities:

* Overall responsibility of strategic direction, organisation, Administration of FECTSO-K.
* Develop and implement the FECTSO-K strategic plan.
* Oversee development and implementation of programmes.
* Fund raising and resource mobilisation.
* Financial and human resource management.
* General coordination between FECTSO and stakeholders.
* Networking at different levels of society.

Qualifications and skills requirements:

* A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences or a relevant field, an MBA degree will be an added advantage.
* Minimum of 5 years working experience at Senior management level in a medium to large size organization.
* Good leadership qualities, team player with good communication skills.
* Fundraising and resource mobilization skills.
* At least 35 years of age.
* Have working knowledge in ICT.
* Good knowledge of the tourism industry will be an added advantage

Program Officer

The Program Officer will be the implementing agent of FECTSO.

Duties and responsibilities:

* Membership recruitment, awareness and sensitization activities.
* Maintaining communication with the CBTEs at the regional and grassroots level.
* Preparation of project proposals.
* Implementation of FECTSO-K’s programmes.
* Reporting, monitoring and evaluation.
* Preparing annual and quarterly reports / budgets.

Qualifications and skills requirements:

* Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, Community Development, Tourism or any other relevant field
* Minimum 3 years experience in project management.
* Aged 27 years and above.
* Have working knowledge in ICT.
* Experience in managing donor financed programmes.
* Excellent communication skills in English and Swahili.

Applications and CVs to reach the undersigned by 17th June 2011.

Only successful applicants will be notified.

The Recruitment Panel, FECTSO-K
P O Box 47998, 00100 Nairobi
e-mail: wmg@wmgconsultants.org

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