Vacancies at Mount Kenya University

Qualification:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field.
• Must have at least three (3) years’ experience in Grade 9 or at a comparable position.
• Must be Computer Literate and highly proficient in ms-word, excel, SPSS and other computer statistical analysis software.
• Must have good analytical, report writing and report presentation skills with adequate proficiency in data visualization techniques.

Job Summary/Duties:

• Provide customer service and necessary support to postgraduate students, supervisors and other stakeholders
• Serve as link to communication between the students, school and the College of Graduate Studies & Research
• Maintain and regularly update files for postgraduate students
• Oversee postgraduate student requests for supervisor allocation, seminars, ethical review, publications, letters of introduction and relevant documents to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with requisite regulations
• Schedule postgraduate training meetings and seminar presentations
• Provide individual student weekly and monthly progress reports to the board of graduate studies
• Prepare a list of students who successfully complete each semester
• Present weekly student reports during the postgraduate students academic progression monitoring committee meetings
• Serve as secretariat during students’ seminar presentations and board of examiners meetings
• Prepare payment claims for postgraduate supervisors and examiners
• Develop and maintain a schedule of activities for the respective schools each semester
• Maintain a record of all hard-cover bound thesis/project copies
• Ensure submitted thesis are submitted to the library
• Coordinate postgraduate capacity building for students and supervisors
• Any other duties assigned

Requirements

Desirable Skills:

• Proven record in academic, student service or administrative roles
• Understanding of technology applications related to records and data management processes
• Experience with Excel and other Microsoft Office applications essential
• Attention to detail
• Excellent oral, interpersonal, and written skills.
• Problem-solving capability.
• Capacity for prioritizing conflicting demands.
• Ability to gather facts and to analyze situations objectively, accurately, and in an organized fashion.
• Solid critical thinking skills to understand student and staff issues.
• Attentive to deadlines.
• Positive attitude and ability to plan and adapt to change.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with various departments and cross-functional teams.

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Requirements

Education, Skills and Experience

•  Bachelor’s degree in Business with specialization in Accounting/Finance or equivalent

OR

•  CPA (K) 5Years experience

Duties and responsibilities:

• Ensure billing are done correctly
• Posting student payment
• Daily reconciliation of receipts posted
• Prepare daily cash flow statement
• Daily banking of cheques receipted
• Report on collections done
• Verify that transactions comply with financial policies and procedures
• Process backup reports after data entry
• Manage the weekly cheque run
• Record all cheques received
• Prepare manual cheques as and when required
• To ensure safe custody of banking lips and carbonated receipts

Deadline Fri,15 Sep 2023