We are looking for a rockstar Store Keeper to serve a two months stint as a maternity reliever at our Athi River Day School Campus. This is a quick hire and so the successful candidate should be willing and available to report on 2nd September.
About Nova Pioneer
Imagine a world in which every young person across Africa attends a school that truly sets them up for success in the 21st century. A school that cares about individual students and allows them to explore the world around them. A school that focuses more on developing skills than on memorizing content. At Nova Pioneer, we have done more than just imagine this future, we are bringing it to life. Nova Pioneer is a pan-African, independent network of schools offering high quality, accessible education from pre-primary through secondary school. Nova Pioneer uses a unique, enquiry-based learning approach that encourages students to ask “why” instead of telling them the “what”. It allows them to form their own thinking through exploration, investigation and collaboration. Nova Pioneer currently has 16 schools in South Africa and Kenya with a vision to launch 100 schools and reach tens of thousands of students across the African continent in the next decade. To learn more visit www.novapioneer.com.
About Your Role
The storekeeper is responsible for the maintenance of a department’s/organization’s storeroom, performing activities such as stocking of operational materials and supplies, inventory control and records, purchasing, and related duties as required.
Key responsibilities include:
- Planning for procurement of inventory as per the Purchase Orders
- Receiving the delivery of all incoming materials and reconciling with purchase orders
- Tracking, documenting, and resolving any discrepancies on received orders
- Ensuring accuracy of the facility’s inventory system by updating records of physical inventory totals, receipts, adjustments, and returns
- Managing supplier relations and database as well as maintain high ethical relationships both internally and externally
- Creating purchase orders and utilize purchasing card to perform low-value procurement activities
- Ensuring vendors accounts reconciliation and payments proceeds
- Managing and processing day to day schools catering information requests and feedback
- Daily data entry of established catering documentation and records supporting the catering team with Key data entries
- Implementation of Food safety policy and procedures
- Performing any other duties delegated the Catering Services Manager
About You
- Diploma in Stores and Procurement Management/Catering and Hospitality Management or relevant qualification
- Knowledge of storekeeping, general warehousing, and familiarity with issuing, stocking, ordering and receiving parts/supplies, and understanding of cycle counts on inventory
- Knowledge of proper bookkeeping and inventory management
- Great written and verbal communication skills and can work effectively with others in a team setting
- Great customer service skills and able to interface with suppliers and customers by identifying customer needs and resolving customer issues
- You are a quick learner with a strong growth mindset
- You are excited about our organizational culture—and in particular, you are fired up to challenge yourself by embracing mutual vulnerability and a firehose of feedback
- You have a desire to further develop your learning design skills and apply them to transform the lives of African youth
