Gideon Koech

Experience

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  Bibilia husema radio Eldoret

  Aug 2012 - Nov 2012

  News Reporter

  Maintained a high profile in the professional and business communities while collecting quality stories for reporting at the county level. • Skilled in cold calling and approaching diversified news sources to ensure newsworthy stories are collected and send to the news desk. • Account on the legitimacy of business news and voice-overs. • Meeting daily targets on news stories.

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  Kass Media Group

  Oct 2012 - Dec 2012

  County -Assistant News reporter

  Involved in high quality compilation and writing feature business/general news.• Evaluate general titles and get feature news stories concerning the same.• Oversee the positive impact brought by any news story to the community channeled from kass weekly.• Serve as in-house editor for internal and external news stories before the main editor.

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  Britam

  Oct 2013 - Oct 2015

  Financial Advisor

  • Responsible for meeting sales goals and overall quality of service• Conduct sales and marketing calls to book meetings with potential clients• Send follow-up marketing materials and make follow-up monthly calls to establish relationships• Call and personally visit potential, new, and existing customers to facilitate new business• Perform client presentations articulating the value proposition of product, solution, and service offerings• Coordinate efforts to improve the customer experience at the point of sale• Ensure client’s queries on the front desk are actioned upon. Show less

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  British Council

  Nov 2015 - Sept 2019

  Administrative Assistant

  Involved in daily office operations by tackling unanimous administrative duties widely through all the departments within the organization and other stakeholders • VAT-Processing of vat for all invoices with vat amounts above ksh 5000 and delivering them to treasury make follow ups with KRA for approval and later deliver them to vendors before the 6month eligibility period elapses. I have an excel sheet document for tracking all the DA1’s from pending to approved for easy follow up.• . Procurement –Raise purchase orders for office stationery procurement needs and ensure that all invoices (across all departments) are scanned to the hubs shared drive for payment • Office Management-ensure all colleagues are provided for all their stationary requirements, clerical duties-checking on photocopying papers and working state of all copiers. Ensuring the office is clean in liaison with a contracted cleaning vendor ,testing and responding to fire alarm alerts in line with the health and safety policy ,arrangement of meeting rooms in accordance to different room set up styles ,assisting in supervision for projects teams while moving items from the basement and office stores ,keeping stock records and carrying out monthly stock take for stationary and other office items kept in the basement Show less

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  British Council

  Nov 2021 - Jun 2022

  Operations Manager

  • Estates Management• To oversee the provision of professional, cost-effective, quality contracted services for premises, maintenance, security, and general running costs to provide a comfortable healthy and safe working environment for all staff and visitors to all BC properties• Manage the inventory process - ensuring that an inventory takes place at offices and all residences and the results are accurately recorded• Update inventory as required when there is a change in circumstances - i.e•Office/residence refurbishment or arrival/vacation at residence and support the corporate fixed asset process•Provide effective management of estate suppliers and landlords and ensure that the recurring payment list register for vendors is effectively managed and is up to date• Ensure that Health, Safety, and Security standards are met in all premises and all residences•To provide oversight of Protocol policies and procedures including the processing of UK appointed staff legal documents and keep updated knowledge of changing laws in the host country•Support the inventory process - ensuring that an inventory takes place within the office and all residences, and the results are accurately recorded•To provide oversite for effective and appropriate IT service delivery and usage in British Council Kenya office, including relations with Global Service Desk(GSD), user training and support for applications, staff compliance with IT policies and standards Show less

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  British Council

  Mar 2023 - Aug 2023

  Operations Manager
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  British Council

  Jan 2024 - now

  • To manage & support all VAT refund processes, supplier relations, compliance and service delivery, and advisory support to all staff making refund queries• Provide high-quality management and oversight of VAT process• Supporting the administrative office processes affecting:• Internal transport services• Fuel management• Health and safety• Reconciliation of vendor accounts• Maintenance of office vehicle, equipment, and assets to provide a safe and efficient working environment for staff• Routinely monitor the usage of company mobile phones and ensure all reimbursements are reflected in the relevant budget codes elements(WBS)• Proactively identify weaknesses in controls and recommend remediation to ensure good audit ratings are achieved• Maintaining and updating an inventory list making sure all inventory is recorded and maintained• Ensuring that all business support activities are consistent with key equal opportunities and diversity principles• Ensure that UK Appointed staff residences are at all times well maintained in terms of contents, utilities, and services• Support new UK Appointed staff members with liaison to KRA and NTSA to register vehicles• Support general office maintenance and ensure all office equipment and facilities are well maintained and accessible as per maintenance schedules• In consultation with the Finance team, ensure vendor payments are paid in line with agreed terms• Provide direct support to Head of Operations• Supervise the driver/Admin Assistant, ensuring that outputs are achieved, and that targets and standards are met. Show less

  • Operations Officer

    Oct 2019 - now

  • Operations Manager

    Jan 2024 - Jul 2024