Vacancies at M-Kopa Solar

To Achieve This, You'll Be Expected To

• Perform physical counts and reconciliation of variances in all M-KOPA outlets.
• Analysis of stock audit results and using these in monitoring and reporting of service performance at the stock locations, identify areas and opportunities for improvement.
• Accurately and objectively scoring shops using the laid down processes during audits.
• Working with Fargo, Internal teams (FCCRs, Service Centre Support etc.) perform investigations on the stock variances and provide feedback and solution on stocks audit.
• Perform important compliance checks in the M-KOPA Retail outlets i.e., on Branding, Look & Feel, Covid compliance, Record keeping, adherence to company processes and the suitability of the outlet in the preservation and security of stock or any company property.
• Report all audit findings through detailed preparation of reports for assigned shops.
• Escalate any suspicious/fraudulent activities picked out while performing their daily tasks.
• Provide required support to resolve issues arising in the field.
• 100% Field travel visiting M-KOPA shops.
• Other tasks as assigned.

Qualifications

• Diploma/Degree in relevant field of study.
• Ate least 2+ years of experience in field audit (Stock and Compliance) in the retail sector.
• Experience as a field auditor in a chain stores will be an added advantage.
• Must demonstrate impressive operational, logistics, stock audit, compliance audit, reports writing, analytics and communication.

Benefits

• Private health insurance (inpatient outpatient, maternity, eye care, and dental)
• Group Life Cover
• Airtime allowance
• WIFI payment up to 5 Mbps monthly
• 21 days per annum (excluding public holidays). Annual leave is accrued at the standard rate of 1.75 days per month

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Job Functions

• You will ensure compliance with EHS laws, regulations, best practices, and internal procedures in Kenya and support other M-KOPA entities.
• You will develop and support the implementation and embedding of health and safety policies, processes, and procedures.
• You will champion EHS activities and standards and support M-KOPA to achieve high safety standards in Kenya and support other M-KOPA markets.
• You will manage EHS KPIs to track progress and advise M-KOPA management on emerging health and safety risks and develop and implement mitigating plans.
• You will support the management of EHS investor compliance obligations.
• You will coordinate M-KOPA's EHS management initiatives including risk assessments, training and sensitization programs, and employee-led health and safety committees among others.
• You will lead EHS audits and inspections developing corrective and preventative action plans as needed.
• You will conduct periodic reviews and audits (both internally and externally) and implement findings in a timely and effective manner.
• You will update the monthly and quarterly submission of EHS reports.

Experience Required

• You should have a university qualification in a relevant discipline including environmental health & Safety management, security management, risk management, or relevant professional qualifications.
• Have recognized EHS Certifications and in-depth knowledge of EHS law, regulations, guidelines, and international best practices.
• You should have at least three (3) years of experience as an EHS professional working in a warehouse an advantage.
• Have a strong track record of performing and overseeing EHS risk assessments, audits, action plans, and maintaining an EHS action and reporting system.
• Have strong written, verbal, communication, decision-making, and analytical skills.
• Having a valid driving license is an added advantage.
• Willingness to travel.

Benefits

• Great compensation package
• Private health insurance (inpatient outpatient, maternity, eye care, and dental)
• Group Life Cover
• Hybrid working
• Airtime allowance
• WIFI payment up to 5 Mbps monthly
• 21 days per annum (excluding public holidays). Annual leave is accrued at the standard rate of 1.75 days per month

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About this role:

• Our Android team is relatively small. We have 9 specialists with combined experience in Android, Kotlin and team leading. Our Android Engineers are part of our engineering department, which is always growing. Our engineers work remotely from locations such as UK, Europe and Africa.
• As a Android Engineer, you will work in a cross-functional team of android, backend engineers, product managers and testers. Your main responsibilities will design, develop, and maintain M-KOPA’s Customer apps, and deliver software that scales with both company and customer growth.
• As part of this role, you will work on a variety of problems that could include deliver new offers and products to our customers; Deep diving user journeys using data and implementing focused updates to address our customers needs; Collaborate with fellow Android engineers to improve application quality and raise coding standards.
• We use Kotlin for our Android apps and .NET for our backend. Our teams work in a self-organised agile fashion where they keep track of their work in Azure DevOps, which we also use for our CI/CD. Our cloud provider is Azure, where our microservices are hosted in Azure Kubernetes Services. We implement Android applications following clean architecture principles, unidirectional data flow and jetpack compose.
• We are a team of passionate product-focused engineers committed building and encouraging an environment where our colleagues feel valued. We encourage knowledge sharing and learning as much as possible.

You’re excited about this opportunity because:

• You like to put your people and teammates first and bring your most empathetic self to work
• You like to take a product-focused approach to development and drive changes using data to guide your decisions
• You have the opportunity to identify gaps in the product experience, influence the project and the way we work
• You embrace DevOps mindset and understand the benefits it brings to the team
• Working in a team makes you happy and you like collaborating with other teams to grow and improve the department and wider business
• You will follow software best practices when handle sensitive data and Protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
• You will own releases, support product teams and troubleshoot issues, driving improvements in our codebase and standards
• You enjoy working in cross functional domain teams, collaborating on issues and deep diving into features to improve our users’ lives
• Advocate CI / CD best practices and understand the importance of writing clean code

We’re excited about you because you:

• You are excited to work on product-driven development.
• You apply critical thinking to presented requirements and deliver constructive feedback, while communicating difficult technical issues clearly.
• You have commercial experience in Android and Kotlin and you prefer taking ownership.
• You know how to setup analytics experiments and make data-driven decisions.
• You understand the importance of testing and you are experience writing clear and reliable tests as well as aware of testing best practices (i.e. testing pyramid and test automation)
• You are experienced with Kotlin coroutines and structured concurrency
• You are familiar with the Jetpack tool suite and modern Android development practices.
• You have previously worked for a large-scale product and you are familiar with the following: Trunk-based development, Clean Architecture, Dependency Injection, Uni-directional data flow (MVI), Feature Toggles, Docker and Azure DevOps
• It will be beneficial if you have device locking, connected asset financing or banking experience
• We are looking for someone who is excited about what we do. You don’t need to be an expert in FinTech but you are keen to learn and apply our values.

What's in for you:

• Private health insurance (inpatient outpatient, maternity, eye care, and dental)
• Group Life Cover
• Remote working (dependent on the nature of the role)
• Airtime allowance (dependent on the nature of the role)
• WIFI payment up to 5 Mbps monthly (dependent on the nature of the role)
• 21 days per annum (excluding public holidays). Annual leave is accrued at the standard rate of 1.75 days per month
• Annual Learning and Development Fund - You have an annual $ 1,200 allowance to spend on learning and development
• Home Office Set Up - this includes a budget of $1000 that you can use at any time after signing the offer letter
• On site retreats with wider tech team, plus trips to operational markets

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About this role:

• We pay important emphasis in Infrastructure as Code, Observability, and Automated Testing in all environments, including Production, which will be part in your daily job.
• We foster autonomy inside the teams, while keeping some standards across the company. We use the latest .NET stack, and are based in Azure using Kubernetes.
• We have a mix of legacy services and greenfield microservices, so if you love the challenge of improving a legacy codebase while working on new projects, and if you love working remotely, this might be a job for you. 

You’re excited about this opportunity because:

• You like to put your people and teammates first and bring your most empathetic self to work
• You take a product-focused approach to development and drive changes with data.
• You make technical decisions based on stakeholders and user needs.
• You understand clean architecture and know how to keep domain teams decoupled.
• You write clear and reliable automated tests using testing best practices such as TDD.
• You apply data security practices, such as protecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII).

We’re excited about you because you:

• You have at least 2 years’ experience working as a professional software engineer
• You have commercial experience with C#.NET, and shipping high-quality backend code into production.
• You have knowledge of Azure and AKS or other containerized application deployment tools.
• You can write high quality code by applying software development principles such as KISS, YAGNI.
• You are comfortable with the DevOps culture, and with the idea of being involved with the management of the systems that you build through their entire lifecycle.
• You have a collaborative spirit and a desire to learn from teammates. 

What's in for you:

• Private health insurance (inpatient outpatient, maternity, eye care, and dental)
• Group Life Cover
• Remote working (dependent on the nature of the role)
• Airtime allowance (dependent on the nature of the role)
• WIFI payment up to 5 Mbps monthly (dependent on the nature of the role)
• 21 days per annum (excluding public holidays). Annual leave is accrued at the standard rate of 1.75 days per month
• Annual Learning and Development Fund - You have an annual $ 1,200 allowance to spend on learning and development
• Home Office Set Up - this includes a budget of $1000 that you can use at any time after signing the offer letter
• On site retreats with wider tech team, plus trips to operational markets

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Job Requirements

Writing communication materials for both internal and external stakeholders. This includes but is not limited to:

• Social media posts
• Product flyers
• Flyers for internal and sales agent communication
• Outdoor advertising materials – Billboards, Posters, etc
• Script ideation and writing for video content
• Customer education materials – How-to guides, Financing, and M-KOPA Policies explainers

Digital media buying for our web platforms, including:

• Weekly and monthly reporting
• Creating and making recommendations on social media content strategy.
• Media monitoring - for online brand building and customer acquisition