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Sanergy is an award-winning social venture that builds healthy, prosperous communities by making hygienic sanitation accessible and affordable in Africa’s urban informal settlements. Our systems-based approach to solving the sanitation crisis involves five key steps: we build a dense network of franchised micro-entrepreneurs, who operate low-cost, high...
We are an increasingly sophisticated, highly intricate organization with many moving parts.
The Sanergy Fellows Program seeks accomplished, driven individuals who will make substantive contributions to the organization.
We currently seek a Software Engineer who will work in our IT Services department:
About the role: The purpose of the team is to provide Frontline ICT and software development services for the company and to assist in the continued reliability and enhancement of the Company’s ICT Systems.
The successful candidate will be designing, Coding, installing, implementing, maintaining and customizing already made software solutions that will support the operations at the organization.
A typical day for you might include the following
- Leading the development of custom enterprise software to power and improve the efficiency of our rigorous processes across the network.
- Designing innovative new systems, tools and processes that significantly improve operations throughout the organization; ensuring that IT solutions developed provide optimal solutions to the problems they solve.
- Reviewing existing systems and processes and recommend and design new solutions including running prototypes and pilot tests to evaluate new ideas and reviewing workflows, user interaction and user interfaces for new software solutions before they are developed and recommend improvements.
- Leading of software development resources (in-house and contracted) on architecture improvement projects; customizing internal systems with off the shelf software.
- Own the software release process including planning and coordinating the timing, schedule and deployment of software releases being done by the different teams
- Maintain and improve software configuration management practices and tools including bug tracking, version control, software builds, and deployment.
- Project management for software projects; ensuring milestones and deliverables are satisfactorily met.
- Supporting in-house users of our custom software and problem solving.
- Provide mentorship and general knowledge transfer in matters IT related to members of the IT team.
- Any other duties as assigned by your supervisor
Skills and qualifications you’ll need
- Degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering/ Computing, Certification in software development is a plus
- Demonstrable experience of not less than 2 years in software development and QA and Testing
- Demonstrable experience in agile development
- Working experience in a social enterprise is desirable
- Ability to design creative solutions given significant constraints such as very low cost, lack of power, and a non-technical user base
- Experience leading teams through brainstorms / innovation sessions / workshops
- Knowledge and experience of C#/.NET, PHP, Java and Android.
- Experience taking software projects through the entire software lifecycle (requirements analysis, design, implementation, deployment, post deployment support)
- Demonstrable experience integrating off-the-shelf and custom built technologies
- Development and support of systems that are critical to the day to day operations of medium and large organizations (ERP, financial systems, CRM, MRP etc)
- Demonstrable experience in database design and advanced SQL.
- Knowledge and experience with professional software development practices and tools including source code control, defect tracking, unit testing and code reviews.
- A team Player
- A people person, one who will interacts with others learn their needs and develop software solutions to meet those needs.
Qualities you’ll need to fit in well among the Sanergy-Stars
- A collaborative spirit that compels you to work beyond your team
- A desire to understand and serve customers
- A willingness to embrace diversity, integrity and empathy
- An innovative approach to assessing and testing new ideas
- An enthusiasm to achieve set targets and improve yourself professionally
The perks you’ll have
- A holistic benefits package
- Unparalleled opportunities for personal and professional growth
- A unique chance to tackle critical challenges of sanitation, economic empowerment and food security.
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We currently seek an Assistant Government Relations Officer who will work in our Government Relations department:
This is a field based job and you will be spending 90% of your time working in the informal settlements and involves a lot of walking.
- Minimum 3 years post graduate work experience in informal settlement/government engagement/social enterprise context.
- Degree in relevant social sciences.
- Good writing skills. Ability to use Microsoft Office programs (MS. Word, MS. Excel, etc.)
- An understanding of the dynamics in informal settlements.
- Knowledge of Government Structures, both National and County Government.
- Having worked in compliance related environment and understanding Government Legislation is an added advantage
Skills needed
- Oral communication and interpersonal skills to present Fresh Life work in various meetings.
- Creative problem-solving skills and proactiveness.
- Strong understanding of government relations and experience in building and maintaining relationships with different stakeholders.
- Proven experience in lobbying government and working with informal communities is highly desirable.
Qualities you’ll need to fit in well with the Sanergy-Stars
- A collaborative spirit that compels you to work beyond your team
- A desire to understand and serve customers
- A willingness to embrace diversity, integrity, and empathy
- An innovative approach to assessing and testing new ideas
- An enthusiasm to achieve set targets and improve yourself professionally
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We are an increasingly sophisticated, highly intricate organization with many moving parts. Sanergy seeks accomplished, driven individuals who will make substantive contributions to the organization.
We currently seek to recruit a Business Analyst who will work in our New IT Services department:
A typical day for you might include the following
Business Analysis / Project Management
- Lead the analysis and business requirements gathering to develop detailed functional requirements, clearly stating project scope
- Constant interaction with business units and business owners to understand business processes and key requirements, proactively work to resolve client issues.
- Responsible for identification and inventory of customer process pain points and gaps in best practices.
- Develop a strong understanding of SalesForce’s capabilities and limitations and can clearly communicate those to customers to facilitate building a clear requirements development strategy for each customer engagement.
- Assist in the evaluation of AppExchange tools for feasibility and impact to the business.
- Interfaces with clients to define and document requirements for a named set of custom developed or vendor software products.
- Assists designated project leads in leading, directing, and reviewing all activities associated with delivering technology products that have an impact on the use of SalesForce in the organisation. Responsible for product quality, project completion, timeliness, and customer satisfaction.
- Perform business process modelling, User experience modelling and basic technical architecture diagramming.
- Leads and is responsible all Testing and QA activities within the project lifecycle. Works with and manages off shore QA resources to develop and execute Test
- Plans, Test Scripts and all other deliverables and activities related to Quality Assurance of the Products.
- Manage teams of developers.
System Administration / Development
- Develop and manage complex workflow rules, data validation, and system triggers.
- Perform application configuration, testing and evaluation to ensure quality and consistency
- General SF administration including setting up user access, security and profile management.
- Recommend changes in configuration, maintenance, and standards
- Manage jobs including data importing and schedule in Salesforce.
- Manage user reporting requests for Salesforce data.
Training and Support
- Lead discovery workshops, which includes the facilitation of large audiences, solution presentations, and prototype demonstrations.
- Creates documentation including requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, feature description PowerPoint decks, user guides, process flows, wireframes, and newsletters.
- Strong presenter to C Suite level audiences as well as technical teams; including on-boarding new users to using SalesForce.
- Act as liaison between Sanergy business units and Technical Team in all areas of support and enhancements.
- Gather, create and document current and future business process flows.
- Acts as first line support and responds proactively to both business and project issues and escalates appropriately.
Skills and qualifications you’ll need
- Degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering/ Computing/Business Related fields.
- Masters in IT/Business related degrees is desired
- Software Development Certifications is desired
- Demonstrable experience in writing advanced SQL queries (this will be tested at the interview stage).
- Ability to design creative cost effective solutions given limited resources.
- Experience leading teams through brainstorms / innovation sessions / workshops
- Demonstrable experience in proactively eliciting and documenting user requirements.
- Experience taking software projects through the entire software lifecycle (requirements analysis, design, implementation, deployment, post deployment support).
- Experience integrating off-the-shelf and custom built technologies
- Development and support of systems that are critical to the day to day operations of medium and large organizations (ERP, financial systems, CRM, MRP etc)
- Experience in working with the various platforms such as Salesforce/Apex, CRM/MRP/ERP systems and SQL Server highly desirable
- Must have demonstrable experience in leading analysis and business requirements gathering to develop detailed functional requirements, clearly stating project scope.
- Must possess the following skills; Problem solving skills ,analytical skills, should be able to work with a team, has to be adaptable and flexible and have good Communication skills
Qualities you’ll need to fit in well with the Sanergy-Stars
- A collaborative spirit that compels you to work beyond your team
- A desire to understand and serve customers
- A willingness to embrace diversity, integrity, and empathy
- An innovative approach to assessing and testing new ideas
- An enthusiasm to achieve set targets and improve yourself professionally
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