About Bridge International Academies
Bridge International Academies is a for-profit startup company
revolutionizing education across Africa with a unique business model. The
company runs a large-scale network of low-cost primary schools in Kenya that
significantly outperforms other primary schools in the same areas because of
our “school in a box” systems.
We have launched over 84 schools in Kenya, we will double in
size in the next 6 months, and plan to rapidly scale the company to serve more
than 1 million students across the continent.
Position Title: Software Product Designer
Location: Nairobi
Number of Positions: 1
About this position
We have and are continuing to develop one of the most
sophisticated approaches to providing affordable education to MILLIONS of
children in one of the most challenging environments in the world.
We have a need to recruit for the position of Software Product
Designer whose duties will be to design and document business processes,
workflows and user interfaces for software products.
Key Responsibilities:
- Being
the subject matter expert in one functional area of the business and
owning all software and other tools developed for that area
- Working
with users and stakeholders in departments throughout the company to
understand and document functional requirements for software systems
- Writing
software functional specifications
- Designing
user interfaces for software products
- Creating
wireframes and paper prototypes for user interfaces and testing them with
users
- Producing
user interface design documents
- Working
with software engineers and quality assurance engineers to ensure to
ensure that software is implemented following functional specifications
and to troubleshoot design issues during development
- Post-deployment
follow up and evaluations of software with end users
- End
user training and support for software systems
Specialist knowledge required:
- Knowledge
and experience in the design and rollout of multiple enterprise software
systems (ERP, CRM…) in a commercial environment, with particular emphasis
on the workflow and interaction design
- Ability
to analyze business processes and translate them into software including
requirements gathering, workflow design, and UI design
- Ability
to quickly understand and analyze business requirements
- Solid
understanding of user interface design principals and human factors and an
innate sense of how people perceive and interact with software
About You
- They
should have good writing skills
- Possess
good problem solving skills
- Ability
to work with a team
- Ability
to be adaptable and flexible
- Good
communication skills
- The
individual should be detail oriented
- They
should have good planning, organizing as well as analytical skills
- Ability
to take initiative and to coordinate projects
- Good
writing, oral communication and presentation skills
Logistics Officer – Training & Recruitment
About this position
Bridge International has developed an extremely detailed and
rigorous recruitment and training Programme to select and prepare new teachers
and Academy Managers from local slum neighbourhoods.
We are seeking a Logistics Officer to manage the operations and
logistics of our complex recruitment and training processes so that we can successfully
recruit thousands of high-quality candidates and train them to become effective
teachers and Academy Managers at Bridge International Academies.
Job Responsibilities
A. Recruitment
- Successfully
recruit and convert several thousand candidates for teacher and Academy
Manager positions to participate in and succeed at the Bridge
International Training Institute, a training designed to vet candidates
for positions in our schools.
- Deploy
teams multiple times per year for massive recruitment efforts to
ultimately employ successful teachers and Academy Managers in Bridge
International Academies throughout Kenya and East Africa.
- Manage
remote teams in the field to successfully find, recruit and vet candidates
for the training.
- Train
recruitment staff and hire temporary staff as needed.
- Determine
recruitment teams and all organizational and team logistics around
deploying teams to the field for recruitment execution.
- Be
responsible and accountable for hitting recruitment targets and the
quality required.
- Determine
recruitment supplies and liaise with Procurement and Production for
ordering (tents, matatus, printing, etc.).
- Liaise
with Admin, Procurement and Warehouse to make sure items are delivered,
kitted, and dispatched in a timely and cost efficient way.
- Update
documents for each round and location of recruiting.
- Through
a call center staff, inform all invited trainees of their invitation to
training.
- Communicate
location of training and relevant information to them.
- Manage
the invited candidates as they register and confirm an MPESA number so
that they can receive travel subsidies.
- Manage
all communication and candidate related information until trainees arrive
at the first day of training and are handed over to the training implementation
teams.
B. Training
- Determine
supplies, IT, and printing ordering needs for training.
- Liaise
with Admin, Procurement and Warehouse to make sure items are delivered,
kitted, and dispatched in a timely and cost efficient way.
- Coordinate
date dispatch and delivery of training supplies to and from the training
site.
- Coordinate
on-going ordering, procurement and distribution of supplies if needed.
Experience and Qualifications
Professional:
- 3-5
years working with and managing a target-driven sales team, preferably in
East Africa
- Experience
managing remote teams
- Experience
with large-scale recruitment programs preferred
- Experience
working in, preferably in a communications capacity, to the impoverished
communities in which Bridge International Academies operates
- Experience
growing and scaling an organization in developing markets a plus
Specialist knowledge required:
- Solid
geographic knowledge of Kenya and East Africa necessary
- Experience
managing and working with remote teams to collect and access data in an
organized way
- Strong
computer skills, including Access, Powerpoint, Microsoft Word, video and
Internet
Behavioural Competencies:
- Analytical
and process-oriented thinker
- Extremely
detail-oriented
- Strong
communication skills
- Ability
to cope with changing deadlines and priorities (strong multi-tasking
skills)
- Can
do attitude even under tight deadlines
- Ability
to manage a complex system while also managing mid-level, call center, and
contract workers
- Planning
and organizational skills
- Supervisory
and management skills
- Team
player
In order to be considered for this position all candidates must
register and upload their CV’s on our website atwww.bridgeinternationalacademies.com
Only short listed candidates will be contacted
