Position Title: Software Production Designer
Location: Nairobi
Number of Positions: 1
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.
Our schools profitably deliver this high-quality education for less than $4 per
child per month, which enable the schools to cover all their costs and create a
profitable central organization at scale. We have launched 37 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.Location: Nairobi
Number of Positions: 1
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.
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 Production 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
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
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