M-KOPA Solar, headquartered in
Nairobi, Kenya, is the global leader of "pay-as-you-go" energy for
off-grid customers.
The company was founded in 2011 by former executives behind M-PESA (the world's leading mobile payment platform) on the belief that mobile technology could revolutionize energy services in emerging markets the same way it has already revolutionized the delivery of communications and financial services.
The company was founded in 2011 by former executives behind M-PESA (the world's leading mobile payment platform) on the belief that mobile technology could revolutionize energy services in emerging markets the same way it has already revolutionized the delivery of communications and financial services.
Position Title: Project Manager – Market Development
Department: Market Development
Overall Purpose: Market Development spearheads the innovation and piloting of new Products within the Ecosystem of M-Kopa’s products with subsequent implementation of multiple pilots for new products.
The Project Manager will be based in
Eldoret with 50 percent of their time allocated to field work particularly
North Rift, Nyanza and Western regions.
Relationships:
Reports to: Head of Market Development
Responsibilities:
Relationships:
Reports to: Head of Market Development
Responsibilities:
- Help run early stage Pay-as-you-go Solar Water
pump irrigation trial
- Pilot distribution for larger solar systems
and Accessories
- Manage and disperse information about pilots
within the organization
- Assist in development from Pilot stage to
commercial distribution
- Business Development
Education:
- Minimum of Tertiary/Diploma
educated.
- A Marketing/Project Management background or
prior relatable experience in a similar role will be an added advantage.
Minimum years of experience
- At least 1 year in a similar
position.
Required Skills
- Attention to detail
- Good communications and interpersonal skills
- Strong process management
- Analytical, self-motivated, result oriented
and able to manage and perform under extreme pressure.
- Able to influence at high level.
- Set high standards in organizing and planning
Remuneration: The position comes with a competitive and
generous salary package that includes a Company phone, laptop and car.
Job Title: Training Officer
Job Summary: The role is responsible for supporting the sales
department through providing total coverage of all appropriate training needs.
Responsibilities
- Evaluating training requirements for the sales
department, consulting with departmental head and HR
- Designing training curriculum to facilitate
meeting departmental goals.
- Developing and maintaining training material
to the highest standards.
- Ensure that all members of staff, new and
existing, within the sales department are trained to an appropriate level.
- To maintain effective communication and
knowledge transfer with the sales team
- Organizing the training including: determining
training schedules, venues, facilities and supporting other trainer in
training.
- Managing the training operations budget to
ensure maximum return on investments.
- Developing training impact assessment
methodology and implementing within set timelines
- Evaluate the effectiveness of training and
modify materials as appropriate.
- Preparing Training Reports
Key Competencies
- Good understanding of adult learning
techniques
- Effective communication skills, leadership and
time management skills
- Formal training qualification is desirable
- Computer literacy
Experience
- Minimum of 2 year in a training role
- Experience of working within a sales
environment is desirable
- Experience of communicating at all levels up
to and including senior management
- Experience of designing, delivering and
maintaining training materials.
Position Title: Firmware Developer,
Kenya
Location: Nairobi
Position Start: Date ASAP
Contract: 1 year renewable with possibility
of permanent placement after 1 year’s reviewed performance
Reporting to: Head of Engineering
Key Accountabilities
- Development of firmware for M-KOPA’s family of
solar products.
- Optimization of the hardware/firmware
interaction during new product development.
- Test management during new product
development.
Skills & Experience:
Crucial:
- Education in electrical engineering, computer
science, or electronics or relevant credentials
- Optimization of the hardware/firmware
interaction during new product development.
- Exposure programming in C
- Willing to travel sporadically outside Nairobi
Plus:
- Experience analyzing and debugging hardware
and firmware interaction at the PCB level.
- Extensive experience developing firmware for
embedded hardware in C (for PIC18F family) and in assembly.
- Programming experience with MySQL and the
ability to read and modify circuit schematics in an ECAD program (for
example, EAGLE) would be an extra advantage
Remuneration: Competitive covering a monthly salary and medical
benefits reflective of the candidate’s experience and skills.
Database Administrator
M-KOPA is seeking a skilled and
motivated Database Administrator to help manage M-KOPA’s database servers and
applications.
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Start Date: ASAP
Reporting to: Head of Technology
Responsibilities Include:
Reporting to: Head of Technology
Responsibilities Include:
- Contributing to the design and implementation
of SQL Server installations and SQL Based applications both on-premises
and cloud-hosted.
- Continuous performance improvement through the
analysis and possible modification of stored procedures, indexes, views,
compression and other tuning activities.
- Configuration and maintenance of SQL Server
installations supporting the M-KOPA cloud platform and business
services. Ensuring that the business’s Recovery Point Objectives
(RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) can be met through the use of
cloud services and high availability schemes.
- Troubleshoot SQL Server operational issues as
they occur, including after-hours and weekends
- Configure SQL Server monitoring utilities to
minimize false alarms
- Maintaining operational documentation related
to the company’s database environment
- Manage M-KOPA’s Windows servers
- Provide M-KOPA application support to end
users
- Build and deploy new Windows servers
- Willingness to work shifts that may cover
weekends and holidays
Skills & Experience
Required:
Required:
- 3 years or more in a lead database
administrator role for SQL Server
- Hands-on experience of working with SQL Server
2012 and above
- Experience working with Windows server and
Active Directory in the context of SQL Server installation and operation.
- Experience in Performance Tuning, Query
Optimization, using Performance Monitor, SQL Profiler and other related
monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
- Experience in troubleshooting and resolving
database issues such as database integrity, performance, blocking and
deadlocking, replication amongst others.
- Experience with backups, restores and recovery
models.
- Knowledge of High Availability (HA) and
Disaster Recovery (DR) options for SQL Server.
- Knowledge of indexes, index management, and
statistics.
- Ability to write and troubleshoot TSQL
and design (stored procedures, functions, tables, views, triggers,
indexes, constraints)
- Ability to effectively communicate and work
closely with M-KOPA staff to determine needs and assist with systems
requirements.
- Excellent written and verbal communication
skills
Desirable:
- Experience in SQL Server 2014 and In-memory
databases
- Experience in the installation and
configuration of Windows Server 2012
- Experience in building and maintaining
applications using the .NET framework
- Working in a web application development
environment
- Experience managing virtual servers using
VMWare or HyperV platforms
- Microsoft SQL DBA Certification will be
considered a big plus
- MCSE certification will be considered a plus
- Knowledge in a scripting language like
PowerShell will be a plus
- Experience working with monitoring tools such
as PRTG
- Experience of SQL Server in a cloud-hosted
environment and/or SQL Azure
Remuneration: The position comes with a competitive and
generous salary package reflective of the candidate’s experience and skills.
Senior Product Development Manager
M-KOPA is seeking an experienced professional to join the M-KOPA product team and manage the development of the company’s product (device) roadmap.
M-KOPA is seeking an experienced professional to join the M-KOPA product team and manage the development of the company’s product (device) roadmap.
Position Overview: The Senior Product Development
Manager will be responsible for the delivery of M-KOPA’s product roadmap and
will be an integral member of the M-KOPA team.
This person will be the key point person
responsible for the design and coordination of tasks across the various teams
engaged in the delivery of M-KOPA’s future products.
Currently, there are multiple
products in the roadmap, at various stages of development that need to be
brought to commercialization. This is a high profile position with a direct
reporting line to M-KOPA’s senior management team.
Location: There is a strong preference that the person be based in M-KOPA’s Head Office in Nairobi, Kenya, The role will require international travel (approx. 25%) to partner facilities in China, Hong Kong, the UK, and other M-KOPA markets.
M-KOPA will also consider candidates
who wish to be based in Hong Kong or the UK and who are willing to travel more
than 50% of the time.
Compensation and Benefits: Competitive and will be based on the applicants skills and experience.
Start Date: As soon as possible
Job Responsibilities: This Senior Product Development Managers will be a part of the Product Development Team, which operates on a matrix basis with senior managers from engineering, technology, and production teams.
Key tasks will include:
Compensation and Benefits: Competitive and will be based on the applicants skills and experience.
Start Date: As soon as possible
Job Responsibilities: This Senior Product Development Managers will be a part of the Product Development Team, which operates on a matrix basis with senior managers from engineering, technology, and production teams.
Key tasks will include:
- Owning the delivery of all the products on the
M-KOPA product roadmap
- Coordination of all of the work tasks being
done by the various teams as they work on new product concepts, design and
testing, taking products through the new product development cycle into
mass production.
- Coordinating the deliverables from supporting
consultants / suppliers who work with M-KOPA on product development (e.g.
design houses, manufacturers, specialist experts, etc)
- Providing consumer requirement design guidance
on all products and working closely with the Engineering and Production
teams to ensure that product specifications are in line with business
requirements and that technical details are closed down as the product
design firms up.
- Preparation of project management
documentation, using on-line tools and ensuring all team members have
access to up-to-date information at all times and across multiple
geographies
- Ensuring good management of product details
(specifications, drawings, data etc) through the design stages and hand
over of this to Production team at mass production
- Logging decisions and actions and acting as
secretary to the Product Committee (where Executive ownership of the
roadmap resides).
- Manage the related budget related to product
design and development.
Knowledge Requirement
- Experienced in production of new products from
concept to delivery, with experience in product design preferable
- At least four years project management
experience working on complex, multi-stakeholder projects, ideally in
multiple countries with exposure to multiple cultures
- Very strong project management skills /or
formal program management qualifications (e.g. Prince2)
- Demonstrable record of delivery complex
outcomes on time and to budget
- Strong communicator able to manage teams
across time zones and cultures
- Ability to get others to do things on time
Skills Requirement
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Team building skills
- Analytical and problem solving skills
- Decision making skills
- Effective verbal and listening communications
skills
- Attention to detail and high level of
accuracy
Position Title: Project Manager, India
Location: Delhi or Mumbai, TBC. (With extensive travel to
rural India and some travel to Kenya)
Position Start: Date ASAP (Not later than January
2015)
Contract: 1 year renewable with possibility of permanent
placement after 1 year’s reviewed performance
Reporting to: Head of Asia Markets
Overall Purpose: M-KOPA is expanding their successful business to India and will be launching a pilot in 2015.
Overall Purpose: M-KOPA is expanding their successful business to India and will be launching a pilot in 2015.
M-KOPA is partnering with a leading
mobile phone operator and an established last-mile distributer to provide
M-KOPA’s innovative solar products to Indian households.
The purpose of the job is to ensure
the successful launch and roll-out of the pilot in India, in collaboration with
our partners.
Key Accountabilities
Key Accountabilities
- Responsible for piloting M-KOPA Solar’s
business into India with partners in 2015.
- Training and support to business partners on
rolling out M-KOPA’s products and business model.
- Charged with feeding back to M-KOPA’s
technical team local configuration requirements for the effective
technical delivery.
- Managing relationships with key partners.
- Provide recommendations for commercial
roll-out.
Education: Minimum degree educated
Experience: At least 5 years of experience. Experience of MFI, solar or telecom markets will be an added advantage
Required Skills
- Excellent project and stakeholder management
skills.
- Commercial acumen.
- Analytical, self-motivated, result oriented,
great negotiation skills and able to manage and perform under high
pressure.
- Ability to quickly understand new technology
and systems.
- Ability to quickly understand regulatory and
legal requirements.
- Set high standards in organizing and planning.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication
skills.
Remuneration: Competitive covering a monthly salary,
performance bonus and medical benefits reflective of the candidate’s experience
and skills.
To apply, send an updated detailed copy of your CV and a cover letter expressing why you feel you would be an excellent candidate for the role to india.applications@m-kopa.com
To apply, send an updated detailed copy of your CV and a cover letter expressing why you feel you would be an excellent candidate for the role to india.applications@m-kopa.com