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Job Title:   Associate Engineer Data & Technology- Project Hello World  

Organisation: Imagine Her

Duty Station:  Seguku, Wakiso, Uganda

Reports to: Lead Engineer

Contract Period: 1-Year renewable

About Imagine Her:

Imagine Her is a local non-profit working with communities to accelerate the power and potential of women, girls, and youth as active leaders and social entrepreneurs creating sustainable solutions within their communities.

We achieve this through three-pronged approaches as described below;

• Becoming: Becoming is an all-year-round program that creates opportunities for young girls to develop their potential in leadership and realization of their sexual and reproductive rights at a tender age. . We also support learners’ academic and learning needs through experiential and digital learning opportunities delivered through design thinking and internet hubs
• Social Enterprise & Innovation Incubator: We invest in young women and youth as builders of transformative solutions to the most pressing problems of today and tomorrow (Climate ChangeFood Security, Health & Education Disparities). We do this through the provision of skills training and lean start-up fnancing.
• Career Pathways: We invest in transforming university education and experience in Uganda by equipping university students with skills desirable in the job market and enabling them to solve real-life and business problems through the Design Thinking methodology, tailored experiential learning opportunities (company, organizational and community-based placements ) and social enterprise skills training.

We are implementing Project Hello World which we seek to fill some vacant positions. Project Hello World provides educational resources and Internet connectivity to isolated and vulnerable communities. We do this by building solar-powered, outdoor Internet kiosks— so that underprivileged children and adults can educate themselves, communicate with others, and have a voice in the global community. To achieve this, we mobilize communities to build Hello Hubs which are solar-powered outdoor Internet kiosks, and state-of-the-art technology including high-quality solar panels, satellite connectivity, rugged, waterproof touch-screen screens, camera, and audio equipment. Hello Hubs are designed to withstand extreme outdoor weather and are energy-autonomous, which means that they can bring connectivity and education to even the most isolated communities.

Job Summary:  As an Associate Engineer- Data and Technology, there will be a vast amount of data you work with on a day-to-day basis from our feld team and great attention to detail is paramount to identify, manage and report any insights from the data to the management team. The Associate Engineer- Data and Technology will work alongside the Lead Engineer to streamline and build out the M&E system.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Data Management & Analysis

• Data download, aggregation, cleaning and upload from various sources to the central data lake.
• Use tools like SQL , Metabase, Looker to build dashboards and necessary analysis tools that inform program implementation
• Develop automation tools for data import and cleaning
• Maintain a web portal powering community networks built on open source drupal , supporting the team to update the system.
• Oversee backup and recovery of the web portal.
• Manage the support tickets related to the technology products
• Monitor infrastructure (servers ) to ensure minimal downtime
• Manage the organization’s networking infrastructure built on ubiquiti technology
• Manage and maintain the inhouse tech products for remote solar monitoring
• Work with the community and uganda team to build hello hubs across the country.
• Support hub repairs and maintenance
• Prepare regular reports
• Training in-house team on usage of the portal
• Prepare manuals on training guides for the in-house technical products
• Prepare regular reports

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Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Has 4+ years of experience.
• Experience with Excel, SQL, Python/R: writing and deploying sql queries
• Experience with web technologies – HTML, CSS, JS: Updating and maintaining the portal codebase
• Experience with Development (PHP, Python, ): in depth knowledge of development concepts and projects spanning both backend and frontend.
• Experience with data visualization tools: Metabase, Looker, Tableau Excel
• Works on schedule.
• Experience with content management systems eg drupal 9, Django
• User interface and interaction design with a great eye for detail.
• Experience with current technology trends eg Git, AWS, Google workplace
• Excellence in technical communication with peers and non-technical cohorts.

Personal Qualities

We’re looking for someone who can get their sleeves rolled up and their hands dirty. Someone who is kept up at night trying to fnd answers to the world’s most intractable problems and willing to make some errors along the way. We need an individual willing to share what they know and learn as they go – not afraid to take a step back and think around a problem. Someone who is passionate about design, technology and has a great eye for innovation and problem-solving. We’re looking for an expert with drive and heart. And we need someone who can do all those things, in some of the hardest places, and still have a lot of fun.

Things We’ll Bring To The Table:

• A passionate and welcoming working environment in a small, fast-paced NGO
• Building your capacity in all areas of your work
• First Aid & Safeguarding Training

How to Apply:

All candidates should send their updated CVs and cover letters as A SINGLE FILE to jobs@i-her.org

Deadline: 22^nd June 2023 by 5:00 pm

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, due to the large volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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