Publishing date: 22 September 2020

Location: Dakar, Senegal

Description: The Power Africa Off-grid (PAOP) Project Senegal Lead Advisor is responsible for increasing the number of off-grid electrification connections in Senegal, by providing technical assistance to off-grid energy companies to accelerate system sales. The Lead Advisor is also responsible for supporting investors and Financial Institutions (FIs) to increase access to finance for off-grid companies and potential customers. The job entails leading tailored technical assistance activities to both off-grid companies and FIs on a range of topics such as: business performance; market dynamics; access to finance; policy and regulations; and cross-sectoral themes such as gender and productive uses of energy.  This is a full-time role based in Senegal. This position reports to the West Africa Regional Advisor and Chief of Party.

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Publishing date: 22 September 2020

Location: Kampala, Uganda

Description: The Power Africa Off-grid (PAOP) Project Uganda Lead Advisor is responsible for increasing the number of off-grid electrification connections in Uganda, by providing technical assistance to off-grid energy companies to accelerate system sales. The Lead Advisor is also responsible for supporting investors and Financial Institutions (FIs) to increase access to finance for off-grid companies and potential customers. The job entails leading tailored technical assistance activities to both off-grid companies and FIs on a range of topics such as: business performance; market dynamics; access to finance; policy and regulations; and cross-sectoral themes such as gender and productive uses of energy.  This is a full-time role based in Uganda. This position reports to the East Africa Regional Advisor and Chief of Party.

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Publishing date: 10 September 2020

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Description: The Stock Accountant is responsible for ensuring accurate and efficient management of stocks in RD stores (with correct stock entries which are updated in a timely manner). He/she will ensure that stock control procedures are in place and adhered to in order to safe guard Company stocks.

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Publishing date: 28 August 2020

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Description: The coordinator is responsible for the success of the sales and the achievements of the objectives through the Baobab network by the following tasks:

• Training and motivation of the Baobab staff associated;
• Monitoring the sales;
• Constant improvement of the distribution process;
• Supply of the Baobab branches with Baobab+ products.

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Publishing date: 25 August 2020

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Description: The KOSAP SSP RBF Facility Analyst will provide implementation support by gathering and maintaining data and information and applying analytical skills and thinking to assist the project team in interpreting the analytics in order to enhance performance of the project.

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Publishing date: 10 August 2020

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Description: The Internal Control Manager will be responsible for ensuring a strong internal control environment through the development of policies and procedures, ensuring their implementation and monitoring compliance.

The position will work to foster standardization and consistency across d.light of business processes and internal controls.

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Publishing date: 10 August 2020

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Description: The Group Tax Manager will be responsible for effective planning, management, control and optimization of d.light's taxation position.

The Group Tax Manager will coordinate and manage all tax matters relating to entities within the group as well as identifying and implementing tax processes and solutions according to regulatory and governance standards.

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Publishing date: 7 August 2020

Location: Lusaka, Zambia

Description: This position offers an incredible opportunity to make a direct impact on the lives of a largely unbanked customer base with limited access to traditional finance and clean energy. The right candidate will be a fierce team player and committed people manager, with a passion for seeing new approaches through from idea, to testing, to scale, and an ability to build out the systems and processes to ensure high performance over time.

As Head of Credit, you will be based in Lusaka, Zambia  with regular travel to the field. You will develop and manage a Credit team and create and execute on a strategy that can directly influence customers’ repayment behavior, their positive experience with A2E, and their ongoing loyalty to the brand—all crucial to the success of the business and in increasing access to financing for BOP consumers.  And you will have responsibility for the overall management of credit risk at A2E Zambia.

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Publishing date: 7 August 2020

Location: Lusaka, Zambia

Description: This position will be part of the Zambia Customer Experience team that is based in Lusaka, Zambia, and it reports to the Zambia Managing Director. As Head of Customer Experience, you will lead the Customer Experience Department within Fenix Zambia. You will lead a team of 100+ individuals across contact centres, service centres, and field customer experience agents. You will lead, mentor and support the Zambia Customer Experience leadership team of 10+ managers. You will be responsible for promoting customer-centric operations within Fenix, ensuring strong customer to business feedback loops, and ensuring that Fenix product and service development matches customer requirements and needs. You will find ways to provide an exceptional customer experience to our rapidly expanding customer base whilst becoming more efficient at scale. This position requires strategic leadership, team leadership and management, systems and process improvement, project management, continual innovation and growth, and a high degree of data proficiency. 

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Publishing date: 4 August 2020

Location: Africa

Description: Duties

• Identifies key suppliers for engagement;
• Defines terms and creates contracts for off-grid solar hardware suppliers;
• Manages relationships with vendors, suppliers, and infrastructure project leads;
• Provides strategic support to determine supplier cost and payment processes;
• Leads the development of a bulk procurement and logistics platform.

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Publishing date: 4 August 2020

Location: Africa

Description: As Data Science Associate, you’d be in a critical role advancing our company’s data technology and processes. Your responsibilities would include:

• Generating analyses from live data feeds across disparate sources with our proprietary big data analytics platform;
• Customizing our data solutions to the needs of our clients, who are conducting exciting and rigorous analyses on operating distributed energy systems in Africa;
• Supporting the continual ingestion and transformation of data from external APIs and files;
• Developing systems to proactively and reactively ensure the quality of the high volumes of data within our database;
• Writing scripts to process data as required for ad-hoc analyses;
• Communicating results of analyses succinctly with high-value clients when necessary;
• Interfacing with the software development team to integrate QA systems you’ve developed into our codebase.

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Publishing date: 3 August 2020

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Description: For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:

• Diploma in Law and Paralegal studies from a recognized institution; or
• Certificate in Law and Paralegal studies from a recognized institution;
• A minimum period of four (4) years’ relevant work experience;
• Minimum KCSE C- (minus) or its equivalent;
• Proficiency in computer applications; and
• Fulfilled the requirements of Chapter Six of the Constitution.

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Publishing date: 29 July 2020

Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Description: Are you experienced in Project Development & Project Management? Do you want to use those skills to create a positive impact and get energy out to the last-mile? This opportunity will give you the chance to use those skills to change the lives of millions through the development and deployment of solar electrification projects for off-grid communities.

Okra’s core business model is to build and sell technology that can get energy out to remote communities. However, in order to reach scale we must also build pipeline, raise project financing and develop projects from the ground up.

As a Strategy / Project Development Officer for Okra you will work within the Sales & Strategy Team to take our customers from pitch to project delivery. You’ll work with infrastructure funds and other project financiers to develop business models and negotiate commercial structures, while engaging with Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) partners to ensure the successful delivery of Okra’s technology.

Being a part of a small team will give you the opportunity to be part of key strategic decisions that will determine the future of the company.

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Publishing date: 29 July 2020

Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Description: Okra is looking for a Service Delivery Team Lead to join their team full-time in Kuala Lumpur or Phnom Penh (with trips to the Philippines and Nigeria expected to be required on occasion).

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Publishing date: 23 July 2020

Location: Kigali, Rwanda

Description: As the Product Associate for Last Mile Logistics (LML), you will be responsible for the “physical highway”: designing and implementing software solutions within Bboxx’s Pulse Platform to help NGUs deliver to and service hard-to-reach customers.

You will serve as a bridge between end customers, users and software teams: understanding business problems, designing processes and user interfaces.

This is a highly cross-functional role, working with other APMs, Product Owners, Software, Supply Chain and Accounting teams.

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Publishing date: 22 July 2019

Location: Sub-Saharan Africa

Description: CLASP is seeking qualified consultants to help support governments in Sub-Saharan Africa in their efforts to develop and implement standards across a range of on- and off-grid appliances and equipment. Consultants will provide technical assistance and strategic guidance to decision makers on how to effectively prioritize resources and activities to drive energy savings and promote energy access.

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Publishing date: 21 July 2020

Location: Cotonou, Benin

Description: Your tasks:

• Coordinate GBE Benin project activities on the topic of "mini-grids";
• Offer demand-based technical assistance and advice on mini-grids to companies, government partners, other development projects and financial institutions (covering aspects such as technical, financial and regulatory);
• Support SE4All and UEF in the operationalisation of the results-based financing mechanism;
• Support mini-grid companies going through the regulatory processes of obtaining concessions, negotiating tariffs, etc. and support public actors in streamlining and updating regulatory processes;
• Liaise with other partners on the state of the mini-grid market, market intelligence, data analysis, barriers to the sector and complementary activities;
• Provide information and contribute to reporting and knowledge management of the related activities.

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Publishing date: 21 July 2020

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Description: Bidhaa Sasa is looking for a naturally curious person and problem solver to take ownership of all company data and its analysis. In addition, coach and mentor a team of existing analysts hungry to learn and grow their capabilities.

As a company they are completing an IT systems migration, which will centralise commercial and non-commercial data allowing for a deeper analysis. The Senior Data Analyst will report directly to one of the co-founders and will work closely with the rest of the senior management team to extract value from business data using advanced analytical methods and tools.

The hire will derive knowledge and insights from both structured and unstructured data using statistical, algorithmic, mining and visualisation techniques, for example together with the IT admin build business intelligence dashboards for various levels of the organisation. Over time, the hire is expected to grow their skills and move from descriptive and diagnostic to more predictive and prescriptive analysis, using more advanced data mining and machine learning techniques to make business predictions and optimisations, for example stock forecast or route optimisation.

The hire will supervise and further develop capacity of a team of existing business analysts who interface between the different business units and the analysis and reporting of different data sets, from sales to household impact to logistics data.

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Publishing date: 20 July 2020

Location: Remote

Description: Your Tasks:

• Design and produce graphic and written material for promotion of solar products and services, e.g. brochures, infographics, logos, etc;
• Website content design, production and upload on Strikingly platform;
• Social media marketing and driving of traffic to website;
• Help enhance Oorja’s existing marketing materials and strategy.

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Publishing date: 19 June 2020

Location: Kenya

Description: 

Key Accountabilities:

• Developing a deep understanding of M-KOPA’s systems;
• Rigorous testing of M-KOPA’s application and channelling feedback to the development team in a clear, structured way;
• Analysing test output, identifying discrepancies and clearly documenting defects;
• Writing test scripts to be used in the testing process;
• Working as a team to ensure that M-KOPA’s system meet the set quality measures;
• Building and refining M-KOPA’s testing tools and methodologies;
• Define and implement testing and verification strategies for both mobile and server platforms;
• Contribute to continuous integration and continuous deployment;
• Work with customer service, product, and development teams to identify and track bugs;
• Review requirements specifications and provide timely and meaningful feedback;
• Accountable for setting up and maintaining tools for test automation;
• Responsible for designing, running and reporting on automated test suites (Unit tests, SITs, Functional and Regression Testing – including all APIs) and tracking all bugs to resolution;
• Drive transformations in testing through automation to achieve higher levels of efficiency and reduce software testing time;
• Perform code reviews for automated tests for both mobile and backend components.

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