SunnyMoney Salesforce / IT Developer Job Vacancies in Karen Nairobi Kenya August 2014
Set up and owned by UK-based international development agency SolarAid, SunnyMoney is the premier distributor of portable solar lights across Africa, already benefitting millions of people in rural and under-electrified areas, and is getting international recognition, including the prestigious Google Global Impact Award in 2013.
Currently operating in Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Kenya, SunnyMoney is growing rapidly and plans to expand into at least two new countries within the next 12 months. We recently sold our millionth solar light, a major milestone within the sector, and are recognised to be the largest distributor of quality solar lights in Africa.
About the Role: If you are highly principled, value integrity and honesty, and treat people with respect regardless of background, role or responsibility, you should consider this role with us. We are looking for a talented, proactive and energetic developer who can rise to the challenge across a range of IT and related needs within our growing organisation.
Secondarily, the organisation has over time developed a number of different services and systems, from email systems (Google Apps) and file-sharing to (multiple) separate web site hosting and content strategies.
Main Responsibilities
- Salesforce Administration and Development: Developing and enhancing an existing system to unlock greater efficiency for users and higher quality data and reporting capacity internally.
- IT Development: Critically review the needs and develop both the IT capacity of the organisation and a strategy for ensuring continuous improvements over time.
- Developing the Organisation’s Technological Capacity: Ensuring high standards organisational collaboration and effectiveness through the development and provision of appropriate technologies and services to the organisation.
- Understand and assess the existing system, business needs and challenges
- Work with the senior management team and operational teams to develop an effective and well-designed system to meet both management and front-line needs.
- Develop existing user guides and align these with an “operational handbook” currently in development.
- Ensure the appropriate administration of the system, including data cleansing where appropriate.
- Work with a range of teams (including at SolarAid) to map existing usage of IT systems
- Identify and cost out relevant improvements and make appropriate recommendations
- Work with appropriate teams and any implementing partners to ensure successful delivery of these improved systems
- Keep abreast of new developments and seek out cost effective and scalable solutions to meet SolarAid and SunnyMoney operational needs
- Make cost-assessed recommendations to the senior management team
Qualifications, Skills, Experience and Core Competencies
- Bachelor’s degree in related field and/or equivalent relevant work experience
- Certified Salesforce Administrator
- Good skills in standard office products, including exceptional skills in Excel
- High degree of numeracy and literacy, with excellent accuracy and attention to detail
- Logical and analytical thinking, intellectual curiosity and proactive problem solving skills, i.e. always wanting the “right” answer and best solution to a challenge
- Knowledge spanning a range of computer operating systems and environments
- Superior communications abilities: oral, written and presentation
- Ability to “sell” ideas and influence others, in particular decision-makers
- 1-2 years’ experience administering a Salesforce system (or similar)
- Experience working with Salesforce managed applications (or similar)
- High-energy and a passion for taking initiative and seeing results
- Creative risk-taker who practices sound judgment and enjoys accountability, and who is comfortable as a self-starter working to achieve desired results, but does not mind taking direction
- Comfortable having accountability to multiple stakeholders
- Commitment, responsibility and an alignment to SunnyMoney’s goals, ideals and guiding principles
- Uncompromising ethics and honesty displayed at all times, in all situations, both professionally and personally
- The self-awareness to know and manage one’s own emotions, strengths, weaknesses, passions, interests, and values
- Co-operative and effective working with others in the pursuit of common goals
Qualifications: Certified Salesforce Advanced Administrator
- Website administration and development
- Demonstrable skills in relevant programming languages (PHP, JS, HTML, SQL)
- Project management skills
- Experience administering IT systems in a corporate environment
- Experience developing a POS sales system
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Application deadline: COB 1st September, 2014
Provisional first round interview dates: 15-18th September
Provisional second round interview dates: 22-23rd September