Internships trainee jobs at One Acre Fund, Brainnest and Umwalimu SACCO

 
Deadline of this Job: 02 November 2022
JOB DETAILS:
Odoo ERP Software Engineer - Python
Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund supplies 1 million smallholder farmers with the agricultural services they need to make their farms vastly more productive. Our 8,000+ team is drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions. With operations across six core countries in Africa, we make farmers more prosperous by providing quality farm supplies on credit, delivered within walking distance of farmers’ homes, and agricultural training to improve harvests. On average, the farmers we serve harvest 50 percent more food after working with One Acre Fund.
To learn more about our work, take a look at our Why Work Here blog for more information.

About One Acre Fund
Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund supplies 1 million smallholder farmers with the agricultural services they need to make their farms vastly more productive. Our 8,000+ team is drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions. With operations across six core countries in Africa, we make farmers more prosperous by providing quality farm supplies on credit, delivered within walking distance of farmers’ homes, and agricultural training to improve harvests. On average, the farmers we serve harvest 50 per cent more food after working with One Acre Fund.
To learn more about our work, take a look at our Why Work Here blog for information.

About The Role
Our passionate development team manages a range of web and mobile solutions to support our field operations, from registering millions of farmers and their orders, optimizing delivery truck loads and routes, tracking deliveries, collecting mobile payments and analyzing loan repayments. You will report to one of our development managers.
We operate a stack of open-source solutions to power most of our business, including Odoo, Apache Fineract, and Keycloak.
Our technologies include C#, NodeJS, CouchBase, React (Native), Docker/Kubernetes, and our tooling landscape is based on GitHub / JIRA / Slack / Azure DevOps. Responsibilities
• Design, develop, document, test, and operate customizations on our Odoo platform, focused on product ordering, inventory, payment, and delivery
• Mentor the team on the Odoo platform and ecosystem
• Work as part of a small, collaborative, and agile team of software developers
• Contribute to your department's improvement by sharing knowledge, sharpening your skills, and suggesting different ways of working

Career Growth And Development
We have a strong culture of constant learning and invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll be able to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.">
Qualifications
Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:
• Extensive experience in the Odoo ecosystem and plugin development - 2+ years recommended
• 3+ years of experience, solid programming skills, autonomy, and a mindset of testing and automation
• High proficiency in Python
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science is strongly preferred
• Experience with automated testing frameworks and continuous integration
• Experience working in Agile
• Awareness of cloud technologies including Docker and Kubernetes is welcome

Preferred Start Date
As soon as possible

Job Location
Kigali, Rwanda

Benefits & Perks
Health insurance, housing, and comprehensive benefits

Eligibility
One Acre Fund can support a work permit for this role. However, nationals of (or those with an extensive professional background and work history in) our countries of operation are preferred.


Graphic Design Intern (Remote Internship - Designer) job at Brainnest

Deadline of this Job: 19 August 2022
JOB DETAILS:
Graphic Design Intern (Remote Internship - Designer)
Position: Graphic Design Intern

Location: Remote

schedule: Part-time (10-20h/week)

About Brainnest:

The business management and training company headquartered in Bremen, Germany. We are a success-driven firm that provides management advisory and contracting services customized to help companies from different industries with business management problems. Brainnest runs, leads, and manages complex projects and initiatives. We have begun from scratch when a network of professionals, Ph.D. holders, and highly skilled personnel bring to the business table their practical and academic years of experience to form up a concrete blueprint on which the company has been designed. Since 2020, we offer a combination of expertise, proficiency, and commitment, leveraging our deep industry experience and applying analytical rigor to deliver exceptional results for companies. We proudly provide top-class consulting and training services for a wide range of industries around the world. A well-equipped team, advanced tools, and modern methodologies are some of what we correctly utilize to offer our clients what makes them the best in their fields.

Our team is looking for a Graphic Design Intern to join them in the upcoming weeks. This position is great for an aspiring graphic design professional looking to work on business-critical projects and gain relevant work experience.


Your profile:
• Strong communication skills with the ability to discuss any issues with a wide variety of individuals and groups
• Capability to produce content on time, with attention to detail, and an emphasis on identifying and pitching to a target audience
• A well-organized team player with the ability to perform various tasks, act individually, and think creatively
• Familiarity with Microsoft applications and Zoom
• Willingness to learn and develop graphic design skills
• Competitive and proactive attitude
• Fluency in English

You will learn how to:
• Create stronger, clearer, and more eye-catching designs by understanding how, why, and when to layout and compose documents
• Create color palettes, manipulate colors, or troubleshoot in tools such as Photoshop or Illustrator
• Use the main tools in a designer's arsenal, typography and color, to grab attention and set the right mood for your documents
• Use key features on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and other platforms to showcase your work, share your creative workflow and generally increase your online presence
• Distort and warp layers, work with text, create shapes, draw and edit vector paths with the Pen tool, create animations, apply painting effects, save and share libraries, and work with artboards
• Get started with basic design software, including InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator
• Use important principles of composition in your designs
• Be more creative both individually and as part of a team
• Apply your new skills to the real world of work
At Brainnest, we’re committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We strive to be a more equal opportunity workplace.


Deadline of this Job: 16 August 2022
JOB DETAILS:
System Administrator
Umwalimu SACCO is looking for inspired innovators, dynamic self-driven and highly creative personalities to collaborate with Umwalimu SACCO in taking it to the next level of success. If you feel you have what it takes, we would like to hear from you.
Reports to: IT Infrastructure Manager
Department: ICT
Age Limit: 35

• Being a Rwandan by Nationality;
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering or information systems (or related field)
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience with progressive responsibility in a similar environment;
• Knowledge and Skills
• Advanced knowledge of Windows Server (2012/2019) /desktop Operating Systems (Win 10)
• Managing in excess of 5 Windows Server infrastructure
• Managing deployments/rollouts
• Advanced knowledge in managing server virtualization technologies like VMWare Server/ESX or Microsoft Hyper-V/Virtual
• Advanced knowledge of mailing system
• A solid understanding of LAN/WAN networking
• Strong communication and documentation skills
• Flexible and able to adapt to a rapidly changing environment
• Must be organized and have the ability to manage projects of varying length
• Positive, self-motivated individual who can complete tasks independently
• Ability to collaborate easily and effectively within a team and thrive in a fast paced environment
• Strong communication and documentation skills
• Flexible and able to adapt to a rapidly changing environment

Key Responsibilities
Server Administration:
• Planning, deploying, installing and configuring servers, virtualization and software
• Proactively manage servers, administrative responsibility for servers on network
• Analyzing system logs and identifying potential issues with server & computer systems fixe and report them.
• Applying operating system updates, patches, and configuration changes for servers and other equipment.
• Managing active directory.
• Adding, removing, or updating user account information in active directory, resetting passwords, etc.
• Answering technical queries and assisting users.
• Responsibility for security.
• Ensure server System performance optimization and tuning
• Responsibility for documenting the configuration of the system, best practices and support procedures.
• Maintain inventory and asset configuration documentation
• Troubleshooting any reported problems.
• Design and implement monitoring, configuration management and reporting functions that will make a hands-off environment
• Ensuring that the network infrastructure is up and running.
• Configuring, adding, and deleting file systems.
• Ensuring parity between development, test and production environments.
• Training users on existing and new technologies.
• Plan and manage the server room environment
• Plan, maintain regular backup and perform test on backups

IT Security:
• Ensure and maintain a strict security policy as regards the Server Room and all server room equipment.
• Plan and configure network security at Umwalimu SACCO network
• Manage IP-routing and install/operate firewalling network capacity
• Keep up to date with the latest security and technology developments
• Research/evaluate emerging cyber security threats and ways to manage them
• Plan for disaster recovery in the event of any security breaches
• Monitor for attacks, intrusions and unusual, unauthorized or illegal activity
• Assist with the creation, maintenance and delivery of cyber security awareness training for colleagues
• Ensure the Access control is properly installed on the designated doors and access matrix is applied and monitored.
• Responsible for the development and delivery of a comprehensive Information security and privacy plan for Umwalimu SACCO by ensuring that electronic information created, acquired and maintained by its authorized users, it used in accordance with its intended purpose, to protect Umwalimu SACCO’s information and infrastructure from external and internal threats.
• System availability
• Implementation of a standardized organization – wide IT architecture
• Implementation of security policies and technologies

Equal Employment Opportunity
Umwalimu SACCO shall provide for equal employment opportunity to the prospective candidates without direct or indirect discrimination on grounds of ethnic or social origin, gender, political and philosophical or religious opinions.

Additional Information

Any supplementary information regarding the recruitment advertisement shall be obtained at Human Resource & Administration Department of Umwalimu SACCO at any time during the working hours: From 8:00 AM up to 6:00 PM starting from Monday to Friday.
NB: This vacant post is opened to external as well as internal candidates.
Done at Kigali, 1/8/2022
RUTAGANDA Bosco UWAMBAJE Laurence
Director of HR & Administration Director General


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