Job Openings at Duma Works - 4 Positions

Duma Works is recruiting a Finance Relationship Officer in Gulu, Uganda. The hiring company is a reputable NGO seeking to fight poverty using bicycles.

About Us

We are delivering the products and services to rural farmers to unlock potentials and propel communities forward. To catalyze farmers to realize their potential, we offers asset financing directly to the BoP. Our first product, a bicycle, connects farmers to market and other basic life needs. Our portfolio is growing with new assets that push upward mobility. We’re dedicated to serving farmers who are financially excluded and yet need access to assets on credit.

We are a social driven business. We are committed to our impact and the farming customers we serve, but we see the need for business opportunities in community development.

About the role

As a Relationship Officer, you will have responsibility to sell our growing portfolio of agricultural based loan products (including bicycles, oxen and ploughs, grinding mills, etc.). Your position and your sales are based in Gulu and the surrounding districts, where we are headquartered.

Job Responsibilities

Client Identification (65%)

• Travel daily to the field to meet potential clients, build relationships with local leaders, and attend community events
• Work with local leaders to identify and target existing organized VSLA and farming groups
• Identify potential clients that are not formed in a group, and help establish organized groups
• Market loan products to existing groups
• Complete group screening forms following our policies and procedures
• Complete individual loan applications for clients in approved groups and send to Loan Officers for appraisals
• Analyze and suggest ways we can improve our  marketing strategies
• Create marketing materials to share with local leaders and potential customers

Customer Service (15%)

• Deliver high quality client service by keeping time, providing accurate information, and being respectful of all potential customers
• Maintain close relationships with customers throughout loan process
• Go the “extra mile” to build trusting relationships, customer loyalty and satisfaction throughout the entire loan process
• Provide accurate, and up to date, information on our loan products to potential clients
• Deliver pre-loan trainings to potential clients and groups, including VSLA trainings, basic financial literacy trainings, and product specific trainings

Pipeline (15%)

• Maintain client and loan pipeline spreadsheet weekly to ensure accurate tracking of all outreach to new groups and clients
• Work closely with loan officers to ensure progression of clients through pipeline is documented weekly.

New Products (5%)

• Identify and recommend new products that are needed by the target demographic of customers.

Key Result Areas/ Accountabilities

• Proactively develop relationships with VSLA groups
• Meet group screening targets
• Meet targets for successful individual applications
• Successfully recover payments from defaulting clientsBusiness or Marketing Certificate or Degree preferred
• Minimum 2 years of experience in similar role of sales with an MFI
• Experience working with VSLAs, or farmer’s groups
• Familiarity with agriculture
• Fluency in both Luo and English
• Ability to ride motorcycle long distances daily
• Be able to work independently
• Outgoing with the ability to approach new groups or clients
• Computer skills including Microsoft Word and Excel, as well as, the ability to learn new programs

Why work with us?

• We are constantly seeking to build the best company. This means we take your feedback seriously and you can see your individual efforts in improved procedures
• While our team is result-oriented, we also have a lot of fun. We enjoy team meals and lots of laughter

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Duma Works is recruiting a Senior Accountant for our client; a leading importer and distributor with ambitious growth plans to be the market leader in East Africa.

• Preparation and presentation of monthly management statement, analysing the variance from the budgets including other reports like cashflow analysis, debtors ageing, stock turnover.
• Preparation of quarterly accounts for presentation to the Board of Directors along with performance summary and analysis.
• Evaluating employee performance using balance score card and setting and monitoring KPA /KPIs
• Preparation of annual budgets in co-ordination with various departments
• Co-ordinating annual audit and filing of monthly / annual tax and payroll returns in accordance with the changing tax requirements.
• All other analytical reports as may be required by the owners / Directors for evaluating company / project performance.

Requirements

• Part qualified or fully qualified ACCA.
• Minimum 2 years related working experience within a trading or manufacturing organisation.
• In-depth experience with ERP systems (such as SAP) a must. IT audit.
• 2 years experience in an audit firm is as strong plus.

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Prodesign is a firm of consulting electrical and mechanical engineers who provide design and consultancy services in building electrical and mechanical engineering systems.

Job Responsibilities

Marketing

• Develops content for marketing initiatives, email campaigns, social media and website copy.
• Plan firm’s sponsored seminars/events by identifying, assembling, and coordinating requirements; establishing contacts; developing schedules and assignments; coordinating mailing lists.
• Executes tactics of marketing plans for service lines and industry groups.
• Researching the market and identifying potential target customers.
• Attending industry events in order to generate business leads.
• Analyzing and investigating price, demand and competition.
• Devising and presenting ideas and strategies.
• Promotional activities.
• Compiling and distributing financial and statistical information.
• Writing reports.

Business Development Support

• Generating business leads and following up on sales opportunities.
• Cold calling potential customers and setting up meetings.
• Following up swiftly on sales enquiries and sending out information.
• Working closely with the team in Mauritius to develop new business.
• Building a sales pipeline to ensure a constant stream of sales.
• Progressing towards activity targets and KPI’s set by the Marketing Manager.
• Following up with past clients and cross selling products.
• Providing assistance to other members of the sales team.
• Following up on leads generated by other departments.
• Investigating and resolving queries from customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in engineering but with a Marketing specialisation or MBA.
• Ideal candidate must be confident in a selling environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organizational and follow-up skills.
• One year experience in marketing.

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Founded in 2015, Everwaters is a for-profit social enterprise that designs and distributes high-quality, affordable consumer water filtration systems to serve the 2.1 billion people with, according to the United Nations, “improved-water” that is either contaminated with harmful bacteria, viruses, or heavy metals, such as lead or arsenic. Our mission is to keep families healthy, happy, and hydrated.

Everwaters was created with one simple belief: everyone, everywhere deserves great water at a fair price. As such, we aim to provide our own brand of exceptional water filters to families around the world. We just think water filters should mean “filtering” our water, keeping us safe from lead, heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, and just about anything else that may be in our tap water.

For too long, we had to choose low-quality water filters that have little regard for you and your family. We knew there was a better way, so we created Everwaters to bring high-quality, natural water filters at great prices for the whole family.

About the role

Everwaters’ digital product designers care deeply about human-centered design solutions for everwaters.io and care about expanding its digital and print touch points across East Africa.

They wear many hats, looking holistically at the end-to-end user experience and thinking thoroughly through every detail of the interfaces created and stories they tell. They collaborate across disciplines, working closely with a project manager, developers, and brand designers. They lead in the company as an advocate for the user.

As our Digital & Print Product Designer, you will be in charge of the design of all consumer touch points, both print and digital, that serve to educate, motivate, and drive growth for Everwaters.

You should be able to thrive in a fast-pace, dynamic, startup environment. You should be highly skilled in a highly dynamic web interface development (HTML, JavaScript, Angular JS, jQuery, CSS, SCSS) and Adobe Suite, Sketch.

Job Responsibilities

Design

• Demonstrate beautiful and functional visual and interaction design, typography, and hierarchy for our core website and other digital touchpoints in the Everwaters ecosystem.
• Continually strive to express the Everwaters brand in a digital and print medium and through partnership distribution channels.
• Analyze data to determine best design initiatives and effectiveness of new designs
• Drive digital community into physical retail outlets to drive revenue growth; measure and approximate conversion rates per digital funnel.
• Closely collaborate with creative team to craft compelling stories through copy, video, animation, illustration and photography. Have the vision to know where and when they are best employed.
• Elegantly architect complex end-to-end UX flows for all core and uncommon user scenarios and profiles.
• Quickly prototype new features or experiences to get feedback.
• Address both product and business goals by creating user-centric design solutions.

Collaboration

• Partner with a producer and lead engineer in a product team. Lead UX/UI discussion in cross-team collaborations with data, marketing, and user-research. Openly and confidently express design vision and needs, and seek solutions that support developer and business needs.
• Help the digital team develop new tools and processes for achieving success, e.g. a style guide or a device lab.
• Share honest, thoughtful feedback with fellow designers. Commit to continually learning, training, and improving yourself and others.

Project Scoping & Management

• Identify the types of feedback, research, and data needed to inform the multi-step rollout of marketing design iterations.
• Effectively scope and phase a given project through its lifecycle, adapting it to new information along the way. Align your team and stakeholders on project design goals.
• Prioritize and manage multiple projects in a dynamic working environment, and seek help when needed. Recognize and help when your colleagues need support.
• Identify and pitch opportunities to create business value through new user experience features or optimizations

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience as a front-end developer.
• 2+ years working on eCommerce platforms such as Shopify or Jumia
• Expert understanding of sales funnels, both digital and physical
• A degree in a Computer Science or related field
• Excellent ability to communicate messages through images, creative diagrams
• Fluent in English and Kiswahili
• Highly proficient with Adobe Illustrator
• Highly skilled at front-end engineering using Object-Oriented JavaScript, various JavaScript libraries, HTML, CSS, Adobe Suite, Sketch, Paint, Photoshop.
• Amazingly creative person and out of the box thinker
• Ability to cross-culturally communicate and work with a diverse team (age, gender, culture)
• Highly motivated, proactive, and willing to work outside normal 9am – 5pm hours and even on the weekends
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills
• Keen interest for water and/or family health
• A sense of humor and an ability to be flexible and learn in a dynamic environment

Here’s who you’ll work with

• Directly report to Head of Marketing and Sales Team
• The Everwaters’ team at large to build an exceptional business that delivers great products

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