eHealth Africa designs and implements data-driven solutions and technologies to improve health systems for and with local communities.
eHA’s technology works in low connectivity settings and uses data to drive decision-making by local governments and partner agencies to get optimum results.
We are recruiting to fill the position of:
1.) Job Title: Executive Director
Location: Abuja
Employment Type: Full Time
Department: Software Engineering
The Role
- The Executive Director position has the overall strategic and operational responsibility for the organization.
- The Executive Director (ED) reports to the Board of Directors providing feedback and seeking consultation when necessary.
- Responsibilities include providing guidance to the senior leadership team on operational planning, program planning, human resource planning, financial planning, community relations/advocacy and risk management.
- The ED has overall responsibility for development and oversight of the organizations long term plans. This includes approval of all capital and operational budgets.
- The ED acts as a liaison between the donor/fundraising community and the organization.
- S/he establishes and maintains external contacts with individuals and organizations that share the organizations short- and long-term goals related to design and implementation of data-driven solutions for stronger health systems in the developing world.
Responsibilites
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily:
The key reponsibilities of the position are:
- Strategic Vision and Leadership
- Board of Directors Liaison
- Infrastructure and Operations
- Financial Performance and Viability
- Program Management and Development
- Communications & Public Relations.
Qualifications and Experience
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required to successfully perform this job:
Africa Experience:
- Significant experience working in Africa required
Leadership Experience:
- Minimum of 8 years relevant experience, at least 5 years in a managerial role
- Ability coordinate and ensure workforce work in line with organisational value and culture to meet goals and perform well in the future
- Must be able to work as a leader and member of a team and possess good problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated executive/managerial skills, including experience managing complex programs
- Excellent organizational, analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Treats others with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position.
- Strong leadership skills that include the ability to build effective teams, ability to motivate others, delegation, and timely/quality decision making. Training and presentation experience is preferred.
- Must possess the ability to organize, instruct and supervise staff while promoting group effort and achievement.
- Must be able to work as a leader and member of a team and possess good problem-solving skills.
- Must have the ability to manage conflicts and resolve problems effectively.
- Approaches others in a tactful manner. Reacts well under pressure.
NGO Knowledge / Experience:
- Knowledge of principles and practices of contract administration for public agencies, NGOs and accounting theory, principles, and practices, which can be applied.
- Adherence to defined policies and procedures, monitor and evaluate direct report
- Ability to interpret and follow donor guidelines
- Knowledge of financial management
- Knowledge of project management
- Knowledge of budget management
- Strong project management skills, including experience in agile practices and frameworks e.g., Lean, Scrum, Agile PM and Kanban.
Business Development & Partner Relationship Management Experience:
- Experience in developing and implementing partnership development activities
- Experience working with the local government, universities and professional organizations
- Demonstrated capacity to effectively communicate via writing, public speaking and interpersonal interactions
- Demonstrated ability to effectively interact with Board of Directors, funders, community organizations, government officials, corporate executives, general public and staff.
Personal Skills:
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to work independently and effectively in high-pressure, fast-paced environment and handle multiple tasks simultaneously
- Exceptional problem-solving and critical thinking
- Entrepreneurial mindset, including ability to work independently, self-motivate, and propose and implement new initiatives
- Proven ability to work with diverse and large teams and to foster a positive working environment with local and international stakeholders.
Technology Experience:
- Advanced computer skills, including google drive, Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office Suite.
- Proficiency working within specialized software utilized in the program.
Salary
Competitive.
Application Closing Date
27th September, 2021.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Note: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
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2.) Job Title: DevOps Engineer
Location: Kano
Employment Type: Full Time
Department: Software Engineering
Purpose of the Position
- The DevOps Engineering is responsible for creating continuous integration and deployment pipelines for a variety of different engagements and technologies.
- S/he translates software requirements into workable programming code as well as develops and maintains programs for business use.
Keywords:
- Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm Infrastructure as code, distributed systems, Continuous delivery, Linux, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Python, Travis CI, Circle CI, Concourse CI, JavaScript, CouchDB, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Kibana, PostgreSQL
What You’ll Do
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Other duties may be assigned:
- Creates continuous integration and deployment pipelines for a variety of different technologies
- Collaborates with the product and engineering teams to design, build and maintain efficient tools and frameworks to manage highly performant applications
- Troubleshoot development and production problems across multiple environments.
- Develops state-of-the-art monitoring and metrics gathering systems.
- Supports users by developing documentation and assistance tools.
- Follows best practices for quality, testability & operability.
- Mentor on-site deployment engineers and verify that work is done as requested.
- Driving our culture of empowerment, ownership, and accountability.
- Collaborate with scrum masters, product owners, and engineering managers to build a world-class product for our partners, advertisers, and users.
- Promote engineering team growth and development technically and professionally.
- Working closely with engineers to improve process and code quality.
- Identify and track down bugs/errors in our platforms and processes.
- Cloud and software/systems engineering.
- Familiarity with service-oriented architecture and microservices..
- Experience using project management tools for planning, tracking, and releasing products.
- Able to dive deep and exhibit superb problem-solving skills
- Expects and requires innovation of his/her team.
- Possesses the ability to inspire passion in others.
Who You Are
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required to successfully perform this job:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Technology or other related field or equivalent years of education and work experience or any related field.
- 5+ years of practical operational experience with Linux systems in a DevOps or engineering role.
- Good knowledge of the AWS and GCP
- Experience with running Kubernetes in production (we use Helm).
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible etc).
- Proficiency with at least one programming language (e.g. Python, Go).
- Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines (e.g. TravisCI, ConcourseCI, etc).
- Good understanding of Monitoring systems (e.g. Prometheus)
- Fluent in several software developments and architecture paradigms and techniques, with the ability to provide the best mix of these techniques with high quality, scalable, flexible, and reliable solutions while keeping up with the Company’s growth.
- Ability to assess and learn new technology quickly.
- You value automation and reproducibility above everything
- You are eager to solve challenging problems using new technologies
- You like to work with open source technologies
- Capability of adapting to rapidly changing business requirements is required.
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills, organizational skills and great attention to detail
- Must be able to work as a member of a team and possess good problem-solving skills.
- Experience with deploying enterprise-scale, distributed, high performance, mission-critical software applications are required..
- Must have flexibility in working hours, including on-call availability and the willingness to work holidays.
- Excellent customer service skills.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
3.) Job Title: Senior Coordinator, Project Support
Location: Abuja / Kano
Employment Type: Full Time
Department: Project Support Unit
Purpose of the Position
- The Senior Coordinator, Project Support is responsible for providing day-to-day support to Project and Program Managers to assure that all projects in eHA’s portfolio are delivered at high quality, in line with contractual requirements, and in compliance with established processes and standards.
- S/he will identify, flag, and help to resolve blockages and risks for successful project delivery early on and proactively.
- S/he further plays a key role in business development by contributing technical expertise and writing to project proposals and by supporting eHA’s communications team with requested write-ups on eHA projects, activities, and impact.
- The Senior Coordinator, Project Support continuously interacts with eHA’s Program Delivery, Business Development, Communications, Informatics, Operations and Finance, and Administration departments to identify bottlenecks, gaps, and challenges with existing organizational processes, and proposes practical solutions to address and resolve them.
What You’ll Do
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Other duties may be assigned:
- Coordinate, write and review project proposals
- Work closely with program managers, project managers, and other project support functions to monitor, facilitate, and assure:
- Compliance with eHA’s project management method, requirements, and standards at all times during project delivery (active support and problem-solving function)
- Timely production of contractual deliverables to clients (monitoring and control function)
- Ensure and validate the quality of all project documentation and project management products across eHA portfolio by continuously administering and improving the appropriate in-house processes and tools, e.g. “Health Checks tool”
- Continuously identify and track project issues, bottlenecks, challenges, and risks; escalate to management or resolve as appropriate
- Regularly prepare a variety of technical, management, activity, and status reports for a number of internal and external stakeholder groups
- Contribute to any other internal and external communications output, e.g. website content, blogs, newsletters, marketing materials/email, presentations, and pitch decks
- Develop process and subject-matter guides, playbooks, SOPs, and workflow documents as required
- Develop learning materials and deliver in-house trainings within the role’s technical field of work
- Collection, analysis, and visualization of project, business, and operational data as required specifically for targeted communications and reporting requirements
- Assume additional responsibilities as assigned
Who You Are
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required to successfully perform this job:
- College or University Degree in the Social Sciences, Statistics, Business Administration, Economics, Public Health or another relevant field; a Masters degree is an advantage
- Minimum 4 years of work experience with demonstrated results in project, program and/or portfolio management; a combination of non-profit and for-profit sector experience preferred
- Minimum 2 years of work experience with demonstrated results in data collection, data analysis, data visualization, survey design, statistics and/or field-level M&E or quality assurance
- Advanced computer skills, particularly in Excel / Google Sheets, database, and statistical applications
- Strong technical writing skills, including management and/or programmatic reports, project proposals, scientific manuscripts, SOPs and/or manuals; you will be asked to submit at least 2 samples/documents if your initial application speaks to us
- Demonstrated research and presentation skills; at least one presentation given at an external event (conference, panel, etc.); please provide an example on your CV.
- Experience designing and delivering trainings/workshops; please provide an example on your CV.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, critical thinking, problem-solving, team working and team-building skills; excellent organizational and time management skills
- Demonstrated ability to create (e-)learning content and materials is an advantage.
Certifications and Licenses:
- Any standard project management certification required; PRINCE2 given strong preference.
- Additional Program or Portfolio Management certification is an advantage
- Additional Agile certification is an advantage.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online