Organisation: Living Goods
Job Location: Kampala, Uganda
About Living Goods:
Living Goods is a non-profit organization headquartered in the United States and currently operating in Uganda. Its goal is to build a sustainable distribution platform for products designed to fight poverty and disease in the developing world. Specifically, Living Goods operates networks of independent entrepreneurs who make a living by selling cheap products to poor people that can help improve their health, wealth, and productivity. One of the selling techniques used by Living Goods entrepreneurs is door-to-door selling, and Living Goods has been likened to Avon Products in terms of its marketing style. The project aims to be fully self-funded at scale.
Job Summary:
The Technology and Data Lead will be responsible for managing all our existing systems in Uganda and leading the deployment of new systems, services, tools, and strategies that improve our profitability and deepen our impact. At Living Goods, we believe that our technology and data systems will become our most transformative tools for success: empowering our agents to sell and earn more, dramatically lowering our cost to market and monitor, enabling real time sales force management and igniting social connections that drive impact and business success. Living Goods’ future success increasingly depends on the mastery of data, communications and the latest mobile tools, apps and technologies.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Lead all technology related efforts which include:
Management of all existing systems – SMS messaging, Mobile Money, POS etc.
Rollout new technology initiatives
Provide support to marketing team and other teams
Work with software vendors
2. Lead all data related efforts, working across several data systems:
Manage existing data extraction and reporting efforts
Create new data reports as required, setup processes for ongoing report generation
Create and execute processes to maintain data integrity and clean up data issues
3. In addition, the Technology and Data Lead will be expected to:
Support and train staff related to technology and data
Manage and mentor junior resources
Communicate extensively with an international team
Report progress extensively
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant should hold at least three to five years of work experience in Technology and Data management in Uganda
- Excellent analytical skills
- Strong Excel skills
- Possess strong written and oral communication skills
- Good knowledge of databases and database design
- Some knowledge of Android, Java, PHP, MySql, HTML
- Ability to work with minimal direction
- Experience managing resources
- Experience dealing with software vendors
- Experience with data management
- Desirable but not required skills – knowledge of POS systems, Mobile Money systems
- Local language proficiency is strongly preferred and encouraged.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified candidates who desire to work with Living Goods should express their interest by Clicking on the web link below:
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