Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, August 06, 2019 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
  We are seeking someone to help us develop our digital tool, Farm Direct. Farm Direct is a system that supports farmers and producer organisations to gather and analyse on-farm business data and monitor performance, providing data visualisations via dashboards for farmers and producers organisations. This is a great opportunity to use your software development skills to help deliver vital information to smallholder farmers in a way that they can access, understand and interpret to make life changing decisions on their farms.
Reports to: Information Manager (UK-based) and User Centered Developer (Nairobi-based)
Contract: Initial 6-month fixed-term internship contract, pending the completion of a successful probationary review period
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Goal: Work with the Information Manager and User Centered Developer to support in additional testing, coding and development of digital tools to deliver usable and actionable data to smallholder farmers..

  Job Responsibilities:
• Support Information Manager and User Centered Developer in delivering the digital tools as part of Producer Direct’s data strategy Testing and coding as directed by User Centered Developer
• Manual data input into the system Maintain and improve performance of existing software Other activities as requested by Producers Direct management

Job Skills: Not Specified

  Job Qualifications:
• Flexible approach to problem-solving that may include using low / non tech solutions
• Excellent interpersonal & communication skills (written/verbal)Comfortable working in a small team/startup environment
• Comfortable working across multiple cultures and languages Self-starter, flexible and able to work on tight deadlines
• Undergraduate degree OR relevant related experience in software development / data analysis / product design

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified

Job Experience Requirements:
• Experience in working in a rural setting with farmers or low IT literacy populations
• Experience working for social enterprise / NGO / charitable organisation

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Job application procedure
Please submit your CV, and a cover letter (1-page) to info@producersdirect.org 
In your cover letter, please include one paragraph addressing the following question: What's the most important thing to look for, or check when reviewing another team member's code?
Application Deadline: 23rd August 2019
Please note: Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

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