Job Title: Digital Learning & Mobile Devices Associate Engineer
Organisation: Imagine Her
Duty Station: Seguku, Wakiso, Uganda
About Imagine Her
Imagine Her is a local non-profit working with communities to accelerate the power and potential of women, girls, and youth as active leaders and social entrepreneurs creating sustainable solutions within their communities.
Our purpose is to accessibly provide young vulnerable women and youth with a robust innovation skills and essential resources to create sustainable social ventures and social impact in Uganda and we envision a world where Ugandan women, girls, and youth are actively harnessing their potential, by initiating and advancing innovative and sustainable solutions to pressing needs in their communities.
We work through community partnerships to target women and youth significantly marginalized and vulnerable due to poverty, the growing education-to-employment gap, geography, and the social constructs of gender. We implement a human-centered impact model that equips these community members with the skills they need to respond to the most critical challenges they face. The guiding principle of our model is that those we work with decide what they want to do, and choose the support and resources that they need to do it.
We achieve this through three-pronged approaches that accelerate the power and potential of women, girls, and youth in Uganda as described below;
As part of our work, we are implementing a Project dubbed Hello World which we seek to fill some vacant positions. Project Hello World provides educational resources and Internet connectivity to isolated and vulnerable communities. We do this by building solar-powered, outdoor Internet kiosks— so that underprivileged children and adults can educate themselves, communicate with others, and have a voice in the global community. To achieve this, we mobilize communities to build Hello Hubs which are solar-powered outdoor Internet kiosks, and state-of-the-art technology including high-quality solar panels, satellite connectivity, rugged, waterproof touch-screen screens, camera, and audio equipment. Hello Hubs are designed to withstand extreme outdoor weather and are energy-autonomous, which means that they can bring connectivity and education to even the most isolated communities.
Job Summary: The Digital Learning & Mobile Devices Associate Engineer is looking for an innovative individual to join our team and work with us on improving the experience of users while at the hub; this would involve working on user stations that they use and the content that they consume while at the hub.
The role requires someone who is deeply passionate about learning and skilling at all levels from children to adults with experience delivering this process on digital media.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Hub Builds
Mobile Device Management
Digital Learning and content
Training and Teaching
Reporting
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
Personal Qualities
Imagine Her is a small nonprofit organization working with communities to accelerate the power and potential of women, girls, and youth as active leaders and social entrepreneurs creating sustainable solutions within their communities.
We’re looking for someone who can get their sleeves rolled up and their hands dirty. Someone who is kept up at night trying to find answers to the world’s most intractable problems and willing to make some errors along the way. We need an individual willing to share what they know and learn as they go – not afraid to take a step back and think about a problem. We’re looking for an expert with drive and heart. And we need someone who can do all those things, in some of the hardest places, and still have a lot of fun.
Reports: Lead Engineer
Contract: 1-Year Renewable
How to Apply:
Please submit your CV and Cover Letter as A SINGLE FILE to jobs@i-her.org
Deadline: 31st January 2023
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