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Mifos Regional Technology Consultant- Kenya (6 month)
Grameen Foundation is looking for a seasoned technical project manager to provide services as a Regional Technology Consultant (RTC) in Nairobi, Kenya. The RTC will provide support to our Mifos Specialists—local IT consultants deploying Mifos at MFIs-- by providing on-site technical assistance, documenting lessons learned, and monitoring the progress of our Mifos deployments. The consultant will help the Mifos product team understand how the software is used in the field, what challenges our users are encountering, and what areas are highest priority for us to address to meet the needs of our existing customers. The contract is for 6 months.
The Consultant must have demonstrated experience in technical and program management, be a strong analytical thinker with superb trouble-shooting skills and enjoy problem solving and have a passion for documenting and communicating lessons learned from the field. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who has excelled as a technical program manager in software development and now wants an opportunity to leverage those skills in the developing world.
Contractor obligations:
• Provide technical and project management support to Mifos specialists (40%)
o Develop deep functional understanding of Mifos product and support Mifos specialists in gap analysis process helping them to map MFI processes to Mifos functionality
o Provide on-site technical support to Mifos specialists helping them trouble-shoot application set-up, data migration, back-up processes, reporting issues, system monitoring and maintenance, etc.
o Support Mifos specialist in communicating with mifos-developer and mifos-functional mailing lists to investigate technical and functional issues
o Review project plans, schedules and progress and help Mifos specialist identify and resolve any red flags and blocking issues
• Monitor Mifos deployments in-region and collect and disseminate learnings to the Mifos team and broader Mifos community (30%)
o Create and maintain wiki pages for each deployment detailing project schedules, progress against plan, issues and resolutions, data migration strategy, hosting plan, etc.
o Collect and publish deployment processes and activities at key deployment milestones especially around schedule and progress against plan, data migration approach, hosting plan, security and system architecture plan, etc
o Support Mifos Specialist in the collection and validation of functional requirements for new features and enhancements; help the Mifos product team determine the priority of new feature requests
o Support the MFIs and Mifos Specialists in the identification and reporting of critical bugs and help the Mifos product team determine the priority of open bugs
o Support Mifos Technical Program Manager with monitoring and tracking of regional deployments
• Support Mifos Business Development Activities in Region (30%)
o Assist with recruiting and vetting Mifos specialists in the region
Grameen Foundation is seeking an experienced Consultant with the following expertise:
• Minimum of 5 years experience project managing software development projects with proven track record of on-time delivery. Ability to effectively communicate priorities, delivery expectations, risks and concerns to multiple stakeholders
• Strong technical skills, solid understanding of SQL, ability to read and understand data models and relational databases, and familiarity with web technologies. Passion for trouble shooting technical issues a must
• System administration experience, including experience managing back-ups, determining security set-up, creating scripts for application monitoring, highly desired
• Experience with accounting systems, data migration, microfinance operations highly desired
• Experience working on open source projects desired; passion for open source required
• Experience living and traveling internationally
• Passion for the mission of Grameen Foundation and microfinance
• Superb written and verbal communication skills
How to Apply:
Submit cover letter and resume by e-mail to: mifos-pm-jobs@grameenfoundation.org. Only finalists will be contacted. No phone calls please.
NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE POSITION. AS A CONSULTANT YOU WILL NOT BE ENTITLED TO GRAMEEN FOUNDATION BENEFITS OR INSURANCES. YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR PAYMENT OF ALL REQUIRED FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL, SELF EMPLOYMENT TAXES AND OTHER SIMILAR TAXES AND FOR OBTAINING APPROPRIATE VISAS AND INSURANCES FOR THE COUNTRIES IN WHICH SERVICES ARE PROVIDED.
GRAMEEN FOUNDATION IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Grameen Foundation : Get involved : Career Opportunities : Consulting opportunities : Mifos Regional Technology
Grameen Foundation uses microfinance and innovative technology to fight global poverty and bring opportunities to the world's poorest people. With tiny loans and financial services, we help the poor, mostly women, start businesses and escape poverty. Our global network of 55 microfinance institution (MFI) partners including our Growth Guarantee partners has touched more than 34 million people in 24 countries. In addition, we introduced and now sustain technology initiatives (Mifos and Village Phone) in Cameroon, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda, bringing our total country outreach to 28.
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