Pan-African Media Company - French Speaking Producer Job Advertisement

We are a dynamic multi-platform media organization, creating products for television, print, the internet and mobile phones.

Due to the expansion of our number of partnerships we are looking to expand and focus our marketing operations, requiring a driven sales professional.

Main Duties

• To take responsibility for translating and voicing in French productions
• To ensure that the programming meets high technical, editorial and artistic standards.
• Manage relationships with contributors, clients in French speaking nations
• Translating English content to French
• Develop French-language programs
• To ensure that any queries and correspondence arising from the programmes are dealt with promptly.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

• Fluency in written and spoken French. Good communication skills in English are also important.
• Pan African news awareness
• Strong creative skills as a producer, as evidenced by track record and by performance at interview.
• Good production management skills. This is a multi-layered and highly complex media project, with a large quantity of outputs to be produced under difficult circumstances.
• Strong intellectual ability, as evidenced by a good degree or similar qualifications and performance at interview.
• Strong diplomatic skills, with a track record of having formed productive relationships in previous experience.
• Proven ability to deliver complex projects to deadlines.

If you are confident, aggressive, won't take no for an answer, you are who we are looking for.

To apply for this position send your CV to jobs@a24media.com quoting the position in the subject line.

“Apply immediately……. First come first served basis”

Bridge International Academies - Software Production Designer - Nairobi, Kenya

Position Title: Software Production Designer

Location: Nairobi

Number of Positions: 1

About Bridge International Academies

Bridge International Academies is a for-profit startup company revolutionizing education across Africa with a unique business model.

The company runs a large-scale network of low-cost primary schools in Kenya that significantly outperforms other primary schools in the same areas because of our “school in a box” systems.

Our schools profitably deliver this high-quality education for less than $4 per child per month, which enable the schools to cover all their costs and create a profitable central organization at scale.

We have launched 37 schools in Kenya, we will double in size in the next 6 months, and plan to rapidly scale the company to serve more than 1 million students across the continent.

About this position

We have and are continuing to develop one of the most sophisticated approaches to providing affordable education to MILLIONS of children in one of the most challenging environments in the world.

We have a need to recruit for the position of Software Production Designer whose duties will be to design and document business processes, workflows and user interfaces for software products.

Key Responsibilites:

• Being the subject matter expert in one functional area of the business and owning all software and other tools developed for that area
• Working with users and stakeholders in departments throughout the company to understand and document functional requirements for software systems
• Writing software functional specifications
• Designing user interfaces for software products
• Creating wireframes and paper prototypes for user interfaces and testing them with users
• Producing user interface design documents
• Working with software engineers and quality assurance engineers to ensure to ensure that software is implemented following functional specifications and to troubleshoot design issues during development
• Post-deployment follow up and evaluations of software with end users
• End user training and support for software systems

Specialist knowledge required:

• Knowledge and experience in the design and rollout of multiple enterprise software systems (ERP, CRM…) in a commercial environment, with particular emphasis on the workflow and interaction design
• Ability to analyze business processes and translate them into software including requirements gathering, workflow design, and UI design
• Ability to quickly understand and analyze business requirements
• Solid understanding of user interface design principals and human factors and an innate sense of how people perceive and interact with software

About You

• They should have good writing skills
• Possess good problem solving skills
• Ability to work with a team
• Ability to be adaptable and flexible
• Good communication skills
• The individual should be detail oriented
• They should have good planning, organizing as well as analytical skills
• Ability to take initiative and to coordinate projects
• Good writing, oral communication and presentation skills

In order to be considered for this position all candidates must register and upload their CV’s on our website at www.bridgeinternationalacademies.com

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

Bridge International Academies - Data Analyst

Position Title: Data Analyst

Location: Nairobi

Number of Positions: 1

About Bridge International Academies

Bridge International Academies is a for-profit startup company revolutionizing education across Africa with a unique business model. The company runs a large-scale network of low-cost primary schools in Kenya that significantly outperforms other primary schools in the same areas because of our “school in a box” systems.

Our schools profitably deliver this high-quality education for less than $4 per child per month, which enable the schools to cover all their costs and create a profitable central organization at scale.

We have launched 37 schools in Kenya, we will double in size in the next 6 months, and plan to rapidly scale the company to serve more than 1 million students across the continent.

About this position

We have and are continuing to develop one of the most sophisticated approaches to providing affordable education to MILLIONS of children in one of the most challenging environments in the world.

We have a need to recruit for the position of Data Analyst who will duties will be to collect, collate, analyze, summarize and generally manage the Departmental Information System.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop complex reports and queries using SQL and reporting tools
• Analyze data from multiple sources to answer business questions
• Provide support to users in multiple departments (finance, operations, marketing) to design and develop the reports they require
• Provide recommendations on new ways to study and use existing data to improve business efficiency
• Perform ad-hoc data requests from various departments in the organization
• Administer databases, reporting tools and other software systems
• Manage of data entry operations
• Develop data entry forms and other software tools

Specialist knowledge required:

• Strong knowledge of SQL across multiple database platforms (SQL Server, MySQL e.t.c)
• Experience with reporting tools such as SQL Server Reporting Services, Jasper Reports or Crystal Reports
• Adept with development of data entry and reporting applications in Microsoft Access
• Experience with SugarCRM and/or Microsoft Dynamics Navision

About You

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• Three (3) years experience in data management and reporting
• The individual should be detail oriented
• They should have good planning, organizing as well as analytical skills
• Ability to take initiative and to coordinate projects
• Good writing, oral communication and presentation skills
• Ability to be flexible and adaptable

In order to be considered for this position all candidates must register and upload their CV’s on our website at www.bridgeinternationalacademies.com

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted 

Creative Web Designer & Developer

Are you a self motivated forward thinking creative web designer with a desire and passion for web design.!

You will be working on creative projects and apart from having a diverse set of design skills; you must have a strong knowledge and understanding of web development trends and principles.

You need to be highly conversant with PHP,CSS & HTML and be able to collaborate with our developers in PHP Programming and Content Management Systems (Magento Joomla & Wordpress).

You must have a real understanding and ability to design breath-taking websites for our client portfolio.

Your skill set must include knowledge of:

• PHP
• HTML
• MySQL
• CSS
• JavaScript

You must know how to develop & customize Magento extensions and templates

Experience required in employment or freelance work.

Email your CV and ohter credentials to careers@eddyarticles.com