Fwd: Job and Training Opportunities

[Moffat Ngacha]

Hi there,

Here are some great opportunities that you can apply.

All the best!

Cheers,

Moffat

@moffatmn

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From: Judith Owigar <jow...@akirachix.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 2:33 PM
Subject: Job and Training Opportunities
To: moff...@gmail.com

Website and Graphic Designer

Required: have great IT skills, can creatively design a website and create graphics that can be applied to brochures, flyers, pamphlets. 

Should be able to work with minimal guidance but be able to adhere to deadlines and a little bit of pressure.

She would be working in one central location, but will be responsible for a group of companies. 

This job is a full time job, unless there is a compelling reason to make it only a consultancy!

Send your CV and portfolio to jud...@akirachix.com

User Experience Designer

Twiga Foods is on its way to being Africa’s largest grocer. They use a mobile-based, cashless, business-to-business supply platform to access distribution into the millions of small and medium sized vendors in the African urban markets. This allows them to drastically lower their daily costs of goods by exploiting latent value in broken, informal, value-chains and wholesale providers.

Twiga Foods is looking to recruit a User Experience Designer to perform the following duties:

- Executing interaction design and visual design as a part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Collaborating on user experience planning with a technical team
- Consulting with other business units and the CTO to achieve business goals and objectives
- Researching interaction design trends
- Researching technology trends
- Performing other duties as assigned

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

- Two or more years of user experience design for software, web applications which leverage emergent technologies, consumer electronics and/or mobile devices
- Strong conceptualization ability, strong visual communication ability, drawing skills and sketchbook technique
- Exceptional design skills, production value and attention to detail
- Ability to create wireframes as well as visual design comps
- Strong working knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Fireworks, Sketch, Invision and associated design tools
- Experience with user interface design patterns and standard UCD methodologies
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Understanding of common software project management practices
- Understanding of common software development practices

ADDITIONAL

Strong working knowledge of HTML, CSS, Web Technologies, Android/iOS a plus
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in design, technology new media design or related design field
Portfolio to accompany resume
Twiga Foods is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Applications can be forwarded to car...@twigafoods.com

Developer Training

 

Two local companies, BTI Millman Limited and Dew CIS Solutions Limited have partnered with Competa IT BV in The Hague Netherlands to form CodePamoja training program. The program focuses on training Kenyan software developers on how to work to international standards using the latest project management methods and software tooling. It complements the technical skills acquired from undergraduate level training with up-to-date project management experience and exposure to Enterprise Software Development

 

CodePamoja training runs for a maximum of three months with a certificate on completion. It uses a buddy system where Kenyan developers collaborate with developers in the Netherlands in Virtual Teams. The emphasis is on knowledge sharing and there is no set training agenda or syllabus. Trainees learn by collaborating with developers in the EU on real projects. Multiple projects can be in progress at any one time, people may work on more than one project simultaneously and may join projects at any stage in their lifecycle from design to deployment.

 

Interested developers should apply through the website www.codepamoja.org. By enrolling, they will be in a position to seize a great opportunity whereby they will learn not only scrum project management and agile software development but also how to work well effectively in a team and be a good team player.

Best,

Judith Adem Owigar

Operations Director

AkiraChix | www.akirachix.com 

Skype: owigarj
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