Entry Level – Regional Technology Field Support Officer At Living Goods 95 views1 applications


Living Goods supports a network of micro-entrepreneurs in Uganda and Kenya who teach families in their communities how to improve health and well-being while selling affordable, high-impact products like basic medicines, fortified foods, water filters, clean cook-stoves, and solar lights.

We believe that successful deployment of technology, specifically mobile tools, will be a critical element in contributing to achieving the organization’s commitment to managing a community health program that is scalable, impactful, and cost effective. As such, we are seeking Regional Technology Field Support Officer to join our team in Kenya.

The Opportunity

As a Regional TFSO you will implement and support game-changing innovations and support Living Goods’ mission critical mobile tools, and Living Goods’ branch LAN (both hardware and software). Based in Busia, Kisii or Malaba, you will work with our Nairobi-based Technology and Operations teams, and will play a key role in implementing and supporting multiple technology innovations to improve diagnosis and treatments by agents, and enable branch staff support and supervise Community Health Volunteers.

Key Responsibilities

The Regional Technology Field Support Officer Will Be Responsible For

 

  • Installing and configuring and supporting computer systems and networks (including operating systems, PCs, printers, routers, antivirus, APKs, etc)
  • Support and train staff with their IT requirements during and after on-boarding
  • Provide support for mobile devices and applications to Branch Staff and CHVs within the assigned region.
  • Resolve technology (hardware & software) failures/faults within agreed time limits
  • Implement mobile application upgrades as required
  • Support rollout of new applications
  • Keep a detailed record of branch systems and mobile devices/application issues for purposes of reference and implementing improvements
  • Support branch staff and Regional Field Managers at in-services trainings and field visits.
  • Back up branch systems and ensure a current working backup is held offsite.
  • Perform other professional duties as identified within the context of the role as directed by the organization.

Qualifications

 

  • Diploma in IT or Computer Science required.
  • At least 1 year experience troubleshooting system and network problems, diagnosing and solving hardware or software faults;
  • Experience operating and troubleshooting Android smartphones a must.
  • Willingness to travel in the field.
  • Strong customer focus
  • Ability to manage and prioritize many open cases at one time
  • Excellent listening and questioning skills, combined with the ability to interact confidently with clients to establish what the problem is and explain the solution;
  • Ability to prioritize your workload
  • Excellent verbal communications skills in both English and Kiswahili.
  • Ability to work in a team and independently.

Key Performance Indicators/ Performance Goals

 

  • Servers and applications infrastructure availability
  • Minimize downtime duration for branch systems
  • Timely resolution and sign-off of issues
  • Timely closure of incidents and fast resolution of issues.
  • Elimination of errors and/or rework during update execution
  • Availability and viability of branch backups

Compensation

A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health insurance and bonus opportunity. The opportunity to be your best while making lives better for those in need.

What is Living Goods?

Living Goods supports networks of ‘Avon-like’ micro-entrepreneurs who go door-to-door teaching families how to improve their health and wealth while selling affordable, high-impact products like basic medicines, fortified foods, water filters, clean cook stoves, and solar lights. Living Goods seeks nothing less than a disruptive reinvention of distribution in the developing world, through networks of franchised micro-entrepreneurs who leverage Living Goods’ brand, buying power and mobile marketing tools to deliver vital products at accessible prices to the people who need them most. By combining the best practices from the worlds of micro-enterprise, franchising and public health, Living Goods is creating a fully sustainable system to improve the health, and wealth, of the poor.

Living Goods has been featured in The New York Times, NBC News, The Economist, and The Huffington Post. Check out these articles and more on our press page.

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Living Goods is a non-profit organization operating in Uganda, Kenya, and Myanmar. Its goal is to build a sustainable distribution platform for products designed to fight poverty and disease in the developing world. Living Goods operates networks of independent entrepreneurs who make a living by selling medicines and products to poor people that can help improve their health, wealth, and productivity. Living Goods borrows from successful direct selling models like Avon Products, Amway and Tupperware. The project aims to be fully self-funded at scale.

Living Goods was founded by Chuck Slaughter in 2007

Living Goods focuses on three prevailing problems with health systems in the developing world: 1) the shortage of frontline health workers, 2) the inadequate distribution of basic health products in both the public and private sectors, and 3) the failure of innovations like clean cookstoves and solar lamps to reach scale. It is largely recognized that each of these problems increases in severity at the “last mile” where the need is greatest.

Using a double bottom line business approach, Living Goods aims to:

  • Reduce child mortality by at least 15%
  • Save poor families 20% on basic health products and daily necessities
  • Create incomes for thousands of entrepreneurs
  • Increase access to innovations
  • Scale impact via global replication of the Living Goods direct-selling model
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Living Goods supports a network of micro-entrepreneurs in Uganda and Kenya who teach families in their communities how to improve health and well-being while selling affordable, high-impact products like basic medicines, fortified foods, water filters, clean cook-stoves, and solar lights.

We believe that successful deployment of technology, specifically mobile tools, will be a critical element in contributing to achieving the organization’s commitment to managing a community health program that is scalable, impactful, and cost effective. As such, we are seeking Regional Technology Field Support Officer to join our team in Kenya.The OpportunityAs a Regional TFSO you will implement and support game-changing innovations and support Living Goods’ mission critical mobile tools, and Living Goods’ branch LAN (both hardware and software). Based in Busia, Kisii or Malaba, you will work with our Nairobi-based Technology and Operations teams, and will play a key role in implementing and supporting multiple technology innovations to improve diagnosis and treatments by agents, and enable branch staff support and supervise Community Health Volunteers.Key ResponsibilitiesThe Regional Technology Field Support Officer Will Be Responsible For 
  • Installing and configuring and supporting computer systems and networks (including operating systems, PCs, printers, routers, antivirus, APKs, etc)
  • Support and train staff with their IT requirements during and after on-boarding
  • Provide support for mobile devices and applications to Branch Staff and CHVs within the assigned region.
  • Resolve technology (hardware & software) failures/faults within agreed time limits
  • Implement mobile application upgrades as required
  • Support rollout of new applications
  • Keep a detailed record of branch systems and mobile devices/application issues for purposes of reference and implementing improvements
  • Support branch staff and Regional Field Managers at in-services trainings and field visits.
  • Back up branch systems and ensure a current working backup is held offsite.
  • Perform other professional duties as identified within the context of the role as directed by the organization.

Qualifications

 
  • Diploma in IT or Computer Science required.
  • At least 1 year experience troubleshooting system and network problems, diagnosing and solving hardware or software faults;
  • Experience operating and troubleshooting Android smartphones a must.
  • Willingness to travel in the field.
  • Strong customer focus
  • Ability to manage and prioritize many open cases at one time
  • Excellent listening and questioning skills, combined with the ability to interact confidently with clients to establish what the problem is and explain the solution;
  • Ability to prioritize your workload
  • Excellent verbal communications skills in both English and Kiswahili.
  • Ability to work in a team and independently.

Key Performance Indicators/ Performance Goals

 
  • Servers and applications infrastructure availability
  • Minimize downtime duration for branch systems
  • Timely resolution and sign-off of issues
  • Timely closure of incidents and fast resolution of issues.
  • Elimination of errors and/or rework during update execution
  • Availability and viability of branch backups

Compensation

A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health insurance and bonus opportunity. The opportunity to be your best while making lives better for those in need.What is Living Goods?Living Goods supports networks of ‘Avon-like’ micro-entrepreneurs who go door-to-door teaching families how to improve their health and wealth while selling affordable, high-impact products like basic medicines, fortified foods, water filters, clean cook stoves, and solar lights. Living Goods seeks nothing less than a disruptive reinvention of distribution in the developing world, through networks of franchised micro-entrepreneurs who leverage Living Goods’ brand, buying power and mobile marketing tools to deliver vital products at accessible prices to the people who need them most. By combining the best practices from the worlds of micro-enterprise, franchising and public health, Living Goods is creating a fully sustainable system to improve the health, and wealth, of the poor.Living Goods has been featured in The New York Times, NBC News, The Economist, and The Huffington Post. Check out these articles and more on our press page.
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