Industry: Nonprofit / International Development
Employer: One Acre Fund
Job Title: Database Programmer
Job Location: Bungoma, Western Kenya
Organization Description
One Acre Fund is a start-up initiative in Kenya that works with persistently hungry farm families. Instead of giving handouts to families, One Acre invests in farm families to generate a permanent gain in farm income. Our "investment bundle" includes education, financing, inputs, and export market access. Our program is designed to be usable by the extreme poor, and generates a permanent, 100%+ gain in farm income.
We have been operating since January 2006, and we currently serve 23,000 farm families (96,000 children). Our target is to change the lives of 50,000 families (200,000 children) within two more years, scaling at a 50 - 100% growth rate thereafter. One Acre Fund is one of the most externally-validated recent social start-ups, winning grants from the highly competitive Echoing Green and Draper Richards Foundations, and first place wins at the Stanford and Yale social venture competitions. Website: www.oneacrefund.org
Job Description One Acre Fund relies on several key home-grown software systems to help us manage a lot of information. As we grow our organization to 50,000 farm families, with 500+ staff, across 2 (soon to be more) countries, we need to continually improve the features of these software systems. We have three key systems in Microsoft Access – client roster, books, and payroll – that help us to manage a wide variety of operations. Our roster tool for example handles the enrollment of clients, taking farm supply orders from them, tracking hundreds of thousands of payments, creating a wide variety of business intelligence reports, etc. As we are growing, we are also looking to scale our existing tools to a distributed database in the form of occasionally connected applications (OCA) using SQL server, with runtime Access as a front end.
The Database Programmer will be based in Bungoma. They will:
- Africa-facing mission-critical databases: The continued development of mission-critical, custom databases that touch every aspect of operations.
- Strong focus on creating user oriented applications
- Analyze user and application needs
- Design, code and debug applications in MS Access using visual basic for Access
- Plan for future scaling of operations, combining MS Access with SQL server and web access capabilities
A successful candidate will have these traits:
- Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or equivalent through experience
- Top performing undergradauate background
- Good programming skills, knowledge of vba and .NET a plus
- Knowledge of database concepts and SQL, experience with SQL server a plus
- Excellent troubleshooting, debugging and testing skills
- Ability to create application and technical documentation
Compensation: Entry-level nonprofit position
To Apply
Email cover letter and resume to itjobs@oneacrefund.org Subject line: Database Programmer + name of the site that referred you)