ICT and Systems Management Consultant
Operations · Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam
ROLE DESCRIPTION
UBONGO
is Africa's leading producer of kids' edutainment. As a non-profit
social enterprise, we create fun, localized, and multi-platform
educational content that helps kids learn, and leverage their learning
to change their lives. Ubongo reaches over 27 million kids across Africa
through accessible technologies like TV, radio, and mobile phones. Our
show’s Ubongo Kids and Akili and Me currently air in 23 countries across Africa in multiple languages.
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LOCATION: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
This role is an initial 6 months full time consultancy which may evolve into a full time employee role.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Conduct threat and risk analysis of existing and potential new systems and technologies (including but not limited to a new data management platform, content server, AWS, Google Drive etc)
- Analyse the business impact of potential new and existing systems and technologies to eliminate risk, performance, and capacity issues
- Implement vulnerability assessments and configure audits of operating systems, web servers, and databases and detect patterns, insecure features, and malicious activities in the infrastructure.
- Conduct SWOT analysis of our cyber security and virtual operations as Ubongo
- Upgrade systems by implementing and maintaining security controls
- Review and update our IT, Cyber Security and all related policies for best practice
- Feedback to Ubongo on what we need to develop a comprehensive and long term IT strategy that can be easily implemented across all three entities
- Minimum BA in Computer Science
- Minimum 4 years experience in IT and Cyber Security Management
- System administration
- Network security
- Problem solving
- Information security policies
- Network protocols
- Communication and hand over
- Process improvement
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Benefits:
Phew! You made it through that. The good thing is that there are also perks, like a delicious healthy lunch at the office, health insurance, pension payments of up to 10% (matching the value of your individual contributions), 28 working days of paid annual leave (in addition to the public holidays) and you get to watch cartoons at work.
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Please note that only online applications will be considered. Those who come directly to the office with a CV or who email their CV to us will simply be directed to apply online.
So please save yourself time and effort by simply sticking to online applications. THANKS!
Jifunze Uelewe - Project Manager
Operations · Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam
UBONGO is Africa's leading producer of kids' edutainment. As a non-profit social enterprise, we create fun, localized, and multi-platform educational content that helps kids learn, and leverage their learning to change their lives. Ubongo reaches over 27 million kids across Africa through accessible technologies like TV, radio, and mobile phones. Our show’s Ubongo Kids and Akili and Me currently air in 23 countries across Africa in 9 languages and counting.
Operations · Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam
UBONGO is Africa's leading producer of kids' edutainment. As a non-profit social enterprise, we create fun, localized, and multi-platform educational content that helps kids learn, and leverage their learning to change their lives. Ubongo reaches over 27 million kids across Africa through accessible technologies like TV, radio, and mobile phones. Our show’s Ubongo Kids and Akili and Me currently air in 23 countries across Africa in 9 languages and counting.
We are looking for a project manager for full multi-year USAID sub-contract Jifunze Uelewe
Responsibilities:
External:
Benefits:
Phew! You made it through that. The good thing is that there are also perks, like a delicious healthy lunch at the office, health insurance, pension payments of up to 10% (matching the value of your individual contributions), 28 working days of paid annual leave (in addition to the public holidays) and you get to watch cartoons at work.
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Please note that only online applications will be considered. Those who come directly to the office with a CV or who email their CV to us will simply be directed to apply online.
So please save yourself time and effort by simply sticking to online applications. THANKS!
Responsibilities:
External:
- Leading project and budget management, work-plan, reporting and compliance for a full multi-year USAID sub-contract
- Managing Ubongo’s relationship and coordination with consortium partners for initiative delivery, and acting as the key point of contact for all Jifunze Uelewe related issues.
- Representing Ubongo in all partnership meetings under the JU consortium
- Managing the budget
- Managing internal coordination and check in meetings
- Keeping track and making all aware of timelines and deadlines
- Helping to mitigate any delays/obstacles that arise
- Coordinating across the full Ubongo team to deliver on the commitments for the sub-contract
- Ensuring all timesheets are submitted on time and continuous auditing of the time tracking
- Managing all procurement budgeted in the project
- Work closely with our Grants Manager on compliance, budget management, reporting and administration. Ensuring that all Ubongoers are kept up to date on initiative status, and contributing throughout!
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- Already managed a former long term USAID funded project or contract
- Have experience working in consortium for development projects Ready and able to take on all the challenges listed above (and many more, down the line) as we scale!
- This probably means you’ll have a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree and at least 6 years experience in NGO project management. But we’re more interested in your ability to get the job done than your qualifications.
- Extremely organized and process oriented.
- Excellent analytical and numerical skills, and including budget management and excel skills
- Able to GET THINGS DONE. You will be a team of one reporting to the head of department, often problem solving for issues we’ve never faced before, and coordinating large groups of disparate teams and partners to get things done!
- A strong written and verbal communicator.
- A self-motivated and independent worker who can work remotely and also coordinate between remote teams in disparate places.
- Comfortable using and managing technology and cloud based software to coordinate between remote teams.
- A super troubleshooter!
- Good at dealing with ambiguity and able to figure things out for yourself.
- Willing to speak up for what’s right, when you see wrong, or when you think there might be a better way.
- Someone who loves kids. They’re why we do what we do. They’re running around our office all the time. Our kids’ music and videos will become part of your life (and constantly stuck in your head)
Benefits:
Phew! You made it through that. The good thing is that there are also perks, like a delicious healthy lunch at the office, health insurance, pension payments of up to 10% (matching the value of your individual contributions), 28 working days of paid annual leave (in addition to the public holidays) and you get to watch cartoons at work.
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Please note that only online applications will be considered. Those who come directly to the office with a CV or who email their CV to us will simply be directed to apply online.
So please save yourself time and effort by simply sticking to online applications. THANKS!
STORYBOARD ARTIST
Production · Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam
Job Title: Storyboard Artist
Reports To: Storyboard Manager
Employment Type: Full Time Employment
Production · Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam
Job Title: Storyboard Artist
Reports To: Storyboard Manager
Employment Type: Full Time Employment
Organization Summary:
UBONGO is Africa's leading producer of kids' edutainment. As a non-profit social enterprise, we create fun, localized, and multi-platform educational content that helps kids learn, and leverage their learning to change their lives. Ubongo reaches over 27 million kids across Africa through accessible technologies like TV, radio, and mobile phones. Our show’s Ubongo Kids and Akili and Me currently air in 23 countries across Africa, in Swahili, English, French, Kinyarwanda, Kikuyu, Luo, Yoruba, Hausa, Chichewa, and Juba Arabic.
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UBONGO is Africa's leading producer of kids' edutainment. As a non-profit social enterprise, we create fun, localized, and multi-platform educational content that helps kids learn, and leverage their learning to change their lives. Ubongo reaches over 27 million kids across Africa through accessible technologies like TV, radio, and mobile phones. Our show’s Ubongo Kids and Akili and Me currently air in 23 countries across Africa, in Swahili, English, French, Kinyarwanda, Kikuyu, Luo, Yoruba, Hausa, Chichewa, and Juba Arabic.
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Job Position:
We are looking for a StoryBoard Artist.
Working at Ubongo won’t be easy, but it will challenge and excite you
with lots of responsibilities, plenty of fun, and give you the
opportunity to impact the lives of millions of kids every day.
We’re looking for a dynamic, creative and flexible StoryBoard Artist to expand and improve our storyboard team. You’ll work closely with our Storyboard Manager, Pre-production Manager and post-production team to ensure quality of the content and products we create, turning a script into a compelling visual story that will then be used to make our beloved animated shows.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Storyboarding from Script
We’re looking for a dynamic, creative and flexible StoryBoard Artist to expand and improve our storyboard team. You’ll work closely with our Storyboard Manager, Pre-production Manager and post-production team to ensure quality of the content and products we create, turning a script into a compelling visual story that will then be used to make our beloved animated shows.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Storyboarding from Script
- Create storyboard and animatic
- Create and draw new characters expressions, props, backgrounds as required
- Working with script writers and Storyboard Manager to continuously find innovative and simple ways to make storyboarding more efficient and fun
- Embody and promote Ubongoers’ principles and comply with communications norms
- Working with Storyboard Manager and Script Writer making sure the script is understood
- Take Ubongo Kids, Akili and Me and other shows scripts and turn them into a compelling visual story: tell a great story through your drawings.
- Create new and/or additional views e.g. top views, ¾ views to make visuals more compelling
- Ensure that all products move us toward Ubongo’s vision of helping 440 million kids in Africa learn, and leverage their learning to change their lives
- Ensuring the learning objective of the story is achieved and follow up on comments to meet deadlines
- Exemplify Ubongoers principles and norms
QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE and QUALIFICATIONS
Ubongo is more interested in ability to get job done than qualifications
UBONGO provides equal employment opportunities to all its employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by the laws of the country we are operating in.
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Please note that only online applications will be considered. Those who come directly to the office with a CV or who email their CV to us will simply be directed to apply online. .
So please save yourself time and effort by simply sticking to the online application. THANKS!
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE and QUALIFICATIONS
Ubongo is more interested in ability to get job done than qualifications
- Natural talent or acquired skill to be able to overcome software limitations
- Minimum education qualification: Diploma in any field Minimum 3 years’ experience in storyboarding and visual artistry. A strong ability to interpret scripts into drawings and fill in the missing details to make a panel or shot come alive
- Strong drawing skills
- Self-motivation and a high level of responsibility to complete tasks in a timely manner and make significant progress without direct supervision
- Ownership of projects including debriefing with team members
- Experience or ability to learn how to use Storyboard Pro, Adobe creative suite, toon boom
- Flexibility in adjusting to new work related requirements as they arise
- Good time management and adherence to deadlines set
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UBONGO provides equal employment opportunities to all its employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by the laws of the country we are operating in.
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Please note that only online applications will be considered. Those who come directly to the office with a CV or who email their CV to us will simply be directed to apply online. .
So please save yourself time and effort by simply sticking to the online application. THANKS!
