Fresher Innovation Analyst Job Careers – Reach a Hand Uganda
Job Title: Innovation Analyst
Organization: Reach a Hand Uganda
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About US:
Reach a Hand Uganda is a youth centered organisation focusing on youth empowerment programs with emphasis on Livelihoods & Skills Development, Behavior Change Communication, Sexual Reproductive Health & Rights, and HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention. The Reach A Hand mission is to empower young people in Uganda aged 12-24 years with complete information, skills and tools to enable them to live healthy, focused and productive lives.
Job Summary: The Innovation Analyst will be responsible for providing Technical support to the management of Reach a Hand Uganda (RAHU) innovations in order to strengthen the organizations existing platforms. To this end, the Innovation Analyst shall assist in the design, planning and management of Reach A Hand Uganda’s (RAHU)’s Innovation activities; and will support the delivery of projects around innovation solutions by working closely with the Chief of Staff; the programs team; the Lead Innovation Architect and consultants.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Tasked with crafting requirements that enable, enhance and empower the ability of designers or developers to innovate.
- Supporting the running of experiments using the Human Centered Design (HCD) approach using the latest technology to get closer to authentic human behavior.
- Confidently conveying the requirements and insights to the management team, project managers, external consultants and other partners that will forge the next stage of a project.
- Supporting the implementation of solutions from conception to initiation by providing information, managing stakeholders and engaging in all the key business analysis tasks that need to be completed in order to implement a solution.
- Supporting facilitation innovation workshops that help stakeholders identify opportunities for innovation.
- Work with external consultants to understand existing innovations that have already been deployed by the team.
- Providing technical support in form of quick fixes or feature modifications for existing innovations where applicable.
- Act as a project lead/manager for the development and rollout of new innovations i.e. updating stakeholders on progress; and ensuring that the different parties deliver according to agreed upon parameters.
- Supporting the implementation and monitoring of innovation activities.
- Supporting activities to develop capacity for innovation within RAHU by synthesizing and documenting findings and lessons learned, success stories and good practices.
- Popularizing RAHU innovations at/on national and International platforms and fora.
- Communicating both internally and externally, the achievements and insights of the RAHU innovation initiative through social media, internal web platforms and the public RAHU webpage.
- Providing administrative and coordination support to the RAHU fundraising objectives.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant should preferably hold a Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, and Business Computing from a recognized university
- One to two years of research and or business analysis experience.
- Experience using prototyping, storyboarding and business modelling software (Marvel, Axure, Balsamiq, Visio)
- Creative problem solver, often considering unorthodox yet feasible (Outside-of-the-box thinking) ways to push the design, and sharing these with others.
- Attention to details with great sense of ownership.
- Teamworking orientation, and strong self-organization.
- Excellent analytical, written and verbal communication skills.
- A Master’s degree of Science in any field with focus on creativity and research in include: Software Engineering, Computer Science, Business Computing.
- A minimum of 1-2 years of relevant work experience within the innovation landscape.
- Knowledge of RAHU’s core mandate.
- Design oriented thinking knowledge.
- Knowledge of prototyping, storyboarding and business modelling software (Marvel, Axure, Balsamiq, Visio).
How to Apply:
All candidates should upload their applications with updated CVs either in PDF or Microsoft Word format with your contact information, academic certificates, nationality and 3 work related references at the link below.
Deadline: 8th January 2019.
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