Position : UX/UI Designer
ABOUT SAVICS
Savics is a Social Enterprise that leverages existing technologies and field knowledge to co-create and implement innovative products to enhance stakeholders’ impact on individualized patient care, disease surveillance, and healthcare management at the global and local levels.
We partner with health stakeholders to build simple, customizable, and patient-centric applications that gather field data and provide valuable insights for informed decision-making.
We have developed a suite of highly innovative mobile and web applications that support health systems, with the aim of strengthening and improving health outcomes for low and middle-income populations.
In 5 years’ time, we have deployed our products across fifteen countries; mostly in Africa and South-East Asia.
Your Location
This position is only open to candidates based in Africa. It is subject to project approval and has an expected start date at the beginning of Q4.
Your role
We are looking for a UI/UX Designer to turn our software into adapted and easy-to-use solutions dedicated to health centers.
UI/UX Designer responsibilities include gathering user requirements, designing graphic elements, and building navigation components. To be successful in this role, you should have experience with design software and wireframe tools.
If you have a portfolio of professional design projects that includes work with web/mobile applications, we would like to collaborate with you.
Ultimately, you will create both functional and appealing features that address our clients’ needs and help us reach our 2040 vision.
Responsibilities
- Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product managers and the IT team
- Design graphic user interfaces and their elements
- Build page navigation buttons and search fields
- Develop UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how sites function and what they look like
- Create original graphic designs (e.g. images, sketches, and tables)
- Adhere to style standards on fonts, colors, and images
- Conduct layout adjustments based on user feedback
- Collaborate with Dev Team members using Bitbucket, Planner, and Jira
Required profile for job ad : UX/UI Designer
Requirements
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in design, computer science, or equivalent experience
- Knowledge of wireframe tools (e.g. Wireframe.cc and InVision)
- Up-to-date knowledge of design software like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
- Proven software frontend development experience in desktop, web, and mobile
- Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
- Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle
- Speak English. French is a plus
- Comfortable traveling 25% of the time
- A permanent internet connection (Savics will support your monthly fees)
Why work at Savics?
- You will work in a fast-moving self-managed environment
- You will be a valuable actor in the development lifecycle of our eHealth solutions
- We share a common passion
- We strongly believe that our actions shape the future
- We have a work culture where team members are independent and encouraged to evolve daily in a supportive environment
- We learn new things daily
- We love what we do and love to be the best
Soft skills
- You have empathy towards employee, customer, and end-user needs
- You are a creative problem solver
- You have good time-management skills
- You are great at collaborating with cross-functional teams
- You have good listening skills
- You work in an independent, proactive, and transparent manner
- You hold strong work ethics and humanist values
At Savics, you will work in an environment where humanist values are nurtured. You will be independent, responsible for finding solutions to local and global problems. We are all happy to be part of the team and learn from each other. Our goal is to make a significant impact on global health with appropriate technologies.
Based on our Privacy policy, applications are deleted from all our records after 12 months of reception unless you specifically authorize us to contact you to propose further job opportunities in line with your profile.
As we are working towards gender parity at Savics, women are strongly encouraged to apply.
Job criteria for job ad : UX/UI Designer
| Job category : | Health and social professions
IT, new technologies R&D, project management |
| Industries : | Health, pharmacy, hospitals, medical equipment
IT, software engineering, Internet Quality, methods Research and development Services other |
| Employment type : | Permanent contract |
| Region : | Eastern Province – Kigali Province – Northern Province – Southern Province – Western Province – International |
| Experience level : | 2 to 5 years |
| Educational level : | Bachelor |
| Spoken language : | English›Fluent
French›Good Level |
| Number of Position(s) : | 2 |
Position : Senior Software Engineer
ABOUT SAVICS
Savics is a Social Enterprise that leverages existing technologies and field knowledge to co-create and implement innovative products to enhance stakeholders’ impact on individualized patient care, disease surveillance, and healthcare management at the global and local levels.
We partner with health stakeholders to build simple, customizable, and patient-centric applications that gather field data and provide valuable insights for informed decision-making.
We have developed a suite of highly innovative mobile and web applications that support health systems, with the aim of strengthening and improving health outcomes for low and middle-income populations.
In 5 years’ time, we have deployed our products across fifteen countries; mostly in Africa and South-East Asia.
Your Location
These positions are open to candidates based in Senegal (2 people), in Cameroon (one person), in Mali (one person), and one person based somewhere else in Africa. These positions are subject to project approval and have an expected start date at the beginning of Q4.
YOUR ROLE
We are looking for five Senior Software Engineers to support the development, implementation, and/or strengthening of community-based surveillance products and their interconnectivity with existing health information systems. They will support landscape assessments and develop the existing national and point of care HIS applications (DHIS2, EMR, LIS), including the development of the APIs to enable interconnectivity.
You will be working alongside other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure and perform installations in health care centers. Therefore, commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and creating quality products is essential.
Responsibilities
- Develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle
- Determine operational feasibility by evaluating problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions
- Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clear code
- Prepare and install solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming
- Write well-designed and harmonious code
- Provide training to the non-IT end-users to ensure sustainable use of the software
- Collaborate with team to brainstorm and create new products
- Write user guides and technical documentation
Required profile for job ad : Senior Software Engineer
Requirements
- Master’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
- Experience working in an agile environment
- Experience with DHIS2 and/or OpenMRS. Experience with OpenHIE, OpenHIM is a big plus
- Hands-on experience with Windows/Linux/Mac OS environments
- Fluent with functional, imperative, and object-oriented languages; knowledge of Java, Scala, and/or Clojure, JavaScript, Python would be especially useful
- Comfortable with relational and NoSQL databases
- Stay on the leading edge of development practices
- Speak English. French is a plus
- Comfortable traveling 25% of the time
- Be available online during working hours
- A permanent internet connection (Savics will support the monthly fees)
WHY WORK AT SAVICS?
- You will work in a fast-moving self-managed environment
- You will be a valuable actor in the development lifecycle of our eHealth solutions
- We share a common passion
- We strongly believe that our actions shape the future
- We have a work culture where team members are independent and encouraged to improve and evolve daily in a supportive environment
- We learn new things daily
- We love what we do and love to be the best
YOUR SOFT SKILLS
- Possess excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills and are comfortable working with multiple stakeholders to understand and explain highly technical information in a clear, concise manner
- Empathetic to employee, customer, and end-user needs
- Team player with a fondness for mentoring and working within a culture of learning
- Great at collaborating with cross-functional teams
- Be a persistent, creative problem solver
- Proactive
- Strong work ethics and humanist values
At Savics, you will work in an environment where humanist values are nurtured. You will be independent, responsible for finding solutions to local and global problems. We are all happy to be part of the team and learn from each other. Our goal is to make a significant impact on global health with appropriate technologies.
Based on our Privacy policy, applications are deleted from all our records after 12 months of reception unless you specifically authorize us to contact you to propose further job opportunities in line with your profile.
As we are working towards gender parity at Savics, women are strongly encouraged to apply.
Job criteria for job ad : Senior Software Engineer
| Job category : | IT, new technologies
Production, maintenance, quality R&D, project management |
| Industries : | Health, pharmacy, hospitals, medical equipment
IT, software engineering, Internet Quality, methods Research and development Services other |
| Employment type : | Permanent contract |
| Region : | Eastern Province – Kigali Province – Northern Province – Southern Province – Western Province – International |
| Experience level : | 5 to 10 years |
| Educational level : | Master |
| Spoken language : | English›Fluent
French›Good Level |
| Number of Position(s) : | 1 |
Position : Senior Business Analyst
ABOUT SAVICS
Savics is a Social Enterprise that leverages existing technologies and field knowledge to co-create and implement innovative products to enhance stakeholders’ impact on individualized patient care, disease surveillance, and healthcare management at the local and global levels.
We partner with health stakeholders to build simple, customizable, and patient-centric applications that gather field data and provide valuable insights for informed decision-making. We have developed a suite of highly innovative digital solutions that support health systems, with the aim of strengthening and improving health outcomes for low and middle-income populations.
In 5 years’ time, we have deployed our products across fifteen countries; mostly in Africa and South-East Asia.
Your Location
This position is only open to candidates based in Africa. It is subject to project approval and has an expected start date at the beginning of Q4 2021.
YOUR ROLE
We are looking for a Business Analyst who will be the vital link between our information technology capacity and our business objectives by analyzing and translating the functional and technical requirements into user stories and task lists that will form the basis for subsequent activities.
Together with the Project Manager, the Business Analyst will be the liaison between the Savics project team, the countries, and other local stakeholders.
You will also look at how the company operates – conducting research and analyzing data to develop knowledge – and suggest methods for the company to improve its practices and processes.
Responsibilities
- Analyze the business structure, technology use, and goals
- Formulate ways for businesses to improve, based on previous research
- Persuade external stakeholders of the benefits of new technology
- Perform in-country assessments
- Run workshops and training sessions
- Define configuration specifications and business analysis requirements
- Define reporting and alerting requirements
- Identify problems using data modeling techniques
- Report on common sources of technical issues or questions and make recommendations to the product team
- Communicate key insights and findings to product/development/sales team
- Constantly be on the lookout for ways to improve monitoring, discover issues, and deliver better value to the customer
- Support the business development team in designing technical propositions for proposal submissions
- Help design, document, and maintain system processes
Required profile for job ad : Senior Business Analyst
Requirements
- Previous experience in Business / Systems Analysis
- Knowledge in Unified Modeling Language
- Knowledge in e-health digital tools (Global Goods, DHIS2, interoperability)
- A degree in IT / Computer Science will be a plus
- Experience in analyzing data to draw business-relevant conclusions
- Knowledge in generating process documentation
- Experience in data visualization techniques and tools
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including technical writing skills
- Speak French & English
- An interest in, and understanding of, project management techniques and computing systems
- Comfortable traveling 25% of the time
- A permanent internet connection (Savics will support the monthly fees)
WHY WORK AT SAVICS?
- You will work in a fast-moving self-managed environment
- You will be a valuable actor in the development lifecycle of our eHealth solutions
- We share a common passion
- We strongly believe that our actions shape the future
- We have a work culture where team members are independent and encouraged to improve and evolve daily in a supportive environment
- We learn new things daily
- We love what we do and love to be the best
SOFT SKILLS
- Commercial awareness
- Communication and interpersonal skills
- Time management and organizational skills
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Leadership and management skills
- Strong work ethics and humanist values
At Savics, you will work in an environment where humanist values are nurtured. You will be independent, responsible for finding solutions to local and global problems. We are all happy to be part of the team and learn from each other. Our goal is to make a significant impact on global health with appropriate technologies.
Based on our Privacy policy, applications are deleted from all our records after 12 months of reception unless you specifically authorize us to contact you to propose further job opportunities in line with your profile.
As we are working towards gender parity at Savics, women are strongly encouraged to apply.
Job criteria for job ad : Senior Business Analyst
| Job category : | IT, new technologies
Production, maintenance, quality R&D, project management |
| Industries : | Engineering, development studies
Health, pharmacy, hospitals, medical equipment IT, software engineering, Internet Quality, methods Research and development |
| Employment type : | Permanent contract |
| Region : | Eastern Province – Kigali Province – Northern Province – Southern Province – Western Province – International |
| Experience level : | 5 to 10 years |
| Educational level : | Master |
| Spoken language : | English›Native
French›Fluent |
| Number of Position(s) : | 1 |
