Job Opportunities at Triggerise

• We are looking for a Chief Development Officer who can deliver our fundraising targets to achieve our ambitious strategic goals for the coming years.

The Job

• As Chief Development Officer, you will be responsible for leading all Triggerise fundraising efforts as well as our external communication and donor relations. You will be responsible for generating additional revenue that will bring Triggerises annual budget from $ 15 million annually in 2023 to $ 25 million annually in 2026, supporting the growth of our programs in 5 key markets: Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Burkina Faso and South Africa. To achieve this ambitious objective, you will use your existing networks as well as current Triggerise contacts and supports. In particular, you will raise Triggerises profile among bilaterals and cultivate philanthropic support from foundations, corporations and high-net-worth individuals.
•  This is a critical position for the organisation and an exciting opportunity to create the fundraising strategy and roadmap for Triggerise’s future – developing and implementing ambitious fundraising, outreach, and constituency building strategies. You are part of the C-suite and operate globally and lead a number of teams that will help you reach your targets.

Main Responsibility Areas

Oversee all fundraising efforts

• Ensure Triggerise has a healthy funding pipeline and conversion success rate that guarantees the organisations continued growth in the future. 
• Network, maintain good donor relationships and identify opportunities.
• Oversee the full proposal development process, from opportunity identification to submission.
• Represent Triggerise globally and advocate for and promote our impact goals and objectives.

Fundraising strategy and external communications

• Build and implement a full 3 year fundraising strategy.
• Leverage our current success with the implementation of impact bonds and results based funding and use it to access other innovative financing mechanisms.
• Create a strategy for new investable products and initiatives that can support our core mission.
• Design and implement a core funding strategy as well as a tech funding strategy.
• Establish the direction for the organisation’s corporate communication and external global outreach efforts.

Process and people management

• Be a transformational leader that provides clear and actionable leadership to your department and in the wider organisation. Based on your skillset we will define your final portfolio together upfront, but teams ideally include NBD, Communications and PR and potentially Grants or MERL. Total team size will be roughly 6-20 FTE (Full Time Equivalent). 
• Build and maintain a proposal development process and team that delivers the right amount of high quality proposals. Build effective partnerships with other teams across the organisation to ensure proposals are of high quality, relevant and realistically budgeted.
• Ensure effective management, analysis and segmentation of our donor pipeline.
• Strategically budget and decide on staffing and fund allocation to optimise impact of efforts. 
• Be a key member of the C-suite of Triggerise, which requires strategic thinking, hands-on implementation and seamless partnerships across the executive team and the organisation.
• Develop strategies to cultivate, create and raise new fundraising initiatives and broaden the awareness about Triggerise with your target audience. 

Key Deliverables

• Reach our fundraising revenue targets of  $ 15 million annually in 2023 to $ 25 million annually in 2026.
• Meet proposal delivery quality and quantity standards.

About You

• You are an incredible networker that is able to open doors and is great at connecting with people at all levels. 
• You are a realistic strategist that can convert openings into real funding possibilities. 
• You can convey our story in an authentic, engaging and persuasive way. 
• You are a human centred leader that can remotely inspire teams across cultures. 
• You are an excellent writer.
• You have the technological knowledge and interest to be able to understand and sell a digital platform based solution.
• You can keep a helicopter view, but are not afraid to get your hands dirty and get involved when needed. 
• You have a data-driven approach and mindset.
• You are a confident decision-maker who can communicate directions and solutions clearly.

Requirements

• 10 - 15 years of experience in fundraising is required, and minimum 5 years of experience in a senior role such as Chief Development Officer.
• Experience working for a large (SRH) donor or extensive experience as a fundraising director for a large international (SRH) NGO.
• You have a proven track record in successfully securing a minimum of $ 5 million per year from a diversity of major donors, corporations (especially tech-related ones), individual philanthropists and foundations. In securing this funding, you can prove you were responsible for initiating the leads as well as the strategic development of opportunities.  
• Demonstrated knowledge of and fundamental adherence to the principles, ethics, and best practices of modern fundraising, including superior knowledge of donor relations principles and fundraising strategy.
• A proven personal network with SRH donors, both private and government as well as a proven track record in revenue-generation from a wide variety of sources including investors/ investment funds, corporations, and  foundations.
• Open to travel and flexible in working hours because of the global character of Triggerise. 

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The Job

• As a Machine Learning Engineer, you'll design and develop Machine Learning algorithms that help us predict and detect significant data patterns into the Tiko Platform.

This is a temporary contract of 12 months, during which you'll have the following exciting responsibilities:

• You'll develop machine learning algorithms in the applicable systems, applying the best-use principles of machine learning to the design, development, maintenance, testing, and evaluation of the software.
• Our team works in an agile way, and you'll be part of the rituals and practices.
• You'll document your work and ensure that your documentation is clear and understandable for future use by others.
• You'll make sure the software you develop is secure and safe with regards to information security and personal data.
• We expect you to actively participate in meetings and projects and coordinate with your team members. We also expect you to continue to develop yourself and keep abreast of new developments.
• You'll run, get involved with, and help out colleagues on other projects as needed.

About You

• You are passionate about Machine Learning and want to work with a dynamic team of professionals. You take a proactive approach to problem-solving and have a logical way of thinking. 

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in Information Technology
• 3+ years of experience designing, developing and deploying Machine Learning models in a production environment
• Strong background in mathematics and statistics
• Exposure to developing NLP solutions over opensource platforms
• Exposure to common machine learning, data, math, and visualization libraries
• Exposure to different coding environments (local, notebooks, containers) and software engineering workflows (testing, code management/Git)
• Proficiency in Python
• Understanding of relational databases such as SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL
• Familiarity with a cloud environment (AWS) and containerised environment (Kubernetes, Docker) and CI/CD (ArgoCD, AWS Code Pipelines)

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The Job 

You will be responsible for ensuring that our mobile app is able to function, and are in charge of the full mobile apps development cycle.

• You apply the principles of software engineering to the design, development, maintenance, testing, and evaluation of our mobile software.
• You modify and tailor the app based on our automated frameworks and feedback from the field.
• You make sure our mobile apps are secure and safe with regard to information security and personal data.

About you

Having experience with mobile development and the principles of design, development maintenance, and more, you're excited by technology and passionate about utilizing it for social impact.

• You have 3+ years industry experience building Android applications.

You have proficiency in using:

• Kotlin
• MVVM architecture
• Dagger/Hilt dependency injection
• Retrofit
• Firebase
• Git
• You’re a natural problem solver and naturally logical - you are always pioneering for the best solution.
• You’ve experienced working in a team environment, as well as independently.
• You have excellent English Skills.

Recruitment Process

• Introductory call with the recruiter
• Technical Assessment 
• Two interviews with the tech team

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The Job

Our Backend Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our software by writing clean, scalable, and efficient code.

• You maintain and develop new features on our software platform.
• Applying software engineering principles to the design, development, maintenance, testing, and evaluation of our software.
• Working closely with team members, on development and other projects.
• Responsible for security and data protection when developing our software.

About you

You have great, in-depth development experience using Scala and building software from the ground up. 

• You have +2y of experience working with Scala backend tools and frameworks.
• Experience in a microservices architecture is a plus.
• You have experience in functional programming.
• You don’t want to just write code, you want to make it with quality and scalable.
• You are willing to learn. We use Cats, FS2, ScalaTest, Testcontainers, and Flyway, among others (you don't need to have experience with the tools we are currently using, we can help you).  

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The job

• As the Country Director, you lead all aspects of country-level strategy and operations in South Africa. You collaborate with other internal teams and external stakeholders in order to optimise our impact.

You will be responsible for:

• Leading our local operations in an efficient, and data-driven way
• Planning, budgeting and implementation of the plans
• Optimising how the team operates to ensure that we hit our targets in a high-quality manner with minimal risk of fraud
• Growing and developing the skills and capacity of your team 
• Building partnerships with our current and potential new donors, local and national government and other external stakeholders to ensure smooth operations and future fundraising
• Contributing to the national dialogue on SRH/JSE strategies and advocate for any changes in policy and practice in the sectors
• Ensuring we adhere to donor requirements, internal policies and national/local laws and regulations
• Enabling an optimised flow of information between your team and the rest of the organisation and between yourself and the company management team
• Growing our impact through the implementation and expansion of our products and brands 

About you

• You are a strategic leader and a great organiser. You take decisions based on data and in collaboration with relevant others. You can connect people and functions across borders. You have an eye for new business opportunities and the networking capabilities to help Triggerise grow. 

Requirements

• You are currently based in Johannesburg (highly preferable) 
• You have a minimum of 5 years of experience in a senior management role
• You have experience overseeing a budget of minimally R1 million, experience with USAID, FCDO, or other international funding is a plus
• You have experience managing a multidisciplinary operational team
• You have at least 5 years of experience in program and project management in the health sector. Experience in SRH/ HIV is required.
• You have experience in representing organisations at various fora