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Short Term Volunteer Consultant Kenya
at TechnoServe in East Africa
TechnoServe is working with Heifer International and the International Livestock Research Institute to implement the East Africa Dairy Development Project (EADD) in targeted districts in Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya. EADD will move smallholder, women and men farmers out of poverty by improving their participation in the dairy value chain. The vision of success for the EADD is that the lives of 179,000 families—or approximately one million people—are transformed by doubling household dairy income by 2018 through integrated interventions in dairy production, market-access and knowledge application.
TechnoServe is working with selected farmer groups/cooperatives to set up chilling plants that will increase farmers’ participation in the dairy value chain, boost farmer revenues and create opportunities for the development of additional services around the chilling plant hub.
The consultant will design the database, data input mechanisms, and data reporting templates (with the guidance of field staff). The consultant will work closely with the Regional Business Analyst to identify the needs for the database, and the constraints of the environment.
Required skills include:
• Functional requirements definition.
• Translating functional requirements into technical designs and identifying the optimal user interface layouts.
• A deep understanding of data modeling, and the creation and debugging of Structured Query Language queries.
• Installation, configuration and tuning of Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
• Developing JSP / Apache Tomcat web applications.
• The ability to translate technical language to non-technical business users.
• The ability to structure and manage complex tasks.
• Strong interpersonal communication and information-gathering skills.
• Resourcefulness.
• Critical and creative thinking.
• Strong coaching and people development skills.
The following, more specific skills, would be highly advantageous:
• An understanding of optimizing applications for low-bandwidth environments
• Installing and configuring the various components of the Pentaho Business Intelligence Suite (Data Integration, Report Designer, CDF Dashboards)
• XForms development (e.g Orbeon Forms).
TechnoServe is working with selected farmer groups/cooperatives to set up chilling plants that will increase farmers’ participation in the dairy value chain, boost farmer revenues and create opportunities for the development of additional services around the chilling plant hub.
The consultant will design the database, data input mechanisms, and data reporting templates (with the guidance of field staff). The consultant will work closely with the Regional Business Analyst to identify the needs for the database, and the constraints of the environment.
Required skills include:
• Functional requirements definition.
• Translating functional requirements into technical designs and identifying the optimal user interface layouts.
• A deep understanding of data modeling, and the creation and debugging of Structured Query Language queries.
• Installation, configuration and tuning of Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
• Developing JSP / Apache Tomcat web applications.
• The ability to translate technical language to non-technical business users.
• The ability to structure and manage complex tasks.
• Strong interpersonal communication and information-gathering skills.
• Resourcefulness.
• Critical and creative thinking.
• Strong coaching and people development skills.
The following, more specific skills, would be highly advantageous:
• An understanding of optimizing applications for low-bandwidth environments
• Installing and configuring the various components of the Pentaho Business Intelligence Suite (Data Integration, Report Designer, CDF Dashboards)
• XForms development (e.g Orbeon Forms).
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