Who We Are
At EarthEnable, we believe that our clients deserve our very best, that morning high-fives are the best way to start the day, and that the best ideas could come from any part of the company. We celebrate each other’s wins, learn from our setbacks, and are deeply proud of the impact we make every day. We believe that a clean, dust-free floor means more than living in a healthy home. It means pride and dignity in the place our customers most treasure: their homes. Being a part of our team means more than building floors: it means building an organization and building a better future for rural families.
What We Do
EarthEnable is transforming how people live by making homes healthier for families across rural Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda and helping to reduce the polluting impact of the building industry on the environment. Most Ugandans live in homes with dirt floors that are dusty, unsanitary, and fertile breeding grounds for parasites and germs. While replacing a dirt floor with concrete has significant health benefits (e.g., reducing diarrhea by 50% and parasitic infections by 80%), concrete is unaffordable for many who need it and is a huge contributor to global pollution.
To counter the environmental and affordability issues surrounding concrete, EarthEnable has spent the past 8+ years developing and selling high-quality, earthen floors and plasters that are 80% cheaper than concrete with 90% less embodied energy.
About the Role
This job is suitable for someone who is looking to gain exposure to all aspects of the financial and administrative side of running a business. The candidate must be a strong communicator as they will be liaising just as regularly with senior management as they will with our staff on the ground. This candidate should have an eye for detail as they will be responsible for the information that management ultimately uses to make strategic decisions.
The responsibilities of this role will include, but not be limited to:
• Design and Implement Experiments
• Design experiments and develop detailed protocols
• Execute and document findings of experiments in a detailed and organized database, in case of unsuccessful experiments, document reasons for failure
• Piloting experiment to different districts
• Plan for pilots: Organize resources required to pilots a given project in different districts.
• Document learning whether successful or failure experiment to inform future workload.
• Work with the construction/ district to ensure pilots are implemented collaboratively and new learning is captured and shared.
• Develop manuals that will be used during the dissemination of the projects. Collaboration with District Team
• Visit district to collect data and understand their needs, innovation challenges to inform
• R&D research agenda
• Help the district team to develop a protocol of experiments and oversee execution to ensure they are being done accordingly and all learnings are documented and shared with other districts.
• Meet with clients and analyze other sources of feedback and data to identify product
• failure and product improvement
Required qualifications & Key capabilities
• Chemistry, Physics, and Civil Engineering Background
• Willingness to spend more time in our lab running different experiments.
• Willingness to touch Mud and work with mud
• Understanding of R&D processes like protocol development or planning experiments, e.g. through previous experience or education
• Excellent attention to detail
• Hard-working and committed to do whatever it takes to get work done
• Curiosity-driven
• Commitment to excellence and outstanding work ethic
• Ability to be creative, strategic, analytical, and think outside the box to solve problems
• Flexible and adaptable to changing environments; thrives in a bootstrapped culture
• An optimistic attitude, curiosity to learn new things
• Humble and patient team-player with a sense of humor
• Strong technology skills (e.g., Word, Excel, Salesforce, Google Docs, and Dropbox).
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- Address Kampala, Uganda, East Africa
