Grameen Foundation's Social Enterprise RUMA Recruitment

Posted by Sophie Howard on Thursday, December 15, 2011

Ruma is a social enterprise incubated by
Grameen Foundation that provides business-in-a-box solutions for the poor. Ruma
recently won 1st Place at Harvard's Social Enterprise Conference. The
leadership in Ruma includes alumni from Harvard Business School, Kellog School
of Management, the UNDP, Kiva, BCG, Mckinsey, and Grameen Foundation.
 
Of the 240 million people in Indonesia, 3/4
live below $2.5 a day, and 2/3 have mobile phones. Ninety percent of these
users buy prepaid minutes instead of paying a monthly bill. Ruma sells a
business-in-a-box that enables small entrepreneurs to sell prepaid minutes. We
buy minutes at a discount from 10 telecom operators and store them in our
server. When a customer buys minutes from our entrepreneur, we send the minutes
electronically via SMS thereby reducing the need for a physical voucher. We
worked with Grameen Foundation to develop this model, which is essentially the
next evolution of the Grameen Phone.  As
of March 2010, we've deployed a network of 2,000 entrepreneurs, $3,000 worth of
minutes to 80,000 customers each day. Seventy percent of our entrepreneurs were
below the poverty line when they joined; now 100% are profitable. We plan to
launch a jobs market, micro-insurance and retail application using our prepaid
minutes platform.
 
Our efforts support the Grameen Foundation's
mission to empower the world's poorest people to lift themselves out of
poverty.  Please visit www.grameenfoundation.org. More
details on the company can be found here: www.ruma.co.id

Field Operations Supervisor
Job Description
The Field Operations Supervisor is responsible for expanding
Ruma's branch operations. During the first three months the field operations supervisor
will work closely with Ruma's Operations Manager to update the Standard
Operating Procedure for Ruma's field operations. Ruma currently manages 40
field officers which handle over 8,000 agents in rural West Java. The ideal
candidate for the position would be someone with experience in retail product
distribution/sales with a consumer goods or cigarette company. The candidate
should have experience managing quotas, targets, fraud prevention, and customer
service.
Requirements
* 5 years of experience in Sales and Distribution for a consumer product
* Fluent in both English and Bahasa
* Undergraduate degree from top institution
* Experience working with cellular products a plus
Product
Coordinator
Job Description
The Product Coordinator will be responsible for product planning
and execution of a mobile phone that serves the base of the pyramid market.
This extends from increasing the profitability of existing products to
developing new products for the company. He/she will build products from
existing ideas, and help to develop new ideas based on his/her industry
experience and his/her contact with customers and prospects. The PC will work
most closely with an engineering counterpart to define product release
requirements and marketing communications to define the go-to-market strategy.
He/she will also serve as the internal and external evangelist for your product
offering, occasionally working with the sales channel and key customers
Requirements
* 5 years of experience in Product Development
* Fluent in both English and Bahasa
* Undergraduate degree required, major in Computer Science or Engineering a plus/li>
* 2 years of Market research and promotion experience
Software Engineer
Job Description
The software engineer is focused on the design
and creation of mobile applications. Ruma develop mobile applications using
JAVA and BREW, which are targeted towards low-end phones. To develop these
applications, you will coordinate with outsourced software development shops
and our partner Grameen Application Laboratory. The Engineer will interact with
both business functions and programmers, so he/she should have excellent
communication skills and should enjoy working as part of a team.
Requirements
* 5 years of experience in Software Development
* Fluent in both English and Bahasa
* Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
* Ability to code in JavaScript, PHP, C/C++
* Experience building mobile applications is a plus
o   MySQLFile manipulation, string manipulation,C language, macro and other web-based
programming
o   Able to create application using Linux environment
o   Familiar with file manipulation e.g. TXT or CSV
import/export, FTP
transfer file system,database
design, structuring and SQL operation
o   Know-how about creating a powerfull application and
reduce load-time to access its database
 
Submit your application to :jobs@ruma.co.id with the position as the subject of the email, no longer than 30th December 2011.

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