Sprout Junior Product Development Engineering Consultant

About

Prosper Global is establishing a consultancy roster of potential consultants for future opportunities; inclusion does not guarantee selection, engagement, or a contractual obligation. The Junior Product Developer will support the Sprout Platform and its Digital Weather Advisory Service, including technical support, feature development, reporting, and business-development activities. The consultancy timeframe is stated as December 1, 2026 to November 30, 2028. Terms of service: Consultancy roster; inclusion on the roster does not guarantee selection, engagement, or any contractual obligation. Duty station: Africa - Various Locations, Kenya Terms of service: December 1, 2026 – November 30, 2028.

How to apply

Apply online through the official advert page on Jobvite.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to the Sprout team and partners, addressing inquiries, troubleshooting issues, and implementing effective solutions to enhance platform performance.
• Assist in the overall management of the Sprout Platform, ensuring its stability, reliability, and scalability.
• Provide customer support for internal and external users.
• Contributing to the ongoing improvement of DWAS generally and specifically for Kenya and Senegal including supporting implementation of the core platform update and features in line b below.
• Work with identified partners such as weather service providers, to define and implement new features on DWAS.
• Add features to the service based on project priorities, internal team, partner and customer requests.
• Working with partners to implement the above services.
• Collaborating with various partners to collect reporting data, ensuring accuracy and consistency in the information gathered.
• Analyze and present reporting numbers for donors.
• Analyzing the reports to derive meaningful insights that inform decision-making, platform enhancements, and growth opportunities.
• Onboarding FFOs (partners) to use the Sprout platform's data driven and open content.
• Support Business Development events and meetings.

Qualifications

• 2 - 4 years of experience in the field of Agriculture in a governmental, or non-governmental organization or a reputable international or national organization preferred.
• Experience in backend programming, software development, web development, and database management.
• Experience in using git and github.
• Experience designing and implementing SMS, telegram and WhatsApp for Business platforms, Chatbots.
• Understanding of and work experience of Kenya, Ethiopia, and/or Nigeria’s agricultural sector.
• Excellent Computer, verbal and written communication skills, including report development, writing and editing.
• Possession of excellent interpersonal skills, high level of proactiveness and self-discipline.
• Experience and ability to work in a multicultural, multinational team.
• Experience with monitoring and evaluation of projects.
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated experience in project management skills.
• Demonstrated attention to detail, ability to follow procedures, meet deadlines and work independently and cooperatively with team members.