BuzzWomen
Buzzwomen enables underserved women by making knowledge, skills and tools available at their doorsteps towards economic, social, personal and ecological empowerment through various training. The programs are built on the foundation of the 5 Cs - Cash, Care, Climate, Community, and Confidence. Buzz Women wishes to aid in combating poverty not only through a change management process that deals with the economical aspect of poverty, but also the ecological, psychological, and sociological aspects. The program is divided into multiple interventions that are contextual and meaningful. Buzz India, through its program aspires to achieve the 1st SDG of ‘No Poverty’ and 5th SDG of ‘Gender Equality’. The women who go through our intervention have inculcated a savings habit (79%), participate in household decision making (69%), demonstrating confidence (67%), expand their enterprises (69%), and actively participate in community discussion (28%).
From 2012 to-date Buzz Women has reached 500,000 women, and has more than 9000 volunteer Community anchors in its network across 11 districts of Karnataka. We have also been able to franchise the model to The Gambia, Georgia, Tanzania and Punjab. We aim to reach 1 crore women by 2030 in all 31 districts of Karnataka and are also looking for partners to expand to other regions.
Our Values: Our starting point is dignity, treating every human being with respect and grace. We bring opportunity to the doorstep of women in a relevant and accessible way. We have an unwavering belief in the power within women to transform their lives and be responsible for the growth of myself, my family and my community. At Buzz we are dreamers and do-ers. We make things happen, learn from our mistakes and give our best every single day. Our destination is a lasting impact: enabling women to become future makers.
About the Role
Objectives
- Building new tools for the BuzzWomen team to execute their field work effectively and efficiently
- Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure.
- Maintaining our cloud infrastructure on AWS and Digital Ocean.
- Understanding the needs of stakeholders
- Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes.
- Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and ‘fixes’
- Work towards ensuring 99.99 SLA
Skills and Qualifications
- Experience with Web Technologies
- Exposure to Python/Flask/Jinja
- Exposure to HTML/CSS/Javascript
- Experience as a DevOps Engineer is a plus
- Linux Administration
- Docker
- Experience with AWS is a plus
- Proficient with git and git workflows
- Good knowledge of database ( MysQL) and SQL
- Problem-solving attitude
- Collaborative team spirit
What you can expect from us
Our work tends to be a mix of collaborative as well as independent, self-driven effort. There will be times when you are asked to take on responsibilities that may fall outside of those specified in the job description and at other times you’ll be expected to lead the team on a skill or a domain you specialise in. You will have the freedom to explore, create, and push-the-envelope.
We value a strong work ethic and thrive in a collaborative, cross-cultural, multidisciplinary, startup environment with minimal supervision. By extension, it is part of our job profiles to reach out to people - regardless of whether they are our, users or partners - and build genuine, respectful relationships that can make work both meaningful and fun. We are looking for people who are curious, think on one’s feet, and are resourceful and entrepreneurial.
How to apply
In case this resonates with you, please apply with your most current CV, a portfolio of work samples as well as some sample HTML/CSS/JavaScript code of some work you're proud of. Please send them on to it@buzzwomen.org
We look forward to hearing from you.
