SIS Developer Intern

Generation Rwanda/Kepler

About Generation Rwanda/Kepler

Generation Rwanda began in 2004 and has supported young people in Rwanda in achieving their higher education goals through scholarships for universities throughout the country. In 2013, GR expanded its reach when it started Kepler.

Kepler is a nonprofit university program designed to deliver the skills that emerging economies need. Kepler combines the best of online learning and an American competency-based degree program with in-person seminars and intensive education-to-employment support.

About the Position

Kepler is offering a 6 month non-paid internship position. We are looking for a dynamic, motivated intern to to assist the organization in continued development of the Student Information System (SIS)  in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

The project includes training, build out of SIS projects and the CRM. We would like an intern with expertise in MS Dynamics who can add capacity to the team by supporting our Information Systems officer in training, developing, monitoring and debugging the SIS. The intern will work 40 hrs per week. 

Job Responsibilities

• Work with the tech team to gather information about needed systems/improvements:

Projects that need refining:

• Fines and invoicing

• Needs to finish setting up the invoice format and workflows to send auto-invoices after payments.

Housing records

• The system should track student housing historically. Students can opt out of a house, but we still want to see all the houses they lived in and dates for move-in and move-out.

Projects to start:

• Academics settings

• Setting up courses and sessions in Microsoft Dynamics CRM

• Building the student portal so that students enroll for courses, and teachers take attendance

Kiva Loan

• Want to track loan payment information and reporting system

Employment info

• Need to record student employment information as students and alumni (needs to be historical)

• Develop training documents/videos to explain necessary programming steps

• Report on the progress of the Kepler team in developing the system

• Support capacity development of the Kepler tech team

• Work with the Kepler tech team to train end users

• Maintain the system and train the tech team how to analyze and fix bugs in the system

• Suggest possible additional items to make the system work best for the organization

• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Familiar with project management techniques (preferably agile methods)
• Demonstrated experience working with Microsoft Dynamics CRM database and building back-end applications in the system
• Has the ability to develop front end application with Microsoft’s Azure
• Proficient at JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• Proficient at using API’s (developing client applications and making API calls)
• Proficient at creating workflows (eg: automatic emails sent after certain actions)
• Experience translating technical skills into training
• Effective  interpersonal and communication  (spoken and written)  skills
• System analysis experience
• Proficient in English
• A certificate/degree/diploma progress in software development related program  would be an added advantage.

Benefits.

• Transport allowance from and back to their home or country.

• Housing allowance during their stay in Rwanda

• Lunch M-F on campus

• Access to campus internet, lunch, and internet is covered during their stay in Rwanda

• Access to internal health services at Kepler (nurse and counselor)

Start date: As soon as possible

Reports to: The Kepler Technicians