Job description

Have you been working in UX for at least a year and have a strong working knowledge of prototyping tools?

Do you want to build your career in a forward-thinking, innovative company at the forefront of online education?

We want to meet YOU!

The Junior UX Analyst role exists to assist in the enhancement of usability, performance and engagement throughout the marketing web ecosystem via data driven design choices, wireframing and prototyping efforts. The Junior UX Analyst assists in enhancing overall conversion rate optimisation across marketing platforms as per the guidance of the UX Analyst.

Key Role and Responsibilities:

• Assist in improving conversion rate optimisation efforts through data driven decision-making. 
• Work in collaboration with the UX analyst and various designers to visualise and extend our online user experiences and offerings.
• Proactively brainstorm new ideas and mock these up with industry level tools like Sketch.
• Collaborate on UX strategy by taking direction from the UX analyst and executing on directed tasks.
• Document and report on experiments, strategies and learnings.

Requirements

Education and Experience:

• Strong working knowledge of key prototyping tools such as Sketch or Balsamiq.
• Good knowledge in responsive and mobile UX.
• At least one year of experience in a UX design role.
• Strong working knowledge of HTML and CSS.

Posted on 09 May 08:17

An exciting career opportunity exists in Rondebosch, Cape Town for a Private Equity Analyst within a Financial environment. If you have the following behavioural competency and experience, we look forward to receiving your application.

Behavioural Competency:

• Proactive and high-energy with a hands-on approach to problem solving, and a positive and creative attitude
• Providing support to, and working with, experienced team members
• Depending on experience, providing training and mentoring to less experienced team members
• Uncompromising with respect to quality of work and completeness in all regards
• Unquestionable ethics and integrity
• Willing to take on a challenging amount of responsibility and work load
• Able to both take direction and show initiative as appropriate
• Results-oriented, with an ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously and expeditiously
• Demonstrated aptitude for quantitative analysis, risk assessment and financial modelling
• Ability to assess risks across a spectrum of areas related to each transaction
• Superior attention to detail and highly organised
• Ability to work independently and also to work closely with other team members
• Excellent analytical, strategic, negotiation and implementation skills
• Domestic travel required
• Analytical thinking
• Numeracy
• Attention to detail
• Judgement
• Initiative
• Assertive, articulate and confident
• Collaboration and teamwork
• Negotiation skills
• Networking skills
• Excellent planning and organisation skills
• Self-motivated and self-driven
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Excellent communication skills (including written and presentation skills)
• Integrity
• Adaptability

 Duties include the following, but not limited to:

• Generate investment thesis/ideas emanating from market developments, sector information and/or company developments
• Participate in negotiations of new investments with support of experienced team members on behalf of the various Futuregrowth funds
• Preparation and presentation of Investment reports on new and existing portfolio investments for submission to the Futuregrowth Investment Committee

Provide financial evaluation of project investment opportunities to the Investment Committee which includes but not limited to:

• Historical financial statement analysis
• Historic and forecasted financial ratio analysis as well as scenario testing analysis
• Creating and analyzing complex financial models (including sensitivity analysis) to support potential investment opportunities
• Conduct market research in potential investment sectors

Requirements:

Technical and Professional Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong academic credentials – B Bus Science or similar
• CA or CFA candidate preferred
• Strong commercial focus with a passion for investments
• Strong company evaluation skills and private equity valuation skills
• Previous unlisted deal transaction experience
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• A good knowledge of PE and the ability to apply your skills creatively to diverse investment opportunities
• Proficiency in a variety of computer software applications, including MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint

Salary: Market Related
Application Process:
It is imperative that when applying for this position you make use of the reference number otherwise your application will not be considered.
Vacancy Reference no:  CPT002363                    
Closing Date: 24 April 2019
To apply for the above-mentioned position, please apply on our Website www.intelligentplacement.co.za/vacancies also add your profile picture to your CV.
If you don’t hear from us within three weeks of your application, please consider your application unsuccessful.

Posted on 17 Apr 07:32

Job description

To assist in the implementation and tracking of all projects within the 10 Interventions for the South Africa Mohair Cluster, with special focus on Interventions 2 & 3 (Participants & Business Process Development and Value Chain Development). 

To work with potential Participants to effectively secure their commitment, in accordance with the SAMC requirements and the Strategic Mohair Sector Business Plan. To collate all Project Proposals and ensure these are updated, implemented and reported on effectively to meet management requirements. Coordination of all meetings along with all data capture or any background research that is required.

Job functions:

• Sector stakeholder engagement
• Participant and Sector data collection and collation
• Sector stakeholder liaison
• Assist in the identification of potential Participants that meet the SAMC requirements
• Assist to identify potential companies to fill value chain gaps
• Working alongside Participants to develop project proposals
• Complete Project Proposal submissions
• Ensure that all SAMC requirements are met prior to submitting project documents
• Coordinate signing of MOA’s
• Manage financial aspects of budgets
• Meeting coordination
• Travel arrangements on behalf of Camila 
• Digital filing
• Hard filing
• Data capture
• General correspondence
• Research

Company Description

The South Africa Mohair Cluster (SAMC) is a Sub-National Sector initiative in partnership with the government to manage, monitor and evaluate the progress of Grant Funding to achieve the following for the Mohair Sector.

– Identify key mohair industry players with potential to impact on South Africa’s economic growth
– To actively identify and drive growth of mohair production, manufacturing and related sales performance through a carefully identified participant network

The aim is to achieve these goals through the participants and through the identification, planning and implementation of various strategic interventions. These will include competitiveness improvement interventions in people, product, process, market and technology.

The South Africa Mohair Cluster (SAMC) is a Non-Profit Company (NPC) that coordinates and facilitates sector improvement and growth through a collective of strategically identified participants from the production, processing, and manufacturing nodes within the South African mohair value chain structure who are committed to continued development, growth and prosperity of the South African mohair industry.

We seek to inspire collaboration between all Stakeholders and to promote the cross-pollination of skills and expertise to create a mutually beneficial and sustainable future for the industry.

Requirements

• Degree/Diploma
• Two years’ account/project management work experience
• Farming or textile industry knowledge and experience would be ideal but not required
• Required to travel
• Own transport required
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Powerpoint and Excel
• Professional in conduct
• Strong administrative and organisational skills
• Results driven
• The ability to think creatively and quickly when required
• The ability to manage time effectively and efficiently
• Demonstrate good English skills (good business writing skills included)
• Demonstrate proactive thinking skills and ability to make decisions
• Ability to build relationships
• Performs well as part of a team
• Well presented

Posted on 27 Mar 14:26

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The position reports to the software development manager (e-commerce).

Your responsibilities will include:

We are looking for an experienced software development team lead to join a versatile and creative IT management team.

As the development lead, you will lead a group of developers constantly striving for quality solutions that are delivered on time, within budget and scope, and drive a culture of quality and personal accountability.

You will need a strong understanding of large-scale full-stack platform development, have experience building Front-end, Backend and RESTful web applications. You will be from a development background and have a good understanding of architectural practices. You will be an advocate of Agile engineering practices and you will have prior line management experience with a track record of keeping highly skilled developers motivated.

Successfully launch new products quickly as well as manage a large existing code base.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead a growing team of engineers working on our clients’ ambitious development roadmap.

This is a hands-on role: you should expect to spend at least 50% of your time writing code, and working with others on your team directly contributing to the production of code. The other 50% of your time will be split between architectural and strategic planning with peers and senior developers and the day-to-day people management and development required of a high-performing and successful team.

Basic qualifications:

• Degree in computer science or engineering
• Experience leading a team technically, with a focus on a very high quality output
• Experience mentoring and developing technical teams
• Experience working within an Agile and Devops team, and an advocate of that culture
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Experience developing Python in a test-driven environment (and/or at least in one of the following – Java, C, C++)
• Solid Web and Front-end Development experience with PHP, Html and Javascript and related libraries (React, Angular, Backbone)
• Good SQL and MySQL experience in a high-load environment
• Significant technical experience and a proven track record of architectural ownership and understanding.
• A thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented design and data structures and algorithms
• Experience in developing distributed, high transactional and available systems
• Experience mentoring and developing others technically

Preferred skills

• Post-graduate degree preferred
• Experience with and an understanding of line management responsibility for a technical team
• Experience developing software for a highly-transactional retail online platform
• A thorough understanding of software engineering practices and best practices, including Agile software development, source code control systems and the use of software IDEs and development and testing tools.
• An understanding of software deployment tools, deployment processes and best practices
• Experience working with no-SQL data stores like Mongo/Redis, etc.
• Experience working with the AWS and/or Azure platforms
• Experience with building Restful API web services

Posted on 29 Jan 11:22