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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