Company Profile

Lively Minds, an award-winning charity, is hiring to support our ambitious and exciting Early Childhood Development programme in Ghana and Uganda.

Job Description

Lively Minds is looking for a Microsoft Office 365 Developer to join our lively, global team in July 2021. The Microsoft Office 365 Developer will identify and build IT solutions to support our busy teams and government stakeholders adopting the programme. The role is fast-paced and collaborative and you will have the opportunity to make a large impact for a small, but quickly growing organisation.

The successful candidate must be technically proficient in developing Microsoft Office 365 solutions, managing SharePoint, proactive, energetic and creative with a keen eye for detail.

For a detailed understanding of the role and person criteria, please see the Job Description on our website: www.livelyminds.org/jobs-ms-office-365-developer. 

Required Skills or Experience

Essential experience and skills:

• Bachelors’s degree or certification in relevant subject (Information Technology, Science or Computer Science).
• Minimum 3 years’ experience developing Microsoft Office 365 including Teams, SharePoint Online/ Power Apps, OneDrive and Outlook.
• High level of knowledge of the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
• Analytical skills – can intepret data and identify solutions to improve organisational efficiency, collaboration and contribute to objectives.
• Strong communication skills – able to write reports, stakeholder and software requirements, produce workflows.
• Problem solving skills – able to identify ways technology can provide solutions to business challenges.
• Excellent organisational and priorisiation skills - comfortable working with limited supervision and managing a complex and varied workload.
• Experience developing and delivering training to users with low IT capacity.
• Familiar with a range of data visualisation packages, including Power BI and reporting solutions.

Desirable experience and skills:

• Experienced in coding in C#, Powershell, HTML/CSS/JavaScript and Visual Basic.
• Experienced in using of APIs to establish interfaces between different softwares, SQL Server (or an equivalent).
• Ability to create and deliver engaging presentations.
• Professional Project Management qualifications.
• Experience managing a team.