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Rookery Lane
Saffron Walden
CB11 4JU
T: +44 (0) 1799 542313

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Educational Content Editor

Location: South Africa

Mwabu is hiring an Educational Content Editor to deliver the next version of our ground breaking tablet-based product, which will take us beyond our home market of Zambia into South Africa. As an Editor, you will be at the forefront of our effort to reach 100 million learners across the continent. Our initial focus is Maths and Science covering grades 4-6. Over time we will broaden our scope to other subjects and grades. All our content is illustrated and voiced, creating a highly engaging learning experience for our users. The candidate is to review draft lessons created by a distributed team of 8+ writers, ensuring that material is aligned to the South African CAPS curriculum and adapted to suit learners in under-resourced schools.

Candidates must have 5+ years’ experience writing and/or editing educational materials for South African primary school level coupled with at least 3 years’ experience as a primary school teacher.  If you reside within SA and meet the minimum requirements, please send your cv to jobs@mwabu.com  

Educational Content Writer

Location: South Africa

Mwabu is hiring an Educational Content Writer to deliver the next version of our ground breaking tablet-based product, which will take us beyond our home market of Zambia into South Africa. As a Writer, you will be at the forefront of our effort to reach 100 million learners across the continent. Our initial focus is Maths and Science covering grades 4-6. Over time we will broaden our scope to other subjects and grades. All our content is illustrated and voiced, creating a highly engaging learning experience for our users. As Writer, you will produce lessons aligned to the South African CAPS curriculum and adapted to suit learners in under-resourced schools. Emphasis is on creating engaging, interactive content using clear and simple language.

Candidate must have 3+ years’ experience writing and/or editing content, preferably for children and must have been a primary school teacher for at least 3 years.  If you meet the minimum requirements, please forward your cv to jobs@mwabu.com 

Marketing Manager

Location: South Africa 

Mwabu is hiring a Marketing Manager with a BA Degree in Marketing and at least  5 years experience as a marketing professional, with an emphasis on Direct Marketing, Customer Relationship Management and Brand Development. The incumbent will be responsible for developing and driving forward the Mwabu marketing and communication strategy, covering product and sales marketing needs into government, retail and consumer space, with a particular focus on building the brand in the educational sector. The person is expected to spearhead Mwabu, writing copy, working with teams to develop clear briefs and overseeing the development and management of the Mwabu website and social media strategy.  If you meet the minimum requirements, please send your cv to jobs@mwabu.com

Marketing Assistant - Internship

Location: UK, Audley End

(Initial 2-3 month contract)

We are looking for an enthusiastic marketing intern for an initial period of 2-3 months. The purpose of the role is to assist our marketing team to develop, expand and maintain our marketing channels. Candidate must be a graduate or currently enrolled in a marketing degree or corresponding subject. Candidate must have a solid understanding of marketing techniques and familiarity with marketing software. If you meet the minimum requirements, please send your cv to jobs@mwabu.com

Platform Engine/Tools Developer

Location: South Africa

Mwabu has a proprietary content player built on top of the open-source game engine Cocos2D-x, and a proprietary content authoring system to go along with it. The purpose of the Engine/Tools developer is twofold: first, to work as part of the whole development team to design overall featuresets, and then implement the relevant parts of those featuresets either by extending the game engine, or the frameworks built on top of it. The second purpose of the Engine / Tools engineer is to experiment with all of the features of Cocos2D-x to push the definition of “e-learning” forwards.

Candidate must have Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or similar with 5 years’ experience with C/C++ and at least 1+ years’ experience with JavaScript.  Experience working on open-source software and developing for mobile platforms, eg iOS, Android, Windows Phone is necessary.  If you meet the minimum requirements, please send your cv to jobs@mwabu.com 

Full Stack Software Developer

Location: South Africa 

Mwabu are looking for a Full stack Software Developer within a small IT team delivering mainly mobile and web applications, BI/MI solutions using appropriate Microsoft technologies such as C#, C++, MVC, SQL Server, SSAS, SSIS and SSRS.  Also required to provide technical support for other existing solutions.

Candidate must have Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or similar.  Must have experience of working in a SCRUM Environment and 3+ years’ experience with HTML5, CSS, MVC, .NET, AngularJS and JavaScript, also Experience working with the modern web ecosystem: git, node.js, npm, gulp, bower.  If you meet the minimum requirements, please send your cv to jobs@mwabu.com 

Digital Illustrator - Freelancer

Location: South Africa (work from home)

Mwabu is hiring an illustrator to produce artwork for our e-learning content. As an Illustrator, you will be at the forefront of our mission to improve the standard of education for 100 million learners across Africa.  Candidate must have had at least 5 years of experience in creating digital illustrations to the specifications of our lesson writers.  Candidates must have their own equipment (laptop, tablet, stylus) and software (Photoshop or Illustrator).  If you meet the minimum requirements, please send your cv together with your portfolio of evidence to jobs@mwabu.com

Junior Business Analyst

(6 months contract)

Location: UK, Audley End

The company seeks to employ a Junior Business Analyst role  for a period of 6 months.  The purpose of the role is to assist senior management in gathering, validating and documenting various systems to provide accurate monthly reports and dashboards and providing comprehensive executive summary packs.  Candidate must have Degree in BCS - MIS Data/Information Science with analytic,  business, maths or corresponding subject.  Candidate must have an analytic mindset with the ability to gather and interpret complex information.  If you meet the minimum requirements, please send your cv to jobs@mwabu.com