<div><b>About KOKO Networks</b></div><div>KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC. </div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;">As the Senior Manager - Analytics, you will deliver key business insights to guide commercial and operating strategy by developing metrics, dashboards and analyses. You will lead a team of analysts integrated through the business.</span></div><br><br><h3>What You Will Do</h3><ul><li>Work closely with business units to gain a thorough understanding of their set-up, needs, processes and technology</li><li>Build models to identify trends, forecast performance, and identify improvements to company strategy, products, and operations across business areas</li><li>Design, run and communicate data-driven insights that influence commercial and operating strategy</li><li>Design and prepare company dashboards and other key stakeholder reporting</li><li>Design and develop automation tools to streamline day-to-day activities</li><li>Ensure consistency, accuracy and overall integrity of business metrics</li><li>Develop and maintain analytics documentation, training material, best practices and overall data toolkit</li><li>Lead, train and develop a cross functional team of analysts</li></ul><h3>What You Will Bring to KOKO</h3><ul><li>Bachelor’s degree, ideally in Computer Science, Math/Statistics, Engineering, or Business</li><li>12+ years of experience in a data analysis, consulting or other quantitatively rigorous role</li><li>Strong background in people management and having built successful high performing teams in their previous roles</li><li>Strong aptitude for project management, including ability to balance and rebalance priorities, clarify stakeholder requirements, lead cross-functional efforts, pay keen attention to detail and keep deliverables on schedule</li><li>Familiarity &amp; facility with analytics platforms such as Tableau, Domo, or Looker</li><li>Coding experience in SQL, Python, Excel, and advanced statistical methods</li><li>Well developed communication skills, especially on technical subjects, adaptable to suit business and engineering audiences as appropriate </li><li>Comfort working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, ideally with prior experience at a growth-stage startup or multinational corporate as a data leader and business partner</li><li>Strong interpersonal skills and ability to bridge gaps across cultures and backgrounds</li><li>Unquestionable integrity and ability to embed company culture and values within teams</li></ul><br><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

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Senior Manager, Analytics

<div><b style="font-size:16px;">The Role:</b></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;">As a Senior Product Manager at Pachama, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and advancing our platform's capabilities in the areas of Machine Learning and DMRV (Digital Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification). You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, science, and operations, to design, develop, and optimize our product offerings to solve evolving customer needs.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;">Our DMRV program seeks to modernize the process of tracking forest carbon projects through remote sensing, AI/ML processing, and other modern automation techniques. You will work with a team of forest scientists, remote sensing scientists, data scientists, and ML engineers. While you don’t need to hold this expertise yourself, you should be comfortable working with leading experts and bringing their work to market as customer-ready products.</span></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size:16px;">Location:</b></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;">This role is remote within the United States within North American time zones only.</span></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size:16px;">Who We Are:</b></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;">Pachama harnesses AI and satellite data to empower companies to confidently invest in nature. Using the latest technological advances, Pachama delivers continuous insight into how forests sequester carbon, protect wildlife and benefit local communities. These insights enable leading companies to find the world’s best projects and track their impact over time while also helping land stewards earn an income with tools to develop carbon projects and secure funds.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;">Pachama has evaluated hundreds of nature-based carbon projects around the world and originated its own Pachama Originals projects across Brazil, Mexico and the United States, driving funding to protect and restore millions of hectares of land. The company has served climate leaders such as Salesforce, Nespresso, Shopify and Boston Consulting Group and is backed by investors including Lowercarbon Capital, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Future Positive, Amazon Climate Pledge Fund, Y Combinator and Deutsche Telekom.</span></div><br><br><h3>What You Will Help Us With:</h3><ul><li><b>DMRV Product Strategy:</b> Develop a comprehensive product strategy for our DMRV offering for carbon project origination, aligning with Pachama's vision and business objectives.</li><li><b>Feature Development:</b> Lead end-to-end product development, from ideation to implementation, ensuring that new features meet internal and external customer needs and adhere to industry best practices.</li><li><b>Cross-Functional Collaboration:</b> Collaborate closely with engineering, data science, and operations teams to prioritize and execute product initiatives effectively.</li><li><b>Carbon Market Standards Compliance:</b> Ensure our organization adheres to existing carbon market standards, guaranteeing that our carbon credit issuance and verification processes consistently meet industry norms.</li><li><b>Standards Leadership &amp; Advocacy:</b> Represent our organization within carbon market standards bodies, actively shaping new carbon credit issuance and verification protocols to ensure alignment with our innovative solutions.</li><li><b>Market Analysis:</b> Conduct thorough market research to identify emerging trends, regulatory changes, and customer requirements in the carbon credit and carbon offset space.</li><li><b>Metrics and Analytics:</b> Define and track key performance metrics to measure the success and impact of your team’s work, utilizing data-driven insights to guide product decisions.</li><li><b>Stakeholder Management:</b> Engage with internal and external stakeholders, including project partners and customers, to gather feedback and build strong relationships.</li><li><b>Product Evangelism:</b> Act as a subject matter expert, representing Pachama's product offerings in industry events, conferences, and customer engagements.</li></ul><h3>Experience &amp; Skills We're Looking For:</h3><ul><li>5+ years of professional experience, with some product management experience required.</li><li>Experience with DMRV, carbon markets, or related systems.</li><li>Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with diverse stakeholders.</li><li>Experience with agile product development methodologies.</li><li>Bachelor's degree in a relevant field; advanced degree is a plus.</li><li>Experience working with cross-functional teams, managing complex projects, and delivering high-impact results.</li><li>Passion for environmental sustainability and a desire to make a meaningful impact on the planet.</li></ul><br><div>Even if you don’t meet all these requirements, we encourage you to apply if this job description excites you. We are looking for ambitious people to help make an impact on climate change. That purpose requires us to bring together a diverse set of people with different backgrounds, perspectives, and skills to create solutions that work for all.</div>

Pachama uses remote sensing and AI technology to measure and monitor carbon in forests, enabling scalable forest conservation and restoration. Back

Senior Product Manager (DMRV)

<div><b>About KOKO Networks</b></div><div>KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Your Role</b></div><div>As the Marketing Manager for KOKO Networks Rwanda, you will be responsible for developing and executing Trade Marketing and Brand Building strategies. You will partner with the Channel team to ensure the execution of Trade Marketing plans. Your role will include developing customer-facing Brand Plans that make the brand more relevant, easy, and distinctive. You will be responsible for KPIs such as sales growth, penetration, and Brand Health metrics, as well as key initiatives in the 12-month national Brand Plan.</div><br><br><h3>What You Will Do</h3><ul><li><br></li><div><b>Strategy &amp; Planning:</b></div><li>Conduct brand audits, establish priorities, develop Customer Jobs to Be Done, and build a 12-month national Brand Marketing Plan for KOKO Fuel.</li><li>Create briefs and business cases for in-year tactical opportunities to drive growth.</li><li>Develop trade marketing strategy and plans across signage, and merchandising.</li><div><br></div><div><b>Execution:</b></div><li>Develop world-class brand activation plans and media plans.</li><li>Develop and project manage execution plans for key marketing initiatives.</li><li>Develop 12-month national Brand Activity plans that include innovation, renovation, and non-innovation-led growth activities partnering with the Head of Commercial and the Channel team. </li><li>Develop annual communication plans.</li><li>Share and align Trade marketing plans with Channel teams.</li><li>Ensure compliance with brand standards (signage, assortment, pricing, merchandising, planograms, promotion) at the point of sale through regular audits.</li><div><br></div><div><b>Coaching and mentoring:</b></div><li>Develop and train junior team members in the Marketing team.</li><div><br></div><div><b>Analytics and Reporting: </b></div><li>Manage the Marketing budget.</li><li>Use data and analytics to measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns and adjust strategies accordingly. Report on marketing performance to senior leadership to demonstrate ROI and identify areas for improvement.</li></ul><h3>What You Will Bring to KOKO</h3><ul><li>Proven experience and track record at Senior Brand Manager or Marketing Manager level in Brand Building.</li><li>Demonstrated success designing marketing mixes and implementing brand strategies across urban and rural areas.</li><li>5-7+ years of experience in mass market retail and or FMCG</li><li>Fully operational capability in channel marketing, trade category management, trade marketing or customer marketing.</li><li>A University degree in a related field, with postgraduate degrees preferred.</li><li>Fully operational in brand building.</li><li>University degree in a related field, with postgraduate degrees preferred.</li><li>Comfort role modeling behaviors in line with KOKO culture, including leadership, professionalism, customer orientation, safety consciousness, and innovation.</li><li>Ability to work in a self-led manner, in an environment with significant time pressure.</li><li>Unquestionable integrity.</li></ul><br><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

Marketing Manager

<div><b>About KOKO Networks</b></div><div>KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC. </div><div><br></div><div><b>The Role</b></div><div>As a Senior Software Engineer at KOKO Labs, you will play a pivotal role in leading and delivering innovative software solutions that reshape urban living. Reporting to the Head of Software &amp; Systems, you'll lead a nimble team of up to 4 engineers, embodying agility, mentorship, and innovation. Your work will span web, mobile, and IoT projects, emphasizing rapid prototyping, flexibility, and end-to-end systems thinking.</div><br><br><h3>What You Will Do</h3><ul><li>Lead the design, implementation, and deployment of both front-end and back-end components of our software projects, ensuring they align with KOKO Labs' vision.</li><li>Manage and mentor a team of software engineers, fostering an environment of continuous learning and improvement.</li><li>Collaborate cross-functionally within the Labs team and with external stakeholders to ideate, develop, and refine technology-based solutions.</li><li>Ensure the flexibility and testability of software systems, prioritizing quick iteration and user feedback over scalability.</li><li>Contribute to the Labs leadership by engaging in strategic discussions, prototype evaluation, and the overall innovation process.</li><li>Continuously learn and share knowledge within the team, enhancing our collective expertise and fostering an environment of innovation.</li><li>Develop and manage projects utilizing a diverse tech stack including Next.js, Flutter, TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, and cloud services (GCP, Azure, AWS, Vercel).</li><li>Implement Agile, Scrum, and Kanban methodologies tailored to project needs, ensuring effective and efficient project management.</li><div>Technology Stack</div><li>Our diverse tech stack includes AWS, Python, Flask, Vue.js, Postgres, Kotlin, Java, Firebase, C++, Celery, Message Queues, Odoo ERP, Docker, Jenkins, CircleCI, Git, and more. Experience across these technologies, coupled with the ability to rapidly learn and adapt to new tools, is crucial.</li></ul><h3>What You Will Bring</h3><ul><li>A passion for innovation, entrepreneurship, and a drive to make a tangible impact on urban living.</li><li>At least 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with a broad rather than deep expertise across various technologies.</li><li>Proven leadership experience, with at least 2 years in a role directly leading software engineering teams.</li><li>Strong foundation in software engineering principles, including design for flexibility, reliability, security, and maintainability.</li><li>Excellent problem-solving skills, with a flair for creative and efficient solutions.</li><li>Effective communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical ideas to non-technical stakeholders.</li><li>A collaborative spirit, adept at working in an agile environment alongside a diverse team.</li><div><br></div><div><b>Technical Skills and Qualifications:</b></div><li>Extensive experience in software development, with expertise in web and mobile.</li><li>Proficiency in some of Next.js, Flutter, TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, Big Query, Google Analytics, Domo, JetAdmin, PostgreSQL, Firebase, and major cloud services.</li><li>Demonstrated leadership ability, with a strong focus on mentorship and team development.</li><li>Adept at problem-solving, innovation, and agile development practices.</li><li>Experience in Agile, Scrum, and Kanban, with a passion for raising engineering standards, pace of delivery, and quality support.</li></ul><br><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

Senior Software Engineer

<div><b>About KOKO Networks</b></div><div>KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC. </div><div><br></div><div>As KOKO grows within and outside Kenya, our team is looking for a motivated engineer who is passionate about data and who will lay the foundation for more effective and efficient data management, analytics, and developing insights in business strategy, operations planning, and product design.</div><div><br></div><div>As one of our first data engineers, you’ll work with our Business, Analytics, Product and other Engineering teams to enable them to do more with KOKO’s data, and faster.  You’ll formulate a strategy for our data processing and data stores, and own implementation and maintenance of these designs, ensuring continued high performance and availability.</div><div><br></div><div>KOKO’s suite of products spans multiple technical domains and disciplines in software and hardware, and so experience in end-to-end systems thinking across distributed components is key for this role. IoT and real time data processing feature heavily in our technology suite.</div><br><br><h3>What you will do</h3><ul><li>Design, implement and support KOKO’s data infrastructure</li><li>Design and implement ETL pipelines, selecting the most appropriate tools and products in collaboration with KOKO’s analytics, product and engineering teams</li><li>Build logical and understandable data models and data stores to house data from KOKO’s various live products and other diverse data sources for consumption by other teams</li><li>Build systems to track data quality and consistency, ensuring that our data is accurate &amp; up to date</li><li>Help continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automating or simplifying self-service use of KOKO’s data (create tools that assist teams in this process).</li><li>Keep our data secure across national boundaries through multiple data centers and AWS regions</li><li>As the team grows, help recruit and manage additional data engineers</li><li>Represent the Data Engineering discipline during sprint planning meetings and retrospectives</li><li>Help build the engineering culture at KOKO, attracting similar minded people with a passion for using technology to tackle hard challenges</li></ul><h3>What You Will Bring to KOKO</h3><ul><li>At least three years experience in software development, data engineering, business intelligence, data science, or a related field</li><li>Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.</li><li>A track record of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large datasets</li><li>Demonstrated strength in data modeling, ETL development and optimisation, and data warehousing</li><li>Experience working with big data technologies (preferably within AWS)</li><li>Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement</li><li>Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets</li><li>Knowledge of software engineering best practices across the development lifecycle, including agile methodologies, coding standards, code reviews, source management, build processes, testing, and operations</li><li>Strong initiative, project management and organizational skills</li><li>Strong communicator, both written and verbal, who is calm and decisive under pressure</li><li>Proactive approach to knowledge sharing and developing best practices</li><li>Strong experience taking part in sprints, being involved in planning, retrospectives and estimations with cross-functional teams</li></ul><h3>What We Offer</h3><ul><li>Competitive salary plus a quarterly cash bonus</li><li>Annual compensation reviews - we reward great work</li><li>Discounted health insurance with no-cost financing for you and your dependents (in Kenya)</li><li>21 days of annual leave plus public holidays plus examination leave</li><li>Ongoing investment in you and your skills, incl. full access to over 5,000 online courses</li><li>The right equipment for the job - a choice of MacBook, Windows, or Linux laptop</li><div><br></div><div>We believe that our people are critical for our ambitious growth plans in Kenya and beyond. We want to build an organisation where people thrive, feel included, grow professionally, and enjoy having high impact through their work.</div></ul><br><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

Senior Data Engineer

<div><b>About KOKO Networks</b></div><div>KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC. </div><div><br></div><div>As KOKO grows within and outside Kenya, our team is looking for a motivated engineer who is passionate about data and who will lay the foundation for more effective and efficient data management, analytics, and developing insights in business strategy, operations planning, and product design.</div><div><br></div><div>As one of our first data engineers, you’ll work with our Business, Analytics, Product and other Engineering teams to enable them to do more with KOKO’s data, and faster.  You’ll formulate a strategy for our data processing and data stores, and own implementation and maintenance of these designs, ensuring continued high performance and availability.</div><div><br></div><div>KOKO’s suite of products spans multiple technical domains and disciplines in software and hardware, and so experience in end-to-end systems thinking across distributed components is key for this role. IoT and real time data processing feature heavily in our technology suite.</div><br><br><h3>What you will do</h3><ul><li>Design, implement and support KOKO’s data infrastructure</li><li>Design and implement ETL pipelines, selecting the most appropriate tools and products in collaboration with KOKO’s analytics, product and engineering teams</li><li>Build logical and understandable data models and data stores to house data from KOKO’s various live products and other diverse data sources for consumption by other teams</li><li>Build systems to track data quality and consistency, ensuring that our data is accurate &amp; up to date</li><li>Help continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automating or simplifying self-service use of KOKO’s data (create tools that assist teams in this process).</li><li>Keep our data secure across national boundaries through multiple data centers and AWS regions</li><li>As the team grows, help recruit and manage additional data engineers</li><li>Represent the Data Engineering discipline during sprint planning meetings and retrospectives</li><li>Help build the engineering culture at KOKO, attracting similar minded people with a passion for using technology to tackle hard challenges</li></ul><h3>What You Will Bring to KOKO</h3><ul><li>At least three years experience in software development, data engineering, business intelligence, data science, or a related field</li><li>Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.</li><li>A track record of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large datasets</li><li>Demonstrated strength in data modeling, ETL development and optimisation, and data warehousing</li><li>Experience working with big data technologies (preferably within AWS)</li><li>Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement</li><li>Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets</li><li>Knowledge of software engineering best practices across the development lifecycle, including agile methodologies, coding standards, code reviews, source management, build processes, testing, and operations</li><li>Strong initiative, project management and organizational skills</li><li>Strong communicator, both written and verbal, who is calm and decisive under pressure</li><li>Proactive approach to knowledge sharing and developing best practices</li><li>Strong experience taking part in sprints, being involved in planning, retrospectives and estimations with cross-functional teams</li></ul><h3>What We Offer</h3><ul><li>Competitive salary plus a quarterly cash bonus</li><li>Annual compensation reviews - we reward great work</li><li>Discounted health insurance with no-cost financing for you and your dependents (in Kenya)</li><li>21 days of annual leave plus public holidays plus examination leave</li><li>Hybrid working model - allowing you to split your time between in-person collaboration at one of our offices and working remotely</li><li>Ongoing investment in you and your skills, incl. full access to over 5,000 online courses</li><li>The right equipment for the job - a choice of MacBook, Windows, or Linux laptop</li><div><br></div><div>We believe that our people are critical for our ambitious growth plans in Kenya and beyond. We want to build an organisation where people thrive, feel included, grow professionally, and enjoy having high impact through their work.</div></ul><br><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

<p><strong>Working Title: Remediation Project Manager - Environmental Specialist 4</strong></p><p><strong>Job Class: Environmental Specialist 4</strong></p><p><strong>Agency: Pollution Control Agency</strong></p><ul><li><p><strong>Who May Apply</strong> : Open to all qualified job seekers and MPCA employees eligible to express interest (permanent, classified employees in the same job class). Eligible MPCA employees wishing to interest bid must apply through self-service AND confirm their expression of interest by emailing stephanie.grant@state.mn.us (%20stephanie.grant@state.mn.us)  by 04/14/2024.</p></li><li><p><strong>Date Posted</strong> : 04/08/2024</p></li><li><p><strong>Closing Date</strong> : 04/22/2024</p></li><li><p><strong>Hiring Agency/Seniority Unit</strong> : Pollution Control Agency / Pollution Control-MAPE</p></li><li><p><strong>Division/Unit</strong> : REM SITE ASSESSMENT UNIT 1</p></li><li><p><strong>Work Shift/Work Hours</strong> : Day Shift</p></li><li><p><strong>Days of Work</strong> : Monday - Friday</p></li><li><p><strong>Travel Required</strong> : Yes - Up to 5% of the time</p></li><li><p><strong>Salary Range:</strong>  $30.55 - $45.02 / hourly; $63,788 - $94,001 / annually</p></li><li><p><strong>Classified Status</strong> : Classified</p></li><li><p><strong>Bargaining Unit/Union</strong> : 214 - MN Assoc of Professional Empl/MAPE</p></li><li><p><strong>FLSA Status</strong> : Nonexempt</p></li><li><p><strong>Telework Eligible</strong> : Yes</p></li><li><p>Designated in Connect 700 Program for Applicants with Disabilities (https://mn.gov/mmb/careers/diverse-workforce/people-with-disabilities/connect700/) : Yes</p></li></ul><p>*This position may be located at one of the MPCA office locations: Duluth, Brainerd, St. Paul, Rochester, Detroit Lakes, Marshall or Mankato.</p><p><strong>Make a difference in the lives of Minnesotans.</strong></p><p>The work you’ll do is more than just a job. Join the talented, engaged and inclusive workforce dedicated to creating a better Minnesota.</p><p>This position exists to perform comprehensive project management and direction of sites in the Superfund and Site Assessment Programs, including both State Fund-financed projects and Responsible Party (RP)-lead projects. The primary work function of this position involves supporting Site Assessment lookback projects tasked with ensuring vapor intrusion and drinking water risks associated with previously-closed sites are evaluated and managed effectively. This includes reviewing regulatory files and agency decisions as well as directing and managing environmental investigations to decide if cleanup actions or building mitigations are needed. In cases that progress beyond the investigation/mitigation stage, this position manages and directs the selection of specific environmental cleanup or building actions and ultimately the completion of the needed additional work such that public health and environmental risks are effectively managed.</p><p>This position will also work in a dual (Project Management and Technical) role on RP-lead and Fund-financed Superfund and Site Assessment sites with releases of various non-petroleum contaminants to environmental media (soil, sediment, surface water, groundwater, soil vapor).</p><p><strong>Minimum Qualifications</strong></p><p>A Bachelor's degree in Hydrology, Geology, Hydrogeology, Water Resources, Soil Science, or other closely-related environmental field  <strong>and</strong>  two years of advanced professional-level experience remediating contaminated properties. (Advanced professional-level experience is equivalent to Senior Environmental Specialist, Environmental Specialist 3 level work.) Experience must include performing comprehensive management of environmental investigations including contracting, budgeting, invoicing, and communications with internal and external stakeholders.</p><p>Candidates should be skilled in communicating, negotiating, and collaborating with stakeholders who have varying ways of contributing to project outcomes. Communication skills should be sufficient to present information to non-technical audiences presenting the results concerning environmental and public health risks.</p><p>Candidates must have effective planning and project management skills and the ability to make decisions based on data.</p><p>Possess a valid Driver's license (see additional requirements).</p><p>The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency will not sponsor applicants for work visas. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.</p><p><strong>Preferred Qualifications</strong></p><p><strong>Knowledge of</strong>   <strong>the</strong>   <strong>overall state and</strong>   <strong>federal environmental regulatory framework related to environmental investigations</strong>   <strong>and cleanup of contaminated properties</strong>  <strong>.</strong></p><p>Knowledge of federal, state, and local environmental laws, rules, regulations and standards related to environmental investigations and remediation/cleanup of contaminated properties, including CERCLA, MERLA, and RCRA.</p><p>Extensive knowledge and experience evaluating the vapor intrusion pathway including conceptual site model development, active and passive air sampling collection, data interpretation and risk assessment, and working knowledge of various mitigation approaches/technologies.</p><p>Experience leading other staff to conduct soil, groundwater, surface water, soil gas, and/or indoor air investigations. Direct experience related to chlorinated solvent releases a plus.</p><p>Experience writing work plans and cost proposals for investigations and soliciting bids for contractors for system installations.</p><p>Knowledge and/or experience with the investigation and remediation of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs), such as PFAS and 1,4-Dioxane.</p><p>Good written and verbal communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills, and advanced planning/organization skills to perform senior-level professional work.</p><p>Advanced project management of environmental investigations including: review of written submittals; evaluation of analytical data; contracting; budgeting; invoicing; and communications with internal and external stakeholders.</p><p>Demonstrated ability to bring projects to a satisfactory conclusion.</p><p>Demonstrated ability to resolve potentially contentious, controversial, and complex environmental issues. Problem-solving sufficient to resolve technical matters.</p><p>Experience with public communications efforts on health or environmental projects.</p><p>Advanced technical writing skills.</p><p>Proficiency with GIS.</p><p><strong>Ability to:</strong></p><p>Make sound human health and environmental risk decisions based on data.</p><p>Manage contractors and project budgets.</p><p>Determine if cleanup actions and building mitigation are needed based on applicable State and Federal Guidance</p><p>Work with scientific and technical consultants and to analyze their proposals and work projects.</p><p><strong>Physical Requirements</strong></p><p>Requires occasionally lifting and/or carrying such articles as file folders, ledgers, and small equipment. Although a sedentary job is defined as one which involves sitting, a certain amount of walking and standing is often necessary in carrying out job duties.</p><p><strong>Additional Requirements</strong></p><p>A driver’s license is an essential function of this position. This requires possession of an unrestricted Class D Driver’s License. The job offer is contingent on confirmation of a valid driver’s license AND a satisfactory DLR check.</p><p>Requires a Class D driver´s License: a single unit vehicle with a gross vehicle weight of less than 26,000 pounds. This is a basic driver’s license. Operators may also tow vehicles/trailers as long as the gross combination weight does not exceed 26,000 pounds.</p><p>AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER</p><p>Minnesota State Colleges and Universities is an Equal Opportunity employer/educator committed to the principles of diversity. We prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their race, sex, color, creed, religion, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or membership in a local commission as defined by law. As an affirmative action employer, we actively seek and encourage applications from women, minorities, persons with disabilities, and individuals with protected veteran status.</p><p>Reasonable accommodations will be made to all qualified applicants with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability who needs assistance or cannot access the online job application system, please contact the job information line at 651-259-3637 or email careers@state.mn.us . Please indicate what assistance is needed.</p>

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Remediation Project Coordinator - Environmental Specialist 4

<p><strong>Working Title: Manager, Air Assessment Section</strong></p><p><strong>Job Class: Pollution Control Program Administrator</strong></p><p><strong>Agency: Pollution Control Agency</strong></p><ul><li><p><strong>Who May Apply</strong> : Open to all qualified job seekers</p></li><li><p><strong>Date Posted</strong> : 04/02/2024</p></li><li><p><strong>Closing Date</strong> : 04/22/2024</p></li><li><p><strong>Hiring Agency/Seniority Unit</strong> : Pollution Control Agency / Pollution Control-Managerial</p></li><li><p><strong>Division/Unit</strong> : Environmental Analysis &amp; Outcomes / Air Assessment Section</p></li><li><p><strong>Work Shift/Work Hours</strong> : Day Shift</p></li><li><p><strong>Days of Work</strong> : Monday - Friday</p></li><li><p><strong>Travel Required</strong> : No</p></li><li><p><strong>Salary Range:</strong>  $43.09 - $61.90 / hourly; $89,971 - $129,247 / annually</p></li><li><p><strong>Classified Status</strong> : Classified</p></li><li><p><strong>FLSA Status</strong> : Exempt - Executive</p></li><li><p><strong>Telework Eligible</strong> : Yes</p></li><li><p>Designated in Connect 700 Program for Applicants with Disabilities (https://mn.gov/mmb/careers/diverse-workforce/people-with-disabilities/connect700/) : Yes</p></li></ul><p>This position may be located at one of the MPCA office locations: Duluth, Brainerd, St. Paul, Rochester, Detroit Lakes, Marshall or Mankato</p><p><strong>Make a difference in the lives of Minnesotans.</strong></p><p>The work you’ll do is more than just a job. Join the talented, engaged and inclusive workforce dedicated to creating a better Minnesota.</p><p><strong>Job Summary</strong></p><p>This position exists to manage the Air Assessment Section and to direct the development and delivery of the programs needed to protect public health and the environment from air pollution. MPCA’s Air Assessment Section strives to ensure everyone in Minnesota has clean air to breathe, regardless of where they live, work, or play. The section investigates the condition of Minnesota’s air, identifies needed improvements, provides recommendations and guidance, and takes action to improve air quality.</p><p>The section’s important processes include collecting high-quality ambient air quality data and air emissions data; efficient and effective management of environmental data; development of air quality policies, rules and information; provide assistance to the Air Permits Section and Environmental Review Unit; analyzing environmental and health data to describe air quality trends and drivers; development of understandable communication tools; and supporting the MPCA’s Strategic Plan.</p><p><strong>Minimum Qualifications</strong></p><p>Program section manager’s integrate management of major program functions across the division and vertically within the section; must collaborate with other managers within the Division management team, and also collaborate with other managers in the agency on agency-wide programmatic issues. Section managers must have the ability to work within general policy guidelines with little or no direct supervision; and must provide leadership and exercise sound judgement so that staff assigned to the section can effectively operate.</p><p>Candidates must demonstrate the following qualifications:</p><p>A) Two years of experience supervising environmental activities in one of the following program areas: Water Quality, Air Quality, Solid Waste, Hazardous Waste, Environmental clean-up. Experience should include supervising staff; exercising fiscal control and/or preparing budgets; developing and implementing policies, procedures, criteria, and/or guidelines. Experience should be at the level of State classes: Pollution Control Specialist Principal, Engineer Principal (supervisory) or equivalent;</p><p>OR</p><p>B) Four years of advanced professional experience in an environmental program in one of the following program areas:  Water Quality, Air Quality, Solid Waste, Hazardous Waste, Environmental clean-up.  Experience should be at the level of Environmental Specialist 3/4, Hydrologist 2/3, Planner Principal State (Environmental), Engineer Senior, Engineering Specialist Senior, or equivalent. Experience must include demonstrated skill in the following areas: 1) plan/implement strategies; 2) interpret policy and regulations; 3) motivate and lead employees effectively; 4) work as a team member in a leadership role in internal/external teams or work groups;</p><p>OR</p><p>C) A combination of the above experience (A and B) determined to be equivalent.</p><p>The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency will not sponsor applicants for work visas. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification upon hire.</p><p><strong>Preferred Qualifications</strong></p><p>Working knowledge of the Agency’s Air Assessment program.</p><p>Knowledge of relevant federal and state laws and program requirements, and structure, policies and procedures of local, state, and federal government.</p><p>Knowledge and ability to manage funds within the state’s financial systems, including the budget process and operations.</p><p>Demonstrated ability to manage priorities through balance of long-and-short term goals and objectives and appropriate follow through on priorities.</p><p>Ability to:</p><p>Guide others through problem-solving and conflict resolution.</p><p>Evaluate, define, negotiate, and manage outcomes.</p><p>Collaborate effectively to establish and maintain effective working relationships between many levels within and outside the agency, and in that context, plan/implement/and coordinate regulatory projects across organizational units.</p><p>Resolve controversial, sensitive, complex issues.</p><p>Skilled in communicating effectively in a manner appropriate for the intended audience.</p><p>Accomplished technical/administrative writing skills necessary to organize and effectively present ideas in a manner appropriate for the intended audience.</p><p><strong>Physical Requirements</strong></p><p>Requires occasionally lifting and/or carrying such articles as file folders, ledgers and small equipment. Although a sedentary job is defined as one which involves sitting, a certain amount of walking and standing is often necessary in carrying out job duties.</p><p><strong>Additional Requirements</strong></p><p>Position duties may require travel but driving is not a minimum qualification or essential function of this position. Employees who may drive for state business will need their driver’s license checked prior to operating a state vehicle.</p><p>AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER</p><p>Minnesota State Colleges and Universities is an Equal Opportunity employer/educator committed to the principles of diversity. We prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their race, sex, color, creed, religion, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or membership in a local commission as defined by law. As an affirmative action employer, we actively seek and encourage applications from women, minorities, persons with disabilities, and individuals with protected veteran status.</p><p>Reasonable accommodations will be made to all qualified applicants with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability who needs assistance or cannot access the online job application system, please contact the job information line at 651-259-3637 or email careers@state.mn.us . Please indicate what assistance is needed.</p>

Manager, Air Assessment Section - Pollution Control Program Administrator

<div><b>About KOKO Networks</b></div><div>KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Your Role: </b></div><div>The Commercial Operations Manager at KOKO Networks Rwanda is responsible for providing data support to the Head of commercial and the Channel manager, leading planning and coordination for customer and agent teams, and working with department heads to set sales goals, build quarterly plans, and forecast business unit performance. The role also includes managing the administration of the commercial team's needs, creating presentations for senior management, and developing daily, weekly, and monthly reports. </div><br><br><h3>What You Will Do</h3><ul><li><b>Sales Planning and Coordination:</b></li><li>Lead planning and coordination for customer and agent teams in Rwanda. Work with the Head of Commercial and department heads to set sales goals, build quarterly plans, and forecast business unit performance in Rwanda.</li><div><b>Data Analysis and Reporting:</b></div><li>Provide data support to the Sales Manager in Rwanda. Develop daily, weekly, and monthly reports for management and communications purposes in Rwanda.</li><div><b>Trading Terms Analysis:</b></div><li>Conduct trading terms analysis to support the Agent Network team in Rwanda.</li><div><b>Commissions Calculation:</b></div><li>Calculate commissions for KOKO’s agents and salesforce in Rwanda.</li><div><b>Variable REM Analysis:</b></div><li>-Conduct variable rem analysis to support the Customer Sales team in Rwanda.</li><div><b>Presentation Development:</b></div><li>Create presentations for senior management, planning sessions, and team trainings in Rwanda.</li><div><b>Reference Documents and Data Management:</b></div><li> Maintain key reference documents, spreadsheets, and shared drives for the commercial team in Rwanda. Manage the administration of commercial team needs, including hiring, onboarding, and HR documentation for employees as well as data management for customers and agents in Rwanda.</li></ul><h3>What You Will Bring</h3><ul><li>5+ years of work experience in a similar role</li><li>Bachelor’s Degree in a business-related field</li><li>Expert computer skills, with Google Suite and CRM experience preferred</li><li>Excellent verbal and written communication skills</li><li>Strong attention to detail</li><li>Team-first attitude with a high level of dedication</li><li>Able to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently</li><li>Able to work accurately under stress and pressure to meet competing deadlines</li></ul><br><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

Commercial Operations Manager

<div><b>About KOKO Networks</b></div><div>KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC. </div><div><br></div><div>As Assistant Manager, Quality, you will be responsible for ensuring product quality for our flagship product, the two burner ethanol cooker and refillable canister. The role is a two-fold responsibility, with heavy involvement on the supplier quality front, as well as being a senior member of our production quality assurance and quality control team. You will be working out of our world-class manufacturing facility, based out of Sanand, Ahmedabad and join a highly qualified quality team who have taken the unique product from conceptulisation upto large scale manufacturing. </div><div><br></div><br><br><h3>Supplier quality </h3><ul><li>Maintain Complete record of the supplier activities such as performance, delivery, quality and improvement log</li><li>Alternate or new supplier pre qualitfication audit's at supplier's site</li><li>Coordinate the PPAP,APQP,PSW,FMEA activities for new /alternative supplier parts</li><li>Perform and monitor the Pilot batch qualification for Factory (03 lots) for new supplier</li><li>Ensure all Engineering changes and DCN are timely updated at vendor's database.</li><li>Carry out supplier and sub-supplier validation audits, with supplier support and supplier advanced product quality planning (APQP).</li><li>Perform on-site supplier visits for root cause analysis and verification of corrective actions of supplier quality issues</li><li>Monitor and report on supplier product quality and performance understanding any commercial issues and impacts</li><li>Manage the supplier PPM, supplier problem solving on time, cost recovery and supplier warranty indicators</li><li>Review and evaluate supplier quality data to identify process improvement opportunities within the supply chain</li></ul><h3>QA-QC </h3><ul><li>Promote the use of preferred techniques for continuous improvement such as Lean, Six-Sigma, Poka-Yoke, MSA,SPC and FMEA</li><li>Ensure planned audit is being carried out for all suppliers as per ISO requirements.</li><li>Ensure process and product requirements are being verified as per drawings, control plan and work instructions.</li><li>Drive root cause analysis and problem resolution for critical and repeated issues which impact the production line.</li><li>Drive FMEA activities for the entire products.(child parts to assembly)</li><li>Drive SPC &amp; MSA implementation across the plant.</li><li>Collaborate with cross functionals on Supplier Approval activities for new product /supplier development projects.</li><li>Carry out risk analysis for contract manufacturing parts during project development.</li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><ul><li>10+ years of experience with large scale OEMs</li><li>BE from a reputed institution</li><li>Well versed in 8D, FMEA, SPC, MSA</li><li>Relevant experience in setting up QMS from ground up</li><li>Experience in developiong quality management features in ERP systems</li></ul><br><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

Assistant Manager - Quality

<div><b>About KOKO Networks</b></div><div>KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Your Role</b></div><div><br></div><div>We are looking for a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to lead the development of firmware for KOKO’s IoT based hardware platforms that provide our customers with smart delivery of fuel and other goods through our unique last mile distribution network. As such you will play a key role in enabling KOKO’s long term success, including our expansion to new markets. </div><div><br></div><div>In this position on the engineering team, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to and add value across multiple KOKO's products, at different stages of the product life cycle, and be part of the wider engineering team in delivering best-in-class solutions.</div><br><br><h3>What you will do</h3><ul><li>Develop the embedded software that powers our network hardware and the tools that enable us to test, build, diagnose and repair them. </li><li>Collaborate cross-functionally with electronics engineers, software engineers, product managers, and others to integrate embedded software into products.</li><li>Support existing devices and manage firmware improvements in our installed networks</li><li>Provide recommendations for continuous improvement in the functionality of our systems</li><li>Work alongside other engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices.</li><li>Deliver new features to production environments and support them in operation</li><li>Participate in building the engineering culture at KOKO</li></ul><h3>What You Will Bring to KOKO</h3><ul><li>Strong, proven experience coding (5+ years) and good design principles in C/C++ for embedded systems</li><li>Solid and demonstrable understanding of Linux and programming for Linux (e.g. Raspberry Pi)</li><li>Experience programming in both RTOS and bare metal environments</li><li>Ability to developing and debug low level protocols (e.g. I2C, SPI) and higher level communication protocols (e.g. BLE, USB)</li><li>Strong troubleshooting skills for investigating reported issues, debugging and fixing field problems</li><li>Knowledge of IoT “edge” device development and strong understanding of network protocols (HTTP, MQTT) and interfaces (TCP/IP, TLS)</li><li>Knowledge of Git and CI/CD pipelines</li><li>A good grasp of electronics - ability to read schematics and data sheets</li><div><br></div><div>Other skills:</div><li>Experience in developing commercial products - proven experience developing for hardware at scale</li><li>Strong analytical skills, working with engineering best practices to get the best results</li><li>Team player, conscientious and with a strong collaborative ethos</li><div><br></div><div>We are looking for a highly technical leader with significant experience in scaling and maintaining complex, mission critical systems, and making key architectural decisions along the way.  Aside from being an expert in your core skills areas, you should be comfortable leading and coaching, building rapport across the team, doing what’s necessary to ensure KOKO’s products always deliver.</div></ul><h3>What We Offer</h3><ul><li>Competitive salary plus a quarterly cash bonus</li><li>Annual compensation reviews - we reward great work</li><li>Health insurance</li><li>21 days of annual leave plus public holidays plus examination leave</li><li>Hybrid working model - allowing you to split your time between in-person collaboration at one of our offices and working remotely</li><li>Ongoing investment in you and your skills, incl. full access to over 5,000 online courses</li><li>The right equipment for the job - a choice of MacBook, Windows, or Linux laptop</li><div><br></div><div>We believe that our people are critical for our ambitious growth plans in Kenya and beyond. We want to build an organisation where people thrive, feel included, grow professionally, and enjoy having high impact through their work.</div></ul><br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

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