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Job Title: Internal Auditor (1)

Reports to: Chief Executive Officer/Board of Directors Department: Finance

Employment Type: Part-Time

1. Job Purpose

The Internal Auditor will provide independent, objective assurance and advisory services aimed at strengthening the company’s governance, risk management, and internal control The role ensures compliance with regulatory

processes.

frameworks, identifies control gaps, investigates irregularities, and provides actionable recommendations to enhance financial integrity, operational efficiency, and organizational accountability.

2. Key Responsibilities

  • Conduct independent and objective audits of financial, operational, and compliance processes across the
    company.
  • Review internal controls, risk management practices, and goverance frameworks to ensure adequacy and effectiveness.
    Investigate incidents of fraud, misuse of funds, or operational weaknesses, and recommend corrective
    measures.
  • Assess compliance with the National Payment Systems Act, Data Protection & Privacy Act, and Bank of Uganda guidelines.
  • Prepare detailed intermal audit reports with findings. recommendations, and follow-up action plans.
  • Support management and the board in strengthening accountability, transparency, and corporate governance.
  • Conduct periodic risk-based audits of high-priority areas such as accounts, revenue cycles, IT systems, and procurement.

3. Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field.
  • At least 5 years of relevant experience in interal audit, risk management, or compliance (preferably within fintech, banking, or telecom).
  • Fully certified CPA(U) or ACCA member. NO PAYMENT
    SERVICES
  • Strong knowledge of risk management, interal controls, and audit methodologies
  • Excellent report-writing, communication, and analytical skills.
  • High level of integrity, independence, and sound judgment.

4. Required Skills

  • Strong knowledge of risk management, internal controls & audit methodologies
  • Excellent report-writing, analytical & communication skills
  • High integrity, independence & sound judgment
  • Ability to detect fraud, assess compliance, and recommend improvements

Job Description: Risk & Compliance Officer

Department: Risk & Compliance

Reports To: CEO/Board

Role Purpose

The Risk & Compliance Officer ensures the company conducts its business in full compliance with all relevant national laws, industry regulations, and internal policies. This role identifies compliance risks, implements internal controls, and manages regulatory reporting to protect the organization from legal and financial penalties.

Key Responsibilities

1. Regulatory Monitoring & Reporting

  • Track updates to national laws, industry standards, and regulatory requirements
  • Prepare and file mandatory statutory reports to regulatory
    bodies on time.
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for external auditors and regulatory inspectors.

2. Policy Development & Enforcement

• Review, update, and implement internal company policies, codes of conduct, and compliance manuals.

Execute internal compliance monitoring and testing

programs.

  • Investigate potential policy violations, document findings, and recommend corrective actions to the CEO & Board as appropriate.
  • Advise management on the required risk management practices and monitoring compliance with regulatory requirements.

3. Anti-Money Laundering (AML) & Due Diligence

  • Oversee Customer Due Diligence (CDD) and Know Your Customer (KYC) verification processes.
  • Monitor transactions and operations to detect, investigate, and report suspicious activities.
  • Screen business partners, clients, and vendors against global sanctions and watchlists.
  • Champion risk awareness

Qualifications & Requirements

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree in law, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
  • Experience: 3+ years of experience in a compliance, legal, or risk management role.
  • Certifications: Professional certification (e.g., CAMS, ICA, or equivalent) is highly preferred
    Skills: Strong analytical abilities, sharp attention to detail, and excellent ethical judgment.

Job Description: Commercial Sales Executive (3)

Department: Commercial

Reports To: Chief Operation’s Officer

Location: Kampala, Uganda Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience Required: Minimum 2 Years

Job Purpose

The Commercial Sales Executive will support the Commercial Manager in driving business growth by identifying sales opportunities, nurturing client relationships, coordinating sales activities, and assisting in the preparation of commercial proposals and tender submissions

The role involves engaging prospective and existing clients, coordinating product demonstrations, maintaining the sales pipeline, and ensuring timely follow-up on opportunities. The ideal candidate should be proactive, organized, and passionate about technology solutions for goverment agencies and enterprise organizations

Key Responsibilities

Business Development Support

  • Support the Commercial Manager in identifying and pursuing new business opportunities within govemment institutions, agencies, NGOs, and the private sector:
  • Generate and qualify new sales leads through research, networking, referrals, and outbound prospecting.
    Keep track of all events that could result into business opportunities.
  • Maintain and update the sales pipeline and opportunity tracker.
  • Assist in scheduling client meetings, presentations, and demonstrations.

Client Relationship Management

  • Build and maintain strong relationships with prospective and existing clients.
  • Follow up on inquiries, proposals, and ongoing sales opportunities
  • Coordinate client communication throughout the sales cycle.
  • Gather customer feedback and relay insights to the Commercia Manager and technical teams
    Expenence in Client Relationship Management (CRM) systems will be an added advantage.

Sales & Proposal Coordination

  • Assist in preparing quotations, commercial proposals, concept notes, presentations, and bid documentation.
  • Coordinate the collection of technical and commercial information required for proposals
  • Support the preparation and submission of tender documents in accordance with procurement requirements.
  • Ensure all sales documentation is accurate and submitted within agreed timelines

Government & Enterprise Sales

  • Research goverment procurement opportunities and monitor tender portals
  • Assist in compiling documentation required for public sector bids.
  • Maintain a database of government agencies, development partners, and enterprise clients.

Sales Administration

  • Maintain accurate customer records within the CRM system.
  • Track proposal status and provide regular updates on ongoing opportunities
  • Prepare weekly and monthly sales activity reports.
  • Coordinate internal meetings related to sales opportunities and client engagements.

Market Intelligence

  • Conduct market research on industry trends, competitors, and emerging technologies.
  • Identify potential markets and sectors for business expansion.
  • Share market insights with the Commercial Manager to support business strategy.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Business Computing, Information Systems, Computer Science, Procurement, or a related field
  • Minimum 2 years’ experience in Sales, Business Development, Account Management, Commercial Operations, or Customer Relationship Management.
  • Experience in technology sales or enterprise software is an added advantage

Skills & Competencies

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

• Excellent presentation and proposal writing abilities

Good organizational and coordination skills.

Ability to build and maintain professional relationships.

  • Strong attention to detail
  • Good analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
  • Self-driven with a proactive attitude.

Technical Skills

  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
  • Familiarity with CRM systems (ERPNext CRM, HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoho CRM, etc.) is an advantage.
    Basic understanding of ERP systems, digital transformation, or enterprise software solutions is desirable.

Key Performance Indicators (KPls)

  • Number of qualified leads generated
  • Number of client meetings and demonstrations coordinated.
  • Timely preparation and submission of proposals and tender documents

Sales pipeline growth.

• Client follow-up completion rate.

Customer satisfaction and responsiveness

• Support provided towards achieving departmental revenue targets

Personal Attributes

  • Professional and ethical
  • Excellent relationship-building skills and quick on your feet
  • Strong work ethic and wilingness to leam.
  • Team player with a collaborative mindset.
  • Highly organized and detail-oriented
  • Confident engaging with clients and stakeholders Adaptable and eager to grow in a commercial career.

Job Description: Senior Backend Systems & Distributed Infrastructure Engineer(2)

Department: Core Infrastructure & Systems Engineering Reporte: CTO

Role Purpose:

This is not a standard sofiware development role; it is a high-stakes engineering position. You will be responsible for systems handling millions of sensitive data records, multi-party transactional flows, and high-volume data pipelines where a single bottleneck or security oversight has immediate and serious implications.

If you are dogmatic about a single language, library, or framework, this role is not for you. We need engineers who see tools as transient and choose architecture based strictly on physical constraints, scalability journeys, and operational realities,

Key Responsibilities.

  • Rapid Prototyping & Production Refinement across complex institutional requirements and translate them into functional, working prototypes under tight iteration cycles.
  • Pragmatic Architectural Decision-Making to dynamically select the right approach for the problem at hand
  • Design strategies to organize, index, and query massive datasets, ensuring complex quenes return results in milliseconds. You will dictate data storage paradigms, deciding precisely when a normalized entity-relational model is required for strict transactional integrity, and when to leverage document or key-value structures for high-throughput operational efficiency.
  • Establish comprehensive system visibility through design and interpretation of telemetry systems, maintaining a clear distinction between metrics, application logs, and tracing data.
  • Architect workflows that respect strict data classification and compliance guidelines by implementing zero-trust access controls, network segmentation configurations, and secure dala-handling protocols to protect sensitive citizen and enterprise records from unauthorized exposure
  • Write highly optimized, resource conscious code and when to introduce parallel execution and concurrency to solve high-throughput bottlenecks and when to avoid it entirely to eliminate race conditions, memory leaks, and unnecessary system complexity.

Qualifications and Requirements.

  • Proven experience designing and maintaining distributed backend systems that have successfully scaled from early-stage MVPs to high-concurrency production environments.
  • Exceptional fluency in core computer science fundamentals, networking protocols, memory management, and operating system intemals (Linux), allowing you to drop into any codebase and immediately drive architectural progress.
  • Expertise in advanced database design, query optimization, indexing strategies, and data warehousing principles under variable scales of volume and velocity.
  • A proven track record of making hard engineering trade-offs regarding horizontal vs. vertical scaling, synchronous vs. asynchronous processing, and centralized vs. decentralized topologies based on clear operational constraints

• Superior communication skills with the ability to articulate highly technical architectural choices, collaborate effectively with diverse engineering teams across countries, and align technical output with institutional timelines.

Added Advantages

  • Direct experience engineering high-volume payment gateways, banking settlement networks, or complex business and public registries
  • Hands-on experience with bare-metal virtualization hypervisors, software-defined firewalls, and low-level network routing configurations.
  • Practical understanding of programmatically running automated vulnerability assessments, secure code analysis routines, and disaster recovery validations.
  • Prior experience managing massive EL database migrations involving millions of legacy file objects or encrypted data blobs without service interruption.

Education Requirements.

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a highly quantitative, systems-focused discipline.
  • Equivalent practical experience will be heavily considered: a demonstrable portfolio of architecting, deploying, and maintaining live, complex distributed systems that prove your foundational engineering capabilities will override formal certification.

Job Description: Senior Frontend UX Architect & Integration Engineer (3)

Department: Core Product & User Experience Engineering

Reports: CTD

Role:

We are searching for an organized, operationally aware Senior Frontend Engineer who approaches user interfaces from a perspective of absolute functionality, accessibility, and resource constraint. You will operate within rapid, multi-national sprint cycles where you must prototype highly functional interfaces ahead of deadlines and refine them into secure, performant, production-grade clients within the timeline while owning the responsibility of ensuring that our systems are deeply intuitive, eliminating the need for costly extemal user training, while strictly protecting the boundaries of our backend infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities;

  • Design and build functional-first frontend architectures tailored precisely to the end-user’s cognitive load while analyzing complex, multi-stage regulatory and enterpnise workflows and distilling them into clean, frictionless digital paths that prevent user error when interacting with sensitive data
  • Act as the primary frontend voice in system design while actively guiding backend engineering teams on how APls must be structured, defining ideal payload sizes, data formats, and endpoints to ensure optimal client-side ingestion and rendering
  • Engineer client-side applications with strict awareness of the physical browser and device constraints. Optimize memory consumption, prevent DOM bloat, and manage client-side caching to ensure smooth operation on lower-spec hardware
  • Strategically orchestrate the execution and ordering of client-side API requests. You will design frontends that avoid excessive or redundant network calls that could overwhelm firewalls, trigger rate-limits, or cause secunty layers to flag and block legitimate users
  • Rapidly develop stand-up functional user interfaces to achieve early MVP validation, then meticulously iterate to harden state management, implement comprehensive error boundary handling, and secure client-side data routing within the project deadline
  • Embed client-side monitoring and performance tracking to measure actual user interaction metrics, identifying and resolving Ul performance bottlenecks, unhandled client exceptions, and rendering lag

Requirements and Education.

  • Extensive experience architecting and maintaining large-scale, data-heavy single-page applications (SPAs) or web portals that handle complex user workflows.
  • A clear philosophy that prioritizes usability, predictability, and bulletproof functionality over unnecessary visual fluff or transient design trends.
  • Comprehensive knowledge of browser rendering pipelines, client-side state management patters, asynchronous request handling, and network optimization techniques
  • Deep experience with moder bundlers, reactive frameworks, and utilty-first styling systems, with the ability to easily adapt to changes in the frontend tooling landscape.
  • A highly structured approach to code reuse, component isolation, documentation, and managing frontend technical debt within aggressive delivery cycles.

Added Advantages

  • Deep knowledge of web accessibility standards (WCAG) and internationalization patterns for diverse user bases.
  • Background in working closely with cross-border backend

teams where contract-first API development (e.g., Open API/Swagger specs) was strictly leveraged

Education.

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Information Technology, or a related technical field
  • Equivalent practical experience, We highly value candidates who can demonstrate a strong portfolio of live, complex web applications where they owned the architecture, UX flow, and client-side integration from concept to production deployment.

Job Description: A.l Applied Systems & Acceleration Specialist (2)

Department: Core Infrastructure & Applied R&D

Reporte: CTO

Role

We are seeking an Al Specialist who is an engineer first. You will join our technical team to embed automated reasoning directly into our infrastructure footprints and optimize developer velocity.

You must have the seasoned instinct to know exactly where Al adds transformative value and where simple, deterministic, or traditional algorithmic logic is superior. Your job is to prototype highly secure, often offline-first Al integrations rapidly and refine them into robust, production-grade internal and external enterprise systems within tight deadlines.

Key Responsibilities.

  • Accelerate the Engineering Lifecycle by design, deploy, and manage internal tooling and automated systems that fundamentally accelerate the development, testing, and QA cycles of our backend and frontend engineering teams.
  • Secure, Offline-First Al System Design through architect and deploy intelligent systems that run reliably within restricted, local, or air-gapped server environments, ensuring complete data privacy and total alignment with national data sovereignty mandates
  • Safely weave Large Language Models and automated decision systems into complex B2B workflow engines. compliance auditing systems, and data processing pipelines without introducing structural fragility.
  • Configure and optimize local routing proxies and intelligent middleware to manage model request execution, implement robust fallback matrices, and secure API boundaries across our internal management networks.
  • Implement and tune data storage architectures that support semantic search and high-speed retrieval, ensuring vector embeddings and indexing layers run efficiently within our core database environments
  • Treat Al outputs as engineering metrics. You will design systems to log, measure, and analyze model latency. token efficiency, and reasoning accuracy, providing clear technical interpretations of model performance under production stress.

Requirements and Education.

  • Proven track record of moving beyond simple API prototyping to embedding open-source or localized language models directly into production enterprise software architectures
  • Highly proficient in backend systems programming, data structures, and standard software development workflows, enabling you to write clean, maintainable integration code.
  • Solid understanding of how containerized environments, secure subnets, and local server hardware interact when deploying resource-intensive Al models.
  • A strong engineering instinct that favors simple, auditable, and reliable automated workflows over unnecessarily complex or unpredictable Al implementations.

Added Advantages.

  • Experience setting up and optimizing localized model routing layers, load-balancing systems, or custom API fallback gateways.
  • Direct experience running vector indexing extensions directly inside relational database management systems at scale.
  • Background in automating continuous integration/ continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines or creating automated testing frameworks using applied LLMs

Education Requirements.

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Computer Engineering, or a highly technical, systems-oriented discipline.
  • Equivalent and proven practical experience of deploying localized Al architectures into highly secure, production enterprise environments, your demonstrated engineering capabilities will be valued over formal degrees.

If you believe that you possess the required qualifications and skills, please share your application and cv to info@govnet.africa in pdf single file format by close of business on August 45, 2026

Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted on for interviews.

Goodluck!