Sanergy
is an award-winning social venture that builds healthy, prosperous communities
by making hygienic sanitation accessible and affordable in Africa’s urban
informal settlements.
Our
systems-based approach to solving the sanitation crisis involves five key
steps: we build a dense network of low-cost, high-quality waterless sanitation
facilities – called Fresh Life Toilets.
We
franchise the toilets to community residents, who run them as commercial
toilets; landlords, who offer them as a value-added service to their tenants;
and schools, to ensure children always have access to a safe sanitation
option.
We
provide critical support services – such as access to finance, business
analytics, training and aspirational marketing and branding.
We
collect the waste regularly and safely remove it from the community for
treatment. We convert the waste into valuable end products, such as organic
fertilizer and insect-based animal protein, which we sell to Kenyan farms.
We launched our first toilet in November 2011, and we now have a network of
over 600 active Fresh Life Toilets run by over 300 Fresh Life Operators.
We
have collected and converted over 7,800 tons of waste. At the same time, we
have built a team of over 250 people.
For
our work, we have been recognized by Fast Company as one of the 10 Most
Innovative Companies in the World Doing Social Good and one of the 10 Best Companies
in Africa.
Since launching our first toilet, we have diversified our product and service
offerings in order to reach an increasing proportion of the residents of the
communities we serve.
Creation
of our residential and school service delivery models has brought us closer to
our goal of reaching everyone, forever. Still, we know there are people we
don’t reach.
We
continue to strive to reach all residents wherever they are, and whenever they
need sanitation. To that end, we are developing a pipeline of new products and
services that will enable us to expand our impact.
Impact and
Feasibility Analysis Fellow
Sanergy
seeks a Fellow to conduct research on the impact and feasibility of multiple
potential products and services we are considering adding to the Fresh Life
portfolio.
A successful
candidate will have:
- Experience
conducting primary and secondary research to inform decisions, preferably
in a developing country context - Background
in WASH or another area of innovation in global health/development - Passion
for finding new ways to make affordable sanitation accessible to residents
of informal settlements - Ability
to work independently to move deliverables forward - Strong
quantitative analysis skills - Experience
working directly with community members in a developing country context would
be beneficial, but is not required.
Market and
Financial Analysis Fellow
This
is an exciting opportunity to be part of a growing team tackling unanswered
questions in the sanitation/development space.
A
successful candidate will have:
- Experience
building financial models and gathering information on markets for which
published trends are not readily available - Comfort
absorbing and processing information gathered through conversations, and
ability to work independently to propose an approach to organizing and
analyzing that information - Background
in management consulting or a related field would be beneficial but is not
required
While the 2016 Sanergy Fellows are not provided monetary compensation, the
experience gleaned from their time at Sanergy will benefit them for many years
to come.
Join
us in pushing the frontiers of innovation!
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