Research & Development [R&D] Officer Job
Work Hours: Full-time, 08 hours per day
Salary:
Attractive
Job Deadline: 24 October 2025
Number of Jobs: 01
Hiring Entity: EarthEnable
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Location: In Uganda
Job Details:
About the Role
The R&D Officer will support EarthEnable’s innovation and experimentation agenda, designing and executing experiments, documenting learnings, and piloting solutions across districts. This role requires hands-on technical work in labs and field sites, attention to detail, and strong collaboration with district teams.
The responsibilities of this role will include, but not be limited to:
Design and Implement Experiments
- Design experiments and develop detailed protocols
- Execute and document findings of experiments in a detailed and organized database, in case of unsuccessful experiments, document reasons for failure
Piloting experiment to different districts
- Plan for pilots: Organize resources required to pilots a given project in different districts.
- Document learning whether successful or failure experiment to inform future workload.
- Work with the construction/ district to ensure pilots are implemented collaboratively and new learning is captured and shared.
- Develop manuals that will be used during the dissemination of the projects.
Collaboration with District Team
- Visit district to collect data and understand their needs, innovation challenges to inform R&D research agenda
- Help the district team to develop a protocol of experiments and oversee execution to ensure they are being done accordingly and all learnings are documented and shared with other districts.
- Meet with clients and analyze other sources of feedback and data to identify product failure and product improvement
Required qualifications & Key capabilities
- Chemistry, Physics, or Civil Engineering Background
- Willingness to spend more time in our lab running different experiments.
- Willingness to touch mud and work with mud
- Understanding of R&D processes like protocol development or planning experiments, e.g. through previous experience or education
- Excellent attention to detail
- Hard-working and committed to do whatever it takes to get work done
- Curiosity-driven
- Commitment to excellence and outstanding work ethic
- Ability to be creative, strategic, analytical, and think outside the box to solve problems
- Flexible and adaptable to changing environments; thrives in a bootstrapped culture
- An optimistic attitude, curiosity to learn new things
- Humble and patient team-player with a sense of humor
- Strong technology skills (e.g., Word, Excel, Salesforce, Google Docs, and Dropbox)
Why Join Us
- Contribute to innovative projects that improve health and dignity for rural families.
- Work in a dynamic, supportive, and learning-focused environment.
- Develop technical and field skills in sustainable building solutions.
Application procedure
Interested and qualified? Click here to apply
Posting Date: 2025-10-03
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