Solar Village designs, manufactures, distributes and finances solar solutions for African cities and villages. Our products are tailored to customers' needs, and are sold at a price they can afford. Our headquarters are based in Zambia and Norway. In addition to our sales directly to Zambian customers, we also offer Business-to-Business (B2B) partnerships in other African markets.
We have three teams working in tandem: Our sales network for Battery Sticks across Africa, our engineering team based in Europe, and our installation technicians based in Zambia.
Vertical Divider
Our company is now at the beginning of a phase of strong growth and is looking for talent for key positions. While we are a for-profit organization, we take a triple bottom line approach to evaluating our performance. Profitability is an important metric and it will determine how quickly we can scale, but we are also here for the satisfaction of building something sustainable and meaningful. Working for a fast growing organization gives us the ability to influence outcomes and brings us the gratification of seeing a direct impact where we work.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
We are an innovation-seeking company that develops new solutions for our customers' problems. To be able to do that, we need to listen to our customers, and we also need the commitment, the competence and ideas of all our staff members. So all our staff members are involved at various levels to shape our company. On the one hand, they are given responsibilities and space to fulfill these. At the same time, we hold each other accountable for delivering on these.
We build our company with talented individuals who believe in Solar Village’s mission and who can help us build a culture of excellence, growth and inclusivity. We keep an open mind and we invest in each other because we know we all have a lot to learn. We believe that when the players on a team are happy, focused on their strengths and fully engaged, customers are well served, goals are exceeded and the company grows.
If you decide to work with us, and have the right mindset, you can expect high impact and personal growth. Are you up for the challenge?
ESSENTIAL CHARACTER TRAITS
Open-mindedness & humility We are pioneering solar solutions for rural farmers in Africa. There is no roadmap on how to succeed with this. Therefore, we need to dare to experiment, learn from our mistakes and adapt. We believe it takes multiple perspectives to understand a problem and to find the best solution. A collaborative and open-minded approach is therefore essential. For that reason, it always the best ideas that should "win" in our conversations.
Adaptability Plan A often does not work where we work. So we need to be flexible and ready change course whenever it shows that things are not working as expected.
A desire to invest in yourself Whether it is a skill, knowledge or even attitude gap, we are all a “work in progress” and we need to be intentional in our personal growth if we want to grow and succeed as a team.
A desire to invest in others It doesn’t matter which “position” you apply for, you will end up leading or being part of a team. We will invest in you to become the best team member you can be and we expect that you will do the same with the people around you. We believe that building staff capacity is what responsible businesses should do and that’s what we expect from all our leaders and staff members to contribute to.
Resilience In our journey to where we are today, we have experienced great progress but also faced many - sometimes very heavy -setbacks. We expect setbacks to occur, and whenever they do, we remain focused on the solutions that help us overcome whatever challenges.
