Fika

Surveyor

• Plan and prioritize survey activities for prospective and active bridge sites
• Review site information, bridge requests, maps, aerial imagery, Fika Collect records, and field observations
• Participate in preliminary technical site assessments and advise on survey scope, control, access constraints, and bridge alignment options
• Establish and document durable benchmarks and horizontal and vertical control points
• Undertake detailed topographic surveys of bridge crossing sites
• Survey high-water marks, flood evidence, channel geometry, and other information supporting engineering and hydraulic assessment
• Download, back up, process, organize, and quality-check raw survey data
• Prepare survey packages including coordinate lists, profiles, cross-sections, drawings, photographs, and field notes
• Check field data for accuracy, completeness, closure, consistency, and design suitability
• Review and quality-assure survey outputs from councils, consultants, contractors, and local partners
• Maintain survey files, version-controlled records, coordinates, drawings, instrument logs, and documentation through as-built verification
• Update geospatial and site-status information in Fika Collect and approved data repositories
• Establish, transfer, and protect construction control points and benchmarks
• Set out bridge centerlines, foundations, abutments, towers or anchorage locations, approach works, and other survey-dependent elements
• Check line, level, position, and dimensions at construction hold points
• Verify contractor and partner survey stations and construction control
• Conduct as-built surveys and prepare as-built records
• Report material deviations to the responsible engineer and Zambia Program Manager
• Support training and field coaching for government engineers, technical staff, surveyors, contractors, and Fika staff
• Support preparation of survey-related training materials, checklists, standard operating practices, and demonstrations
• Provide technical support during joint field activities
• Participate in technical and stakeholder meetings and communicate survey findings
• Maintain, calibrate, test, and securely manage survey equipment and records
• Plan field requirements including equipment, batteries, transport, documentation, and data backups
• Follow quality, safety, safeguarding, security, and environmental procedures
• Provide regular updates on survey progress, data quality, field constraints, equipment status, and issues

Security Engineer

• Protect Fika’s systems, applications, computers, networks, and data from security breaches, cyber threats, and unauthorized access
• Monitor systems for vulnerabilities and implement protective security measures
• Respond to security alerts, incidents, and threats
• Maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Fika systems and data
• Support development, testing, and continuous improvement of business continuity and disaster recovery plans
• Identify, assess, and document information security risks for new and existing systems and applications
• Recommend security controls and measures to mitigate identified risks
• Support organization-wide risk management practices across departments
• Implement, maintain, and improve SIEM, EDR, antivirus, and intrusion detection and prevention systems
• Perform vulnerability assessments and penetration tests
• Maintain security documentation and reports, providing periodic updates to the Senior IT Manager
• Develop and conduct information security awareness training for current staff and new hires
• Develop, implement, and maintain information security policies, standards, and procedures
• Ensure staff compliance with information security policies and regulatory requirements
• Support annual internal and external information security audits
• Build and implement Fika’s IT Security Roadmap, including addressing findings from the GRF cybersecurity audit
• Set up and secure firewalls, VPNs, LANs, and wireless networks in program-country offices
• Review firewall rules and network security configurations and continuously monitor network activity
• Ensure laptops, tablets, and mobile devices comply with security policies, including mobile device management, patch management, and disk encryption
• Secure Fika’s Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Azure, AWS, Box, and Salesforce environments
• Collaborate with IT teams on cloud identity and access management
• Monitor emerging cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, and security technologies
• Support business continuity and disaster recovery plan development, implementation, testing, and maintenance
• Participate in disaster recovery testing and ensure critical systems can be restored within agreed recovery timelines
• Support Fika Cybersecurity Incident Response Procedures

IT Security Specialist

Supply Chain

• responsible for securing in-kind material donations in support of Fika’s operations
• work closely with the Fika teams in each of the program countries to understand need, schedule and to manage the logistics of delivery and customs processing
• cultivate and steward current in-kind partnerships, while continuously working on increasing our in-kind material pipeline to match the needs of our growing operations
• work closely with the Engineering department, Procurement department and with in-kind partners to define acceptable standards for the donated materials
• travel to donors facilities to enforce required standards
• create and drive new strategic objectives for in-kind material donations
• produce the annual expense and donations budget for in-kind and re-forecast as requested
• partner with Marketing & Communications to ensure all in-kind donations collaterals are current and representative of Fika offerings
• manage relationships with international shipping partners to ensure lower prices and higher efficiency in the shipping of in-kind materials to our program countries
• work with the Director of Private Sector Partnerships to use current PSP network to seek new in-kind donation opportunities, and/or to grow current ones
• evaluate the need of hiring staff at the donors’ facilities and ports to carry out inspections on donated cables before they are sent through
• lead the coordination of donations of multiple streams of material (construction tools, safety tools, construction material, re-purposed cables, topography material, software, etc.)
• work with the Director of Private Sector Partnerships and the Operations team to set annual goals for in-kind donations
• develop a deep understanding of the in-kind market and in-kind client interests
• lead outreach to potential new in-kind partners with a goal of steadily increasing the Fika in-kind material pipeline in line with the growth and expansion of Fika’s operations
• work with the Fika procurement department to explore options for setting up a centralized Fika in-kind material warehouse on the East African Coast, to store temporarily internationally donated and purchased materials

Surveyor

IT Security Specialist

Supply Chain Manager