Working with our software and design teams, the Designer will continue the design of our software products and be responsible for designing components and products from scratch. Responsibilities will include gathering user requirements and feedback, analysing user behaviour, designing graphic elements, and building navigation components. To be successful in this role, you should have experience with design software and wireframe tools. In addition, you will provide support across the business with graphics and branding.
For almost every business and organisation across the globe, working habits have undergone a radical shift over the past 18 months. This blog post represents an opportunity for Scene to take stock of this change, and to reflect on the lessons provided to the company throughout this recent period largely defined by uncertainty. The piece also serves as a canvas for Scene’s future development - what are the social, environmental, and commercial needs that the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed, and how will Scene continue to deliver its environmental and social impacts in a post-COVID world?
In response to Earth Day and Earth Week, Scene has committed itself to begin offsetting our emissions and become carbon neutral by the end of 2021.
Scene is recruiting 2 full-stack web software developers with a focus on back-end development who are passionate about the net-zero transition. You will work as developers alongside a solutions architect and engineers in a 5 person tech team in Edinburgh, on a 3, 4 or 5 day a week basis.
Since June 2019, Scene has partnered with three organisations, Farm-Hand, Futurepump, and GADC, to design and deliver REFRUIT– Resource Efficient Farming by Renewable Ugandan Irrigation Technology. Funded through the UK Government’s Innovate UK department for research and innovation, this 18-month agri-tech project sought to address the barriers to irrigation uptake for smallholder farmers in Northern Uganda. Concluding in December 2020, this blog post intends to review the project’s journey, discuss the key outcomes and challenges, and reflect on next steps to take the project to the next level.
On Thursday 19th November 2020, Scene Connect hosted an online half-day video conferencing event to explore strategies for improving irrigation for small-scale farmers in East Africa. The event was attended by 40 practitioners from a broad range of sectors related to agriculture, including smart irrigation technology manufacturers, financing organisations, charities, and university research programmes.
Now in its closing two months, Scene’s precision solar irrigation project in Uganda – REFRUIT - is excited to share its findings to a wider audience, The eighteen-month project comprised a series of participatory farmer workshops, technology development and integration, two sets of dry and wet season technology pilot trials, and final data analysis, and reporting.
The REFRUIT project team – Scene Connect, Farm-Hand, Futurepump, and GADC – are now excited to share and reflect on the results of these pilot trials through an Industry Conference: Improving Irrigation for Small-Scale: The Benefits, Challenges & Strategies to Irrigation in East-Africa.
The Industry Conference will be held on:
Thursday 19th November 2020, from 13:00 – 16:30 GMT (15:00-18:30 East African Time).
We are seeking an Operations Director to oversee Scene’s East African project work and play a key role to developing our business activities in the region. Ideal candidates should be enthusiastic about innovation and technology solutions for sustainable development, and have the experience to introduce new processes to start-up enterprises. You will start a new team for us in Kigali; be expected to travel for field work and business development activities in Rwanda, and in the central/east African region (DRC, Kenya, Uganda). You will form the key link between Scene’s African operations and our international team based in the UK.
In Kigeme refugee camp in Rwanda, the focus of much of HEED’s work, the project has set up a micro-grid that provides power to three community spaces in the camp. The long-term aim was to co-design energy interventions to meet the needs of the user as much as possible, and gradually implement a financial model which will eventually be taken over by the camp committees, along with the micro-grid itself.
Every year the global picture becomes clearer for the need to act ever more urgently, so much so that for many there is a sense of defeatism – what can one person really do? Individuals have been doing what they can, increasing recycling, eating less meat, flying less (with some companies, including Scene, enabling their staff to do so by offering paid journey days through a Climate Perks programme) – but, aside from this, effecting the necessary systemic change requires collective mobilisation across society, and a fundamental change in policy direction from national governments and global corporations.
