Welcome to join the ajira digital pilot project
Our aim is to provide remote work opportunities to skilled Kenyan IT graduates — starting from short work tasks to gain experience and building a path to reach a sustainable source of income.
On this page you’ll find all the necessary information about the Ajira pilot project: what it is and how you can join!
What is the ajira pilot?
The Ajira pilot is a project run by Work Pilots and backed up by the Ajira Digital Program – an initiative by the Government of Kenya, under the Ministry of Information, Communication and Digital Economy (MoICDE), being implemented by the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) – our main partner.
As part of the ongoing efforts at Ajira to reduce the unemployment rate in Kenya, we're looking to cultivate a vibrant ecosystem that seamlessly connects skilled professionals to digital work opportunities, both within Kenya and across international markets.
The project utilizes its own mobile matching platform powered by Work Pilots. The mobile platform makes it easy and efficient to match workers to digital work tasks.
What kind of ASSIGNMENTS can I post?
Anything that is IT related and can be done remotely! Even the smallest task, that takes just an hour to perform, is great help to get our talents remote work experience.
We have some example tasks provided below, but you can add your own assignment and address it to our wide range of talented candidates. Their field of expertise is in IT and Computer Science, and you fill find a list of categories within these topics when posting your task.
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We take the tedious task of scanning, sorting, and arranging off your to-do list. We can pixelate the workflow in to easy steps, so that you will have an archive arranged to your liking.
Easy steps:
first rough scan your documents or contact us at info@workpilots.com to arrange this to be done by us
create a task in the category of from paper to digital; publish and choose an applicant
consult with the applicant how you want your documents sorted and arranged.
Begin by posting a short - 2 hour - task and proceed step by step - according to the size of your archive.
Contact us at info@workpilots.com to be advised how get help to scan your documents on site.
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Get a clear, friendly overview of your website’s current performance and visibility. We use trusted, publicly available tools to run a non-intrusive check — the same kind used across the industry — to help you understand how your site appears to visitors. It’s completely safe, causes no disruption, and is designed to raise awareness, not concerns
Easy steps:
create a task in the category of website performance
choose a candidate from applicants
receive a comprehensive report on your website’s status
Fixed price with estimated assignment length of 5 hours.
Create further assignments for even more detailed reports, and improvements.
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How to reach young people with your marketing? How to be relevant for the youth today? Ask them! We grant you access to young talents that have first-hand information what marketing materials, visuals, media placements resonate best with them. This is truly a remarkable opportunity to get information on how to address the youth today.
Easy steps:
create an assignment in the category of digital marketing
define the desired outcomes and modification rounds
choose a talent from the applicants
make sure you have agreed on all deliverables, feedback rounds and creative environment
Creative packages:
Small packages include such initiatives as single leaflets or a social media post. Short social media videos can be also ordered with short packages.
The creation process takes about 5 hours with 1 - 2 feedback rounds. These materials are usually for single usage, rapid marketing.Medium packages, include a bit more complex and multi platform designs. You can expect a longer, more comprehensive video or multiple graphical designs and dimensions for numerous channels.
The creation process is about 10 hours and includes 3-4 feedback rounds.
These materials can be used as reoccurring marketing materials or static banners.Large packages are design for more complex tasks. These include assignments that take over 10 hours. You order them based on hourly rates, but completion is based on deliverables. Keep in mind, that marketing task’s length often depend on design complexity, creative variations, size variations, and placement formats. Also more experienced talents perform tasks faster.
We advise you to consider what the deliverables are worth to you and base the order on that amount. To try out a talent, we encourage first assigning Small and Medium packages and then targeting a Large package directly to them.Remember, that it is important to specify deliverables and feedback rounds in as much detail as possible to avoid misunderstandings.
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Didn’t find a task to provide? We have gathered a few examples you can post to our candidates through ‘Other tasks‘. These can be anything your organization requires, here are few examples:
Information report on given subject, e.g. EU CSRD directive summary
Survey for to find input from young individuals
English website about your operations
Data entry tasks to documents and spreadsheets
IT consultation and insight
‘Other tasks’ are based on hourly rates and we recommend creating a short task at first. Then proceeding step-by-step to longer and more comprehensive assignments.
You can always target follow-up tasks based on candidate’s email address.
Exclusive to 50 workers
The Ajira pilot is exclusive to 50 preselected IT graduates, meaning that there won’t be any other workers on the platform and the tasks are only visible to the participants.
Pre-assignments
Before accessing the real work tasks, each participant has completed a pre-assignments including short training material and a practice task. This way we can guarantee that everything is ready for you to start working with them.
kick-starting with you
We're focusing on securing tasks for the first 50 participants within the initial 3 months. Early engagement is especially valuable now, as it strengthens long-term collaboration and supports ongoing service delivery beyond this early phase.
Posting assignments
After the pre-assignments, candidates are able to apply to real work tasks. Post a task in a few easy steps and select the applicant you prefer.
Just remember to agree on work details through the platform, so you both know when a task can be marked completed.
Types of tasks
The work tasks are planned to be for example about digital security, digital marketing and digitalization of documents.
payments
Payments are done automatically through the WorkPilots platform and you don’t need to worry about any paperwork. Just select the method of payment and we will take care of the rest.
How to join the ajira pilot?
1) Download the workpilots app
Download the WorkPilots app from Google Play Store or App Store. It’s free!
2) Register
Register to the service. On the page “Select your service” write the required private code AJIRAWP to register to the Ajira pilot platform. If you already have an existing WorkPilots user, please see the end of the page for instructions!
3) create a profile
Choose role Orderer and fill your profile details: location, profile picture - e.g. your logo -, and an description about yourself or your organization.
Add payment card to your profile on page Payment methods.
4) Post work tasks & select worker
Create opportunities that candidates can browse and apply to.
Click “New order” button
Set the task category.
Set the task duration, time and mark the location as Distance work.
Add task details and payment method. Publish the order.
When someone applies to your task, you will receive a notification. Select as many candidates as your task requires.
5) Approve the work
After the worker has finished the work task, they will mark the assignment as completed and you will receive a notification about it. Approve the task and provide feedback to the talent. After that, WorkPilots takes care of paying the compensation to the worker.
Done. Congratulations! You have helped a young talent towards sustainable livelihood. You can post another assignment to another candidate or target your next task to the same person - based on one’s email address.
Do you already have a Workpilots user?
You can register into multiple platforms with the same user in the WorkPilots app!
Go to Settings and choose Switch service
Click the Register with another service button
Enter private code AJIRAWP to select the private service Ajira pilot.
Click Register, and after that you can switch service between the services you have registered
More information: General instructions for WorkPilots service
Need additional help? Submit a request to WorkPilots customer support or send email to info@workpilots.com