Job Openings at Babban Gona Agricultural Franchise

Babban Gona Agricultural Franchise is a financially sustainable, high impact and highly scalable social enterprise, which is part-owned by the farmers it serves. Babban Gona is an innovative model designed to serve the bottom of the pyramid and transform agriculture into a job-creation engine. Through this agricultural franchise, Babban Gona offers a suite of services to smallholder farmers, helping them to overcome the challenges of fragmentation and low economies of scale.

We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:

1.) Mobile Developer

Job Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Kotlin code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Gauge the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems; develop and implement strategies for improving or further leveraging these systems
• Create system design models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to system programmer and development teams
• Design and deploy new applications and enhancements to existing applications, software, and operating systems.
• Maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Perform cost-benefit and return on investment analyses for proposed systems to aid management in making implementation decisions
• Design operational and information support systems in collaboration with fellow engineers and developers.

Reporting Line:

• This position reports to the Head of Enterprise Systems Engineering.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience in Enterprise Systems Engineering Role
• Proven experience as a Mobile Developer with strong knowledge of Kotlin.

Other Requirements:

• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
• Familiarity with the use of additional sensors, such as gyroscopes and accelerometers.
• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
• Experience with Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services.
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices.
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning.
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

Start Up Environment

• Thrives in a fast paced, start-up environment with dynamic business priorities.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health Insurance
• Pension
• Performance Bonus
• Annual paid vacation
• Group Life Insurance.

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2.) Senior Data Analyst

Job Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Job Description
Business Intelligence and Data Analytics:

• Work with key stakeholders and team members to identify strategic and tactical business needs, and align appropriate data driven solutions to them.
• Develop scalable and recurring processes and reporting to support the organizational business needs.
• Support and/or lead communication with subject matter experts across multiple departments and levels of leadership to define BI requirements and strategy.
• Support the administration of business intelligence application including software maintenance, new user setup, and best practices across user and data governance.
• Lead cross-functional projects using advanced data modeling and analysis techniques to discover insights that will guide strategic decisions and uncover optimization opportunities.
• Organize and drive successful completion of data insight initiatives through effective management of analyst and data employees and effective collaboration with stakeholders.
• Partner with required team members to design and build targeted dashboards/reports and predictive models, to represent operational data in brief and intelligible format suitable for the target audience.
•  Play a critical role in leading Monitoring and Evaluation activities; data collection, planning and implementation of monitoring and evaluation tools that support MEL at an organizational and programmatic level.
• Other responsibilities and tasks required to support organizational goals and objectives

Requirements

• Experience in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics
• Bachelor's Degree in a calculation intensive field such as Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, etc.
• 3 - 5 years of related experience in a Business Intelligence or Data Analytics role:
  • Experience using data analytics tools such as Power BI and/or Tableau
  • Experience with languages such as Python, SQL, etc.
  • Experience using Microsoft Office packages including Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Access
  • Adequate grasp of business and economic principles (macroeconomics, microeconomics, etc.)
• Demonstrated ability to interpret data to derive business insights
• Working knowledge of data mining principles: predictive analytics, mapping, collecting data from multiple data systems on premises and cloud-based data sources.
• Understanding of and experience using analytical concepts and statistical techniques: hypothesis testing, designing tests/experiments, analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and developing actionable recommendations for business units.
• Experience using analytics techniques to contribute to company growth efforts, increasing revenue and other key business outcomes.

Other requirements:

• Strong quantitative and analytical skills with business knowledge and excellence in planning and execution.
• High proficiency in Data Analysis tools and programming languages, particularly Python, SQL, and Power BI.
• Strong knowledge of predictive modelling and machine learning algorithms/concepts.
• Ability to work independently or collectively to develop ideas and lead or contribute to initiatives that will support the attainment of revenue and/or attainment of market share
• Proven ability to leverage technology to translate business requirements
• Strong problem solving, good judgement, strategic and multidimensional thinker
• Strong ability to plan and manage numerous processes, people and projects simultaneously.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and delegation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously, owns deliverables end to end, and partners with other teams to achieve goals

Start Up Environment:

• Thrives in a fast paced, start-up environment with dynamic business priorities.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health Insurance
• Pension
• Performance Bonus
• Annual paid vacation
• Group Life Insurance

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3.) Investor Relations Analyst

Job Location: Lagos
Job type: Full-time

Job Description

• Support team lead with end-to-end process of organising and managing capital raising processes, preparation of marketing and due diligence materials, addressing questions from investors, organizing meetings and roadshows, as well as negotiations and fund documentation preparations.
• Support team lead to identify potential investors and develop proper points of contact, both direct and indirect, in order to develop direct relationships for capital raising.
• Responsible for all business administrative work related to the team such as data entry, data maintenance, and data quality
• Assist team leads in creating and preparing financial reports, conducting research, and analysis as well as tracking all actions.
• Identify, research and resolve issues involving data processing errors
• Perform market research, data mining, business intelligence, and analysis
• Participate in investment, valuation and risk management processes.
• Develop and manage communication protocols for all boarded investors, including distribution of periodic performance updates and financial information.
• Preparation of due diligence responses, meeting agendas, etc.
• Produce deliverables for communication with existing and prospective investors;
• Maintain and update information on existing investors, including contact information, investor activity, and portfolio construction planning, and communicate this information internally;
• Prepare investor proposals by determining concept, gathering and formatting information, writing drafts, and obtaining approvals
• Maintaining internal models of the company, such as the forecasts and 3-statement projections 
• Focus on deal monitoring and reporting – performance reporting for annual and interim reports to meet investor deadlines
• Participate in organizing investor due diligence, subscription, and closing.
• Develop a thorough understanding of investors’ investments and activity in order to competently represent the firm and report to investors;
• Manage third-party vendors such as legal counsel and marketing consultants;
• Prepare certain levels of investor communication such as transaction announcements (new deals, add-ons, exits);
• Work with senior leadership and external consultants to optimize and maintain Babban Gona brand.

Requirements

• Experience in Investor Relations Role
• 1 - 3 years of related experience in a Investor Relations role within a fast-moving and dynamic business environment
• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics or other relevant field. The equivalent of the same in practical experience is also acceptable. The candidate will also be better suited with ICAN, CFA or ACCA certification.
• Business development, sales, and negotiation experience
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills and experience in financial analysis and modelling
• Demonstrated ability to interpret data to derive business insights

Other Requirements:

• Strong organizational and project management skills and attention to detail
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize deliverables, and manage and meet tight deadlines
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong Microsoft Office Skills (including Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word)
• Strong financial modelling skills; outstanding analytical and presentation skills
• Service-oriented and pro-active, with good interpersonal skills and a passion for developing strong relationships with existing clients and prospects
• Excellent interpersonal skills and problem solving skills
• Ability to provide support to; and collaborate with internal units and external groups to achieve business objectives

Start Up Environment:

• Thrives in a fast paced, start-up environment with dynamic business priorities. 

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health Insurance
• Pension
• Performance Bonus
• Annual paid vacation
• Group Life Insurance

Click here to apply online