Root Capital is an agricultural impact investor that grows rural prosperity in poor, environmentally vulnerable places in Africa and Latin America by lending capital, delivering financial training, and strengthening market connections for small and growing agricultural businesses.

Main Goal

Train and advise agricultural companies digitization, management, transformation, visualization and data analysis to create a comprehensive view of the business so they can make better and more viable decisions.

Main Consultancy Deliverables

• Perform diagnostics for agribusiness clients, which include measuring business performance in various management areas and identifying strengths, weaknesses and potential development opportunities. Diagnostics assess the client’s readiness (operational and human capacity) to incorporate DBI into their regular business operations.
• Prepare reports and write recommendations based on diagnostic results, and develop/co-create a personalized work and training plan with clients.
• Design digital surveys or other data collection tools for use in the field in collaboration with the client.
• Provide advisory and training services to clients [in line with Root Capital methodology] on topics including, but not limited to: mobile digital tools (usage and development), field data collection, dashboard use, data management, visualization and data analysis for decision making.
• Perform routine monitoring of customer data collection and dashboard synchronization, as well as technical issue resolution.
• Recording activities carried out with clients (using digital data collection tools and Excel) and preparing monthly activity reports.
• Report key impact information, including results, challenges, lessons learned and photographs.
• Promote innovation through contributions to the development and piloting of new instruments, methodologies and training tools.
• Understand and effectively integrate gender-inclusive approaches and gender mainstreaming best practices to ensure that women equitably participate in and benefit from Counseling Services and, more broadly, promote gender equity within our clients.

Note: You must be willing to conduct consulting services (individually with a single client or multi-client workshops) online/remotely and in person .

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• University degree, preferably in studies related to Business Administration, Information Management or Information Technologies.// Experience or professional training in Analytics, Business Management, Agrarian Economics or related studies and/or careers.
• Experience in managing, manipulating, visualizing and analyzing statistical and financial data.
• 3-4+ years of experience training and/or working with business development in rural agricultural areas and/or with agribusiness and/or cooperatives.
• Knowledge and application of participatory training, adult learning and facilitation methodologies
• Knowledge of MS Office Suite, Google Apps and Zoom.
• Advanced or intermediate Excel skills (formulas, math functions, logic, lookup and reference, pivot table design, drop-down lists, pivot charts, Excel add-in power query, pivot, view, maps)
• High organizational planning and management skills, ability to meet deadlines.
• Strong writing skills and ability to prepare reports or other documents as needed
• Extoverted and performance-oriented individual
• Interest and commitment to gender equality
• Ability to travel and work in different parts of the country.
• Ability to manage your work independently with a high degree of responsibility.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of digital data collection tools such as iFormbuilder and SurveyCTO or data visualization tools such as Tableau and Power BI is a plus.
• Knowledge and experience in building BI models, indicator modeling is valued.