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Data Analyst

Position: Data Analyst
Reporting to: Data Manager- Bus. Intelligence
Position Band: Grade 3
Compensation: Competitive
Start Date: February 2025
Contract Duration: 12 months
Job Location: Lusaka with frequent domestic travel

Company Background and Position Purpose

Good Nature is a legume seed and commodity company founded to profitably move farmers out of poverty and into the middle class. We believe that the future of agriculture in Africa is disaggregated, with smallholders as the most powerful producers for local, regional, and global markets. We have designed our systems to be personal yet scalable. We have overseen consistent annual growth in our supply chain (expanding to 4,600 small-scale seed producers and 10,000 small-scale commodity producers), processing capacity, grower income (now 700% of baseline), and company revenue. Our growers and our staff continue to learn and become more efficient.

We are now at a point of inflection: expanding beyond Zambia and formally establishing Good
Nature Agro Malawi in 2021 and exported to 5 countries in 2022, adding new product lines and
revenue streams, and strengthening our services to both growers and customers with
investments in technology and integrated market access for farmers and customers.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Data Analyst position is designed to support the digital transformation of the organization
as well as extract valuable insights from data to support data-driven decision making across
the business.

This role shall be reporting directly to the Data Manager- Business Intelligence. You will also be working closely with the CFO and the Business Transformation team. You will also work closely with members of Production, Processing, Finance, and Operations Teams.

You are expected to show leadership with exceptional initiative and the ability to see the big
picture, while still delivering via teams on precise reporting deadlines. Management acumen
and the ability to effectively self-manage are essential qualities for this position. The success
of this position relies on your ability as a leader to motivate and support a diverse employee
base, and ability to implement projects and activities in a fast-paced environment.

Principal Tasks and Responsibilities:

● Develop, maintain, and enhance self-service BI tools and dashboards to empower teams with actionable insights.
● Collaborate with cross functional teams to identify and understand data requirements, build dashboards and tailored reports, generate insights, and answer business questions.
● Communicate data findings to key stakeholders and senior management in a clear and concise manner.
● Help Good Nature Agro refine our data to monitor progress towards our goal as a “full farm partner” for farmers and our mission of “moving smallholder farmers from poverty into the middle class”.
● Assist in the development and refinement of data-driven performance indicators, targets, and data collection tools to measure project progress and outcomes.
● Design sample surveys and research to explore questions that we do not capture in our core farmer tracking system, including the use of comparison groups.
● Program surveys into data collection apps and train staff on research and enumeration for monitoring and evaluation activities.
● Collaborate in the design and development of data collection forms, surveys, and tools and support their implementation ensuring data quality and accuracy.
● Build and maintain company KPI dashboards across the business and individual business units.
● Leverage Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to develop
predictive and prescriptive analytics models for crop yield predictions, disease detection, and resource optimization.
● Implement and monitor data governance frameworks, defining clear roles and responsibilities.
● Support data-driven initiatives by providing analytical expertise to departments across the organization.
● Develop and enhance data management processes, including data collection, transfer, entry, and cleaning.

Essential Requirements:

● Bachelor’s Degree or above in Data, Business, Statistics, Science, IT or related field.
● Minimum 2 years of experience working in Data/Analytics, Business Intelligence, M & E or related roles.
● Experience in Agricultural related industry is an added advantage.
● Strong analytical, communication, problem solving and decision-making skills.
● Strong skills in advanced analytics, including predictive modeling and machine learning applications.
● A strong collaborative spirit and team player, able to build effective work relationships across teams and levels of seniority.
● Proficiencies required in: Python/R, SQL, Tableau/Power BI, Data collection and analysis tools.
● Superior Skills in data analysis, presentation/visualization and reporting.
● Knowledge of statistics and experience using statistical packages for analyzing datasets (Excel, SPSS, SAS, STATA etc.) is a plus.
● Excellent attention to detail and commitment to quality and accuracy.
● Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office products (Word; Excel).
● Fluent in written and spoken English.

Application Process Requirements:

1. Please submit your CV (including traceable references).
2. Submit a maximum two-page cover letter highlighting your professional experience as it relates to the job requirements and what makes you a good fit for the role at Good Nature Agro.
3. The CV and Cover letter must be submitted as a single PDF document with your full name as the title of the file to [email protected] with subject: “Data Analyst Application”.
4. Complete the short questionnaire at the link provided here. Questionnaire

Applications that do not fulfill all the Application Requirements listed above will not be considered. Closing date for all applications is 30th January 2025.

*Women encouraged to apply*