Senior Business Analyst

One Acre Fund

Working to make #smallholder farmers more prosperous. #FarmersFirst.

About the Role

We are looking for a passionate Senior Business Analyst to support our development teams, in charge of analyzing and understanding the business needs raised by our users, and translating them into actionable development work for our engineers to implement into our IT solutions.

We believe technology innovation is crucial to building the most efficient rural distribution network on the African continent. Our passionate Engineering team manages a range of web, chat and mobile solutions to support our field operations staff, such as registering millions of farmers and their orders, optimizing delivery truck loads and routes, tracking deliveries, collecting mobile payments, and BI decision-support solutions such as analyzing loan repayments.

Our tooling landscape includes GitHub, JIRA, Slack and Azure DevOps.

Responsibilities

The Senior Business Analyst will have the following responsibilities:

  • Analyze and clarify requirements, support solution design, incident management, maintain functional documentation
  • Contribute to our continuous improvements in development, quality, and project management processes
  • Nurture a great team culture, provide mentoring to the team members and support their growth

Career Growth and Development

We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll be able to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.

Qualifications

Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have the following:

  • 5+ years experience in the software industry, including 3-5 years in a functional role (Business Analyst )
  • Compassionate style
  • A desire to keep learning
  • Experienced Agile (Scrum) practitioner – CSM/CSPO certification appreciated
  • Experience in agriculture or human development is appreciated
  • Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree

About One Acre Fund

Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund supplies 1 million smallholder farmers with the agricultural services they need to make their farms vastly more productive. Our 8,000+ team is drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions. With operations across six core countries in Africa, we make farmers more prosperous by providing quality farm supplies on credit, delivered within walking distance of farmers’ homes, and agricultural training to improve harvests. On average, the farmers we serve harvest 50 per cent more food after working with One Acre Fund.

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