Reports To: Senior Director, Global Advisory
Job Type: Full-Time Employment
Region:
Africa
- Central America & Mexico
- South America
- United States
Location: Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Kenya, US Remote
Start Date: Immediate
Contact: Please apply by using the form below.
Agriculture is the key to unlocking a better future for billions of people. But while rural families sustain the world, they struggle to sustain themselves. At the same time, they face increasingly urgent challenges, from volatile crop prices to extreme weather.
Root Capital is a social impact investor that provides financing and business training to agricultural enterprises so that they can transform rural communities. We work with enterprises in the "missing middle" of agricultural finance: those whose credit needs are too big for microfinance and too small or risky for commercial banks.
Since 1999, we have loaned over $1.9B to more than 800 businesses and we have trained more than 1,800 ones-improving the lives of 10 million people. As these agricultural businesses succeed and scale, they become engines of impact for their local communities, raising incomes, creating jobs, uplifting women and young people, preserving vulnerable ecosystems, and building rural prosperity.
Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Root Capital currently works in a dozen countries in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia, and has staff in Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Colombia, Peru, Ghana, and Kenya.
Proud winner of the 2024 SCA Sustainability Award for Non-Profits.Learn more here.
Position OverviewThe Advisory Services Department provides technical and support services in Digital Business Intelligence Advisory through Root Capital's Cultivar Data Platform. Critical to achieving the organization's mission, the Cultivar Data Platform is a tool for small and growing agribusinesses that allows digitalization and integration of various data sources for analysis, and decision-making to improve their businesses and livelihoods of the producers leading to sustainable agriculture.
The Cultivar Data Engineer designs and implements new business requirements and improvements primarily within the data warehouse, as well as making significant contributions to ETL (extract, transform, load) processes that support data analysis and reporting. In this role, the Data Engineer would be responsible for end-to-end implementation of data warehouses using the Snowflake platform, providing support for integration and ETL processes using Alteryx, and support for data visualization tools such as PowerBI and Tableau. Collaborating with IT Operations Manager and DBI Systems Admin is critical in delivering high-quality data solutions facilitating agribusiness digital transformation that enables Root Capital to achieve its mission of championing sustainable agriculture.
Duties & Responsibilities:Analyze (60%)
Conceptual: Depth of knowledge of processes
Applied: Application of concept into transactions/projects
Collaborate (20%)
Internal: Internal team communication
External: External communications with clients and collaborators outside of the team
Manage the Project Cycle (20%)
Timeliness: Delivery against timeframes and internal coordination, and the deployment of resources
Quality: Improving and strengthening quality standards and performance against established metrics
Previous Relevant Experience Required
Knowledge, Skills, and Requirements
More information about Root Capital is available atwww.rootcapital.org. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Candidates are encouraged to apply using the form below as soon as possible, making sure to include a resume and cover letter that describes your interest, qualifications, language abilities, salary requirements, and how you learned of the position. Finalist candidates will be required to provide at least three work-related references.
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