Recruitment and Selection: Support the identification of the right businesses to partner with.
Business Diagnostics: Lead the review of business models and other data sets of the selected businesses
including market segmentation, positioning, competitor analysis, industry trends, practice of agroecology,
regenerative agriculture or circular agribusiness etc to assess business health and identify operational and
strategic gaps and growth opportunities and draft reports with recommendations for improvement.
Financial Analysis: Analyze business financials, strategies and operational systems and design excel
dashboards and scorecards that provide visibility into KPIs, effectiveness of current strategies and key
business trends or drivers.
Financial Modeling: Build financial models and analyze pricing models, unit economics and capitalization
tables to support the decision analysis on potential participants in the program and future investments
into SMEs.
Industry Research and Analysis: Research and conduct sectoral and industry analysis,and develop insights
to support acceptance of businesses into our programs and investment decisions into businesses. This will
also involve validating our selection criteria to ensure relevant data points are tracked from the beginning
of the program.
Reporting and Analysis: Collect and analyze financial and operational data sets from program SMEs to
develop and deliver/present reports identifying positive and negative trends, notable risks, opportunities
for revenue growth and propose actionable recommendations for improvement to management teams.
Business Planning: Support management teams to develop and implement strong business plans by
scrutinizing strategic directions, including market segmentation, positioning, competitor analysis, industry
trends, etc
Curriculum Quality Assurance: Ensuring the design and execution of the curriculum is aligned with and
meeting the needs of the businesses in their respective market contexts.

Account Management and entrepreneur engagement: As part of your role, you are expected to lead
account management, working closely with assigned businesses and entrepreneurs to ensure key
deliverables are met and the businesses benefit from the initiative. This may include travel to the location
of the businesses.
Impact Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning. Maintain an up to date project impact data dashboard. You
are expected to update it regularly to support project performance as per the results’ framework. You will
do this by regularly gathering and accurately analysing entrepreneur data (qualitative and quantitative)
related to revenue, profitability, investment, value chain activities and their transition to Agroecology.
Entrepreneurial Stories of change are an integral part of this data being gathered.
Entrepreneur database maintenance. Coordinate and maintain the entrepreneur information on a shared
drive to ensure the smooth running of the project, and SHONA’s business development activities.
Doing whatever it takes to support project teams and the businesses we work with: We are a small
entrepreneurial team that steps up when there is work to be done. At times, you’ll be expected to work
outside of just your role to contribute to our team’s overall efforts.

Education/Work Experience
● Bachelor’s degree majoring in business, finance, accounting or economics preferred
● At least 5 years experience in banking, accounting, management consulting and investment
advisory
● Experience working with Agribusinesses
Skills + Capabilities
● Highly numerical and analytical i.e you are very comfortable with numbers and able to analyze
large sets of qualitative and quantitative data
● Highly proficient with excel, MS Word and MS Powerpoint. Proficiency with Power PBI is an added
advantage.
● You have experience stepping into ambiguous and disorganized situations and bringing structure.
● You have experience building financial models, cap tables and conducting quantitative and
qualitative financial analysis.
● You have experience in developing business plans, building and managing dashboards and analyzing
data from diverse sources.
● You have strong communication skills i.e ability to write and present investment memoranda in
both written and oral communication
● You have experience working on teams with diverse cultures.
● You are able to quickly build rapport and maintain strong relationships with teams, entrepreneurs,
partners and investors

● You are able to coach and support entrepreneurs to finding their own solutions to challenges
● You have the ability to strategically think and interact with management teams to prepare,
understand and present analytical reports

Deadline: 23/02/2026

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