Junior Data Associate, Council on Smallholder Agricultural Finance
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Job Location:
Washington, AR - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
10 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The Junior Data Associate will support the collection validation analysis and publication of CSAF members lending data helping ensure CSAFs data analysis and public dashboards are accurate well-documented and useful to CSAF members and practitioners partners and other stakeholders. This role will report to the CSAF Data & Learning Manager and provide additional support to the CSAF Director.
Key Responsibilities
A Data collection review & analysis
- Collect and consolidate member-submitted annual data based on pre-established templates and norms.
- Validate data submissions for completeness consistency and accuracy.
- Maintain clean analysis-ready master datasets with clear versioning and documentation.
- Clean and standardize fields for analysis (edates geographies categories currency/units where relevant)
- Support drafting the analysis outputs to support CSAF publications presentations and learning products
- Assist in preparing analysis for CSAF publications presentations and learning materials.
- Support updates to the internal data analysis and CSAF Open Data Portal.
- Provide quality assurance on dashboard outputs by reconciling aggregates vs source tables before publishing.
- Act as a thought partner on new insight generation potential analysis and the presentation of data and insights to external stakeholders.
B Member coordination & planning
- Work with CSAF members to resolve data questions and improve submission quality.
- Maintain submission guidance templates and definitions to streamline reporting.
- Keep the work plan and activity progress consistently updated.
- Coordinate informational technical sessions with CSAF members partners and external experts.
- Support with logistics planning or the annual in-person Convening in Europe.
Qualifications :
Ideal candidates will have 1-3 years of experience in data analysis paired with an appetite to develop planning and project management skills an intellectual curiosity and commitment to learning and a desire to create positive social impact.
Required
- Bachelor degree or equivalent with 13 years of experience in data analysis research or data operations
- Demonstrated Excel skills and comfort working with real-world lending data
- Experience with data cleaning and review
- High attention to detail and strong quality assurance habits
- Strong English language proficiency; working knowledge of Spanish or French is a plus
- Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Willingness and availability to travel to Europe minimum 1 week per year
- Enthusiasm for learning.
Preferred (but not required)
- Exposure to development finance impact investing agricultural finance or banking
- Familiarity with dashboards (Power BI Tableau)
- Interest in transparency responsible data sharing and sector learning
The consultant would begin with a 1-year contract for 224 days with the potential to be renewed upon excellent performance.
Additional Information :
If you believe you can clearly demonstrate your abilities to meet the relevant criteria for the role eligible candidates should submit a CV cover letter and desired daily rate.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Contract
Key Skills
- Financial Services
- Financial Concepts
- Accounting
- Corporate Finance
- Analysis Skills
- Securities Law
- Investment Banking
- Microsoft Excel
- Private equity
- Financial Analysis
- Financial Modeling
- Financial Planning
About Company
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