New Jobs at AgroMall, 10th April, 2019
AgroMall Discovery and Extension Services Limited is at the intersection of digitised agricultural production support, digitised agricultural extension and digital financial services. We integrate agricultural economics, agronomy and quality control with financial services on our digital platforms turning them into powerful tools in the hands of our agents and farmers for improved farm production and financial inclusion of the rural economy.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: HSE Officer
Location: Lagos
Job Status: Full Time
Department: Health and Safety Department
Purpose
- Responsible for establishing, developing and implementing AgroMall’s health and safety programs as well as managing all Health and Safety issues in the company.
- HSE officers must be a detail-oriented professional with strong critical thinking skills who assess risks and create reports to protect AgroMall and its staff against health, safety, and environmental dangers. An enthusiastic and self motivating individual who will be responsible for proactively protecting the health, safety and environment of our employees, partners and communities where we operate.
Principal Responsibilities
Technical and Operational Responsibilities:
- Ensuring compliance with personal and system HSE regulations or applicable consensus standards at all levels.
- Effectively managing a culture of Learning via lean and flexible HSE systems and processes.
- Monitor incidents of injury, illness, and other situations within an assigned geographic area in AgroMall.
- Write reports detailing health and safety within AgroMall’s research and project area/location.
- Design strategies to reduce incidents of illness, environmental accidents, and other issues that may affect public and staff safety.
- Go to the field to investigate environmental accidents and other public safety concerns within the location/area. She/he may also assign team members to investigate reported incidents.
- Give presentations about current safety hazards based on market research to educate others about avoiding health, safety, and environmental hazards.
- Assess AgroMall’s risks associated with tools and equipment, jobsites, and work environments.
Leadership Accountabilities:
- Demonstrates initiative and role model behavior. Is proactive and works toward supporting an achievement oriented culture and performance excellence
- Displays appropriate behavior and contributes to creating a positive team spirit
- Remains alert to emerging issues and global trends that might benefit t or otherwise impact individual and team’s work;
- Creates regular opportunities for peers, colleagues, partners and stakeholders to contribute toward
Relationship Accountability:
- Speaks and writes clearly and concisely by effectively identifying key points relevant to the subject matter;
- Actively listens, shares information, and proposes suggestions and solutions;
- Consults with supervisor/manager to gather his/her views in support of the message to be communicated;
- Expresses his/her views and concerns in an impartial and constructive manner with the intent to resolve issues;
Management Accountability:
- Understands personal and team roles, responsibilities and objectives
- Proactively seeks clarification when needed
- Proactively seeks instruction, feedback and coaching to improve performance
- Demonstrates behaviors such as teamwork, knowledge sharing, maintaining relationships
- Recognizes potential road blocks to completing tasks and seeks guidance from Supervisors to address issues.
Education, Technical Skills, Competences and Working Relationship
Education and Experience:
- Minimum of 3 years experience as an HSE professional
- Bachelor's Degree or HND in any related course
- Relevant HSE certification; NEBOSH, HSE 1, 2, 3 certifications
- Technical skills and competence
- Team player and self-starter
- Ability to influence, inspire and motivate people who are not directly under your responsibility
- Strong analytical skills and strategic thinking abilities
- Organizational behavior and excellent Communication skills
- Microsoft Office applications- Intermediate level.
- Must be proactive and good Knowledge of data analysis and risk assessment
- Strong attention to detail and ability to multi task.
Working Relationships:
- This position HSE Officer Reports to the HSE manager
Working Conditions:
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Program Manager
Location: Lagos
Job Status: Full Time
Purpose
- Strategize, implement, and maintain AgroMall’s program initiatives that adhere to organizational objectives
- Develop program assessment protocols for evaluation and improvement
- Maintain organizational standards of satisfaction, quality, and performance
- Oversee multiple AgroMall’s programs, project teams, ensuring program goals are reached
- Manage budget and funding channels for maximum productivity
Principal Responsibilities
Technical and Operational Responsibilities:
- Organizing programs and activities in accordance with the mission and goals of the organization.
- Drive and manage company research centers and build good relationship with host communities.
- Ensure safety and compliance of the program location and drive and manage AgroMall’s warehouse
- Developing new programs to support the strategic direction of the organization.
- Creating and managing long-term goals for AgroMall
- Developing a budget and operating plan for the program.
- Developing an evaluation method to assess program strengths and identify areas for improvement.
- Writing program funding proposals to guarantee uninterrupted delivery of services.
- Managing a team with a diverse array of talents and responsibilities.
- Ensuring goals are met in areas including customer satisfaction, safety, and quality and team member performance.
- Implementing and managing changes and interventions to ensure project goals are achieved.
- Meeting with stakeholders to make communication easy and transparent regarding project/program issues and decisions on services.
- Producing accurate and timely reporting of program status throughout its life cycle.
- Analyse program risks and working on strategy with the marketing team.
Leadership accountabilities:
- Develops strategies and plans that have a positive impact and add value for all partners and Stakeholders;
- Provides direction, guidance and clarity on roles and responsibilities;
- Promotes a culture of learning and development, with a focus on continuous improvement;
- Empowers the team to generate creative ideas and solutions;
Relationship Accountability:
- In consultation with the supervisor, keeps staff informed of decisions, presenting them in a manner that generates understanding and acceptance;
- Actively shares information and ideas, and encourages others to share their views and concerns;
- Uses tact and discretion in dealing with sensitive information or resolving delicate issues, paying attention to non-verbal cues;
- Uses professional judgment consistent with the Agency’s applicable regulations, rules and policies on confidentiality requirements to determine information to be disclosed on activities to be implemented;
Management accountability:
- Models independent thinking and action, raises standards and motivates excellence
- Coaches team members to appropriately share knowledge across teams
- Addresses conflicts in a timely, sensitive manner; escalates to leadership when appropriate
- Expands team engagement and provides practical developmental support
- Works with individuals to set appropriately challenging development goals, explaining not just what to do, but why to do it.
Education, Technical Skills, Working Relationship
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree or Master's degree in business or related field.
- 5+ years in an advanced management role (preference given to those with program management experience)
- Proven experience in program management and managing a team.
- Experience using computers for a variety of tasks.
Technical Skills and Competence:
- Program and project management
- Competency in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
- Understanding of project management.
- Proven stakeholder management skills.
- Exceptional leadership, time management, facilitation, and organizational skills
- Working knowledge of technology and agriculture
- Outstanding working knowledge of change management principles and performance evaluation processes.
Working Relationships:
- This position manages AgroMall’s program
Working conditions
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Internal Audit and Control Officer
Location: Lagos
Job Status: Full Time
Department: Audit and Control Department
Purpose
- The role will be responsible for implementing internal audit, Control and Corporate Governance system in AgroMall.
Principal Responsibilities
Operational and Technical Responsibilities:
- Ensure proper internal audit and control system in AgroMall and carry out Audit activities and prepare reports.
- Coordinate the compilation and continuous review of a detailed transaction process flow for all key activities in the organization and define control measures to ensure compliance.
- Supervise the execution of Agromall’s control procedures on financial processes such as revenue collection, receivable and asset management, investments, international operations, etc.
- Prepare/ review internal audit reports covering audit activities, findings and overall assessment of control environment.
- Ensure all financial transactions are bona-fide, accurate and processed in line with established policies and procedures and coordinate the review of all payment vouchers to both internal and external parties.
- Keep abreast of global and local best practice as it relates to the internal audit operations and control system.
- Coordinate the review of business/ operating processes and practices and information systems to ensure the adequacy of existing controls as well as mitigate errors, irregularities and fraud.
- Perform investigations into suspected fraudulent/sharp practices across the organization and recommend the appropriate line of action in response to findings.
- Investigate client complaints and provide reports on same.
- Prepare audit reports and advise units and committees on departure from policies, procedures, and other exceptions.
Relationship Accountability:
- Speaks and writes clearly and concisely by effectively identifying key points relevant to the subject matter;
- Actively listens, shares information, and proposes suggestions and solutions;
- Expresses his/her views and concerns in an impartial and constructive manner with the intent to resolve issues;
- Seeks guidance from supervisors if they are unclear on whether information can be disclosed, consistent with their obligations with respect to Agency information, as set out in the Agency’s applicable regulations, rules and policies.
Education, Technical Skills, Competences and Working Relationship
Education and Experience:
- First degree or its equivalent in a numerate discipline (Accounting, Economics, Finance, etc), MBA or Master’s degree in Finance or Accounting is an added advantage
- 4 years relevant experience of which at least two (3) years must have been spent in a similar role in the financial services industry
- Professional Membership
- Chartered membership of ICAN/ ACCA required
Competence and Technical Skills:
- Knowledge of audit techniques and methods required
- Knowledge of corporate governance practices and ability to analyze financial data
- Knowledge of finance, accounting, budgeting, and cost control principles
- Ability to read large volumes of documents effectively and extract necessary information
- In-depth understanding of the organization’s business issues
- Communication & Presentation, Good report writing skills and Negotiation
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite & the Internet
- Generic Skills, Team work, Integrity, Pro-activity and Detail orientation
- Savings on income leakages Timely and discreet execution of investigations
- Number of timely conducted audits and reduced fraud cases
- Comprehensive, clear, and constructive audit and fraud reports
Working Relationships:
- This position Internal Audit and Control Officer reports to the department manager
Working conditions:
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Risk Officer
Location: Lagos
Job Status: Full Time
Department: Risk Department
Purpose
- As a Risk Officer you'll be responsible for managing the risk of AgroMall, its employees, customers, reputation, assets and interests of stakeholders along with the Risk Manager
- You may work in a variety of sectors and specialize in a number of areas including business continuity, corporate governance, enterprise risk, information and security risk, market and credit risk, regulatory and operational risk, technology risk etc.
Principal Responsibilities
Operational and Technical Responsibilities:
- Leadership accountabilities
- Demonstrates initiative and role model behavior. Is proactive and works toward supporting an achievement oriented culture and performance excellence
- Displays appropriate behavior and contributes to creating a positive team spirit
- Remains alert to emerging issues and global trends that might benefit t or otherwise impact individual and team’s work;
- Creates regular opportunities for peers, colleagues, partners and stakeholders to contribute toward
- Manage the process for developing risk policies and procedures for AgroMall.
- Assist with the development and coordination of the risk management process which includes identifying, assessing, analyzing, reporting and evaluating company's risks.
- Facilitate quarterly review and update of risks across AgroMall.
- Review and track close out of risks action items by due dates and ensure risk management infrastructures that support risk management process are performing effectively.
- Generate and send risk management reports to appropriate level of authorities as required.
- Carrying out processes such as purchasing insurance, implementing health and safety measures and making business continuity plans to limit risks and prepare for if things go wrong
Relationship Accountability:
- Speaks and writes clearly and concisely by effectively identifying key points relevant to the subject matter;
- Actively listens, shares information, and proposes suggestions and solutions;
- Consults with supervisor/manager to gather his/her views in support of the message to be communicated;
- Expresses his/her views and concerns in an impartial and constructive manner with the intent to resolve issues;
Management Accountability:
- Understands personal and team roles, responsibilities and objectives
- Proactively seeks clarification when needed
- Proactively seeks instruction, feedback and coaching to improve performance
- Demonstrates behaviors such as teamwork, knowledge sharing, maintaining relationships
- Recognizes potential road blocks to completing tasks and seeks guidance from Supervisors to address issues.
Education, Technical Skills, Competences and Working Relationship
Education and Experience:
- Minimum required experience: 2 year(s) experience in risk management role
- Min Qualification: Bachelor's Degree/HND
- Bachelor's Degree or Higher National Diploma (minimum of Second Class-Lower) in Accountancy, Finance, Economics, Mathematics or any numerate discipline.
- International Certification in Enterprise Risk Management is an added advantage
Technical Skills:
- Negotiation skills and the ability to influence people
- Good communication and presentation skills
- Commercial awareness
- Problem-solving and decision-making abilities
- Analytical skills and a good eye for detail
- Planning and organization skills
Competence:
- Risk Management
- Risk Analysis
- Technical acumen
- Numerical skills and the ability to evaluate costs
- The ability to understand broad business issues.
Working Relationships:
- This position Risk Officer Reports to the Risk manager
Working Conditions:
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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