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About the job

• If you want to understand how mission-driven capital actually works — and build the function that moves it — this is your role. This is not a support role. You will not be handing off work or waiting for instructions.

In 18 Months, You Will Have:

• Tracked, applied for, and secured grants from a foundation or bilateral donor — taking it from opportunity identification through to signed agreement.
• Built and maintained a live fundraising pipeline that gives leadership real-time visibility into where we are in every active raise.
• Built stakeholder engagement processes that make every investor and donor feel informed, valued, and confident in Babban Gona’s stewardship of their capital.

What You Will Own:

• Own the full fundraising cycle across debt, equity, and grant capital — from identifying opportunities and building the case, through due diligence, negotiation, and close.
• Prepare high-quality investment memoranda, information packages, and financial models that make Babban Gona’s story compelling and the numbers airtight.
• Coordinate due diligence processes — organise data rooms, manage document requests, and liaise with internal teams to ensure investors get what they need, when they need it.

Requirements

Who We're Looking For:

• You are 3 to 5 years into a career at the intersection of finance, fundraising, and stakeholder relationships. You have worked on capital raises or grant processes before — not just in a supporting role, but as someone who owned a piece of it. You know what a good proposal looks like.
• You are organised without being rigid. You can manage five active processes simultaneously — a grant proposal deadline, an investor reporting cycle, a DFI due diligence request — without dropping any of them. You write clearly. You communicate proactively. You do not wait to be chased.
• You care about what you are raising capital for. The fact that this money goes to smallholder farmers in Northern Nigeria — doubling their yields, tripling their incomes, keeping their children in school — matters to you. Not as a marketing line. As a reason to do the work well.

The Right Mindset:

• Take ownership of outcomes, not just tasks — if a grant report is late, that is your problem to solve, not escalate.
• Build relationships with investors and donors that go beyond transactional — you understand that trust is the real currency in capital markets.
• Thrive in fast-moving, ambiguous environments where the brief is rarely perfect and the work cannot wait.
• See the mission in the numbers — and let that sharpen, not soften, their analytical rigour.

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About the job

• This is not a maintenance role. The Senior Associate, Investor Relations (Operator Finance) will take full ownership of the operator financing cycle — from structuring and deploying credit to smallholder operators, to reporting on portfolio performance, to managing the relationships with the investors who fund it all.

In 18 Months, You Will Have:

• Built a clean, investor-ready view of the full operator financing portfolio — with clear metrics on deployment, repayment performance, and risk.
• Supported the closing of major financing facilities that directly fund hundreds of thousands of smallholder farmer loans.
• Established a reliable investor reporting cadence that gives our partners confidence in our data and in us.

What You Will Own:

• Own the end-to-end operator financing cycle — from credit structuring and loan disbursement to collections tracking, repayment analysis, and financial reporting on portfolio health.
• Prepare and maintain fiscal records, investment schedules, consolidated forecasts, and long-range financial plans with accuracy and discipline.
• Support active fundraising efforts: build and maintain data rooms, respond to due diligence requests, and prepare investor-facing financial models and decks.

Requirements

Who We're Looking For:

• You are a finance professional who has spent 7–10 years close to the intersection of credit, capital, and relationships. You understand the Nigerian banking landscape deeply — how DFIs think, how SME financing works, and what it takes to build the trust of institutional investors.
• You do not want to manage someone else’s spreadsheet. You want to own the full picture — and you want the work to mean something. You are energised by complexity, not paralysed by it. You can translate a messy portfolio into a clean investor narrative. You know when to escalate and when to solve.
• Critically, you are someone who thinks about the people who come after you. You build systems, document your work, and mentor others — not because you are asked to, but because you understand that a function that depends on one person is a fragile function.

The Right Mindset:

• Care about what the numbers mean in the real world: a 2% repayment shortfall is not just a data point, it is a farmer’s household.
• Take ownership without being asked — and raise issues without being told.
• Want to build something they are proud of, not just execute what they are handed.
• Thrive in ambiguity and build structure where none exists — rather than waiting for a perfect brief.

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About the job

• Most organisations treat audit and risk as the department that says no. We are building the function that makes yes possible — safely, at scale, across hundreds of farming clusters and thousands of smallholder farmers who depend on what we get right.

What You Will Help Build:

• A scalable internal controls framework that works across our farm clusters — consistent, field-tested, and trusted by operations leadership.
• A compliance and reporting infrastructure that gives our donors and impact investors real-time confidence in how their capital is deployed.
• A compliance and reporting infrastructure that gives our donors and impact investors real-time confidence in how their capital is deployed.

Outcomes We Expect:

• Design and implement a monitoring cadence for controls at the farm cluster level that does not require central oversight to function.
• Create a compliance calendar and evidence-management system that survives key-person dependency.
• Conduct fraud risk assessment of field operations, identifying the top five exposure areas and proposing mitigating controls.
• Lead end-to-end donor audit cycle with zero material findings attributed to internal process gaps.
• Reduce repeat audit findings by 40% within 18 months by driving root-cause resolution, not just repeat reporting.

Requirements
Who We're Looking For:

• Solid grounding in internal audit methodology, risk frameworks (COSO, IPPF, or equivalent), and internal controls design.
• Strong analytical skills — you can read between the lines of a reconciliation, a variance, or a process breakdown.
• Experience with financial controls and compliance reporting, ideally in an organisation with external funders, donors, or development finance institutions.
• The ability to translate risk language into business language — you make people understand why this matters.

Your Mindset:

• You are more energised by designing a system that prevents problems than by writing a report about problems that already happened.
• You are curious. You understand that fraud and control breakdowns often happen in the gaps between processes — and you look for those gaps.

What Excites You:

• The idea that your work protects smallholder farmers from the downstream consequences of organisational failure.
• Being part of building something — not inheriting a mature function, but creating one that will outlast your tenure.
• A clear, intentional succession pathway into a senior leadership role within this function.
• Working in an organisation that is genuinely trying to do something hard and important in the world.