Business Development Associate

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct end-to-end field recruitment activities by visiting local markets, community hubs, and other sourcing hotspots.
• Build and maintain a steady pipeline of candidates through vendor networks, local references, community groups, and job portals.
• Develop and manage relationships with external hiring vendors and partners to increase candidate supply.
• Screen and shortlist candidates as per job requirements and coordinate interviews.
• Travel extensively across assigned locations to source candidates and conduct on-ground hiring drives.
• Provide daily/weekly reports on sourcing progress and pipeline health.
• Maintain a strong understanding of local areas, key sourcing spots, and potential recruitment opportunities.

Required Skills & Experience:

✅ Minimum 2 years of proven experience in field recruitment for frontline or delivery/logistics roles.

✅ Strong vendor network and ability to generate leads through references, local connect, and community ties.

✅ Past experience with companies like Swiggy, Zomato, Flipkart, Amazon, Meesho, Delhivery, Zepto, Jio, Airtel or similar is mandatory.

✅ Should own a two-wheeler and have a valid driving license for local travel.

✅ Familiarity with local areas, languages, and sourcing strategies in the region.

✅ Comfortable with extensive travel and working on tight hiring deadlines.

Eligibility Criteria:

1. Excellent Verbal and written communication

2. Willing to work 6 days a week (should be available on Saturdays & Sundays)

3. Willing to invest 3-4 Teaching hours every day

4. At least 1 year of English Teaching experience

5. Should have good Wi-Fi and a Laptop with Webcam

The responsibilities would include, but not be limited to, the following:

Financial Reporting: You will be providing timely and accurate financial reporting to management together with strategic insights on the company s financial position. 

Accounting Systems and Processes - Understanding requirements, identifying, evaluating and implementing the most suitable accounting system/ tools needed to support the accounting needs of the organization

Implementing best in class accounting practices and Internal Control procedures considering:

• Accounts Payables - Purchase to Procurement Cycle & Policies, SOPs and SLAs
• Accounts Receivables - Billing Processes and Systems to raise timely invoices and perform ageing analysis
• Revenue and Cash Reconciliations and suggesting and implementing SOPs and SLAs

Financial Closure - Ensure timely and accurate monthly closures. Consistent analyzing of financial data and presenting financial reports in an accurate and timely manner; clearly communicate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements; monitor progress, changes and keep senior leadership abreast of the financial status;

Audit - Ensure timely year end financial closures – Statutory, Tax and IFC. Handle end to end audit process and ensure timely completion of audits

Compliances and knowledge - Understand the applicability and ensure compliance with all the relevant statutes impacting the company. Keep abreast with all regulations impacting the companies accounting, compliance and reporting requirements as well as those impacting the company’s operations. Understanding of Income Tax, GST, imports and exports, FDI Regulation, Companies Act, and other tax regulations

Automation - Identify and implement processes to automate all routine repetitive tasks.

Assisting leadership in the annual budgeting and planning process; administering and reviewing all financial plans and comparing to actual results with a view to identifying, explaining and correcting variances as appropriate;  

 Leveraging strengths of the finance team members; providing clarity on the roles and responsibilities; developing and implementing training programmes to maximize and help them reach optimal individual and organizational goals; 

• Design, develop, implement and maintain our core Oracle applications.
• Maintain our SQL / PLSQL processes.
• Ensure DB availability.
• Proactively manage and maintain security standards and controls by creating storage database structures with high-level security features.
• Actively seek to optimise and simplify our architecture.
• Take ownership of performance and capacity monitoring aspects of the DB.
• Execution of data migration jobs and scripts as required.
• Assist the infrastructure team in sizing hardware used for the DB.
• Support and collaborate with product developers.
• Contribute to the creation and maintenance of disaster recovery plans.
• Work closely with the application vendors, co-ordinate and manage the DBA activities.
• Own and follow up with Vendors/Stakeholders & their DBAs when required.
• Create a reliable backup strategy. Ensure database backups are appropriately
• executed and periodic restorations are exercised to ensure backup quality.
• Determine and document DB policies, procedures and standards.
• Performance testing and evaluation to ensure data security, privacy and integrity.
• Identification of bottle necks and deadlock issues.
• Ensure SLA's & operational KPI’s are met, working as necessary with internal and external support functions when major incidents occur.
• Install upgrades and security patches.
• Alter storage structures to meet the evolving needs of the company.
• Set up database user accounts.
• Train users on how to access the information in the database.
• Find and debug malfunctioning programs affecting the database integrity.
• Create autonomous database backups.
• Regularly update the database security protocols.

Desired Skills:

• Ideally Oracle Certified DB Professional (OCP) with more than 5 years’ experience with Oracle, preferably in a lead role.
• Technical degree preferable (B.E. / B. Tech).
• Must experience with an organisation that has 24x7 reliability on its database.
• Must have experience with Oracle Exadata.
• Must Operating system experience in Linux.
• Must hands on knowledge of Shell scripting on Linux Platform
• Must hands on knowledge of Oracle management tools (Data Guard, RMAN).
• Must hands on knowledge of SQL / PLSQL.
• Experience should include DB design (modelling and normalisation), capacity planning, performance tuning, storage management, back-up and recovery, managing schemas, report generation and DB clustering technologies.
• Knowledge of Partitioning.
• Knowledge of architecture design principles.
• Good problem solver, focused and dedicated developer with ability to work on
• your own as well as with a team.
• Hands on experience with DB standards and end user applications-translating
• capacity requirements into infrastructure deployment technology.
• Strong practical experience of ORACLE in a production environment (Ver 19c).
• Must be a self-starter with a strong attention to detail.

About Us

Welthungerhilfe is an international aid agency headquartered in Germany with its vision for “Zero Hunger by 2030”, the second sustainable development goal set by the UN. It has thousands of programs fighting hunger in more than 30 countries. Welthungerhilfe (https://www.welthungerhilfe.org/">https://www.welthungerhilfe.org)  (https://www.childgrowthmonitor.org/">https://www.childgrowthmonitor.org).

Child Growth Monitor (CGM) is Welthungerhilfe’s digital innovation project leveraging AI to fight child malnutrition. Around 200 million children around the world are suffering from malnutrition. Malnutrition contributes to one-third of the deaths of children under the age of five. In the fight against malnutrition, detection is the first important step, but this is not an easy task: Measuring children with traditional methods is still a complex, slow, and expensive task, frequently resulting in poor data and wrong assessments of the child’s health. Early detection of malnutrition becomes the key to initiating treatment, minimizing the risk of complications, and saving lives by reducing the chances of death to a great extent.

Our solution to measure children replaces hardware (bulky measuring boards and physical scales) with off-the-shelf cell phones and AI. CGM uses augmented reality-enabled smartphones to record 3D scans of children. Artificial Intelligence is used to predict their height, weight, and middle upper-arm circumference needed to know the nutritional status of the children.

This role concerns a full-time assignment (Consultant role) working for Welthungerhilfe’s CGM project. This will convert to Full-time employment (payroll) in 1^st quarter of 2023 latest. We are in the process of setting up CGM as a registered social business in India and Germany.

What you would do to help us save millions of children's lives

You, as an Engineering Manager responsible for end-to-end software development and delivery including ownership of the components/features owned by the individual’s teams and required to be an individual contributor too. Responsible for managing and coordinating resources and processes in order to achieve quality & timely milestones of product development, this will result in transforming the lives of children, their families, community at large globally.

Your Responsibilities

• Be a highly technical, hands-on manager for a team of 8 -15 product development teams including QA to execute agile development sprints.
• Interfacing with the frontend/backend/ML/AI/DevOps team to develop end-to-end APIs, systems, and architectures.
• Building, communicating and executing robust development, documentation, and product engineering processes
• Define Strategy and Architecture for the new and existing suites of algorithms and their underlying systems.
• Work closely with data scientists, Data Engineers, Product managers, and analysts to develop analytics and ML-driven services that serve ML predictions, and generate data, Insights, and recommendations based on large amounts of data.
• Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for data analyses, model development, validation, and implementation
• Contribute to and promote good software engineering practices across the team
• Coach, lead, and manage a dynamic team of Software and AI/ML Engineers to meet organizational objectives and grow their professional skills and capabilities.
• Communicate clearly and effectively to technical and non-technical audiences equally well
• Actively contribute to and reuse community best practices.

Technical Skills Required:

• Must be a hands-on engineering leader as this role involves rearchitecting and reimplementing systems working alongside the engineers.
• Hands-on development experience using Python (Flask for backend), React, React Native, Nodejs, Vuejs, JavaScript, API Development, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Native Azure cloud development. (You may not need to demonstrate expertise in each of them but have some experience to manage related engineering divisions)
• Ability to coordinate across different products, engineering tasks, and implementing the modules along with scalability, security, and extensibility in mind.
• Well-versed in Flask-Python stack with backend tools such as Kubernetes etc.
• Should possess strong programming skills to write algorithms and understanding of agile development, CI/CD, sprints, code reviews

Eligibility:

• 10+ years of software development experience using an Agile development process with 3+ years of management experience.
• 2-3 years of experience working with a Growth Stage Start-up is desirable.
• Prior experience with creating and maintaining solution architecture
• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field
• Demonstrated track record in building and recruiting robust high performing teams

Personal Traits

• Smart, quick learner, proactive, comfortable working with unknowns and dynamically evolving requirements
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills (interpersonal)
• Proven ability to hire, mentor, coach, and lead a team to success

What You'll Get

• Working with a globally distributed team and partners such as UN agencies, Microsoft, Scientific Research Institutions across the world, etc.
• Flexible work culture & tons of learning curve
• Competitive salary package based on expertise and relevant experience.
• Chance to shape a disruptive AI-driven project to achieve the 'Zero Hunger by 2030' UN goal.

Hiring Process

• You apply
• [30 min] Preliminary discussion with HR
• [60 min] In-depth interview: Domain/Technical round screen with Head of Product / The product team
• [Optional] Scenarios-based recommendation/Culture fit phase- Where you work with us virtually for two days and suggest what's good and improvement areas. Also currently, we gauge our cultural fit with you. [Note- It’s not paid work]
• [60 min] In-depth interview: Final round screen with the Leadership team
• The next day, we evaluate your interview performance, recommendations, and cultural fit.
• Over the next 2-3 days We check references/background and inform you about the hiring decision (Yes or No with feedback)

Diversity at Child Growth Monitor:

We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for everyone, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, migration background, national origin, age, disability status, or caregiver status. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Diversity & Inclusion makes us better.

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• 3+ years of recent hands-on Java development
• Java, Python, JavaScript programming languages
• Fluency with RESTful APIs, AngularJS, HTML5 and CSS
• Great understanding of designing for performance, scalability, and reliability of data intensive application
• Understanding of database fundamentals and advanced SQL knowledge
• In-depth understanding of object oriented programming concepts and design patterns
• Ability to communicate clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, verbally and in writing
• Understanding of full software development life cycle, agile development and continuous integration
• Experience in Agile methodologies including Scrum and Kanban

What puts you over the top:

• Exposure to various technologies like Spring Boot, Microservices, Kubernetes and also some frontend technologies like React.js, Node.js or other UI frameworks.

●  Experience in AdTech or Programmatic

MUST HAVE GOOD EXPERIENCE IN SPRING BOOT, NODE JS, ANGULAR JS, REACT JS, JAVASCRIPT,JAVA, HTML/CSS.