About Us
Zellow.ai, part of the Havora group, is an ambitious pan‑African data platform building a continuously expanding, licence-verified repository of corporate and organic user sentiments data across the continent. For Havora, Zellow.ai represents not just a product, but a purpose-driven project: advancing data transparency, governance, and market accountability in African economies.
Applicants will thus be joining Havora’s development pipeline, with the opportunity to contribute directly to the evolution of Zellow.ai. You will benefit from collaborative mentorship and career support, mirroring the same ecosystem that Havora offers its core employees, only this time in a remote, project-infused, high-autonomy setting within the African data hub ecosystem.
Job Description
As a Research Assistant, you will work directly with the Zellow.ai product team to collect, build, validate, and expand our corporate data repository. Areas of focus include:
- Source and collect corporate data from national registries, government filings, data aggregators, and public databases within African jurisdictions.
- Clean, normalise, and consolidate datasets: corporate identifiers, address formats, directorships, shareholding links, global ultimate owners, and historical records.
- Help plan & monitor internal metrics: data completeness, anomaly detection rates, extraction accuracy levels.
- Support business development and product activities: partner due diligence, briefing documents, and public-facing datastories where helpful.
Key ResponsibilitiesÂ
- Scrape public filings and directories (e.g., Nigeria CAC, CIPC)
- Clean/standardise company details, shareholding chains, etc
- Draft analytics briefs and slide summaries for team review
- Produce reports, insights, and documentations
- Conduct literature reviews and summarize relevant research materials.
- Collect, organize, and maintain research data from various sources.
- Assist in designing and carrying out experiments, surveys, or fieldwork.
- Perform data entry, cleaning, and basic statistical analysis.
- Prepare research reports, presentations, and manuscripts for publication.
- Ensure compliance with research protocols, ethical standards, and confidentiality requirements.
- Provide administrative and technical support to the lead researcher and project team.
- Stay updated on developments and methodologies relevant to the research area.
Qualifications:
- 0-1 year of experience in data-driven roles (research, assistantship, Excel/CSV work)
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Public Health, Economics, or related discipline).
- Strong research, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency in data management and statistical software (e.g., SPSS, STATA, R, Python, or Excel).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to organize, prioritize, and manage multiple tasks
- Attention to detail and commitment to research integrity.
- Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team setting.
- Strong written and verbal English, meticulous attention to detail
Preferred Skills
- Firsthand experience with African corporate data or registry scraping
- Awareness of beneficial ownership, data privacy, anonymisation
What We Offer
- Flexible remote contract (flexible hours, ~25–30 hrs/week)
- Mentorship with senior leadership
- Exposure to real-world data challenges across diverse legal systems
- Learning and training in data engineering
