One Acre Fund is a nonprofit organization that supplies smallholder farmers in East Africa with asset-based financing and agriculture training services to reduce hunger and poverty. Headquartered in Bungoma, Kenya, the organization works with farmers in rural villages throughout Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and recently Malawi. Using a market-based approach, One Acre Fund facilitates activities and transactions at various levels of the farming value chain, including seed sourcing and market support. In 2013, farmers who worked with One Acre Fund realized a 180% return on their investment and significantly increased farm income on every planted acre.
- Job Type: Full Time
- Qualification: BA/BSc/HND
- Experience: 3 – 5 years
- Location: Nasarawa
- Job Field: NGO/Non-Profit , Project Management
About The Role
- You will support the Trees Lead in operation and execution of the Trees program, overseeing trials and managing field staff.
- You will directly manage up to 5 supervisors and lead all aspects of operation for the economic trees program across multiple states in Nigeria.
- You will report directly to the Trees Lead
Responsibilities
Design Trials and Expansion (40%)
- Lead on the launch and execution of streams of innovations and trials
- Contribute to high-level strategy development and detailed field execution
- Build detailed trial project plans, including execution calendar
- Develop trial budgets and building of sustainable financial models
- Develop Management and KPI tools (e.g., Dashboards, training calendar, KPI trackers)
- Design and conduct market research to improve product and service delivery to clients.
Strategy (30%)
- High-level trial design – lead discussions on what questions to test through the trial, how to test it, and how the learning will improve longer term program design. Some essential components for discussion include marketing strategy, pricing, and distribution of the product/service.
- Work with the M&E team to design trials and data collection plans to evaluate impact at trial conclusion
- Collaborate with other departments and global research teams to build program solutions and innovations.
Operations/Team Management (30%)
- Spend time in the field talking to our potential smallholder farmer clients to understand real-time challenges.
- Identify opportunities to improve operations and program performance, through weekly tracking of measurements, and working on process improvements
- Hire and develop teams to operationalize plans
Career Growth and Development
We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.
Qualifications
Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:
- 3 -5 years years of relevant professional work experience, including leading teams or entrepreneurial experience (e.g. starting a new program, department or launching new projects)
- Bachelors degree required in Business Administration, International Development, Agric Economics, or related fields.
- Experience managing projects that involve scaling up.
- Experience implementing strategies at the field level based on field data and programmatic evidence.
- Fluency in English; knowledge of Hausa (and other Nigerian languages) is desirable
