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.
Location: Minna, Niger
Employment Type: Full-time
Preferred Start Date: As soon as possible
About The Role
- As Nigeria Systems and Operations Lead you will join a growing team that is striving to put an end to poverty by transforming the lives of Nigerian farmers. The team’s purpose is to scale the OAF model in Nigeria. Reporting to the Nigeria Country Lead, you will support the expansion of the OAF model in Nigeria.
- As Lead you will benefit from this experience, quickly developing your skill-set through immersion in the operating environment. At the same time, the main role of the Systems Associate is to accelerate growth and to constantly stretch and improve OAF’s operations.
- This presents an excellent career opportunity to both learn from One Acre Fund’s accumulated experience and always improve and ensure 40%+ program growth per year.
Responsibilities
- Finance: You will keep track of in-country expenditures, monthly forecasting, fraud control and managing payroll. You will build tools, systems and a team.
- Logistics: The primary responsibility here is to ensure that OAF provides life-changing inputs and materials to farmers on time and at high-quality. You will lead the process of storing, then delivering hundreds of tones of seed and fertilizer to thousands of farmers. This will require planning, troubleshooting, warehouse management, procurement of trucks, route mapping
- Team Building and Management: You will hire staff using One Acre Fund’s unique “experiential hiring” system, mentoring essential deputies, and steadily handing off responsibilities to your team as you build it.
- Collaboratewith Global Team Members: In all of the above, there are dedicated global support teams with processes that need to be observed. You will work with them to ensure that the Nigeria pilot is compliant with these and to mobilize their assets.
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
For this role specifically, you will have:
- Bachelor’s Degree required; Masters Degree is an added advantage.
- 4+ Years of work experience in a busy or successful entrepreneurial experience, e.g. starting a field program in a developing country, leading a big conference, or a startup.
- At least 2 years of people and project management experience focused on strategy. Someone able to full own projects, and really guide projects forward independently.
- Experience working in an environment where frequent inter-department communication is required.
- Ability to understand complex concepts quickly and learn fast!
- Logical thinker and comfort with analysis. We are looking for someone can use quantitative analysis to create insights and inform recommendations.
- Proficiency in use of MS office (word, excel and PowerPoint required) and experience using an ERP.
- English is required, proficiency in any additional regional languages from Nigeria
Eligibility:
- One Acre Fund can support a work permit for this role. However, nationals of (or those with an extensive professional background and work history in) our countries of operation are preferred.
Method of Application
Note
- This role is only open to citizens or permanent residents of Nigeria.
- One Acre Fund never asks candidates to pay any money or pay for tests at any stage of the interview process. Official One Acre Fund emails will always arrive from an @oneacrefund.orgaddress. Please report any suspicious communication here ([email protected]),but do not send applications or application materials to this email address.
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), and anti-racism are deeply connected to our organization’s mission and purpose. One Acre Fund aspires to build a culture where all staff feel consistently valued, represented, and connected – so that our team can thrive as professionals, and achieve exceptional impact for the farmers we serve.
- We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
Interested and qualified? Go to One Acre Fund on oneacrefund.org to apply
