Closing Date
Sep
30
ResponsibilitiesResponsibilities will include:
One Acre Fund invests in building management and leadership skills. Your manager and a global support team will commit significant time in your career development. We provide constant, actionable feedback delivered through mentorship and through regular management consulting-style career reviews. We also have regular one-on-one meetings, where we listen to and discuss career goals, and work collaboratively to craft roles that each person can be passionate about. Because of our rapid growth, we constantly have new high-level roles opening up and opportunities in many functions.
Qualifications
We are seeking exceptional professionals with 2-5 years of work experience and ideally a demonstrated passion for our mission. Candidates who fit the following criteria are strongly encouraged to apply:
Location: Kakamega, Kenya
Duration: Minimum 2-year commitment, full-time job
Compensation: We offer a modest starting salary that affords a high quality of life in our areas of operation. This is a career-track role with performance-based raises and the ability to expand responsibilities over time.
Benefits: Health insurance, immunizations, flight, housing.
Sponsor International Candidates: No
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- Executing Input Distributions throughout the growing season – this includes planning for and setting up hundreds of market points in rural areas that will allow farmers to access life-changing inputs within walking distance of their homes.
- Serving as a lynchpin coordinator between departments for major annual One Acre Fund distribution processes.
- Managing a team of warehouse and logistics professionals. This includes roughly 15 warehouse teams as well as an office staff dedicated to critical activity planning, providing key oversight, and managing third-party partnerships.
- Building a managing a network of third-party service providers including transportation, warehousing, and input suppliers.
- Implementing scalable policies and procedures to enable our program model to grow effectively as we expand our geographic density and reach.Overseeing inventory flows.
One Acre Fund invests in building management and leadership skills. Your manager and a global support team will commit significant time in your career development. We provide constant, actionable feedback delivered through mentorship and through regular management consulting-style career reviews. We also have regular one-on-one meetings, where we listen to and discuss career goals, and work collaboratively to craft roles that each person can be passionate about. Because of our rapid growth, we constantly have new high-level roles opening up and opportunities in many functions.
Qualifications
We are seeking exceptional professionals with 2-5 years of work experience and ideally a demonstrated passion for our mission. Candidates who fit the following criteria are strongly encouraged to apply:
- Strong work experiences. Examples include a demanding professional work experience, or successful entrepreneurial experience, e.g. starting a field program in a developing country, leading a conference, starting a business, solid Volunteer Service Organization accomplishments, etc.
- Experience in supply chain, logistics, or other operational management.
- Strong analytical skills – ability to quickly review, synthesize, analyze and communicate data.
- Strong educational background; a related degree in Supply Chain Management, applied mathematics, systems engineering, or operational management is preferred but not required.
- Demonstrated leadership experience at work, or outside of work, enthusiasm for learning, and openness to feedback.
- Ability to build teams and collaborate with colleagues from diverse backgrounds.
- Language: Fluent English required. A knowledge of Swahili or regional Kenyan languages are highly desired.
Location: Kakamega, Kenya
Duration: Minimum 2-year commitment, full-time job
Compensation: We offer a modest starting salary that affords a high quality of life in our areas of operation. This is a career-track role with performance-based raises and the ability to expand responsibilities over time.
Benefits: Health insurance, immunizations, flight, housing.
Sponsor International Candidates: No
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