Operations:
Our country operation teams face a classic leadership and management challenge: how to keep a large country operation growing at 40-75% per year while also making significant improvements to our operating model. Program Associates first learn from our organization’s deep knowledge on scaling rural field programs; then, they are challenged to find new ways to stretch, grow faster, and increase our quality of service.

Field operations staff focus on farmer-facing services. They start as generalists, with overall responsibility for executing our program in a region. Over time, they can continue to rise as a general leader, possibly growing to manage an entire country’s field operation. Or they may specialize, for example, in the creation and roll-out of staff development training for hundreds or even 1,000+ team members.

Support operations staff build the infrastructure required for growth. These teams proactively eliminate barriers to scale in a diverse range of areas – processing millions of farmer payments, communicating to farmers via tens of millions of SMS, hiring hundreds of new staff per year, and physically moving 20,000+ tons of farm inputs to thousands of drop sites. Program Associates also make steady improvements to accelerate growth – for example, setting up mobile money integration for a country.

Innovations:
Our Innovations teams discover new ideas for our programs and conduct dozens of trials to test these ideas. As an organization, we constantly seek to learn and improve, and our Innovations teams lead the way.

Product Innovations staff improve our core agricultural products or run new experiments in energy and health products. The ideas they discover may eventually scale to hundreds of thousands of households. Product Innovations staff design trials, execute trials together with thousands of farmers, synthesize trial data, and make constant revisions to the product offering. For example, our Product Innovations team is currently testing delivery of live chickens and preparing the product for full-scale rollout. One Acre Fund is also increasingly delving into energy and health, and we are currently one of the largest sellers of solar lights in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Scale Innovations staff seek to improve our core operating model. By running trials with tens of thousands of farmers, they analyze targeted questions such as: does moving from a group liability loan to an individual liability loan improve repayment and customer satisfaction? Or they might investigate more radical ideas, such as setting up physical One Acre Fund shops to see if there are more efficient ways to deliver high-quality service to farmers. They try variations on our program with the goal of improving our scalability, impact, and financial sustainability.

On a day-to-day basis, nearly all roles involve a mix of activities:

• Understanding and solving problems: observing field operations, meeting with leaders of our field staff , running surveys, conducting desk research, analyzing KPIs, etc. Then creating simple and lasting solutions to complex problems.
• Planning and executing large projects: identifying clear goals, creating project calendars, designing workflows, creating field tools and talking points, designing incentive systems and understanding stakeholders, following up and monitoring project execution in the field, etc.
• Building teams: hiring staff using One Acre Fund’s unique “experiential hiring” system, mentoring key deputies, and steadily handing off responsibility to your team as you build it.
• Communicating with other teams: working in coordination with One Acre Fund’s other teams on the ground to execute a smooth customer experience in the simplest way possible.

One Acre Fund has deep operational experience running rural field programs at a scale of 1,000+ full-time staff per country. Program Associates benefit from this past experience, quickly building their skill-set through immersion in our operating environment. At the same time, the main role of Program Associates is to accelerate growth and to constantly stretch and improve our operations. This presents an excellent career opportunity to both learn from One Acre Fund’s accumulated experience and constantly improve and enable 40%+ program growth per year.

Career Growth and Development
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 to 5+ years of work experience, and a demonstrated long-term passion for international development. 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 (VSO, Peace Corps, JICA, etc).
• Leadership experience at work, or outside of work.
• Humility. We are looking for passionate professionals who combine strong leadership skills with good humor, patience, and a humble approach to service to join our growing family of leaders.
• A willingness to commit to living in rural areas of East Africa for at least two years – this is a long-term, career-track role. The ideal candidate will have at least one year demonstrated experience working in the developing world, although this is not a strict requirement.
• Language: English required in all locations. French required for Burundi placement. Other notable and useful languages are Swahili, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Chichewa, Amharic.

Preferred Start Date: Flexible
Job Location: Kakamega, Kenya; Rubengera, Rwanda; Muramvya, Burundi; Zomba, Malawi; Kabwe, Zambia; Iringa, Tanzania
Duration: Minimum 2-year commitment, full-time job
Compensation: Starts modest. However, this is a career-track role with fast raises for performance, paying a meaningful salary for long-term placement in developing nations.
Benefits: Health insurance, immunizations, flights, housing
Sponsor International Candidates: Yes

East Africans strongly encouraged to apply.

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The People Division Director’s responsibilities would include, but not be limited to:

Strategy & Vision

• Together with country leadership, set and steer the course for the 5 – 15-year vision.
• Run annual goal setting and planning processes for all people-departments. Ensure annual plans align with the long-term vision and targets.
• Measure progress against goals, regularly report on progress, and hold the team accountable for prioritizing and delivering results in key strategic areas.
• Help our people departments scale service provision to more staff while maintaining the same departmental headcounts, improving the division’s impact to serve roughly 3,000 staff members by 2020.
• Hold the Kenya program accountable to meet career promises to all staff – work that is connected to our mission, career growth opportunities, fair compensation.
• Overall, make One Acre Fund Kenya a great place to work.

Communication

• Proactively and effectively communicate up to country leadership, down to departments, and across to other sets of leaders.
• Set agenda and facilitate regular People Division Meetings, engaging departments with one another’s work, assuring that everyone is moving together reinforcing efforts.
• Ensure People Departments are collaborating effectively with individuals, teams, and divisions outside of the people division. Set-up appropriate systems of communication to keep everyone moving together.
• Participate in global people work and collaborate with other country programs.

Management & Training

• Serve as direct management line to key people departments in Kenya. These include Human Resources, Corporate Operations, Training, and People Analytics. Management will include oversight, weekly reporting meetings, performance reviews and development, strategic direction and support.
• Ensure that all staff receives effective mentorship to promote career growth.
• Work with training department to run major staff training across the entire team.
• Personally lead training sessions for senior staff members.

Team & Culture

• Serve as a leader and role model to the Kenya team at large. Live the One Acre Fund values, role model a sustainable life set-up, invest in people, engage with the team.
• Lead diversity and inclusion work for the Kenya program. Identify high-impact initiatives, prioritize, and measure results.
• Manage and create feedback channels to ensure all staff groups can be heard and receive clear communication from country leadership.
• Keep pulse on team feedback, concerns and upcoming events that might destabilize and create turmoil.
• Actively contingency plan and mitigate pre-identified ‘hot spots’ or risk areas that could destabilize staff or operations.

Execution of Strategic Initiatives

• Set strategy and personally oversee key strategic initiatives within the Division. Initiatives may include: diversity and inclusion efforts, senior staff hiring, manager quality improvements, integrating data into People Division decisions.
• Set KPIs and metrics to measure success.
• Regularly solicit feedback from the wider team and other departments.
• Carefully optimize current staffing structure to ensure we have the right people in the right roles; proactively plan for future staffing.
• Oversee Day-to-Day Execution
• Ensure that everything the People Division does is executed to world-class standards.
• Oversee smooth execution of existing HR and staff support systems and processes.

Spending and Budgeting

• Participate, together with departments, in annual budgeting process; anticipate spending for the year based on annual plans.
• Regularly review actual spending against planned spending. Keep all departments operating to maximum efficiency and within planned budget.

Outside & External

• Host key external visitors and donors to One Acre Fund.
• Research and understand key best practices in functional work areas at other organizations.
• Think strategically about potential partnerships and learning opportunities from other organizations.

Career Growth and Development
One Acre Fund invests in building management and leadership skills. Your manager will invest 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. This results in fast career growth for our staff.

Qualifications

• We are seeking an exceptional professional with 5+ years of work experience and ideally a demonstrated passion for international development. 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 (VSO, Peace Corps, JICA, etc).
• Leadership experience at work, or outside of work.
• Top-performing undergraduate background (include final grade/marks/GPA).
• Humility. We are looking for passionate professionals who combine strong leadership skills with good humor, patience, and a humble approach to service to join our growing family of leaders.
• A willingness to commit to living in rural areas of East Africa for at least two years – this is a long-term, career-track role. The ideal candidate will have at least one year demonstrated experience working in the developing world, although this is not a strict requirement.
• Language: English required in Kenya. Swahili-speakers strongly encouraged to apply.

Preferred Start Date: ASAP
Compensation: Commensurate with experience
Benefits: Health insurance, immunizations, flights, room and board
Sponsor International Candidates: Yes

East Africans Encouraged to Apply.

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Training is both key part of our program model and key part of how we are able to work effectively at scale. Almost all staff start at the entry level for their careers track and many rise rapidly based on performance. Your work will have a tremendous impact on the organization’s key mission of serving the smallholding farmers and also promoting career development of all the staff.

We currently have an opening for the position of Curriculum Manager at our Headquarters in Kakamega that we are inviting you to apply for. Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Conduct independent research on new training topics
• Consult with other departments and subject matter experts
• Design and write training curriculum and supporting materials for in-person and eLearning trainings
• Edit and curate curriculum from other departments
• Design assessment and evaluation tools
• Manage multiple complex and concurrent projects
• Manage and lead team’s professional development

Career Growth and Development
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 an exceptional professional with a passion for training and development. Specific qualifications include, but are not limited to:

• A diploma or undergraduate degree in Education, training, or a relevant field of study
• At least (1-2) years experience in teaching
• Experience in curriculum development and assessment
• Experience in strategic planning, project management, and managing teams preferred
• Proven English communication skills (oral and written), with good attention to detail
• Ability to work with minimum supervision to meet strict deadlines
• Demonstrated computer skills in email, internet usage, Microsoft office
• Excellent attitude, willingness to learn and work hard, humility, and ability to multi-task
• Proven ability to set and meet targets

Preferred Start Date: Flexible
Duration: Minimum two year's 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.

Note: We will not be able to sponsor a visa for this position.

How to Apply
Apply online via https://oneacrefund.org/work-with-us/job-openings/g/?gh_jid=553481

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We’re looking for one key person to be the central hub interfacing between purchasers, field units, logistics teams, finance, and accounting. This person will start by developing a team of 2 direct reports and will be the lead coordinator for a couple dozen people across the organization. In this role, you’ll be asked to drive supply chain efficiency, eliminate waste across the value chain, and reduce supply risk across 8 countries by setting a high bar for forecast accuracy, data integrity, and effective communication. We’ll be asking you to play a key role optimizing $40M in annual spend while preparing our operations for scale to ultimately deliver high quality live improving goods at the feet of the 500,000 smallholder farmers we serve.

Responsibilities

• Be the key coordinator between procurement staff and over 2 dozen internal customers across 6 core countries and 2 pilot programs.
• Collaborate with country leadership and logistics teams to maximize end-to-end supply chain efficiency, eliminate waste from the value chain, and save costs.
• Leverage forecasting and inventory planning tools to generate and maintain 12-month rolling demand forecast and purchasing plan with target seasonal stock levels and payment timing.
• Join forces with the Financial Advisory team to implement an effective pricing model across country programs.
• Generate guidelines for clients to manage order and forecast process as well as how to handle excess inventory and stock outs.
• Develop sophisticated data analyses to drive order forecasting and pricing decisions, improve supply chain efficiency, and drive operational scalability.
• Extract and analyze system data using SAP Business One, Power BI, and excel to identify and recommend improvements to supply chain metrics and performance standards.
• Use data analytics to drive on-time deliveries and deliver world class customer service to our clients.
• Set the standard for high quality inventory data management across the organization.
• Develop organizational Key Performance Indicators and targets for data management, forecasting, and order timeliness.
• Aggregate and report on supply chain KPIs quarterly to organizational leadership.
• Use reporting tools to drive behavior change within supply chain and across the organization with monthly purchasing, inventory movement, and forecast accuracy reports.
• Mentor supply chain staff to build leadership and project management skills.
• Set ambitious goals for your direct reports and support their achievements.
• Identifying strong talent pools for recruiting high quality supply chain staff.
• Become familiar with One Acre Fund teams and structures to ensure your team is effectively supporting their internal clients including Finance and Logistics.
• Build outstanding communication channels to deliver overall process transparency to your internal clients.

Career Growth and Development
One Acre Fund invests in building management and leadership skills. Your manager will invest significant time in your career development. We provide constant, actionable feedback delivered through mentorship and 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. This results in fast career growth for our staff.
Qualifications

We are seeking exceptional professionals with experience in and a passion for procurement and supply chain. Experience in an entrepreneurial environment is a plus.

Candidates that meet the following criteria are strongly encouraged to apply:

• Work experience in a demanding professional environment, preferably in positions where frequent cross-department communication was required.
• Experience in procurement, logistics, or supply chain management preferred.
• Knowledge of SAP or other ERP reporting skills strongly preferred.
• Proficiency in Excel and other software packages required.
• Creativity and strong problem solving skills. You don’t take no for an answer and constantly look for alternative solutions to problems.
• A passion for world class customer service.
• Strong quantitative reasoning and critical thinking skills.
• Outstanding communication skills with direct reports, peers and management.
• Experience working internationally preferred.
• Leadership experience at work or outside of work.
• Ability to work and make decisions independently.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Top-performing academic background.
• Language: English required, French and Swahili preferred.

Preferred Start Date: ASAP
Duration: Minimum 3 years 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

East Africans are strongly encouraged to apply.

How To Apply
Apply online via https://oneacrefund.org/work-with-us/job-openings/g/?gh_jid=682570

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