One Acre Fund,Program Director Jobs in Rwanda

  • Muramvya,
    Muramvya Province, Burundi
  • Bungoma,
    Bungoma, Kenya
  • Rubengera,
    Western Province, Rwanda

Job
Description

As we grow, One Acre
Fund is seeking to add one new country per year to our operations. We are
seeking the kind of person

that can be dropped into a country with significant
support financially and logistically, and can create from scratch a
high-quality company in a very short time.

We are seeking
someone who can do the following things:

  • Create
    a strategic vision: This position does not involve managing an existing
    operation – we are seeking a entrepreneur who can create an operation,
    growing it from roughly 5 existing staff to hundreds. This involves a lot
    of strategic flexibility and independence. We are also seeking someone who
    is based in the field (in rural areas) at first, in order to craft a
    vision that results in the best possible customer service to farmers.
  • Hire
    and develop staff: Our program directors will have to hire a lot of
    people, and more importantly, invest the majority of their energy in
    developing managers and leaders underneath them.
  • Engage
    staff and lead: Our program model requires high tailoring to specific
    contexts. The program director will have to make decisions together with
    their leadership team by engaging them, and then lead them to execute a
    common vision.
  • External
    and internal relations: We are seeking someone who will be a strong
    communicator both externally and also internally, together with fellow
    leaders in the organization.

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.

This position would
involve an initial 6-12 month training period in one of our existing countries
of operation. Then the candidate would be posted to a new country, where we
have roughly five existing staff. The mandate would be to grow that into a
decent-sized company in a few years.

Qualifications

We are seeking
exceptional professionals with 4 to 8+ years of work experience, and a
demonstrated long-term passion for international development. They will serve
in a career-track position that combines both field and management experience.

We are looking for
truly extraordinary candidates that will help take our organization to the next
levels of impact and scale. This is a competitive posting for a career-track
role with minimum initial commitment of two years. Candidates who fit the
following criteria are strongly encouraged to apply:

  • Strong
    work experiences. We are seeking an entrepreneur who has previously grown
    an operation from scratch to hundreds of staff, or tens of thousands of
    customers, etc, in a developing nation. And we want someone who wants to
    go back to scratch, and do it again, instead of managing a large existing
    operation.
  • Likeability
    and humility. All of our country directors to date have grown up within
    our operation, learning directly from farmers in a start-up environment.
    We value humility and likeability, and wish to be joined by leaders that
    value the same.
  • Top-performing
    undergraduate background (please include GPA and test scores on your
    resume).
  • A
    willingness to commit to living in rural areas of East Africa for at least
    three years – this is a long-term, career-track role. The candidate should
    have at least one year demonstrated experience working in the developing
    world.
  • Ability
    to cook/laugh – desirable.
  • Language:
    English required in Kenya, and French required in Rwanda and Burundi.
    French-speakers are particularly encouraged to apply.

Preferred
Start Date

Flexible

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, flight, room and board.

Sponsor
International Candidates

Yes

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