One Acre Fund,Program Manager Jobs in Rwanda

Job
Description

Rapid organization
growth translates into great career opportunities for our staff. We invest
heavily in careers – we want to develop our next group of country directors,
R&D directors, and partnership leaders. Example projects include:

  • Government
    partnerships development: One Acre Fund receives frequent requests from
    African governments to jointly implement nationwide agricultural training,
    fertilizer distribution programs, and credit programs. A program manager
    took the lead in setting up our newest government partnership operation,
    initially to pilot one project. Within a year, this operation had fifty
    staff and is likely to at least quadruple in the coming two years, to
    hopefully 2-3 nationwide partnerships.
  • Sweet
    potato vine production. One Acre Fund farmers needed high-quality sweet
    potato vines in the 2013 season to avoid crop loss due to a maize disease.
    When these vines were unavailable in the quantity necessary, a program
    manager started a sweet potato multiplication farm to ensure all farmers
    received quality inputs on time. This included designing farm operations,
    hiring staff, negotiating contracts, coordinating logistics and managing
    more than 600 seasonal employees.
  • Department
    leadership opportunities: in their second year of service, top performing
    program staffers are often given the responsibility of running an internal
    One Acre Fund department like “Scale Innovations.” This
    department runs dozens of test-and-control trials with 10,000+ farmers
    that radically tweak our program model, with the goal of significantly
    increasing our scalability.
  • New
    markets: One Acre Fund has ambitious plans to launch one new country per
    year. In 2011, a program manager moved to Burundi to direct field
    operations for an initial 400-farmer pilot. Three years later, One Acre
    Fund’s Burundi operation serves 21,000 farmers with 110 staff.
  • Program
    associate management. Program managers directly manage 1-3 program
    associates and 10-100 local staff. Managers invest in the growth of their
    direct reports through frequent project feedback, skills-building and
    mentorship.

This is a career-track
role that is intended to eventually transition into a role such as country
director, innovation director, etc. This is also a role that is eventually
tracked to transition to “general partner,” the core leadership group
of One Acre Fund.

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
exceptional professionals with 4-6 years of work experience with increasing
responsibility, 2-3 years of direct management experience, and ideally a
demonstrated passion for international development. Candidates who fit the
following criteria are strongly encouraged to apply:

  • Demonstrated
    interest and experience in international development, requiring at least
    one year of living in a developing nation.
  • A
    willingness to commit to living in rural areas of East Africa for at least
    two years, minimum.
  • Top-performing
    undergraduate background (include GPA and test scores on your resume).
  • Strong
    work experiences. Examples include professional work experience, or some
    kind of successful entrepreneurial experience (e.g. starting a field
    program in a developing country, leading a conference, starting a
    business, Peace Corps).
  • 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.
  • Ability
    to cook/ laugh/ extraordinary patience – all desirable.
  • Language:
    English required in Kenya, and French required in Rwanda. 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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