One Acre Fund ,Program Associate (Multiple Locations) Jobs in Uganda

ent, full-time job.

• District
  partner: Most program associates are initially partnered with a local
  field director. Program associates are immersed in One Acre’s operations
  and learn from their local counterpart how to grow an operation of 20+
  staff, serving 5,000-20,000 farmers. They in turn also transfer management
  and computer skills to their counterpart. By working hand-in-hand with
  country national staff in a regular field operation, our program
  associates get a feel for operations in the field.
• New
  operation creation: A program associate in Kenya created and manages the
  One Acre Fund Customer Engagement team, which is tasked with fielding
  error claims from farmers, investigating claims, and solving them fairly.
  Started in 2012 with one part-time employee, the Customer Engagement team
  has grown rapidly to seven full-time staff members. The team investigated
  and resolved more than 3,000 cases in 2013.

• Impact
  innovation: A program associate designed several configurations of a
  harvest storage product and farmer training, and tried it with a few
  hundred farmers. The most successful trial demonstrated an increase in
  harvest profits by more than 10%. The following year, the product was sold
  to 40,000 farmers.
• Growth
  innovation: A staffer designed a new viral marketing initiative. She
  identified our best and most enthusiastic farmers, and turned them into
  volunteer “replication agents” who are empowered to recruit new
  groups of farmers. Our staff person designed the trial protocols, trained
  10 field staff to test the idea, and observed the trial in-field,
  resulting in 25% higher client enrollment. This program was subsequently rolled
  out to 200 field sites and became the foundation of our current farmer
  recruitment model.

• 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 50 staff
  and is likely to at least quadruple in the coming two years, to hopefully
  2-3 nationwide partnerships.
• 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.

• 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 Peace Corps accomplishments).
• Leadership
  experience at work, or outside of work.
• Top-performing
  undergraduate background (include GPA and test scores on your resume).
• 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.
• Ability
  to cook / laugh – desirable.
• Language:
  English required in Kenya, Ethiopia, Malawi, and Tanzania, and French
  required in Rwanda and Burundi. French and Swahili-speakers are
  particularly encouraged to apply.