Wanted Dedicated associate to focus on sharing
knowledge and best practices across borders and continents.
Job Location This position will spend approximately 3
weeks per month in rural Kenya and 1 week per month in rural Rwanda (or
vice–versa).
Duration Minimum 2 years commitment, full-time
job.
Organization Description Most of the world’s poor are farmers,
representing the largest and most uniform group of p
oor people in the world.
One Acre Fund is a growing NGO in Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania that is
innovating a new way of helping farm families to achieve their full potential.
Instead of giving handouts, One Acre Fund invests in farmers to generate a
permanent gain in farm income. We provide farmers with a “market
bundle” that includes education, finance, seed and fertilizer, and market
access. Our program is proven impactful – every year, we weigh thousands of harvests
and measure 50-100% average gain in farm income per acre. We have laser-like
focus on generating better lives for the people that we serve.
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.
As a fast–growing, multinational
organization, One Acre Fund places great importance on sharing knowledge and
best practices across borders and continents. To help streamline and
systematize this function, we are looking for a dedicated associate to focus on
these tasks. The innovation capture associate will:
- Become intimately familiar with our processes for
hiring, training and evaluating field staff, executing core field
operations and piloting new and innovative agricultural trials and help
standardize these activities through a series of manuals and online
training materials. - Capture new improvements to our model, and write those
improvements into our operating materials. - Help to manage innovation. Serve as a shared knowledge
center for our innovation team throughout Africa and the US to both store
best practices and access our standardized materials. - Work with our program staffers in Africa to create
organization–wide knowledge sharing procedures.
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 2 to 5+ 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. Examples include a demanding
professional work experience, or successful entrepreneurial experience
(i.e. high level consulting assignments, starting a field program in a
developing country, leading a conference, starting a business). - Leadership experience at work, or outside of work.
- Top-performing undergraduate background (include GPA and
test scores on your resume). - Humility and personal stability. We have a fantastic and
likeable team. We are looking for passionate professionals that combine
strong leadership skills with good humor, patience, and a humble approach
to service. - 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. - Professional/technical skills – prior experience working
in the field of knowledge management is desirable, but not required;
strong technical skills required. - Ability to cook/laugh – desirable.
- Language: English required; French highly desirable.
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.
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