Private-sector
style career development in a growing social enterprise
An excellent
career development opportunity
Industry:
Nonprofit/International Development
Function: Management, staff development, field leadership, external relations
Employer: One Acre Fund
Job Title: Program Director
Job Location: Rural Rwanda or Burundi (Fren
ch required), or rural Kenya
(English
required)
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 poor
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.
We are growing
quickly. In eight years, we have grown to serve 180,000 farm families with more
than 2000 full-time field staff. Our approach has won widespread validation,
winning grants from The MasterCard Foundation and Gates Foundation.
Website: www.oneacrefund.org.
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.
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. - 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
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