One Acre Fund Program Director Job Vacancy in Rwanda

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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

How to apply

To Apply

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SYSTEMS
ASSOCIATE

Wanted

Exceptional professionals with 2 to 5+ years of
work experience to serve in a career-track position that combines both field
and management experience.

Job Location

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.

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.

The Systems team plays an integral role in the
day-to-day operations of One Acre Fund, including but not limited to inventory
management, input delivery to our clients, procurement, customer service, field
support, and HQ support.

The Systems team is looking for associates who will
play a crucial role in creating, streamlining and facilitating processes among
all teams at One Acre Fund including Field, Finance, IT, Logistics,
Procurement, and more. We are looking for people who can forge a bridge between
our ever-evolving field operations and the technical, data-heavy moving pieces
working behind the scenes to support those field operations. The ideal
candidate will have a background in systems design, supply chain management,
industrial engineering, financial analysis or management consulting and will
also have the flexibility to work in a fast-paced and non-traditional
environment.

Some questions tackled by the Systems team this
year include:

How can we coordinate a complex set of
deliveries, balancing factors such as:

Varied individual client orders
Maintaining sufficient inventory and tracking
inventory flows
Securing and operating a fleet of trucks
Loading and delivering on a tight schedule
Field complexity – scheduling considerations,
specialized needs, unexpected challenges

How can we deliver a bag of live sweet potato
vines to every single One Acre Fund farmer in Kenya within 24 hours of
being cut at the farm?
How can we quickly determine which farmers
have met our payment targets and send out incentives in a timely fashion,
making sure that the incentives go to the right people and are actually
received by our clients?
How can we handle customer service issues at
scale, when an individual complaint involves mining through several
datasets?

Systems Associates will be asked to tackle 2-4
substantial projects, working closely with other teams and managing staff,
project calendars and deliverables for those projects. We’re looking to find ways
to leverage the mountains of data available to us to improve and add to our
services to clients. We’re also looking to improve the processes already used
by our teams to minimize headaches and improve efficiency, allowing us to
continue our accelerated growth. The Systems Associate role is perfect for a
technically-minded, detail-oriented professional who wants their work to have
direct ties to meaningful, high impact work.

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.

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).
Experience in industrial engineering, systems
design, supply chain management, finance, or other technical roles is a
plus. Please highlight any such relevant experience in your application.
Leadership experience at work, or outside of
work.
Proficiency in Excel required. Experience with
MS Access, other database management or data analysis software a plus!
Top-performing undergraduate background
(please 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.
Ability to cook/ laugh – desirable.
Language: English required in Kenya.

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

To Apply

*NEW COUNTRY
SCOUT

Wanted
Early-career high-performing professional with at least 2 years of work
experience.

Job Location Anticipate
extensive international travel.

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.

Job Description As One Acre
Fund expands, a key part of our long-term goal to reach at least 1.1M farm
families this decade is to launch one new country per year. It is also
important that we understand the landscape of potential countries as soon as
possible – so that we know how we may need to change our program model to fit
new areas.

We are seeking an exceptionally talented
professional with very strong independent problem-solving skills, an ability to
self-manage, and strong overall judgment. This person should also have strong
networking ability, and general stability / ability to deal with traveling
alone for a long stretch of time. The minimum commitment to this job is 2
years.

The New Country Scout will:

Spend 3-6 months training on the core One Acre
Fund program model in Kenya or Rwanda.
Move to a new country, where they will either
begin a pilot from scratch, or expand an existing pilot.
Core operating duties will include:

Hiring and training 3-8 initial trial staff.
Engaging local government officials and
sensitizing them to our program.
Handling initial recruitment of 100-300
farmers.

External networking will include:

Purchase of seed, fertilizer, and other farm
inputs from local vendors.
Making contact with local horticultural
support.

The new country scout wil also set up our
initial office. This may include:

Handling legal registration.
Finding/hiring of office and housing.
Initial equipment purchases.
Creation of well-functioning finance and
accounting operation with proper financial controls.

The end goal will be to validate the country
as a possible area of operation for One Acre Fund. If scouting is
successful, the organization will proceed to grow our core program there
to a goal scale of 10,000+ farmers and 100+ staff within two additional years.
This would be staffed either by an experienced manager from one of our
existing countries, or possibly the new country scout can grow into this
role.

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

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
(please 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 Africa or Asia 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.
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.

Sponsor International Candidates

Yes

To Apply

*OPERATIONS
& FINANCE ASSOCIATE

Note: Multiple openings are available for the
Operations and Finance Associate position.

Wanted

Exceptional professional with 3+ years work
experience to serve in a career–track position that combines financial and
operational analysis with management experience in Africa.

Job Location

Rural Rwanda (English and French required), or
Rural Kenya (English required).

Duration

Minimum 2 years commitment, full-time job.

Organization Description

Job Description

We are looking for new staff members to manage the
growth of the finance teams in either Rwanda or Kenya. You will convert a team
of 5+ bookkeepers working in an unstructured environment to a powerhouse team
like the finance group in Kenya. This team currently includes 50+ staff members
working in an efficiently designed and well-structured operation with clear
roles and responsibilities, policies and procedures, and key performance
indicators producing a results-driven finance operation.

As a young organization, we are ready to hand over
significant responsibility for specific, well-defined strategic initiatives as
well as day-to-day management of our financial systems and team-members. Your
primary task will be to manage the operations of the finance team in the
country you work, through systems design, staff hiring, and leadership
development. You will increase the quality of service provided by the finance
team to other departments and ultimately to the farmer.

We are seeking an exceptional professional with 3+
years work experience, and a long-term career interest in international
development. They will serve in a career-track position that combines financial
and operational analysis with management experience in Africa.

Typical tasks will include:

Managing Financial Operations and Developing
Staff. The Operations and Finance Associate will manage the team of
bookkeepers who do data entry for our financial and client management
systems. Managing and developing the talent of the finance team will be
your most important role. You will also collaborate closely across with
field operations to create tools and procedures, and will develop trainings
that ensure financial procedures are efficiently integrated with
operational processes. The Operations and Finance Associate will work
closely with the Associate Controller to ensure the accuracy of monthly
financial information.
Financial Analysis and Driving to
Sustainability. The Operations and Finance Associate is tasked with
pushing the country towards sustainability; you will provide reports on
district, country and organization wide budget performance, and will
oversee the measurement of Financial KPI’s and ensure appropriate action.
The Associate will provide analysis and recommendations for improved
efficiency and cost effectiveness.
Internal Audit Processes. The Operations and
Finance Associate will manage the local internal audit team. The role of
the internal audit team is to monitor all of our systems to ensure
compliance with operational processes, from farmer level repayment to
procurement. You will need to have an intimate knowledge of the field
operations, and regularly monitor performance of your staff through field
visits.

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

3+ years work experiences. Examples include a
demanding professional work experience in a finance or operations function
(e.g. implementing a new procurement process, managing a logistics system,
working as a business or finance analyst).
Confidence with numbers.
Ability and drive to work independently.
Management and mentorship experience.
Experience with process design and
implementation.
Leadership experience at work, or outside of
work.
Top-performing undergraduate background.
A willingness to commit to living in rural
areas of East Africa for at least two years – this is a long-term,
career-track position with potential to grow into a US-based management
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/ extraordinary patience
– all desirable
Language: French required in Rwanda.

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

To Apply

CORPORATE
OPERATIONS ASSOCIATE

Wanted
Professionals with 2 to 5+ years of work experience to serve in a career–track
position that combines both field and management experience.

Job Location Rural
Rwanda or Burundi (French required), or Rural Kenya or Tanzania (English
required).

Duration Minimum 2
years commitment, full-time job.

Job Description One Acre
Fund is a rapidly–growing organization, and is increasingly building up
operational support for that growth. We are looking for someone to provide
operations support to a single country program initially, and eventually across
all One Acre Fund Africa programs.

This is a wonderful opportunity to take on a
challenging management role. You will be responsible for operational management
(including areas such as expansion, security, donor relations, support staff
management), operational systems innovation, and staff development and capacity
building:

Corporate operational management: You will be
responsible for managing our program operational support in one of our
countries of operation. You will have immediate management of the
corporate operations team, and will be responsible for the below areas:

Donor & visitor relations: Arrange all
logistics of donor & interview candidate visits including hosting
donors in the field. You will be the outward face of One Acre Fund, and
will be responsible for hosting influential world–thinkers as well as
multinational donors.
Operations expansion: Our staff numbers are
growing by 30% each year. There is a huge need to build new offices and
residential houses – you will be in charge of managing these projects.
Security management: You will be in charge of
One Acre Fund security in a specific country. This includes staff
trainings, infrastructure, information flows, emergency procedures,
health and safety advice, and managing outsourced security contracts.
Support staff management: We have a strong
team of operations support staff that forms the backbone of our
operations. Qualified staff may be managing each of the following departments:
vehicle fleet management, property maintenance, administration,
construction, security and housekeeping.

Each of these departments may in turn have a
large team of staff – for example, in Kenya there may be 50 construction
staff working at any one time, 20 security guards, etc.
You will be responsible for directing and
mentoring these department managers and ensuring an excellent quality of
service across the department.

Corporate culture: We have an amazing and
unique team who live a fulfilling life in rural areas. You will be
responsible for ensuring the wellbeing of all staff, and promoting a
positive working culture that everyone is proud to work in.

Global operational management: You will be
responsible for improving the operations that translate across our
branches in East Africa – for example emergency procedures and onboarding.
Operational systems innovation: You will be
responsible for improving and innovating our operations systems and
processes to become more efficient and impactful.
Staff development: We have fantastic local
staff. You will be responsible for further training of our staff, and
building the team capacity to run a smooth and sustainable operation. This
will include staff training, constant mentorship, and feedback.
Regional operations support: You will provide
operational support to our other branches, working closely with the
Corporate Operations Associate for each country, with opportunities to
travel between these sites.

Possible promotion to Corporate Operations Manager
(multinational) with good performance:

Regional department development/creation: You
will be responsible for developing, and in some cases creating, corporate
operations departments in our new branches in East Africa. This will involve
systems, processes and staff development in various regions.
Regional management (systems): You will be
responsible for creating, maintaining and improving operational systems
across our branches in East Africa. You will tailor the operational support
to the various regions and to the nature of the program and staff in those
areas.
Regional management (staff): You will
establish and train strong teams to build operational capacity, including
managing Operations Associates in our branches across East Africa.

Possible promotion to Corporate Operations Director
(multinational) with exceptional performance:

One Acre Fund will grow to 10–15 times its current
size in the next eight years. Every large organization eventually relies on a
strong Operations Director, managing dozens of staff worldwide. This is one of
the most important positions within the entire organization and there is
literally unlimited scope for this role. We are looking for someone with the
talent, attitude and skill to perform this crucial function.

Career Growth and Development

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.

Strong work experiences. Examples include a
demanding professional work experience, or successful entrepreneurial
experience (e.g. starting a field program, leading a conference, starting
a business, solid Peace Corps accomplishments).
Leadership experience at work, or outside of
work.
Top–performing undergraduate background
(please include GPA and test scores on your resume).
Prior administration/operations/management
experience is ideal, but mostly we are looking for a smart generalist.
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.
Ability to cook/laugh – desirable.
Language: English required, Swahili and/or
French nice to have.

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

To Apply

INFRASTRUCTURE
COORDINATOR

Wanted Exceptional
professionals with 2 to 5+ years of solid construction work experience, and a
demonstrated long-term passion for international development.

Job Location

Rural Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi.

Duration

Minimum 2 years commitment, full-time job.

Organization Description

Job Description

One Acre Fund is a rapidly-growing organization,
and increasingly needs structural expansion to meet this growth. We are looking
for someone to develop and co-ordinate multiple construction projects to
accommodate this organizational growth, including central and regional offices
and residential houses in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Burundi. We are looking
for someone to take control of and own the entire construction process from
start to finish via strong leadership of large construction teams located in
several different countries.

This is an incredible opportunity to contribute
significantly to East Africa’s infrastructure by taking on a challenging
management role, while enabling One Acre Fund to extend its impact more
quickly. You will begin immediately as the department director and will be
generally responsible for three to five major construction projects over the next
two years in Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania. You will be in charge of a large and
growing team of international and local staff and will be in charge of
gathering all the necessary resources to complete the construction projects
from start to finish, including Project Managers for each individual country
projects.

Construction: we are looking for someone to
own the entire construction process for several large construction
projects in Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania initially, with high potential for
further construction projects later.

Construction team expansion

You will be responsible for growing and
developing a large construction team of international and local
construction managers, local contractors and laborers.
We already have fantastic teams in Kenya and
Rwanda – for example, we have a Stanford graduate in our team who
recently completed an MA in Sustainable Construction and Design, with
experience working on US embassy buildings in the Dominican Republic.
You will be responsible for further building
this team in all sites and gathering all the resources necessary for the
completion of projects.

Infrastructure projects

Via your project managers, you will be
responsible for several large-scale construction projects in Kenya,
Rwanda, Tanzania and Burundi. These projects are a combination of large
central offices, smaller regional offices, and residential housing
compounds.
Via your project managers, you will be
ultimately responsible for coordinating all phases of these project,
including;

Land scouting, purchase and transfer
Planning and regulation documentation
Interior and exterior design, landscaping
Work planning, project planning
Materials procurement, inventory management,
quantity surveying
Contractor management, quality control
Finishings, design, logistics of resource
transfer, etc.
Budgeting and accounting.

Growth Strategy and needs assessment

You will be responsible for coordinating with
One Acre Fund stakeholders to help identify future infrastructure needs
and potential projects, as well as upgrading and maintaining existing
infrastructure.

Career Growth and Development

Qualifications

We are seeking exceptional professionals with 2 to
5+ years of solid construction work experience, and a demonstrated long-term
passion for international development. Ideally, this candidate will have
managed large-scale construction projects in the developing world. They will
need to be able to co-ordinate several large-scale construction projects
simultaneously via strong leadership of a large construction team.

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 2 years. Candidates who fit the following criteria are strongly encouraged
to apply:

Strong construction management work
experiences: Examples might include project management of a school,
hospital, office or residential housing unit. The ideal candidate will
have coordinated construction projects from the ground up in both the
Western and developing worlds (although this is not a requirement),
including building the necessary teams for that project.
Top-performing undergraduate background
(please include GPA and test scores on your resume) in Construction
Management, Structural Engineering or similar degree.
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.
Ability to cook/laugh – desirable.
Language: English required, Swahili and/or
French nice to have.

Preferred Start Date Immediately

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

To Apply

TECHNICAL
ASSOCIATE

Wanted Exceptional
early career professional to serve in a position that combines both business
technology and management experience in Africa.

Job Location Western
Kenya/Rwanda.

Duration Minimum 2
years commitment, full-time job.

Job Description One Acre
Fund relies on several home-grown software systems to help us manage a lot of
information. As we grow our organization, we need to continually improve these
systems and facilitate the integration with third party tools. Currently our
most important tools – a program database and a finance database – are in SQL
Server with MS Access as a user interface. Our program database tool handles
the enrollment of clients, tracks farm supply orders, manages the delivery of
seed and fertilizer to clients, tracks millions of payments, and creates a wide
variety of business intelligence reports.

Given poor internet connectivity, our databases use
a distributed client/server model where field offices can perform data entry
and run reports offline while syncing with a central server as needed. As we
are growing, we are looking to:

Scale our existing tools to capture a wide
variety of program configurations per country;
Provide central management and reporting tools
while maintaining a focus on field usability;
Move to SQL Server Reporting services with
code libraries in C# for sharing code between central web management tools
and offline client tools.

The Technical Associate will initially be based in
Western Kenya with an opportunity to relocate to other countries. S/he will be
responsible for the following:

Field-facing mission-critical databases:

Participate in the continued development of
mission-critical, custom databases which impact every aspect of
operations;
Assist with streamlining the databases
between different countries;
Develop reports and data entry tools with an
eye towards re-usability across countries;
Maintain a long-term perspective when faced
with urgent operational demands;
Focus on simplicity and usability for our
local staff;
Work together with our small team of
developers.

IT: Manage local staff for routine computer
maintenance. Assist with network management and client database
installation and troubleshooting.
Technology experimentation: Experiment with a
variety of technologies to improve operations. Investigate appropriate
solutions for database scaling and interacting with third party software
providers.
Operational insight: Become familiar with
every aspect of our field operations and identify areas for improvement in
the tools we develop to support the field.
Other: There is a lot of “other” in
a startup.

Qualifications

A successful candidate will have these traits:

Solid programming skills.
Knowledge of database concepts and SQL;
experience with SQL Server a plus.
Very strong self-manager. After an initial
six-month period of heavy mentorship, supervision will consist of one
weekly check-in. We need someone who is very well-organized and can manage
their work independently.
Work experience, or internship, in some
professional environment; ideally 2+ years of work experience.
Willingness to commit to the position for at
least two years; ideally some experience living in a developing country.
Mentorship ability: this post will likely involve
training and mentorship of local staff.
No ego or drama. We are looking for others
that combine strong leadership skills with a humble approach to service.
Our expatriate team lives in rural Kenya together in a group of houses and
so we are looking for emotionally stable and happy people.
Language: English required.

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

To Apply

SQL SERVER
ADMINISTRATOR

Wanted Exceptional
professional to build and improve on our current server architecture, as well
as plan ahead for future scaling.

Job Location East
Africa.

Duration Minimum 2
years commitment, full-time job.

Job Description One Acre
Fund has several applications implemented as a SQL server merge replicated
architecture using web synchronization to a hosted server. There are nearly 40
locations in 5 different countries which communicate with our main production
server. In addition we are replicating data to a separate hosted server for
business reporting.

As we expect the number of locations and countries
to grow over time, we are seeking an exceptional professional to serve as SQL
Server Administrator who can build and improve on our current server
architecture, as well as plan ahead for future scaling. In addition the SQL
Server Administrator will assist with trainings when One Acre Fund expands to
new countries.

The SQL Server Administrator will start off in one
of our field countries for the first 12 months, after which they can negotiate
relocating. During the initial period some general IT administration tasks will
be required and there will be the opportunity to understand the technical
constraints a lot of our field offices are under.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities The SQL Server Administrator will perform the following and other
duties as assigned:

Server maintenance and security.

Create and maintain security policies for
developers connecting to SQL server.
In addition to database security, monitor
firewall settings and prevent intrusion attempts.
Monitor and test automated backups, ensure
offsite storage and perform consistency checks.
Evaluate Server performance and make
recommendations for improvements.
Anticipate scaling needs.
Create disaster recovery and emergency
failover procedures.

Communicate with our developers and field
operations team.

Act as gatekeeper for direct data
manipulation/cleaning requests.
Create scripts for setting up a test
environment with production data for developers.
Create and maintain a training environment
tailored to different country program needs.
Assist with database architecture changes and
staging data migrations.

Support.

Maintain and improve client installation
scripts.
Monitor client database performance.
Monitor replication performance.
Assist local IT staff with troubleshooting in
case of connectivity problems with the database.

New country setup.

Provide trainings for our main database tools
to new Country Directors and Bookkeepers.
Assist new countries with hiring local IT
staff.

Other

Our IT needs keep growing and the SQL Server
Administrator may be asked to help out in other areas occasionally.

Qualifications

Professional Qualifications and Attributes

The successful candidate will have:

Excellent communication skills. The person in
this position will have to communicate with team members remotely on a
regular basis.
Knowledge of SQL server and replication,
strong scripting skills, and the ability to create clear documentation.
Previous experience with server/network
administration a plus.
Language: English required; French a strong
plus.

Personal Attributes

The following personal attributes are desired:

A deep and genuine commitment to serving the
poor.
A passion for One Acre Fund’s program.
A tremendous attention to detail.
Humility and positive attitude.
A sense of humor.

Preferred Start Date Flexible

Compensation
Commensurate with experience.

Benefits Health
insurance, immunizations, flight, room and board.

Sponsor International Candidates Yes

To Apply

POLICY INNOVATION
OFFICER

Wanted

Exceptional professionals with 2 to 5+ years of
work experience to help governments achieve the next levels of impact.

Job Location

Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, Rubengera, Rwanda, or Zomba,
Malawi (other rural postings possible).

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.

Job Description

One Acre Fund believes that policy is all about
implementation. No matter how good or bad the policy, its execution on the
ground is what changes lives.

To help craft policies which work on the ground, we
are starting a new Government Services unit which is working together with
regional and national partners to support government-led policy initiatives in
agriculture. Following the lead of host governments, we support them with field
implementation that changes the lives of millions of people. Our long-term goal
is to help government to transform the agricultural ecosystems of whole
countries. These projects generally utilize our existing field expertise in
farm input distribution, rural mass marketing, and scalable training programs.

For these initiatives, we need both skilled
Government Relations staff (see, for example, our Africa Government Officer
posting) and also entrepreneurial field staff based in rural areas to focus on
implementation.

Regional and National Strategy Design: The
Policy Innovation Officer will work with other One Acre Fund staff and
high-level government officials to develop ideas to improve livelihoods of
smallholder farmers and the efficiency of the agricultural sector.
Program Implementation: The Policy Innovation
Officer will roll out region-wide and eventually nationwide programs.
Examples of past projects include a farm input system that delivers seed
and fertilizer to several hundred thousand farm families; farm input
marketing programs for similar numbers; and training support for 10,000+
extension agents.
Team Management: The Policy Innovation Officer
will screen, hire, and develop a staff of 30-150 full-time country
national staff, depending on the project, to support scaled
implementation.
Innovation Trials: The Policy Innovation
Officer will conduct an ambitious slate of trials within several
districts, in order to discover new and effective mechanisms for promoting
mass agricultural training—and to identify promising interventions One
Acre Fund could scale-up across its entire network of smallholder farmers.
Collaboration with Key Officials: The Policy
Innovation Officer will update high-level officials in the ministry of
agriculture on a regular basis. The Policy Innovation Officer will also collaborate
with important leaders at partner institutions.

Career Growth and Development

Qualifications

To start up and build this new team, we are seeking
exceptional professionals with 2 to 5+ years of work experience. We are looking
for truly extraordinary candidates who will help governments achieve the next
levels of impact. Candidates who fit the following criteria are strongly
encouraged to apply:

Strong operational work experiences. We are
looking for strong leaders with direct operating experience, ideally of an
entrepreneurial and unstructured nature.
Intelligence, creativity, and a desire to make
things work. We need people to develop creative ideas to improve the
quality of government services, who can then get out to the field and
figure out how to make these ideas work in practice.
Leadership experiences at work, or outside of
work.
Top-performing undergraduate background
(please include GPA and test scores on your resume).
Humility and personal stability. We are
looking for passionate professionals who combine strong leadership skills
with good humor, patience, and a humble approach to service.
A willingness to commit to living in 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—high levels of
proficiency with PowerPoint, Excel and other software programs.
Language: English required and Amharic
desirable in Ethiopia. English and French required in Rwanda.

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

To Apply

SPECIAL
PROJECTS ANALYST

Wanted Exceptional
professional to work on projects that are of strategic importance to One Acre
Fund as a whole.

Job Location

Rural Kenya (other countries possible).

Duration

Minimum 2 years commitment, full-time job.

Organization Description

Job Description

We are seeking an exceptional professional to work
on projects that are of strategic importance to One Acre Fund as a whole. The
goal of this role is to work across One Acre Fund’s various departments and
geographies to initiate and execute on projects that open up new operational or
strategic opportunities for the organization. The role presents a unique chance
to work on strategic priorities with the access and vantage point provided by
working closely with One Acre Fund’s field teams.

The role will divide roughly evenly, into three
parts:

Long-running, cross-department or
cross-country initiatives: As One Acre Fund grows, there are an increasing
number of projects that do not fall cleanly into an existing department,
and we need to execute cleanly across multiple silos. These projects would
last at least several months, tackling questions of strategic importance
to the organization.

Example: Investigate a new strategic idea of
potentially incorporating family planning products into our product
portfolio, and perform the initial field research and piloting to learn
more. Conduct focus groups with farmers, do desk research to understand
the policy landscape, then build the foundation for a One Acre
Fund-provided service. Again, start in one country and then gradually
expand across One Acre Fund network.
Example: Training modules for new managers at
One Acre Fund. Coordinating with our leadership team, put together a
dozen training modules and self-publish them into a booklet for our
budding managers. Supplement interviews on management best practices from
our field leadership with secondary research.
Example: Create a “remote field
visit” department that allows management to have eyes on the field
operation in remote places every day. Hire a team 3-10 videographers and
develop a procedure for them to collect, package, and translate video on
ground-level field operations to be used for One Acre Fund’s staff
training and quality control. Start in one country and then gradually
export this across all countries where One Acre Fund operates.
Example: US tech consulting. Working together
with our People Operations team, One Acre Fund is working on a project to
streamline the processing of over 10,000 applications per year. Scope out
the necessary requirements (including lack of solid internet bandwidth in
rural Africa), create a job description, recruit a software developer,
and then manage the implementation of a new candidate processing system.

One-off, fast analyses and tasks: These are
analyses and tasks of one week or shorter duration, typically exploring a
new strategic direction for the organization.

Example: Write an exploratory research memo
on the current state of research on sorghum and millet in East Africa.
Example: Attend a particular microfinance or
agriculture industry conference, perhaps in a speaking role – with the
goal of networking and identifying new opportunities for the
organization.

Communication with key stakeholders: The last
batch of work would be to communicate with key stakeholders of the
organization, as opportunities arose. This would most often involve
creating Powerpoint decks, conducting phone calls, and preparing financial
statement summaries.

Example: Prepare a keynote presentation for
One Acre Fund’s executive director to deliver at an industry conference.

Career Growth and Development

Qualifications

We are seeking exceptional professionals with 2 to
5+ years of work 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 a two-year minimum.
Candidates who fit the following criteria are strongly encouraged to apply:

Strong work experiences. We are looking for a
former management consultant (or similar skill–set). Entrepreneurial and
unstructured work experiences are also helpful.
Strong verbal and written communicator.
Leadership experiences at work, or outside of
work.
Top–performing undergraduate background
(please include GPA and test scores on your resume).
Humility and personal stability. 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 – very high
levels of proficiency with PowerPoint, Excel and other software programs.
Ability to cook/laugh – desirable.
Language: English required.

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

To Apply

MONITORING
AND EVALUATION ASSOCIATE

Wanted Smart and
dedicated self–starters to use data to improve operations and impact on
customers.

Job Location 1 in rural
Kenya, 1 in rural Rwanda, and 1 in rural Burundi.

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.

Job Description Rapid
organization growth translates into great career opportunities for our staff.
We invest heavily in careers – we want to find and retain our next group of
country directors, R&D directors, and partnership leaders.

We are seeking a smart and dedicated self–starter
to be an M&E Associate in rural East Africa. Overall, the M&E Associate
will be responsible for using data to continually improve our operations, and
impact on our customers.

General Responsibilities

Goal–oriented survey design, field testing of
survey instruments, and revision.
Supervise 3–5 M&E supervisors, 20–30
full–time M&E data collectors, 4 data entry staff, plus casuals. This
will include the following duties:

Regular mentorship of M&E managers
through field visits, meetings, and career reviews.
In–field supervision of key M&E
activities, with an eye to “perfect” quality standard.
Quality–control and supervision of data
entry, with zero tolerance for data–entry errors.
In–field follow–up on errors.

Hire and develop M&E data collectors.

Update hiring protocols, and use them to hire
top–quality data collectors.
Conduct regular trainings to improve skills
of data collectors.
Appropriately deal with under–performing
staff.

Innovation on new methods such as tablet–based
data collection.
Data analysis to draw both early and final
conclusions and actionable recommendations.

Qualifications We are
seeking exceptional professionals with 1 to 5+ years of work experience, and a
demonstrated long–term passion for international development.

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).
Prior field–based M&E experience is
required.
More importantly, we are seeking someone with
proven entrepreneurial and leadership experience – the vast majority of
the job is to monitor and improve M&E operations in the field.
Statistical knowledge is nice to have, but we
also have experts who can help with that side of things.
Leadership experience at work, or outside of
work.
Top–performing undergraduate record (please
include GPA and test scores on your resume). Master’s degree is not
required.
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 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.
Language: French and English required in
Rwanda. English required in Kenya.

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

To Apply

HEALTH
DISSEMINATION MANAGER

Wanted Health
professional for career–track role in Africa, with a focus on family planning
training.

Job Location Rural
Kenya, Rwanda, or Burundi.

Duration Minimum 2
years commitment, full-time job.

Job Description By
providing agriculture services, One Acre Fund has set up one of Africa’s most
promising new rural distribution networks. We offer training, product delivery,
and financing at more than 1,000 “market points.”

We have started pushing health goods through this
network. Most notably, we recently provided chlorine for water treatment for
more than 500,000 children for a year. We are increasingly interested in
searching for other “low-hanging fruit” – simple products and
trainings that we can distribute with minimal effort, for maximum humanitarian
impact.

We are particularly interested in providing family
planning training. No matter how large our agricultural gains, our farmers are
facing a grim situation if population growth continues at its current rapid
pace.

Specific responsibilities:

Determine the best products and services to
roll through our network. Use a combination of primary research with the
world’s foremost health distribution NGOs and companies, and also
secondary journal research to decide which products and services to
provide.
Run high-quality research pilots with small
numbers of farm families to determine uptake and usage rates, and to
estimate health impact.
Scale up. Source materials, design trainings,
and potentially hire specialty staff.

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. 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:

At least one year living and working in the
developing world. This is a requirement.
Strong work experiences. Entrepreneurial and
unstructured work experiences are particularly helpful.
Leadership experiences at work, or outside of
work.
Top-performing undergraduate background
(please include GPA and test scores on your resume).
Humility and personal stability. 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
East Africa for at least two years – this is a long–term, career–track
role.
Professional/technical skills – very high
levels of proficiency with PowerPoint, Excel and other software programs.
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.

Sponsor International Candidates

Yes

To Apply

INNOVATION
CAPTURE ASSOCIATE

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sponsor International Candidates

Yes

To Apply

EAST AFRICA
LOGISTICS MANAGER

Wanted

Exceptional professional with 3 to 10+ years of
work experience and ideally a demonstrated passion for international
development.

Job Location

Kenya or Rwanda (capital city or field posting
possible).

Duration

Minimum 2 years commitment, full-time job.

Organization Description

Job Description

As One Acre Fund’s client base grows, so does the
amount and diversity of farm inputs and other products it needs to deliver. In
the coming years, One Acre Fund will deliver roughly 15,000-30,000 metric tons
of products to farmers across East Africa. The East Africa Logistics Manager
will be the overall lead for this core aspect of our business, managing the
physical and technical business processes required to successfully and
efficiently deliver these products.

As part of successfully managing the delivery of
life-changing farm inputs, the East Africa Logistics Manager will be
responsible for building, growing, and developing an international logistics
team spread across at least four countries in East Africa. This will include,
at a minimum, the management of four in-country logistics leads in Kenya,
Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania; several dozen additional permanent staff across
those countries; as well as a small army of several hundred temporary casual
laborers spread across various loading sites, warehouses, transport points, and
headquarters.

In order to achieve its scale goals and continue to
deliver to its 200,000+ last-mile clients, One Acre Fund will need an East
Africa Logistics Manager who can take us to the next level in the following
areas:

Developing a world-class team of logistics
associates.
Storage and quality control protocols.
Data and inventory management systems.
Fraud and shrinkage prevention.
Supply chain management from port to warehouse
to farmer.
Warehouse receipting protocols.
Technology integration with One Acre Fund’s
customer relationship management (CRM) systems.
Input distribution scheduling and loading
orders.
Fleet management.
New projects, such as installing
closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance in warehouses or researching
potential cold chain ability for One Acre Fund.
Research and benchmarking on industry best
practices.

One Acre Fund’s East Africa Logistics Manager will
become the leader of a logistical operation that is rapidly growing in scope,
complexity, human impact, reaching roughly half a million rural smallholder
farmers within the next four years.

Qualifications

We are seeking an exceptional professional with 3
to 10+ years of work experience and ideally a demonstrated passion for
international development. Candidates who fit the following criteria are
strongly encouraged to apply:

Progressive experience in managing significant
chunks of logistics / systems / supply-chain for operationally complex
organizations, preferably working in developing world context.
Demonstrated ability to build and maintain meaningful systems or business
processes in challenging environments.
Strong work experiences. Examples include a
demanding professional work experience, or successful entrepreneurial
experience (e.g. leading a conference, starting a business, solid Peace
Corps accomplishments).
Leadership experience at work, or outside of
work.
Top-performing academic background (include
GPA 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.
Language: English required.

Preferred Start Date Flexible. However, note that we are also conducting an internal search
and will only be accepting applicants through May.

Compensation

Commensurate with experience.

Benefits

Health insurance, immunizations, flight, room and
board.

Sponsor International Candidates

Yes

To Apply

GRAPHIC
DESIGNER

Wanted

Extraordinary candidate with 2+ years of work
experience in web and/or print design.

Job Location

Rural Kenya.

Duration

Minimum 2 years commitment, full-time job.

Organization Description

Job Description

The graphic designer will work closely with our
field, government services, communications, and fundraising teams to produce
both field-facing and external-facing materials for One Acre Fund. Our rapid
growth means we are quickly expanding into new venues of communication and
marketing, from marketing materials for smallholder farmers interested in
joining One Acre Fund, to training materials for African government to
distribute through their national extension system. Unlike many in-house
graphic design positions, which focus solely on creating materials to market an
organization externally, this role will also help create a range of custom
materials to support our government services team, which partners directly with
African governments to increase the impact of their work with smallholder
farmers. The graphic designer will set a clear, consistent and professional
tone in our visual media that helps a wide variety of audiences best understand
how One Acre Fund works to put farmers first.

Primary duties of the job will include:

Designing custom materials to support our
government services team, including planting guides, checklists, and
training materials.
Designing informational materials and
advertisements for the field operations team to distribute to One Acre
Fund farmers.
Designing infographics and visual aids to help
make One Acre Fund’s program model and operations more accessible to a
wider audience.
Designing and determining the layout and
functions of new pages for our website.
Helping determine One Acre Fund branding
strategies for marketing both internally and externally.
Training sessions with local headquarters
marketing teams on the basics of design and layout.

Career Growth and Development

Qualifications

Demonstrated creativity and polished design
skills (presented in a portfolio).
Bold vision that is capable of being
translated and scaled into the visual branding of One Acre Fund.
2+ years of work experience in web and/or
print design.
Strong ability to collaborate and work in a
team.
Proficient in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and
InDesign or equivalent programs.
Leadership experience at work, or outside of
work.
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 Nairobi,
Kenya, for at least two years.
Hard worker. We are looking for a
self-motivated person who will consistently put in 100% performance for
our farmers.
Language: English required.

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

To Apply

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