One Acre Fund,Operations Innovation Project Specialist Jobs in Rwanda

Job
Description: Operations Innovation project specialist
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One
Acre Fund – TUBURA
Join
the fastest growing organization in Rwanda!  Build a career and deliver
impact in the community! 
Employer:                   
One Acre Fund (TUBURA)
Job
Location:               Rubengera,
Karongi (with travel during the week)
Duration: 
                  
2 year +

Preferred
Start Date:   Immediate
Deadline:
                   July
5th, 2017
Organization
Description
One
Acre Fund – TUBURA is a social enterprise that serves smallholder farmers with
a bundle of training, inputs and credit. Currently, we serve over 200,000
Rwandan farmers. We do not give handouts, but ask farmers to invest in their
future through participating in our program. Their investment in modern
agricultural techniques increases their harvest. To further equip TUBURA to
making Rwandan smallholder farmers more prosperous, we are looking for
applicants who are driven, hardworking, and have successful professional
records to fulfill different roles on our team.  See www.oneacrefund.org
for more information.
Job
Description
One
of TUBURA’s core distinguishing characteristics is our desire and ability to
innovate our program model according to our clients’ needs. As our program
grows, we will need a dedicated team of innovators and problem solvers to help
us continue to improve how we deliver our service to farmers. The Operations
Innovation team
has been tasked with this responsibility and will
depend on its team to fulfill its mission. The role is to assist this team with
implementing trials, pilots, and research assignments to help us achieve a
better, more efficient program.
Primary
Duties and Responsibilities
  • Project
    Lead –
    You
    will oversee and assist on multiple trials and/or projects assigned by
    your manager. You will be in charge of ensuring project quality and
    completing deliverables on time.  You will be responsible for:
    • Helping
      think through trial design
    • Executing
      field experiments and trials
    • Following
      up in the field
    • Ensuring
      excellent communication amongst your team and all other stakeholders
    • Helping
      in tracking your trial, measuring success, and documenting trial
      learnings
  • Thought
    Partner –
    You
    will work alongside a senior member of our team who will mentor you on
    your project management. Your manager will work closely with you to
    further evolve an idea or explore a new concept in the field and you will
    participate in group discussions to improve, change, or stop an idea from
    progressing.
  • Data
    Analyst –
    We
    use data every day to make decisions, change strategies, or explore new
    ideas. We are all data analysts: collecting clients’ perspectives, field
    teams KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators), repayment information, focus
    group responses and much more. You will be responsible for ensuring that
    data collected is highly credible, rigorously analyzed, and clearly
    presented to your manager and other team members.
  • People
    Manager-
    You
    will be expected to quickly take on a team of Direct Reports to help you
    execute projects. You will be responsible for ensuring their professional
    development and growth.
Career
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 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. You will have access to professional development
opportunities aimed at building the soft and hard skills required for a quick
professional growth. Because of our rapid organization growth, we constantly
have new roles opening up and opportunities in many functions. This results in
fast career progress for our staff.
Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s
    degree in business administration, Agriculture, Agriculture Economics,
    Agribusiness or related fields
  • Commitment
    to living in a rural area for an extended period of time
  • Ability
    and willingness to travel 2-3 days a week in rural areas depending on
    project
  • Professional
    written and oral English, Kinyarwanda is an added value
  • Advanced
    computer skills: typing, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel other statistical
    packages are an added advantage
  • At
    least 1 year of prior work experience
To
Apply
You
will be prompted to a form that must be completed.  At the end of the form
you will have the opportunity to write a motivational letter and upload your CV
We
are offering a world class professional and international environment that
focuses on your career development and are looking forward to receiving your
application.
One
Acre Fund is an equal opportunity employer; all candidates with legal working
age will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color,
region, sex, disability status or any other characteristic protected by the
law.
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