One Acre Fund,Program Associate Job Vacancy in Tanzania

Private-sector
style career development in a growing social enterprise
An excellent
career development opportunity

Industry:
Nonprofit/International Development
Function: Program Operations
Employer: One Acre Fund
Job Title: Program Associate

Job Location: Rural
Rwanda or Burundi (French required); Rural Kenya, Ethiopia, or Malawi (English
required); Tanzania Regional Capital (English Required)

Duration: Minimum 2
years commitment, full-time job

Organization
Descripti
on

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 are growing
quickly. In eight years, we have grown to serve 180,000 farm families with more
than 2000 full-time field staff, and we will triple again in the coming three
years. Our approach has won widespread validation, including grants from The
MasterCard Foundation and Gates Foundation. Website: www.oneacrefund.org.

Job
DescriptionRapid
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. In their first year, our
program associates lead 3-5 internal consulting projects, such as:

· 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.

As staff grow into a
program manager role, our strongest performers take leadership over a
relatively independent pilot, country, or department within the One Acre Fund
network, while earning a significant and sustainable salary increase. Examples
includes:

· 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.

Career
Growth and Development

One Acre Fund
invests heavily 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. 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 (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.

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

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