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 commitme
nt,
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.
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 (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
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