One Acre Fund BurundI Field Operations Associate Jobs in Kenya

One Acre Fund BurundI Field Operations Associate Jobs in Kenya

The Field Operations Department supports the implementation of the program of One Acre Fund in the field through a team that reaches hundreds of field agents.

These agents are in close contact with farmers and provide them with the main services offered by Tubura, such as training, credit management and the organization of the access to products.

As a Program Associate, you will have the opportunity to learn from field operations and to help improve our program.

The position includes two elements; operations management and scale innovation.

Operations:

The staff focuses on farmer-facing services. They start as generalists, with overall responsibility for executing our program in a region.

Over time, they can continue to rise as a general leader, possibly growing to manage an entire country’s field operation. Or they may specialize, for example, in the creation and roll-out of training.

The staff builds the infrastructure required for growth. These teams proactively eliminate barriers to scale in a diverse range of areas – processing millions of farmer payments, communicating to farmers via tens of millions of SMS, hiring hundreds of new staff per year, and physically moving 20,000+ tons of farm inputs to thousands of drop sites.

Program Associates also make steady improvements to accelerate growth – for example, setting up mobile money integration for a country.

Scale innovation:

Improve our core agricultural products or run new experiments in energy and health products. The ideas they discover may eventually scale to hundreds of thousands of households.

Product Innovations staff design trials, execute trials together with thousands of farmers, synthesize trial data, and make constant revisions to the product offering.

Seek to improve our core operating model. By running trials with tens of thousands of farmers, they analyze targeted questions such as: does moving from a group liability loan to an individual liability loan improve repayment and customer satisfaction? Or they might investigate more radical ideas, such as setting up physical One Acre Fund shops to see if there are more efficient ways to deliver high-quality service to farmers.

They try variations on our program with the goal of improving our scalability, impact, and financial sustainability.

Roles and Responsibilities