One Acre Fund Jobs Vacancies in Kenya
One Acre Fund Program Director Jobs Vacancies in Kenya
ResponsibilitiesCreate a strategic vision: This position does not involve managing an existing operation – we are seeking an 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.
Qualifications
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.
Like ability 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 live outside of a capital city, close to our customers in 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.
Language: English required in Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda. French required in Burundi.
How to apply
Interested candidates should apply online by 16th November 2017
For more information and job application details, see; One Acre Fund Program Director Jobs Vacancies in Kenya
One Acre Fund Program Rotation Associate Jobs Vacancies in Kenya
Responsibilities
Field Operations: This team is the direct service provider to our farmers, with the primary objective of building the capacity of our local staff to provide financially sustainable impact, at scale, to all One Acre Fund farmers. A rotation with Field Operations could include managing an entire season’s worth of training materials for 100,000+ farmers, designing incentives to ensure high repayment, or serving as a liaison to our crop health teams which monitor in-field agricultural problems for our farmers.
Business Operations: The objective of our Operations departments is to ensure that we are able to deliver on all of our promises to our clients. Operations encompasses mission-critical systems like finance, client data management, print, procurement and investigations. A rotation with Business Operations could include running bulk SMS service for 100,000+ farmers, creating a new customer service line and systems to support it, or ensuring that we can process farmer insurance claims fairly and rapidly.
Logistics: The primary responsibility of our Logistics team is to ensure that we deliver life-changing inputs and materials to farmers on time and at high quality. A rotation with Logistics would likely include managing a season’s worth of deliveries to thousands of farmers, including planning, troubleshooting, procurement of trucks, liaising with warehouses, etc.
Program Innovations: The Scale Innovations team aims to deepen One Acre Fund’s impact on every community we serve by increasing the percent of households who join our program, and by developing innovations that help our field staff serve farmers better. Example projects with the Scale Innovations team include running trials related to using tablet computers in field operations, a “junior OAF member” marketing trial, or reconfiguring the role of farmer group leaders in our operations.
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, etc).
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 live outside of a capital city, close to our customers 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 in Kenya, French a plus in Rwanda and Burundi. Swahili-speakers are particularly encouraged to apply.
How to apply
Interested candidates should apply online by 16th November 2017
For more information and job application details, see; One Acre Fund Program Rotation Associate Jobs Vacancies in Kenya
One Acre Fund Supply Chain Operations Associate/Manager Associate Jobs Vacancies in Kenya
Responsibilities
Be the key coordinator between procurement staff and over 2 dozen internal customers across 6 core countries and 2 pilot programs.
Collaborate with country leadership and logistics teams to maximize end-to-end supply chain efficiency, eliminate waste from the value chain, and save costs.
Leverage forecasting and inventory planning tools to generate and maintain 12-month rolling demand forecast and purchasing plan with target seasonal stock levels and payment timing.
Join forces with the Financial Advisory team to implement an effective pricing model across country programs.
Generate guidelines for clients to manage order and forecast process as well as how to handle excess inventory and stock outs.
Develop sophisticated data analyses to drive order forecasting and pricing decisions, improve supply chain efficiency, and drive operational scalability.
Extract and analyze system data using SAP Business One, Power BI, and excel to identify and recommend improvements to supply chain metrics and performance standards.
Use data analytics to drive on-time deliveries and deliver world class customer service to our clients.
Set the standard for high quality inventory data management across the organization.
Develop organizational Key Performance Indicators and targets for data management, forecasting, and order timeliness.
Aggregate and report on supply chain KPIs quarterly to organizational leadership.
Use reporting tools to drive behavior change within supply chain and across the organization with monthly purchasing, inventory movement, and forecast accuracy reports.
Mentor supply chain staff to build leadership and project management skills.
Set ambitious goals for your direct reports and support their achievements.
Identifying strong talent pools for recruiting high quality supply chain staff.
Become familiar with One Acre Fund teams and structures to ensure your team is effectively supporting their internal clients including Finance and Logistics.
Build outstanding communication channels to deliver overall process transparency to your internal clients.
Qualifications
Work experience in a demanding professional environment, preferably in positions where frequent cross-department communication was required.
Experience in procurement, logistics, or supply chain management preferred.
Knowledge of SAP or other ERP reporting skills strongly preferred.
Proficiency in Excel and other software packages required.
Creativity and strong problem solving skills. You don’t take no for an answer and constantly look for alternative solutions to problems.
Outstanding communication skills with direct reports, peers and management.
Experience working internationally preferred.
Leadership experience at work or outside of work.
Ability to work and make decisions independently.
Good oral and written communication skills.
Top-performing academic background.
Language: English required, French and Swahili preferred.
How to apply
Interested candidates should apply online by 16th November 2017
For more information and job application details, see; One Acre Fund Supply Chain Operations Associate/Manager Associate Jobs Vacancies in Kenya
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