One Acre Fund Kenya Business Operations Associate Jobs in Kenya
One Acre Fund Kenya Business Operations Associate Jobs in Kenya
Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund supplies smallholder farmers with the agricultural services they need to make their farms vastly more productive. We provide quality farm supplies on credit, delivered within walking distance of farmers’ homes, and agricultural trainings to improve harvests.
We measure our success by our ability to make farmers more prosperous: On average, farmers harvest 50 percent more food after working with One Acre Fund.
We are growing quickly. We currently serve more than 800,000 farm families in Eastern and Southern Africa, with more than 7,500 full-time staff, and we aim to serve 1 million farm families by 2020.
The Kenya Field Division is the largest team at all of One Acre Fund and plays a crucial role in achieving this goal. We seek to design and execute the program at a high level across Kenya.
As the direct service providers, we provide the highest quality service to each and every farmer while ensuring that we are working efficiently in a way that allows us to have the right forward-thinking plans to serve future farmers for years to come.
Responsibilities
Tablet Transition: Technology offers a lot of opportunities to a disperse field program, such as OAF’s. This project would set the entire field staff up to receive tablets, train staff how to use them, and then strategize how to leverage their versatility to improve program outcomes.
This project could have amazing gains for operations and efficiency. We see tablets as fundamentally changing the way that we implement our program. The owner of this project would have substantial opportunities to affect the future of the program.
Field Team Management Support and Training: With over 2,900 field staff for the 2020 season, we need to provide team members with the right management techniques and skills.
This exciting portfolio will have the opportunity to have direct management over district performance improvement efforts and professional development curricula.
This project is an excellent opportunity to take the team from good to great and really make an impact on the Kenya Field team.
Service Delivery: One key to OAF’s success is our aptitude in delivery and customer service. It is vital that we continue to improve upon this strength and make the last mile of delivery as successful as possible.
This project owner would oversee all of the field-facing aspects of delivery and be responsible for the systematic improvement of our customer experience. We see this area as crucial to remaining committed to our value of putting farmers first and setting the stage for positive future growth.
Field Staff Strategy and Research: With a remote based team, OAF Kenya is always looking for improvements to hiring and promotions, team management and administrative functions.
The person that oversees this project work will have the opportunity to think creatively about some of the most important management issues in the international development sector.
Excellent Deliverable, Flexibility, and Timeliness
As a Field Program Associate, your work will be seen by thousands of staff members and possibly hundreds of thousands of farmers. This means the standards that you are held to is high.
After 6 months, you are expected to oversee excellent
design and execution, with little oversight from your direct manager.
Deliverable should be easily understood by all and be able to convey complex ideas in limited space.
The Field Division works within the time constraints of the field program. This occasionally means quick pivots. All members of the team are expected to hit agreed upon timelines and be prepared to pivot priorities, based on field needs.
Leadership
Strategy & Vision
Contribute to setting Annual Objective Key Results (OKRs), and responsible for the execution and follow up of all OKRs under your functional area of work
Measure progress against goals, regularly report on progress, and hold the team accountable to prioritizing and delivering results in key strategic areas.
Set annual Kenya strategy for your areas of work
Carefully manage the budget of all project work. Prioritize and plan projects to make smart spending decisions and track budgeting on spends to ensure that the project remains on track or additional spends are planned for and approved.
Communication
Proactively and effectively communicate up to country leadership, down to departments, and across to other sets of leaders plans, goals and progress for your area of work.
Ensure team members are collaborating effectively with individuals, teams, and divisions outside of the department.
Set-up appropriate systems of communication to keep everyone moving together, particularly through recurring meetings and strategy sessions
Participate in global Field Operations (FOPs) work and collaborate with other country programs.
Requirements
Ability to come up with innovative and creative solutions to challenges - an entrepreneurial mindset is a strong asset.
Strong project management skills. We are looking for someone who can plan and execute trial/pilot plans on tight schedules.
Exceptional analytical skills, able to work with quantitative and qualitative information, exercise judgment, and make decisions in the context of uncertainty, and use data effectively to drive strategy.
At a minimum, a Bachelor’s degree is required for this position with strong demonstrated previous work experience.
Demonstrated leadership experience at work, or outside of work, enthusiasm for learning, and openness to feedback.
Ability to build teams and collaborate with colleagues from diverse backgrounds.
Language: English required, knowledge of Swahili useful.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should apply online by Friday 12th July, 2019.
For more information and job application details, see; One Acre Fund Kenya Business Operations Associate Jobs in Kenya
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