One Acre Fund NGO Positions in Africa

One Acre Fund NGO Country Logistics Lead Vacancies in Uganda

Job Description

Our vision for 2020 is to improve the lives of more than one million farm families by delivering exemplary services to their doorsteps.
To achieve this, One Acre Fund must grow in both scale and complexity – and we need additional high performing staff members to continue our strong growth trajectory. Working with our Logistics team presents the opportunity to build upon our strong operational foundations, extend our geographic reach, and explore new ways to impact our well-established network of hundreds of thousands of farm families.

Career Growth and Development

One Acre Fund invests in building management and leadership skills.

Your manager and a global support team will commit 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.

Qualifications

We are seeking exceptional professionals with 5+ years of work experience. Candidates who fit the following criteria are strongly encouraged to apply:

Strong work experiences with demonstrated leadership and management experience. Examples include a demanding professional work experience, or successful entrepreneurial experience (e.g. starting a program in a developing country, leading a conference, starting a business,).

Experience in supply chain, logistics, or other operational management. Development world experience is an asset but not required.

Strong analytical skills – ability to quickly review, synthesize, analyze and communicate data
Creativity and strong problem-solving skills.

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.

Language: Fluent English required

How to Apply:

Apply Online on Or before 15th July 2017

For more information and job application details, see; One Acre Fund NGO Country Logistics Lead Vacancies in Uganda

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One Acre Fund NGO Software Developer Vacancies in Uganda

Job Description

One Acre Fund relies on a home-grown Client Management Information System to help us manage our field program information.
As we grow our organization, we need to continually improve this system and facilitate its integration with third party tools. Currently, our Client Management Information System handles the enrollment of 180,000-300,000 smallholder farmers spread over multiple countries, records farm supply orders, manages the delivery of seed, fertilizer, and solar lights to clients, tracks millions of payment transactions, and creates a wide

variety of business intelligence reports.

As we are growing, we are looking to:

Improve our existing tools to capture a wide variety of program configurations per country and provide functionality for a multitude of field product and process innovations.

Provide central management and reporting tools while maintaining a focus on field usability.

Build out efficient bulk data entry functionality with a heavy focus on data quality control, as well as field-facing mobile and tablet data entry, and reporting where appropriate.

The Developer will be based in Jinja, Uganda. S/he will be responsible for the following:

Producing a field-facing, mission-critical Program Management System.

Participating in the continued development of our mission-critical custom database, which impacts every aspect of the organization’s operations.

Developing features allowing for flexibility in the way individual countries run their operations, while still focusing on reusability across countries.

Maintaining a long-term perspective when faced with urgent operational demands.
Working together with our small team of developers.

Career Growth and Development

One Acre Fund invests in building management and leadership skills. Your manager and a global support team will commit 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.

Qualifications

We are seeking an exceptional professional with 2+ years of experience, solid programming skills, and a knowledge of database concepts to improve our existing technical systems.

Candidates fitting the following profile are strongly encouraged to apply:

2+ years of work or internship experience in a professional environment.

Solid programming skills. C#/MVC.Net/Breeze.js/Angular.js preferable, but not required.

Knowledge of database concepts and SQL/Linq.
Very strong self-manager.

After an initial six-month period of heavy mentorship, supervision will consist of one weekly check-in. Accordingly, we need someone who is very well-organized and can manage their work independently.

Willingness to commit to the position for at least two years.

How to Apply:

Apply online on or before 15th July 2017


For more information and job application details, see; One Acre Fund NGO Software Developer Vacancies in Uganda



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