About One Acre Fund
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.
Job Description
Your job is to optimize the impact generated by our products and services by ensuring that our farmers understand our wide set of products and services, and are changing their behaviors accordingly through highly impactful trainings. You work closely with:
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.
Job Description
Your job is to optimize the impact generated by our products and services by ensuring that our farmers understand our wide set of products and services, and are changing their behaviors accordingly through highly impactful trainings. You work closely with:
·
Our M&E
team to understand how we can optimize impact from existing products, services and behaviors and you update and innovate on our training
content accordingly
·
Our Product
Innovations team to maximize impact from new
products, services and practices
·
Our Expansion
Team to maximize impact in new
regions by
proactively adjusting our training content/marketing for various agronomic
needs, calendars and cultural context
·
Our Field
Operations team, who ultimately deliver all the content you are creating, to
ensure strong understanding and buy in behind our products, services and impact
strategy
In addition,
you are constantly keeping an eye out for external seasonal threats to our farmer’s income (e.g. pests, climate
change). If faced with a challenge you coordinate a timely and accurately
response and you own that we respond effectively (i.e. trigger an immediate
behavior change). Success in
your role measured by our ability to maximize each season’s impact and thereby
hit our impact targets.
Specific Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To
Creating and monitoring our Annual Impact Strategy:
Specific Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To
Creating and monitoring our Annual Impact Strategy:
·
You are
responsible for creating/updating and presenting an outstanding Impact Strategy
every season - created in close collaboration with PI, M&E, Field Ops and
our Systems Teams
·
This strategy
should be based off our 5 Year Impact Plan and boil down our most important
impact priorities for the year and set us up to meet our annual Impact Targets
across regions
·
It is rolled
out to our Field Team through an inspirational and well prepared Impact Boot
camp
·
It also needs
to be created prior to our marketing for the new season to ensure that we
successfully market and sell the right mix of products and services
·
Once launched,
you are responsible for monitoring how this strategy plays out in field and if
needed adjust and respond to challenges and opportunities as they unfold
Optimizing Our Impact Training
Portfolio/Farmer Training Uptake/Retention
·
As One Acre
Fund works today, after our Enrollment/Marketing window and after the Impact
Boot camp, our Impact Strategy largely comes to life through our bi-weekly
training program
·
You/your team
trains our Field Leaders every two weeks, who train our Field Officers, who
train their Group Leaders in their village, who train their group members...
·
As such, you
have a limited number of hours/year for training content and the content needs
to travel through several people before it reaches our clients. Hence, you are
responsible for:
·
Optimizing
these hours to ensure we optimize impact from new and existing
products/services (incl. complex products such as insurance, seed types,
warranties)
·
Ensuring that
the content is simple, inspirational and on point so that it smoothly travels
from the Field Leaders all the way to each and every one of our 60,000 farmers
·
Ensuring that
the content effectively triggers behavior change. You have a small team who you
should use effectively to test content and messaging before rolled out
As we are growing our product portfolio and
our program is becoming more complex (i.e. tackling a wider range of challenges
such as income diversification, soil health, nutrition, risk management (e.g.
insurance), quality of life and asset accumulation), you will need to explore
new and innovative ways of delivering training content (shorter trainings, SMS,
tablets, campaigns, etc.) and/or techniques for better knowledge retention
We expect you to frequently “Go To Gemba” -
that is - spend a lot of time in the field with our clients and
with the field team to understand what works and what does not so that you
constantly re-iterate and improve our techniques for behavior change
Lastly, it’s critical that you operate
through the formal processes set up by the Field Team to ensure the right
content goes out at the right time - in each and every district
Protecting Our Farmers To External Impact Threats
Protecting Our Farmers To External Impact Threats
·
First and
foremost - we want you to minimize the time you spend on responding to
unforeseen impact threats! Therefore you should:
·
Work without
global/in country team to prevent/prepare our farmers for the biggest impact
threat
·
Work across
our Field and Systems team to ensure we have the systems/protocols build out to
respond to risks with minimal disruptions
We expect you to constantly have an ear to
the ground to pick up challenges as early as possible - this is mainly done by
keeping a close eye on our Client Engagement database and through fostering
ongoing dialogue with Regional Leads and District Coordinators
Once a problem does hit, we lean on you to
help us:
Prioritize
the response: As we said - we have a limited number of hours to train our team
- if something comes in - something else needs to be deprioritized. We also
need to carefully weigh the cost of the response against the risk. We expect
you to quickly and systematically quantify an impact risk and advise if/how we
respond
Coordinate/optimize
the response: Your
leadership skills here as this could range from ‘only’ securing agronomic
advice from experts and ensuring Field Ops update next week’s meeting agenda to
rapidly aligning the organization behind a seed swap
Learning
for the future: Ensure that
lessons learned reach the team that can proactively prevent the risk in the
future (e.g. ensure Inputs/Logistics acts on seed quality issues).
Team Management
Team Management
·
Our Agronomist
and our Behavior Change Coordinators report into you and you are responsible
for their professional development, performance, efficiency and team culture in
accordance with One Acre Fund management principles and expectations
Career Growth
and Development
We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.
Qualifications
Specific qualifications include, but are not limited to:
Therefore, Please Only Submit An Application If You Fit These Criteria
We are looking for a candidate with a proven track record of tackling complex agricultural technology adoption and behavior change challenges in a systematic and efficient way.
We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.
Qualifications
Specific qualifications include, but are not limited to:
Therefore, Please Only Submit An Application If You Fit These Criteria
We are looking for a candidate with a proven track record of tackling complex agricultural technology adoption and behavior change challenges in a systematic and efficient way.
·
5+ years of
relevant work experience which includes qualitative and quantitative research
on smallholder agriculture, with an emphasis on behavior change and adoption of
improved technologies (products or practices), preferably including some work
around agroforestry
·
Prior
experience with research and extension project design and management, ideally
including participatory methods, on-farm trials, surveys and focus groups
·
Postgraduate
degree in behavior science, rural development agriculture or a related field
·
Strong interpersonal
skills to effectively collaborate and coordinate work across multiple teams
·
Ability to
easily explain complex technical concepts in plain language
·
Strong ability
to stay organized to simultaneously manage the complexity of our products,
regions, calendars, effectively prioritizing to meet short- and long-term
deadlines
·
Analytical
ability to effectively identify and prioritize impact opportunities
·
Passion for
collaborating with and training others, with strong experience in contributing
to capacity building and professional development of colleagues and direct
reports
·
Humility. We
have a fantastic team. We are looking for passionate professionals who combine
strong leadership skills with good humor, patience, and a humble approach to
service.
·
We place a lot
of value on the ability to proactively respond to open and frank feedback in
order to grow as individuals and a team as well as constructively and
respectfully give feedback
·
Willingness to
travel. The role requires up to ~30% travel across regions every year
·
English and
Kiswahili required
Preferred Start Date
As soon as possible
Job Location
Iringa, Njombe and/or Mbeya, Tanzania (with frequent travel to all regions)
Compensation
Commensurate with experience
Duration
Full-time job.
Benefits
Health insurance, paid time off
Sponsor International Candidates
Yes.Tanzania country nationals / East Africans are strongly encouraged to apply.
One Acre Fund never asks candidates to pay any money or pay for tests at any stage of the interview process. Official One Acre Fund emails will always arrive from an @oneacrefund.org address. Please report any suspicious communication here (globalhotline@oneacrefund.org).
As soon as possible
Job Location
Iringa, Njombe and/or Mbeya, Tanzania (with frequent travel to all regions)
Compensation
Commensurate with experience
Duration
Full-time job.
Benefits
Health insurance, paid time off
Sponsor International Candidates
Yes.Tanzania country nationals / East Africans are strongly encouraged to apply.
One Acre Fund never asks candidates to pay any money or pay for tests at any stage of the interview process. Official One Acre Fund emails will always arrive from an @oneacrefund.org address. Please report any suspicious communication here (globalhotline@oneacrefund.org).
