Jobs at One Acre Fund

About the Role

We have helped farmers plant millions of trees so far and plan to support the planting of hundreds of millions more over the next ten years. The Agroforestry Technical Lead will support teams to refine their models to make them as impactful, efficient, and environmentally responsible as possible, while also expanding scale and farmer access. You will improve the organisation’s technical capacity and translate your expertise into action. You will report to our Global Agroforestry Lead.

Responsibilities

• Improve seedling survival rates. Improvements in our survival rates across countries will result in millions of more trees in the ground for the longer term. To achieve this, you will work with country teams to understand the root causes affecting survival rates, identify solutions to increase survival rates, and design and launch trials to test out leading ideas with an aim to scale any successful interventions to a regional and national level.
• Develop tree variety pipelines. You will create tools to identify area appropriate species; link these with farmer and market demand trends and the impact strategy for each country program. From this, you will design a strategy to trial and scale varieties over multiple seasons with in-country teams.
• Secure our seedling supply chain through our in-house production models. You will deliver trainings on best practices for nursery management and species management and implement tactics and tools to reliably track field performance.
• Implement adoption boosting field tactics. You will translate our goals through field teams by using your experience and tactics from other sources to refine our marketing and distribution strategies to boost adoption results in each country.

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

Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:

• 5+ years working in smallholder agroforestry with demonstrated managerial responsibilities including strategy development and performance management
• Field experience working in smallholder farmer agroforestry
• A track-record of implementation preferred, taking projects from strategic to operational within a relatively short amount of time
• Bachelors or advanced degree in Agroforestry preferred
• Language: English required in all locations. Other local languages desirable

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Responsibilities

Research

• Manage 2-4 long-term research studies that are of the highest strategic priority to our organization. These studies may be implemented internally by One Acre Fund and/or by an external organization.
• Dig into existing One Acre Fund research to allow the Office of the CEO and the business development team to make strategic plans around where to invest in program growth. This will be complementary to the annual impact assessments that the internal Monitoring and Evaluation team conduct.
• Prepare concise reports and dashboards to consolidate what is known internally about our client farmers and program impact.
• Coordinate with Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) teams when needed to collect and report on outcomes that are of high interest to donors.
• Expand our internal research agenda. Identify holes in what we know about Impact and suggest solutions or studies to deepen our understanding.
• Create a plan to build One Acre Fund’s research profile. This may involve creating a robust dissemination strategy of our existing research or conducting activities that highlight ongoing research at One Acre Fund.

Partnerships

• Main measurement and evaluation related liaison for external research and evaluation partners.
• Represent One Acre Fund and our impact measurement work in donor and external facing meetings and presentations.
• Provide facts and data to the Business Development team that has been validated by the primary data collection undertaken by our teams.

Staff

• Mentor the in-country Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning teams on performance and technical issues.
• Potentially manage 1-2 staff members as the portfolio for this role grows.

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

Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:

• 7 to 10+ years of academic or professional experience developing evaluations/research and analyzing findings.
• Successful track record in complex research and evaluation projects (e.g. high-level data analysis, an experience of data collection, field team management).
• Knowledge of evaluation concepts and mastery of experimental and quasi-experimental evaluation designs.
• Master communicator with an eye for design and visual presentation.
• Experience in engaging with multiple partners diplomatically and build meaningful strategic relationships.
• Data analysis skills such as regressions, propensity score matching, difference in difference design
• Knowledge of statistical software (e.g. Stata, R, Advanced Excel (can maintain complex spreadsheets)).
• Master’s degree in a related field is required. PhD is a plus.
• Humility and personal stability.

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About the Role

This is a senior role in the Kenya Field Operations department, reporting directly to the Director of Field Operations. You will lead a team of 500+ staff and oversee an operational budget of 5million+ USD to create 9million+ USD in revenue and 9million+ USD in community impact. You will lead the strategic direction, tactical decision-making, and performance management of the Nyanza Region.

Responsibilities

• Create a data-led management culture with high degree of independence and results ownership
• Set growth and sales strategy for your operational region that aligns with country goals
• Customize the product and financing offerings to regional preference using the strategic advice of your team Specialists and Field network
• Design client and staff incentive strategy to improve loan collection in more cost efficient ways and motivate engagement
• Lead annual budgeting and cost efficiency for your operational region.

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

Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:

• 3+ years of experience in a front-end operational setting, preferably in one of our countries of operation (Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, India)
• Demonstrated ability to set complex strategic direction for operations
• Demonstrated ability managing a large, geographically-dispersed team
• English required, Swahili preferred.