Program Rotation Manager
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.
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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
Note there is also a more junior version of this role available here.As One Acre Fund evolves rapidly into a fully professionalized organization serving upwards of one million farmers, a crucial determinant of our success will be how flexibly the organization can respond to new challenges and fill gaps that would otherwise slow growth. We are seeking mid-career / leadership level candidates interested in a role designed to meet this strategic objective. The position is a way for world class management professionals to make immediate contributions to the highest-priority challenges facing the organization. In turn, the role offers superior professional growth by providing rapid exposure to the full breadth and depth of One Acre Funds functional leadership opportunities, preparing candidates for an eventual permanent executive leadership role in the organization.
Concretely speaking, a typical track would involve plugging into a progression of high-priority leadership roles, followed by the opportunity for a permanent posting or further rotations depending on the candidates interests:
- First 12-24 months: Rotate between several ~6-month long management posts
- Subsequently: Permanently fill a role of particular interest for the candidate and priority for the organization
Examples of possible rotations include:
- Nigeria Country Director: Lead the promising Nigeria pilot into a phase of consolidation and growth and play a key role in shaping the future of the program in this high potential market. This person would also hire and mentor new staff to take on leadership roles in the coming years; set up systems and controls that can support rapid growth in the future; and ensure critical program metrics like adoption, impact and repayment remain strong year on year despite steady growth and changing market dynamics.
- New department standup: Rotation Managers can be tasked with developing new capacities for One Acre Fund, like standing up a new Global Field Operations team or organizing a global approach to a new impact stream like agroforestry.
- Program expansion: Lead a new program expansion, i.e. a new country or a new region, conducting initial pilot operations, recruitment, marketing, and setting up systems. Alternatively, launch a new business model or product offering in an existing market, like setting up an agrodealer operation.
- Department leadership: Shore up a mission-critical department during a period when it would benefit from enhanced strategic leadership. By definition this could include many One Acre Fund departments, but for illustrative examples consider our high-priority initiatives within Logistics and Field Operations.
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Career Growth and Development
A Program Rotation Manager will receive:- An assigned mentor from One Acre Funds senior leadership who remains consistent from rotation to rotation in order to provide longer-term career growth and anchoring in the organization
- Projects that cut across geography and business units for a truly comprehensive work experience
- Challenging work assignments that target both critical organizational projects and your own leadership development goals
Qualifications
We are seeking multiple exceptional professionals with exceptional professionals with 5+ years of relevant work experience and a demonstrated passion for our mission. Candidates who fit the following criteria are strongly encouraged to apply:- At a minimum, a Bachelors degree is required for this position with strong demonstrated previous work experience.
- Functional flexibility an entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to hit the ground running and start adding value quickly upon taking up a new rotational role
- Geographic flexibility at least in the first 12-18 months, the ability to relocate will be important as One Acre Fund has high-priority work across eight countries in sub-Saharan Africa. This includes willingness to live outside capital cities, close to our customers, as this is where initial rotations will be based.
- Demonstrated leadership experiences, enthusiasm for learning, and openness to feedback
- Track record of producing concrete business outcome at scale
- Experience managing large, cross-functional teams, especially sales, operational, and field teams
- Exceptional analytical skills, able to work with quantitative information, exercise judgment and make decisions in a context of uncertainty, and use data effectively to drive strategy
- Ability to build teams and collaborate with colleagues from diverse backgrounds
- Language: English required, French a plus in Rwanda and Burundi. Swahili-speakers are particularly encouraged to apply.
Preferred Start Date
As soon as possibleJob Location
Rotates based on organization prioritiesCompensation
Commensurate with experienceDuration
Full-time jobBenefits
Health insurance, housing, and comprehensive benefitsRead Also:
Sponsor International Candidates
No; 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.
Closing date: 19 Dec 2019
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Tanzania Impact and Behavior Change Associate
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
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In addition, you are constantly keeping an eye out for external seasonal
threats to our farmers 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
seasons impact and thereby hit our impact targets.
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, its 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:
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:
Recommended:
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 weeks 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
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. Youll 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. Youll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.
Qualifications
Specific qualifications include, but are not limited to:
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. Therefore, please only submit an application if you fit these criteria:
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).
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HOW TO APPLY:
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
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In addition, you are constantly keeping an eye out for external seasonal
threats to our farmers 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
seasons impact and thereby hit our impact targets.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, its 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:
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:
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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 weeks 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
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. Youll 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. Youll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.
Qualifications
Specific qualifications include, but are not limited to:
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. Therefore, please only submit an application if you fit these criteria:
- 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
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
Read Also:
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).
PI115736828
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