One Acre Fund
Job Vacancy: Mt Kenya Program Operations Associate
Job Vacancy: Mt Kenya Program Operations Associate
One Acre Fund is an established
social enterprise that delivers agricultural support to farmers across East and
Southern Africa. Instead of giving handouts, One Acre invests in farmers to
generate a permanent gain in farm income.
We provide farmers with a “market
bundle” that includes education, finance, seed and fertilizer, and market
access. Our program is proven to be impactful – every year, we weigh thousands
of harvests and measure more than 100% average gain in farm income per acre. We
have laser-like focus on generating better lives for the people that we serve.
Program Associates play a major role
in driving that growth and ensuring that it is both stable and systematic –
while also adding major innovations and improvements to our program quality.
This offers Program Associates a strong career opportunity: the ability to
learn from a successful field operation, contribute to aggressive growth and
also make improvements to our program.
We are currently seeking a Program
Associate for our Program Design team within One Acre Fund. As a team, Program
Design provides the strategic direction and annual planning for all core
activities in Kenya, driving towards the achievement of our ambitious scale and
impact goals. We focus specifically on the strategic management of One Acre
Fund Kenya’s loan portfolio, creation and management of the marketing and
enrollment strategy, and the planning and research for future program expansion
within Kenya.
The Mt Kenya Program Associate will
be responsible for leading our current operations and future growth in the Mt
Kenya region, an area critical to achieving our highly ambitious scale goals.
The role will be based in Nyeri and
will be required to build upon our newly established program to expand
operations around the Mt Kenya area. Additionally, they will be required to
build for scale for future operations.
Specific
responsibilities include:
Hiring,
Management, Mentorship, and Acceleration of Field Team
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Regular check-ins and management with
the regional field team’s Senior Field Director to support on the week-to-week
execution of their work (soon to be a team of ~60 people)
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Monitor key performance indicators
around impact, enrollment and repayment with appropriate triage and follow up
as necessary
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Invest in the team’s professional
skills through targeted mentorship and weekly check-ins with Senior Field
Director, to enable them to take on more responsibility and grow their career
at One Acre Fund
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Take the lead on hiring all future
team members, with the expectation that the team will continue to grow
aggressively in coming seasons
Executing on
Key Planning for Further Expansion around Mt Kenya
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Run scouting surveys in all potential
expansion areas to determine crop preferences, interest in the program, etc.
and determine the most feasible areas to work
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Review last year’s performance with
key stakeholders and run various analyses on KPIs and the scouting data to
determine expansion plan for the pilot for the following season
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Draw on the strategy throughout
planning and execution to ensure that it is brought to life
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Conduct liaison with Government
Relations’ staff to ensure adequate permissions are in place to work in new
areas.
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Be adaptable and ready to implement
several different contingencies.
Continue to
develop operations
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Work closely with systems team to
build robust operations for scale as we grow in the region
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Monitor and control efficiency of
operations in region and plan accurate estimates of budgetary requirements
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Liaise with other field teams to
ensure unity of purpose and core common practices are being adhered to
Lead Strategic
Research and Analysis to Increase Scale
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Using past performance data,
determine further research needs to continue to expand in Mt Kenya
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Execute on all necessary qualitative
field research, phone surveys, and data analysis.
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Creation of high-quality reports to
help guide the program to make data-driven expansion decisions
Qualifications
We are seeking exceptional
professionals with 2 to 4 years of work experience, and a demonstrated
long-term passion for our mission.
Candidates who fit the following
criteria are strongly encouraged to apply:
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Strong academic background.
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Strong work experience in a similar
field. Examples include a demanding professional work experience, or successful
entrepreneurial experience, e.g. starting a field program in a developing
country, starting a business, extensive volunteer experience.
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A passion for world class customer
service.
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Demonstrated experience in leadership
and management is strongly desired, ideally managing large groups of people in
a professional context.
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Able to work in a team to solve
complex problems in a way that satisfies many stakeholders and always puts
farmers first.
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Able to work independently, and
comfortable with uncertainty. Our Nyeri office is a small satellite operation,
at some distance from our large headquarters in Kakamega.
·
Good oral and written communication
skills.
Preferred
Start Date: As soon as possible
Compensation: Commensurate with experience
Benefits: Health insurance, housing, annual flights and other quality of
life benefits
Sponsor
International Candidates: No; must have existing rights
to work in Kenya
East Africans strongly encouraged to
apply
How to Apply
CLICK HERE to apply
online
Job Vacancy: Senior CDM / Data Analysis Supervisor
Job Location: Kakamega
Reports To: Logistics
Data Unit Lead
Organization Description: Most of the world’s poor are farmers, representing the
largest and most uniform group of poor people in the world. One Acre Fund is a
growing NGO in Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania that
is innovating a new way of helping farm families to achieve their full
potential.
Instead
of giving handouts, One Acre Fund invests in farmers to generate a permanent
gain in farm income. We provide farmers with a “market bundle” that includes
education, finance, farm inputs and solar lights, and market access. Our
program is proven impactful-every year, we weigh thousands of harvests and
measure 50-100% average gain in farm income per acre. We have laser-like focus
on generating better lives for the people that we serve.
We
are growing quickly. In ten years, we have grown to serve 0ver 500,000 farm
families with more than 5,000 full-time field staff. Our approach has won
widespread validation, winning grants from The MasterCard Foundation and Gates
Foundation.
Website:
www.oneacrefund.org.
Job Description: The
Senior CDM/Data Analysis Supervisor is the data hub of the Logistics team. The
ideal candidate will be responsible for using data to improve both planning and
execution; provide support to our team by helping to set up, implement and
manage tracking tools for critical data.
The
Supervisor drives our accountability to data, analysing it to help the team to
make sense of the information we gather in order to ensure we improve processes
and results. Their data-wrangling and interpretation skills will also be the
solid foundation upon which we build our scale capabilities.
If
you are a data whiz looking to test your skills on some of the trickiest and
most interesting datasets around, with the bonus of real impact as a result of
your hard work, then this role is perfect for you. You’ll also learn the ins
and outs of a highly professional team, how to work across a department and how
to build and plan for scale.
Your Role
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Define data points needed to measure
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Objective Key Results (OKRs) and Controls
progress
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Set up and use appropriate tracking
mechanisms for all defined data and KPIs
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Create data dashboards to measure
staff and operations’ performance
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Work with Logistics datasets to
extract key learnings and identify gaps in processes
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Manipulate and wrangle Logistics’
datasets to provide specific analyses to sub-units of the Logistics team
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Build models and tools to support the
Logistics team’s core work
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Use data gathered to provide regular
performance reports to the management team
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Drive data accountability and data QC
efforts among the Logistics team
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Support the design, implementation and
data gathering for a CSAT process
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Support documentation control and
storage
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Generate and help build new policies
and processes in support of data scalability
Our Requirements
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Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics,
Statistics, Data Science, Computer Science or related field
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Strong data management ability: Data
cleaning, data analysis, data wrangling, data presentation and dataset design
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2 years of work experience in some
form of data analysis & wrangling work
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At least one data wrangling software,
in addition to advanced Excel skills, such as Pandas, Python or R script
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Creativity and strong problem solving
skills. You don’t take no for an answer and constantly look for alternative
solutions to problems.
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Some experience training others on
data analysis is useful, but not essential
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Detail oriented and demonstrates high
quality work
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A critical thinker
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Excellent English & Swahili –
clear and coherent communicator
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Strong oral and written communication
skills
Application Procedure
If
you feel motivated to work for One Acre Fund as the Senior CDM/Data Analysis
Supervisor and if you fulfill our requirements for this role, we look forward
to receiving your application by 14th August, 2018.
CLICK HERE to apply online
You
will be prompted to a form that must be completed. At the end of the form you
will have the opportunity to write a motivational letter and upload your CV.
PLEASE NOTE
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You must be 18 years or older to
qualify for any position at One Acre Fund.
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One Acre Fund will never ask you for
money in return for advancement in the recruitment process or for being offered
a position. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
