Latest Job Vacancy At One Acre Fund: Check Details, Requirements and How to Apply
Latest Job Vacancy At One Acre Fund: Check Details, Requirements and How to Apply
Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips more than 4 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive. Across nine countries that together are home to two-thirds of Africa's farmers, we provide high-quality farm supplies, tree seedlings, accessible credit, modern agronomic training, and a wide range of other agricultural services.
On average, this model enables any farmer to increase her income and assets on supported land by more than 40 percent, while permanently improving her climate resilience. This is all made possible by our team of 8,000+ full-time staff, drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions...CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING
The Nigeria program, established in 2018, is headquartered in Minna, Niger state. We’re currently serving over 100,000 unique farmers across the state via our inputs on credit ‘Core’ program, inputs on cash ‘Retail’ program, and have a free tree seedling distribution ‘Agroforestry’ program. To learn more about our work, look at our Nigeria program blog
About the Role
We are at a critical juncture, as we form a senior team to achieve our geographic growth plans across central and Northern Nigeria. We’re now looking for an experienced leader with 7+ years of technical and business leadership experience to maximize our impact for the millions of Nigerian farmers we will serve in the coming years.
This role will focus on new product research and development, field trials, partnerships and impact evaluation. There will also be an emphasis on integrating youth and young women into our portfolio.
In this role, you will:
- Achieve more than $100m of additional farmers' profit, by 2030
- Drive organisational development for Nigeria to be 5x larger in the coming years
- Lead our innovation, research, and partnerships departments in Nigeria
- Grow the Nigeria team through hiring, professional development, coaching, and personal example
- Report to the Country Director
- Senior Leadership: Identify opportunities to improve operations and program performance across the whole Nigeria portfolio, through tracking of measurements, and identifying / working on process improvements. Manage budgets for each of the role’s areas of responsibility, and create forecasts for expansion and other programme innovations.
- Innovation & Impact: Lead overall performance of the Innovations & Research teams, focusing on accelerating our impact with youth and female farmer segments. Improve how we design, trial, analyze and report upon our innovation & research programmes. Diversify country-wide impact approach, from farm-season impact measurement to long-term triple bottom line metrics. Directly design our most important trials and impact projects.
- Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:
- Full alignment to OAF’s values, by putting farmers first
- You have 7+ years of highly successful professional experience. Relevant experience may include:
- Entrepreneurship including founding or running a small business;
- Private sector business, NGO, or international development
- Consulting-based experience, including developing and iterating on new business models quickly
- Agricultural, agroforestry, or rural development work experience.
- You have 2+ years senior management experience with examples of people development and performance management. You have a passion for developing and growing teams, and balancing multiple thematic topics simultaneously.
- You are comfortable with setting and communicating strategy
- You have a Bachelor's degree or higher
- Fluent written and spoken English required.
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