Jobs Open At One Acre Fund; Apply
Jobs Open At One Acre Fund; Apply
About the Role
Our internal departments make ~$30 million per year in spot purchases of goods and services from suppliers. As a Global Procurement Associate, you will support departments across all countries with these purchases to ensure best value for money.
- You will implement initiatives to ensure transparency and cost-effectiveness in the spot purchasing process.
- You will provide critical procurement support and capability building to new programs.
- You will drive cost reduction efforts, while ensuring audit and controls compliance.
- You will manage global tenders, and implement procurement process improvements.
- You will be part of the Global Supply Chain Division and report directly to the Non-Agricultural Procurement Manager
Responsibilities
- Reduce spot purchasing cost across all countries and product categories by 5-10% while focusing on process transparency, and fraud mitigation.
- Provide expert guidance to growth countries, assisting with system support, procurement planning, tendering, inventory management, and advising on procurement strategy.
- Foster a cost-conscious team culture, enabling cost reduction and avoidance across all countries while enhancing systems for precise cost tracking.
- Ensure robust audit and control processes, collaborating with stakeholders to address findings, and closing control gaps for enhanced compliance and efficiency.
- Implement efficiency-boosting initiatives, and integrate best practices and automation for optimized procurement.
- Support procurement activities across all countries of operation
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2. Odoo ERP Software Engineer At One Acre Fund
About the Role
Our passionate development team manages a range of web and mobile solutions to support our field operations, from registering millions of farmers and their orders, optimizing delivery truck loads and routes, tracking deliveries, collecting mobile payments and analyzing loan repayments. You will report to one of our development managers.
We operate a stack of open-source solutions to power most of our business, including Odoo, Apache Fineract, and Keycloak.
Our technologies include C#, NodeJS, CouchBase, React (Native), Docker/Kubernetes, and our tooling landscape is based on GitHub / JIRA / Slack / Azure DevOps.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, document, test, and operate customizations on our Odoo platform, focused around product ordering, inventory, payment, and delivery
- Mentor the team on the Odoo platform and ecosystem
- Work as part of a small, collaborative, and agile team of software developers
- Contribute to your department’s improvement by sharing knowledge, sharpening your skills, suggesting different ways of working
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3. Tupande Contact Center Quality Assurance & Training Specialist
About the Role
Our Contact Center of 100+ staff is based in Kakamega; this position is hybrid, but due to the nature of the work, it calls for being predominantly on site. Reporting to the Contact Center Lead, you will manage the design, implementation and evaluation of quality assurance, training and development initiatives. You will also spearhead strategic initiatives that elevate our team’s performance, improve our processes, and ensure unparalleled customer experience.
Responsibilities
- Quality Assurance
- Align QA strategies with the contact center and implement QA designs to improve the customer experience.
- Advocate for C-SAT & NPS enhancement initiatives.
- Responsible for the end-to-end design and implementation of Change Projects which improve the QAT team.
- Work with partners to update and improve on the QAT process.
- Training
- Align Training strategies with the contact center and implement training designs to improve the customer experience.
- Liaise with partners to implement training plans.
- Identify areas of standardization in training by developing training processes.
- Design & implement Training Needs Analysis tools.
- Management: Manage the performance of the Quality Assurance & Training teams.
- Responsible for coordinators who oversee the QAT teams; have regular check-ins, performance reviews and create personal development plans for your direct reports.
- Develop direct reports to ensure that they achieve important performance metrics.
- Coach, motivate, and retain staff.
- Develop staffing projections for the QAT team, recruit and onboard team members.
- Conduct workshops with Trainers to improve their skills.
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4. Tupande Gender Lead At One Acre Fund
About the Role
Empowering women farmers must be integral to any solution to extreme hunger and poverty — yet at present, women in Africa have less access to agricultural productive resources and services, achieve only 20-30% of the farm yields as men, and have less control over household decisions and income. These gender-based structural roadblocks inflict cascading negative consequences for women, their families, and society.
In Kenya, we are looking for a passionate Gender Lead to review and inform our strategy, and to design and implement tailored interventions to improve equity in access and benefit for young women across the Tupande programme model. Reporting to the Director of Product Strategy, you will shape our thinking and contribution to gender transformation and build a strategy that helps us deliver improved outcomes for rural women in Kenya.
Responsibilities
- Conduct programme review and gender inclusion assessment:
- Leverage outputs from recent gender inclusion assessment work in Kenya; review the Tupande programme model to identify constraints faced by young rural women for equitable access to- and benefit from – Tupande’s multichannel service offering.
- Identify opportunities for strengthening components of the Tupande programme including farmer training, digital offerings, crop commercialisation work, and micro-enterprise opportunities to increase the engagement and advancement of young rural women.
- Build gender vision and strategy:
- Building from the gender inclusion assessment and programme review, and utilizing targeted formative research, develop a country-level gender roadmap which addresses the barriers faced by young women smallholders and ensures Tupande’s farmer-facing work contributes to gender equity, equality, and empowerment of women.
- Design gender transformative initiatives:
- Use gender inclusion, formative and other research to design and implement specific interventions and program modifications tailored to the unique constraints, needs and priorities of female smallholders, ensuring integration of a gender lens across Tupande’s programme offering.
- Provide strategic and technical support to co-design gender transformative initiatives to maximize returns for rural women.
- Support Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL)
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5. Agricultural Systems Change Lead At One Acre Fund
About the Role
In 2022, One Acre Fund was awarded $18m in funding from Co-Impact to implement a systems change programme in Rwanda, Kenya, and Ethiopia over a 5 year period. In every country we aggregate sufficient mass of farmers to enable private and public actors to serve them, inject productive interventions of seed, trees, and land through these aggregators, and ensure equitable gender norms to make the system truly pro-women and pro-poor. By the end of 2026, together with our public and private-sector partners, we will deliver millions in cumulative new farm profits for 3.5+ million farm families.
We are seeking an experienced grant manager with strong project and stakeholder management skills to steward a complex grant focused on strengthening our Kenya, Rwanda and Ethiopia country programs to advance agricultural systems change. You will lead the coordination and monitoring of main activities associated with the grant delivered through multiple internal departments and external partners. You will report to a leader on our Global Business Development & Partnerships team while also working with Kenya, Rwanda and Ethiopia country program team members.
Responsibilities
- Program strategy and implementation – You will work closely with country and program leads in the 3 countries to ensure successful tracking and delivery of program goals and grant milestones. You are expected to work with our internal teams, monitor potential risks and project implementation challenges, and work towards seeking solutions in collaboration with all project staff and consortium members.
- Grant Writer & Management – You will be responsible for writing narrative and financial reports in collaboration with the Business Development team. You will partner with our frontend fundraisers to design and draft original writing through a collaborative process and monitor budget and associated milestones alongside our internal Grants Finance team.
- Sub-grantee Management – You will also be working closely with our sub-grantee partner staff, ensuring grant milestones are achieved and program interventions are in alignment with the overall grant objective.
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6. Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) Projects Senior Associate
About the Role
As the PES Projects Associate you will support work in Payments for Ecosystem Services across our countries of operation. Your primary responsibility will be to build high-quality PES programs that create meaningful impact for farmers. You will deliver excellent support to country implementation teams on high quality, participatory program design and implementation; you will support carbon certification, monitoring and sales; and you will conduct research in service of improving existing projects. As part of the Global Impact team, you will work with many different teams to accomplish a complex shared goal. You will report directly to the Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) Manager and will co-manage or directly support 1-4 country pilot leads (Malawi, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Zambia).
Responsibilities
- Carbon Program Design. Lead One Acre Fund’s work in developing carbon projects that boost farmer resilience and climate change mitigation. Specifically,
- Use participatory methods to co-design carbon projects with farmers that stand up to rigorous certification standards
- Test new technology(ies) that improves smallholder access to carbon markets
- Carbon Project Implementation.
- Help implement carbon work across the organization
- Work with country teams to develop actionable plans for operations
- Build and keep detailed impact/business models updated with latest pilot learnings
- Provide excellent technical support to field teams to ensure that project implementation, monitoring, and verification meet certification requirements.
- Work with our Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning team to build a world-class monitoring system
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7. Global Risk Manager At One Acre Fund
About the Role
One Acre Fund requires a solid risk management and internal control system to ensure good stewardship of donor capital. The risk manager role will build on our already strong control environment, broadening it to include a full understanding of enterprise wide risk.
Responsibilities
- Manage and monitor financial risks
- Ensure One Acre Fund has a solid system of internal controls
- Lead a team of 15+ staff (2 direct reports) as they conduct financial control and risk management audits across our operating countries
- Report key findings from the above to management and board and work with the risk owners to develop solutions to manage the identified risks and internal control gaps.
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8. Global Transport & Logistics Associate
About the Role
The Global Transport & Logistics Associate role will manage OAF global supply chain logistics operations across several product categories and provide expertise to country teams in logistics operations best practices.
- You will ensure our products are delivered on time, in an efficient and cost-effective manner to country program warehouses in Kenya, Rwanda, Malawi, Burundi, and Tanzania
- You will provide expertise to OAF country program teams regarding transport operations best practices
- You will ensure timely delivery of inputs to Sub-Saharan smallholder farmers
- You will be part of the Global Supply Chain Division and report directly to the Non-Agricultural Procurement Manager
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