Careers

Post: Africa Recruiter and Scout
English-speaker required, fluent French bilingual is a plus
Former Peace Corps is a plus
Wanted: Early-career, high-performing professional with at least 2 years of work experience

Industry:          Nonprofit/International Development
Employer:        One Acre Fund
Job Title:          Africa Recruiter and Scout
Job Location:   Anticipate 300 days of travel within Africa per year + 60 days of home leave

Organization Description

One Acre Fund is a start-up initiative in Kenya which works with persistently hungry farm families. Instead of giving handouts to families, One Acre invests in farm families to generate a permanent gain in farm income. Our "investment bundle" includes education, financing, inputs, and export market access. Our program is designed to be usable by the extreme poor, and generates a permanent, 100%+ gain in farm income.

We have been operating since January 2006, and we currently serve 22,000 farm families (88,000 children). Our target is to change the lives of 50,000 families (200,000 children) within 18 more months, scaling at a 50-100% growth rate thereafter. One Acre Fund is one of the most externally-validated social start-ups of 2006, winning grants from the highly competitive Echoing Green, Draper Richards and Skoll Foundations, and first place wins at the Stanford and Yale social venture competitions. Please visit our website at: www.oneacrefund.org

Job Description
As One Acre fund expands, we are looking to hire the best development professionals in the world who have a desire to live in-field, in rural parts of Africa. We believe that the strongest current and former Peace Corps volunteers are a good talent pool to recruit from. So, we are looking for someone to travel to various African nations, to make contact with the Peace Corps administrators there (as well as with other NGOs), and selectively recruit new talent in those countries. We would then hire them for Kenya or Rwanda, our current countries of operation, when they become available.

At the same time, we are also looking to learn more about various countries around Africa. Having a staff person collect basic data from government offices would be useful.

We are seeking an exceptionally talented professional with very strong independent problem-solving skills, an ability to self-manage, and strong overall judgment. This person should also have strong networking ability, and the general stability/ability to deal with traveling alone for long stretches of time. The minimum commitment to this job is 2 years.

The recruiter/scout will:

• Travel to various African countries:
  • There are approximately 26 African countries with an active Peace Corps office and/or relevant NGO offices.
  • The recruiter/ scout would spend roughly 6 weeks covering a pair of countries at one time.
• Network with Multiple African Peace Corps and NGO offices:
  • Make contact with Peace Corps offices, and other potential talent sources.
  • Get recommendations from country directors and other managers on the best current and former volunteers.
  • Proactively meet the current volunteers in-field, screen, and share information about One Acre Fund. Reach out to recommended former volunteers as needed.
• Gather basic data:
  • Go to various government offices and collect basic data on various districts in the country.

Qualifications

This is a serious, full-time job – PLEASE DO NOT APPLY if you are having a mid-life crisis and just want to travel the world. You will have zero flexibility in choosing countries. This is a full-time job with defined deliverables, and you will travel to rural areas with very few exciting things to see. PLEASE ALSO CONSIDER the potential personal difficulty of traveling to 20+ countries in a single year, for a minimum of two years.

A successful candidate will have these traits:

• *Ability to commit to this position for a minimum of 2 years.
• *Must speak English with complete fluency. French is a big plus.
• *Serious, legitimate, and demonstrable long-term interest in international development work.
• At least one year of experience living in a developing nation. Former PCV is ideal.
• Very strong self-manager. As this position has no fixed work hours or in-person supervision, you must be able to reliably manage projects and deadlines with high independence on a day-to-day basis. We are looking for someone with a demonstrated ability to work independently. This is a professional role, and we are looking for a professional-caliber person.
• Demonstrated experience traveling in developing countries for extended periods of time. The person holding this position must be stable, resourceful and able to navigate through difficult situations by themselves.
• Top-performing undergraduate background (please include GPA and test scores on your resume).
• 2-4 years work experience in a professional environment.
• No ego or drama. We are looking for team members that combine strong leadership skills with a humble approach to service.

Preferred Start Date: As soon as possible

Compensation: Competitive annual salary + health benefits + $50 travel per-diem to cover local food, housing, and local travel, plus all international transportation covered, including two flights home for personal leave every year. Bonus per candidate hired.

Sponsor International Candidates: Yes

To Apply

Email cover letter and resume to careers@oneacrefund.org (Subject line: "Africa Recruiter/Scout" + name of the site that referred you).

Private-sector style career development in a field setting
Excellent career development opportunity emphasizing management and leadership skills

Industry:          Nonprofit/International Development
Function:         Operations Innovation
Employer:        One Acre Fund
Job Title:          Program Associate
Job Location:  Rural Rwanda or Burundi (French required), or Rural Kenya (English required)

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 start-up NGO in Kenya, Rwanda, and Burundi that is innovating a new way of helping farm families to achieve their full potential. 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 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.

We are growing quickly. In five years, we have grown to serve 70,000 farm families with more than 500 full-time field staff. In three more years, we will at least quadruple in size, while adding several new countries. Our approach has won widespread validation, winning grants from the highly competitive Echoing Green and Skoll Foundations, and the global Financial Times/ IFC award for "basic needs financing" in 2010 and 2011. Website: www.oneacrefund.org

Job Description
Rapid organization growth translates into great career opportunities for our staff. We invest heavily in careers – we want to develop our next group of country directors, R&D directors, and partnership leaders. In their first year, our program associates lead 3-5 internal consulting projects, such as:

• Impact innovation: A program associate recently designed a new harvest storage product and farmer training, and tried it with a few hundred farmers. The trial demonstrated an increase in harvest profits by more than 10%. Next year, we expect to sell this product to over 40,000 farmers.
• Growth innovation: A staffer recently designed a new viral marketing initiative. She identified our best and most enthusiastic farmers, and turned them into volunteer "replication agents" who are empowered to recruit new groups of farmers. Our staff person designed the trial protocols, trained 10 field staff to test the idea, and observed the trial in-field, resulting in 25% higher client enrollment. We are now rolling this out across more than 200 field sites.
• Operations rotation: In addition to internal consulting projects, program associates also spend time paired with a regular "operating unit," which has 50+ staff. This is an opportunity to observe how regular operations work, while also building leadership skills by mentoring a larger number of staff.

In their second year, our strongest performers take leadership over a relatively independent pilot within the One Acre Fund network, while earning a significant and sustainable salary increase. Examples include:

• Burundi: One Acre Fund plans to launch one new country per year, for the next five years. A program manager moved to Burundi early in 2011 to direct field operations for an initial 400-farmer pilot. Six months later, that pilot is now being quadrupled in size and is our newest country launch.
• Farmers United: One of our program managers piloted an innovative trial in a new area of Kenya. This trial helps farmers to save up for farm inputs over time, in addition to taking loans, and has high potential to scale rapidly. Over two years, he has created a field organization of 80 staff from scratch. His organization, called "Farmers United," cooperates closely with our existing field units, but also operates with a high degree of independence within the One Acre Fund umbrella.

Career Growth and Development: One Acre Fund invests in building management and leadership skills. We provide constant, actionable feedback delivered through weekly mentorship and through regular career reviews. We also have regular one-on-one meetings, where we listen to and discuss career goals, and work collaboratively to craft roles that each person can be passionate about. Because of our rapid growth, we constantly have new high-level roles opening up and opportunities in many functions and countries. This results in fast career growth for our staff.

Qualifications

We are seeking exceptional professionals with 2 to 5+ years of work experience, and a demonstrated long-term passion for international development. They will serve in a career-track position that combines both field and management experience.

We are looking for truly extraordinary candidates that will help take our organization to the next levels of impact and scale. This is not a short stint in Africa – this is a competitive posting for a career-track role. Only 3% of applicants make it to a phone screen. Therefore, please only apply if you fit these criteria:

• Strong work experiences. Examples include a demanding professional work experience, or successful entrepreneurial experience (e.g. starting a field program in a developing country, leading a conference, starting a business, solid Peace Corps accomplishments).
• Leadership experience at work, or outside of work
• Top-performing undergraduate background (include GPA and test scores on your resume)
• Humility and personal stability. We have a fantastic and likeable team. We are looking for passionate professionals that combine strong leadership skills with good humor, patience, and a humble approach to service
• A willingness to commit to living in rural areas of East Africa for at least two years - this is a long-term, career-track role. The ideal candidate will have at least one year demonstrated experience working in the developing world, although this is not a strict requirement.
• Language: English required in Kenya, and French required in Rwanda and Burundi. French-speakers are particularly encouraged to apply
• Ability to cook / laugh – desirable

Preferred Start Date: Flexible

Compensation: Starts very modest. However, this is a career-track role with fast raises for performance, paying a meaningful salary for long-term placement in developing nations.

Benefits: Health cover, immunizations, flight, room and board. 2 annual home flights provided.

Career development: Quarterly management consulting-style career reviews and constant feedback. Your manager will invest significant time in your career development.

Sponsor International Candidates: Yes

To Apply

Email cover letter and resume to jobs@oneacrefund.org (Subject line: "Program Associate Search" + name of the site that referred you).

Post: Business Development Manager (Bilateral Donor Agencies)

Excellent career-track opportunity mixing private-sector management skill-set with non-profit service

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 start-up NGO in Kenya, Rwanda, and Burundi that is innovating a new way of helping farm families to achieve their full potential. 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 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.

We are growing quickly. In five years, we have grown to serve 70,000 farm families with more than 500 full-time field staff. In three more years, we will at least quadruple in size, while adding several new countries. Our approach has won widespread validation, winning grants from the highly competitive Echoing Green and Skoll Foundations, and the global Financial Times/ IFC award for "basic needs financing" in 2010 and 2011. Website: www.oneacrefund.org

Job Description

We are seeking exceptional professionals with 3 – 10+ years work experience, a demonstrated long-term career interest in international development, and a track record of securing grants, cooperative agreements and contracts with large, institutional funders. As a young organization, we are ready to hand over large responsibility for specific, well-defined work modules, with similar structure to an operations consulting role.

Development Manager

One Acre Fund is looking for an exceptional individual to serve as Business Development Manager. This position will help design and carry out a strategy to engage bilateral and multilateral organizations in country mission offices to support our work. The Business Development Manager will serve as a spokesperson for the organization in African capitals while simultaneously shepherding complex, large-scale funding proposals from identification to development to fruition. Through strategic communications and expert relationship management, the Business Development Manager will secure major, multi-year commitments from multilaterals, bilaterals, and governments. This is an excellent position for a highly skilled and experienced professional looking for a meaningful development opportunity.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

The Development Manager will perform the following and other duties as assigned:

• Help design and implement the organization's public sector fundraising strategy
• Pursue partnerships with multilateral and bilateral agencies.
• Develop successful multi-million dollar funding proposals to support the organization, shepherding proposals through all required stages and decision-making processes.
• Manage the required reporting and continued development of successful proposals.
• Provide expertise and guidance to One Acre Fund staff on the technical requirements and processes of these proposals.
• Serve as an articulate and enthusiastic spokesperson for the organization, demonstrating an understanding of the organization's approach and the context in which it operates.
• Establish and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and partners.
• Collaborate with One Acre Fund's senior management team.

Professional Qualifications

The successful candidate will have the following minimum qualifications:

• Demonstrated success in identifying, managing, and closing complex, multi-year, technical proposals for bilateral and multilateral agencies
• Past experience as part of a large-scale fundraising effort, preferably in the international development arena
• Past experience managing relationships with high-level government and agency representatives
• Past experience conveying a complex mission and program to diverse groups including Board members, bilateral and multilateral agencies, potential funders, and partner agencies
• Excellent communications and presentation skills, and experience developing funding proposals
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including a willingness to listen to internal and external constituents and learn from their best ideas
• Experience with long-term funding cycles, strategic planning, goal setting, and performance management
• Ability to travel extensively, up to 30%, within Africa and other international destinations

Personal Attributes

The following personal attributes are desired:

• A deep commitment to serving the poor
• A passion for One Acre Fund's program
• Comfort and experience working with individuals from diverse backgrounds and locations
• High energy level, and a personable, flexible, tenacious, diplomatic, and respectful demeanor
• Proven ability to serve as a team player and leader able to motivate and inspire staff and colleagues
• Entrepreneurial spirit
• A sense of humor

Preferred Start Date: Flexible
Compensation: Commensurate with experience
Benefits: Health cover, immunizations; annual flights to your home country, room and board for hires stationed outside their home country
Career Development: Quarterly management consulting-style career reviews, and significant investment in career development. Your manager will invest significant time in your career development.

To apply:

Email cover letter and resume to jobs@oneacrefund.org (Subject line: "Business Development Manager" + name of the site that referred you)

Post: Chief Financial Officer for rapidly-growing international NGO

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 start-up NGO in Kenya, Rwanda, and Burundi that is innovating a new way of helping farm families to achieve their full potential. 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 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.

We are growing quickly. In five years, we have grown to serve 70,000 farm families with more than 500 full-time field staff. Our 2011 operating expense is roughly $9m USD. In three more years, we will at least quadruple in size, while adding several new countries. Our approach has won widespread validation, winning grants from the highly competitive Echoing Green and Skoll Foundations, and the global Financial Times/ IFC award for "basic needs financing" in 2010 and 2011. Website: www.oneacrefund.org

Job Responsibilities

One Acre Fund has grown rapidly, and will continue to do so, adding 50-100% to client numbers and budget per year for the foreseeable future. Job responsibilities will include:

• Strategic thought partner We are seeking someone who understands how financial intelligence can effectively drive our business forward.
  • Design of financial models: Our CFO will work closely with our Finance Director and CEO to design financial models that help One Acre Fund to understand the most cost-effective strategies to achieve growth.
  • Strategic perspective: Our CEO and Finance Director are seeking a thought-partner that will help us to drive to the most effective strategy.
• Evaluation of basic financial operations We are seeking someone who has demonstrated experience in a comprehensive range of basic finance operations including:
  • Accounting and audit Timely and high-quality audit submissions
  • Financial and cash controls Regular review of financial controls and identify/ fix any fraud opportunities (including theft, asset sale procedures, internal audit team, fake employees or customers, etc). In particular, identify any possible enterprise-level fraud risks.
  • Cash management Review of One Acre Fund protocols that ensure a positive and responsible cash balance throughout the year, with a focus on possible enterprise-level risks
  • Budget Review of One Acre Fund budgeting procedures, with a particular focus on possible scenarios that would create enterprise-level budget shortfall problems
  • Donor grants handling Review of One Acre Fund donor grants handling including handling of restricted and unrestricted funds
  • Budgeting and budget-vs-actuals reconciliation Review of One Acre Fund budget-vs-actuals reconciliation process, with a particular focus on ensuring that management receives timely and accurate business intelligence on the future of the organization
• Board and external reporting We are seeking someone who will be able to clearly communicate our financials to our board and externally.
• Mentor to the Finance Director We are not necessarily seeking to hire a permanent CFO. We are seeking a leader who will serve as a mentor to our current Finance Director, with the eventual goal of grooming them to become a successor as a permanent CFO.

Qualifications

We are seeking an experienced professional. One Acre Fund seeks truly extraordinary candidates that will help take our organization to the next levels of impact and scale. Only 3% of applicants make it to a phone screen. Therefore, please only apply if you fit these criteria:

• Diverse finance experience. We are seeking someone who has broad experience in a wide variety of finance functions. Particularly valued:
  • Finance experience working within a company (as opposed to banking)
  • Finance experience working in a rapidly-growing, entrepreneurial organization
  • Africa-based finance experience would be particularly valued, but not necessary
• On-the-ground perspective. We are ideally seeking someone who has had a prior experience building financial systems from the ground up.
• Strategic viewpoint. We are seeking someone who knows how to use financial information to inform better business strategy.
• Likeability and humility. We value humility and likeability, and wish to be joined by leaders that value the same.
• Top-performing academic background (please include GPA and test scores on your resume)
• A willingness to commit to living in rural areas of East Africa for at least one month.
• Ideally, some prior demonstrated interest in international development – we are generally a mission-oriented team.

Preferred Start Date: Flexible
Compensation: Commensurate with experience
Sponsor International Candidates: Yes

To apply:

Email cover letter and resume to jobs@oneacrefund.org (Subject line: "CFO" + name of the site that referred you)

Post: Development Associate

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 start-up NGO in Kenya, Rwanda, and Burundi that is innovating a new way of helping farm families to achieve their full potential. 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 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.

We are growing quickly. In five years, we have grown to serve 75,000 farm families with more than 500 full-time field staff. In three more years, we will at least quadruple in size, while adding several new countries. Our approach has won widespread validation, winning grants from the highly competitive Echoing Green and Skoll Foundations, and the global Financial Times/ IFC award for "basic needs financing" in 2010 and 2011. Website: www.oneacrefund.org

Job Description

One Acre Fund is a rapidly growing organization, and seeks to further develop its major gifts program to support this growth. This new position offers a candidate the opportunity to play a key role in building a major gifts program at an innovative and respected organization that delivers results.

The Development Associate is a key Development Team member responsible for building a broad base of support among family foundations and individuals. Working closely with our Development Director, you will identify individual donors and family foundations with the potential to give $10,000 or more, and then work to secure those donations.

While our preference is that you have 2 years of development experience, this could be an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated young professional to enter the development field. This is an excellent position for a highly skilled and experienced professional looking for a meaningful development opportunity.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

The Development Associate will perform the following and other duties as assigned:

• Develop and implement plans to achieve 1AF's family foundation and individual major gift fundraising goals.
• Identify and prioritize activities to engage family foundations and major gift donors and prospects.
• Guide cultivation and solicitation strategies for foundations and individual donors and prospects.
• Personally manage and engage with a portfolio of family foundation and individual donors and prospects.
• Develop proposals, reports, budgets and related correspondence for family foundations and individual donors and prospects.
• Collaborate with One Acre Fund's senior management team

Professional Qualifications and Requirements

The successful candidate will have the following qualifications:

• Prior experience in a development function is desired, but not required. What matters most is your commitment to international development, and your passion for building and maintaining relationships with individuals and family foundations that could support our work.
• Excellent communications and presentation skills.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including a willingness to listen to internal and external constituents and learn from their best ideas.
• Ability to travel extensively, up to 40% domestically and 10% internationally.

Personal Attributes

• A deep commitment to serving the poor.
• A passion for One Acre Fund's program model.
• Comfort and experience working with individuals from diverse backgrounds and locations.
• High energy level, and a personable, flexible, tenacious, diplomatic, and respectful demeanor.
• Proven ability to serve as a team player and leader able to motivate and inspire staff and colleagues.
• Entrepreneurial spirit.
• A sense of humor.

Job Location: New York City or Washington, DC
Travel Requirement: Up to 40% domestic travel and 10% international
Preferred Start Date: Flexible
Compensation: Commensurate with experience
Benefits: Health cover; 401k; immunizations as needed.
Career Development: Quarterly management consulting-style career reviews, and significant investment in career development. Your manager will invest significant time in your career development.

To apply:

Email cover letter and resume (both as attachments with your name as part of the filename) to jobs@oneacrefund.org (Subject line: "Development Associate – name of the site that referred you")

Post: Technical Associate

Career track role for a self-managing person interested in management and business. A strong interest in software and technology required.

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 start-up NGO in Kenya, Rwanda, and Burundi that is innovating a new way of helping farm families to achieve their full potential. 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 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.

We are growing quickly. In five years, we have grown to serve 70,000 farm families with more than 500 full-time field staff. In three more years, we will at least quadruple in size, while adding several new countries. Our approach has won widespread validation, winning grants from the highly competitive Echoing Green and Skoll Foundations, and the global Financial Times/ IFC award for "basic needs financing" in 2010 and 2011. Website: www.oneacrefund.org

Job Description

One Acre Fund relies on several key home-grown software systems to help us manage a lot of information. As we grow our organization to 50,000 farm families, with 500+ staff, across 2 (soon to be more) countries, we need to continually improve the features of these software systems. We have three key systems in Microsoft Access – client roster, books, and payroll – that help us to manage a wide variety of operations. Our roster tool for example handles the enrollment of clients, taking farm supply orders from them, tracking hundreds of thousands of payments, creating a wide variety of business intelligence reports, etc. As we are growing, we are also looking to scale our existing tools to a distributed database in the form of occasionally connected applications (OCA) using SQL server, with runtime Access as a front end.

The Technical Associate will initially be based in Western Kenya, with an opportunity to relocate to Rwanda as Technology Lead in the Rwandan country office. They will:

• Africa-facing mission-critical databases: Lead the continued development of mission-critical, custom databases that touch every aspect of operations. Assist with streamlining the databases between the Rwandan and Kenyan offices, and facilitate communication about IT issues between both countries.
• IT:Manage one Kenyan IT staff for routine computer maintenance and purchase, with potential for growth in number of staff managed. Assist Kenyan IT staff with Network Management using MS Server 2008 and Forefront Threat Management Server.
• Technology experimentation: Experiment with a variety of technologies (e.g. Frontline SMS, mobile phone reporting) to improve operations. Investigate appropriate solutions for database scaling.
• Mentor Kenyan staff: Work closely with the Kenyan Database Programmer and assist with their professional development.
• Other: There is lots of "Other" in a startup

Qualifications

A successful candidate will have these traits:

• Good programming skills
• Knowledge of database concepts and SQL, experience with SQL server a plus
• Very strong self-manager, very well-organized. After an initial six-month period of heavy mentorship, supervision will consist of 1 weekly check-in. We need someone who is very well-organized and can manage their work independently
• Top-performing undergraduate background (include GPA and test scores on your resume)
• Work experience, or internship, in some professional environment - ideally 2+ years of work experience
• Willingness to commit to the position for at least 2 years, with ideally some experience living in a developing country
• Mentorship ability: this post will likely involve training and mentorship of local staff
• No ego or drama. We are looking for others that combine strong leadership skills with a humble approach to service. Our expatriate team lives in rural Kenya together in a group of houses, and so we are looking for emotionally stable and happy people
• Cooking skills, high propensity to laugh and be happy: always desired!

Preferred Start Date: As soon as possible
Compensation: Entry-level nonprofit position
Benefits: Modest health cover, 2 annual home flights provided – home trips include some speaking and fundraising duties
Career Development: Quarterly management consulting-style career reviews, and significant investment in career development. This post reports to the Technology Lead, who will spend significant time in your career development, and assist top performers with future placements in either the private sector or in the developing world.

To apply:

Email cover letter and resume to Itjobs@oneacrefund.org (Subject line: "Technical Associate" + name of the site that referred you)

Post: Grants Administrator

Rapidly growing organization seeks a lead grants administrator

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 start-up NGO in Kenya, Rwanda, and Burundi that is innovating a new way of helping farm families to achieve their full potential. 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 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.

We are growing quickly. In five years, we have grown to serve 70,000 farm families with more than 500 full-time field staff. We have a $9m budget this year, funded half by donor grants and half by earned revenue. Our approach has won widespread validation, winning grants from the highly competitive Echoing Green and Skoll Foundations, and the global Financial Times/ IFC award for "basic needs financing" in 2010 and 2011. Website: www.oneacrefund.org

Job Description

In eight more years, we will multiply in size by 20-30x, while adding several new countries. To make that happen, we will need to raise an ambitious level of funds. To help our development department operate smoothly and effectively, we need a grants administrator to manage the financial and administrative aspects of reporting and compliance with USAID and other grants. The position will work alongside our program and operations staff to ensure award compliance.

Responsibilities would include:

• Initial Tasks:
  • Review, interpret and explain all aspects of award documents (i.e. grants and cooperative agreements)
  • Design and/or implement internal policies and procedures, with a particular focus on budget management, financial and performance reporting, HR, procurement, record retention, marking, and closeout, to ensure award compliance
  • Gain in-depth knowledge of 1AF operations in western Kenya and Rwanda including field activities, operations administration, and M&E deliverables relevant to the award
  • Informal training on rules and regulations relevant to the award
• Ongoing Tasks:
  • Manage internal policies and procedures to ensure award compliance
  • Prepare project budgets and projections and track expenditures
  • Track program activities against award objectives and ensure record retention requirements
  • Work closely with operations staff – and finance in particular – to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting, in accordance with USAID cost principles
  • Work closely with project staff to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting
  • Manage award audits
  • Monthly award administration of financial and performance reporting
  • Management of grant bank accounts, advance requests, and financial reconciliations
• Keep Organized: We are not a boss-employee culture. We would like to hire someone who can manage their own work, and who does not need to be reminded to do things. This person should own the role.

Career Growth and Development:

One Acre Fund invests in building management and leadership skills. We provide constant, actionable feedback delivered through weekly mentorship and through regular career reviews. We also have regular one-on-one meetings, where we listen to and discuss career goals, and work collaboratively to craft roles that each person can be passionate about. Because of our rapid growth, we constantly have new high-level roles opening up. This results in fast career growth for our staff.

Qualifications

We are seeking an exceptional professional with 2 to 5+ years of work experience, and a demonstrated long-term passion for international development. We are looking for a truly extraordinary candidate that will help take our organization to the next levels of impact and scale. This is a competitive posting for a career-track role. Only 3% of applicants make it to a phone screen. Therefore, please only apply if you fit these criteria:

• A business mind. We would like to hire someone who will truly understand our operations.
• A genuine interest in international development. We are not looking for a "hired gun" – we want someone who genuinely is passionate about providing opportunity to the hardest-working farmers on the planet.
• Top-performing undergraduate background (please include GPA and test scores on your resume); University degree in accounting or similar field preferred
• Experience managing USAID awards desired
• Humility and personal stability. We have a fantastic and likeable team. We are looking for passionate professionals that combine strong leadership skills with good humor, patience, and a humble approach to service
• Ideally, a willingness to commit to living in East Africa for at least two years – this is a long-term, career-track role. The ideal candidate will have at least one year demonstrated experience working in the developing world, although this is not a strict requirement
• Ability to cook/ laugh – desirable

Preferred Start Date: Flexible
Compensation: This is not a place to get rich – we often pay less than market rates, and we have a team of people that really believe in our mission. Our pay starts modestly. However, we do recognize the importance of personal sustainability, and our long-term staffers all make highly live-able salaries.
Benefits: Health cover, immunizations, flight, room and board (for staffers living outside their home country). Two annual home flights provided.
Career Development: Quarterly management consulting-style career reviews, and constant feedback. Your manager will invest significant time in your career development.
Sponsor International Candidates: Yes

To apply:

Email cover letter and resume to jobs@oneacrefund.org (Subject line: Grants Administrator + name of the site that referred you)

Post: East Africa Government Relations Analyst

Excellent career-track opportunity mixing private-sector management skill-set with non-profit service

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 start-up NGO in Kenya, Rwanda, and Burundi that is innovating a new way of helping farm families to achieve their full potential. 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 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.

We are growing quickly. In five years, we have grown to serve 70,000 farm families with more than 500 full-time field staff. In three more years, we will at least quadruple in size, while adding several new countries. Our approach has won widespread validation, winning grants from the highly competitive Echoing Green and Skoll Foundations, and the global Financial Times/ IFC award for "basic needs financing" in 2010 and 2011. Website: www.oneacrefund.org

Job Description

We are seeking exceptional professionals with 2+ years work experience, and a demonstrated long-term career interest in international development. They will serve in a career-track position that combines both field and management experience in Africa.

The work of One Acre Fund is increasingly of potential relevance to the policy of African governments. Our program work has started to earn us a seat at the policy table. We have begun jointly implementing work together with government. Further, our close relationship with farmers is also giving us new insights into particular policy items that we would like to help promote together with African governments. The overall goal of policy engagement is to find new ways to multiply our humanitarian impact, by helping as many farmers as possible.

We are looking for someone who will report mainly to our Rwanda country director (who primarily lives in rural Rwanda). This on-the-ground position will support One Acre Fund's policy work:

• Relationship management: This position will be responsible for making new government contacts, and helping to maintain a network of existing contacts among mid-level government managers.
• Country-level and regional policy agenda research: The East Africa government relations analyst will conduct research to support the creation of a well-informed policy agenda for our organization, for Rwanda, Kenya, and the greater region.
• Business development: This position may help with general business development. This will include networking with bilateral organizations such as USAID/ DFID, and targeted networking with other NGOs that are relevant to our work.
• Policy publications: One Acre Fund increasingly is gaining traction with well-respected policy organizations. For example, we have recently had significant mentions in pieces by WorldWatch Institute and in Foreign Affairs. This position will be responsible for research supporting the promulgation of our work among well-regarded publishers.
• Communications: This position will provide some on-the-ground and writing support for communications work, such as gathering and writing of farmer profiles, writing of six-month reports, some limited grant-writing work, etc.

Qualifications

We are looking for somebody truly extraordinary for this role. This is not a stint in Africa – this is an extremely competitive posting for a career-track role. Only 3% of applicants make it to a phone screen. Therefore, please do NOT respond unless you fit these criteria:

• Demonstrated experience and interest in international development work, including ideally at least one full year of living in a developing nation.
• Strong work experiences. Examples include a high-level professional work experience, or some kind of successful entrepreneurial experience (e.g. starting a field program in a developing country, leading a conference, starting a business, solid peace corps accomplishments)
• Relationship-building and communications skills. Our organization culture is not necessarily looking for a slick salesman. We want a likeable person who is able to strike an appropriate balance between humility and confidence, speak intelligently about our program, and systematically manage relationships.
• Top-performing undergraduate background (include GPA and test scores on your resume).
• No ego or drama. We are all stable people who are fun to be around. We are looking for others that combine strong leadership skills with a humble approach to service.
• Required: English and French bilingual.
• Ability to cook/laugh/extraordinary patience – all desirable.

Preferred Start Date: Flexible
Compensation: Starts very modest. However, this is a career-track role eventually paying a real and livable salary for a long-term placement in developing nations.
Benefits: Health cover, immunizations, flight, room and board. 2 annual home flights provided.
Career Development: Quarterly management consulting-style career reviews, and significant investment in career development. Your manager will invest significant time in your career development.
Sponsor International Candidates: Yes

To apply:

Email cover letter and resume to careers@oneacrefund.org (Subject line: E Africa Gov Relations Analyst + name of the site that referred you)

We need an amazing writer

Rapidly-growing organization seeks a lead writer for grant opportunities

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 start-up NGO in Kenya, Rwanda, and Burundi that is innovating a new way of helping farm families to achieve their full potential. 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 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.

We are growing quickly. In five years, we have grown to serve 70,000 farm families with more than 500 full-time field staff. We have a $9m budget this year, funded half by donor grants and half by earned revenue. Our approach has won widespread validation, winning grants from the highly competitive Echoing Green and Skoll Foundations, and the global Financial Times/ IFC award for "basic needs financing" in 2010 and 2011. Website: www.oneacrefund.org

Job Description

In eight more years, we will multiply in size by 20-30x, while adding several new countries. To make that happen, we will need to raise an ambitious level of funds. We are seeking someone who can write, and eventually train others to write and manage writing.

One Acre Fund now has dozens of opportunities every year to write concept notes and proposals for funding ranging from $50,000 to $5,000,000. Historically, our founder has written many of these grants, and he is now seeking to mentor a grant-writer to respond to these requests. For this reason, we would love to meet someone who will live in rural Kenya where he is based for 6-12 months; after that the position is geographically flexible.

Responsibilities would include:

• Understand our core business intimately:We are seeking someone who is strong at writing, but also someone that has a strong business mind and can write about our work at the next level of detail. Today's funders do not just want smooth prose – they want business rationale. We would work hard to expose the writer to our program operations in depth.
• Write concept notes and proposals: We are seeking someone who will write concept notes and proposals for the organization. Key features of our writing:
  • We do not just copy and paste, we tailor our materials to the funder. This makes the job more interesting as well – we are generally applying to more sophisticated funders, and our proposals are often very strategic and interesting to work on.
  • We make heavy use of business rationale, tables and charts, etc.
  • We emphasize clear logical flow in our writing.
  • We often have heavy research in our writing, and we want someone who is good at research and/ or good at managing volunteers to do research.
• Write reports for funders: One Acre Fund values our current funders above all others, and works very closely with our top 15 funders. We keep them closely informed.
• Keep organized:We are not a boss-employee culture. We would like to hire someone who can manage their own work, and who does not need to be reminded to do things. This person should own the role.
• Develop to train others: In ten years, we envision probably having a writing staff. We are looking for someone that ideally could see themselves growing their career with the organization.

Career Growth and Development

One Acre Fund invests in building management and leadership skills. We provide constant, actionable feedback delivered through weekly mentorship and through regular career reviews. We also have regular one-on-one meetings, where we listen to and discuss career goals, and work collaboratively to craft roles that each person can be passionate about. Because of our rapid growth, we constantly have new high-level roles opening up. This results in fast career growth for our staff.

Qualifications

We are seeking exceptional professionals with 2 to 5+ years of work experience, and a demonstrated long-term passion for international development. We are looking for truly extraordinary candidates that will help take our organization to the next levels of impact and scale. This is a competitive posting for a career-track role. Only 3% of applicants make it to a phone screen. Therefore, please only apply if you fit these criteria:

• A business mind. We would like to hire someone who will truly understand our operations.
• Strong demonstrated writing experience. We do not need grant-writing experience per se, but we will be looking for a broad variety of writing samples.
• A genuine interest in international development. We are not looking for a "hired gun" – we want someone who genuinely is passionate about providing opportunity to the hardest-working farmers on the planet.
• Top-performing undergraduate background (please include GPA and test scores on your resume).
• Humility and personal stability. We have a fantastic and likeable team. We are looking for passionate professionals that combine strong leadership skills with good humor, patience, and a humble approach to service
• A willingness to commit to living in rural areas of East Africa for at least six months – this is a long-term, career-track role. The ideal candidate will have at least one year demonstrated experience working in the developing world, although this is not a strict requirement.
• Ability to cook/laugh – desirable.

Preferred Start Date: Flexible
Compensation: This is not a place to get rich – we often pay less than market rates, and we have a team of people that really believe in our mission. Our pay starts modestly. However, we do recognize the importance of personal sustainability, and our long-term staff all make highly live-able salaries.
Benefits: Health cover, immunizations, flight, room and board. 2 annual home flights provided.
Career Development: Quarterly management consulting-style career reviews, and constant feedback. Your manager will invest significant time in your career development.
Sponsor International Candidates: Yes

To apply:

Email (1) cover letter, (2) resume, and (3) 1-2 writing samples to jobs@oneacrefund.org (Subject line: Grant Writer Search + name of the site that referred you)

Post: Special Assistant to the CEO > Administration Officer > Administration Director

Excellent career development opportunity in organization administration

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 start-up NGO in Kenya, Rwanda, and Burundi that is innovating a new way of helping farm families to achieve their full potential. 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 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.

We are growing quickly. In five years, we have grown to serve 70,000 farm families with more than 500 full-time field staff. In three more years, we will at least quadruple in size, while adding several new countries. Our approach has won widespread validation, winning grants from the highly competitive Echoing Green and Skoll Foundations, and the global Financial Times/ IFC award for "basic needs financing" in 2010 and 2011. Website: www.oneacrefund.org

Job Description

One Acre Fund is a rapidly-growing organization, and increasingly needs professional support in the area of administration and support. These are important tasks to the organization – so important that the founder and director often finds himself doing these things personally.

We are seeking somebody to work closely with the founder to provide administration support. Initial tasks would be similar to that of an executive assistant, but this is also a career path role. We are seeking someone to eventually become an administration officer, and possibly the chief administration officer at some point. Example duties:

Special Assistant to the CEO

• Donor relations:Arrange all logistics of donor visits including housing, food, visit agenda, and sometimes accompany donors into the field.
• Calendar:Keep calendars of key outward-facing staff, set up conference calls, etc.
• Construction and housing management: Supervising construction projects, housing rental and construction, furnishing, etc.
• Security management: Supervising our security manager, making security improvements, arranging outside security contracts.
• Vehicle maintenance: Supervise mechanics in regular vehicle repair and maintenance.
• Legal compliance: Tax filings, work visas, etc.
• Medical Support:Preventing malaria amongst staff (e.g. mosquito netting, spraying), ordering of drugs, arranging timely treatment.

Possible promotion to Administration Officer with good performance:

• Initiation of projects: Similar duties to the above, but an administration officer would largely anticipate needs, and initiate his or her own projects, proactively.
• Development of staff: An administration officer would invest significant time in the development of their staff. Example staff include construction manager, security manager, vehicle manager, assistant pool.

Possible eventual promotion to Administration Director with good performance:

One Acre Fund will grow by 20-30x in the next eight years. Every large organization eventually relies on a strong Administrator Director (a top leadership post, supervising dozens of staff). We are looking for someone who wants to grow their career within administration.

Career Growth and Development

One Acre Fund invests in building management and leadership skills. We provide constant, actionable feedback delivered through weekly mentorship and through regular career reviews. We also have regular one-on-one meetings, where we listen to and discuss career goals, and work collaboratively to craft roles that each person can be passionate about. Because of our rapid growth, we constantly have new high-level roles opening up and opportunities in many functions and countries. This results in fast career growth for our staff.

Qualifications

We are seeking exceptional professionals with 1 to 5+ years of work experience, and a demonstrated long-term passion for international development. They will serve in a career-track position that combines both field and management experience.

We are looking for truly extraordinary candidates that will help take our organization to the next levels of impact and scale. This is not a short stint in Africa – this is a competitive posting for a career-track role. Only 3% of applicants make it to a phone screen. Therefore, please only apply if you fit these criteria:

• Strong work experiences. Examples include a demanding professional work experience, or successful entrepreneurial experience (e.g. starting a field program, leading a conference, starting a business, solid Peace Corps accomplishments).
• Leadership experience at work, or outside of work.
• Top-performing undergraduate background (please include GPA and test scores on your resume).
• Prior administration experience is ideal, but mostly we are looking for a smart generalist.
• Humility and personal stability. We have a fantastic and likeable team. We are looking for passionate professionals that combine strong leadership skills with good humor, patience, and a humble approach to service
• A willingness to commit to living in rural areas of East Africa for at least two years – this is a long-term, career-track role.
• Language: English required, and French nice-to-have.
• Ability to cook/laugh – desirable.

Preferred Start Date: Flexible
Compensation: Starts very modest. However, this is a career-track role with fast raises for performance, paying a meaningful salary for long-term placement in developing nations.
Benefits: Health cover, immunizations, flight, room and board. 2 annual home flights provided.
Career Development: Twice annual management consulting-style career reviews, and constant feedback. Your manager will invest significant time in your career development.
Sponsor International Candidates: Yes

To apply:

Email cover letter and resume to jobs@oneacrefund.org (Subject line: Special Assistant + name of the site that referred you)

Post: Finance and Operations Analyst

Excellent career-track opportunity mixing private-sector management skill-set with non-profit service. Must speak fluent English and French

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 start-up NGO in Kenya, Rwanda, and Burundi that is innovating a new way of helping farm families to achieve their full potential. 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 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.

We are growing quickly. In five years, we have grown to serve 70,000 farm families with more than 500 full-time field staff. In three more years, we will at least quadruple in size, while adding several new countries. Our approach has won widespread validation, winning grants from the highly competitive Echoing Green and Skoll Foundations, and the global Financial Times/ IFC award for "basic needs financing" in 2010 and 2011. Website: www.oneacrefund.org

Job Description

We are seeking exceptional professionals with 2-4 years work experience, and a long-term career interest in international development. They will serve in a career-track position that combines financial and operational analysis with management experience in Africa. As a young organization, we are ready to hand over significant responsibility for specific, well-defined strategic initiatives as well as day-to-day management of our financial systems and team-members; the initiatives will be focused on improving financial sustainability and operational efficiency while the day-to-day management will include financial reporting and analysis along with the management of local finance teams.

Typical tasks will include:

• Budget v Actual Analysis. The Financial Analyst will provide reports on district, country and organization wide budget performances. The reports will include line-item analysis, as well as a set of cost-cutting action items.
• Input Delivery. The Finance and Operations Analyst will be responsible for updating the input delivery process, creating training materials for staff and ensuring that the delivery of seed and fertilizer is properly tracked.
• Internal Audit Processes. One Acre Fund is creating new internal auditing and cash management policies; the Finance and Operations Analyst will lead the implementation of the new policies.

Qualifications

We are looking for somebody truly extraordinary for the Finance and Operations Analyst role. This is not a stint in Africa – this is an extremely competitive posting for a career-track role. Only 3% of applicants make it to a phone screen. Therefore, please only respond if you fit these criteria:

• Strong work experiences, preferably in a finance or systems analyst role. Examples include a high-level professional work experience as a financial analyst, experience managing large nonprofit budgets, or implementing new policies and procedures.
• Confident with numbers.
• Leadership experience at work, or outside of work.
• Top-performing undergraduate background (include GPA and test scores on your resume).
• A willingness to commit to living in rural areas of East Africa for at least two years – this is a long-term, career-track position with potential to grow into a US-based management role.
• The ideal candidate will have at least one year demonstrated experience working in the developing world, although this is not a strict requirement.
• Fluent French and English is required.
• Ability to cook/laugh/extraordinary patience – all desirable.

Preferred Start Date: As soon as possible
Compensation: Starts very modest. However, this is a career-track role eventually paying a real and livable salary for a long-term placement in developing nations.
Benefits: Health cover, immunizations, flight, room and board. 2 annual home flights provided – home trips include some speaking and fundraising duties.
Career Development: Quarterly management consulting-style career reviews, and significant investment in career development. Your manager will invest significant time in your career development.
Sponsor International Candidates: Yes

To apply:

Email cover letter and resume to careers@oneacrefund.org (Subject line: Finance and Operations Analyst Search + name of the site that referred you)

We are building entrepreneurial country directors

Excellent career development opportunity emphasizing management and leadership skills

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 start-up NGO in Kenya, Rwanda, and Burundi that is innovating a new way of helping farm families to achieve their full potential. 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 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.

We are growing quickly. In five years, we have grown to serve 70,000 farm families with more than 500 full-time field staff. In three more years, we will at least quadruple in size, while adding several new countries. Our approach has won widespread validation, winning grants from the highly competitive Echoing Green and Skoll Foundations, and the global Financial Times/ IFC award for "basic needs financing" in 2010 and 2011. Website: www.oneacrefund.org

Job Description

As we grow, One Acre Fund is seeking to add one new country per year to our operations. We are seeking the kind of person that can be dropped into a country with significant support financially and logistically, and can create from scratch a high-quality company in a very short time.

We are seeking someone who can do the following things:

• Create a strategic vision: This position does not involve managing an existing operation – we are seeking a entrepreneur who can create an operation, growing it from roughly 5 existing staff to hundreds. This involves a lot of strategic flexibility and independence. We are also seeking someone who is based in the field (in rural areas) at first, in order to craft a vision that results in the best possible customer service to farmers.
• Hire and develop staff: Our program directors will have to hire a lot of people, and more importantly, invest the majority of their energy in developing managers and leaders underneath them.
• Engage staff and lead: Our program model requires high tailoring to specific contexts. The program director will have to make decisions together with their leadership team by engaging them, and then lead them to execute a common vision.
• External and internal relations: We are seeking someone who will be a strong communicator both externally and also internally, together with fellow leaders in the organization.

Career Growth and Development

One Acre Fund invests in building management and leadership skills. We provide constant, actionable feedback delivered through weekly mentorship and through regular career reviews. We also have regular one-on-one meetings, where we listen to and discuss career goals, and work collaboratively to craft roles that each person can be passionate about.

This position would involve an initial 6-12 month training period in one of our existing countries of operation. Then the candidate would be posted to a new country, where we have roughly five existing staff. The mandate would be to grow that into a decent-sized company in a few years.

Qualifications

We are seeking exceptional professionals with 4 to 8+ years of work experience, and a demonstrated long-term passion for international development. They will serve in a career-track position that combines both field and management experience.

We are looking for truly extraordinary candidates that will help take our organization to the next levels of impact and scale. This is not a short stint in Africa – this is a competitive posting for a career-track role. Only 3% of applicants make it to a phone screen. Therefore, please only apply if you fit these criteria:

• Strong work experiences. We are seeking an entrepreneur who has previously grown an operation from scratch to hundreds of staff, or tens of thousands of customers, etc in a developing nation – And we want someone who wants to go back to scratch, and do it again, instead of managing a large existing operation.
• Likeability and humility. All of our country directors to date have grown up within our operation, learning directly from farmers in a start-up environment. We value humility and likeability, and wish to be joined by leaders that value the same.
• Top-performing undergraduate background (please include GPA and test scores on your resume).
• A willingness to commit to living in rural areas of East Africa for at least three years – this is a long-term, career-track role. The candidate should have at least one year demonstrated experience working in the developing world.
• Language: English required in Kenya, and French required in Rwanda and Burundi. French-speakers are particularly encouraged to apply.
• Ability to cook/laugh – desirable.

Preferred Start Date: Flexible
Compensation: Starts modestly. However, this is a career-track role with fast raises for performance, paying a meaningful salary for long-term placement in developing nations.
Benefits: Health cover, immunizations, flight, room and board. 2 annual home flights provided.
Career Development: Quarterly management consulting-style career reviews, and constant feedback. Your manager will invest significant time in your career development.
Sponsor International Candidates: Yes

To apply:

Email cover letter and resume to jobs@oneacrefund.org (Subject line: Program Director + name of the site that referred you)

Post: Logistics Officer

Excellent career development opportunity emphasizing management and leadership skills

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 start-up NGO in Kenya, Rwanda, and Burundi that is innovating a new way of helping farm families to achieve their full potential. 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 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.

We are growing quickly. In five years, we have grown to serve 70,000 farm families with more than 500 full-time field staff. In three more years, we will at least quadruple in size, while adding several new countries. Our approach has won widespread validation, winning grants from the highly competitive Echoing Green and Skoll Foundations, and the global Financial Times/ IFC award for "basic needs financing" in 2010 and 2011. Website: www.oneacrefund.org

Job Description

We are seeking a logistics officer who can manage all of our strategic purchases in East Africa. Our organization buys a lot of physical goods in several countries – these purchases are of high strategic importance, and we invest significant time and energy into these purchases. The logistics officer will be responsible for:

• Understanding our core business and needs: We want to find a colleague who is humble, has a "can-do" attitude, and is able to listen to our field operations and understand their needs.
• Innovating new purchases: We spend a lot of time investigating new kinds of things that we can buy. Oftentimes, these purchases unlock new strategic avenues for us to generate impact. Examples:
  • Plastic dosing scoops – we recently custom-manufactured scoops that deliver a precise, 2.4g dose of fertilizer to a planting hole. This involved working with a plastics manufacturer and then field-testing the scoop in the field with actual farmers.
  • Packaging for chlorine – we recently worked with a plastics manufacturer to innovate a new bottle for holding water purification chlorine, which could save us more than 50% on this item.
  • Marketing signs – we recently discovered a new kind of marketing sign that is durable in the field, bright, etc.
• Building relationships with fertilizer and seed suppliers: We are still a small business in the grand scheme of things, but we are growing. This year we will spend about $5m USD on seed and fertilizer – but we will grow 20-30x in the coming eight years. We are seeking someone who will build and maintain relationships with a dozen different seed and fertilizer suppliers, and work together with them to save us millions of dollars on purchases.
• Research: This position will involve investing significant time and energy into research. Understanding fertilizer markets for example, requires cultivating key contacts who can feed data to us, and doing significant independent research into worldwide cost drivers. For various products, we also want to trace the supply chain back to original manufacturers in China for example.
• Transportation: It is not easy to get dozens of tractor-trailer-loads of items all over East Africa, across borders, etc.

Career Growth and Development

One Acre Fund invests in building management and leadership skills. We provide constant, actionable feedback delivered through weekly mentorship and through regular career reviews. We also have regular one-on-one meetings, where we listen to and discuss career goals, and work collaboratively to craft roles that each person can be passionate about. Because of our rapid growth, we constantly have new high-level roles opening up and opportunities in many functions and countries. This results in fast career growth for our staff.

Qualifications

We are seeking exceptional professionals with 2 to 5+ years of work experience, and a demonstrated long-term passion for international development. They will serve in a career-track position that combines both field and management experience.

We are looking for truly extraordinary candidates that will help take our organization to the next levels of impact and scale. This is not a short stint in Africa – this is a competitive posting for a career-track role. Only 3% of applicants make it to a phone screen. Therefore, please only apply if you fit these criteria:

• Strong work experiences. Examples include a demanding professional work experience, or successful entrepreneurial experience (e.g. starting a field program in a developing country, leading a conference, starting a business, solid Peace Corps accomplishments).
• Leadership experience at work, or outside of work.
• Top-performing undergraduate background (include GPA and test scores on your resume).
• Prior logistics experience is ideal (e.g. fertilizer purchasing experience), but mostly we are looking for someone with a strong business mind, who has a passion for operations and logistics. This job will involve a broad variety of duties, and so our ideal profile is a smart generalist.
• Humility and personal stability. We have a fantastic and likeable team. We are looking for passionate professionals that combine strong leadership skills with good humor, patience, and a humble approach to service
• A willingness to commit to living in East Africa for at least two years – this is a long-term, career-track role. The ideal candidate will have at least one year demonstrated experience working in the developing world, although this is not a strict requirement.
• Language: English required in Kenya, and French required in Rwanda and Burundi. French-speakers are particularly encouraged to apply.
• Ability to cook/laugh/extraordinary patience – all desirable.

Preferred Start Date: Flexible
Compensation: Starts very modest. However, this is a career-track role with fast raises for performance, paying a meaningful salary for long-term placement in developing nations.
Benefits: Health cover, immunizations, flight, room and board. 2 annual home flights provided.
Career Development: Quarterly management consulting-style career reviews, and constant feedback. Your manager will invest significant time in your career development.
Sponsor International Candidates: Yes

To apply:

Email cover letter and resume to jobs@oneacrefund.org (Subject line: Logistics Search + name of the site that referred you)

Organization Description

One Acre Fund is a start-up initiative in Kenya which works with persistently hungry farm families. Instead of giving handouts to families, One Acre invests in farm families to generate a permanent gain in farm income. Our "investment bundle" includes education, financing, inputs, and export market access. Our program is designed to be usable by the extreme poor, and generates a permanent, 100%+ gain in farm income.

We have been operating since January 2006, and we currently serve 12,000 farm families (48,000 children). Our target is to change the lives of 40,000 families (160,000 children) within two more years, scaling at a 50% - 100% growth rate thereafter. One Acre Fund is one of the most externally-validated social start-ups of 2006, winning grants from the highly competitive Echoing Green and Draper Richards Foundations, and first place wins at the Stanford and Yale social venture competitions. Website: www.oneacrefund.org.

Job Description

One Acre Fund relies on several key home-grown software systems to help us manage a lot of information. As we grow our organization to 40,000 farm families, with 500+ staff, across 2 (soon to be more) countries, we need to continually improve the features of these software systems. We have three key systems in Microsoft Access – client roster, books, and payroll – that help us to manage a wide variety of operations. Our roster tool for example handles the enrollment of clients, taking farm supply orders from them, tracking hundreds of thousands of payments, creating a wide variety of business intelligence reports, etc. We will also be building new computer systems, such as logistics management, in the future.

We are not necessarily seeking someone with a lot of programming experience, although that is a plus. We are more focused on finding somebody with long-term management ability who can understand the real business needs of our organization. We can train the software and technology side of things. They will start off doing heavy amounts of software development, but over time will hopefully transition into managing local staff in this task.

The Technical Lead will be based in Western Kenya. They will:

• Africa-facing mission-critical databases: Lead the continued development of mission-critical, custom MS Access databases that touch every aspect of operations. These include books, client roster, monitoring and evaluation, payroll – and kick-off development on new data tools such as logistics and inventory management. These systems touch many different field departments, and this is a great opportunity to build exposure to a wide variety of business processes
• IT:Manage one Kenyan IT staff for routine computer maintenance and purchase, with potential for growth in number of staff managed. The Technical Associate will be managing the IT staff, and will hopefully do as little actual IT work as possible.
• Technology experimentation: Experiment with a variety of technologies (e.g. Frontline SMS, mobile phone reporting) to improve operations
• Build a software team: Over time, there is a possibility of building a broader, local software team for One Acre Fund
• Other: There is lots of "Other" in a startup

Qualifications

A successful candidate will have these traits:

• Very strong self-manager, very well-organized. After an initial six-month period of heavy mentorship, supervision will consist of 1 or 2 weekly check-ins. We need someone who is very well-organized and can manage their work independently
• Top-performing undergraduate background (include GPA and test scores on your resume)
• Work experience, or internship, in some professional environment - ideally 2+ years of work experience
• Willingness to commit to the position for at least 2 years, with ideally some experience living in a developing country
• Mentorship ability: this post will likely involve training and mentorship of Kenyan staff
• No ego or drama. We are looking for others that combine strong leadership skills with a humble approach to service. Our expatriate team lives in rural Kenya together in a group of houses, and so we are looking for emotionally stable and happy people
• Cooking skills, high propensity to laugh and be happy: always desired!

Preferred Start Date: January 1, 2010 or earlier - as soon as possible
Compensation: Entry-level nonprofit position
Benefits: Modest health cover, 1-2 annual home trips to US
Career Development: Quarterly management consulting-style career reviews, and significant investment in career development. This post reports to the executive director, who will spend significant time in your career development, and assist top performers with future placements in either the private sector or in the developing world.

To apply:

Email cover letter and resume to paul.youn@oneacrefund.org (Subject line: "Technical Lead" + name of the site that referred you)

Organization Description

One Acre Fund is a start-up initiative in Kenya which works with persistently hungry farm families. Instead of giving handouts to families, One Acre invests in farm families to generate a permanent gain in farm income. Our "investment bundle" includes education, financing, inputs, and export market access. Our program is designed to be usable by the extreme poor, and generates a permanent, 100%+ gain in farm income.

We have been operating since January 2006, and we currently serve 8,000 farm families (32,000 children). Our target is to change the lives of 40,000 families (160,000 children) within two more years, scaling at a 50% - 100% growth rate thereafter. One Acre Fund is one of the most externally-validated social start-ups of 2006, winning grants from the highly competitive Echoing Green and Draper Richards Foundations, and first place wins at the Stanford and Yale social venture competitions. Website: www.oneacrefund.org.

Job Description

We are seeking someone with great writing skills, good self-management ability, a positive and cheerful attitude, and excitement about living and working in Africa.

Prior experience at donor development and communications is not necessary. This is a career-track role, with special attention paid to long-term career and leadership development. A successful candidate will be generally intelligent, a strong writer, and able to manage their own work. We will develop specific skills.

The associate will:

• Development: Write grant proposals, targeted at meaningful, high-probability grants. The associate will annually expect to win $50,000 in grants totally independently, and $200,000+ in grants in conjunction with the executive director
• Development: Act as a "customer service advocate" for One Acre Fund's top 25 existing donors, making sure that all donors feel constantly well-informed about our activities primarily via mail and email
• Development: Prepare brief research reports on selected fundraising potentials
• Communications: Draft many of One Acre Fund's regular materials, such as our six-month reports, monthly newsletters, client profiles, etc.
• Communications: Create innovative and catchy new communications materials such as short videos, podcasts, brochures – the sky is the limit.
• Communications: Maintain and upgrade website, and respond to donor questions submitted through the website
• Research: Prepare selected research reports for Kenyan operations, and summarize into short briefs on selected topics
• Research: Prepare research reports on various aspects of US operations, including donation, media, advertising, and website traffic trends
• Project Management: Manage one field project in Kenya, such as our child health program, paired together with our Kenyan managers
• Project Management: Occasionally manage volunteers or consultants in significant US Operations projects
• Marketing: Supervise Internet advertising and marketing campaigns, including social media presence
• Administration: Approximately five hours per week of printing, mailing, email forwarding, paying invoices, taking minutes, other. There is lots of "Other" in a startup. Self-organization is critical

Qualifications

A successful candidate will have these traits:

• Very strong self-manager, very well-organized. After an initial three-month period of heavy mentorship, supervision will consist of 1 or 2 weekly check-ins. We need someone who is very well-organized and can manage their work independently
• Top-performing undergraduate background (include GPA and test scores on your resume)
• Work experience, or internship, in some professional environment
• Willingness to commit to the position for at least 2 years
• No ego or drama. We are looking for others that combine strong leadership skills with a humble approach to service. Our expatriate team lives in rural Kenya together in a group of houses, and so we are looking for emotionally stable and happy people
• Cooking skills, high propensity to laugh and be happy: always desired!

Preferred Start Date: August 1, 2009 or earlier – as soon as possible
Compensation: Entry-level nonprofit position
Benefits: Modest health cover, 1-2 annual home trips to US
Career Development: Quarterly management consulting-style career reviews, and significant investment in career development. This post reports to the executive director, who will spend significant time in your career development, and assist top performers with future placements in either the private sector or in the developing world. You will learn about the inner workings of a successful, global, startup nonprofit through participation in quarterly board meetings and interactions with the founder. You will become well-versed in fundraising, donor management, measurement & evaluation, strategic planning, and many other important dimensions of running a nonprofit.

To apply:

Email cover letter and resume to jobs@oneacrefund.org (Subject line: "Development / Communications Associate Search" + name of the site that referred you)

Development Director > Managing Director

- Wanted: Development Professional to lead fundraising efforts for rapidly-growing non-profit organization
- Location: Flexible within the US. New York or San Francisco preferred.

Organization Description

One Acre Fund is an award-winning, rapidly growing organization that eradicates hunger in East Africa. Instead of giving handouts to some of the poorest families in the world, One Acre invests in farm families to help them harvest more food for themselves. Our "investment bundle" includes education, financing, seed/ fertilizer, and export market access. Our program is designed to be usable by the extreme poor, and generates a 100%+ gain in farm income on every planted acre. 

In three years, we have grown to serve 8,000 farm families (32,000 children). Our target is to serve 40,000 families (160,000 children) within two more years, scaling at a 50 - 100% growth rate thereafter. One Acre Fund is one of the most externally-validated recent social start-ups, winning grants from the highly competitive Echoing Green and Draper Richards Foundations, and first place wins at the Stanford and Yale social venture competitions.  Website: http://www.oneacrefund.org/

One Acre Fund has a $1.8m-$2.0m annual budget in 2009. Most of our support comes from family foundations. We are seeking a development professional to support the Executive Director in growing and stewarding this current fundraising base, as well as work with the board to independently raise at least $0.5m+ in 2010, and $1.0m+ 2011.

Position Overview

One Acre Fund is an organization that can turn $120 into a life-changing loan that provides some of the poorest farm families in the world to grow their own way out of poverty. Although we earn substantial earned income from operations, our desired rate of growth requires us to aggressively grow fundraising.

We are seeking someone that will:

1. Support the Executive Director in continuing to grow and steward our current funding base. The development director will play the lead role in stewarding our middle-sized gifts
2. *Generate independent fundraising of at least $0.5m in 2010, and $1.0m in 2011
   1. Identify and independently win grants in the $10,000-$100,000+ range.
   2. Work with the Executive Director and board to provide some support on generating leads. We expect that the executive director and board will be able to help generate leads of roughly $0.2m per year, but it will be the primary responsibility of the development director to generate new leads independently.
   3. The development director will have overall responsibility for initial contact, first and second meetings, meeting follow-up, proposal writing, and reporting stewardship
   4. Limited support from a grant-writer posted in Kenya
3. Develop over time into a “Managing Director” role, which implies a greater degree of autonomy and importance to the organization. From mid-2010 onward, all of One Acre Fund’s US operations will be solely a fundraising organization that we build. We are ideally looking for a person that can lead the long-term expansion of our US operations.

Qualifications:

• *Demonstrated ability and experience to generate new fundraising leads for international causes
• *Demonstrated ability and experience to independently land grants in the $10,000-$100,000 range for international causes
• At least one year experience as a development professional independently landing grants for international causes
• An ability to credibly discuss business concepts, performance indicators, etc with fluency – One Acre Fund is a results-oriented organization that primarily raises funds from savvy business people – we do not rely too heavily on the “bleeding-heart sell”
• Proven experience working independently, with minimum direction
• First year requirement: trip to East Africa for 2-10 weeks, to improve program fluency
• Strong writing ability and fluency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint
• Strength and promptness in email communication
• 24-hour responsiveness to donors
• Willingness to travel around the US 20%-40% of time
• Ability to self-manage
• A sincere and real dedication to our mission

Preferred Start Date: August 2009 or earlier

Compensation: Competitive

Benefits: Health cover, 401k, vacation time

Career development: Quarterly management consulting-style career reviews, and significant investment in career development. This post reports directly to the executive director, but requires a fair amount of autonomy and independence.

To Apply

In your cover letter, please address the following question: Numerous NGOs operate in a similar space as One Acre Fund. What attracts you to One Acre Fund in particular?

Email cover letter and resume to jobs@oneacrefund.org (Subject line: Development Director + name of the site that referred you)

Post: Manager of US Operations

Wanted: Early-career (2-5 years post-undergrad experience), business professional to handle US operations of a young, international NGO

Industry: Nonprofit/International Development
Employer: One Acre Fund
Job Title: Manager, US Operations
Job Location: Anywhere in the US 

Organization Description

One Acre Fund is a start-up initiative in Kenya that works with persistently hungry farm families. Instead of giving handouts to families, One Acre invests in farm families to generate a permanent gain in farm income. Our "investment bundle" includes education, financing, inputs, and export market access. Our program is designed to be usable by the extreme poor, and generates a permanent, 100%+ gain in farm income.

We have been operating since January 2006, and we currently serve 12,000 farm families (58,000 children). Our target is to change the lives of 40,000 families (160,000 children) within two more years, scaling at a 50 - 100% growth rate thereafter. One Acre Fund is one of the most externally-validated recent social start-ups, winning grants from the highly competitive Echoing Green and Draper Richards Foundations, and first place wins at the Stanford and Yale social venture competitions. Website: www.oneacrefund.org

Job Description
One Acre Fund program staff all live in Africa. So, we are seeking one person in the US to essentially manage all of our US operations. Prior experience is not required – we are seeking someone with general leadership and management ability.

We are seeking an exceptionally talented recent university graduate with very strong independent problem-solving skills, an ability to self-manage, and strong overall judgment. Successful candidates should also have strong technical abilities – e.g. the ability to write and learn simple programming in PHP, JavaScript, HTML / CSS and other Internet languages / platforms.

This person will be responsible for the smooth daily operation of One Acre Fund in the US, evenly split between technology operations and other duties such as research, marketing, and administration. This is a career-track role, with special attention paid to long-term career and leadership development.

This role is important to the continued growth of One Acre Fund, as it involves the management of critical US operations such as donor management, payment processing, marketing, and Internet presence. The role combines general operations and project management responsibilities with software development and maintenance duties.

The Manager of US Operations will:

• Resource Development: Respond to donor questions submitted through the website, as well as requests for tax documentation, technical questions, etc.
• Resource Development: Prepare brief research reports on selected fundraising potentials
• Resource Development: Manage a relatively advanced salesforce.com database, and maintain functionality to ensure donors receive timely reports, renewal emails, tax receipts, etc.
• Resource Development: Maintain, and perform occasional upgrades to, credit card charging system
• Finance: Maintain master set of accounting books, pay out reimbursements, payroll, etc
• Finance: Run monthly credit card transactions, with critical attention to security and detail
• Finance: Pay bills, make interest payments, etc, with critical attention to detail
• Finance: Send annual tax receipts to donors, via automated system
• Finance: Put together our annual audit and financial statements, in coordination with our in-country CFO
• Program Research: Prepare selected research reports for Kenyan operations, and summarize into short briefs on selected topics
• Program Research: Prepare research reports on various aspects of US operations, including donation, media, advertising, and website traffic trends
• Project Management: Manage volunteers or consultants in significant US Operations projects
• Marketing: Supervise Internet advertising and marketing campaigns, including social media presence
• Marketing: Write content for, maintain, and update website
• Legal: Work with pro-bono lawyers to obtain short legal briefs on certain subjects
• Other: printing, mailing, email forwarding, writing letters, paying invoices, taking minutes, etc. There is lots of "Other" in a startup – however, we make a conscious effort to minimize low-level work. 

Qualifications

A successful candidate will have these traits: 

• Very strong self-manager. As this position has no fixed work hours or in-person supervision (your “boss” lives in Africa), you must be able to reliably manage projects and deadlines with high independence on a day-to-day basis
• Very strong leadership and creative problem-solving skills, including ability to motivate others
• A willingness to learn PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML / CSS, Drupal and Salesforce.com over time – your interview will include teaching you some of these basic languages, to see how quickly you pick up.
• Top-performing undergraduate background (include GPA and test scores on your resume)
• Work experience in a professional environment
• Willingness to commit to the position for 2 years
• No ego or drama. We are looking for others that combine strong leadership skills with a humble approach to service.
  

Preferred Start Date: As soon as possible
Compensation: Competitive with other entry-level nonprofit positions
Benefits: Modest health cover, home internet. 1 annual trip to Kenya provided, if desired
Career development: Quarterly management consulting-style career reviews, and significant investment in career development. The founder and current Chairman of the Board will invest significant time in your career development, and assist top performers with future placements in either the private sector or in the developing world.
Sponsor International Candidates: Yes 

To Apply

Email cover letter and resume to justinb@oneacrefund.org (Subject line: Manager of US Operations + name of the site that referred you)

Post: New Country Scout (English and French-speaker required)

Wanted: Early-career high-performing professional with at least 2 years of work experience

Industry:          Nonprofit/International Development
Function:        Operations Innovation

Employer:        One Acre Fund
Job Title:          New Country Scout
Job Location:   Anticipate extensive international travel
Requirements: English and French Fluency Required

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 start-up NGO in Kenya, Rwanda, and Burundi that is innovating a new way of helping farm families to achieve their full potential. 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 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.

We are growing quickly. In five years, we have grown to serve 70,000 farm families with more than 500 full-time field staff. In three more years, we will at least quadruple in size, while adding several new countries. Our approach has won widespread validation, winning grants from the highly competitive Echoing Green and Skoll Foundations, and the global Financial Times/ IFC award for "basic needs financing" in 2010 and 2011.  Website: www.oneacrefund.org

Job Description

As One Acre Fund expands, a key part of our long-term goal to reach at least 1,100,000 farm families this decade is to launch one new country per year, starting in 2012. It is also important that we understand the landscape of potential countries as soon as possible – so that we know how we may need to change our program model to fit new areas.

We are seeking an exceptionally talented professional with very strong independent problem-solving skills, an ability to self-manage, and strong overall judgment. This person should also have strong networking ability, and general stability / ability to deal with traveling alone for a long stretch of time. The minimum commitment to this job is 2 years.

The New Country Scout will:

• Spend 3-6 months training on the core One Acre Fund program model in Kenya or Rwanda
• Move to a new country, where they will either begin a pilot from scratch, or expand an existing pilot.
• Core operating duties will include:
  • Hiring and training 3-8 initial trial staff
  • Engaging local government officials and sensitizing them to our program
  • Handling initial recruitment of 100-300 farmers
• External networking will include:
  • Purchase of seed, fertilizer, and other farm inputs from local vendors
  • Making contact with local horticultural support
• The new country scout wil also set up our initial office. This may include:
  • Handling legal registration
  • Finding/hiring of office and housing
  • Initial equipment purchases
  • Creation of well-functioning finance and accounting operation with proper financial controls
• The end goal will be to validate the country as a possible area of operation for One Acre Fund. If scouting is successful, the organization will proceed to grow our core program there to a goal scale of 10,000+ farmers and 100+ staff within two additional yars. This would be staffed either by an experienced manager from one of our existing countries, or possibly the new country scout can grow into this role.

Qualifications

We are seeking exceptional professionals with 2 to 5+ years of work experience, and a demonstrated long-term passion for international development. They will serve in a career-track position that combines both field and management experience.

We are looking for truly extraordinary candidates that will help take our organization to the next levels of impact and scale. This is not a short stint in Africa – this is a competitive posting for a career-track role. Only 3% of applicants make it to a phone screen. Therefore, please only apply if you fit these criteria:

• Strong work experiences. Examples include a demanding professional work experience, or successful entrepreneurial experience (e.g. starting a field program in a developing country, leading a conference, starting a business, solid Peace Corps accomplishments)
• Leadership experience at work or outside of work
• Top-performing undergraduate background (please include GPA and test scores on your resume)
• Humility and personal stability. We have a fantastic and likeable team. We are looking for passionate professionals that combine strong leadership skills with good humor, patience, and a humble approach to service
• A willingness to commit to living in rural areas of Africa or Asia for at least two years – this is a long-term, career-track role. The ideal candidate will have at least one year demonstrated experience working in the developing world, although this is not a strict requirement
• Language: English and French required
• Ability to cook/ laugh – desirable

Preferred Start Date: Flexible
Compensation: Starts very modest. However, this is a career-track role with fast raises for performance, paying a meaningful salary for long-term placement in developing nations.
Benefits:Health cover, immunizations, flight, room and board. Two annual home flights provided.
Career Development: Quarterly management consulting-style career reviews and constant feedback. Your manager will invest significant time in your career development.
Sponsor International Candidates: Yes  

To Apply

Email cover letter and resume to jobs@oneacrefund.org (Subject line: NCS search + name of the site that referred you)

Post: Innovation Trial Manager – Cambodia

Wanted: Early-career high-performing professional with at least 2 years of work experience

Industry:          Nonprofit/International Development 
Employer:        One Acre Fund
Job Title:          Innovation Trial Manager – Cambodia
Job Location:   Cambodia (Siam Reap) 

Organization Description

One Acre Fund is a start-up initiative in Kenya that works with persistently hungry farm families. Instead of giving handouts to families, One Acre invests in farm families to generate a permanent gain in farm income. Our "investment bundle" includes education, financing, inputs, and export market access. Our program is designed to be usable by the extreme poor, and generates a permanent, 100%+ gain in farm income.

We have been operating since January 2006, and we currently serve 30,000 farm families (120,000 children). Our target is to change the lives of 50,000 families (200,000 children) within the next year, scaling at a 50 - 100% growth rate thereafter. One Acre Fund is one of the most externally-validated recent social start-ups, winning grants from the highly competitive Echoing Green and Draper Richards and Skoll Foundations, and first place wins at the Stanford and Yale social venture competitions.  Website: www.oneacrefund.org

Job Description

As One Acre Fund expands, a key part of our goal to reach 1,000,000 farm families is to launch up to one new country per year, starting in 2011. It is also important that we understand the landscape of potential countries as soon as possible – so that we know how we may need to change our program model to fit new areas.

We are seeking an exceptionally talented professional with very strong independent problem-solving skills, an ability to self-manage, and strong overall judgment. This person should also have strong networking ability, and general stability / ability to deal with traveling alone for a long stretch of time. The minimum commitment to this job is 2 years.

The Innovation Trial Manager – Cambodia will:

• Early Horticultural Trials: Continue the initial trial work with 50 farmers launched by our initial Trial Manager, during a multi-month-long period.
  • Launch a horticultural trial with 50+ new farmers
  • Hire initial field staff
  • Secure and furnish an office, suitable home for manager, begin legal registration, etc.

Qualifications
A successful candidate will have these traits. This is a serious, full-time job – PLEASE DO NOT apply if you are having a mid-life crisis and just want to travel the world. Minimum commitment is 2 years.

• *Serious, legitimate, long-term interest in international development work. At least one year of experience living in a developing nation.
• Very strong self-manager. As this position has no fixed work hours or in-person supervision, you must be able to reliably manage projects and deadlines with high independence on a day-to-day basis. We are looking for someone with a demonstrated ability to work independently. This is a professional role, and we are looking for a professional-caliber person
• Top-performing undergraduate background (include GPA and test scores on your resume)
• Work experience in a professional environment
• Emotional stability, and an ability to travel alone, with little predictability, for long stretches
• No ego or drama. We are looking for others that combine strong leadership skills with a humble approach to service

Preferred Start Date: As soon as possible
Compensation: Starts very modest. However, this is a career-track role eventually paying a real and livable salary for a long-term placement in developing nations.
Benefits: Health cover, immunizations, flight, room and board. 2 annual home flights provided – home trips include some speaking and fundraising duties.
Sponsor International Candidates: Yes 

To Apply

Email cover letter and resume to jobs@oneacrefund.org (Subject line: Innovation Trial Manager – Cambodia + name of the site that referred you)

Work in Africa for an innovative, start-up non-profit organization!

Excellent career-track opportunity mixing private-sector management skill-set with non-profit service.

Industry: Nonprofit / International Development
Function: Finance

Employer: One Acre Fund
Job Title: Finance Director
Job Location: Western Kenya (English required) or Southwest Rwanda (French required)

Organization Description
One Acre Fund is a start-up initiative in Kenya and Rwanda which works with persistently hungry farm families. Instead of giving handouts to families, One Acre invests in farm families to generate a permanent gain in farm income. Our "investment bundle" includes education, financing, inputs, and export market access. Our program is designed to be usable by the extreme poor, and generates a permanent, 100%+ gain in farm income.

We have been operating since January 2006, and we currently serve 22,000 farm families (88,000 children). Our target is to change the lives of 50,000 families (200,000 children) within two more years, scaling at a 50-100% growth rate thereafter. One Acre Fund is one of the most externally-validated social start-ups of 2006, winning grants from the highly competitive Echoing Green and Draper Richards Foundations, and first place wins at the Stanford and Yale social venture competitions. Website: www.oneacrefund.org

Job Description
We are seeking an exceptional professional with 2-4 years work experience, and a career interest in international development. They will serve in a career-track position that combines both management experience in Africa and in-depth financial analysis and strategy. As a young organization, we are ready to hand over large responsibility for specific, well-defined work modules.

Projects will be focused on generating financial and business intelligence for One Acre Fund’s key leadership as well as contributing to the organization’s strategic vision and goal of financial sustainability. The Finance Director will lead our entire US and Africa-based financial team, with the following major responsibilities:
 

• Strategy and Budgeting: Help chart One Acre Fund’s path to financial sustainability by preparing our annual budget for all African and US operations, identifying cost drivers, and leading cost-savings initiatives. The Finance Director will also be responsible for determining the combination of initiatives and program model variations that will lead to financial sustainability. An example of recent innovations coming from our finance team include a new program modeling tool that allows users to view a One Acre Fund “model” district with 2009 actual figures, 2010 budgeted figures, and at-scale sustainability assumptions.
• Reporting and Analysis: As we grow, One Acre Fund has increasing need for a dedicated individual to take over our financial reporting and analysis roles on behalf of organization leadership. This includes preparing monthly, quarterly, and yearly budget vs. actual reports; specified reports for major donors or grant applications; and guiding our annual financial audits by US and African firms. The finance director will also take responsibility for creating simplified, regular financial reports for our site leaders and helping them to identify and implement cost-cutting projects.
• Team Management: Good financial analysis requires good raw data. The Finance Director will be in charge of leading a growing team of bookkeepers scattered all over the world, designing trainings, and ensuring the accurate, timely entry and collection of all financial transactions. The Finance Director will also need to consolidate and add to our training curriculum for new bookkeepers as we begin a period of rapid expansion. We need an individual committed to laying the groundwork for a successful, efficient finance department across a diverse array of geographies, rural technological conditions, and skill sets.

Qualifications
We are looking for somebody truly extraordinary for the Finance Director role. This is an extremely competitive posting for a business / management-style position. Only 10% make of applicants make it to a phone screen. Therefore, please do NOT respond unless you fit these criteria:

• *At least 2 years of experience in finance or consulting is required (e.g., analyst at an investment bank or consultancy)
• Analytical skill-set. While we will provide training, experience and total mastery of Microsoft Excel is required. Microsoft Access is a strong plus.
• Top-performing undergraduate background (include GPA and test scores on your resume)
• Strong quality of work experiences. Examples include professional work experience, or some kind of successful entrepreneurial experience
• Leadership experience at work, or outside of work. (e.g. starting a field program in a developing country, leading a conference, starting a business, peace corps)
• No ego or drama. We are all stable people who are fun to be around. We are looking for others that combine strong leadership skills with a humble approach to service
• A willingness to commit to living in rural areas of East Africa for at least two years, and ideally demonstrated experience working in the developing world
• Nice to have: Kiswahili a plus, Kinyrwandan or French a plus. English required
• Ability to cook / laugh / extraordinary patience – all desirable

Preferred Start Date: Flexible
Compensation: Modest, but enough to cover living expenses.
Benefits: Health cover, immunizations, flight, and housing. 2 annual home flights provided – home trips include some speaking and fundraising duties
Career development: Quarterly management consulting-style career reviews, and significant investment in career development. Although the post does not pay very well, your manager will invest significant time in your career development, and assist top performers with future placements in either the private sector or throughout the developing world.
Sponsor International Candidates: Yes

To Apply
Email cover letter and resume to jobs@oneacrefund.org (Subject line: Finance Director Search + name of the site that referred you)

Mr. Paul Youn
One Acre Fund
330 Myrtle Street, Redwood City, CA 94062

Lead up HR for an innovative, start-up non-profit organization!
Excellent career-track opportunity mixing private-sector management skill-set with non-profit service

Industry:    Nonprofit/International Development
Employer:    One Acre Fund
Job Title:    Global HR Officer
Job Location:    Anywhere in the US (major city preferred, e.g. San Francisco)

Organization Description
One Acre Fund is a start-up initiative in Kenya and Rwanda which works with persistently hungry farm families. Instead of giving handouts to families, One Acre invests in farm families to generate a permanent gain in farm income. Our "investment bundle" includes education, financing, inputs, and export market access. Our program is designed to be usable by the extreme poor, and generates a lasting, 100%+ gain in farm income on every planted acre.

We have been operating since January 2006, and we currently serve 22,000 farm families (88,000 children). Our target is to change the lives of 50,000 families (200,000 children) within 18 more months, scaling at a 50-100% annual growth rate thereafter. One Acre Fund is one of the most externally-validated social start-ups of 2006, winning grants from the highly competitive Echoing Green and Draper Richards Foundations, and first place wins at the Stanford and Yale social venture competitions.  Website: www.oneacrefund.org

Job Description
We are seeking an exceptional professional with 2-4 years work experience, and a demonstrated long-term career interest in international development. They will serve in a career-track position in a rapidly-growing organization. As a young organization, we are ready to hand over large responsibility for specific, well-defined work modules. We want to hire someone to last for a long time, and the minimum commitment is 2 years.

The Global HR Officer will be responsible for leading recruitment of “acceleration team” staff, and also work to serve the needs of 20 existing “acceleration team” professionals. Duties will include:

• Search: Keeping a targeted group of 15-25 job postings active
• Search: Speaking at targeted venues in the US, Europe, and Africa
• Search: Meeting regularly with a trusted group of “referrers”
• Search: Innovating new ways to search for candidates, particularly within Africa
• Screening: Screening out the bottom 50% of applicants through daily resume review, plus handling all “decline” correspondence in a professional manner
• Screening: Handling Q&A, correspondence with the roughly 15 candidates that are in the pipeline at any given time
• New hires: Arranging for new hire paperwork and onboarding materials
• New hires: Handling correspondence and logistics of in-country arrival
• Talent retention: Administering a smoothly-functioning payroll system including proactive communication with staff
• Talent retention: Administering a smoothly-functioning 401k, benefits, and tax system
• Talent retention: Innovating new ways to retain talent
• Administration: 5-10 hours per week of general administration work (e.g. setting up conference calls, quick research projects, etc)

Significant travel is required. The HR officer should expect to spend approximately 1-2 months per year traveling internationally (Europe and Africa), and an additional 1-2 months per year traveling throughout the US.

Qualifications
This is our lead HR role, and we are looking for somebody truly extraordinary who also has a long-term career interest in growing together with a fast-paced organization. Our job postings are extremely competitive, and only 3% of applicants make it to a phone screen. Therefore, please do NOT respond unless you fit these criteria:

• Strong work experiences. Examples include a high-level professional work experience, or some kind of successful entrepreneurial experience (e.g. starting a field program in a developing country, leading a conference, starting a business, solid peace corps accomplishments)
• Leadership experience at work, or outside of work
• Top-performing undergraduate background (include GPA and test scores on your resume)
• No ego or drama – we are looking for someone very stable
• A long-term interest in a career-track role
• Nice to have: French-speaker
• Minimum two year commitment, ideally longer

Preferred Start Date: Flexible
Compensation: Starts at $32k per year. However, this is a career-track role – our organization is growing very fast, and responsibilities can increase quickly, together with increases in salary.
Benefits: Basic health cover, immunizations, 401k, 4 weeks of holiday per year.
Career development: 3x annual management consulting-style career reviews, and significant investment in career development.
Sponsor International Candidates: Probably

To Apply
Email cover letter and resume to justinb@oneacrefund.org (Subject line: Global HR Officer Search + name of the site that referred you)

Mr. Paul Youn
One Acre Fund
330 Myrtle Street, Redwood City, CA 94062
Email: justinb@oneacrefund.org (Subject line: Global HR Officer Search + name of the site that referred you)

Challenging and exciting position in innovative start up NGO!
Excellent career development opportunity emphasizing management and leadership skills

Industry:    Nonprofit/International Development
Function:     Administration/HR/Communications/Donor Relations Employer:    One Acre Fund
Job Title:    Administration Associate
Job Location:    New York City preferred (other US East Coast city possible)

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 start-up NGO in Kenya, Rwanda, and Burundi that is innovating a new way of helping farm families to achieve their full potential. 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 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.

We are growing quickly. In five years, we have grown to serve 70,000 farm families with more than 500 full-time field staff. In three more years, we will at least quadruple in size, while adding several new countries. Our approach has won widespread validation, winning grants from the highly competitive Echoing Green and Skoll Foundations, and the global Financial Times/ IFC award for "basic needs financing" in 2010 and 2011. Website: www.oneacrefund.org

Job Description
One Acre Fund is a rapidly-growing organization, and increasingly needs professional administrative support in the areas of communications, fundraising, HR and operations. Supporting these functions is integral in our growth plans and strategy.

We are seeking somebody to work closely with our small US-based staff (including the heads of our communications, fundraising, operations and HR/legal affairs departments) to provide support in a variety of areas, including administration, research and writing, various back office tasks, donor relations, etc. Initial tasks would be similar to that of an executive assistant, but this is also a career path role. We are seeking someone to eventually become an administration manager, and possibly a senior manager at some point. Example duties:

• General administrative support: The administration associate will be tasked with providing general administrative support to all US team members, including managing correspondence, calendars, travel arrangements, meeting and interview logistics.
• Research and writing: As a growing organization, we constantly need assistance researching a variety of issues including employee benefits options, issues specific to foreign-based workers, information on potential donors and funding sources, sector developments relevant to our work, sources of insurance for our clients and staff, etc. The administration associate would be asked to research these and other topics and present a concise summary of their findings.
• Talent search support: As our organization grows, we constantly seek to hire the world's best international development practitioners. To do this, we recruit talent from around the world and need support finding talented candidates, communicating with these candidates and efficiently moving them through the interview process. The administration associate would play an integral part in ensuring our talent search is effective and successful and would be called on to come up with innovative ideas on how to find the best talent.

Career Growth and DevelopmentOne Acre Fund invests in building management and leadership skills. We provide constant, actionable feedback delivered through mentorship and through regular career reviews. We also have regular one-on-one meetings, where we listen to and discuss career goals, and work collaboratively to craft roles that each person can be passionate about. Because of our rapid growth, we constantly have new high-level roles opening up and opportunities in many functions. This results in fast career growth for our staff.

Qualifications
We are seeking exceptional professionals with 1 to 5+ years of work experience and ideally a demonstrated passion for international development. Therefore, please only apply if you fit these criteria:

• Strong work experiences Examples include a demanding professional work experience, or successful entrepreneurial experience (e.g. leading a conference, starting a business, solid Peace Corps accomplishments).
• Internal drive The candidate hired for this position will often work by themselves, and, therefore, must be a self-starter and one who can proactively complete tasks without constant oversight.
• Leadership experience at work, or outside of work
• Top-performing undergraduate background (include GPA and test scores on your resume)
• Humility and personal stability We have a fantastic and likeable team. We are looking for passionate professionals who combine strong leadership skills with good humor, patience, and a humble approach to service
• A willingness to commit to this position for the long term This is a long-term, career-track role. We are looking for a candidate who truly enjoys all facets of administration and not a person who sees this job as an “in” to some other position with One Acre Fund. While this role has tremendous career development potential, candidates should not view this position as a starting point to gain a program role in Africa.
• Language English required; French would be nice to have
• Travel Limited travel in the US is likely and may increase to up to 10% depending on the candidate’s ability to support our recruiting efforts. Annual trip to Africa possible.
• Nice to haveWhile not a strict requirement, experience with website editing/updating, video editing and photo editing is a big plus.

Preferred Location: US East Coast, preferably New York City area; there is a strong possibility this job, or a significant portion of it, will be performed remotely; however, the ability to meet with our US staffers is essential.
Preferred Start Date: Flexible
Compensation: Starts modest. However, this is a career-track role with fast raises for performance.
Benefits: Health insurance stipend, 401k
Career development: Quarterly management consulting-style career reviews and constant feedback. Your manager will invest significant time in your career development.
Sponsor International Candidates: No

To Apply
Email cover letter and resume to jobs@oneacrefund.org (Subject line: Administration Associate Search + name of the site that referred you)