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Job Title: Program Associate
Employer: One Acre Fund (OAF)
Location: Jinja, Uganda
One Acre Fund (OAF) is looking for Program Associates to be based in Jinja, Uganda
Duties :
Field operations staff focus on farmer-facing services: They start as generalists, with overall responsibility for executing our program in a region. Over time, they can continue to rise as a general leader, possibly growing to manage an entire country’s field operation. Or they may specialize, for example, in the creation and roll-out of staff development training for hundreds or even 1,000+ team members.
Support operations staff build the infrastructure required for growth: These teams proactively eliminate barriers to scale in a diverse range of areas – processing millions of farmer payments, communicating to farmers via tens of millions of SMS, hiring hundreds of new staff per year, and physically moving 20,000+ tons of farm inputs to thousands of drop sites. Program Associates also make steady improvements to accelerate growth – for example, setting up mobile money integration for a country.
Innovations: Our Innovations teams discover new ideas for our programs and conduct dozens of trials to test these ideas. As an organization, we constantly seek to learn and improve, and our Innovations teams lead the way.
Product Innovations staff improve our core agricultural products or run new experiments in energy and health products: The ideas they discover may eventually scale to hundreds of thousands of households. Product Innovations staff design trials, execute trials together with thousands of farmers, synthesize trial data, and make constant revisions to the product offering. For example, our Product Innovations team is currently testing delivery of live chickens and preparing the product for full-scale rollout. One Acre Fund is also increasingly delving into energy and health, and we are currently one of the largest sellers of solar lights in Sub- Saharan Africa.
Experience: The Program Associate should have at least two to five years’ of professional experience which combines both field and management experience
At least two to five years of work experience, and a demonstrated long-term passion for international development.
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 Volunteer Service Organization accomplishments (VSO, Peace Corps, JICA, etc).
Good leadership experience at work, or outside of work.
How to Apply:
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