About One Acre Fund
Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund supplies 1 million smallholder farmers with the agricultural services they need to make their farms vastly more productive. Our 8,000+ team is drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions. With operations across six core countries in Africa, we make farmers more prosperous by providing quality farm supplies on credit, delivered within walking distance of farmers’ homes, and agricultural training to improve harvests. On average, the farmers we serve harvest 50 percent more food after working with One Acre Fund.
To learn more about our work, take a look at our Why Work Here blog for more information.
About the Role
Rwanda Coffee Field Officer (Coffee FO) will connect One Acre Fund, the Coffee Washing Station (CWS), and the Coffee Farmer (Client). You will be evaluated by how much impact you create for the farmer. The most impactful Coffee FO connects more coffee farmers with more of One Acre Fund’s services while ensuring the correct use of these services through training and follow-up. The best Coffee FO is the best communicator, delivering useful and accurate information to coffee farmers.
Responsibilities
- Field Activities and Marketing
- The most important part of your job will be to communicate impact – how One Acre Fund products and practices can improve the lives of coffee farmers in Rwanda.
- You are expected to train clients how to use One Acre Fund products such as fertilizer, lime, and improved coffee seedlings with ease and follow-up to make sure they are being used properly.
- You will market the potential impact of good agricultural practices for coffee and then follow up in the field to ensure implementation.
- You must communicate accurate information about One Acre Fund’s rules and processes such as the farmers’ group model and how our credit model works.
- The Coffee FO will support individual clients to make the best possible ordering decisions for our client’s specific circumstances.
- Performance and Reporting
- You will report to the Coffee Field Supervisor and you are expected to report issues clients are having with the health of their coffee crops.
- You are expected to track your work using monthly ad hoc or other performance measurement tracking documents and to report this to the Coffee Field Supervisor weekly.
- You should also report best practices to your manager. One Acre Fund expects Coffee FO to work creatively in the field and to improve strategies for spreading our impact.
- You should openly report problems. If there are challenges you are facing in the field it is your responsibility to try to solve it first, and then report the problem back to the Coffee Field Supervisor.
- You will work with the Coffee Field Supervisor and Coffee Washing Station Agronomist on Tuesday to create a viable work plan, and then strive every day of the week to follow the work plan to the best of your ability.
- You are expected to be at the Coffee Washing Station every Tuesday to receive the week’s instructions and to report back last week’s performance measurements and client information.
- For the remainder of the week, you are in the field communicating the week’s most important information (impact and ops process information).
- Data gathering and doing quality work
- You are expected to follow all talking points and use all information tracking tools provided to you and implement programs for maximizing coffee yields and profitability.
- You will assist the team in the agricultural data gathering and collecting samples, and make sure that data collection happens during the relevant time of the year.
- You must maintain records, document coffee agronomy activities, and then arranging this to facilitate analysis.
Career Growth and Development
We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.
Qualifications
We are looking for professionals with relevant working experience and demonstrated practical expertise in participatory farmer training. Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:
- Minimum A2 Diploma in Agronomy or other relevant agricultural studies.
- In-depth knowledge of coffee agronomy with 2 years of field experience.
- Experience as a Field Officer.
- Good command of coffee nutrition requirements and management practices.
- Navigate changing work/field conditions and sometimes challenging tasks.
- Focused priorities and innovativeness.
- Passion for excellent customer service.
- Language: English and Kinyarwanda.
Preferred Start Date
As soon as possible
Job Location
Huye, Karongi, Rwanda
Benefits
Health insurance, paid time off
Eligibility
This role is only open to citizens or permanent residents of Rwanda
Application Link
Application Deadline
25 December 2023
One Acre Fund never asks candidates to pay any money or pay for tests at any stage of the interview process. Official One Acre Fund emails will always arrive from an @oneacrefund.org address. Please report any suspicious communication here (globalhotline@oneacrefund.org), but do not send applications or application materials to this email address.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), and anti-racism are deeply connected to our organization’s mission and purpose. One Acre Fund aspires to build a culture where all staff feel consistently valued, represented, and connected – so that our team can thrive as professionals, and achieve exceptional impact for the farmers we serve.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
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