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Climate-Smart Agriculture Associate
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 7,000+ 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, our farmers 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
We are looking for someone with 2 or more years of agroforestry, rural development, climate change, or rural extension experience in sub-Saharan Africa.
- One Acre Fund is committed to transforming our 1-million-farmer core program into a force against climate change. The Climate-Smart Agriculture Associate will identify, prototype, and scale behavior change interventions to improve farmer adoption of practices that enhance net agricultural carbon sequestration. As part of the Global Impact team, you will report to the Global Impact Lead.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Improve climate-smart extension – You will develop and coordinate the implementation of (i) research tools to allow R&D teams to explore the causes for the adoption of carbon-sequestering practices, and (ii) processes to develop and test marketing and training to increase farmers´ climate-smart practices adoption.
- Behavior Change Research – You will develop research tools and protocols to ensure the carbon sequestration trial pipeline maximizes opportunities to understand and monitor farmer adoption/compliance with perennial farming systems (e.g. alley cropping) and soil carbon enhancing practices (e.g. residue retention).
- Barriers Analysis and Farming Systems Research – One Acre Fund’s ability to promote carbon sequestration depends on understanding farmers’ needs and constraints. You will refine tools to ensure R&D teams to characterize and understand farmers’ livelihoods and farming systems, to produce insights on opportunities for improved interventions. This work includes surveys, barriers analysis, and participatory rural appraisal research.
- Support Compliance, Intervention Design, and Testing – You will provide support to multiple teams within One Acre Fund, support on innovation, intervention design, and testing. You provide rapid responses to urgent technical questions, desk research, strategy development, creation of decision-support tools for independent teams, design creative intervention prototypes, incentives, and ensure knowledge sharing across teams.
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
Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:
- 2+ years experience with research on smallholder agriculture, with a farming systems emphasis and including work around climate-smart agriculture or agroforestry.
- 1+ years of experience with research and extension project design and management, including participatory methods, rural appraisal, human-centered design, surveys, and focus groups.
- A postgraduate degree in agriculture, climate change, rural development, or a related field is an advantage.
- Experience with rural extension services, prototype, and testing or marketing is an asset.
- You will be asked to have at least basic proficiency in statistical analysis, and comfort with Excel.
- Humility. We place a lot of value on open and frank feedback in order to grow as a team.
- A willingness to commit for at least two years. This is a long–term, career-track role.
- The role may require 25-50% travel for at least the first year (reduced over time)
- Language: English required; French or Kiswahili desirable.
PREFERRED START DATE
Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, start dates can vary significantly by role. We are adapting rapidly to Covid-19 and most of our team is now working remotely. Given the changing environment, we will appreciate your flexibility in confirming a start date.
JOB LOCATION
Kigali, Rwanda
BENEFITS
Health insurance, housing, and comprehensive benefits
SPONSOR INTERNATIONAL CANDIDATES
Yes, East Africans are strongly encouraged to apply.
APPLICATION DEADLINE
We hire on a rolling basis which means that applications are reviewed and processed on a continuous basis until a hire is made.
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.
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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2. Compliance Specialist Deadline 22-01-2021
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 7,000+ 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, our farmers 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
Compliance at One Acre Fund is an essential role, which ensures that we are following all legal and policy obligations across our global teams and countries of operations. In addition to ensuring a safe and well-functioning workplace, the Compliance function allows us to communicate our progress and adherence to staff, investors, and other team members.
The Compliance Manager will contribute to the achievement of One Acre Fund’s compliance goals by ensuring adherence to applicable policies. Among other things, the Compliance Manager will lead the review, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of policies within the compliance framework.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Research regulatory developments within and outside of the organization and develop best practices in compliance control.
- Work with your team to monitor the enforcement of applicable policies.
- Work with Government Relations and Legal teams to assess and evaluate the impact of changes in applicable legislation and international best practices.
- Recommend the review and revision of policies to ensure agreement on changes in new laws, regulations, and best practices.
- Build and maintain systems to monitor compliance and track progress.
- Design tools such as checklists to support compliance of issues identified through research.
- Conduct staff training programs to re-enforce a culture of compliance
- Create self-audit programs to monitor the effectiveness of compliance systems (e.g. policy implementation, conducting internal and third-party site visits)
- Partner with internal units such as Legal, Internal Audit, and Risk Management, to assess and ensure the effectiveness of control systems in driving compliance.
- Lead on internal and external reporting on all aspects of compliance.
- Prepare and circulate legal compliance reports
- Oversee and report on compliance with policies under the Environmental and Social Management System (ESMS)
- Monitor implementation status of agreed action points aimed towards driving compliance.
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
Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:
- 3 years of working experience developing, implementing, and monitoring a compliance function
- Undergraduate degree in Business or related field. A degree in Law will be an added advantage.
- Working knowledge in compliance standards and regulations.
- Experience in risk management
- Strong attention to detail.
- Communicate and collaborate with diverse team members
- Generally structured and organized for example in creating and managing policy libraries, indices
PREFERRED START DATE
Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, start dates can vary significantly by role. We are adapting rapidly to Covid-19 and most of our team is now working remotely. Given the changing environment, we will appreciate your flexibility in confirming a start date.
JOB LOCATION
Kigali or Nairobi with 20% in Kakamega.
BENEFITS
Health insurance paid time off
SPONSOR INTERNATIONAL CANDIDATES
No; Must have existing rights to work in Kenya and Rwanda
APPLICATION DEADLINE
We hire on a rolling basis which means that applications are reviewed and processed on a continuous basis until a hire is made.
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.
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.
Click here for details and to apply
