New Job Openings at One Acre Fund – August 2017
DURATION:
Minimum two year’s commitment, full-time job.
Job Title: Project Specialist
JOB DESCRIPTION
The project specialist role is a key leadership position in the rapidly growing Impact department. This project specialist will join either our M&E or Product Innovations, teams. The M&E team carries out the yearly impact evaluation of the Zambia maize program and researchers ad-hoc opportunities for OAF to improve its operations. The product innovations department is in charge of identifying and scaling new products for Zambia farmers to increase our impact.
The project specialist’s responsibilities for the M&E team include:
- Recruit, train, and develop a team of surveyors and their supervisors
- Support in the creation of surveys
- Manage the implementation of the surveys through calendars, field visits, key performance indicators, and training
- Oversee databases
- Collaborate with international teams on data analysis
- Provide strategic recommendations to the country director
The project specialist’s responsibilities for the Product Innovations team include:
- Design, implement, analyses and report trial activities
- Supervise the implementation of all trial activities
- Recruit, train, and develop a team of surveyors and their supervisor
- Lead knowledge management within the department
- Provide strategic recommendations to the country director
Career Growth and Development
One Acre Fund invests in building management and leadership skills. Your manager and a global support team will commit significant time in your career development. We provide constant, actionable feedback delivered through mentorship and through regular management consulting-style 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.
QUALIFICATIONS
We are seeking an exceptional professional with 2+ years of work experience and ideally a demonstrated passion for international development. Candidates who fit the following criteria are strongly encouraged to apply:
- Strong work experiences. Examples include a demanding professional work experience, or successful entrepreneurial experience (e.g. leading a conference, or starting a business).
- Leadership experience at work, or outside of work
- Top-performing academic background
ROLE SPECIFIC SKILLS:
- Practical experience with writing surveys for field data collection.
- Understanding of best practices in experimental design concepts, such as control group selection and randomization.
- Fluency in Microsoft Excel, specifically:
- Ability to design basic data-entry spread-sheets with useful data validation.
- Ability to extract summary statistics using both Pivot Tables and Excel formulae
- Experience (entry-level) in statistical packages such as SPSS, Stata or R (desired)
- Proven ability to teach/mentor others
- Humility, teamwork, flexibility and a positive attitude.
- Languages: English required, Bemba, Tonga and/or Nyanja preferred.
PREFERRED START DATE:
Flexible
COMPENSATION
We offer a modest starting salary that affords a high-quality of life in our areas of operation. This is a career-track role with performance-based raises and the ability to expand responsibilities over time.
Note: We are not able to sponsor a visa for this position.