Rwanda Agricultural Products Scaling Lead at 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 per cent more food after working with One Acre Fund.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Rwanda Agricultural Products Scaling Lead

Location: Kigali, Rwanda
Career Level: Professionals
Preferred Start Date: As soon as possible

About the Role

• The Products Scaling Innovation Lead is an important technical, strategic and managerial position within the Research and Development (R&D) Division responsible for leading the Scaling Innovation department.
• One Acre Fund relies on this innovation department to identify and research on the most impactful agricultural and non-agricultural products and services for farmers.
• Every season the department runs farmer surveys and trials to inform our product offering and farmer service decisions.
• Great innovation comes from excellent background research, a true understanding of our client base, excellent pilot implementation, and by implementing a scaling process that allows us to translate product pilot results into our full program.

Responsibilities

• Lead product and service scaling to our different channels for serving farmers.
• Work with our field teams, logistics, business operations and MEL to grow the most promising new products, services, or training into our field programs.
• Develop trials for potentially impactful products following related impact models.
• Conduct pilot design, analysis and reporting.
• Implement periodic product impact evaluations for non-agricultural products.
• Lead the Scale Innovations team in behavior change research to develop solutions that enable farmers to adopt best agricultural practices.
• Infer patterns and trends in data collected from the field and report findings through distribution postmortem reports and full trial reports.
• Support external departments on newly scaled products.
• Develop and contribute to team/division strategy memos.
• Engage and build external partner relationships.
• Initiate and manage collaborative projects with external partners, which includes drafting MoUs, periodic reporting and ensuring OAF policies are followed in all communication and results sharing
• Lead team administration.
• Formulate and the annual departmental budget.
• Monitor expenditure and implement efficiency strategies.
• Conduct team performance management.
• Support capacity development of direct reports and entire product scaling team in general.

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

• A Bachelor's Degree is required, either in Agricultural Economics Or Agricultural Statistics coupled with project management and project evaluation background.
• Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:
• Background coupled with experience designing surveys and running impact evaluations.
• Product/business scale-up mindset.
• Experience with Stata or R statistical packages, Excel (can perform analytical functions) skills, google applications.
• Team and people management experience: Demonstrated experience managing at least one direct report and preferably a team.
• Project management experience, from project design, to execution, monitoring and evaluation.

Eligibility:

• One Acre Fund can support a work permit for this role. However, nationals of (or those with an extensive professional background and work history in) our countries of operation are preferred.

Benefits

• Health insurance, housing, and comprehensive benefits

Application Deadline
24th March 2023.