Job Description

One Acre Fund has been awarded a major grant to strengthen our climate programs and support dignified youth livelihoods over the next 5 years. This grant will be extremely influential to One Acre Fund’s future strategic direction, and will open up several new avenues of impactful work. You will support the grant manager with report writing and the coordination of grant activities. This will involve close collaboration with many teams throughout the organization and external partners. You will support the main activities of the grant, including:

Providing improved agricultural services to youth
Bringing youth into high-value crop commercialization
Building climate resilience among young farmers through income diversification and the provision of insurance products

You will report to the Youth and Climate Partnerships Lead on the Global Business Development and Partnerships Team.

Job Level

JL 9

Location

Flexible - Kigali, Rwanda or Nairobi Kenya or Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria, Malawi, Zambia, Europe

Nairobi only available to candidates with an existing right to work in Kenya.

Expected Manager

Julia Darcey

Will this position be managing others?

Key Job Responsibilities

Report writing and coordination
- Lead all elements of designing and draftingquarterly grant progress reports through a collaborative process with Business Development team members, organizational leaders, and grant partners
- Support overall project management by creating and updating workflows and a matrix of responsibilities for several grant work streams
- Coordinate donor site visits (up to 2-3 times per year)
Stakeholder management
- Work with program leads to create systems for setting and tracking project milestones
- Prepare and lead program team update meetings to assess progress against milestones and collect data for grant reports
Project strategy and implementation
- Coordinate with subject matter experts to drive systems-level improvements in youth engagement and climate resilience across the organization
- Coordinate with internal and external Monitoring/Evaluation/Learning teams to measure and improve program impact on youth and women
- Monitor potential risks and project implementation challenges and work toward solutions in collaboration with project staff and partners

Top Skills and Qualifications

3 to 5+ years of work experience. Experience at a dynamic organization in one of our countries of operations is preferred.
Writing experience
Experience coordinating teams to accomplish complex projects
Experience developing Word forms/templates, and maintaining complex spreadsheets in Excel / Google Sheets
We are looking for candidates with backgrounds in any (not all) of the following: agriculture, youth programming, rural development, project management, grant writing, grant management, communications
Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent

Benefits

Health insurance, housing, and comprehensive benefits

Contract Duration

4 years

Sponsor International Candidates

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.

Application Deadline

05 March 2024. Applications after this date will be accepted on a rolling basis.

For more information reach out to julia.darcey@oneacrefund.org

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.orgaddress. 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.

Youth and Climate Partnerships Associate (Fixed-term)