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Join One Acre Fund as the Zambia Research and Data Lead and Transform Smallholder Farming with Data-Driven Impact
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Zambia - Hybrid
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Organisation summary: One Acre Fund is a dynamic nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering smallholder farmers. Since 2006, we've been providing essential agricultural services, including quality supplies, training, and credit, to over 4 million farmers. With a focus on agroforestry in Zambia, we're committed to creating sustainable income sources for farmers and addressing climate change challenges.
Role Summary:
- Oversee strategic Data, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning projects in Zambia.
- Utilize a central data warehouse to make informed recommendations for increasing farmer impact.
- Improve operational efficiencies, such as client adoption and repayment collection.
- Provide oversight for internal agronomic and agroforestry research, including research stations.
Role Requirements:
- Minimum of 3 years of experience with a passion for data and research.
- Strong statistical knowledge and a Bachelor’s degree or higher in a quantitative field.
- Proficiency in predictive modeling and analytics.
- Effective documentation skills for translating business needs into technical solutions.
- Competency in data modeling and intermediate SQL.
- Basic programming knowledge in languages such as Python, Stata, R, or similar.
Benefits: Health insurance, housing, comprehensive benefits, and potential work permit support, with a preference for nationals or those with a professional background in our countries of operation.
About One Acre Fund Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips more than 4 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive. We provide high-quality farm supplies, tree seedlings, accessible credit, modern agronomic training, and a wide range of other agricultural services. In Zambia, our focus is on agroforestry. We provide farmers with a package of different tree varieties and the training they need to create an additional source of income while strengthening their resilience in the face of a changing climate.
The Role As the Zambia Research and Data Lead, you will oversee strategic Data, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning projects. You will use our central data warehouse to make data-driven recommendations that increase farmer impact and improve our daily operations such as client adoption and repayment collection. You will support internal agronomic and agroforestry research efforts, including providing oversight on One Acre Fund research stations.
Job Requirements 3+ years of experience, a demonstrated passion for data and research, and strong knowledge of statistics. A Bachelor’s degree or higher in a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, data science, business analytics, economics, finance, engineering, computer science or a relevant science degree. Essential Skills: Predictive modeling and analytics, documentation skills, with the ability to translate business needs into technical solutions. Important Skills: Data modeling, Intermediate understanding of SQL to write queries with large relational datasets, Programming Languages- basic programming knowledge, such as Python, Stata, R or similar.
Benefits Health insurance, housing, and comprehensive benefits. 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.
