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Exciting opportunity to drive agricultural innovation and impact with One Acre Fund.
Overview
Salary
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Location
Muramvya, Burundi
Expires
Expires at anytime
One Acre Fund is an established organization focused on providing services and supplies to enhance small-scale farm productivity, currently serving over 5.5 million farmers across nine countries.
As a project manager, your responsibilities would include:
- Managing the life-cycle of new products and services
- Overseeing innovative trials to improve agricultural yields and incomes
- Reporting directly to the Burundi Impact Lead
- Managing the Burundi Innovations team
Applicants are expected to have:
- Professional proficiency in English and French
- Understanding of diverse research techniques
- Preferably possess ability to perform analyses in R or STATA
- 2+ years of project management experience
Benefits include health insurance, housing, and a comprehensive benefits package.
The position is open to citizens or permanent residents of one of our operating countries, and applications are reviewed on a continuous basis until a hire is made. The organization is committed to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), anti-racism and equal employment opportunity.
About One Acre Fund Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips 5.5 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive. Across nine countries that together are home to two-thirds of Africa's farmers, we provide high-quality farm supplies, tree seedlings, accessible credit, modern agronomic training, and a wide range of other agricultural services.
The Role You will be responsible for the project management process of the design, launch, and evaluation of new products and services that increase the impact of our program for farmers. You will trial new innovative products and services and ensure that they increase farmers’ agricultural yields and incomes. You will directly manage the Burundi Innovations Senior Specialist and the Burundi Innovations Specialist. You will report directly to the Burundi Impact Lead.
Job Requirements Professional proficiency in English and French. Knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research and data collection techniques. Ability to perform analyses in R or STATA preferred. 2+ years of experience in project management.
Benefits Health insurance, housing, and comprehensive benefits.
Application Details This role is only open to citizens or permanent residents of our countries of operation. Please note that 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.
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.
