Organization Description
Most of the world’s poor are farmers, representing the largest and most uniform group of poor people in the world. One Acre Fund is a start-up NGO in Kenya, Rwanda, and Burundi that is innovating a new way of helping farm families to achieve their full potential. Instead of giving handouts, One Acre invests in farmers to generate a permanent gain in farm income. We provide farmers with a "market bundle" that includes education, finance, seed and fertilizer, and market access. Our program is proven impactful – every year, we weigh thousands of harvests and measure more than 100% average gain in farm income per acre. We have laser-like focus on generating better lives for the people that we serve.
We are growing quickly. In five years, we have grown to serve 65,000 farm families with more than 500 full-time field staff. Our 2011 operating expense is roughly $9m USD. In three more years, we will at least quadruple in size, while adding several new countries. Our approach has won widespread validation, winning grants from the highly competitive Echoing Green and Skoll Foundations, and the global Financial Times/ IFC award for “basic needs financing” in 2010 and 2011. Website: www.oneacrefund.org
Job Description
We are seeking an exceptional professional with 2-4 years work experience, and a long-term career interest in international development. They will serve in a career-track position that combines financial and operational analysis with management experience in Africa. As a young organization, we are ready to hand over significant responsibility for specific, well-defined strategic initiatives as well as day-to-day management of our financial systems and team-members; the initiatives will be focused on improving financial sustainability and operational efficiency while the day-to-day management will include financial reporting and analysis along with the management of local finance teams.
Typical tasks will include:
- Budget v Actual Analysis. The Finance and Operations Analyst will provide reports on district, country and organization wide budget performances. The reports will include line-item analysis, as well as a set of cost-cutting action items.
- Input Delivery. The Finance and Operations Analyst will be responsible for updating the input delivery process, creating training materials for staff and ensuring that the delivery of seed and fertilizer is properly tracked.
- Internal Audit Processes. One Acre Fund is creating new internal auditing and cash management policies; the Finance and Operations Analyst will lead the implementation of the new policies.
Qualifications
We are looking for somebody truly extraordinary for the Finance and Operations Analyst role. This is not a stint in Africa – this is an extremely competitive posting for a career-track role. Only 3% of applicants make it to a phone screen. Therefore, please only respond if you fit these criteria:
• Strong work experiences, preferably in a finance or systems analyst role. Examples include high-level professional work experience as a financial analyst, experience managing large nonprofit budgets or implementing new policies and procedures.
• Confident with numbers.
• Leadership experience at work, or outside of work.
• Top-performing undergraduate background (please include GPA and test scores on your resume).
• A willingness to commit to living in rural areas of East Africa for at least two years – this is a long-term, career-track position with potential to grow into a US-based management role.
• The ideal candidate will have at least one year demonstrated experience working in the developing world, although this is not a strict requirement.
• French & English required
• Ability to cook/ laugh/ extraordinary patience – all desirable
Preferred Start Date: Flexible
Compensation: Starts very modest. However, this is a career-track role eventually paying a real and livable salary for a long-term placement in developing nations.
Benefits: Health cover, immunizations, flight, room and board. 2 annual home flights provided – home trips include some speaking and fundraising duties
Career development: Quarterly management consulting-style career reviews, and significant investment in career development. Your manager will invest significant time in your career development.
Sponsor International Candidates: Yes
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