Location: East Africa
Closing date: 03 Jan 2015
**Private-sector style career development in a growing social enterprise
An excellent career development opportunity***
Industry: Nonprofit/International Development
Function: Safety coordination, international development
Employer: One Acre Fund
Job Title: International Safety Coordinator
Job Location: Flexible within East Africa, likely a capital city
Duration: Minimum 2 years commitment, full-time job
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 growing NGO in Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania that is innovating a new way of helping farm families to achieve their full potential. Instead of giving handouts, One Acre Fund 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 50-100% 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 eight years, we have grown to serve 180,000 farm families with more than 2000 full-time field staff. Our approach has won widespread validation, winning grants from The MasterCard Foundation and Gates Foundation.
Website: www.oneacrefund.org.
Job Description
One Acre Fund is a rapidly growing organization and increasingly needs operational support for that growth. We are looking for someone to lead support for all of our countries of operation in security, health, emergency procedures, and vehicle/fleet management.
The International Safety Coordinator will set strategy and coordinate implementation for these essential program support functions. You will develop internationally coordinated procedures and protocols, and work with Corporate Operations teams in each country to implement these plans and other key initiatives.
In addition, the Coordinator will be a point person in the event of any security or health emergency, will monitor security incidents and threats and communicate these to country teams as appropriate, will develop networks of security and health contacts across countries, and will work closely with the HR team to maintain databases of emergency and health information on staff in East Africa.
International Safety Coordinator Duties and Responsibilities:
· Strategic Leadership: You will be responsible for developing the organization’s strategy and policy for essential functions of security, health, safety, and transport.
· Regional management of systems: You will be responsible for creating, maintaining, and improving operations systems across our branches in East Africa. You will tailor the operational support to the various regions and to the nature of the program and staff in those areas.
· Emergency support: As One Acre Fund’s expert in security and health, you will provide advice and assistance in the event of any security or health incident or emergency affecting staff.
· Networking and coordination with similar organizations: You will develop relationships with current and potential security and health service providers as well as organizations similar to One Acre Fund, in order to share best practices and knowledge in these areas.
· Building resources: You will first build and strengthen our existing resources, also ensuring they are properly maintained and updated. Your work will also expand to create new resources for vehicles, health, and security as you deem necessary for the safety of all staff.
The International Safety Coordinator will be a member of the Corporate Operations department in East Africa. Currently, the Corporate Operations team consists of 6 international staff and 30+ local staff in 4 countries. In the next two to three years the team will grow to 10+ international staff and 100+ local staff in 6-7 countries.
Career Growth and Development
One Acre Fund invests in building management and leadership skills. Your manager will invest significant time in your career development. We provide constant, actionable feedback delivered through mentorship and through regular management consulting-style career reviews. We also have regular one-on-one meetings, where we listen to and discuss career goals, and work collaboratively to craft roles that each person can be passionate about. Because of our rapid growth, we constantly have new high-level roles opening up and opportunities in many functions. This results in fast career growth for our staff.
Qualifications
We are seeking an exceptional professional with 2 to 5+ year(s) of work experience and ideally a demonstrated passion for international development. Candidates who fit the following criteria are strongly encouraged to apply:
Flexible
Compensation
Starts modest. However, this is a career-track role with fast raises for performance, paying a meaningful salary for long-term placement in developing nations.
Benefits
Health insurance, immunizations, flight, room and board.
Sponsor International Candidates
Yes
Industry: Nonprofit/International Development
Function: Safety coordination, international development
Employer: One Acre Fund
Job Title: International Safety Coordinator
Job Location: Flexible within East Africa, likely a capital city
Duration: Minimum 2 years commitment, full-time job
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 growing NGO in Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania that is innovating a new way of helping farm families to achieve their full potential. Instead of giving handouts, One Acre Fund 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 50-100% 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 eight years, we have grown to serve 180,000 farm families with more than 2000 full-time field staff. Our approach has won widespread validation, winning grants from The MasterCard Foundation and Gates Foundation.
Website: www.oneacrefund.org.
Job Description
One Acre Fund is a rapidly growing organization and increasingly needs operational support for that growth. We are looking for someone to lead support for all of our countries of operation in security, health, emergency procedures, and vehicle/fleet management.
The International Safety Coordinator will set strategy and coordinate implementation for these essential program support functions. You will develop internationally coordinated procedures and protocols, and work with Corporate Operations teams in each country to implement these plans and other key initiatives.
In addition, the Coordinator will be a point person in the event of any security or health emergency, will monitor security incidents and threats and communicate these to country teams as appropriate, will develop networks of security and health contacts across countries, and will work closely with the HR team to maintain databases of emergency and health information on staff in East Africa.
International Safety Coordinator Duties and Responsibilities:
· Strategic Leadership: You will be responsible for developing the organization’s strategy and policy for essential functions of security, health, safety, and transport.
· Regional management of systems: You will be responsible for creating, maintaining, and improving operations systems across our branches in East Africa. You will tailor the operational support to the various regions and to the nature of the program and staff in those areas.
· Emergency support: As One Acre Fund’s expert in security and health, you will provide advice and assistance in the event of any security or health incident or emergency affecting staff.
· Networking and coordination with similar organizations: You will develop relationships with current and potential security and health service providers as well as organizations similar to One Acre Fund, in order to share best practices and knowledge in these areas.
· Building resources: You will first build and strengthen our existing resources, also ensuring they are properly maintained and updated. Your work will also expand to create new resources for vehicles, health, and security as you deem necessary for the safety of all staff.
The International Safety Coordinator will be a member of the Corporate Operations department in East Africa. Currently, the Corporate Operations team consists of 6 international staff and 30+ local staff in 4 countries. In the next two to three years the team will grow to 10+ international staff and 100+ local staff in 6-7 countries.
Career Growth and Development
One Acre Fund invests in building management and leadership skills. Your manager will invest significant time in your career development. We provide constant, actionable feedback delivered through mentorship and through regular management consulting-style career reviews. We also have regular one-on-one meetings, where we listen to and discuss career goals, and work collaboratively to craft roles that each person can be passionate about. Because of our rapid growth, we constantly have new high-level roles opening up and opportunities in many functions. This results in fast career growth for our staff.
Qualifications
We are seeking an exceptional professional with 2 to 5+ year(s) of work experience and ideally a demonstrated passion for international development. Candidates who fit the following criteria are strongly encouraged to apply:
- Strong work experiences. Examples include a demanding professional work experience, or successful entrepreneurial experience (e.g. leading a conference, starting a business, solid Peace Corps accomplishments).
- Leadership experience at work, or outside of work.
- Very strong self-manager, very well organized. After an initial period of mentorship, supervision will consist of one weekly check-in.
- Prior experience in security, healthcare, safety, and/or fleet management is ideal, but mostly we are looking for a smart generalist with great communication skills and a knack for quick and effective execution of projects.
- Humility. We are looking for passionate professionals who combine strong leadership skills with good humor, patience, and a humble approach to service to join our growing family of leaders.
- Language: English required, French and/or Swahili nice to have.
Flexible
Compensation
Starts modest. However, this is a career-track role with fast raises for performance, paying a meaningful salary for long-term placement in developing nations.
Benefits
Health insurance, immunizations, flight, room and board.
Sponsor International Candidates
Yes
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