Vacancy title:
Program Design Associate
Jobs at:
One Acre FundDeadline of this Job:
07 February 2020
Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed
JOB DETAILS:
This role is on a 6-12-month contract. The first half of your job is to ensure our farmers understand our wide set of products, and are changing their behaviours accordingly through highly impactful trainings. You work closely with:
• Our M&E team to understand how we can maximize impact from existing products and behaviours and you update and innovate on our training content accordingly.
• Our Product Innovations team to maximize impact from new products, services and practices
• Our Field Operations team, who ultimately deliver all the content you are creating, to ensure strong understanding and buy in behind our products, services and impact strategy.. .
Responsibilities
Creating, monitoring, executing and adjusting (if needed) an Annual Impact Strategy:
• You will work with the Impact Lead, and in close collaboration with PI, M&E, Field Ops and our Systems Teams to create/update and present an outstanding Impact Strategy every season.
• In addition to help creating the annual Impact Strategy, you also own the creation of an execution plan to ensure that this strategy is effectively implemented. This includes coordination of key stakeholders who may be implementing certain aspects of the strategy.
• Once launched, you are responsible for monitoring how this strategy plays out in field and if needed adjust and respond to challenges and opportunities as they unfold
Optimizing our Impact Training Portfolio/Farmer Training Uptake/Retention:
• As we are growing our product portfolio and our program is becoming more complex and tackling a wider range of challenges such as income diversification, soil health, nutrition, etc. you will need to explore new and innovative ways of delivering training content and/or techniques for better knowledge retention
• We expect you to frequently spend a lot of time in the field with our farmers and with the field team to understand what works and what does not so that you constantly re-iterate and improve our techniques for behaviour change.
• Lastly, it’s critical that you operate through the formal processes set up by the Field Team to ensure the right content goes out at the right time – in each and every district
Job Skills: Not Specified
Qualifications
We are seeking one exceptional professional with 5+ year(s) of work experience and ideally a demonstrated passion for our mission. Candidates who fit the following criteria are strongly encouraged to apply:
• Strong educational background; degrees in Rural Development, Agronomy, or research in rural environments preferred.
• 5+ years of relevant work experience which includes qualitative and quantitative research on smallholder agriculture, with an emphasis on behavior change and adoption of improved technologies (products or practices), preferably including some work around agroforestry.
• Experience of working in Extension Services, or implementing development programmes in rural locations preferred.
• Demonstrated leadership experience at work, or outside of work, enthusiasm for learning, and openness to feedback.
• Ability to build teams and collaborate with colleagues from diverse backgrounds.
• Language: English required. Luganda and/or Lusoga strongly desired.
• Prior experience with research and extension project design and management, ideally including participatory methods, on-farm trials, surveys and focus groups
• Strong interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate and coordinate work across multiple teams
• Ability to easily explain complex technical concepts in plain language
Job Education Requirements: Not Specified
Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified
Work Hours: 8
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