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One Acre Fund is a nonprofit organization that supplies smallholder farmers in East Africa with asset-based financing and agriculture training services to reduce hunger and poverty.
Duration
Minimum 3 years commitment, full-time job
Job Description
One Acre Fund orders and distributes improved farm inputs across thousands of rural sites to generate 50% in farm profit improvements for every client we serve. All this starts will purchasing over $40M worth of agricultural and non-agricultural inputs for farmers in 2017. Accurate forecasting, proactive order coordination, and rock-solid data management and reporting systems are mission critical to ensuring farmers receive the resources they need to grow themselves out of poverty.
We’re looking for one key person to be the central hub interfacing between purchasers, field units, logistics teams, and finance and accounting. This person will start by developing a team of 2 direct reports and will be the lead coordinator for a couple dozen people across the organization. In this role, you’ll be asked to drive supply chain efficiency, eliminate waste across the value chain, and reduce supply risk across 8 countries by setting a high bar for forecast accuracy, data integrity, and effective communication. We’ll be asking you to play a key role optimizing $40M in annual spend while preparing our operations for scale to ultimately deliver high quality live improving goods at the feet of the 500,000 smallholder farmers we serve.
Responsibilities of the Supply Chain Operations Associate role will be:
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 exceptional professionals with experience in and a passion for procurement and supply chain. Experience in an entrepreneurial environment is a plus.
Candidates that meet the following criteria are strongly encouraged to apply:
Preferred Start Date
ASAP
Compensation
We offer a modest starting salary that affords a high quality of life in our areas of operation. This is a career-track role with performance-based raises and the ability to expand responsibilities over time.
Benefits
Health insurance, immunizations, flight, housing.
Sponsor International Candidates
No
East Africans are strongly encouraged to apply.
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