Milling Company Finance Controller Job in Kigali, Rwanda (Shs 300K - 350K)

Our client, a fast growing Milling company based in Kigali, Rwanda is looking to fill the position of a Finance Controller. 

He / she MUST have relevant experience in maize milling (flour, grits and bran) and be willing to relocate to Kigali Rwanda.

Key Responsibilities:

• Review accounting systems and procedures and make recommendations based on standard industry practice.
• Ensure a good internal control environment in inventory control, costing, pricing, budgetary controls and data integrity.
• Management reporting.
• Preparing financial statements – Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement.
• Analysis of variance between budgets and actual financial statements.
• Budgeting and financial planning.
• Improving cost efficiency of the company.
• Engaging with the external auditors.
• Liaising with commercial and external financiers to ensure that the company has adequate funding and is compliance with terms of engagement.
• Ensure compliance with tax and other regulatory matters.
• Formulate the basis for the company’s financial strategy.

Qualifications:

• Must have a bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline.
• Must be a CPA (K) / ACCA with at least a preferably augmented with an MBA.
• Experience in a milling and grain handling business will be an added advantage.
• Have at least ten (10) years of financial control / management.
• Must have implemented accounting IT solutions and has affinity with SAGE Pastel.
• Experience in dealing with cost management and optimization.
• Experience interacting and reporting to the Board of Directors
• Implementing strategic plans and overseeing change.
• Strong treasury and cash management background.

Education: Bachelors Degree
 

Job Type: Permanent
 

Location: Kigali , Rwanda
 

Career Level: Senior Level ( 4+ years experience)
 

Salary: Monthly gross salary: Ksh . 300,000 - 350,000 /=(Approx. 3,529 - 4,117 USD) depending on experience

Applications

Please send your up to date CV to: 

hr@summitrecruitment-kenya.com
Summit Recruitment & Training, Blixen Court, 

Karen road, Karen.

Deadline: 25th December 2014

Only short listed candidates will be contacted. 

Please indicate in your email which position you are interested in.

Please do not apply if you do not meet the requirements of the job.

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EAGC Country Program Officer Job in Rwanda (Rwandese National Only)

Vacancy: Country Program Officer - Rwanda

The Eastern Africa Grain Council (EAGC) is a membership-based organization registered in Kenya with country offices in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Rwanda. 

Our members are key stakeholders and players in the grain value chain including cereal growers, millers and processors drawn from within and outside the East Africa States. 

Our core mandate is to develop and promote orderly structured marketing systems and provide market information for grains so as to reduce transaction costs and eliminate barriers’ to regional trade
 

We seek to fill the advertised position with an individual who is analytical, has good organizational skills, development skills, and is capable of working independently or as part of a team.

The successful candidate should be highly professional, self motivated and a proven high achiever with good leadership skills.
 

Reporting to the Regional Manager – Structured Trading Systems, the successful candidate will be responsible for the following amongst others:

• Coordinate, manage and implement the EAGC Rwanda annual work plan.
• Coordinate, manage and ensure implementation of EAGC Rwanda programs and projects in line with the established company procedures and processes.
• Co-ordinate EAGC Rwanda policy advocacy agenda.
• Manage all EAGC Rwanda Staff, partnerships and outsourced consultants and to improve the Council’s sustainability.
• Manage EAGC Rwanda budgets including fund raising for projects.
• Provide strategic direction on Membership growth, communication and ensure their involvement in EAGC programs and activities.
• Manage all administrative functions of the EAGC Rwanda office including maintaining existing financial systems like petty cash, expenses, mileage claims, income & expenditure records, processing all payments and monthly bank reconciliations.

Qualification, Skills and Experience:

• A bachelor’s degree in Agriculture, Agri-business Management, Economics, Business Administration, or related field (a master’s degree will be an added advantage)
• 5 years’ experience in the agricultural or grain sector.
• Computer literate.
• Team player.
• Good report writing skills.
• Donor Intelligence and Fund Raising skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• High integrity, initiative and highly organised.
• Capacity to manage several tasks simultaneously, be flexible and be willing to assume a range of unanticipated assignments.

If your background and competence match the above specifications, please send your application demonstrating how your experience matches our requirements. 

It should include an updated C.V., your current remuneration package, valid email address, daytime contact number and full contact details of 3 referees including day time telephone number to: hr@eagc.org copied to dkiai@eagc.org by 12th December 2014. 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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EAGC Country Program Officer Job in Rwanda (Rwandese National Only)

Vacancy: Country Program Officer - Rwanda

The Eastern Africa Grain Council (EAGC) is a membership-based organization registered in Kenya with country offices in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Rwanda. 

Our members are key stakeholders and players in the grain value chain including cereal growers, millers and processors drawn from within and outside the East Africa States. 

Our core mandate is to develop and promote orderly structured marketing systems and provide market information for grains so as to reduce transaction costs and eliminate barriers’ to regional trade
 

We seek to fill the advertised position with an individual who is analytical, has good organizational skills, development skills, and is capable of working independently or as part of a team.

The successful candidate should be highly professional, self motivated and a proven high achiever with good leadership skills.
 

Reporting to the Regional Manager – Structured Trading Systems, the successful candidate will be responsible for the following amongst others:

• Coordinate, manage and implement the EAGC Rwanda annual work plan.
• Coordinate, manage and ensure implementation of EAGC Rwanda programs and projects in line with the established company procedures and processes.
• Co-ordinate EAGC Rwanda policy advocacy agenda.
• Manage all EAGC Rwanda Staff, partnerships and outsourced consultants and to improve the Council’s sustainability.
• Manage EAGC Rwanda budgets including fund raising for projects.
• Provide strategic direction on Membership growth, communication and ensure their involvement in EAGC programs and activities.
• Manage all administrative functions of the EAGC Rwanda office including maintaining existing financial systems like petty cash, expenses, mileage claims, income & expenditure records, processing all payments and monthly bank reconciliations.

Qualification, Skills and Experience:

• A bachelor’s degree in Agriculture, Agri-business Management, Economics, Business Administration, or related field (a master’s degree will be an added advantage)
• 5 years’ experience in the agricultural or grain sector.
• Computer literate.
• Team player.
• Good report writing skills.
• Donor Intelligence and Fund Raising skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• High integrity, initiative and highly organised.
• Capacity to manage several tasks simultaneously, be flexible and be willing to assume a range of unanticipated assignments.

If your background and competence match the above specifications, please send your application demonstrating how your experience matches our requirements. 

It should include an updated C.V., your current remuneration package, valid email address, daytime contact number and full contact details of 3 referees including day time telephone number to: hr@eagc.org copied to dkiai@eagc.org by 12th December 2014. 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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Experienced Esthetician Job in Kigali, Rwanda

A high end Wellness Center located in Kigali, Rwanda is looking for an experienced Esthetitican. 

The Esthetician will be responsible to ensure the overall smooth delivery of esthetician services such as Manicures & Pedicures, Massages, Facials, Make-up and Waxing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Adheres to the policies of the facility.
• Understands and uses universal precautions when providing services.
• Maintains the highest level of product knowledge and has complete knowledge of all services presently offered.
• Understands the ingredients in products and can explain their benefits to the members. 
• Answers member’s questions in a knowledgeable and professional manner.
• Begins and ends all treatments on time.
• Works assigned schedule.
• Ensures that work areas are clean and set according to procedures.
• Informs of product needs.
• Creates and maintains client sheets with treatment notes, when appropriate.
• Attends all scheduled meetings.
• Attends scheduled professional trainings.
• Cleans and disinfects all equipment on a daily basis.
• Assists staff with lifting and storing facility equipment, furniture, and products to help maintain facility and prepare for special events.

Personal Attributes:

• Customer service oriented. Good communication skills.
• Ability to work successfully in a team environment.
• Innovation, contributes ideas, helps resolve problems.
• Honesty; being truthful and trustworthy, personal integrity.
• Initiative – ability to think, work and make decisions based on sound judgment.
• Excellent time management, organizational and follow-up skills.
• Must be comfortable working in a fast paced environment where continuous improvement is expected.
• Must be able to consistently achieve high work standards.
• Energetic, enthusiastic and motivational.
• Professional manner, discretion, and appearance.

Work Experience:

• Minimum 2 years of experience.
• Previous experience in an upscale environment preferred.

If you are interested please send your CV at info@zenorafrica.com with a phone number where you can be reached.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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One Acre Fund Monitoring and Evaluation Associate jobs in Rwanda and Tanzania

Wanted
Smart and dedicated self–starters to use data to improve operations and impact on customers.

Job Location
1 in rural Tanzania and 1 in rural Rwanda.

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 social enterprise 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 "service bundle" that includes education, finance, seed and fertilizer, and market facilitation. 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.

Job Description
Rapid organization growth translates into great career opportunities for our staff. We invest heavily in careers – we want to find and retain our next group of country directors, R&D directors, and partnership leaders.

We are seeking a smart and dedicated self–starter to be an M&E Associate in rural East Africa. Overall, the M&E Associate will be responsible for using data to continually improve our operations, and impact on our customers.

General Responsibilities

• Goal–oriented survey design, field testing of survey instruments, and revision.
• Supervise 3–5 M&E supervisors, 20–30 full–time M&E data collectors, 4 data entry staff, plus casuals. This will include the following duties:
  • Regular mentorship of M&E managers through field visits, meetings, and career reviews.
  • In–field supervision of key M&E activities, with an eye to "perfect" quality standard.
  • Quality–control and supervision of data entry, with zero tolerance for data–entry errors.
  • In–field follow–up on errors.
• Hire and develop M&E data collectors.
  • Update hiring protocols, and use them to hire top–quality data collectors.
  • Conduct regular trainings to improve skills of data collectors.
  • Appropriately deal with under–performing staff.
• Innovation on new methods such as tablet–based data collection.
• Data analysis to draw both early and final conclusions and actionable recommendations.

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 1 to 5+ years of work experience, and a demonstrated long–term passion for international development.

We are looking for truly extraordinary candidates that will help take our organization to the next levels of impact and scale. This is a competitive posting for a career-track role with minimum initial commitment of two years. 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. starting a field program in a developing country, leading a conference, starting a business, solid Peace Corps accomplishments).
• Prior field–based M&E experience is required.
• More importantly, we are seeking someone with proven entrepreneurial and leadership experience – the vast majority of the job is to monitor and improve M&E operations in the field.
• Statistical knowledge is nice to have, but we also have experts who can help with that side of things.
• Leadership experience at work, or outside of work.
• Top–performing undergraduate record (please include GPA and test scores on your resume). Master’s degree is not required.
• Humility and personal stability. We have a fantastic and likeable team. We are looking for passionate professionals that combine strong leadership skills with good humor, patience, and a humble approach to service.
• A willingness to commit to living in East Africa for at least two years – this is a long–term, career–track role. The ideal candidate will have at least one year demonstrated experience working in the developing world, although this is not a strict requirement.
• Language: English required, French required in Rwanda. 

Preferred Start Date
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

To Apply
Complete this form. You will be prompted to submit your CV and cover letter. You may also be asked to submit work samples for some positions. Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs), please submit a copy of your Description of Service (DOS) in the appropriate section.

East Africans are strongly encouraged to apply.

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One Acre Fund Corporate University Associate job in East Africa

Wanted
Exceptional professional to drive organizational goals through employee learning and knowledge.

Job Location
Rural Rwanda, Kenya, or Burundi.

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 social enterprise 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 "service bundle" that includes education, finance, seed and fertilizer, and market facilitation. 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.

Job Description
The Corporate University Associate will be charged to take best-in-class “corporate universities” worldwide and apply that to our operational and cultural context. We currently employ more than 2,000 full-time local staff and we’re projected to triple in size in three more years. As we grow, it becomes necessary to centralize and systematize local employee development across the program.

This role combines human capital development with entrepreneurship and management. The goal is to drive organizational goals through employee learning and knowledge. Leadership development within the organization goes hand-in-hand with team performance. A corporate university is how we can attain that at scale.

Specific responsibilities:

• Competency measurement: Develop a model to take inventory of current leadership competencies. Create a system to log and track these competencies for all employees.
• Curriculum development and management: Design curriculum that drives advances across all leadership competencies. Hire and oversee a corps of teachers and trainers to implement this curriculum. Link class performance back to organizational goals, and develop ways to measure success through performance metrics.
• Outreach: Target internships and externships within the country to broaden experiences and build networks. Arrange short-term externships for our top leadership with other organizations. Select placement internships for high-potential local talent in all departments across our program.

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+ years of work experience, preferably in the international education field. Candidates who fit the following criteria are strongly encouraged to apply:

• Strong work experiences. We are looking for strong leaders with direct execution experience, ideally of an entrepreneurial and unstructured nature.
• Experience developing curriculum, training teachers, or direct teaching experiences, preferably in the international development space.
• Leadership experience at work, or outside of work.
• Top-performing academic background (include GPA on your resume).
• 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. Written and verbal French preferred.

Preferred Start Date
Mid-2014

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

To Apply
Complete this form. You will be prompted to submit your CV and cover letter. You may also be asked to submit work samples for some positions. Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs), please submit a copy of your Description of Service (DOS) in the appropriate section.

East Africans are strongly encouraged to apply.

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One Acre Fund Human Capital Development Associate/Manager in East Africa

Wanted
Exceptional professional to run a leadership and management training program for staff.

Job Location
Rural Kenya or Rwanda (possible E. Africa capital after 12 months).

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 social enterprise 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 "service bundle" that includes education, finance, seed and fertilizer, and market facilitation. 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.

Job Description
One Acre Fund has an incredible team of international development professionals who dedicate their lives to serving smallholder farmers in Africa.   We currently hire less than 1% of applicants and are constantly seeking to improve our staffers’ professional, management and leadership skills.  We are focused on further establishing and expanding our leadership and management training options for these staffers and seek a dedicated new staffer to run this program.

The Human Capital Development Manager (or associate) (“HCDM”) will play a key role in the following:

• Initial evaluation and audit:  The HCDM will begin by working with One Acre Fund’s senior management to take inventory of our current professional development initiatives across all countries.
• Evaluate additional areas for growth:  The HCDM will simultaneously work with One Acre Fund staffers across all countries and departments to identify additional key areas for professional growth to ensure we are taking a holistic approach to professional development.
• External review:  The HCDM will perform an exhaustive review of best practices in both the for profit and not for profit sectors.  This will include networking and meeting with key industry leaders and traditional research to identify the most impactful ways to build career, management and leadership skills for an international group of staffers.
• Implementation:  The HCDM will create a comprehensive human capital development program accessible to staffers across the globe based on the findings above.  This development program will include web-based learnings, courses and modules, as well as live courses and events.
• Management of programs:  The HCDM will work with One Acre Fund’s senior leadership group to implement the program, arrange for presenters for any live or virtual meetings or sessions and continuously evaluate programs for impact and effectiveness.  The HCDM will be primarily responsible for managing the overall program vs. teaching individual modules.
• Monitoring and evaluation:  The HCDM will take the lead in monitoring the program across all countries to ensure that staffers are utilizing the resources and reporting back substantial benefits as a result.

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 2-5+ years 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).
• HR Development experience a strong plus, but will also consider applicants with comparable experience and/or a passion for developing people.
• Leadership experience at work, or outside of work
• Top-performing academic background (include GPA on your resume)
• 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 a big plus

Preferred Start Date
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

To Apply
Complete this form. You will be prompted to submit your CV and cover letter. You may also be asked to submit work samples for some positions. Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs), please submit a copy of your Description of Service (DOS) in the appropriate section.

East Africans are strongly encouraged to apply.

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One Acre Fund Government Services Manager Job

Wanted
Exceptional professional with 3-7+ years of work experience and a passion for collaborating with government.

Job Location
Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, Rubengera, Rwanda, or Zomba, Malawi (other rural postings possible).

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 social enterprise 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 "service bundle" that includes education, finance, seed and fertilizer, and market facilitation. 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.

Job Description
Managers will have the opportunity to affect the livelihoods of huge populations of people as we explore opportunities to work together with the Ministries of Agriculture and related agencies in the countries where we operate. We believe there are two key steps to improve yields and livelihoods for farm families in partnership with governments – (i) develop effective policies; and (ii) lead effective implementation in the field. Managers will have the opportunity to work with key officials to make sure policies are designed to benefit the people who need the most help, and they will play a large role in directly managing and leading large scale field operations to ensure that these ideas work for farmers in the field.
We currently have early-stage operational partnerships with three African governments, and are exploring additional partnership opportunities in several other countries. We are seeking exceptional individuals to join this early-stage team, manage regionwide or nationwide products and services, and for top performers, become leaders of this team as we rapidly expand this work to support more farmers in new markets. This person will:

• Manage a large product or service at a regional or national level. Example projects include:
  • Model Farmer Program – we are supporting extension services across multiple countries. In one country, a manager established a relationship with Ministry officials, identified operational inefficiencies with the structure of nationwide model farmer program, designed trials, and scald up improvements across the country.
  • New Planting Method – in one country, we are working with multiple government agencies to identify the optimal planting method for a key staple crop. For this opportunity, a manager experimented with multiple iterations of the new planting method, coordinate early stage trials with 5,000 farmers and a field team of 50, and is now planning to scale up the trial to 30,000+ farmers.
  • Private Seed Producer Support – use of high quality seeds for many staple crops can double yields for small scale farmers. Unfortunately, the supply of high quality seeds is very limited in certain markets. In one country, a manager created a loan product for producers to help spur supply. The manager is also exploring other operational improvements to significantly increase supply for future seasons.
• Manage relationships with Ministry level officials or related government officials.
• Build, develop, and manage a team support implementation of projects.
• Lead and support design of country level strategy.

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 3-7+ years of work experience. We are looking for truly extraordinary candidates that have a passion for collaborating with government. This is a competitive posting for a career-track role with minimum initial commitment of two years. Candidates who fit the following criteria are strongly encouraged to apply:

• Strong work experiences. We are looking for a professional who fits one or more of the following backgrounds:
  • Managing consulting background with heavy implementation experience
  • Experience forming operational partnerships with governments
  • Field operations experience in a development organization, with a passion for government work
• Astute relationship manager.
• Leadership experience at work, or outside of work.
• Top-performing undergraduate background (include GPA and test scores on your resume).
• Humility and personal stability. We have a fantastic and likeable team. We are looking for passionate professionals that combine strong leadership skills with good humor, patience, and a humble approach to service.
• A willingness to commit to living in East Africa for at least two years - this is a long-term, career-track role. The ideal candidate will have at least one year demonstrated experience working in the developing world, although this may be relaxed in the case of an exceptional candidate.
• Professional/technical skills. Very high levels of proficiency with PowerPoint, Excel, and other software programs.
• Language: English required, French highly desirable for certain opportunities.

Preferred Start Date
Flexible

Compensation
Commensurate with experience.

Benefits
Health insurance, immunizations, flight, room and board.

Sponsor International Candidates
Yes

To Apply
Complete this form. You will be prompted to submit your CV and cover letter. You may also be asked to submit work samples for some positions. Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs), please submit a copy of your Description of Service (DOS) in the appropriate section.

East Africans are strongly encouraged to apply.

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One Acre Fund Innovation Transfer Associate Job in Kenya and Rwanda

Wanted
Dedicated associate to focus on sharing knowledge across borders, coordinating and implementing cross-country projects, and liaising with peer organizations to discover best practices.

Job Location
This position involves significant travel, spending roughly 70% of time in rural Kenya and 30% of time in rural Rwanda (or vice-versa) with occasional short trips (1-2 weeks) in additional rural environments.

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 social enterprise 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 "service bundle" that includes education, finance, seed and fertilizer, and market facilitation. 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.

Job Description
The Innovations Transfer Associate will have two main responsibilities:

1. Identifying projects, processes, and initiatives that are working well in one place and transferring them
2. Coordinating cross-country roll out of new projects, processes or initiatives. This could include things like: rolling out a new inventory management system, piloting or executing new agricultural innovations, and systematizing and expanding best practices within departments.

In order to be effective, this person will need to:

• Become intimately familiar with our processes for both field and support departments.
•  Provide analysis of various systems and spearhead cross-country coordination projects.
• Provide diplomatic leadership between stakeholders within the company on joint projects and tasks.
• Research best practices from similar companies and organizations.
• Create manuals and online training tools to help sync up and standardize international policies where appropriate.
• Serve as a shared knowledge center for our teams throughout Africa and the US to both store best practice and access standardized materials.
• Work with our program staffers in Africa to create organization-wide knowledge sharing procedures to another.

Project Examples

• Strategic Staffing
  • As we grow, we have a lot to learn from peer organizations and institutions in terms of our strategic growth, particularly around hiring. We also want to provide our Country Directors with more tools to make decisions around in-country hiring.
  • The Innovations Transfer department is helping to support this need by:

Rolling out standardized pay-grades, salary structures, and coding across countries.

Creating analysis tools of current in-country staffing structures.

Researching the organization charts of companies with similar profiles and identifying areas for streamlining HQs across our operations.

Developing comprehensive staffing systems working with country directors, human resources, and general partners.

• Logistics Software Integration
  • One of our Core Competencies is providing an effective delivery system for rural farmers to move literally tens of thousands of metric tons of farm inputs to within a few kilometers of our clients’
    homes. As we grow, we have an increasing need for a more nuanced data tracking system.
  •  The Innovations Transfer department is leading the coordination and implementation of this system by:

Re-designing and streamlining the inventory tracking processes

Building out the tracking tools and trainings for all levels of staff involved in the process

Participating in reconciliation in preparation for data migration into the new system

Acting as the information hub between countries

Rolling out new software to house all the data and liaise with other departments

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 2 to 5+ years of work experience, and a demonstrated long-term passion for international development.

Candidates who fit the following criteria are encouraged to apply:

• Strong work experiences. Examples include a demanding professional work experience, or successful entrepreneurial experience (i.e. high level consulting assignments, starting a field program in a developing country, leading a conference, starting a business).
• Leadership experience at work or outside of work.
• Top-performing undergraduate background (include GPA and test scores on your resume).
• Humility. We are looking for passionate professionals that combine strong leadership skills with good humor, patience, and a humble approach to service to join our growing family of leaders.
• A willingness to commit to living in rural areas of East Africa for at least two years – this is a long-term, career-track role. The ideal candidate will have at least one year demonstrated experience working in the developing world, although this is not a strict requirement.
• Professional/technical skills – prior experience working in the field of knowledge management is desirable, but not required; strong technical skills required. Looking for a “systems” thinker with a passion for building simple but effective processes.
• Ability to cook/laugh – desirable.
• Language: English required; French highly desirable; regional languages a plus (Kiswahili, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, etc.)

Preferred Start Date
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

To Apply
Complete this form. You will be prompted to submit your CV and cover letter. You may also be asked to submit work samples for some positions. Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs), please submit a copy of your Description of Service (DOS) in the appropriate section.

East Africans are strongly encouraged to apply.

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One Acre Fund Health Innovations Manager job East Africa

Wanted
Exceptional professional with both field and management experience to serve in a career track position that demands creativity, leadership, strategic thinking and action-oriented delivery.

Job Location
Rural Kenya, Rwanda, or Burundi.

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 social enterprise 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 "service bundle" that includes education, finance, seed and fertilizer, and market facilitation. 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.

Job Description
We are seeking an exceptional professional with both field and management experience for our Health Innovations Manager position. One Acre Fund is a rapidly growing organization that has set up one of Africa’s most promising new rural distribution networks through agriculture. We offer agricultural training, product delivery, and financing at more than 1,000 "market points," and we are now interested in exploring the addition of health goods to our work.

We have started pushing health services through our network in the past several years; most notably, we provided chlorine for home water treatment to more than 500,000 children. However, we are looking for an extraordinary leader to thoughtfully leverage and expand our engagement in health. We are increasingly interested in searching for other "low-hanging fruit" – simple products and trainings that we can distribute with minimal effort, for maximum humanitarian impact. Family planning is of particular interest to us, with the recognition that no matter how large our agricultural gains, our farmers are facing a grim situation if population growth continues at its current rapid pace.

The Health Innovations Manager will serve in a career track position that demands creativity, leadership, strategic thinking and action-oriented delivery. As a young organization, we are ready to hand over large responsibility for specific, well-defined work modules, with similar structure to an operations consulting role.

Specific responsibilities:

• Determine the best products and services to roll through our network. Use a combination of primary research with the world's foremost health distribution NGOs and companies, and secondary journal research to decide which products and services to provide, and how to distribute them.
• Run high-quality research pilots with farm families to determine uptake and usage rates, and to estimate health impact.
• Scale up. Source materials, design and implement trainings, and potentially build a team of specialty staff to increase access and improve health outcomes across the region.

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 6+ years of work experience. We are looking for a truly extraordinary candidate that will help take our organization to the next levels of impact and scale. This is a competitive posting for a career-track role with minimum initial commitment of two years. Candidates who fit the following criteria are strongly encouraged to apply:

• At least one year living and working in the developing world. This is a requirement.
• Strong work experiences. Entrepreneurial and unstructured work experiences are particularly helpful.
• Leadership experiences at work, or outside of work.
• Top-performing undergraduate background (please include GPA and test scores on your resume).
• Humility and personal stability. We are looking for passionate professionals that combine strong leadership skills with good humor, patience, and a humble approach to service.
• A willingness to commit to living in rural East Africa for at least two years – this is a long–term, career–track role.
• Professional/technical skills – very high levels of proficiency with PowerPoint, Excel and other software programs.
• Language: English required; French highly desirable.

Preferred Start Date
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

To Apply
Complete this form. You will be prompted to submit your CV and cover letter. You may also be asked to submit work samples for some positions. Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs), please submit a copy of your Description of Service (DOS) in the appropriate section.
East Africans are strongly encouraged to apply.

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One Acre Fund Policy Innovation Officer job in East Africa

Wanted
Exceptional professionals with 2 to 5+ years of work experience to help governments achieve the next levels of impact.

Job Location
Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, Rubengera, Rwanda, or Zomba, Malawi (other rural postings possible).

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 social enterprise 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 "service bundle" that includes education, finance, seed and fertilizer, and market facilitation. 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.

Job Description
One Acre Fund believes that policy is all about implementation. No matter how good or bad the policy, its execution on the ground is what changes lives.

To help craft policies which work on the ground, we are starting a new Government Services unit which is working together with regional and national partners to support government-led policy initiatives in agriculture. Following the lead of host governments, we support them with field implementation that changes the lives of millions of people. Our long-term goal is to help government to transform the agricultural ecosystems of whole countries. These projects generally utilize our existing field expertise in farm input distribution, rural mass marketing, and scalable training programs.

For these initiatives, we need both skilled Government Relations staff (see, for example, our Africa Government Officer posting) and also entrepreneurial field staff based in rural areas to focus on implementation.

• Regional and National Strategy Design: The Policy Innovation Officer will work with other One Acre Fund staff and high-level government officials to develop ideas to improve livelihoods of smallholder farmers and the efficiency of the agricultural sector.
• Program Implementation: The Policy Innovation Officer will roll out region-wide and eventually nationwide programs. Examples of past projects include a farm input system that delivers seed and fertilizer to several hundred thousand farm families; farm input marketing programs for similar numbers; and training support for 10,000+ extension agents.
• Team Management: The Policy Innovation Officer will screen, hire, and develop a staff of 30-150 full-time country national staff, depending on the project, to support scaled implementation.
• Innovation Trials: The Policy Innovation Officer will conduct an ambitious slate of trials within several districts, in order to discover new and effective mechanisms for promoting mass agricultural training—and to identify promising interventions One Acre Fund could scale-up across its entire network of smallholder farmers.
• Collaboration with Key Officials: The Policy Innovation Officer will update high-level officials in the ministry of agriculture on a regular basis. The Policy Innovation Officer will also collaborate with important leaders at partner institutions.

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
To start up and build this new team, we are seeking exceptional professionals with 2 to 5+ years of work experience. We are looking for truly extraordinary candidates who will help governments achieve the next levels of impact. Candidates who fit the following criteria are strongly encouraged to apply:

• Strong operational work experiences. We are looking for strong leaders with direct operating experience, ideally of an entrepreneurial and unstructured nature.
• Intelligence, creativity, and a desire to make things work. We need people to develop creative ideas to improve the quality of government services, who can then get out to the field and figure out how to make these ideas work in practice.
• Leadership experiences at work, or outside of work.
• Top-performing undergraduate background (please include GPA and test scores on your resume).
• Humility and personal stability. We are looking for passionate professionals who combine strong leadership skills with good humor, patience, and a humble approach to service.
• A willingness to commit to living in East Africa for at least two years—this is a long-term, career-track role. The ideal candidate will have at least one year demonstrated experience working in the developing world, although this is not a strict requirement.
• Professional/technical skills—high levels of proficiency with PowerPoint, Excel and other software programs.
• Language: English required and Amharic desirable in Ethiopia. English and French required in Rwanda.

Preferred Start Date
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

To Apply
Complete this form. You will be prompted to submit your CV and cover letter. You may also be asked to submit work samples for some positions. Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs), please submit a copy of your Description of Service (DOS) in the appropriate section.

East Africans are strongly encouraged to apply.

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One Acre Fund SQL Server Administrator Job in East Africa

Wanted
Exceptional professional to build and improve on our current server architecture, as well as plan ahead for future scaling.

Job Location
East Africa.

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 social enterprise 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 "service bundle" that includes education, finance, seed and fertilizer, and market facilitation. 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.

Job Description
One Acre Fund has several applications implemented as a SQL server merge replicated architecture using web synchronization to a hosted server. There are nearly 40 locations in 5 different countries which communicate with our main production server. In addition we are replicating data to a separate hosted server for business reporting.

As we expect the number of locations and countries to grow over time, we are seeking an exceptional professional to serve as SQL Server Administrator who can build and improve on our current server architecture, as well as plan ahead for future scaling. In addition the SQL Server Administrator will assist with trainings when One Acre Fund expands to new countries.

The SQL Server Administrator will start off in one of our field countries for the first 12 months, after which they can negotiate relocating. During the initial period some general IT administration tasks will be required and there will be the opportunity to understand the technical constraints a lot of our field offices are under.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities
The SQL Server Administrator will perform the following and other duties as assigned:

• Server maintenance and security.
  • Create and maintain security policies for developers connecting to SQL server.
  • In addition to database security, monitor firewall settings and prevent intrusion attempts.
  • Monitor and test automated backups, ensure offsite storage and perform consistency checks.
  • Evaluate Server performance and make recommendations for improvements.
  • Anticipate scaling needs.
  • Create disaster recovery and emergency failover procedures.
• Communicate with our developers and field operations team.
  • Act as gatekeeper for direct data manipulation/cleaning requests.
  • Create scripts for setting up a test environment with production data for developers.
  • Create and maintain a training environment tailored to different country program needs.
  • Assist with database architecture changes and staging data migrations.
• Support.
  • Maintain and improve client installation scripts.
  • Monitor client database performance.
  • Monitor replication performance.
  • Assist local IT staff with troubleshooting in case of connectivity problems with the database.
• New country setup.
  • Provide trainings for our main database tools to new Country Directors and Bookkeepers.
  • Assist new countries with hiring local IT staff.
• Other
  • Our IT needs keep growing and the SQL Server Administrator may be asked to help out in other areas occasionally.

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
Professional Qualifications and Attributes
The successful candidate will have:

• Excellent communication skills. The person in this position will have to communicate with team members remotely on a regular basis.
• Knowledge of SQL server and replication, strong scripting skills, and the ability to create clear documentation.
• Previous experience with server/network administration a plus.
• Language: English required; French a strong plus.

Personal Attributes
The following personal attributes are desired:

• A deep and genuine commitment to serving the poor.
• A passion for One Acre Fund’s program.
• A tremendous attention to detail.
• Humility and positive attitude.
• A sense of humor.

Preferred Start Date
Flexible

Compensation
Commensurate with experience.

Benefits
Health insurance, immunizations, flight, room and board.

Sponsor International Candidates
Yes

To Apply
Complete this form. You will be prompted to submit your CV and cover letter. You may also be asked to submit work samples for some positions. Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs), please submit a copy of your Description of Service (DOS) in the appropriate section.

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One Acre Fund Job in Rwanda for Associate Controller

Wanted
Exceptional professional with 2-5+ years of work experience to help assure accurate reporting of both financial and program data.

Job Location
Rural Rwanda; relocation to Kigali possible after 12 months.

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 social enterprise 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 "service bundle" that includes education, finance, seed and fertilizer, and market facilitation. 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.
Job Description
Your primary objective will be to help assure accurate reporting of both financial and program data in order to help us shape our strategy and achieve financial sustainability, focusing on Rwanda and Burundi operations.  You will serve in a career-track position that combines financial analysis with non-profit accounting.  As part of a rapidly growing organization, you will be a key member of a small team responsible for managing our whole accounting system and the controllers who work with it in each country, and providing critical input on One Acre Fund's finance strategies and budgeting.  This role will report to the Controller.

Typical tasks will include:

• Managing financial controls and processes: The Associate Controller will be responsible for creating/monitoring the processes and systems used by the finance teams in Burundi and Rwanda.
• Creating and understanding reports: We use financial information as “business intelligence” – helping us move our business steadily towards financial sustainability.  The Associate Controller will help create reports from our accounting and client management systems, working with program staff to make our data useful and actionable. Guiding OAF towards sustainability is a critical mission within the finance team.
• Closing the books each month: The Associate Controller will manage the books closing process for Rwanda and Burundi, ensuring proper accounting entries, bank reconciliations, and a variety of other quality controls.  Closing the books also includes creating a report analyzing our actual financial statements v. our budget.
• Building and managing local controllers: The Associate Controller will be responsible for hiring and managing a Controller in both Rwanda and Burundi.

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 2-5+ years of work experience and ideally a demonstrated passion for international development.  Candidates who fit the following criteria are strongly encouraged to apply:

• Confident with numbers; general familiarity with accounting preferred.
• Leadership experience at work, or outside of work.
• Experience in finance, accounting, or other technical profession. Examples include professional work experience as an accountant or financial analyst, experience in data analysis (statistics, engineering, etc).
• Top-performing academic background (include GPA on your resume).
• A willingness to commit to living in rural areas of East Africa for at least the first 12 months of the job.
• Computer skills: Highly competent in Excel (required); working knowledge of Access (preferred).
• Language: French required.

Preferred Start Date
ASAP

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

To Apply
Complete this form. You will be prompted to submit your CV and cover letter. You may also be asked to submit work samples for some positions. Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs), please submit a copy of your Description of Service (DOS) in the appropriate section.

East Africans are strongly encouraged to apply.

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Unconditional Cash Transfer Project Field Officer Job in Rarieda, Kenya

Busara Center for Behavioral Economics

Unconditional Cash Transfer (UCT) Effects on Domestic Violence

Job Title: Field Officer
 

Deadline to Apply: 4th December 2014
 

Start Date: 5th January 2015
 

Location: Rarieda Constituency
 

Eligibility: Position open to local Kenyan hires only
            
Busara Center for Behavioral Economics is a research organization that seeks to improve the understanding of how people living in poverty make decisions and to leverage that knowledge to produce better social outcomes. 

It enables researchers to conduct rigorous laboratory-based studies in behavioral economics in a developing country and applying the outcomes of research to real-world problems.

About the project: This is a follow-up study of a recent Unconditional Cash Transfers (UCT) project in Nyanza, that aims to measure the impacts of purely unconditional cash transfers on domestic violence. 

The purpose of this study would be to inquire in greater depths about intra-household relationships, domestic violence as well as relationships with neighbors and community dynamics.

Description of Tasks, Duties and Responsibilities: 
 

General Field Officer Duties

• Prompt arrival at work.
• Administer household surveys
• Completion of scheduled activities each day in a timely manner.
• Successfully working in a team.
• Organizing data collected from the field.
• On non-field days: conscientious performance of office work (such as matching IDs, translation of work, photocopying, etc.)
• Assist in daily survey organization and storage
• Ensure data integrity is maintained at all times and minimize errors in data collection
• Maintaining high standard of professional integrity in all activities.
• Providing the Project Lead with daily feedback regarding surveying activities.

Key Requirements:

Required

• Excellent oral and written communication skills in Dhuluo (must), English and Kiswahili
• Experience with data collection through household surveys, academic tests, exit interviews.
• Ability to recognize when questions are difficult or unclear to subjects
• Excellent note taking ability during interviews
• Experience in conducting qualitative research and/or moderating focus groups is a plus
• Comfortable with interviewing interviews within their homes
• Basic computer knowledge and skills (mandatory)
• Ability to comfortable work with groups and within groups

Desired

• Bachelors’ degree or college diploma in social sciences, economic, development studies and/or business administration
• Past experience in data collection- show proof of this in application
• Experience  using computer assisted interviewing or ODK is a plus

Please send us your cover letter and detailed CV to jobs@busaracenter.org

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. 

Applicants are encouraged to apply early, as applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

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