Description du poste
One Acre Fund, founded in 2006, supplies smallholder farmers with the agricultural services they need to make their farms more productive. We provide quality farm supplies on credit, delivered within walking distance of farmers’ homes, and agricultural trainings to improve harvests. We measure our success by our ability to make farmers more prosperous: On average, farmers harvest 50 percent more food after working with One Acre Fund. We serve more than 800,000 farm families in Eastern and Southern Africa, with more than 7,500 full-time staff, and we aim to serve 1 million farm families by 2020. We are recruiting to fill the position below: Job Title: Nigeria State Expansion Specialist Location: Kano, Jigawa, or Gombe Job Type: Full-Time Job Category: Administrative/Secretarial Jobs in Nigeria About the Role: Seeking an entrepreneurial field operations leader to launch and run OAF’s newest expansion state, leading site selection, team-building, and a full season across credit, Cash, Trees, and Extension to prove the model before it scales. Responsibilities: State Entry & Launch: Lead community mapping and site selection within the assigned state, building on the state-level approvals and Security Risk Assessment (SRA) completed by the Expansion Senior Specialist. Establish the operational footprint, including districts, wards, and Points of Delivery (PODs), based on farmers’ potential, accessibility, and operational viability. Recruit, onboard and prepare the in-state team before programme activities begin, ensuring staffing meets operational needs and organisational diversity targets. Programme & Commercial Operations: Lead the successful delivery of all programme activities across Credit, Cash Sales, Trees, Extension and Market Access throughout the first season. Develop and execute the state’s operational calendar, ensuring activities such as recruitment, enrollment, training, seedling production, repayment and aggregation are well coordinated. Own delivery of the state’s Season 1 operational, enrollment, revenue and P&L targets. People Leadership: Lead and develop the in-state leadership team, providing direction, coaching and performance management to Coordinators and frontline managers. Build a high-performing culture by strengthening capability, addressing underperformance, resolving resource conflicts and implementing strategies to improve frontline s...