Summary
Date Posted: Saturday, October 05 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund supplies 1 million smallholder farmers with the agricultural services they need to make their farms vastly more productive. Our 8,000+ team is drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions. With operations across six core countries in Africa, we make farmers more prosperous by providing quality farm supplies on credit, delivered within walking distance of farmers’ homes, and agricultural training to improve harvests. On average, the farmers we serve harvest 50 percent more food after working with One Acre Fund.
Piloted in 2020, the One Acre Fund Central Program supports coffee growers, who currently use old tree stocks and outdated techniques, with GAP extension, inputs, and market access. In 2022, 8,400 coffee farmers were served, with a $75 impact per farmer (and impact expected to grow over time), and a good program retention rate of 90%. In 2023, we served ~10,000 coffee farmers in Mukono district. Through our 2024-2027 expansion we aim to reach an additional 34,000 coffee farmers per year by 2027.

About the Role
The Field Leader will be responsible for supervising Field Managers and their Field Officers, ensuring field activities are carried out effectively across all Pods/Sectors and Parishes under your supervision
Responsibilities
• Farmer Enrollment
o Develop and implement strategies to ensure the enrollment of 500+ farmers per Field Officer in each site or parish across all of the FMs in your scope of supervision.
o Drive marketing and ordering of One Acre Fund products and services to all potential farmers as part of enrollment across all of the FMs in your scope of supervision
o Ensure less than 5 Fake/Ghost farmers in each site across all of the FMs
• Field Staff and Farmer Training
o Review field and farmer agronomy trainings for FMs and FOs in coordination with your manager to ensure fit for purpose.
o Run and conduct quality trainings for FMs and FOs across field and agronomy activities throughout the season.
o Lead field team and staff meetings. Manage Monday and Wednesday Meetings to ensure timeliness, quality of sessions, and strong KPI discussions, field strategies, and knowledge transfer.
• Field Visits
o Conduct regular field visits to verify and monitor field operations and impact activities across your field managers’ scopes of work.
o Ensure integrity of results reported, troubleshoot field challenges, and ensure team integrity in field reports.
o Ensure field presence for all our FMs and FOs from Monday to Friday.
o Provide timely reporting and updates of all program field activities to relevant stakeholders, both internally and externally as required.
• Planning and Strategy setting
o Lead the season planning and management of pods/sectors and sites under supervision including field operations, staff development, field logistics, field challenges and problem-solving, etc.
o Develop and implement strategies to attain our field operational KPIs across the season through our FMs, and FOs.
o Supervise and support FMs in driving results and customer service through their FOs.
o Report Daily KPIs across all FMs and FOs.
• Local Leader Engagement
Coordinate and conduct regular touchpoints with Local Leaders and District / Sub County Agricultural Officers across our operational area to ensure they're continuously aware of our key activities and updates through the season, and that we have their support for our work on the ground

Qualifications
Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:
• Knowledge: Program knowledge, Coffee Agronomy

Skills:
o Technical: Typing Skills, Basic Google Sheets/Microsoft Excel/Google Docs/Microsoft Word
o Soft skills: Communication, interpersonal, organizational, problem solving, team building
• At least 3 years of experience working with smallholder farmers in Uganda
• At least 1 years of experience of any level of Field Team management.
• Ability to cover large distances by road daily
• Ability to lead Field team strategies. You constantly look for alternative solutions to problems.
• Diploma in Agriculture or Bachelor's degree in any related field.
• Fluent in English and Luganda
Fluent in English and Luganda

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 12

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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