About One Acre Fund
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.
To learn more about our work, take a look at our Why Work Here blog for more information.
About the Role
We believe that new technology is critical to building the most effective rural distribution network on the African continent. Today, we reach over 1.6 million farm families and we aspire to serve more than 10 million households in the coming decade. Reporting to the Global Director of Operations, you will lead our future tech strategy, focusing on a mobile tech transformation: provide our field staff with the mobile-based tools to reach more farmers; develop scalable, direct communication channels with farmers to improve customer service; and digitize and decentralize data collection tools to speed up data flows and improve efficiency.
We are looking for someone with the technical experience to bring this vision to life; the CTO will transform our technology into a core organizational strength, working through several technology departments: software development, architecture, IT operations, product management, information security, and data analytics.
Responsibilities
- Set and Steer Technology Strategy: Inclusively lead the division toward a bold five-year technology vision, working with organization and country-program leadership to refine and tailor our strategy.
- Lead Top Tech Priorities: Provide detailed, hands-on guidance for tech projects based on an intimate understanding of our clients and internal users.
- Develop Leaders and Build Team: Manage a leadership team of ~5 senior-level direct reports, and increase career growth and performance across the division.
- Grow the careers of leaders across the tech division through weekly check-ins and workshops, ongoing development feedback, and regular career reviews.
- Provide technical mentorship to the team.
- Lead recruitment efforts to ensure we are building our team with top talent.
- Set clear performance expectations and support the team to build itself as a center of excellence.
Career Growth and Development
We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.
Qualifications
Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:
- 10+ years of industry experience with 5+ years leading and managing technology teams.
- Experience working with mobile technology solutions.
- Passion for providing hands-on execution guidance for large teams.
- Experience managing Agile software engineering teams successfully deploying solutions to support complex processes.
- Experience translating complex customer needs into high-quality tech solutions that deliver impact.
- Experience with our tech (C# .Net Core, CouchBase, React Native and Kubernetes) and our tooling landscape (GitHub, JIRA, and Azure DevOps).
- Humility. We are looking for a passionate professional who combines a focus on excellent performance with good humor, patience and a service mindset interested in joining our family of leaders.
- Language: English required in all locations.
Preferred Start Date
As soon as possible
Job Location
Kigali, Rwanda, or Nairobi, Kenya with quarterly travel expectations
Benefits
Health insurance, housing, and comprehensive benefits
Eligibility
One Acre Fund can support a work permit for this role. However, nationals of (or those with an extensive professional background and work history in) our countries of operation are preferred.
Application Deadline
23 July 2024
One Acre Fund never asks candidates to pay any money or pay for tests at any stage of the interview process. Official One Acre Fund emails will always arrive from an @oneacrefund.org address. Please report any suspicious communication here (globalhotline@oneacrefund.org), but do not send applications or application materials to this email address.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), and anti-racism are deeply connected to our organization’s mission and purpose. One Acre Fund aspires to build a culture where all staff feel consistently valued, represented, and connected – so that our team can thrive as professionals, and achieve exceptional impact for the farmers we serve.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
