Rwanda Trial Support Senior Supervisor

About One Acre Fund

Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips more than 4 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive. Across nine countries that together are home to two-thirds of Africa's farmers, we provide high-quality farm supplies, tree seedlings, accessible credit, modern agronomic training, and multiple other agricultural services. On average, this model enables any farmer to increase her income and assets on supported land by more than 40 percent, while permanently improving her climate resilience. This is all made possible by our team of 8,000+ full-time staff, drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions.

Our Rwanda program, founded in 2007, operates under the local brand Tubura. We have more than 3,200 staff located in all four Rwanda provinces and Kigali. Together, we directly serve more than 790,000 farmers. To learn more about our work, look at our Rwanda program blog for more information.

About the Role

The Scaling Innovations Department is recruiting for Trial Support Senior Supervisor. The department identifies and introduces new agricultural and non-agricultural products and services to farmer clients. This is done through running sales trials to test delivery models, and systems, understand farmer adoption, product impact, and margin, among other factors, and recommend scaling. The Trial Support Senior Supervisor will be reporting to the Project Specialist. Your job includes both office and field work.

Responsibilities

• Support trial leads to complete and translate the department's vision in the field and be the deputy to trial leads and own an assigned product trial.
• Coordinate with field operations, and other partners to ensure that farmers receive the services and products through scale improvement trials.
• Support the monitoring and evaluation of the SIN trials including verifying Measurements and following up on product quality. 
• Perform short surveys or other interviews with trial participants or partners to understand the progress or effectiveness of the trial with supervisor support. 
•  Prepare training materials for  FOs, DCs, and field staff, design field follow-up surveys, and organize farmers’ lists or other related product adoption lists.
• Support in preparation and conduct Focus group discussions with farmers e.g. for pipeline products research, farmer needs assessments and product testing, etc.

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:

• Have completed a Bachelor's degree in disciplines such as agriculture - agronomy, livestock, agribusiness, agricultural economics, or other relevant development studies, (2+ years of experience in the above field)
• Be a 'generalist' who may flexibly take on any projects as described above.
• Be a scientific-minded person who has a passion for investigating thoroughly a research problem
• Have good command of written and verbal both Kinyarwanda and  English
• Use Excel (can maintain complex spreadsheets)/Google Sheets for database creation and data analysis

Preferred Start Date

As soon as possible

Job Location

Rubengera, Rwanda

Benefits

Health insurance, paid time off 

Eligibility

This role is only open to citizens or permanent residents of Rwanda

Application Deadline

23 November 2024. Please note that we hire on a rolling basis which means that applications are reviewed and processed on a continuous basis until a hire is made.

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.