Malawi Field Operations Impact Lead

About the role

Seeking a passionate professional with 5+ years of strategic and operational experience to lead Malawi's Impact team, co-define country strategy, manage R&D trials, and scale market access buybacks to directly increase smallholder farmers' resilience.

Responsibilities

• Management of the HQ Impact team (~25 % of bandwidth )
• Manage 3 or 4 direct reports
• Conduct weekly check-ins providing them with enough feedback to help them continuously improve their overall performance, with stretching projects to expand their professional growth and meaningful contributions to our programs' impact
• Write semi annual thorough and well-calibrated individual PDRs and goals, as well as promotion plans or performance improvement plan when appropriate
• Define annual budget related to Impact activities and keep close track of Budget-vs-Actuals to keep it at a minimum level, ensuring grant-funded projects are clearly labelled and assigned to respective grants
• Improvement of the core program impact through Excellent Extension(~25% of bandwidth)
• Strategize, Prioritize & Plan
• Set our country impact strategy together with FOPs Lead, MEL Lead and Country Director, translating it into annual FOPs impact goals and workplan, deriving in individual goals for the Impact HQ and field team
• Coordinate & Communicate
• Split responsibilities and follow-up closely with very limited need for manager support to ensure successful and timely execution of all impact initiatives
• Assess & Improve
• Collaborate with MEL to evaluate our annual and long-term impact, planning and following up on impact assessment and analysis to ensure we focus our resources on the most impactful initiatives
• Systematically challenge status quo and seek how we can provide more impact more effectively, getting inspiration from other countries as well as other organizations
• Monitor impact performance by setting KPIs, dashboards etc. and use them to drive accountability and results towards our targets during weekly field meetings (FL, AFD, Monday)
• Improve the way our agricultural training are designed and delivered with a strong Excellent Extension strategy that is realistically actionable
• Sort out and schedule annual training curriculum by removing some and adding new depending on the needs identified, in line with our seasonal impact priorities
• Innovations of practices and products via R&D trials (~ 25% of bandwidth )
• Impactful Practices
• Co-identify key yield drivers to be tested (sp

Additional Information

About One Acre Fund Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips 5.5 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 a wide range of other agricultural services. On average, this model enables any farmer to increase their income and assets on supported land by more than 35 percent, while permanently improving their resilience. This is all made possible by our team of 9,000+ full-time staff, drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions. To learn more, please see our Why Work Here blog post. Our Malawi program, founded in 2016, provides more than 670,000 farmers with quality farm supplies and training. Our office in Malawi is located in Zomba, in the country's south. One Acre Fund works in Malawi's southern region, which has the highest concentration of smallholder farmers in the country.

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