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    Youth and Climate Partnerships Associate - Nairobi, Kenya - One Acre Fund

    One Acre Fund
    One Acre Fund Nairobi, Kenya

    1 week ago

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    Full time
    Description

    One Acre Fund is a nonprofit organization that supplies smallholder farmers in East Africa with asset-based financing and agriculture training services to reduce hunger and poverty.

    About the Role

    One Acre Fund has been awarded a major grant to strengthen our climate programs and support dignified youth livelihoods over the next 5 years.

    This grant will be extremely influential to One Acre Fund's future strategic direction, and will open up several new avenues of impactful work.

    You will support the grant manager with report writing and the coordination of grant activities. This will involve close collaboration with many teams throughout the organization and external partners.

    You will support the main activities of the grant, including:

    Providing improved agricultural services to youth
    Bringing youth into high-value crop commercialization
    Building climate resilience among young farmers through income diversification and the provision of insurance products

    You will report to the Youth and Climate Partnerships Lead on the Global Business Development and Partnerships Team.
    Responsibilities
    Report writing and coordination

    Lead all elements of designing and drafting quarterly grant progress reports through a collaborative process with Business Development team members, organizational leaders, and grant partners
    Support overall project management by creating and updating workflows and a matrix of responsibilities for several grant work streams
    Coordinate donor site visits (up to 2-3 times per year)

    Stakeholder management

    Work with program leads to create systems for setting and tracking project milestones
    Prepare and lead program team update meetings to assess progress against milestones and collect data for grant reports

    Project strategy and implementation

    Coordinate with subject matter experts to drive systems-level improvements in youth engagement and climate resilience across the organization
    Coordinate with internal and external Monitoring/Evaluation/Learning teams to measure and improve program impact on youth and women
    Monitor potential risks and project implementation challenges and work toward solutions in collaboration with project staff and partners

    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:
    3 to 5+ years of work experience. Experience at a dynamic organization in one of our countries of operations is preferred.
    Writing experience
    Experience coordinating teams to accomplish complex projects
    Experience developing Word forms/templates, and maintaining complex spreadsheets in Excel / Google Sheets
    We are looking for candidates with backgrounds in any (not all) of the following: agriculture, youth programming, rural development, project management, grant writing, grant management, communications
    Bachelor's degree, or equivalent
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