# Burundi Field Operations Associate at One Acre Fund

> Location unclear · Junior · Other · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Aoneacrefund%3A8174332 (read 2026-11-10).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [One Acre Fund](https://alderhq.app/companies/one-acre-fund)
- Location text: Muramvya, Burundi; Muramvya
- Where it can be done from (inferred): Location unclear (evidence: "Location: Muramvya, Burundi; Muramvya")
- Posted: 2026-09-02 (69 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-07 · last verified: 2026-11-07
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://oneacrefund.org/vacancies/?gh_jid=8174332

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: not posted

## Description (the employer's text)

### 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 Burundi program, founded in 2011, operates under the local brand Tubura. Our team of 1,980 staff serves close to 600,000 hard-working farmers across all five provinces - Gitega, Butanyera, Buhumuza, Burunga, and Bujumbura. Our headquarters in Muramvya is supported by four regional offices in Gitega, Ngozi, Muyinga, and Ruyigi, as well as a small support office in Bujumbura.

### About the Role

As a Program Associate, you will have the opportunity to learn from field operations and to help improve our program. Your proposed initial role will focus on execution of our core program as well as general program innovation, but the exact makeup of your work will depend on staffing and program needs, as well as your own interests.

### Responsibilities

### Operations management

The FOP Associate will focus on delivering services to farmers. He/She begins as generalists, with overall responsibility for executing our program within a given region of operation in Burundi. Over time, He/she can continue to grow as a general leader, potentially managing Field Operations for an entire country. He/She may also choose to specialize, for example in designing and rolling out training programs.

Program associates also build the infrastructure necessary to sustain and scale the program. These teams proactively remove barriers to scale across a wide range of areas, processing millions of payments made by farmers, communicating with farmers through tens of millions of SMS messages, recruiting hundreds of new staff each year, and physically transporting more than 20,000 tons of agricultural inputs to various delivery sites. Program Associates also drive continuous improvements to accelerate growth, for example by implementing mobile money system integration at the country level.

### Core program execution and operations management

- Own end-to-end execution of the core program across an assigned region and functional area (exemple of core activities can be farmers training, enrollment, distribution, repayment, expansion…), ensuring services reach farmers on time and at quality.
- Ensure seasonal objectives and KPIs are communicated and in line with country and department priorities, monitor performance against them, and intervene where results deviate.
- Ensure operational processes are documented, standardized and cost-efficient, and that spend stays within budget.
### Project and portfolio management

- Lead a portfolio of 1–3 medium-to-large projects from design through field execution, defining objectives, work plans, timelines and success measures with limited manager support.
- Coordinate delivery across departments (Impact, Systems, Logistics, Business Operations, People) and with external partners, keeping stakeholders aligned and decisions timely.
- Produce analysis, post-mortems and reporting that inform leadership decisions on whether to continue, scale or discontinue an approach.
### Team management and development

- Manage and mentor a team of direct reports (Senior Field Directors, Specialists, Coordinators) and the wider structure beneath them, driving both performance and professional growth.
- Recruit, onboard and develop staff using One Acre Fund's experiential recruitment approach, and progressively delegate as the team strengthens.
- Maintain performance follow-up systems and remove day-to-day barriers so field teams can consistently deliver quality service to farmers.

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