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Transform Lives as a Procurement Specialist with One Acre Fund and Manage Over $1 Million in Spending for Smallholder Farmers
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Location
Bujumbura, Burundi
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Organization Summary:
Join One Acre Fund, an impactful agricultural NGO dedicated to supporting East Africa's smallholder farmers. Since its inception in Burundi in 2012, the organization has experienced rapid growth and now serves over 290,000 households across multiple provinces. As a team member, you'll contribute to an enterprise that's changing lives by increasing harvests and incomes, providing vital services on credit, and delivering essential agricultural training.
- Role Summary:
- Manage an annual spending of over $1 million across 1300+ transactions.
- Purchase operational goods and services for a vast network of smallholder farmers.
- Drive process efficiency improvements and cost savings of over 5%.
- Lead process/system improvement projects.
- Enhance the capacity of Program teams.
- Role Requirements:
- 3+ years in a challenging professional environment with frequent communication demands.
- Experience in commerce, logistics, public administration, or economics.
- At least 2 years of managing people and/or projects in procurement, logistics, or business administration.
- Benefits:
- Medical coverage and comprehensive benefits.
- Paid annual leave.
- Visa sponsorship available, with preference for nationals or those with extensive regional professional experience.
One Acre Fund - TUBURA is an agricultural NGO working in East Africa to support smallholder farmers. We offer each of our members a set of services such as the delivery of agricultural inputs on credit and training with the aim of increasing harvests and income. Established in Burundi in 2012, we are a rapidly growing organization, which now has over 684 employees at the country level. Since 2020, we serve more than 290,000 households in 7(?) provinces: Muramvya, Gitega, Kayanza, Mwaro and Ngozi.
The role entails managing over $1 million in spending each year as part of over 1300 transactions and purchasing all operational goods and services on behalf of more than 290,000 smallholder farmers. We are looking for someone to help us improve process efficiency, save more than 5% of the purchase cost, implement process/system improvement projects, and strengthen the capacity of our Program teams.
Job requirements include more than 3 years of experience in a demanding professional environment, preferably in positions where frequent communication is required. Candidates who meet the following criteria are encouraged to apply: More than 3 years of experience in commerce, logistics, public administration, economics, including: 2 years of experience in managing people and/or projects in areas such as procurement, logistics, public administration, business administration, consultancy, etc.
Benefits include medical coverage, paid annual leave, comprehensive benefits. One Acre Fund can sponsor the visa for this position. However, nationals (or those with extensive professional experience or work experience in) our countries of operation are preferred.
One Acre Fund never asks candidates to 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, but do not send applications or application materials to this email address.
