Youth and Gender Social Behavior Change Lead

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One Acre Fund

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: 0-5 years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Nationals-only contract
  • Renumeration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 03/11/2024
  • Location: Rwanda 
Youth Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role Gender equality and Social inclusion (GESI)
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 a wide range of 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
One Acre Fund Rwanda has an organizational priority to  serve young farmers more effectively, by layering new youth-focused interventions on existing program channels. We seek a Youth & Gender Social Behavior Change Lead to help coordinate this work across our operation, helping to integrate youth learning and programming into One Acre Fund Rwanda’s program design and strategies. This is a new role, and an exciting opportunity for a motivated expert with both technical and on-the-ground experience to co-design our youth and gender based strategy  by providing data- and experience-driven guidance on new youth-focused products and services with opportunity to work on other projects as we see fit.

You will collaborate with a cross-functional team, including the data, Execution, Marketing,  Scale and Innovation, Global Impact, Monitoring & Evaluation teams to develop a long-term youth engagement strategy, youth-focused product & services, and to embed a youth focus into One Acre Fund Rwanda’s  programmatic decisions. You are expected to collaborate across multiple departments both at the global and in-country levels to advise on the implementation of evidence-based programming targeted at young farmers and gender broadly. You will report to the Product and Strategy Lead.

Qualifications
Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:
  • Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Sociology, Business or related field.
  • Minimum of 2+ years of experience working on design and implementation of youth-focused programming or system changes, in the context of smallholder agriculture.
Preference will be given to candidates with:
  • Experience using data to support decision-making with senior leadership and implementing teams.
  • Experience developing communications, marketing, or training strategy and materials.
  • Experience developing products, processes improvements and piloting them with actual users. 

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