myAgro recruits 01 Development Coordinator
About myAgro
myAgro is an award-winning social enterprise/nonprofit in West Africa that uses a mobile technology platform to provide a comprehensive set of services: (1) Access to fertilizer and seed packages on layaway (2) Technical Training (3) Market Access to premium buyers (4) Access to asset loans for appropriate small-scale farm equipment. Our model doubles farm income and helps farmers move out of poverty. We’ve grown from 1,500 farmers to 3,500 in the last year, and will continue to scale to 75,000 in the next five years. Small-scale farmers across the globe make up 70% of the world’s poor. We want to build a model for savings layaway in Mali and Senegal that can be adopted by other organizations to serve farmers throughout the world.
We’ve received early recognition for our work by One Acre Fund and Mulago Foundation and received prestigious awards from: Echoing Green Fellowship, Rainer Arnold Fellows, Draper Richards Kaplan Social Entrepreneurship. Learn more: http://www.myagro.org
About This Role
In this position, you will get to see all areas of myAgro’s operations, as the Development team is the “face” of myAgro to our donors and other potential partners. You will be responsible for supporting the Development team, working directly with the CEO at our headquarters in Thiès, Senegal, as well as preparing and supporting all donor visits to headquarters in Senegal.
To ensure success in this role you will be super organized and thrive at “making things perfect”. You are the type of person who rolls up his/her sleeves and finds a way to make things better. You love organizing and making sure things function as well as possible. You are also resourceful and have an upbeat personality, excited by exploration and adventure. You love going into rural locations and are excited by working directly with our farmers and selecting those that you think will be the best fit for donor visits. This position requires matrixed work. In order to get information to put into our donor reports as well as plan field visits, you need to liaise with our field operations team-members.
A successful candidate is a self-starting person who is not afraid to ask questions, and shows determination to power through unforeseen challenges. The role is based in Senegal and involves frequent travel to rural villages to interview farmers and understand our field operations. Communication in both French and English is done on a daily basis so if one of those languages needs brushing up, you will definitely get the opportunity!
Responsibilities
Development Functions (50%-60%):
- Support the greater Development team as we submit renewal and new proposal applications, including liaising with the operations and field team in operating countries to get necessary data and inputs
- Plan donor visits including booking hotels, creating agendas, planning field visits, etc
Coordinate and communicate directly with donors, including sending donor communications and reporting (quarterly and annual reports, newsletters, and other written materials) - Oversee maintenance and administration (data entry, organization, etc) of our internal donor support software, Pipedrive
- Play a fundamental role in creating processes to streamline and organize the Development team’s activities and workflow
- Team player, with a polished demeanor, as you will often be spending time with our donors
Field Functions (40%-50%):
- Profile farmers by going to the field and categorizing them based on certain characteristics, allowing us to generate a list of candidates for use in donor visits and in farmer stories
- Interview farmers and capture stories from the field (both written and if possible visual, i.e. photos) to give to our Grant Writers and Development Managers for use in our submissions (reports, renewals and new proposal applications) and donor marketing materials
- Support research by talking to relevant field team members on topics including: agricultural sector, savings behavior models, microfinance, etc.
Qualifications
- Oral and written fluency in English and proficiency in French is required.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
- Excellent writing skills with attention to detail
- A hunger for organization, with a perfectionist tendency
- Thirst for living in Senegal and going often to rural villages
- Commitment to myAgro’s mission
- Great at problem-solving and commitment to continuous improvement
- Entrepreneurial, independent and comfortable moving forward in new areas
- Positive, humble and easy-going attitude
- Demonstrated ability to work and communicate effectively with people from diverse backgrounds
To Apply:
- Send a brief cover letter (3 paragraphs, all less than one page total),
- resume and
- a writing or creative piece sample
myAgro provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, marital/parental status, national origin, age, disability, political opinion, social status, veteran status, and genetics. myAgro complies with all applicable federal, provincial and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.
Job details
- Location: Thiès, Senegal with regular travel to rural Senegal
- Start Date: As soon as possible
- Closing date : 21 March 2020