Term: 2-year commitment
Critical Requirement: Proficiency in French and English
About Partnerships Associate – Based in Sikasso, Mali
myAgro aims to reach 1 million farmers by 2025 and has recently launched a global partnerships program to achieve its ambitious target. As Partnerships Associate, you will have the exciting opportunity to run a pilot with a new partner to develop and test myAgro’s path to scale.
Over the last two years, myAgro has been conducting trials with savings groups and creating a body of knowledge on best practices for partnering with savings group operators. Building on these initial successes, the Partnerships Associate will work within myAgro’s core program team in Mali to launch a new partnership with an international NGO. You will be responsible for co-developing the program, piloting new innovations and codifying what works to be scaled up. Reporting to the Director of Partnerships and working collaboratively with both myAgro and the NGO partner, you will be an integral part of a team tasked with helping myAgro reach its ambitious goals worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Program Design: Innovate and improve on myAgro’s model to develop a pilot adapted to the context of the partner organization.
- Service & Product Development: Design marketing strategies, tools and processes to test and scale products to increase farmer adoption & income.
- Data & Analysis: Working closely with myAgro’s IT team, use myAgro’s database to develop the reports and analysis needed for program roll out, improvement and scale.
- Monitoring & Evaluation: Regularly update and share a program dashboard and perform data analysis to evaluate the pilot, improve performance and adapt for future scale up.
- Leadership Development: Create professional development plans, trainings and tools to identify high performers, support growth and enable teams to take on increasing responsibility and ownership for pilot growth and impact.
- Processes & Systems: Codify tools, infrastructure and learnings from trials to help myAgro scale organizationally (and with the partner organization specifically), while innovating around myAgro’s model and how it can best be integrated into the partner’s existing structures and operations.
Required Experience
- At least 2 years work experience and significant project or team management experience
- At least 1 year of developing country experience – preferably working in a rural setting with farmers
- Proven ability to work independently and adapt to new situations and unforeseen challenges
- Proven ability to manage competing needs and/or priorities of multiple stakeholders to move projects or work forward, ideally in an international development context or within a large international NGO
- Masters in a related field preferred but not required
Key Skills & Competencies
- Proficiency in English and French required
- Strong MS Office experience, particularly Excel
- Strategic thought process and strong decision-making capabilities based on data analytics
- Creative and versatile approach to problem-solving; solution-oriented
- Excellent communications skills and the ability to work cross-culturally
- A passion for the mission, vision, and values of myAgro
- As with any start-up, flexibility, a sense of humour, and an open mind are necessary
This role is competitive: Peace Corps Alumni and alumni from high-performing social enterprises (funded by DRK, Echoing Green or Mulago) are strongly encouraged to apply and will be given priority.
Benefits
- Compensation is modest but competitive with other social enterprises
- Initial flight to West Africa, with an additional flight in year 2
- Excellent global insurance benefits (including health, vision, dental and emergency coverage)
- 4 weeks of annual vacation
- Stipend for local language lessons
- Tons of karmic good – you’ll be directly helping farming families move beyond subsistence farming!
About myAgro myAgro is an award-winning social enterprise working in Mali and Senegal, West Africa. Our North Star is to reach 1 million small-scale farmers to increase their income by $1.50 per day to move out of poverty. We’re doing that by using an innovative digital layaway platform that helps farmers save up for fertilizer, seed, and training to increase the profit they earn from their farm. We are proud to have received recognition for our work from Echoing Green, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, One Acre Fund, Mulago Foundation, The Salesforce Foundation and The Tech Museum, among others.
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