Malawi Field Operations Impact Lead

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 Malawi program, founded in 2016, provides more than 670,000 farmers with quality farm supplies and training. Our office in Malawi is located in Zomba, in the country’s south. One Acre Fund works in Malawi’s southern region, which has the highest concentration of smallholder farmers in the country. About the Role Seeking a passionate professional with 5+ years of strategic and operational experience to lead Malawi's Impact team, co-define country strategy, manage R&D trials, and scale market access buybacks to directly increase smallholder farmers' resilience. Responsibilities Management of the HQ Impact team (~25 % of bandwidth ) Manage 3 or 4 direct reports Conduct weekly check-ins providing them with enough feedback to help them continuously improve their overall performance, with stretching projects to expand their professional growth and meaningful contributions to our programs’ impact Write semi annual thorough and well-calibrated individual PDRs and goals, as well as promotion plans or performance improvement plan when appropriate Continuously review and update the impact team’s org chart, roles and responsibilities, proactively restructuring and hiring as needed per programs’ evolution, ensuring clear alignment between teammates’ role and growth path with their performance and growth potential, as well as our programs’ impact priorities Define annual budget related to Impact activities and keep close track of Budget-vs-Actuals to keep it at a minimum level, ensuring grant-funded projects are clearly labelled and assigned to respective grants Improvement of the core program impact through Excellent Extension(~25% of bandwidth) Strategize, Prioritize & Plan Set our country impact strategy together with FOPs Lead, MEL Lead and Country Director, translating it into annual FOPs impact goals and workplan, deriving in individual goals for the Impact HQ and field team Collaborate with Global Impact to incorporate org-wide impact priorities, including Excellent Extension, deciding what to do but as importantly what NOT to do after realistic consideration of in-country bandwidth constraints and focus needs to ensure we remain impactful and don’t dilute our limited resources into too many different directions that would reduce our overall team’s efficiency and programs’ impact Coordinate & Communicate Split responsibilities and follow-up closely with very limited need for manager support to ensure successful and timely execution of all impact initiatives Lead compelling communication with the field team on all impact activities, actively preparing and facilitating discussions during Field Leader and AFD meetings, highlighting key messages in talking points for Monday Meetings, sending frequent encouraging messages in WhatsApp groups to enhance momentum around impact activities; single-messaging through multi-channeling and repetitions should be considered as best practice to make a message stick Assess & Improve Collaborate with MEL to evaluate our annual and long-term impact, planning and following up on impact assessment and analysis to ensure we focus our resources on the most impactful initiatives Systematically challenge status quo and seek how we can provide more impact more effectively, getting inspiration from other countries as well as oth