About The Role
You will work with One Acre Fund’s CEO, both directly and with his immediate support staff, as lead writer for his portfolio of fundraising proposals and reports. You will receive intensive writing mentorship from him and other senior writers over the first 6-12 months, then your work will then quickly ramp up in value, complexity, and independence. This is a career-track position with opportunities to manage other writers based on performance and preference.
Responsibilities
Write grant reports and proposals. Our writing team crafts powerful prose about One Acre Fund’s work and customers, with emphasis on strong logical flow, hard data, and farmer-centric perspectives. You will partner with our CEO and his team to tailor each piece to each donor through a collaborative drafting process, with a high bar for quality, detail-orientation, creativity, and responsiveness.
Manage complex projects. You will own all stages of each writing project. You will establish and manage workplans, coordinate input from multiple stakeholders (including building budgets in close collaboration with our finance department, gathering data & context from field teams, and occasionally reaching out directly to donors), and ensure error-free work, typically for 2-3 overlapping projects at any one time.
Invest in program fluency. You will develop and sustain a deep working knowledge of One Acre Fund’s operating context, model, results, and future plans. For individual projects, you will also often conduct additional research into potential donors or specific aspects of our work.
Provide ad hoc writing/research support to CEO
Contribute to team-wide writing tools/systems
Qualifications
Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:
Minimum of Bachelor’s degree
Minimum 8+ years of total professional experience, including 5+ years of relevant experience – either writing/managing complex grants or leading complex field programs in Sub-Saharan Africa
Can share 2-3 writing samples that demonstrate ability to draft highly readable prose: clear and concise, structured into a logical flow of ideas, deriving power from simplicity rather than jargon
Can share 2-3 concrete examples of successfully initiating, managing, and completing major projects in partnership with high-level stakeholders
Genuine commitment to rural communities. You are passionate about providing opportunity to the hardest-working farmers on the planet.
Language: English
Apply via :
eacrefund.org
