Burundi

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It Takes a Village to Empower Farmers: Asterie’s Journey of Growth and Giving Back

Asterie Ntahonvukiye is a trained teacher and passionate volunteer in rural Burundi, but her classroom extends far beyond the school walls. As the leader of a local farming group, she’s committed to ensuring that every member has the skills they need to thrive. For Asterie, farming is not just about growing crops; it’s about fostering a stronger, more resilient community. Her story highlights the power of collective action—how shared knowledge and resources can transform lives and build lasting impact, not only for individual farmers but for entire communities.

Vacancy

Burundi Field Operations Associate

Burundi Professionals

Seeking an exceptional organized, and diligent project manager with strong leadership/people management skills and data analytics willing to learn and contribute to multiple areas of our operation to help deliver high impact to farmers.

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Burundi Impact Lead

Burundi Professionals

Seeking an experienced leader passionate about research, innovations, piloting and scaling impactful products and services for smallholder farmers, ready to manage multiple departments to deliver $60M of additional income across 340,000 farmers.

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Burundi Procurement Associate

Burundi Professionals

Seeking an exceptional professional to save money across the organization, reinforce controls environment, build team capacity and drive execution excellence in our procurement operations

Vacancy

Environmental and Social Governance Lead (Fixed-Term)

Burundi Ethiopia Kenya Malawi Nigeria Rwanda Tanzania Uganda Zambia Professionals

The Environmental and Social Governance (ESG) lead will build systems to track, audit, and analyze our commitments. They will collaborate with partner teams to execute our commitments, and they will share our approaches with donors and lenders.

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Chargé de Programme au sein de la Division en Charge du Personnel

Burundi Professionals

Seeking for a candidate emotionally intelligent, able to define, lead the implementation of our long-term Tactical People Strategy, and build program-wide People systems, to ensure efficient/effective operations and maintain positive staff experience.

Article

‘Working with farmers is a dream come true’

Annaise Kwizera, our Burundi Field Operations lead, fancies herself an empath: she sees the wellbeing of her community of farmers as her responsibility, and says she carries their dreams in her work. In this interview, she speaks about her mission as a farmer ambassador, agricultural innovations that excite her, and why everyone has to have a seat at the decision-making table.

Research

Optimizing maize variety allocation

This report shares the new tools, collaborations and processes developed in this project to evaluate and plan improvements on maize seed variety distribution systems.