Nigeria Facilities Specialist

About One Acre Fund

Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund supplies over 1.5 million smallholder farmers with the agricultural services they need to make their farms more productive and resilient. Our 8,000+ team is drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions. With operations across ten African countries, we make farmers more prosperous by providing easy access to quality farm supplies, tree seedlings, and agricultural training to improve harvests. On average, the farmers we serve earn 40 percent more profits from their land when they enroll with One Acre Fund.

The Nigeria program, established in 2018, is headquartered in Minna, Niger state. We’re serving over 100,000 unique farmers across the state via our inputs on credit ‘Core’ program, inputs on cash ‘Retail’ program, and have a free tree seedling distribution ‘Agroforestry’ program. To learn more about our work, look at our Nigeria program blog.

About the Role

As the Facilities Specialist One Acre Fund Nigeria, you will join a growing team that is striving to put an end to poverty by transforming the lives of Nigerian farmers. The team’s purpose is to grow the OAF model in Nigeria. Your role oversees Facilities management at One Acre Fund and ensures that facilities are efficiently run and proactively managed, ensures issues are promptly addressed across all OAF Nigeria facilities, contributing to a great employee experience for our employees. As the facilities Coordinator, you would liaise with office/admin assistants across our Nigeria offices to carry out predictive, preventive and corrective maintenance. You will report to the People Lead.

Responsibilities

• Facilities Management 
  • Day-to-day upkeep of the buildings to a high standard, and ensure all spaces are suitable for  office work.
  • Ensure that all OAF buildings are safe and that all equipment and devices (such as garbage disposals) function properly.
  • Design space plans and general office setup, following the space plan.
  • Create a system for routine inspections of equipment and tools; fire extinguishers, ACs, Toilets seats and wash hand basins, fans, printers, lightings, generators, taps, boreholes, e.tc across OAF facilities.
• Health and Safety
  • Together with Admin officers/Assistants monitor activities within all OAF buildings, ensuring compliance with health and safety standards.
• Maintenance and Repairs
  • Create repair schedules arrange for prompt fixes across OAF facilities as assigned by the Corp Ops specialist.
  • Responsible for update of monthly, quarterly, annual and ad-hoc maintenance records. These include work order activity, scheduled maintenance, service level compliance, incident reporting.
  • Maintain Register of technicians across OAF locations; coordinate activities of technicians across OAF facilities.
  • Plan maintenance checks across OAF structures
• Maintenance Inventory Management (Spares)
  • Collate maintenance requests/ work orders across all OAF facilities, forward request to Corp Ops Specialist  for onward vetting, store bulk maintenance inventory/spares as delivered by procurement.
  • Manage power utilization across OAF facilities (recharging electricity meters) while ensuring sustainability and cost efficiency
  • Perform the job role to a level that minimizes changes to general operations and ensures comfort at all OAF facilities.

Career Growth and Development

We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.

Qualifications

Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:

• Bachelor's degree required; Masters Degree is an added advantage.
• Experience in facilities management with emphasis on predictive, preventive and corrective maintenance
• Knowledge of facilities management costing and budgeting
• Broad sense of different aspects of facilities management (electrical, structural, plumbing, and carpentry e.tc)
• Proficient in the use of Excel (can perform intermediate functions) or Google Sheets.
• Team, project, and vendor management skills, with the ability to collaborate in a team.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in facilities management/maintenance.
• Understand complex concepts quickly and learn fast.
• English required for this role. Knowledge of a Nigeria local language is a nice to have.

Preferred Start Date

As soon as possible

Job Location

Minna, Nigeria with requirement for frequent field travels

Benefits

Health insurance, paid time off 

Eligibility

This role is only open to citizens or permanent residents of Nigeria

Application Deadline

24 October 2024

One Acre Fund never asks candidates to pay any money or pay for tests at any stage of the interview process. Official One Acre Fund emails will always arrive from an @oneacrefund.org address. Please report any suspicious communication here (globalhotline@oneacrefund.org), but do not send applications or application materials to this email address.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), and anti-racism are deeply connected to our organization’s mission and purpose. One Acre Fund aspires to build a culture where all staff feel consistently valued, represented, and connected – so that our team can thrive as professionals, and achieve exceptional impact for the farmers we serve.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.