Nigeria Facilities Specialist at One Acre Fund
One Acre Fund is a nonprofit organization that supplies smallholder farmers in East Africa with asset-based financing and agriculture training services to reduce hunger and poverty. Headquartered in Bungoma, Kenya, the organization works with farmers in rural villages throughout Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and recently Malawi. Using a market-based approach, One Acre Fund facilitates activities and transactions at various levels of the farming value chain, including seed sourcing and market support. In 2013, farmers who worked with One Acre Fund realized a 180% return on their investment and significantly increased farm income on every planted acre.
- Job Type: Full Time
- Qualification: BA/BSc/HND , MBA/MSc/MA
- Experience: 5 years
- Location: Niger
- Job Field: Engineering / Technical , NGO/Non-Profit
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.
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.
