One Acre Fund is recruiting for several key positions across Kenya and Rwanda, each designed to strengthen operations, improve service delivery, expand organizational impact, and drive strategic growth. The organization continues to support smallholder farmers through comprehensive agricultural interventions, and these roles are essential to ensuring strong systems, compliance, innovative solutions, and high-performing teams. The following vacancies highlight opportunities for professionals in production, logistics, data, strategy, internal communications, leadership development, technology, compliance, and auditing. Each role has been outlined with a detailed job description to provide a clear understanding of responsibilities and expectations.
Tupande Avocado Oil Production and Quality Specialist (Fixed-Term)
This role focuses on ensuring smooth, efficient, and optimized production processes within the avocado oil operation. The specialist oversees daily production activities, ensuring that output meets the required quality standards while maintaining operational efficiency. The role involves monitoring production lines, identifying inefficiencies, and implementing corrective measures to enhance productivity. The specialist manages timelines to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality finished products.
A significant component of the role is leadership within the production team. The specialist supervises team members, assigns tasks, trains staff on quality expectations, and ensures adherence to safety and hygiene standards throughout the production environment. The position also involves incorporating continuous improvement methodologies into the workflow. This includes analyzing process gaps, recommending changes, implementing new techniques, and evaluating results to ensure sustained improvement.
The specialist is expected to oversee inventory levels of raw materials and finished products, coordinate with procurement teams, and maintain detailed production records. Monitoring equipment performance, identifying maintenance needs, and coordinating repairs are important responsibilities that support uninterrupted production. The specialist ensures compliance with regulatory requirements and industry best practices, promoting a culture of quality across the team.
Tupande Logistics Specialist (Fixed-Term)
This role manages logistics operations within the macadamia value chain, involving the coordination of activities from farm to factory. The specialist ensures efficient end-to-end supply chain management by overseeing transportation, handling, and timely delivery of produce. The position requires monitoring daily logistics movements, ensuring that goods are transported safely, and addressing any operational challenges that may arise.
The role involves planning logistics schedules, routing vehicles, and optimizing movements to reduce delays and operational costs. The specialist coordinates with farmers, field teams, warehouse staff, and production units to ensure seamless operations. Key duties include tracking produce volumes, managing records, and verifying accuracy in documentation such as delivery notes and stock entries.
The specialist also identifies opportunities to enhance efficiency by reviewing existing logistics processes and recommending system improvements. Managing vendor relationships, supervising loading and offloading activities, and ensuring compliance with safety and handling protocols are central responsibilities. The specialist resolves logistical bottlenecks and introduces preventive measures to avoid recurrent issues. The role requires maintaining a high level of accuracy in reporting and collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to support smooth production and supply chain activities.
Global GSC Input Delivery Data Senior Supervisor
This position involves managing complex analyses and overseeing data systems that support global supply chain operations. The supervisor develops and maintains robust data structures to facilitate accurate tracking, forecasting, and reporting of input delivery metrics across multiple countries. This includes collecting data from various field teams, verifying accuracy, and ensuring alignment with organizational standards.
The role requires training teams across countries on ERP systems and data tools to build capacity and improve data quality. The supervisor conducts regular reviews of system usage, identifies gaps in data capture, and recommends improvements. The position involves collaborating with internal teams to refine system features, troubleshoot issues, and enhance operational visibility.
The supervisor provides insights that inform strategic decision-making by analyzing trends, developing dashboards, and sharing reports with senior leadership. Maintaining strong communication channels with multicultural teams in Kenya, Rwanda, and other operational regions is essential. The role ensures that data processes support efficiency, transparency, and performance across supply chain functions.
Tupande Export Logistics Senior Specialist
This position is responsible for managing export logistics operations, ensuring that goods move efficiently from Kenya to international markets. The specialist coordinates documentation, compliance checks, shipment scheduling, and communication with logistics service providers. The role demands accuracy in preparing export documents, such as packing lists, commercial invoices, and regulatory certificates.
The specialist anticipates and resolves export challenges, including delays at ports, customs requirements, and communication gaps with stakeholders. Monitoring shipment status, verifying compliance with international standards, and ensuring proper packaging and labeling are essential responsibilities. The role involves maintaining relationships with shipping agents, freight forwarders, and regulatory authorities.
Improving export efficiency is an ongoing duty. The specialist identifies operational bottlenecks, recommends solutions, and implements process enhancements. Monitoring export costs, tracking timelines, and preparing detailed reports support continuous improvement. The specialist ensures that export operations remain compliant with global regulations while meeting organizational targets for quality and timeliness.
Global Supply Chain Compliance and Controls Specialist
This role ensures adherence to supply chain policies, internal controls, and compliance frameworks. The specialist executes daily compliance activities that include routine checks, data validation, and monitoring conformity with established procedures. This involves reviewing documentation, ensuring proper use of systems, and flagging discrepancies for investigation.
The position maintains compliance trackers that monitor performance against key indicators. Preparing compliance documentation, updating logs, and summarizing findings are important responsibilities. The specialist collaborates with supply chain teams to enforce policies and encourage consistent application of internal controls.
Supporting audits, coordinating evidence collection, and reviewing control gaps are also part of the job. The specialist monitors the adoption of new policies and systems, supports training initiatives, and provides feedback on areas that require reinforcement. The role contributes to strengthening operational accountability and ensuring that supply chain processes remain reliable, transparent, and aligned with organizational standards.
Tupande Strategy and Operations Associate
This position supports major strategic initiatives and operational improvements across the organization. The associate manages complex projects from planning through execution, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. Responsibilities include coordinating across teams, developing work plans, monitoring progress, and facilitating communication among stakeholders.
The associate is expected to analyze operational data, identify improvement opportunities, and propose solutions that enhance efficiency. The role often requires preparing reports, drafting strategy documents, and participating in high-level planning sessions. The associate works with field teams, leadership, and technical experts to ensure successful implementation of initiatives.
The role encourages innovation, requiring the associate to identify new approaches, test pilot programs, and gather feedback for refinement. Supporting cross-departmental coordination, driving timelines, and ensuring that project objectives are met are central duties. The associate helps the organization adapt to changing needs and maintain strong performance across operations.
Tupande Audit Lead
The audit lead oversees internal audit activities within Kenya. The role includes developing audit plans, conducting risk assessments, and identifying areas that require review. The lead supervises audit engagements, ensures adherence to audit methodologies, and reviews findings to ensure accuracy and objectivity.
The position requires preparing audit reports that highlight risks, control weaknesses, and recommended actions. The audit lead collaborates with department heads to ensure that corrective measures are implemented promptly. Monitoring compliance with internal controls, evaluating the effectiveness of procedures, and assessing operational risks are key responsibilities.
The role involves mentoring internal audit staff, providing guidance, and strengthening audit capacity within the team. By overseeing annual audit cycles and special audits, the lead contributes to maintaining high standards of accountability, transparency, and operational integrity.
Global Internal Channels Management Lead (Fixed-Term)
This role oversees the management of internal communication channels, including the organization’s intranet and digital engagement platforms. The lead is responsible for implementing communication strategies and ensuring that daily content, updates, and resources flow efficiently across teams in Kenya, Rwanda, and other regions.
Responsibilities include coordinating with content creators, managing the design and functionality of communication platforms, and ensuring that information remains accessible and relevant. The role involves training teams on the use of intranet systems, supporting cross-team collaboration, and monitoring engagement levels.
The lead supports knowledge sharing efforts by curating content, organizing information, and ensuring consistency across channels. The position requires analyzing communication metrics, gathering feedback, and making recommendations for improving digital communication. By enhancing internal communication systems, the lead strengthens collaboration and organizational cohesion.
Tupande Impact Strategy and Operations Associate (Fixed-Term)
This role focuses on implementing strategic projects that increase the organization’s impact among women and youth in Kenya. The associate manages project plans, coordinates activities with field teams, and ensures that initiatives are delivered within established timelines.
The role requires developing tools, resources, and operating procedures that support impact objectives. The associate monitors project performance, gathers data, and prepares reports that highlight progress and challenges. The position involves engaging with internal stakeholders to ensure that strategies remain aligned with organizational goals.
The associate identifies gaps in current approaches and recommends improvements that enhance impact. The role also involves supporting pilot programs, gathering insights from beneficiaries, and adjusting interventions as needed. Through effective coordination and strategic planning, the associate contributes to expanding the organization’s reach and influence among key target groups.
Manager Development Lead (Fixed-Term)
This role is responsible for designing and leading manager development programs that strengthen leadership capacity within the organization. The lead develops training frameworks, facilitates learning sessions, and monitors the progress of participants. The position involves aligning development programs with organizational goals and leadership competencies.
The role requires assessing training needs across departments, gathering data, and adjusting content to ensure relevance. The lead collaborates with managers, HR teams, and technical experts to design effective learning interventions. Responsibilities also include managing timelines, preparing training materials, and evaluating program outcomes.
Supporting leadership growth is central to this role. The lead provides coaching, develops learning pathways, and ensures that training remains practical and applicable. The position contributes to building a strong leadership pipeline that supports the organization’s long-term strategy.
Senior DevOps Engineer
This role leads DevOps initiatives that strengthen system reliability and performance. The engineer oversees automation, deployment workflows, and continuous integration systems that support technical teams across Kenya, Rwanda, and other countries. Responsibilities include maintaining infrastructure, improving system monitoring, and resolving technical incidents to ensure minimal downtime.
The position requires working closely with software engineers, IT teams, and product developers to streamline processes and enhance collaboration. The engineer designs and maintains DevOps pipelines, optimizes cloud environments, and implements best practices for system security and efficiency. Monitoring infrastructure performance, responding to alerts, and identifying opportunities for improvement are key duties.
The engineer also leads a team, providing mentorship and guidance to strengthen overall technical capacity. By introducing innovative solutions and improving workflows, the role supports the organization’s digital transformation efforts and its broader mission to serve farmers.
