One Acre Fund has announced several professional job vacancies across its operating countries, including Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and the United States. The opportunities target experienced professionals in product management, creative leadership, investor relations, monitoring and evaluation, controls, safety, finance, strategy, operations, insurance product design and value chain strategy.
These vacancies are suitable for professionals seeking regional or global roles within an organization that works across agricultural systems, smallholder farmer support, market access, operations, finance, communications and organizational growth. The roles vary by country placement, contract structure and technical focus, with some positions listed as fixed-term and others renewable or professional-level openings.
The following are the available vacancies and job descriptions.
- Senior Product Manager
Location: Kenya and Rwanda
Category: Professionals
One Acre Fund is seeking an entrepreneurial Senior Product Manager to build and own its self-service and Foundation tools portfolio. The position is designed for a product professional with 3-5+ years of experience who can take ownership of digital or operational tools that support users across the organization.
The Senior Product Manager will play a central role in shaping tools that improve self-service access, strengthen internal systems and support organizational efficiency. The role requires a professional who can think strategically, manage product priorities and work across teams to ensure that tools are practical, scalable and aligned with user needs.
Key duties and responsibilities:
- Build and own the self-service and Foundation tools portfolio.
- Lead the development and improvement of tools that support internal users.
- Identify user needs and translate them into product priorities.
- Work with relevant teams to define product requirements and implementation plans.
- Support the design of tools that improve access, usability and efficiency.
- Manage product planning, prioritization and delivery processes.
- Track product performance and recommend improvements.
- Coordinate with teams that rely on self-service systems and Foundation tools.
- Ensure the product portfolio supports broader organizational goals.
- Bring an entrepreneurial approach to product ownership and problem-solving.
- Creative Lead
Location: Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia
Category: Professionals
One Acre Fund is seeking a Creative Lead to serve as deputy to the Creative Director within the Global Communications team. The role will manage the Global Communications team support request systems and oversee all incoming creative requests. The Creative Lead will help delegate creative work to the appropriate team units while ensuring that service level agreements and quality expectations are maintained.
This position is also responsible for contributing to creative brainstorms, supporting brand management and reviewing creative content for quality. The Creative Lead will hold final creative reviews for Tier 2 and Tier 3 content and will also manage the professional development of a creative team of about five people working in graphic design and video. The role directly manages about three reports.
Key duties and responsibilities:
- Work as deputy to the Creative Director within the Global Communications team.
- Manage the Global Communications team support request systems.
- Oversee all incoming creative requests.
- Delegate creative requests to the relevant team units.
- Help ensure the team maintains its service level agreements.
- Support quality control across creative outputs.
- Contribute actively to creative brainstorms and ideation.
- Support organizational brand management.
- Review creative content for quality.
- Conduct final creative reviews for Tier 2 and Tier 3 content.
- Manage the professional development of a creative team of about five people.
- Directly manage about three team members.
- Oversee creative work related to graphic design and video.
- Support consistent delivery of high-quality creative outputs across the organization.
- Global Investor Relations Manager
Location: Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia
Category: Professionals
One Acre Fund is seeking an exceptional banking professional to serve as Global Investor Relations Manager. The role is focused on helping the organization raise working capital from financial institutions and innovative capital providers.
The position requires a professional with 8-10+ years of experience structuring loans. The Global Investor Relations Manager will be involved in capital-raising work, financial relationship management and engagement with institutions that can support One Acre Fund’s financing needs.
Key duties and responsibilities:
- Support the organization in raising working capital.
- Engage with financial institutions and innovative capital providers.
- Structure loan-related opportunities that support organizational financing.
- Manage relationships with potential and existing capital providers.
- Support investor relations activities at a global level.
- Help position the organization for access to suitable capital.
- Coordinate with internal teams involved in finance and capital planning.
- Contribute to financing strategies that support operational needs.
- Prepare or support financing discussions with external stakeholders.
- Apply banking and loan structuring experience to support working capital goals.
- Global MEL Senior Associate Fixed-Term
Location: Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia
Category: Professionals
One Acre Fund is seeking an exceptional Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning professional to serve as Global MEL Senior Associate on a fixed-term basis. The role is focused on strengthening the quality and rigor of monitoring and evaluation across One Acre Fund’s growth country portfolio and agroforestry program.
This position is suitable for a MEL professional with 3+ years of experience. The Global MEL Senior Associate will support monitoring and evaluation systems, contribute to evidence quality and help strengthen how results are measured and used across programs.
Key duties and responsibilities:
- Strengthen the quality of monitoring and evaluation across the growth country portfolio.
- Support monitoring and evaluation activities for the agroforestry program.
- Improve the rigor of MEL systems and processes.
- Contribute to the design and implementation of evaluation approaches.
- Support data quality and evidence generation.
- Work with country and program teams to improve MEL practices.
- Help ensure monitoring and evaluation outputs are useful for decision-making.
- Support learning across programs and teams.
- Contribute to the development of MEL tools, processes and reporting systems.
- Promote stronger use of evidence across growth countries and agroforestry work.
- Tupande Controls, Health and Safety Specialist Fixed-Term
Location: Kenya
Category: Professionals
One Acre Fund is seeking a Tupande Controls, Health and Safety Specialist on a fixed-term basis. The position is based in Kenya and focuses on internal controls design as well as health and safety management for Tupande factories.
The role is suitable for a risk and controls professional with 3-5+ years of experience. It combines internal controls work with practical health and safety oversight in a factory environment.
Key duties and responsibilities:
- Lead internal controls design for Tupande operations.
- Manage health and safety processes for Tupande factories in Kenya.
- Identify risks and support appropriate control measures.
- Strengthen internal control systems and procedures.
- Support compliance with health and safety expectations.
- Work with factory teams to improve safety practices.
- Monitor controls and safety processes within factory operations.
- Support risk identification and mitigation.
- Help ensure health and safety responsibilities are clearly managed.
- Contribute to safer and better-controlled operational environments.
- Global Safety Nets and Microinsurance Senior Associate Fixed-Term
Location: Kenya and Rwanda
Category: Professionals
One Acre Fund is seeking a Global Safety Nets and Microinsurance Senior Associate on a fixed-term basis. This is described as a high-agility role responsible for the end-to-end design, piloting and initial setup of safety net products across all One Acre Fund markets.
The position focuses on the development of safety net products and microinsurance-related solutions. The role requires a professional who can move from product design to pilot implementation and early-stage setup across different markets.
Key duties and responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end design of safety net products.
- Support the piloting of safety net products across One Acre Fund markets.
- Manage the initial setup of safety net product models.
- Contribute to microinsurance-related product development.
- Coordinate with market teams during design and pilot stages.
- Support product testing and early implementation.
- Help identify practical product structures for different markets.
- Work across teams to move safety net products from concept to pilot.
- Support learning from pilots and recommend improvements.
- Maintain agility in responding to market and implementation needs.
- Grants Finance Manager
Location: Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and United States
Category: Professionals
One Acre Fund is seeking an exceptional Grants Finance Manager to own budget development and compliance for high-value partnerships. The role also focuses on driving long-term systems improvements.
The Grants Finance Manager will work at the intersection of grant finance, budgeting, compliance and systems strengthening. The position is suitable for a finance professional who can manage financial requirements for major partnerships while also improving the systems that support grant finance work.
Key duties and responsibilities:
- Own budget development for high-value partnerships.
- Manage compliance requirements linked to grants and partnerships.
- Support financial planning for major funded programs.
- Work with internal teams to prepare and manage grant budgets.
- Ensure partnership budgets are developed accurately and responsibly.
- Support compliance monitoring for grant-funded activities.
- Drive long-term improvements in grants finance systems.
- Help strengthen processes used in budget development and compliance.
- Coordinate with teams involved in partnerships, finance and implementation.
- Support financial accountability across high-value partnerships.
- Strategy and Operations Associate, Office of the CEO Renewable
Location: Kenya and Rwanda
Category: Professionals
One Acre Fund is seeking a Strategy and Operations Associate for the Office of the CEO. The role is renewable and is designed for a professional with 3+ years of experience in strategy and operations.
The Associate will lead a portfolio of projects while coordinating across multiple teams and working closely with One Acre Fund’s senior leadership and CEO. This position is suitable for a professional who can support strategic priorities, manage cross-functional work and help advance organizational initiatives.
Key duties and responsibilities:
- Lead a portfolio of strategy and operations projects.
- Coordinate work across multiple teams.
- Work closely with One Acre Fund’s senior leadership.
- Support the Office of the CEO in advancing strategic priorities.
- Manage project planning, coordination and follow-up.
- Support decision-making through structured project execution.
- Help align teams around organizational initiatives.
- Track progress on assigned projects and priorities.
- Contribute to operational improvements across teams.
- Support communication and coordination between senior leadership and implementation teams.
- Value Chain Strategy Lead Fixed-Term
Location: Kenya, Nigeria and Rwanda
Category: Professionals
One Acre Fund is seeking an exceptional entrepreneurial and analytical professional to serve as Value Chain Strategy Lead on a fixed-term basis. The role is focused on analyzing and contributing to the growth of diverse market access business units that serve smallholder farmers.
The position requires 5+ years of experience and is suitable for a professional who can combine strategy, analysis and business growth thinking. The Value Chain Strategy Lead will support work aimed at strengthening market access business units and improving how they serve smallholder farmers.
Key duties and responsibilities:
- Analyze diverse market access business units.
- Contribute to the growth of business units serving smallholder farmers.
- Support value chain strategy development.
- Identify opportunities for market access growth.
- Apply analytical thinking to business unit performance and expansion.
- Work with relevant teams to support market access initiatives.
- Contribute to strategic planning for value chain-related work.
- Support business growth efforts connected to smallholder farmer services.
- Help assess opportunities and challenges within market access models.
- Bring an entrepreneurial approach to value chain strategy and implementation.
Application Information
Interested professionals should review the role that best matches their experience, location preference and career focus. Applicants should ensure that they follow the official application process provided by One Acre Fund for the specific vacancy they wish to apply for.
