One Acre Fund is inviting applications from qualified professionals and graduates for a wide range of internship and professional opportunities across Kenya and several African countries. The organization is recruiting for positions in engineering, quality assurance, procurement, monitoring and evaluation (MEL), communications, finance, investor relations, health and safety, network administration, and automation.
These opportunities are ideal for candidates seeking careers with an international nonprofit organization committed to improving the livelihoods of smallholder farmers through innovative agricultural solutions, technology, financial services, and capacity building.
Below are the available vacancies, together with a summary of each role.
- Quality Engineering Intern
Location: Kenya / Rwanda
Employment Type: Internship
The Quality Engineering Intern will join the engineering team to help improve software quality through automation and testing. The successful candidate will gain hands-on experience in building automated testing frameworks while contributing to product quality from the beginning of the software development lifecycle.
Key responsibilities include:
- Write automated test code for software applications.
- Build and maintain automated testing frameworks.
- Support continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
- Identify software defects before production releases.
- Collaborate with developers to improve product quality.
- Think from both developer and end-user perspectives when testing products.
- Contribute to maintaining a reliable software ecosystem.
- Tupande Automation Engineering Lead
Location: Kenya
Employment Type: Professional
One Acre Fund is seeking an experienced engineering leader to establish and scale automation capabilities for the Tupande program. The role combines technical leadership with hands-on engineering to develop AI-powered and automation solutions that improve business operations and farmer impact.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead the organization’s automation engineering capability.
- Develop AI-driven automation solutions.
- Partner with business teams to identify automation opportunities.
- Design and implement scalable engineering solutions.
- Provide technical leadership across automation initiatives.
- Mentor engineering teams.
- Drive innovation through practical automation technologies.
- Support organizational growth using modern engineering practices.
- Senior Quality Engineer
Location: Kenya / Rwanda
Employment Type: Professional
The Senior Quality Engineer will lead software quality initiatives by expanding automated testing capabilities and improving quality assurance processes across engineering teams.
Key responsibilities include:
- Build automated regression testing frameworks.
- Reduce dependence on manual software testing.
- Develop automated quality reporting systems.
- Improve testing strategies and best practices.
- Collaborate with software development teams.
- Identify quality risks throughout product development.
- Strengthen software reliability through automation.
- Drive continuous improvement in engineering quality.
- Fertilizer Procurement Associate
Location: Kenya
Employment Type: Professional
The Fertilizer Procurement Associate will oversee fertilizer sourcing activities to ensure timely procurement, competitive pricing, and efficient supply chain performance.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead fertilizer procurement processes.
- Source suppliers cost-effectively.
- Ensure reliable and timely product delivery.
- Support procurement planning activities.
- Analyze procurement data to improve decision-making.
- Coordinate supplier relationships.
- Lead procurement projects.
- Support a high-performing supply chain team.
- Networks Administrator
Location: Kenya / Rwanda
Employment Type: Professional
The Networks Administrator will support the organization’s growing technology infrastructure by maintaining secure, reliable, and high-performing network systems across multiple locations.
Key responsibilities include:
- Maintain enterprise network infrastructure.
- Ensure secure and reliable connectivity.
- Monitor network performance.
- Troubleshoot network issues.
- Support infrastructure expansion projects.
- Improve operational efficiency through network optimization.
- Maintain network security standards.
- Support business continuity through stable network services.
- Video Editor
Locations:
- Burundi
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Ethiopia
- Kenya
- Malawi
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Zambia
Employment Type: Professional
The Video Editor will produce high-quality visual content that supports farmer training, fundraising, marketing, and brand campaigns. The role combines storytelling, videography, and editing to communicate One Acre Fund’s impact.
Key responsibilities include:
- Produce professional-quality videos.
- Film and edit farmer success stories.
- Support training content production.
- Create marketing and fundraising videos.
- Develop brand campaign materials.
- Apply storytelling techniques to communicate impact.
- Produce social behavior change communication content.
- Highlight youth and women’s success stories through video production.
- Creative Lead
Locations:
- Burundi
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Ethiopia
- Kenya
- Malawi
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Zambia
Employment Type: Professional
The Creative Lead will support the Creative Director while coordinating creative workflows, managing creative requests, and supervising a multidisciplinary creative team.
Key responsibilities include:
- Support the Creative Director.
- Manage creative support request systems.
- Coordinate incoming creative requests.
- Delegate work across creative teams.
- Ensure service level agreements (SLAs) are maintained.
- Participate in creative brainstorming sessions.
- Support organizational brand management.
- Review creative materials for quality assurance.
- Conduct final creative reviews for Tier 2 and Tier 3 content.
- Supervise and develop members of the creative team.
- Manage graphic design and video production staff.
- Global Investor Relations Manager
Locations:
- Burundi
- Kenya
- Malawi
- Rwanda
Employment Type: Professional
The Global Investor Relations Manager will strengthen relationships with financial institutions while helping secure working capital through structured financing arrangements.
Key responsibilities include:
- Structure working capital financing.
- Build relationships with financial institutions.
- Engage innovative capital providers.
- Support fundraising activities.
- Coordinate financing transactions.
- Manage lender relationships.
- Support investment reporting.
- Contribute to capital strategy implementation.
- Global MEL Senior Associate (Fixed-Term)
Locations:
- Burundi
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Ethiopia
- Kenya
- Malawi
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Tanzania
- Zambia
Employment Type: Professional (Fixed-Term)
The Global Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Senior Associate will strengthen monitoring systems and improve evaluation quality across growth country programs and agroforestry initiatives.
Key responsibilities include:
- Improve monitoring and evaluation systems.
- Strengthen data quality across country programs.
- Support rigorous impact measurement.
- Enhance evaluation methodologies.
- Improve reporting standards.
- Support agroforestry monitoring initiatives.
- Collaborate with country teams.
- Drive evidence-based decision-making.
- Investor Relations Graduate Trainee
Location: Kenya
Employment Type: Internship
The Investor Relations Graduate Trainee will support the Investor Relations team in operational and analytical work while assisting with lender reporting and compliance activities.
Key responsibilities include:
- Support loan compliance processes.
- Assist with lender reporting.
- Coordinate department operations.
- Support lender due diligence activities.
- Conduct analytical projects.
- Prepare investment documentation.
- Assist with reporting requirements.
- Support relationship management activities.
- Tupande Controls, Health & Safety Specialist (Fixed-Term)
Location: Kenya
Employment Type: Professional (Fixed-Term)
This role combines internal controls management with occupational health and safety oversight across Tupande factory operations.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design internal control systems.
- Monitor compliance with control procedures.
- Manage workplace health and safety.
- Support factory risk management.
- Conduct control assessments.
- Improve operational compliance.
- Recommend risk mitigation measures.
- Promote safe working environments.
- Grants Finance Manager
Locations:
- Burundi
- Kenya
- Malawi
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- United States
Employment Type: Professional
The Grants Finance Manager will oversee financial management for grant-funded partnerships while strengthening finance systems and ensuring compliance.
Key responsibilities include:
- Develop grant budgets.
- Ensure donor compliance.
- Support financial planning.
- Manage grant reporting.
- Strengthen finance systems.
- Improve financial processes.
- Coordinate partnership financial management.
- Support long-term systems improvements.
- Tupande MEL Manager
Location: Kenya
Employment Type: Professional
The Tupande MEL Manager will lead measurement, learning, and data quality initiatives that strengthen program impact across Kenya.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities.
- Improve data quality systems.
- Develop measurement strategies.
- Support evidence-based decision-making.
- Analyze program performance.
- Strengthen reporting systems.
- Collaborate with implementation teams.
- Enhance the impact measurement framework.
How to Apply
Interested candidates should submit their applications through the official One Acre Fund recruitment portal before the respective application deadlines indicated for each position.
