One Acre Fund has announced several professional job opportunities for candidates interested in careers spanning investor relations, engineering, maintenance, government relations, strategic partnerships, carbon finance, grants finance, compliance, automation, monitoring, evaluation and learning.
The latest One Acre Fund job vacancies include opportunities based in Kenya as well as regional positions that may be filled from countries including Burundi, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. Some positions are also available in the United States.
The organisation is seeking professionals who can contribute to different areas of its operations, from maintaining factory machinery and electrical systems to managing donor partnerships, strengthening government relations processes, supporting carbon finance initiatives and improving data quality and impact measurement.
Several of the advertised opportunities are fixed-term positions. Candidates should therefore review the employment arrangements and location requirements associated with the particular vacancy they intend to pursue.
Below are the 12 One Acre Fund vacancies currently advertised, together with the job descriptions and requirements provided for each opportunity.
One Acre Fund Job Vacancies
1. Investor Relations Specialist (Renewable)
Location: Kenya
Category: Professionals
One Acre Fund is seeking an exceptional professional to support its Investor Relations team. The position focuses on loan compliance and reporting, departmental operations, lender due diligence and analytical assignments.
The Investor Relations Specialist will contribute to the effective management of relationships and obligations associated with the organisation’s lenders and financing activities.
Key responsibilities include:
- Supporting the Investor Relations team in executing loan compliance activities.
- Supporting reporting requirements related to loans and lenders.
- Contributing to the day-to-day operations of the Investor Relations department.
- Supporting lender due diligence processes.
- Working on one-off analytical projects as required by the team.
- Helping ensure that investor relations activities and associated reporting processes are executed effectively.
The opportunity is particularly focused on the operational, reporting and analytical requirements of the Investor Relations function.
Apply for the Investor Relations Specialist position
2. Tupande Electrical Maintenance Engineer / Specialist (Fixed-Term)
Location: Kenya
Category: Professionals
Employment arrangement: Fixed-Term
One Acre Fund is recruiting an Electrical Maintenance Engineer/Specialist to support Tupande Soko factories. The successful professional will be responsible for electrical maintenance and related technical work aimed at reducing operational downtime across processing operations.
The organisation is seeking an Electrical Engineer with 3–5 years of experience.
Key responsibilities include:
- Executing electrical maintenance across Tupande Soko factories.
- Troubleshooting automation systems when technical problems arise.
- Carrying out instrumentation repairs.
- Supporting the reliable operation of electrical equipment used in factory processing operations.
- Identifying and addressing electrical maintenance problems that could contribute to production interruptions.
- Contributing to efforts to reduce operational downtime across Tupande Soko processing operations.
Experience required:
- 3–5 years of relevant experience.
The position is suited to an electrical engineering professional capable of working directly with factory electrical, automation and instrumentation systems.
Apply for the Tupande Electrical Maintenance Engineer / Specialist position
3. Tupande Mechanical Maintenance Engineer / Specialist (Fixed-Term)
Location: Kenya
Category: Professionals
Employment arrangement: Fixed-Term
One Acre Fund is seeking a Mechanical Maintenance Engineer/Specialist to perform high-level mechanical maintenance across Tupande Soko factories.
The position is focused on keeping machinery and mechanical systems operational while reducing disruptions to the organisation’s processing activities.
The organisation is seeking a Mechanical Engineer with 3–5 years of experience.
Key responsibilities include:
- Executing high-level mechanical maintenance across all Tupande Soko factories.
- Troubleshooting mechanical problems affecting factory equipment.
- Conducting repairs on machinery and related mechanical equipment.
- Identifying mechanical faults that may interfere with processing operations.
- Supporting reliable factory operations through timely maintenance and repair work.
- Contributing to the reduction of operational downtime across processing operations.
Experience required:
- 3–5 years of experience.
The role provides an opportunity for an experienced mechanical engineering professional to contribute directly to the reliability of Tupande’s factory operations.
Apply for the Tupande Mechanical Maintenance Engineer / Specialist position
4. Tupande Zone Supervisor – Mtaragon
Location: Kenya
Category: Professionals
One Acre Fund is recruiting a Zone Supervisor for Mtaragon under its Tupande operations.
The organisation is looking for a professional with tertiary education and at least three years of experience in a sales, partner or channel manager role.
The successful candidate is expected to demonstrate the ability to work consistently towards strategic goals.
Requirements provided for the position include:
- Tertiary education.
- At least three years of experience in a sales, partner or channel manager role.
- Demonstrated ability to consistently work towards strategic goals.
The position requires a professional capable of operating within a goal-oriented environment and supporting the achievement of strategic priorities within the assigned zone.
Apply for the Tupande Zone Supervisor – Mtaragon position
5. Tupande Engineering & Maintenance Lead (Fixed-Term)
Location: Kenya
Category: Professionals
Employment arrangement: Fixed-Term
One Acre Fund is seeking an Engineering & Maintenance Lead to oversee factory machinery and equipment maintenance across the Tupande Soko factories.
The position carries responsibility for establishing engineering maintenance excellence while helping the organisation minimise operational downtime in its processing activities.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading factory machinery maintenance.
- Overseeing maintenance of factory equipment.
- Establishing engineering maintenance excellence across Tupande Soko factories.
- Providing leadership for engineering and maintenance activities.
- Supporting reliable operation of machinery and equipment used in processing.
- Driving efforts aimed at reducing operational downtime across Tupande Soko processing operations.
- Helping ensure maintenance activities support the operational requirements of the factories.
This is a leadership-oriented engineering position with a strong emphasis on machinery reliability, equipment maintenance and factory operational continuity.
Apply for the Tupande Engineering & Maintenance Lead position
6. Tupande Biochar Compliance Specialist (Fixed-Term)
Location: Kenya
Category: Professionals
Employment arrangement: Fixed-Term
The Tupande Biochar Compliance Specialist will own the facility’s compliance function and combine responsibility for the Monitoring, Reporting and Verification programme with oversight of Health, Safety and Environment programme design.
The position reports to the Biochar Lead and will also serve as the facility’s primary interface with external verifiers, auditors and regulators.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning the facility’s compliance function.
- Leading the Monitoring, Reporting and Verification programme.
- Taking responsibility for the design and oversight of the facility’s Health, Safety and Environment programme.
- Designing and operating the data system used to capture feedstock information.
- Capturing and maintaining production data.
- Managing quality-related data required for compliance and verification.
- Capturing end-use data to the standard required by the external verifier.
- Designing the facility’s HSE programme.
- Coordinating HSE training.
- Maintaining HSE documentation.
- Supporting and maintaining audit readiness.
- Serving as the primary interface with external verifiers.
- Working with auditors in relation to compliance requirements.
- Engaging relevant regulators.
- Interfacing with the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA).
- Interfacing with the Directorate of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH).
- Working with third-party carbon verifiers.
- Reporting to the Biochar Lead.
The position combines compliance leadership, data management, MRV, health and safety, environmental oversight and external stakeholder engagement.
Apply for the Tupande Biochar Compliance Specialist position
7. Global GR Operations and Systems Specialist
Locations: Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia
Category: Professionals
One Acre Fund is seeking a professional to strengthen processes and coordination within its Government Relations function.
The role will support a Government Relations team comprising more than 100 people and will focus on processes, coordination, skills-building and donor workflows.
Key responsibilities include:
- Strengthening Government Relations processes.
- Improving coordination across the Government Relations team.
- Supporting effective operations and systems within the function.
- Championing skills-building activities.
- Coordinating donor workflows.
- Supporting coordination requirements across a Government Relations team of more than 100 people.
Experience required:
- 2–3 years of experience.
The opportunity has a multi-country footprint and may be based in Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda or Zambia.
Apply for the Global GR Operations and Systems Specialist position
8. Strategic Partnerships Manager / Senior Associate (Fixed-Term)
Locations: Kenya, Rwanda and United States
Category: Professionals
Employment arrangement: Fixed-Term
One Acre Fund is seeking project and grant management professionals to lead and support the execution of some of the organisation’s highest-value donor partnerships.
Depending on the level of appointment, the opportunity is advertised as Strategic Partnerships Manager/Senior Associate.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the execution of high-value donor partnerships.
- Supporting the implementation of important donor partnerships.
- Applying project management expertise to partnership execution.
- Applying grant management experience to the organisation’s donor relationships.
- Supporting the effective management of some of One Acre Fund’s highest-value partnerships.
Experience required:
- 5–10+ years of experience.
The position is available in Kenya, Rwanda and the United States.
Apply for the Strategic Partnerships Manager / Senior Associate position
9. Carbon Finance Manager (Fixed-Term)
Locations: Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia
Category: Professionals
Employment arrangement: Fixed-Term
One Acre Fund is recruiting a climate finance professional to support its agroforestry carbon pilots.
The Carbon Finance Manager will focus particularly on financial modelling and fundraising, connecting financial expertise with the organisation’s work in carbon and agroforestry.
Key responsibilities include:
- Driving financial modelling for agroforestry carbon pilots.
- Supporting the financial requirements of carbon-related initiatives.
- Driving fundraising for the organisation’s agroforestry carbon pilots.
- Applying climate finance expertise to the development of the organisation’s carbon initiatives.
- Supporting the financial development of agroforestry carbon programmes.
Experience required:
- At least five years of experience.
The position may be based in Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania or Zambia.
Apply for the Carbon Finance Manager position
10. Tupande Automation Engineering Lead (Fixed-Term)
Location: Kenya
Category: Professionals
Employment arrangement: Fixed-Term
One Acre Fund is seeking an AI and automation engineering leader to build Tupande’s automation capability.
The role combines hands-on engineering with business partnership and technical leadership. The successful professional will be expected to lead the development of high-impact automation solutions while helping Tupande expand its impact among farmers.
Key responsibilities include:
- Building Tupande’s automation capability.
- Leading high-impact automation solutions.
- Applying AI and automation engineering expertise to Tupande operations.
- Providing hands-on engineering support.
- Working with relevant business teams and stakeholders.
- Providing technical leadership for automation initiatives.
- Supporting the scaling of farmer impact through automation.
- Helping connect technical solutions with operational and business requirements.
The position has a strong technical leadership component and is intended to strengthen the organisation’s capacity to develop and deploy automation solutions.
Apply for the Tupande Automation Engineering Lead position
11. Grants Finance Senior Associate/Manager
Locations: Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia
Category: Professionals
One Acre Fund is recruiting a Grants Finance Senior Associate/Manager to support the financial management of high-value partnerships.
The position combines responsibility for budget development and compliance with longer-term work aimed at strengthening organisational systems.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning budget development for high-value partnerships.
- Managing financial compliance requirements associated with high-value partnerships.
- Supporting effective grants finance management.
- Driving long-term systems improvements.
- Helping strengthen financial processes associated with grants and partnerships.
- Supporting the financial requirements of important organisational partnerships.
The vacancy is advertised across Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
Apply for the Grants Finance Senior Associate/Manager position
12. Tupande MEL Manager
Location: Kenya
Category: Professionals
One Acre Fund is seeking an experienced Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning professional to support Tupande’s work in Kenya.
The MEL Manager will focus on improving data quality and developing the measurement strategy required to understand and strengthen Tupande’s impact.
Key responsibilities include:
- Driving data quality across relevant Tupande activities.
- Leading and supporting measurement strategy.
- Strengthening the use of measurement approaches to assess impact.
- Supporting Tupande’s ability to understand its results through reliable data.
- Using monitoring, evaluation and learning expertise to strengthen programme measurement.
- Helping amplify Tupande’s impact across Kenya through improved data quality and measurement strategy.
Experience required:
- At least five years of experience.
The position is based in Kenya and is targeted at an experienced MEL professional capable of strengthening both data quality and impact measurement.
Apply for the Tupande MEL Manager position
Summary of One Acre Fund Vacancies
The current recruitment includes opportunities covering a broad range of professional areas. Kenya-based applicants can consider positions in investor relations, electrical and mechanical engineering, factory maintenance, zone supervision, biochar compliance, automation engineering and monitoring, evaluation and learning.
Other vacancies have a broader geographical scope. The Global GR Operations and Systems Specialist and Grants Finance Senior Associate/Manager positions are advertised across Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
The Carbon Finance Manager position is available in Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia, while the Strategic Partnerships Manager/Senior Associate opportunity lists Kenya, Rwanda and the United States as locations.
Applicants should pay particular attention to the location and employment arrangement indicated for each position. Several vacancies are specifically advertised as fixed-term opportunities, including the electrical and mechanical maintenance positions, Engineering & Maintenance Lead, Biochar Compliance Specialist, Strategic Partnerships Manager/Senior Associate, Carbon Finance Manager and Automation Engineering Lead.
How to Apply for One Acre Fund Jobs
Interested candidates should select the position that matches their professional background and review the respective vacancy page before submitting an application. Applicants should rely on the requirements stated in the individual job advertisement and ensure that the information submitted during the recruitment process accurately reflects their experience.
Since the opportunities cover different functions and countries, candidates should also confirm the location requirements and other vacancy-specific details on the respective application page.
