One Acre Fund has announced multiple professional career opportunities covering supply chain, engineering, procurement, agriculture, finance, monitoring and evaluation, graphic design, government relations, carbon finance, compliance, logistics and contract management.
The latest One Acre Fund vacancies include opportunities based in Kenya as well as regional positions that may be based in Kenya and several other African countries. The roles range from specialist and senior specialist positions to associates, managers and engineering leads.
The recruitment covers several functions supporting One Acre Fund’s agricultural and operational programmes. Some positions are fixed-term, while others have been advertised without a specific contract type in the vacancy summary. Applicants should therefore review the complete vacancy information before submitting an application.
Below are all 16 positions included in the current recruitment information.
- Tupande Export Logistics Senior Specialist
Location: Kenya
Category: Professionals
One Acre Fund is seeking a detail-oriented logistics professional to lead end-to-end export operations as the organisation expands its global reach.
The position focuses on ensuring that goods destined for international vendors are delivered on time while meeting applicable compliance requirements and maintaining cost-efficient logistics operations.
Key responsibilities and areas of focus include:
- Leading end-to-end export logistics operations.
- Coordinating the movement of goods to international vendors.
- Supporting timely delivery of exported goods.
- Ensuring export activities comply with applicable requirements.
- Maintaining cost-efficient logistics processes.
- Supporting the organisation’s expanding international supply and distribution activities.
- Providing detailed oversight of export operations as volumes and global reach increase.
The vacancy seeks a logistics professional with 3–5+ years of experience.
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- Tupande Contract Management Specialists & Senior Specialist
Location: Kenya
Category: Professionals
The Contract Management Specialists and Senior Specialist opportunity sits within Procurement and focuses on strengthening commercial contracting and governance.
The successful professionals will help establish and develop the Contract Management function while providing oversight of contractual portfolio risks and supporting consistent contracting standards.
Key responsibilities and areas of focus include:
- Helping lead and build the Contract Management function within Procurement.
- Overseeing risks across the contract portfolio.
- Developing and strengthening contracting standards.
- Supporting effective commercial governance.
- Aligning commercial execution with established contracting practices.
- Strengthening the organisation’s approach to contract management.
- Supporting consistent management of commercial agreements and associated risks.
The vacancy seeks an exceptional commercial and governance professional with 5–8+ years of experience.
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- Tupande Crop Sourcing Specialist (Fixed-Term)
Location: Kenya
Category: Professionals
Contract: Fixed-Term
The Tupande Crop Sourcing Specialist position focuses on increasing farmer productivity and crop sourcing volumes across several agricultural value chains.
The role covers avocado, macadamia, dried fruit and other cash crops. It combines agronomy, farmer engagement, incentives, field implementation and data-driven decision-making.
Key responsibilities and areas of focus include:
- Supporting growth in farmer productivity.
- Increasing crop sourcing volumes.
- Working across avocado, macadamia, dried fruit and cash crop value chains.
- Applying data-driven agronomy approaches to sourcing activities.
- Supporting the development and implementation of farmer incentives.
- Coordinating field execution associated with crop sourcing.
- Using agricultural and field information to support productivity and sourcing decisions.
- Helping connect improved farmer production with stronger sourcing outcomes.
One Acre Fund is seeking a mission-driven agriculture professional with 3+ years of experience.
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- Investor Relations Specialist (Renewable)
Location: Kenya
Category: Professionals
Contract: Renewable
The Investor Relations Specialist will support One Acre Fund’s Investor Relations team across loan compliance, reporting, operational activities, lender due diligence and analytical assignments.
The position combines financial and operational responsibilities and supports the organisation’s relationships and obligations involving lenders.
Key responsibilities and areas of focus include:
- Supporting the Investor Relations team with loan compliance activities.
- Contributing to loan-related reporting.
- Supporting the department’s day-to-day operations.
- Participating in lender due diligence processes.
- Supporting one-off analytical projects.
- Helping maintain the information and processes required for investor and lender engagements.
- Providing analytical and operational support across the Investor Relations function.
The vacancy summary does not specify a minimum number of years of experience.
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- Graphic Designer (Fixed-Term)
Location: Kenya
Category: Professionals
Contract: Fixed-Term
One Acre Fund is recruiting an independent Graphic Designer to support its impact-driven design team. The role involves producing materials intended for farmers as well as content for social media.
The position has a strong emphasis on print design while also requiring effective stakeholder communication and project management.
Key responsibilities and areas of focus include:
- Creating farmer-facing design materials.
- Developing visual materials for social media.
- Supporting a busy design team with ongoing creative requirements.
- Producing materials with a strong focus on print design.
- Communicating with stakeholders during design projects.
- Managing design assignments and associated project requirements.
- Contributing independent design capacity to an impact-focused team.
- Supporting the production of practical visual communication materials for different audiences.
The organisation is seeking a Graphic Designer with 5+ years of experience.
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- Tupande Electrical Maintenance Engineer / Specialist (Fixed-Term)
Location: Kenya
Category: Professionals
Contract: Fixed-Term
The Tupande Electrical Maintenance Engineer / Specialist will support reliable factory operations by carrying out electrical maintenance and addressing automation and instrumentation problems across Tupande Soko factories.
A central objective of the position is reducing operational downtime affecting processing activities.
Key responsibilities and areas of focus include:
- Executing electrical maintenance across Tupande Soko factories.
- Troubleshooting automation-related problems.
- Conducting instrumentation repairs.
- Supporting reliable operation of electrical systems and equipment.
- Responding to electrical maintenance requirements affecting factory operations.
- Helping reduce operational downtime.
- Supporting continuity of processing operations through timely maintenance and troubleshooting.
- Working across Tupande Soko factory environments as required.
The vacancy seeks an Electrical Engineer with 3–5 years of experience.
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- Tupande Mechanical Maintenance Engineer / Specialist (Fixed-Term)
Location: Kenya
Category: Professionals
Contract: Fixed-Term
This engineering position focuses on high-level mechanical maintenance, troubleshooting and repairs across Tupande Soko factories.
The Mechanical Maintenance Engineer / Specialist will contribute to the reliability of processing equipment and factory operations, with particular attention to reducing downtime.
Key responsibilities and areas of focus include:
- Executing high-level mechanical maintenance.
- Troubleshooting mechanical equipment and machinery problems.
- Conducting mechanical repairs across Tupande Soko factories.
- Supporting reliable operation of processing machinery.
- Addressing mechanical issues that could interrupt factory operations.
- Contributing to reduced operational downtime.
- Supporting the continued functioning of equipment used in processing operations.
- Providing mechanical maintenance support across the factory network.
The vacancy seeks a Mechanical Engineer with 3–5 years of experience.
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- Tupande Engineering & Maintenance Lead (Fixed-Term)
Location: Kenya
Category: Professionals
Contract: Fixed-Term
The Tupande Engineering & Maintenance Lead will provide leadership for the maintenance of factory machinery and equipment.
The position has a broader engineering leadership mandate focused on establishing maintenance excellence across Tupande Soko factories and reducing operational downtime.
Key responsibilities and areas of focus include:
- Leading factory machinery and equipment maintenance.
- Providing direction for engineering maintenance activities.
- Establishing engineering maintenance excellence across Tupande Soko factories.
- Supporting reliable performance of factory machinery.
- Strengthening maintenance practices across processing operations.
- Helping reduce operational downtime.
- Supporting effective maintenance systems for factory equipment.
- Providing engineering leadership to maintain continuity of processing activities.
The vacancy summary does not specify a minimum number of years of experience.
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- Tupande Biochar Compliance Specialist (Fixed-Term)
Location: Kenya
Category: Professionals
Contract: Fixed-Term
Reports to: Biochar Lead
The Tupande Biochar Compliance Specialist will own the facility’s compliance function. The role combines leadership of the Monitoring, Reporting and Verification programme with responsibility for designing and overseeing the facility’s Health, Safety and Environment programme.
The position also serves as an important link between the facility and external verifiers, auditors and regulatory bodies.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning the facility’s overall compliance function.
- Leading the Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) programme.
- Designing and running the facility’s data system.
- Ensuring the system captures required feedstock information.
- Capturing and managing production data.
- Maintaining required quality information.
- Recording end-use data.
- Ensuring data meets standards required by external verifiers.
- Designing the facility’s Health, Safety and Environment programme.
- Overseeing implementation of the HSE programme.
- Coordinating HSE training.
- Maintaining compliance and HSE documentation.
- Supporting audit readiness.
- Serving as the primary interface with external verifiers and auditors.
- Engaging relevant regulators, including NEMA and DOSH.
- Coordinating with third-party carbon verifiers.
- Reporting to the Biochar Lead.
This role combines operational compliance, environmental and workplace safety oversight, carbon-related verification requirements and structured data management.
The supplied vacancy summary does not state a specific experience requirement.
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- Global GR Operations and Systems Specialist
Locations: Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia
Category: Professionals
The Global GR Operations and Systems Specialist will support processes and coordination across a Government Relations team comprising more than 100 people.
The position focuses on improving operational systems, strengthening coordination, supporting skills development and coordinating donor-related workflows.
Key responsibilities and areas of focus include:
- Strengthening Government Relations processes.
- Improving coordination across the Government Relations team.
- Supporting operations within a team of more than 100 people.
- Championing skills-building initiatives.
- Coordinating donor workflows.
- Helping establish effective processes that support team operations.
- Supporting collaboration across a geographically distributed Government Relations function.
- Contributing to more effective systems for managing team and donor-related activities.
One Acre Fund is seeking a professional with 2–3 years of experience.
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- Carbon Finance Manager (Fixed-Term)
Locations: Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia
Category: Professionals
Contract: Fixed-Term
The Carbon Finance Manager will work at the intersection of climate finance, financial analysis, fundraising and agroforestry.
The position will help advance One Acre Fund’s agroforestry carbon pilots by developing the financial analysis needed to assess and support them while also contributing to fundraising efforts.
Key responsibilities and areas of focus include:
- Driving financial modelling for agroforestry carbon pilots.
- Supporting fundraising connected to carbon initiatives.
- Applying climate finance expertise to the organisation’s carbon work.
- Developing financial analysis to support agroforestry carbon programmes.
- Contributing to the financial development of carbon pilot initiatives.
- Supporting the mobilisation of funding for climate-related programmes.
- Helping connect financial strategy with the implementation and expansion of agroforestry carbon pilots.
The organisation seeks an exceptional climate finance professional with 5+ years of experience.
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- Tupande Automation Engineering Lead (Fixed-Term)
Location: Kenya
Category: Professionals
Contract: Fixed-Term
The Tupande Automation Engineering Lead will be responsible for building Tupande’s automation capability and leading the development of high-impact technical solutions.
The position combines hands-on engineering with business partnership and technical leadership. Its broader purpose is to use automation and artificial intelligence capabilities to support the scaling of farmer impact.
Key responsibilities and areas of focus include:
- Building Tupande’s automation capability.
- Leading the development of high-impact automation solutions.
- Applying AI and automation engineering to organisational needs.
- Providing hands-on engineering leadership.
- Partnering with business teams on automation opportunities.
- Providing technical leadership for automation initiatives.
- Supporting the scaling of farmer impact through technology.
- Connecting technical solutions with practical business requirements.
- Strengthening Tupande’s capacity to design and deploy automation solutions.
The vacancy seeks an exceptional AI and automation engineering leader. The supplied summary does not specify a minimum number of years of experience.
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- Fertilizer Procurement Associate
Location: Kenya
Category: Professionals
The Fertilizer Procurement Associate will take responsibility for fertilizer procurement, with emphasis on cost-efficient sourcing and dependable delivery.
The role combines procurement execution, supply chain management, data-driven decision-making and team leadership.
Key responsibilities and areas of focus include:
- Leading fertilizer procurement activities.
- Supporting cost-efficient fertilizer sourcing.
- Ensuring reliable and timely delivery.
- Driving execution excellence within fertilizer procurement.
- Leading a high-performing team.
- Using data to guide procurement decisions.
- Leading projects designed to produce measurable operational impact.
- Supporting reliable fertilizer supply through effective procurement processes.
- Balancing sourcing costs with delivery requirements.
- Contributing to stronger supply chain execution.
The vacancy seeks an exceptional Supply Chain professional. The supplied vacancy information does not specify a minimum number of years of experience.
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- Global MEL Senior Associate (Fixed-Term)
Locations: Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia
Category: Professionals
Contract: Fixed-Term
The Global Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Senior Associate will contribute to strengthening the quality and rigor of monitoring and evaluation across One Acre Fund’s growth country portfolio and agroforestry programme.
The position has a multi-country scope and supports the organisation’s ability to generate and use credible monitoring and evaluation information.
Key responsibilities and areas of focus include:
- Strengthening monitoring and evaluation quality.
- Improving rigor in monitoring and evaluation approaches.
- Supporting One Acre Fund’s growth country portfolio.
- Supporting monitoring and evaluation work associated with the agroforestry programme.
- Contributing MEL expertise across multiple country programmes.
- Helping strengthen measurement approaches used to understand programme performance.
- Supporting consistent and rigorous monitoring and evaluation practices across the relevant portfolio.
One Acre Fund is seeking an exceptional MEL professional with 3+ years of experience.
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- Grants Finance Senior Associate/Manager
Locations: Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia
Category: Professionals
The Grants Finance Senior Associate/Manager will support the financial management of high-value partnerships, particularly through budget development and compliance.
The role also carries a longer-term systems mandate, requiring the successful professional to contribute to improvements in the systems supporting grants finance.
Key responsibilities and areas of focus include:
- Owning budget development for high-value partnerships.
- Supporting financial compliance associated with partnerships.
- Managing finance-related requirements connected with major grants and partnerships.
- Driving long-term improvements to grants finance systems.
- Strengthening processes that support effective financial management of partnerships.
- Supporting reliable budgeting practices.
- Helping ensure financial requirements are incorporated into partnership management.
- Combining immediate grants finance responsibilities with longer-term systems improvement.
The supplied vacancy information does not state a specific minimum number of years of experience.
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- Tupande MEL Manager
Location: Kenya
Category: Professionals
The Tupande MEL Manager will lead work related to data quality and measurement strategy within Tupande’s operations in Kenya.
The position is focused on strengthening the information and measurement approaches used to understand and amplify programme impact.
Key responsibilities and areas of focus include:
- Driving data quality across relevant Tupande activities.
- Leading the development and implementation of measurement strategy.
- Strengthening the quality of information used to assess programme impact.
- Supporting effective monitoring, evaluation and learning practices.
- Using MEL approaches to strengthen understanding of Tupande’s impact.
- Supporting measurement activities across Kenya.
- Helping ensure that programme information is sufficiently robust to inform impact-related decisions.
- Contributing MEL leadership to Tupande’s operations and programmes.
One Acre Fund is seeking an exceptional MEL professional with 5+ years of experience.
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How to Apply for One Acre Fund Jobs
Interested applicants should review the complete vacancy announcement for the particular One Acre Fund position they intend to pursue. The full advertisement should be checked carefully for application instructions, role-specific requirements, location arrangements, contract information and any additional details that may not be contained in the vacancy summaries.
Candidates should ensure that the information submitted during the recruitment process accurately reflects their professional background and experience. Since several vacancies cover multiple countries, applicants should also confirm the location arrangements specified for their chosen position.
The opportunities listed above cover a broad range of professional functions, including engineering and maintenance, procurement, export logistics, contract management, agriculture, graphic design, investor relations, government relations, climate finance, grants finance, monitoring and evaluation, compliance and automation engineering.
Applicants should use the application page corresponding to the position they wish to pursue and follow the instructions provided by One Acre Fund.
