One Acre Fund has announced multiple career opportunities for professionals interested in working across agriculture, food safety, engineering, logistics, procurement, climate finance, monitoring and evaluation, investor relations, grants finance, automation, contract management and other operational areas.
The latest One Acre Fund jobs include opportunities based in Kenya as well as several positions that may be available across multiple countries where the organization operates. The vacancies range from specialist and senior specialist positions to associate, senior associate, manager and engineering leadership roles.
A significant number of the advertised opportunities are connected to Tupande and its agricultural value-chain operations. These positions cover areas such as macadamia processing, export logistics, crop sourcing, food safety, factory maintenance, biochar compliance, procurement and automation. Other opportunities support One Acre Fund’s broader work in areas including carbon finance, monitoring and evaluation, investor relations and grants finance.
The available positions require professionals from different career backgrounds. Some of the advertisements specify minimum experience levels, including three or more years, three to five years, five or more years, and five to eight or more years of relevant experience. Where an experience requirement has been provided in the vacancy announcement, it is included below. No additional academic or professional qualifications have been introduced.
Professionals searching for One Acre Fund jobs in Kenya can review the 14 currently listed opportunities below.
1. Tupande Quality Assurance Specialist (Fixed-Term)
Location: Kenya
Job Category: Professionals
Employment Arrangement: Fixed-term
One Acre Fund is seeking an experienced food safety professional to take responsibility for the Food Safety Management System supporting Tupande’s macadamia operations.
The position has an important connection to the organization’s efforts to access premium export markets. Such markets require suppliers to meet established certification standards. Maintaining appropriate food safety systems and securing certifications such as BRCGS and FSSC can therefore support access to higher-value markets and contribute to efforts to increase the price farmers receive for their macadamia.
The Quality Assurance Specialist will lead the food safety team and oversee the systems required to maintain the expected food safety standards. The position involves both documentation and direct operational oversight across the processing environment.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the Food Safety Management System supporting the organization’s BRCGS and FSSC certification requirements.
- Leading and supporting the food safety team.
- Reviewing records generated during production shifts.
- Checking Critical Control Points and ensuring appropriate monitoring is taking place.
- Conducting floor-level checks covering operations from receiving through to packing.
- Following up and closing findings identified during audits.
- Driving corrective actions where food safety or operational issues have been identified.
- Investigating food safety and quality issues to determine their root causes.
- Coaching members of the food safety team.
- Preparing the operation and relevant teams for audits.
- Supporting the continued maintenance of food safety certification standards.
- Helping ensure that food safety systems support access to premium export markets.
Experience:
The organization is seeking a food safety professional with at least five years of experience in food manufacturing.
This position is particularly focused on practical ownership of the food safety system rather than certification being treated solely as a documentation exercise. The specialist will be expected to connect monitoring, floor-level implementation, corrective action and audit readiness.
2. Tupande Export Logistics Senior Specialist
Location: Kenya
Job Category: Professionals
One Acre Fund is seeking a detail-oriented logistics professional to lead end-to-end export operations as the organization expands its global reach.
The position focuses on ensuring that goods reach international vendors on time while meeting applicable compliance requirements and maintaining cost-efficient export operations.
The Senior Specialist will have responsibility across the export process, making coordination and attention to operational details important aspects of the role.
Key areas of responsibility include:
- Leading end-to-end export operations.
- Supporting the timely delivery of goods to international vendors.
- Ensuring export activities are conducted in a compliant manner.
- Supporting cost-efficient delivery and logistics operations.
- Coordinating export execution as One Acre Fund scales its international reach.
- Maintaining close attention to operational details throughout the export process.
- Helping ensure that export requirements are completed without unnecessary delays.
- Balancing delivery timelines, compliance expectations and logistics costs.
Experience:
Applicants should have between three and five or more years of relevant logistics experience.
The role sits at an important point between local operations and international markets. Effective export logistics can help ensure products move reliably from the organization’s operations to international vendors while controlling costs and meeting relevant requirements.
3. Tupande Contract Management Specialists & Senior Specialist
Location: Kenya
Job Category: Professionals
One Acre Fund is recruiting commercial and governance professionals to strengthen its Contract Management function within Procurement.
The opportunity covers Contract Management Specialist and Senior Specialist responsibilities and is designed around building a structured approach to contracts, portfolio risk, commercial standards and governance.
The successful professionals will contribute to the development and leadership of the Contract Management function while supporting consistent contracting practices across procurement activities.
Key areas of responsibility include:
- Leading and helping build the Contract Management function within Procurement.
- Overseeing risks associated with the contract portfolio.
- Driving consistent contracting standards.
- Supporting appropriate governance across contract management activities.
- Aligning commercial execution with established contracting approaches.
- Strengthening the way contracts are managed across the procurement portfolio.
- Supporting structured commercial and governance practices.
- Helping ensure contract-related risks receive appropriate oversight.
Experience:
One Acre Fund is seeking professionals with five to eight or more years of relevant experience.
The position combines commercial execution with governance responsibilities. It therefore plays an important role in creating consistent standards while ensuring contractual and portfolio risks are appropriately managed.
4. Tupande Crop Sourcing (Extension & Aggregation) Specialist – Fixed-Term
Location: Kenya
Job Category: Professionals
Employment Arrangement: Fixed-term
One Acre Fund is seeking a mission-driven agriculture professional to support increased farmer productivity and sourcing volumes across several agricultural value chains.
The role covers avocado, macadamia, dried fruit and other cash crops. Its focus combines agronomy, farmer incentives, sourcing and field execution.
The specialist will contribute to efforts to improve production at farmer level while simultaneously strengthening the volumes available for sourcing and aggregation.
Key areas of responsibility include:
- Supporting growth in farmer productivity.
- Increasing sourcing volumes across targeted agricultural value chains.
- Working across avocado, macadamia, dried fruit and cash crops.
- Applying data-driven approaches to agronomy.
- Supporting the development and implementation of farmer incentives.
- Strengthening field execution.
- Connecting farmer-level production activities with sourcing requirements.
- Using agricultural and field information to support better sourcing outcomes.
- Supporting practical implementation of crop sourcing and extension activities.
Experience:
Applicants should have at least three years of relevant experience in agriculture.
The role brings together agricultural extension and commercial sourcing objectives. The specialist will therefore contribute to both farmer productivity and the organization’s ability to aggregate agricultural products at the volumes required for its operations.
5. Investor Relations Specialist (Renewable)
Location: Kenya
Job Category: Professionals
Employment Arrangement: Renewable
One Acre Fund is seeking an exceptional professional to support its Investor Relations team.
The position covers loan compliance and reporting, departmental operations, lender due diligence and analytical projects. It will support activities associated with One Acre Fund’s relationships and obligations involving lenders.
Key responsibilities include:
- Supporting the Investor Relations team in executing loan compliance activities.
- Contributing to loan-related reporting.
- Supporting the operations of the Investor Relations department.
- Assisting with lender due diligence processes.
- Undertaking one-off analytical projects.
- Helping maintain effective execution of investor relations processes.
- Supporting the information and analytical requirements associated with lender engagements.
- Contributing to the smooth operation of the department.
The role combines recurring operational responsibilities with analytical assignments. The professional appointed to the position will support both routine requirements, such as reporting and compliance, and projects requiring focused analysis.
6. Tupande Electrical Maintenance Engineer / Specialist (Fixed-Term)
Location: Kenya
Job Category: Professionals
Employment Arrangement: Fixed-term
One Acre Fund is seeking an Electrical Engineer to support reliable factory operations across Tupande Soko factories.
The position focuses on electrical maintenance, automation troubleshooting and instrumentation repairs. These activities are intended to reduce operational downtime across processing operations.
Key responsibilities include:
- Executing electrical maintenance activities across Tupande Soko factories.
- Troubleshooting automation-related problems.
- Conducting instrumentation repairs.
- Supporting reliable operation of electrical equipment and systems.
- Responding to electrical maintenance requirements affecting factory operations.
- Supporting efforts to reduce processing downtime.
- Troubleshooting faults that may interfere with production activities.
- Helping restore factory equipment and systems following electrical or instrumentation problems.
- Supporting maintenance execution across the organization’s processing facilities.
Experience:
Applicants should have between three and five years of relevant experience.
The role has a direct connection to production continuity. Effective maintenance and troubleshooting can reduce interruptions to processing operations and help ensure factory machinery and related electrical systems remain operational.
7. Tupande Mechanical Maintenance Engineer / Specialist (Fixed-Term)
Location: Kenya
Job Category: Professionals
Employment Arrangement: Fixed-term
One Acre Fund is recruiting a Mechanical Engineer to execute high-level mechanical maintenance across Tupande Soko factories.
The position focuses on maintenance, troubleshooting and repairs required to keep processing machinery and equipment functioning effectively.
A major objective of the role is to reduce operational downtime within processing operations.
Key responsibilities include:
- Executing high-level mechanical maintenance activities.
- Troubleshooting mechanical problems affecting factory equipment.
- Conducting mechanical repairs.
- Supporting machinery reliability across Tupande Soko factories.
- Responding to mechanical faults affecting processing operations.
- Helping reduce operational downtime.
- Supporting continued operation of processing machinery and equipment.
- Identifying and addressing mechanical maintenance requirements.
- Contributing to effective maintenance execution across the factories.
Experience:
Applicants should have between three and five years of relevant experience.
The Mechanical Maintenance Engineer/Specialist will contribute directly to factory reliability by ensuring mechanical problems are identified, investigated and addressed as part of Tupande Soko’s maintenance operations.
8. Tupande Engineering & Maintenance Lead (Fixed-Term)
Location: Kenya
Job Category: Professionals
Employment Arrangement: Fixed-term
One Acre Fund is seeking an Engineering Lead to provide leadership for factory machinery and equipment maintenance.
The position has responsibility for establishing engineering maintenance excellence across Tupande Soko factories. Its central operational objective is to reduce downtime and strengthen the reliability of processing operations.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading factory machinery and equipment maintenance.
- Establishing engineering maintenance excellence across Tupande Soko factories.
- Providing leadership for maintenance-related activities.
- Supporting improved machinery and equipment reliability.
- Driving efforts aimed at reducing operational downtime.
- Strengthening maintenance execution across processing facilities.
- Supporting effective operation of factory equipment.
- Establishing stronger approaches to engineering and maintenance within factory operations.
- Helping ensure maintenance activities support continuous processing operations.
This is a leadership position within the engineering and maintenance environment. Its scope extends beyond individual repairs by focusing on establishing effective maintenance practices across multiple factories.
9. Tupande Biochar Compliance Specialist (Fixed-Term)
Location: Kenya
Job Category: Professionals
Employment Arrangement: 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 the design and oversight of the facility’s Health, Safety and Environment programme.
A significant component of the role involves designing and operating the data system required to capture information about feedstock, production, quality and end use. The information must be captured to the standard required by an external verifier.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning the facility’s Compliance function.
- Leading the Monitoring, Reporting and Verification programme.
- Designing and overseeing the facility’s Health, Safety and Environment programme.
- Designing the data system used to capture required operational information.
- Managing data relating to feedstock.
- Supporting the capture of production information.
- Ensuring quality-related information is appropriately captured.
- Maintaining data concerning the end use of relevant products or outputs.
- Ensuring data systems meet standards required by the external verifier.
- Owning HSE programme design.
- Overseeing HSE training.
- Maintaining required HSE documentation.
- Supporting audit readiness.
- Serving as the primary interface with external verifiers.
- Working with auditors.
- Engaging relevant regulators.
- Serving as a point of contact for NEMA.
- Supporting interactions with DOSH.
- Working with third-party carbon verifiers.
- Reporting to the Biochar Lead.
The position brings together compliance, verification, data management, health and safety, environmental oversight and external stakeholder engagement. It is therefore central to maintaining the systems and evidence required for the facility’s compliance activities.
10. Carbon Finance Manager (Fixed-Term)
Locations: Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia
Job Category: Professionals
Employment Arrangement: Fixed-term
One Acre Fund is seeking a climate finance professional to support its agroforestry carbon pilots.
The Carbon Finance Manager will focus particularly on financial modelling and fundraising.
The position supports the financial side of One Acre Fund’s work around agroforestry carbon initiatives and will contribute to establishing the financial analysis and fundraising required for these pilots.
Key areas of responsibility include:
- Driving financial modelling for agroforestry carbon pilots.
- Supporting fundraising activities connected to the carbon pilots.
- Applying climate finance experience to the organization’s agroforestry initiatives.
- Developing financial analysis that supports carbon pilot activities.
- Contributing to the financial planning of the organization’s carbon-related work.
- Supporting efforts to secure funding for agroforestry carbon pilots.
- Connecting financial modelling with fundraising requirements.
Experience:
Applicants should have at least five years of relevant climate finance experience.
The position may be based in Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania or Zambia, making it one of the opportunities in this recruitment round that extends beyond Kenya.
11. Tupande Automation Engineering Lead (Fixed-Term)
Location: Kenya
Job Category: Professionals
Employment Arrangement: Fixed-term
One Acre Fund is seeking an AI and automation engineering leader to build Tupande’s automation capability.
The position combines hands-on engineering with business partnership and technical leadership. Its broader purpose is to develop high-impact automation solutions capable of supporting the scaling of farmer impact.
Key responsibilities include:
- Building Tupande’s automation capability.
- Leading the development of high-impact automation solutions.
- Applying AI and automation engineering to operational challenges.
- Providing hands-on engineering support.
- Working with business teams and stakeholders as an engineering partner.
- Providing technical leadership.
- Supporting the scaling of farmer impact through technology and automation.
- Helping establish effective approaches to automation within Tupande.
- Connecting technical solutions with practical business requirements.
- Leading automation initiatives from a technical perspective.
The role is designed around both leadership and implementation. Rather than being limited to technical oversight, it incorporates hands-on engineering and collaboration with the business to develop automation capabilities that can support operational scale.
12. Fertilizer Procurement Associate
Location: Kenya
Job Category: Professionals
One Acre Fund is seeking a Supply Chain professional to lead fertilizer procurement.
The position focuses on ensuring fertilizer is sourced cost-efficiently and delivered reliably and on time. It also combines procurement execution with team leadership, data-driven decision-making and project implementation.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading fertilizer procurement.
- Supporting cost-efficient fertilizer sourcing.
- Ensuring reliable delivery.
- Supporting on-time delivery of procured fertilizer.
- Driving execution excellence within procurement activities.
- Leading a high-performing team.
- Applying data-driven approaches to procurement decisions.
- Leading projects intended to generate meaningful operational impact.
- Supporting reliable fertilizer supply through effective procurement execution.
- Balancing sourcing costs with delivery reliability and timelines.
The role is positioned within supply chain operations and requires strong attention to procurement execution. Fertilizer procurement can involve the simultaneous management of cost, supply reliability and delivery schedules, making data-driven decision-making an important component of the position.
13. Global MEL Senior Associate (Fixed-Term)
Locations: Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia
Job Category: Professionals
Employment Arrangement: Fixed-term
One Acre Fund is seeking a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning professional to strengthen the quality and rigor of monitoring and evaluation across its growth country portfolio and agroforestry programme.
The role has a broad geographical scope and may be available across several One Acre Fund operating countries, including Kenya.
Key areas of responsibility include:
- Strengthening monitoring and evaluation quality.
- Improving the rigor of monitoring and evaluation activities.
- Supporting One Acre Fund’s growth country portfolio.
- Supporting monitoring and evaluation within the agroforestry programme.
- Contributing MEL expertise across relevant programmes and countries.
- Supporting stronger approaches to the assessment and monitoring of programme activities.
- Helping maintain quality standards in monitoring and evaluation work.
- Contributing to the organization’s broader MEL function.
Experience:
Applicants should have at least three years of relevant Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning experience.
Locations listed for the role are Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia.
The broad geographical coverage means the position contributes to monitoring and evaluation quality beyond a single country programme, with particular attention to growth countries and agroforestry work.
14. Grants Finance Senior Associate/Manager
Locations: Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia
Job Category: Professionals
One Acre Fund is seeking a Grants Finance Senior Associate/Manager to take ownership of budget development and compliance for high-value partnerships.
The position combines financial management responsibilities associated with partnerships with longer-term efforts to improve the systems supporting grants finance.
Key areas of responsibility include:
- Owning budget development for high-value partnerships.
- Managing compliance requirements associated with those partnerships.
- Supporting grants finance activities across relevant programmes.
- Driving longer-term systems improvements.
- Strengthening financial systems supporting partnership management.
- Supporting effective budget planning and management.
- Helping ensure financial requirements associated with high-value partnerships are appropriately managed.
- Contributing to sustainable improvements in grants finance processes.
The opportunity is listed across Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
The Senior Associate/Manager will therefore combine immediate financial responsibilities around budgets and compliance with longer-term work aimed at improving the systems through which grants finance activities are managed.
How to Apply for One Acre Fund Jobs
Interested professionals should carefully review the full vacancy announcement for the position they intend to pursue before submitting an application.
Applicants should pay particular attention to the location, employment arrangement, experience requirements and responsibilities associated with each vacancy. Some of the opportunities are fixed-term positions, while the Investor Relations Specialist position is listed as renewable.
Several vacancies are specifically based in Kenya, while the Carbon Finance Manager, Global MEL Senior Associate and Grants Finance Senior Associate/Manager opportunities list multiple possible countries.
The vacancies covered in this recruitment include:
- Tupande Quality Assurance Specialist (Fixed-Term)
- Tupande Export Logistics Senior Specialist
- Tupande Contract Management Specialists & Senior Specialist
- Tupande Crop Sourcing (Extension & Aggregation) Specialist (Fixed-Term)
- Investor Relations Specialist (Renewable)
- Tupande Electrical Maintenance Engineer / Specialist (Fixed-Term)
- Tupande Mechanical Maintenance Engineer / Specialist (Fixed-Term)
- Tupande Engineering & Maintenance Lead (Fixed-Term)
- Tupande Biochar Compliance Specialist (Fixed-Term)
- Carbon Finance Manager (Fixed-Term)
- Tupande Automation Engineering Lead (Fixed-Term)
- Fertilizer Procurement Associate
- Global MEL Senior Associate (Fixed-Term)
- Grants Finance Senior Associate/Manager
Applications should be made through the relevant official One Acre Fund vacancy page. Applicants should use the specific vacancy listing corresponding to the position they are interested in and ensure that the information submitted during the application process is complete and accurate.
