Working at One Acre Fund
Careers, recruitment routes and current opportunities with One Acre Fund
Explore One Acre Fund careers in agricultural development, operations, technology and field programmes, with application guidance and current vacancies.
Overview
One Acre Fund is a social enterprise serving smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. It supplies farm inputs on credit, delivers them close to the farms it serves, provides agronomic training and supports market access, with the stated aim of raising farm income per hectare.
Unlike most humanitarian employers, its model is operational and commercial in character. Field delivery at scale, loan repayment, supply chain and unit economics sit at the centre of its work. Roles therefore cluster in field operations, agriculture and agroforestry, supply chain and logistics, credit and finance, data and analytics, people operations and technology.
Hiring is concentrated in its core countries in East and Southern Africa, with strong preference for staff based in and from those countries. Career staff and a smaller global cohort of longer-term hires make up the professional workforce, and roles usually carry a multi-year commitment expectation.
Organization profile
The culture is data-driven and field first. New professional staff are commonly expected to spend time in rural field operations regardless of function, and decisions are defended with numbers. Candidates who can demonstrate measurable operational improvement including cost per farmer, repayment rates, delivery times, error rates, are well placed.
The organisation is candid about postings being rural rather than urban, the work being demanding, and that it looks for long-term commitment rather than short assignments. Local language ability and prior experience living or working in rural East or Southern Africa are meaningful advantages.
Recruitment at a glance
50 vacancies advertised in the last 12 months in our database.
Grades and levels
| Level | Vacancies |
|---|---|
| 3-4 years | 29 |
| 0-2 years | 11 |
| 5-9 years | 10 |
Contract types
| Contract | Vacancies |
|---|---|
| Job | 49 |
| Internship | 1 |
Where the roles are
| Duty station country | Vacancies |
|---|---|
| Kenya | 20 |
| Rwanda | 11 |
| Nigeria | 6 |
| Ethiopia | 4 |
| Burundi | 2 |
| Malawi | 2 |
| Uganda | 2 |
| Tanzania | 1 |
| Zambia | 1 |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 1 |
How to apply
Apply through One Acre Fund's careers site. Roles state the country and whether the position is nationally or globally recruited, and many require a minimum commitment of two years.
The application places real weight on a written motivation. Explain why smallholder agriculture specifically, and why you are prepared to be based outside a city. Generic development motivation performs poorly here.
Selection typically includes screening, one or more written or analytical exercises, and interviews focused on problem solving, humility and operational judgement. The process is thorough and can take several weeks. Candidates for field leadership roles may also be asked to complete a practical case based on real operational data.
Salary and conditions
UN Global Jobs does not publish salary, allowance, benefits or contract-condition guidance for One Acre Fund. Pay and conditions differ by grade, contract type and duty station, and they change over time. The authoritative statements are the ones in the vacancy notice and in the offer made by the organisation, which is where you should verify them. Where a vacancy notice states pay, we reproduce it on the listing; where it does not, ask the recruiting team before making commitments.
Sources
Vacancy figures on this page are calculated from notices published by One Acre Fund and collected by UN Global Jobs. Organisational facts are taken from One Acre Fund's own published material.