On most days, you will find Esther Wangari tending to her farm, located deep in the heart of Kirinyaga County, in Kenya’s central highlands. Bordering her maize and beans fields, Esther’s latest passion – tree planting – thrives. For this Kenyan smallholder farmer, her new venture is more than just about planting trees; it is also about her livelihood and securing her family’s future.
Seeking an exceptional communications professional with 2-5 years of experience managing and implementing intranets or collaboration software. The successful candidate will help us rollout a new intranet and manage our main internal communications tools.
We are looking for an experienced manager to oversee a 70+ person team and maximize the effectiveness of multiple sales channels and operations: retail shops, field-force and online to deliver impact to farm families in our Mt Kenya and Coast regions.
We are looking for an experienced and driven leader to build our vision on Data, BI, and AI to manage our data flows and support our data-driven future - from making better business decisions to developing LLM chatbots.
Join One Acre Fund as a DevOps Lead! Drive innovation, streamline workflows, and enhance system reliability to empower African smallholder farmers. Lead a talented team and make a meaningful impact.
Seeking a writer with 2-5 years of relevant professional experience to help us reach a new level of fundraising through best-in-class grant proposals and reports
Seeking a Global Human Centered Design (HCD) Lead to use HCD methodologies to improve One Acre Fund's program design, product offerings, marketing and extension.
Eugine’s Asubila story is a testament to how smallholder agriculture is empowering women across Kenya – and sub-Saharan Africa – to become entrepreneurs by creating the means for them to set up new businesses.
Seeking an accomplished HR professional with 2+ years of experience and a proven track record of delivering impactful results, leading HR functions and serving as a strategic advisor, with a specific focus in Employee Relations and Talent Management.
Seeking an expert in agronomy and African smallholder agriculture to lead cutting-edge research to develop truly scalable and adoptable agronomic recommendations (& recommendation systems) and communicate the outputs of this research to diverse audiences.
Seeking someone to oversee grant finances, ensuring adherence to budgets, compliance, and reporting standards, in addition to analyzing financial data to optimize resource allocation and support grant program success.
In Kenya and Burundi, farmers like Wycliffe Nzaga, Eunice Nguu, and Sylvie Nahimana have witnessed first-hand the detrimental effects of climate change on farming.
Women smallholder farmers like Hilder Ongeri typically invest more of what they earn back into their families and communities than their male counterparts. This has knock-on effects for the generations that follow.
Seeking an exceptional fundraising professional with 10+ years experience in international business and USAID grants management to develop and implement a priming/subbing strategy and secure grants of $5M per annum or greater from public donors
This report shares the results of a trial in Kenya to test the maize yield effect of urea compared to CAN. A secondary objective of the trial was to measure the soil acidity level effect of the different top dress options.
One Acre Fund sought to evaluate recommended planting best practices for crops that commonly grow in western Kenya.
Through it's research station in Kenya, One Acre Fund conducted agricultural trials to search for better performing and more blast resistant varieties of finger millet.
Our Executive Director, Andrew Youn, shares his vision on why investing in young farmers is key to addressing the challenges we face in agriculture today – from sustainably feeding the world’s growing population to finding lasting solutions to resilient, profitable agriculture.
At One Acre Fund, we specialize in last-mile delivery, distributing agricultural supplies within walking distance of some of Sub-Saharan Africa’s hardest-to-reach places. And in 2022, we set up our first-ever Home Delivery Unit in Kenya.
Michelle, our Global Director for Government Relations and Policy, talks about her career, her journey to the top, the hurdles she’s overcome along the way, and why she thinks “good girls” can get the figurative corner office.
Pauline, who is one of our Regional Managers, talks about her career journey and success in a male-dominated field.
One Acre Fund Kenya launches new services for farmers under a new name.
We speak to Annie and Gloria, two women in our Fundraising team, about their careers, what inspires them for the future, and how they are celebrating women everywhere this year.
Here, Emilie Umuhire, Kennedy Kimiti and Olivier Irakoze speak about their experiences working in our Global Recruitment team.
