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Grants Finance Manager
Seeking an exceptional Grants Finance Manager to own budget development and compliance for high-value partnerships while driving long-term systems improvements.
Nigeria
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Nigeria Human Resources Specialist
Seeking a HR professional to strengthen people systems, performance management, and employee relations while partnering with leaders to support workforce stability, compliance, and organizational effectiveness at scale.
Vacancy
Nigeria Agronomy Specialist
Seeking an exceptional Agronomy researcher with 3-5+ years of experience creating impactful solutions to join our team to increase our impact per farmer by recommending products that can improve resilience and livelihood of farming households
Vacancy
Nigeria Innovations Adoption and Scaling Specialist (Fixed-Term)
We are seeking an exceptional development professional with demonstrated expertise in human-centered design and behavioral research to lead and scale One Acre Fund’s program adoption among smallholder farmers in Nigeria.
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Nigeria Trees Sustainability Coordinator (Fixed-Term)
Seeking a detail-oriented Coordinator to power our Trees sustainability. You’ll centralize data, lead cross-team reporting, and optimize field execution through dashboards and surveys. Help us refine our offerings and deliver better results for farmers.
Vacancy
Nigeria Trees Specialist
Seeking an innovative professional with 3+ years of experience designing and scaling agricultural projects to help us answer one critical question: How do we serve farmers better with Trees?
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Nigeria Talent Acquisition Associate (Fixed-Term)
Support our recruitment team in attracting the right talent to our Nigeria program. You sincerely enjoy working with people and understand how to use storytelling to excel in a client-centric environment.
Vacancy
Agroforestry Innovations Associate
The Agroforestry Innovations Associate will be part of our dedicated international agroforestry team and will support ten embedded agroforestry teams - one in each country program. This role will report to the Agroforestry Director.
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Value Chain Strategy Lead (Fixed-Term)
Seeking an exceptional entrepreneurial and analytical professional with 5+ years of experience to analyze & contribute to the growth of diverse market access business units to serve smallholder farmers.
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Nigeria Credit Lead
Seeking an exceptional credit and operations professional with 5+ years’ experience to lead Nigeria’s credit strategy, strengthen repayment systems, and expand farmer access to quality inputs across a growing national program.
Vacancy
Nigeria Expansion Senior Specialist
Seeking an experienced professional with 5+ years of experience to lead expansion into new regions and products for One Acre Fund Nigeria: designing, testing, and implementing models that deepen farmer impact and advance our 2030 goals.
Article
Empowering women farmers: One Acre Fund’s commitment to gender-smart agriculture
Our direct-to-farmer services are intentionally designed to address the unique challenges farmers face. With strategies that encourage participation from both men and women, we are pleased to see that women make up more than 50% of our clients. In this piece, we highlight the approaches that make this possible and the strategies we are adopting to become more gender-sensitive
Publication
National Stakeholders' Dialogue on Food Security
Nigeria faces mounting food security challenges driven by climate change, economic instability, limited access to quality agricultural inputs, and persistent market constraints for smallholder farmers.
Article
Investing in Nigeria’s smallholder farmers for a food-secure future
Recognizing both the incredible potential of smallholder farmers and the persistent challenges they face, our Nigeria program convened key stakeholders for a national dialogue on food security in Abuja. Titled “Achieving Food Security in Nigeria: Bridging the Gap,” the event brought together government leaders, policymakers, agricultural innovators, development partners, and farmers.
Article
Small Seeds, Big Dreams: How a young farmer turned support into growth and independence
What if a single act of generosity could amplify a young woman’s determination, support her to turn her hard work into realized dreams, improved livelihood and community impact? This is the power of smallholder farming when given the right support.
Article
It Takes a Village to feed a community: The story of Talatu and Alhaji Ibrahim Umar
In Pyata, a rural community in Niger State, Nigeria, farming is more than just a livelihood—it’s the central activity that connects the village. For Alhaji Ibrahim Umar, the Village Head, and his wife Talatu Ibrahim, farming has become a means to not only secure their family’s future but also assist their neighbors when the need arises.
Article
Gabriel Alkali: Building a family legacy, financial stability and impact
For many farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, planting trees through our farmer-led tree planting initiative has had many, varied and obvious benefits.
Article
One Acre Fund Nigeria: From Pilot to Full Country Program
Starting as a pilot serving 150 farmers in 2018 in Niger State, our program in Nigeria has been hugely successful – in 2022, we served over 24,000 farmers. We are rapidly scaling and expanding our work, which has the potential to transform the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Nigeria’s smallholder farmers over the next decade.
Farm finance
Catalyzing Smallholder Agricultural Finance
This report identifies five primary growth pathways for deploying investment to address smallholder finance
demand.