Seeking an exceptional, adaptable professional with 2-5 years of experience to tackle our country programs' most pressing operational and strategic challenges as we scale to serve 10 million farmers by 2030
This role is a combination video editor and videographer who will produce professional quality videos for One Acre Fund’s training programs, marketing, fundraising, and brand campaigns all of which will focus on driving impact for farmers, especially youth and women. This work will combine storytelling, social behavior change, and marketing skillsets to support One Acre Fund to share compelling impact stories. Your focus will be to capture farmer stories that demonstrate the impact of One Acre Fund’s work both on an individual and generational level.
Our Creative Lead will work as a deputy to our Creative Director on our Global Communications team, and will manage the Global Comms team support request systems and oversee all incoming creative requests, delegating those out to team units and helping ensure the team is upkeeping our SLAs and quality. They will be a strong contributor to creative brainstorms and ideation, will support the organization’s brand management, and will review all creative content for quality, holding last line creative reviews for Tier 2 and Tier 3 content.
This position will also manage and be responsible for the professional development of a creative team of ~5 people working on graphic design and video, directly managing ~3 reports.
Seeking an exceptional MEL professional with 3+ years of experience to strengthen the quality and rigor of monitoring and evaluation across One Acre Fund's growth country portfolio and agroforestry program.
Seeking an exceptional Grants Finance Manager to own budget development and compliance for high-value partnerships while driving long-term systems improvements.
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
For many farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, planting trees through our farmer-led tree planting initiative has had many, varied and obvious benefits.
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.
This report identifies five primary growth pathways for deploying investment to address smallholder finance
demand.