About One Acre Fund

Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips 5.5 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive. Across nine countries that together are home to two-thirds of Africa's farmers, we provide high-quality farm supplies, tree seedlings, accessible credit, modern agronomic training, and a wide range of other agricultural services. On average, this model enables any farmer to increase their income and assets on supported land by more than 35 percent, while permanently improving their resilience. This is all made possible by our team of 9,000+ full-time staff, drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions. To learn more, please see our Why Work Here blog post.

Our Kenya program, founded in 2006, operates under the local brand Tupande. Close to 500 staff in our Kakamega headquarters support 1,747 field staff and serve more than 1 million farmers. In Nairobi, around 50 staff support global functions like procurement, recruitment, government relations, and communications.

About the Role

Seeking a systems-driven leader to scale crop value chains for 400k+ farmers. You’ll lead national operations, build SOP-driven playbooks, and manage technical teams to transform pilots into national-scale systems for massive farmer impact.

Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & National Scaling

• Set the long-term production strategy and vision for the five core cash crop value chains, evolving them from localized pilots to national programs.
• Define the "Production Playbook" for each crop, ensuring standardized protocols for input distribution, farmer training, and crop maintenance across all regions.
• Serve as a key member of the Asili (Tupande’s customer-facing team) leadership team, aligning production timelines with the Sourcing and Marketing/Processing departments.
• Work with technical agronomists to translate complex science into simple, high-impact training modules for thousands of field staff. Your goal is "zero-variance" execution across diverse geographic regions.

Scaling Training & Extension Systems

• Standardization at Scale: Work with technical agronomists to translate complex science into simple, high-impact training modules for thousands of field staff. Your goal is "zero-variance" execution across diverse geographic regions.
• Design and oversee the implementation of technical training materials (GAP - Good Agricultural Practices) for the field team to ensure farmers achieve maximum productivity.
• Technology Adoption: Oversee the integration of digital tools and mobile platforms to track field activities, monitor crop health, and provide real-time support to a massive, decentralized workforce.

Input Distribution & Supply Chain Oversight

• Logistical Excellence: Ensure the right seeds and inputs reach the right farmers at exactly the right time. You will manage the operational complexity of a multi-crop input distribution cycle, identifying and clearing bottlenecks before they impact the season.
• Vendor & Partner Management: Lead high-level operational relationships with seed producers and input suppliers to ensure volume and quality requirements are met for a national rollout.

Performance Management & Data-Driven Execution

• KPI Ownership: Define and track the "Health of Production" metrics (e.g., adoption rates, germination success, field officer efficiency).
• Continuous Improvement: Use field data to identify underperforming regions and deploy operational interventions or process fixes to get them back on track.

People Management

• Manage 5 Production Coordinators, who in turn manage Production Supervisors
• This is a team of Technical Specialists; your role is to provide the operational strategy and leadership to ensure their expertise drives impact at scale.

Career Growth and Development

We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.

Qualifications

Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:

You are a high-level executor who thrives on complexity. You don't need to be the person who writes the soil science manual, but you must be the person who figures out how to get that manual executed perfectly by 10,000 field agents.

• Operational Leadership: 8+ years of experience managing large-scale operations, ideally in decentralized or rural environments (e.g., FMCG distribution, large-scale logistics, Ag-Tech, or scaling social enterprises).
• The "Scale" Mindset: Proven track record of taking a product, program, or business unit from a "pilot phase" to a massive, multi-regional rollout. You think in terms of systems, not individual tasks.
• Managing Expertise: Demonstrated success in leading teams of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). You know how to hold technical experts (like Agronomists) accountable to operational deadlines and business objectives.
• Process Engineering: Experience building SOPs and "Playbooks" for complex workflows. You are obsessed with efficiency and finding ways to do things faster, better, and cheaper at scale.
• Data Literacy: Ability to look at a dashboard of field data, spot a trend or a failure, and translate that insight into an immediate operational pivot.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Operations, Supply Chain, Agribusiness, or a related field. An MBA or a Master’s in a management-focused discipline is highly preferred. Note: Deep technical agronomic expertise is a "nice to have," but operational excellence is a "must-have.

Preferred Start Date

As soon as possible

Job Location

Kakamega, Kenya

Benefits

Health insurance, housing, and comprehensive benefits

Eligibility

This role is only open to citizens or permanent residents of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia, Malawi, Zambia, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Application Deadline

30 June 2026. Please note that we hire on a rolling basis which means that applications are reviewed and processed on a continuous basis until a hire is made.

One Acre Fund never asks candidates to pay any money or pay for tests at any stage of the interview process. Official One Acre Fund emails will always arrive from an @oneacrefund.org address. Please report any suspicious communication here (globalhotline@oneacrefund.org), but do not send applications or application materials to this email address.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), and anti-racism are deeply connected to our organization’s mission and purpose. One Acre Fund aspires to build a culture where all staff feel consistently valued, represented, and connected – so that our team can thrive as professionals, and achieve exceptional impact for the farmers we serve.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.