About One Acre Fund

Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips more than 4 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 her income and assets on supported land by more than 40 percent, while permanently improving her climate resilience. This is all made possible by our team of 8,000+ full-time staff, drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions.

The Nigeria program, established in 2018, is headquartered in Minna, Niger state. We’re currently serving over 100,000 unique farmers across the state via our inputs on credit ‘Core’ program, inputs on cash ‘Retail’ program, and have a free tree seedling distribution ‘Agroforestry’ program. To learn more about our work, look at our Nigeria program blog.

About the Role

We are at a critical juncture, as we form a senior team to achieve our geographic growth plans across central and Northern Nigeria. We’re now looking for an experienced leader with 7+ years of technical and business leadership experience to maximize our impact for the millions of Nigerian farmers we will serve in the coming years.

This role will focus on new product research and development, field trials, partnerships and impact evaluation. There will also be an emphasis on integrating youth and young women into our portfolio.

In this role, you will:

• Achieve more than $100m of additional farmers’ profit, by 2030
• Drive organisational development for Nigeria to be 5x larger in the coming years
• Lead our innovation, research, and partnerships departments in Nigeria
• Grow the Nigeria team through hiring, professional development, coaching, and personal example
• Report to the Country Director

Responsibilities

• Senior Leadership: Identify opportunities to improve operations and program performance across the whole Nigeria portfolio, through tracking of measurements, and identifying / working on process improvements. Manage budgets for each of the role’s areas of responsibility, and create forecasts for expansion and other programme innovations.
• Innovation & Impact: Lead overall performance of the Innovations & Research teams, focusing on accelerating our impact with youth and female farmer segments. Improve how we design, trial, analyze and report upon our innovation & research programmes. Diversify country-wide impact approach, from farm-season impact measurement to long-term triple bottom line metrics. Directly design our most important trials and impact projects.
• Business Relations & Partnerships: Lead scoping and development of commercial and government partnerships. Assess and manage ongoing partnership health. Support the global business development (fundraising) team in donor engagement.

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:

• Full alignment to OAF’s values, by putting farmers first
• You have 7+ years of highly successful professional experience. Relevant experience may include:
  • Entrepreneurship including founding or running a small business;
  • Private sector business, NGO, or international development
  • Consulting-based experience, including developing and iterating on new business models quickly
  • Agricultural, agroforestry, or rural development work experience.
• You have 2+ years senior management experience with examples of people development and performance management. You have a passion for developing and growing teams, and balancing multiple thematic topics simultaneously.
• You are comfortable with setting and communicating strategy
• You have a Bachelor’s degree or higher
• Fluent written and spoken English required.

Preferred Start Date

As soon as possible

Job Location

Abuja, Nigeria with 40% travel to field locations across North & Central Nigeria

Benefits

Health insurance, housing, and comprehensive benefits

Eligibility

One Acre Fund can support a work permit for this role. However, nationals of (or those with an extensive professional background and work history in) our countries of operation are preferred.

Application Deadline

26 November 2024

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.