Agroforestry Manager

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. To learn more, please see our Why Work Here blog post.

About the Role

One Acre Fund is home to of Africa’s largest agroforestry programs, serving over 2 million farmers through over 2,500 rural nurseries run by local entrepreneurs.

As Agroforestry Manager, you will help address three key challenges facing smallholder farmers – extreme poverty, climate change, and biodiversity loss – through agroforestry and Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR). Specifically, you will strengthen and improve existing programs that serve more than 2 million farm families and produce over 70 million seedlings per year through a network of over 2,500 local nurseries. You will also have ample opportunity to improve new approaches to generate positive change for farm families and the environment, working on a variety of complex challenges including strengthening our supply of quality tree seedlings, improving trainings for nursery managers, and diversifying our species offerings.

The Agroforestry Manager will support a dedicated international agroforestry team and ten embedded agroforestry teams – one in each country program – and will report to the Agroforestry Director.

Responsibilities

• Support agroforestry program leads in 10 programs to meet their operational targets to achieve One Acre Fund’s vision of one billion trees planted by 2030., including seedling production, adoption, survival, and species diversification. This may also involve managing via dotted line some of the smaller program leads.
• Develop and maintain performance tracking systems that help program leads understand and improve their performance, including scale, impact, ecosystem service indicators, and more.
• Foster agroforestry team cohesion and shared learning through pull-ups with field teams and the Agroforestry Director, team-building and improved knowledge management and dissemination
• Scope, pilot, and scale new investments to improve program impact and reach. For example, you could launch initiatives to improve seedling survival rates, implement new tech solutions that improve programming, or identify solutions to seedling supply challenges.
• Facilitate external partnerships. Help communicate agroforestry program results and plans to external partners through data, visuals, and narratives.

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:

Experience in Agroforestry and Landscape Restoration

• 3+ years of leadership and demonstrated results in agroforestry, restoration, or related domains in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• University or advanced degree in agroforestry, ecology, restoration, or related fields
• Familiarity with nature-based carbon projects, including implementation and certification is an additional advantage

External Relationships

• Exceptional written and verbal communication to engage a range of audiences, including rural farmers, internal staff, external partners, and organizational leadership
• History of collaboration with primary actors in the forestry and landscape restoration sectors, including implementers, technical resources, and policy-makers
• Experience launching new programs or building successful partnerships

Management Skills

• Experience managing high-level team members and coordinating complex and scalable programs
• Penchant for data-driven decision-making with structured analysis and fact-based recommendations
• Experience with multi-year, multi-project budgeting and planning

Other

• Willingness to travel within the region up to 25% of the time
• English Fluency. Other preferred languages include Swahili, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Chichewa, Amharic, or French.

Preferred Start Date

As soon as possible

Job Location

Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, and Nigeria.

Benefits

Health insurance, housing, and comprehensive benefits

Eligibility

This role is only open to citizens or permanent residents of Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, Nigeria.

Application Deadline

08 May 2025. 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 ([email protected]), 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.