About One Acre Fund

Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund supplies 1 million smallholder farmers with the agricultural services they need to make their farms vastly more productive. Our 8,000+ team is drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions. With operations across six core countries in Africa, we make farmers more prosperous by providing quality farm supplies on credit, delivered within walking distance of farmers’ homes, and agricultural training to improve harvests. On average, the farmers we serve harvest 50 percent more food after working with One Acre Fund.

To learn more about our work, take a look at our Why Work Here blog for more information.

About the Role

The Global Social Marketing & Extension Lead will lead the design, testing, and scaling of farmer training and communications, drawing from human-centered design methodologies and other qualitative and quantitative research methods. You’ll report to the Director for Agricultural Research, and work within the Global Impact team. This team combines agronomy, data science, SBC, and social marketing skillsets to support One Acre Fund programs across several countries to develop better products, services, and recommendations, and deliver these to farmers in ways that maximize the chances of successful uptake. Your focus will be to develop training and SBCC interventions that maximize both field team ownership and farmer uptake of climate-smart and regenerative agriculture recommendations. Often you’ll generate insights on how those recommendations can be adjusted to better match farmers’ realities and enable increased uptake.

Responsibilities

Content development – convert technical recommendations from agriculture, meteorology, and data science experts into simple, adoptable recommendations that smallholder farmers will remember and be motivated to implement

Create wireframe training and communications interventions. Test and improve the effectiveness of these through design workshops and piloting with extension workers and farmers.

Develop extension strategies that integrate print, audio, digital, and in-person training and communication channels to maximize reach and cost-effectiveness.

Generate design specifications and collaborate with designers and media producers to ensure that final products meet requirements and are cost-effective.

Define indicators to monitor the quality of training strategy implementation and generate recommendations for improvement.

Evaluate the impact of training interventions using a variety of methods, such as surveys, interviews, and observation. Use these data to capitalize on opportunities to improve recommendations and their delivery.

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:

3+ years of experience developing and testing rural extension interventions, preferably in a smallholder agriculture setting in sub-Saharan Africa.

Strong understanding of adult learning theory, instructional design principles, and SBCC.

Experience designing and implementing research to understand user needs, develop training interventions, and test their effectiveness (ideally using HCD approaches), working across language and culture barriers

Project management experience

Job Location

Kigali, Rwanda

Benefits

Housing allowance, Retirement benefit, Comprehensive Health coverage, Child Benefit, and paid time off

PERKS

Connect and collaborate with engaging colleagues from diverse backgrounds

The opportunity to expand into new focus areas or teams through a robust Internal Transfer Program

Access to Social Committee activities that keep colleagues engaged and connected

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

17 July 2023

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.