One Acre Fund is a non-profit social enterprise that works with smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa to improve their productivity, increase their income, and build their resilience. Founded in 2006, the organization provides a bundle of services including financing, training, high-quality farm supplies, and market access. One Acre Fund’s mission is to make farmers more prosperous by investing in their potential rather than providing handouts.

This role is responsible for coordinating and executing OATL’s market access activities at the regional level, as directed by senior management. Key responsibilities include overseeing crop aggregation, ensuring quality control, and implementing operations based on market data and strategies provided by senior management. The candidate will work closely with farmers—particularly youth and women—to facilitate market access for crops, provide training, and support crop sales, ensuring alignment with the organization’s market access strategy.

Responsibilities

You will:

• Ensure Market Alignment: Conducting feasibility and market demand studies (with senior management) to identify and pursue the most profitable markets for multiple crops.
• Execute Strategy: Coordinating and implementing all regional market access activities based on strategic direction.
• Empower Farmers: Delivering training on best practices and financial literacy, specifically targeting our farmer groups, youth, and women, to improve crop quality and market readiness.
• Optimising Logistics: Overseeing aggregation, quality control, storage solutions, and delivery to minimise losses and maximise efficiency.
• Support Sales: Assisting in crop sales and organizational procurement following OATL’s strategy.
• Supervise temporary data collectors in a specific region, ensuring accurate data collection and providing guidance.

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:

• At least one year of direct experience in agricultural market access or value chain efficiency.
• A track record of essential experience in smallholder farmer engagement and implementing effective farmer support programs.
• Proven capacity to organize farmer organisations, such as cooperatives and farmer groups, to strengthen market linkages.
• Knowledge of agricultural input logistics, market pricing structures, and product aggregation techniques..
• Strong ability to build and maintain strategic partnerships with key stakeholders across finance, logistics, and extension sectors.