Agroforestry Innovations Associate at One Acre Fund

One Acre, founded in 2006, supplies smallholder farmers with the agricultural services they need to make their farms more productive. We provide quality farm supplies on credit, delivered within walking distance of farmers’ homes, and agricultural trainings to improve harvests. We measure our success by our ability to make farmers more prosperous: On average, farmers harvest 50 percent more food after working with One Acre Fund. We serve more than 800,000 farm families in Eastern and Southern Africa, with more than 7,500 full-time staff.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Agroforestry Innovations Associate

Location: Nigeria

About the Role

• One Acre Fund is home to Africa's largest agroforestry programs, serving over 2 million farmers, providing more than 100 million seedlings per year, and engaging a network of over 2,500 rural nurseries run by local entrepreneurs. We see these programs as part of the solution to three key challenges facing smallholder farmers - poverty, climate change, and biodiversity loss. 
• As an Agroforestry Innovations Associate, you will strengthen and improve these programs with new approaches to generate positive change for farm families and the environment. 
• You will work on a variety of complex challenges, including strengthening our supply of quality tree seed, improving training and management tools for nursery managers, and diversifying our species offerings.
• The Agroforestry Innovations Associate will be part of our dedicated international agroforestry team and will support ten embedded agroforestry teams—one in each country program. 
• This role will report to the Agroforestry Director.

Responsibilities
Scope, pilot, and scale new investments to improve program impact and reach.  Example initiatives could include:

• Developing solutions to improve seedling survival rates 
• Building planning solutions to better support nursery managers
• Researching and trialing sustainable socket alternatives
• Implement improvements to tree seed supply systems
• Supporting tree tracking systems at the farm level
• Conducting site<>species matching research (field and desk) to expand species diversity
• Provide short-term direct support to agroforestry operations in cases where team bandwidth isn’t adequate.  This could be in the form of high-touch operational support or even a short-term secondment.

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:

• University or advanced Degree in Agroforestry, Ecology, Restoration, or related fields
• 3+ years of leadership and demonstrated results in agroforestry, restoration, or related domains in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Familiarity with biodiversity projects or nature-based carbon projects 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 coordinating complex and scalable programs
• Penchant for data-driven decision-making with structured analysis and fact-based recommendations.

Other:

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

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.

Application Closing Date
13th May, 2026.