Ethiopia Innovations and Growth Lead One Acre Fund
• Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips 5.5 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 their income and assets on supported land by more than 35 percent, while permanently improving their resilience. This is all made possible by our team of 9,000+ full-time staff, drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions.
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One Acre Fund has been working with farmers in the Amhara region of Ethiopia since 2014, with a specific focus on trees since 2018. The Ethiopia program has now expanded into the South Region of Ethiopia in 2024. Our aim with the tree program is to provide not only short-term income opportunities but also long-term benefits, such as soil health improvements and erosion control, so that farmers build resilience over time.
The Innovations & Growth Lead will be an essential part of our leadership team in one of One Acre Fund's fastest-growing country programs. The Ethiopia program is planning to serve over 260,000 farmers in 2026 and grow more than ~24 million trees.
As an Innovations & Growth Lead, you will sit at the intersection of high-level strategy and "last-mile" delivery, shaping the strategy to plant 100 million trees and generate over $100M additional impact for 440,000 Ethiopian farmers by 2030. The role also focuses on initiatives that drive significant reduction of our program costs and lay the foundation for our programs to start earning revenue.
You will take our 5-year vision and translate it into a rigorous "Learning Agenda": designing the field trials, managing the data, and proving what works before we scale it to 440,000 households. If you are obsessed with evidence-based growth and love solving complex operational puzzles in the field, this is for you!.
Through the Impact department, you will research and test the most impactful agricultural practices, products, and services for our farmers. You will lead a high-performing team of innovators and pilot specialists, while maintaining a strategic "dotted-line" over our Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) team. Reporting directly to the Country Director, you will ensure that every piece of data collected in the field informs o
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