Nigeria Impact and Partnerships Director
Nigeria Impact and Partnerships Director
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About 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 Africas 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 9000 full-time staff drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions.
To learn more please see ourWhy Work Here blog post.
The Nigeria program established in 2018 is headquartered in Minna Niger state. Were currently serving over 100000 unique farmers across the state via our inputs on credit Core program inputs on cash Retail program and have a free tree seedling distribution Agroforestry program. To learn more about our work look at our Nigeria program blog.
About the Role
We are at a critical juncture as we form a senior team to achieve our geographic growth plans across central and Northern Nigeria. Were now looking for an experienced leader with 7 years of technical and business leadership experience to maximize our impact for the millions of Nigerian farmers we will serve in the coming years.
This role will focus on new product research and development field trials partnerships and impact evaluation. There will also be an emphasis on integrating youth and young women into our portfolio.
In this role you will:
- Achieve more than $100m of additional farmers profit by 2030
- Drive organisational development for Nigeria to be 5x larger in the coming years
- Lead our innovation research and partnerships departments in Nigeria
- Grow the Nigeria team through hiring professional development coaching and personal example
- Report to the Country Director
Responsibilities
- Senior Leadership: Identify opportunities to improve operations and program performance across the whole Nigeria portfolio through tracking of measurements and identifying / working on process improvements. Manage budgets for each of the roles areas of responsibility and create forecasts for expansion and other programme innovations.
- Innovation & Impact: Lead overall performance of the Innovations & Research teams focusing on accelerating our impact with youth and female farmer segments. Improve how we design trial analyze and report upon our innovation & research programmes. Diversify country-wide impact approach from farm-season impact measurement to long-term triple bottom line metrics. Directly design our most important trials and impact projects.
- Business Relations & Partnerships: Lead scoping and development of commercial and government partnerships. Assess and manage ongoing partnership health. Support the global business development (fundraising) team in donor engagement.
Career Growth and Development
We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. Youll 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. Youll 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:
- Full alignment to OAFs values by putting farmers first
- You have 7 years of highly successful professional experience. Relevant experience may include:
- Entrepreneurship including founding or running a small business;
- Private sector business NGO or international development
- Consulting-based experience including developing and iterating on new business models quickly
- Agricultural agroforestry or rural development work experience.
- You have 2 years senior management experience with examples of people development and performance management. You have a passion for developing and growing teams and balancing multiple thematic topics simultaneously.
- You are comfortable with setting and communicating strategy
- You have a Bachelors degree or higher
- Fluent written and spoken English required.
Preferred Start Date
As soon as possible
Job Location
Abuja Nigeria with 40% travel to field locations across North & Central Nigeria
Benefits
Health insurance housing and comprehensive benefits
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
5th May 2025
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Diversity Equity Inclusion (DEI) and anti-racism are deeply connected to our organizations 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.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full Time
