Ethiopia Innovations and Growth Lead

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 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.

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 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.

About the Role

The Innovations & Growth Lead will be an essential part of our leadership team in one of One Acre Fund's fastest-growing country programs and will report directly to the Country Director. 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. You will also pioneer the revenue models that will make our impact self-sustaining.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a high-performing team of innovators and M&E specialists to turn a 5-year vision into a rigorous Learning Agenda
• Design field trials and master data collection to prove what works before scaling to 440,000 households
• Ensure every piece of data collected drives strategic decision-making and organizational learning
• Develop and implement revenue models to support sustainable impact
• Shape organizational strategy at the highest level while maintaining connection to field-level delivery