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.
To learn more, please see our Why Work Here blog post.
About the Role
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.
Preferred Start Date
As soon as possible
Job Location
Mbeya, Tanzania
Benefits
Health insurance, paid time off
Contract Duration
1 year
Eligibility
This role is only open to citizens or permanent residents of Tanzania.
Application Deadline
28 December 2025. Please note that we hire on a rolling basis which means that applications are reviewed and processed on a continuous basis until a hire is made.
One Acre Fund never asks candidates to pay any money or pay for tests at any stage of the interview process. Official One Acre Fund emails will always arrive from an @oneacrefund.org address. Please report any suspicious communication here ([email protected]), but do not send applications or application materials to this email address.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), and anti-racism are deeply connected to our organization’s 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.
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