Why One Acre Fund
FY2025 · Form 990Its mission and biggest programs, as filedEmpowering farm families in East Africa to overcome hunger and poverty.
- The organization started working with 40 farm families in january 2006 and as of december 31, 2025 is serving over 2,000,000 farmers directly reached and 3,900,000 farmers reached through partnerships in africa to teach them more productive farming methods and…$254.3M spent in FY2025
Before you apply
FY2024 · Form 990Independent: from IRS data, not the orgAbout the role
The org's own posting, as writtenAbout 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
The Senior Program Associate (Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning) will independently manage the full MEL country program in the DRC, driving data-backed strategies to achieve more impact per farmer. You will design rigorous evaluation studies, spearhead advanced statistical analysis in Stata or R, and lead a dedicated departmental team to translate data into actionable organizational decisions. Over time, this role offers a clear pathway to shaping the broader, long-term impact strategy for a rapidly scaling organization while managing and growing your own team.
Responsibilities
MEL Vision and Strategy Engage with in-country leadership on short-term MEL priorities Contribute to the short-term Impact Division strategy Run departmental strategy meetings and set short-term MEL priorities Develop and set departmental objectives and key results Build consensus with all stakeholders on MEL recommendation and track and report on their implementation Design and Implement Studies Conceptualize the key impact pathways and draft the Theory of Change Conceptualize and develop study design, including an evaluation strategy and implementation plan Calculate the sample size and define the sample selection process, select the sample and prepare the control sheet Revise and develop questionnaires, including stakeholder consultations Clean and analyze data Update existing and develop new analysis plans, based on previous reports and/or do files/ R scripts Edit existing cleaning .do file / R script and develop new cleaning files for complex surveys Produce summary statistics with Stata or R , Run regressions (i.e. yield drivers) and distribution analysis, with minimal errors Run more advanced analysis (PSM, PCA...), with some manager support Conceptualize and run novel impact measurement analyses, with some manager support Peer review (incl. direct reports, other country leads, etc.) do files / R scripts Reporting Develop final survey reports and presentations (including summarizing the key findings and proposing actionable recommendations) that are of a high quality, with minimal manager support Project and Budget Management Develop overall project management dashboard for the department, with minimal oversight Develop survey specific dashboards.
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About One Acre Fund
From its Form 990- Budget $248.2M · International, Foreign Affairs & National Security
- Staff 82 · founded 2005
- Pays its leaders $175K–$262K (11 reported)
- Open jobs 55 · Jobs at One Acre Fund · Full 990 report