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
We are looking for a strong analyst to provide technical guidance, analytical support, and quality assurance across a portfolio of 2–3 country programs within One Acre Fund’s growth country portfolio. Countries of operation currently include Tanzania, DRC, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, and Burundi. Country MEL Leads are responsible for day-to-day MEL operations in their respective programs. The Global MEL Senior Associate complements this by bringing dedicated technical depth and cross-country perspective reviewing and strengthening analytical approaches, advising on evaluation methodology, building tools and frameworks that leads can adopt, and surfacing learnings across the portfolio.
Over time, this role is expected to meaningfully build MEL capacity in the countries it supports. Beyond country support, the role contributes to selected Global MEL initiatives such as the design and rollout of team trainings, development of shared tools and templates, and cross-program methodology work. Depending on candidate's profile, the portfolio may also include analytical support for One Acre Fund’s Agroforestry program, a large and technically complex area with significant opportunity for rigorous measurement work. The Global MEL Senior Associate will report to a Senior Manager on the Global MEL Team.
Responsibilities
Country Portfolio Support Serve as the primary technical resource for country MEL Leads in your assigned portfolio, providing structured guidance, review, and feedback throughout the program cycle. Review and strengthen survey instruments and data collection approaches, including questionnaire design and programming in CommCare (or equivalent), prior to deployment. Assess and improve data quality backcheck processes, identifying opportunities to automate checks and strengthen data validation pipelines. Review and advise on country-level data analysis (Stata required; R a plus), ensuring analytical integrity, reproducibility, and appropriate interpretation of results.
Quality-control MEL deliverables — including reports, dashboards, and presentations — and provide actionable feedback to raise the standard of country outputs. Help country MEL Leads translate data and evaluation findings into clear, decision-relevant insights for program teams…
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