A Thousand Opportunities

Most of the world’s poor are farmers, representing the largest and most uniform group of poor people in the world. One Acre Fund is a start-up NGO in Kenya, Rwanda, and Burundi that is innovating a new way of helping farm families to achieve their full potential. Instead of giving handouts, One Acre invests in farmers to generate a permanent gain in farm income. We provide farmers with a "market bundle" that includes education, finance, seed and fertilizer, and market access. Our program is proven impactful – every year, we weigh thousands of harvests and measure more than 100% average gain in farm income per acre. We have laser-like focus on generating better lives for the people that we serve.

We are growing quickly. In five years, we have grown to serve 65,000 farm families with more than 500 full-time field staff. In three more years, we will at least quadruple in size, while adding several new countries. Our approach has won widespread validation, winning grants from the highly competitive Echoing Green and Skoll Foundations, and the global Financial Times/ IFC award for “basic needs financing” in 2010 and 2011. Website: www.oneacrefund.org

Job responsibilities will include:

-Strategic thought partner. We are seeking someone who understands how financial intelligence can effectively drive our business forward.

- Evaluation of basic financial operations. We are seeking someone who has demonstrated experience in a comprehensive range of basic finance operations including:

-Board and external reporting. We are seeking someone who will be able to clearly communicate our financials to our board and externally.

-Mentor to the Finance Director. We are not necessarily seeking to hire a permanent CFO. We are seeking a leader who will serve as a mentor to our current Finance Director, with the eventual goal of grooming them to become a successor as a permanent CFO.