Nigeria Field Innovations Specialist

The role

This professional will design and scale agricultural trials to improve how the program serves farmers with trees. They will lead trial design, oversee field execution, manage farmer experience, and collaborate across teams to drive program impact.

What you will do

• Lead the design and planning of operational trials for seedling production and survival.
• Lead site-specific species matching exercises.
• Define trial objectives, protocols, and data collection plans.
• Build trial project plans, timelines, budgets, and KPI trackers.
• Analyze trial results to inform program strategy and species selection.
• Oversee program rollout across regions.
• Support delivery of OAF business goals at state level.
• Go to Gemba regularly to meet with farmers and field teams.
• Lead seeds aggregation trials and other scale initiatives.
• Maintain the Trees risk map and design mitigation pathways.

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant professional work experience, including leading teams.
• University degree in agriculture, forestry, development studies, environmental science, or related field.
• Proven experience designing and scaling forestry/agronomy trials, pilots, and innovation programs.
• Deep knowledge of nursery management, climate-smart agroforestry, and pest/disease control.
• Skilled in monitoring, reporting, and analyzing trial results to provide actionable recommendations.
• Expert in designing and rolling out sustainable farmer and nursery models.
• Experienced in leading multidisciplinary teams within complex rural environments.
• Highly organized, self-driven leader capable of managing competing priorities and cross-functional collaboration.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• paid time off

Before you apply

• This role is only open to citizens or permanent residents of Nigeria.
• Applications are reviewed and processed on a continuous basis until a hire is made.

About the company

One Acre Fund equips 5.5 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive. The Nigeria program is headquartered in Minna, Niger state.