Rwanda Plant Nutrient Management Research & Lab Senior Specialist (Renewable)

The role

You will lead end-to-end research on plant nutrient management products, practices, and services. You will oversee soil and plant lab operations and manage a technical sub-team.

What you will do

• Design and lead multidisciplinary research, trials, and modelling to evaluate plant nutrient management solutions.
• Assess feasibility, adoption potential, risks, and impact of products and practices.
• Develop scientifically robust methodologies, experimental designs, and impact models.
• Oversee quality implementation of field and station trials.
• Analyse and interpret complex datasets to generate actionable insights and technical reports.
• Translate research findings into scalable operational recommendations and farmer-facing solutions.
• Develop extension material based on well-evidenced products, practices and services.
• Oversee laboratory and inventory operations, ensuring quality standards and SOP compliance.
• Guide laboratory resourcing, equipment planning, and KPI tracking.
• Build technical capacity of laboratory and inventory staff through coaching and training.

Required qualifications

• Relevant academic background in Agronomy, Soil Science, Plant Nutrition, Microbiology, Agroecology, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience in agricultural research.
• Deep technical knowledge of soil science, plant nutrition, nutrient management options, soil food web theory, nutrient cycling, and soil health assessment options.
• Understanding of soil/plant laboratory operations management and soil chemical, biological and physical analysis techniques.
• Familiarity with various fertiliser types.
• Experience with data analysis tools.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• housing
• comprehensive benefits

Before you apply

• This role is only open to citizens or permanent residents of Rwanda

About the company

One Acre Fund equips 5.5 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive. The Rwanda program operates under the local brand Tubura and has more than 3,000 staff.