Location: Kenya (Nairobi preferred)
Contract: 12-month FTC (very likely to extend / convert to permanent)
Team / Platform: Sustainable Finance
Reporting to: Sustainable Finance leadership 

About the role : Systemiq is looking for a Strategy Associate to join our growing Sustainable Finance practice in Kenya, focused on public and development finance. You will help governments and public finance institutions to strengthen financing strategies and mobilise capital for climate, nature and development priorities.

This is a strategy advisory role: working within small, collaborative teams, you will support complex advisory engagements and multi-stakeholder initiatives spanning governments, IFIs/DFIs, bilateral donors and the private sector. You will contribute to workstreams that draw on expertise across Systemiq and external partners, and over time you will have opportunities to shape and lead your own workstreams within the sustainable finance space.

This role blends macro-level strategic thinking with strong research and analytical skills, excellent stakeholder engagement and communication, and the ability to deliver high-quality outputs in fast-moving, stakeholder-heavy contexts. Strategy consulting experience is welcome but not essential.

What you’ll do

• Help support or lead workstreams and deliver high-quality advisory support on public and development finance for climate and nature outcomes.
• Develop structured analysis and synthesize complex information into client-ready materials (strategy decks, technical notes, briefing packs).
• Drive development of sovereign financing strategies, including consideration of macroeconomic context, sovereign risk, debt sustainability and credit dynamics.
• Help design, shape, and assess financing approaches and instruments, including concessional and blended finance, sustainability-linked bonds/loans, debt-for-climate/nature swaps, and risk-sharing structures.
• Support stakeholder engagement across ministries, debt management offices, central banks, IFIs/DFIs, donors and private sector partners, including workshops and convenings.
• Contribute to proposal development, thought leadership and knowledge building within the team.

Mindset, skills & experience

Essential

• Degree/Masters – Economics/Finance/International Development especially welcome
• 2–5+ years of relevant experience, for example in:
• strategy consulting (sustainable finance focus)
• international financial institutions (e.g., IMF, World Bank, AfDB),
• central banks or debt management offices,
• credit rating agencies,
• sovereign research / strategy teams,
• finance ministries or public finance roles,
• development finance / advisory roles with strong sovereign finance exposure.
• Familiarity with the sovereign financing landscape, including concessional finance, blended finance and/or climate and nature instruments e.g. sustainability-linked bonds/loans, debt-for-climate/nature swaps etc.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical and research skills — able to synthesise complex material into clear, structured outputs.
• Excellent communication in English (written and verbal), and demonstrated stakeholder engagement skills
• Strong project discipline and ability to deliver high-quality work under tight deadlines.
• Collaborative team player with an entrepreneurial mindset and strong mission alignment.

Desirable

• Formal study in economics, with a focus on macroeconomics, development economics, climate economics and/or nature economics
• Exposure to public-sector policy or planning, for example within finance ministries, environment ministries, or IFIs/DFIs.
• Familiarity with Sub-Saharan African sovereign contexts and financing priorities.
• Experience supporting stakeholder consultations, convenings or government-facing processes.
• Additional languages (e.g., Swahili, French).

Candidate profile

You are mission-driven and excited by the opportunity to help governments and financial institutions mobilise financing for climate and nature outcomes. You combine intellectual rigour with pragmatism and strong relationship skills. You thrive in small teams, enjoy working across disciplines and stakeholder groups, and want your work to influence real-world decisions.

You will also align naturally with our values: Creativity, Challenge, Collaborate, Change and Care.

Additional information

• Only applications from candidates legally eligible to work in Kenya will be considered.
• Visa sponsorship / relocation costs will not be provided.

We have an opportunity to join our Grants Team, which is led by our Global Grants and Partnerships Manager, and sits within our Operations Finance team. The Grants Team works across all our locations, supporting dozens of grants projects.

Grants funding is crucial for SYSTEMIQ’s work; annually it accounts for more than 50% of our project revenues. Management of such grant funding requires ensuring spend is impact-oriented and in compliance with both funders’ contractual requirements and SYSTEMIQ’s standards.

You will also be a crucial part of starting out our presence in Nairobi, and helping to shape our work in the region in the grants space.

About the role

As a Project Grants Finance Manager, you will be responsible for delivering high quality management and oversight of several workstreams that are supported by funding from government, philanthropy and corporate funding sources. You will manage a portfolio of projects, including a large multiyear multimillion grants project funded by NORAD.

You will work closely with a range of internal stakeholders, including senior management, project delivery teams, Systemiq’s Global grants team, and the global finance team, PMO and legal team during the entire lifecycle of projects. Project staff are based across all our locations, and most global operations staff are based in London and Jakarta. Your Line Manager will be our Global Grants Finance Manager, who is based in Berlin.

The key focus of the role is to ensure compliance with company processes and policies, as well as project contractual requirements on due diligence, financial management, expenditure and invoicing, procurement and project auditing and reporting.

In addition, you will play a key role in supporting and developing relationships with funders and delivery partners and helping us to build out our funding network for our grants work in the region.

Project Preparation:

• Develop project budgets and financial plans for project grant funding proposals
• Support our project teams to negotiate cost-efficient budgets and demonstrate value for money
• Ensure project budgeting, staffing plans and preparation complies with company practice and client’s financial control requirements
• Complete formal proposal application processes

Project Delivery:

• Ensure project’s financial requirements are adhered to in relation to company policy, funder requirements and applicable laws and regulations
• Ensure compliance with company and funder procurement rules, and oversee large-scale procurement and tender processes for goods and services
• Lead downstream subcontracting and subgranting, including large-scale procurements for supply of goods and services
• Lead project audits, including sample data, field work and auditor communications
• Liaise with Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable to ensure correct invoicing for funders and suppliers, and track project cashflows
• Complete monthly financial forecasting and expenditure reconciliations to track cashflows and monitor financial position of our largest grants projects, supporting project planning and progress reporting against project delivery framework
• Prepare financial status reports for project and finance team leadership
• Prepare external financial, budgetary and accounting reports to clients / funders
• Liaise with PMO to set up new project finances and close finances of completed projects
• Provide guidance and documentation to the project team to support effective project financial management

General:

• Design and delivery of training materials and workshops on grants financial management
• Support annual company audit processes as required
• Support company’s financial controls, financial planning and financial analysis process (including budget forecasting, proposal pipeline monitoring and invoicing)
• Contribute to company’s best practice development for project financial management and expert grants financial management

The Mindset, Skills & Experience we are looking for

Our ideal candidate will be able to work in different contexts, and are keen to work in a new location for an entrepreneurial company to help shape the business and make maximum impact. You are interested in sustainability inspired by SYSTEMIQ’s mission and approach to system change.

Specifically, you come with a combination of the following mindset, skills, and experience:

• 3+ years’ experience within a project financial management function in a grants context, working on projects funded by governments, multilaterals or philanthropy
• 2+ years’ experience of leading processes on grants budgeting and financial reporting
• Experience of procurement of both goods and services, including supporting or coordinating large-scale tender processes to select suppliers
• Fluent verbal and written English is essential
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Ability to maintain a high level of accuracy across complex budgets and expenditure records, with strong process orientation and excellent attention to detail
• Ability to work with confidential material and maintain high standards of discretion
• Ability to multitask and handle competing deadlines
• Collaborative team player and can-do attitude with good communication skills,
• Interest in working on project financial management for projects funded by non-commercial clients and on projects with restricted and unrestricted funding
• Alignment with SYSTEMIQ's values (creativity, challenge, collaborate, change, care).

We are keen to receive applications from all parts of the community.

Who we are  

When public institutions excel, societies and the planet thrive. Instiglio exists to unlock that potential — partnering with purpose-driven leaders to imagine what’s possible, challenge the status quo, and pursue excellence, exponentially improving outcomes for people. 

Instiglio is a team of impact-driven innovators — thinkers and doers — based in Africa and Latin America, working alongside public institutions and their partners to exponentially improve outcomes for people. 

Since 2012, in more than 30 low- and middle-income countries we have partnered with more than 200 organisations — from government ministries and service providers to global donors, leading philanthropies, and private sector actors. Through these partnerships, we’ve helped shape a new generation of impact-driven financing. Together, this work has helped ensure better outcomes for ~98 million people and influenced more than $1 billion in public spending.  

Our team draws on years of experience and sector expertise spanning health, education, climate, environment, economic development, WASH, Public Financial Management, refugees and more. We partner with governments and development actors to align public funding with measurable outcomes and strengthen the systems, incentives, and capabilities that drive sustained impact.  

To scale our impact, we incubated the Government Empowerment Network (GEN) — a globally networked, AI-powered, and government-led reform accelerator designed to empower civil servants to incubate reforms that transform government institutions, strengthen service delivery, and improve citizens' lives.   

We are now entering a new chapter where we are focusing on truly scaling our impact, and setting up the internal systems, sophisticated leadership rhythms and bold organizational transformation, such as AI integration to match our global ambition. 

Our team 

Our success is driven by our collaborative, highly skilled, and diverse team of 80+ people representing over 15 nationalities located in our offices in Colombia, Kenya, Morocco, Mauritius, and Uganda. Our team members have extensive experience in development and government, with previous roles in international development banks, national governments, multilateral agencies, INGOs, and academia.   

Our Values 

How you will make an impact 

You are a social impact leader - this means that you will see the impact of your work and its effect on communities. You will focus your leadership on growing our impact and portfolio in the Anglophone Africa region, delivered through our fast-growing Nairobi office, and increasing Instiglio’s presence, proximity and influence within the regional ecosystem (Governments, donors, think-tanks, foundations and other clients).  

You will also be an integral part of Instiglio’s leadership team, helping Instiglio as an organisation to make smart and effective decisions on growth, strategy, and sustainability. As an Associate Partner, you will be an ambassador for Instiglio’s mission in Africa, and beyond.  

Key responsibilities will include: 

• Impact Strategy: As a member of our Africa Leadership Team, with the Africa Partner and other Africa Associate Partners, you will develop our Africa regional strategy with particular focus on the anglophone sub-region, with the aim of growing our impact and operations in the Anglophone Africa region, delivered through our fast-growing Nairobi office. This includes: 
  • Growing high-performing teams: working with our people team and local management teams to build high-performing teams, planning, and supervising the opening of new offices.
  • Mapping out how and where we can scale most impact in Africa, in which countries, in which sectors, with which partners, and with which methods and services.
• Public sector reform: Empower senior officials through complex reform processes, helping them diagnose root causes, align incentives, and navigate political and institutional realities.
• Partnership development: Work with the Africa Partner and other Africa Associate Partners to drive partnership development in Anglophone Africa, leveraging your strong existing network. You will develop and nurture Government, donor, philanthropic and practitioner relationships with key stakeholders and clients for high impact initiatives in the region, supervising and delivering compelling and high-impact engagements with clients.
• Delivery leadership: Providing strategic, technical, and team leadership in our projects to deliver maximum social impact and exceed client expectations. Driving impact for our partners through leading on quality, innovation and excellent project delivery management.
• Thought leadership and positioning: Advancing thought leadership, evolving our technical practices, and communicating with our external audience. Working with our communications team to position Instiglio with relevant audiences for the sub-region, and increasing Instiglio’s presence, proximity and influence within the regional and relevant global ecosystems (donors, governments, think-tanks, foundations and other clients).
• Organizational development: In addition to being a steward of our culture, you will also oversee the performance, growth, and overall health of specific organizational units or teams. This supervisory role aims to ensure high levels of team performance, team health and wellbeing, and appropriate growth strategies and operational support systems.  

Who you are  

You are an African social impact leader, who has demonstrated the passion for driving and scaling development outcomes across sub-Saharan Africa. You bring deep knowledge of the region's political, institutional, and development landscape, and have a track record of translating that knowledge into tangible, lasting change. A strategic and results-driven leader who builds trusted client relationships, delivers measurable impact, and drives team and business growth in complex social sector environments. 

You are a convener, who has built coalitions, partnerships and networks in Government, with other social entrepreneurs, and traditional and philanthropic donors, to enhance citizen outcomes through African-led systems change. 

To thrive in this role, you will also demonstrate the following: 

• Strategic & critical thinking - able to see the bigger picture while rolling up your sleeves to ensure delivery of tangible, meaningful and sustainable results
• Drive for excellence – ambitious for impact at scale, taking initiative, innovating and collaborating to enable your teams' high-quality outputs
• Team player - comfortable working in a global multicultural organisation, self-aware of your strengths and weaknesses, and inspiring your team to learn and grow
• Commercial acumen combined with a genuine passion for public sector reform and institutional transformation
• A dynamic, hands-on & productive professional, who relishes and thrives in fast-moving and complex working environments. 

Requirements & Qualifications 

An ideal candidate will have the following: 

• Education: A relevant postgraduate degree focused on international development (public administration, public policy, development economics, governance and institutions).
• Experience:  
  • At least 12 years of experience, including 8 years of relevant work experience in social impact or government advisory, international development, in the public sector, in management consulting, and/or in development policy and innovation. Combinations of the above experiences will be ideal. 
  • Demonstrated experience in government institutional reforms and or/transformation, advising or operating in senior government official roles on public-sector reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa. 
  • Demonstrated experience in evidence-based policy design, results-based financing, theories of change, delivery management, and/or performance management or related fields. 
  • Successful track record in sourcing and managing partnerships (multiple stakeholders in complex settings), with at least 2 years of Government, multi/bilateral donors and philanthropy. 
  • Extensive experience growing and managing multicultural teams. 
• Skills:  
  • Exceptional strategic and innovative thinking.  
  • Strong organizational oversight and continually looking to add value. 
  • Proven experience managing and maintaining relationships with public sector leaders, and international funding agencies. The ideal candidate will bring their own personal relationships in the region.  
  • Outstanding problem-solving and structured thinking skills.  
  • Excellent project management skills, managing multiple teams at complex tasks.  
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills including proven success in presenting ideas and concepts effectively and persuasively. 
  • Leadership skills and empathy with the ability to influence people positively. 
  • Impact-driven, resilient, results-oriented. 
  • Strong commercial acumen. 
  • Exceptional written and oral communication skills in English. 

In addition, we welcome the following qualifications: 

• Work experience in management consulting. 
• Strong operational and financial management experience. 
• Knowledge of Results-Based Financing mechanisms and/or experience related to the field (such as theories of change, log frames and results frameworks). 

How you can grow with us 

Associate Partners at Instiglio have the opportunity to develop a variety of skills and lead client-facing projects, with the guidance of Partners. You will be trusted with the opportunity to deepen your network with high-level government officials and leaders in the international development space. Together with the Africa Leadership Team, the Associate Partner will shape the Africa portfolio and team, and the wider regional trajectory.  

Instiglio has a strong feedback culture, with all staff receiving formal, structured reviews, in addition to real-time feedback. Additionally, a mentorship system and development plans are in place to ensure that staff receive proper support in their professional development. This will also grow your leadership and mentorship skills as you walk with junior team members on their career development journey. 

Working model and benefits 

This opportunity is open to African citizens, ideally East African, and is based in our Nairobi, Kenya office, with frequent travel across the continent. 

Instiglio has adopted a hybrid working model (i.e., a minimum of two (2) days a week at the office for face-to-face connections). Instiglio offers generous benefits, which include personal days, remote workdays, travel and health insurance, pension, a company end-of-year holiday additional to vacation, and parental leave, among others.   

Join our team! 

To apply, please submit your CV in English and answer the application questions listed. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. 

About 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 Young Professionals Program

One Acre Fund’s Young Professionals Program offers high-performing African graduates meaningful internships and training opportunities at a high-performing, mission-driven organization. Our internships are paid and all interns can expect to receive substantive work assignments working on high-impact projects that support One Acre Fund's operations.

When joining, interns will participate in an onboarding program and receive training on how to design and execute projects. Over the period of your internship, you will get the opportunity to work with like-minded individuals and receive learning opportunities to build strong foundations for your future career. 

About the Role

The Global Data Analyst Intern will use large, diverse, cross-country datasets to build foundational data products that enable better decision-making across the organization. This role will focus on creating high-quality dashboards and reports that are trusted, scalable, and widely used — in service of our mission: bigger harvests, healthier families, and richer soil for smallholder farmers.

Responsibilities

Build Foundational BI Data Products

• Design, build, and maintain high-impact operational reports (to run day-to-day work) and dashboards (for oversight/KPI purposes), to enable analytics across functions.
• Ensure dashboards and reports are accurate, well-documented, and built for long-term sustainability.
• Monitor adoption and continuously improve usability and relevance. This role is less focused on one-off data projects and more focused on building durable tools that people consistently use and trust.

Managing Tech Service Desk Day-to-Day Operations:

• Oversee the daily operations of the tech service desk, ensuring high-quality service and efficient problem resolution.
• Ensure timely escalation and resolution of issues, acting as the first point of contact for critical service desk matters.
• Manage service desk workflows, track performance, and ensure proper follow-up on all service requests.

Own department Analytical Domains and Partner with Data Engineering

• Serve as the primary analyst for the department.
• Deeply understand business processes and logic within the department.
• Own the full delivery of dashboards and data analytics products: make prioritization decisions, understand user needs, wireframe and design outputs, and own delivery and iteration.
• Partner closely with Data Engineers to ensure business rules are embedded in the warehouse and semantic layer.
• Clearly communicate data limitations and ensure metric consistency.
• The goal is to ensure logic lives in the data model, not scattered across dashboards.

Strengthen Analytical Standards Across the Global Supply Chain (GSC) Department.

• Contribute to a community of practice for embedded analysts across the organization.
• Codify and uphold standards for dashboard design, documentation, governance, and metric definition.
• Support the adoption of best practices in BI development and data storytelling.
• Provide technical coaching and support skill development across the department.

Career Growth and Development

We have a strong culture of constant learning and we deeply invest in our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training, and regular feedback on your performance. We’ll hold career reviews every one to three months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and gain rewarding technical experience.

Qualifications

Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:

• 3+ months of experience in data analytics or BI development.
• Strong SQL skills; working knowledge of Python or R preferred.
• Experience building automated data workflows and scalable dashboards in BI tools (Superset, Power BI, Dataiku preferred).
• User-Centric Data Design: Proven ability to practice stakeholder empathy, moving beyond simple requirements-gathering to deeply understand the operational context of our users
• Understanding of data modeling concepts and semantic layers.
• Ability to translate complex business logic into clear, usable data products.
• Experience with data storytelling and communicating insights to diverse audiences.
• Strong writer and verbal communicator in English with the ability to create clear, concise documentation and conduct effective training sessions.
• Project Management from planning, executing, and collaborating; Ability to manage cross-functional teams and liaise with multiple stakeholders.

Preferred Start Date

As soon as possible

Job Location

Nairobi, Kenya

Benefits

Interns will be provided with a reasonable stipend for the duration of their contract.

Eligibility

This role is only open to citizens or permanent residents of Kenya.

Application Deadline

13 July 2026. We hire on a rolling basis which means that applications are reviewed and processed on a continuous basis until a hire is made. 

One Acre Fund never asks candidates to pay any money or pay for tests at any stage of the interview process. Official One Acre Fund emails will always arrive from an @oneacrefund.org address. Please report any suspicious communication here (globalhotline@oneacrefund.org), but do not send applications or application materials to this email address.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), and anti-racism are deeply connected to our organization’s mission and purpose. One Acre Fund aspires to build a culture where all staff feel consistently valued, represented, and connected – so that our team can thrive as professionals, and achieve exceptional impact for the farmers we serve.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Senior Manager/Manager – Scaling and Innovation Team (Global)

You will join Instiglio’s Scaling & Innovation Team — the engine driving Instiglio’s ambition to go from impact to impact at scale. Our mission is threefold: develop pathways to scale Instiglio’s proven approaches, incubate Instiglio’s presence in new regions, and design and spearhead new impact solutions that push the frontier of what’s possible in development.

We pursue this mission through two primary strategies:

1. Scaling partnerships with large development institutions: The core of this team’s work. We partner with major multilateral development banks (MDBs), bilateral agencies, and large philanthropies to strengthen how they drive outcomes at scale — combining impact strategy with deep change management. This isn’t traditional consulting: we embed ourselves in institutional transformation, helping partners overhaul their impact strategies, build internal capabilities, and implement reforms that cascade through the systems they fund. A flagship example is our four-year engagement with the Global Fund, where we supported the scale-up of results-based financing (RBF) to 15 countries, built core institutional capabilities, and helped embed a results-oriented performance culture. Similar partnerships are underway with institutions like the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the Swiss Development Cooperation, the IDB, and leading philanthropies.
2. Innovation: Beyond scaling, the team spearheads new impact solutions. Recent examples include an AI-driven reform assistant for government decision-makers, pull finance mechanisms for adoption of climate technology, and practical work on making health regulations drive better outcomes. This is where we prototype the next generation of Instiglio’s tools.

The team also leads the Government Empowerment Network (GEN) — though this is a secondary focus of the role. GEN is Instiglio’s global network that inspires and empowers civil service champions to drive transformational change from within their institutions. It combines an eight-month reform incubator — providing mentorship, peer exchange, and real-time coaching grounded in reform science — with an AI-powered platform connecting public leaders to curated knowledge and global practitioner networks. Launched in Uganda in 2025, with cohorts in Colombia and Morocco following, GEN aims to support 1,500 champion teams and drive 200 institutional transformations impacting 190 million citizens by 2030.

How You Will Make an Impact

This is a role that sits at the intersection of strategy, change management, and innovation — not in the abstract, but in practice. You will lead complex, high-stakes engagements that directly shape how billions of development dollars are spent, and how governments serve millions of citizens.

Specifically, you will:

• Lead high-impact scaling partnerships: Take ownership of multi-year engagements with MDBs, bilaterals, and philanthropies. This means diagnosing how institutions invest and manage performance, designing strategies to strengthen their impact orientation, and driving the change management work needed to make reforms stick. You will translate sophisticated analysis into clear recommendations that senior decision-makers can act on — and then stay in the room to help implement them.
• Spearhead innovation: Help design and pressure-test new impact solutions — from AI-enabled tools for government reformers to new financing mechanisms for climate outcomes. You will bring structured thinking to ambiguous, frontier problems and turn concepts into pilots.
• Manage complex stakeholder environments: Build trusted relationships with senior counterparts in governments, development agencies, and philanthropic organizations. Navigate multi-stakeholder dynamics with confidence, knowing when to push, when to listen, and how to build coalitions for change.
• Lead teams and delivery: Manage multidisciplinary teams across workstreams, geographies, and time zones. Own budgets, timelines, and quality — and develop the people around you.
• Contribute to thought leadership: Help shape Instiglio’s intellectual contributions in results-based financing, performance management, and global partnership strategy, feeding into a growing body of work that influences policy and practice globally.

Who You Are

We are looking for someone who is energized by complexity, undaunted by ambiguity, and deeply motivated by impact. You combine the structured rigor of a top-tier consultant with the entrepreneurial instinct to build something new.

Experience

• Significant professional experience (typically 9+ years for Manager; 11+ for Senior Manager of relevant professional experience) and we welcome candidates whose experience exceeds these thresholds.
• Strong background in strategy consulting, international development, or complex advisory roles — ideally spanning both.
• Demonstrated experience working with or inside multilateral and bilateral institutions, large philanthropies, or global development organizations.
• A track record of leading multi-stakeholder, multi-country engagements from design through implementation.
• Experience designing strategic initiatives or large-scale programs — not just advising on them.
• Exposure to results-based financing, performance management, or impact measurement is highly desirable.

Education Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Public Policy, Economics, Business, Development Studies, or related fields.

Languages

• Excellent fluency in English (written and verbal).
• French or Spanish is a plus

Core Skills & Competencies

• Structured problem-solving & strategic thinking: You break down complex, ambiguous problems quickly and develop clear, actionable recommendations — the kind that a minister or a multilateral VP can act on.
• Change management & implementation: You understand that strategy without implementation is just paper. You know how to design for adoption, manage resistance, and build institutional ownership.
• Entrepreneurial & builder mindset: You can take an idea from whiteboard to pilot. You are comfortable with unstructured environments and motivated by building something, not just delivering it.
• Stakeholder management & communication: You engage credibly at the highest levels — with government ministers, donor executives, and foundation leadership — while remaining effective across teams and cultures.
• Project & team leadership: You manage multiple concurrent workstreams without dropping the ball, develop junior colleagues, and hold yourself and your team to a high bar.
• Global & cross-cultural collaboration: You have worked across geographies and cultures, and you know how to coordinate distributed teams effectively.
• AI-enabled working: You are genuinely curious about — and actively embrace — AI-powered workflows. At Instiglio, AI is not a future aspiration; it is central to how we research, synthesize, analyze, and deliver. The ideal candidate is already integrating AI tools into their daily work and is excited to push further.
• Adaptability & resilience: You thrive in ambiguity, adapt quickly to shifting priorities, and bring a low-ego, roll-up-your-sleeves attitude to whatever the work demands.

How You Can Grow with Us

This role offers a rare opportunity to work at the frontier of global development — not in a supporting role, but as a central player shaping strategy, building institutions, and pioneering new models of impact. You will develop deep expertise across donor strategy, government transformation, results-based financing, and innovation in development finance.

You will receive structured mentorship, regular feedback, and a clear path toward increasing leadership — including the opportunity to shape new global initiatives, and contribute to Instiglio’s growing influence in the field.

Working Model & Benefits

This position is open to both local and international candidates, with a strong preference for those based in our offices in Kenya, Morocco, Mauritius, or Uganda. Instiglio offers a comprehensive benefits package including personal days, remote work allowance, health and travel insurance, company holidays between Christmas and New Year’s, and parental leave.

Location: Kenya or Mauritius (strongly preferred)

Term: Full-time position

Expected Starting Date: June 1, 2026 or earlier

Application Deadline: Applications will be considered on a rolling basis

Join Our Team

Submit your application by attaching your CV and cover letter in English answering the following questions:

1. Tell us about a time you persuaded a decision-maker or group of people to take action — what was the situation, what did you do, and what was the outcome?
2. Tell us about a complex strategic or advisory engagement you led: what was the challenge, how did you approach it, and what impact did it achieve?
3. What excites you about working at the intersection of strategy, change management, and innovation in international development?

We read every cover letter carefully — please write yours in your own voice rather than using AI-generated text, as authenticity matters to us far more than polish.

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.  

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

The responsibilities of our Platform team include building and maintaining all backend services, including, but not limited to, payments, analytics, subscriptions, new products, text to speech, and external APIs.

This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, is passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users.

We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount. 

Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week. 

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain robust APIs including public TTS API, internal APIs like Payment, Subscription, Auth and Consumption Tracking, ensuring they meet business and scalability requirements
• Oversee the full backend API landscape, enhancing and optimizing for performance and maintainability
• Collaborate on B2B solutions, focusing on customization and integration needs for enterprise clients
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to align backend architecture with overall product strategy and user experience

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Proven experience in backend development: TS/Node (required)
• Direct experience with GCP and knowledge of AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers
• Efficiency in ideation and implementation, prioritizing tasks based on urgency and impact
• Preferred: Experience with Docker and containerized deployments
• Preferred: Proficiency in deploying high availability applications on Kubernetes

What We Offer

• A dynamic environment where your contributions shape the company and its products
• A team that values innovation, intuition, and drive
• Autonomy, fostering focus and creativity
• The opportunity to have a significant impact in a revolutionary industry
• Competitive compensation, a welcoming atmosphere, and a commitment to an exceptional asynchronous work culture
• The privilege of working on a product that changes lives, particularly for those with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, and more
• An active role at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio – a rapidly evolving tech domain

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Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Location: Remote. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment Visas in the U.S. or U.K. at this time.

Priority application deadline: May 14, 2026 or until we reach a critical mass of applications

About this role

GiveDirectly is scaling its emergency response operations to reach more people, faster, with cash in the wake of crises. As a Manager on the Humanitarian team, you will play a critical role in supporting the design and delivery of rapid cash responses globally. You’ll coordinate program implementation, manage day-to-day operations, and contribute to fundraising efforts by documenting field insights and preparing donor materials.

Managers are expected to:

• Execute high-quality program delivery in collaboration with cross-functional teams
• Manage projects and workstreams with a focus on operational excellence and continuous improvement.
• Support internal and external relationships, including partners, vendors, and donors.

Reports to: Humanitarian Senior Manager

Level: Manager

Travel Requirement: Must be able to travel up to 50-60% of the time including ~2 times per year for team retreats. Must be able to deploy on short notice in response to an emergency. This role incurs travel to potentially insecure areas. 

What you’ll do:

Design and implement high-quality programming:

• Coordinate design, planning, and execution of emergency response operations, ensuring timelines and quality standards are met.
• Apply operational playbooks and deployment criteria to rapidly set up response programs across a growing number of countries.
• Conduct operational diligence, feasibility, and risk assessments for individual disaster responses, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and context realities.
• Track and report on program metrics to support learning and performance management.
• Liaise with partners, vendors, and subgrantees to ensure smooth execution.
• Become an expert in GiveDirectly’s tech systems and processes (Salesforce, CommCare, Jira, etc.) to support project execution and excellence

Project and team coordination

• Manage day-to-day activities of designated response, including field staff tasking and coordination with surge teams
• Provide coaching and mentorship to junior staff or surge team members during deployments
• Contribute to team goal-setting, impact tracking, and knowledge sharing

Strategic and external contributions

• May be asked to support new business development, donor reporting, or appeal materials, most often by translating field updates into compelling content. 
• Represent GiveDirectly in select internal and external forums (e.g. Cash Working Groups)
• Ad hoc strategy and/or capability investment projects that advance GiveDirectly’s global response capacity. 

Qualifications 

• Alignment with GiveDirectly Values: exceptional alignment with values and an active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity. 
• 3-5+ years of experience in a role focused on problem solving, team management, and/or new business development, including prior humanitarian/emergency experience
• Analytical problem solving: looks at problems with an analytical and iterative mindset, with strong framework for prioritization and ability to put structure and process to ambiguous problems.
• Strong project management skills and the ability to manage multiple workstreams, prioritize/explicitly deprioritize, and hold a high quality bar.
• Strong technical skills, including data analysis and ease with learning new third-party tech platforms and tools.
• Fundraising: Preference for candidates with a strong partnership and relationship management background.
• Strong communications skills: Skilled in speaking, writing, presenting, and negotiating across multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to orient in new context quickly, rapidly understanding unfamiliar environments, stakeholders, and processes, with a track record of setting up effective systems in dynamic situations.
• Enthusiasm for fast-paced environments, which may lack pre-defined playbook for success and involve significant “learning by doing.” Comfort with ambiguity and building systems from scratch.

Nice to have:

• Fluent in a language other than English, especially French, Portuguese, Arabic, or other languages.
• Prior experience with humanitarian cash-based programming

Compensation

At GiveDirectly, we strive to pay our employees generously and equitably. We use an accredited third party salary aggregator to calculate what we believe to be competitive pay based on role, location, and cost of living. We also have a no negotiation policy to ensure we are paying staff equitably across roles. Read more about our compensation philosophy here.

Unless otherwise noted, the benefits stipend may be used to cover benefits or taken as additional taxable income.

United States

• Base Salary: $94,700
• Bonus at Target Performance: 10% (~$9,470 with potential for upside. For reference, with the organization’s current performance multiplier, this amount would be $11,080)
• Estimated Total Compensation at Target: $104,170
• Annual Benefits Stipend: $21,393

UK

• Base Salary: £61,200
• Bonus at Target Performance: 10% (~£6,120 with potential for upside. For reference, with the organization’s current performance multiplier, this amount would be £7,160)
• Estimated Total Compensation at Target: £67,320
• Annual Benefits Stipend: £2,760

Kenya

• Base Salary: $61,900
• Bonus at Target Performance: 10% (~$6,190 with potential for upside. For reference, with the organization’s current performance multiplier, this amount would be $7,242)
• Estimated Total Compensation at Target: $68,090

Why work at GiveDirectly?

At GiveDirectly, we work to ensure that you have everything you need to excel in your role and on your team, including:

• A supportive team that works hard and cares hard
• A robust health benefits plan (exact details will vary by country)
• Flexible paid time off that staff is encouraged to take
• Allowances for desk set-up and learning and development

This role is fully remote, so if you are not based in the US, UK or Kenya, we will share an estimated salary benchmark for the country you are based in during the hiring process. 

 #LI-REMOTE

About 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.

Our Kenya program, founded in 2006, operates under the local brand Tupande. Close to 500 staff in our Kakamega headquarters support 1,747 field staff and serve more than 1 million farmers. In Nairobi, around 50 staff support global functions like procurement, recruitment, government relations, and communications

About the Role

Tupande Procurement Senior Coordinator plays a critical role in ensuring smooth and efficient execution of procurement projects by closely aligning with business units (BUs) needs, controlling spend, and improving procurement processes. This role involves managing the full procurement lifecycle for assigned BU procurement  projects, supporting supplier and stakeholder relationships, driving process improvements, and maintaining strict contract management and compliance. The coordinator also provides performance tracking and reporting to facilitate strategic decision-making and continuous enhancement of procurement activities.

Responsibilities

High quality procurement project coordination and execution

• Manages full procurement lifecycle for operational needs including documentation and PO processing within approved strategies and policies, for assigned BU projects.
• Support procurement project implementation  with minimal support from Tupande Procurement Specialist.
• Develop, own and maintain procurement project tracking tools such as sourcing plans and risk registers.
• Ensure alignment with established project timelines, promptly escalate risks, or delays in a timely manner.
• Provide analysis and market research that informs strategies owned by Specialists/Category Leads.

Supplier and stakeholder engagement 

• Effectively manage relationships with suppliers to support operations and contract compliance, while adapting approaches as needed to meet evolving business and procurement priorities.
• Use appropriate supplier relationship strategy based on the nature of BU requirements.
• Coordinate closely with assigned Business Units to clarify requirements, timelines, and proactively resolve arising issues early.
• Act as the coordination link between Procurement and BUs to ensure BU input is included in category work led by Specialists/Category Leads.
• Assess BU requirements and align PR pipelines with sourcing calendars
• Collaborate with BUs to reduce maverick spend and stabilize spend control

Targeted process and performance  improvement

• Support cross-functional improvement initiatives by helping develop templates, SOPs, and training materials.
• Coordinate periodic reviews with assigned  Business Units to clear aged Procurement Requests (PRs) and Purchase Orders (POs).
• Perform root causes analysis to identify bottlenecks and improve PR to PO turnaround time.
• Identify capability gaps and propose practical, incremental improvements to strengthen processes and team performance.
• Facilitate effective collaboration between BU and PRO teams to ensure alignment on priorities, timelines, and deliverables.
• Promote proactive communication between BU units and PRO to support timely planning, coordination, and issue resolution.

Strategic sourcing responsibilities

• Define the scope and profile of assigned procurement categories.
• Conduct comprehensive spend analysis, market analysis, and profile demand/supply markets to identify opportunities.
• Develop strategic sourcing strategies, setting clear objectives for cost savings, quality improvement, risk mitigation, and determining appropriate tactics.
• Identify, evaluate, and pre-qualify potential suppliers based on strategic needs.
• Lead RFx processes, including negotiation of pricing, Service Level Agreements (SLAs), payment terms, delivery windows, and change management processes, while integrating selected suppliers into planning systems.
• Finalize and execute contracts, ensuring all terms and conditions are clearly defined and favorable.
• Monitor supplier performance against contract terms, drive continuous improvement initiatives, and hold regular business review meetings to ensure costs are consistently driven down.

Reporting and documentation

• Prepare routine reports and dashboards on procurement project progress, highlighting status updates, risks, and key actions for timely decision-making.
• Support data collection and analysis, including responding to ad-hoc market research requests that inform sourcing decisions and category strategies.
• Capture and document supplier performance data to help drive improvements in service levels, quality, and on-time delivery.
• Analyse cost drivers by Business Unit, identifying short-, medium-, and long-term trends to support planning and spend management.
• Work with other BU coordinators to promote standardization and consolidation of requirements, helping reduce duplication and improve sourcing efficiency across BUs.
• Monitor KPI performance for assigned procurement projects and follow up on corrective actions when targets are not met.
• Maintain clear, organized, and audit-ready documentation for all procurement transactions to support compliance and transparency.
• The Tupande Procurement Senior Coordinator will also perform any other duties as assigned by the manager.

Career Growth and Development

We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.

Qualifications

Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:

• Minimum 3-year work experience in a demanding professional environment.
• Bachelor's degree in procurement, project management, business strategy, or related discipline. Candidates with higher diploma and extensive relevant experience may also qualify.
• Professional qualification e.g CIPS, CILT preferred
• Familiarity with procurement models, sourcing frameworks, and PR-PO systems such as Odoo or SAP
• Language: Fluent in English and Kiswahili preferred.

Preferred Start Date

As soon as possible

Job Location

Nairobi and Kakamega, Kenya

Benefits

Health insurance, paid time off 

Eligibility

This role is only open to citizens or permanent residents of Kenya.

Application Deadline

21 July 2026. Please note that we hire on a rolling basis, which means that applications are reviewed and processed on a continuous basis until a hire is made.

One Acre Fund never asks candidates to pay any money or pay for tests at any stage of the interview process. Official One Acre Fund emails will always arrive from an @oneacrefund.org address. Please report any suspicious communication here (globalhotline@oneacrefund.org), but do not send applications or application materials to this email address.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), and anti-racism are deeply connected to our organization’s mission and purpose. One Acre Fund aspires to build a culture where all staff feel consistently valued, represented, and connected – so that our team can thrive as professionals, and achieve exceptional impact for the farmers we serve.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Level: Director

Reports To: VP Product

Travel: Must be willing to travel to program sites up to 1X per quarter for 1-2 weeks

Job Type: Full Time

Location: This role is fully remote but must overlap with an East Africa timezone by at least 3 hours. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment Visas in the U.S. or U.K. at this time.

Priority application deadline: Wednesday, May 6, 2026 (or until we have a critical mass of applications)

About this role

GiveDirectly has established a Product team responsible for identifying new program areas for exploration and implementation, as well as deepening our impact in existing program areas. Products at GiveDirectly are double-sided - serving the needs of our recipients on one side, and donors on the other - and include large technology components as well as the careful design of in-person operations. They range from our flagship large lump sum cash work to highly targeted support for specific populations or locations; the Product team works across fundraising, program implementation, and Research and Technology to build end-to-end programs and bring them to market. This role is responsible for assembling and leading cross-functional teams to drive product development, optimization, and scale. 

They may oversee single products, if large and/or complex, or a portfolio of products at different stages of development. 

Product leads must: 

• Be entrepreneurial generalists… with capabilities/experience across at least 2 of 3 following areas: software & technology, development research & evidence, and humanitarian or development program delivery 
• Demonstrate strong go-to-market instincts, with track record for mobilizing resources around big ideas and opportunities
• Be data driven with excellent altitude awareness - Product leads should be able to flex between big picture vision across multiple contexts and “in the weeds,” data-driven problem solving
• Show discernment and conviction in ambiguity, making the hard decisions to say no to things and drive focus
• Have track record of driving big results without direct formal authority (strong influence and high follow through)

Building on recent evidence that large, unconditional cash transfers can significantly reduce infant mortality, GiveDirectly is building a “Mothers & Babies” product that provides large cash transfers to expectant mothers to improve maternal and newborn outcomes. The demands on this product are two-sided: it must deliver a high-quality, dignified experience for recipients and build durable donor conviction that this is a top-tier use of philanthropic and (eventually) public funds.

This role will lead the end-to-end product strategy and execution across multiple countries and partnerships, assembling and driving a cross-functional team spanning Programs, Research/M&E, Partnerships, and Safeguarding. You’ll set the learning agenda, pressure-test and iterate on program design, and translate evidence and delivery performance into a compelling case and readiness for scale. 

What success looks like

By the end of 2026, we can credibly say “this works and we can scale it,” backed by:

• Impact validation: a clear, defensible impact story with leading indicators (and a credible path to rigorous evaluation where needed)
• Delivery validation: operational clarity on targeting and verification; reliable, on-time payment delivery; a playbook for partnerships with health organizations that works across contexts
• Donor validation: strong donor interest and commitments, ideally from both HNW and institutional funders, with a robust pipeline and clear “requirements” for scale (e.g. what it would take for donors to fund at scale)
• Unit economics: a clear model for cost per outcome and the path to improved efficiency at scale, including tradeoffs between operating with partners vs. in-housing program components
• Scale readiness: a concrete 2027 plan (countries, partners, operating model, tech roadmap, resourcing, risks)

What you'll do:

Set strategy, define the hypotheses, and drive focus

• Own the product vision and multi-year strategy, translating it into annual and quarterly goals and clear “go/no-go” decision points.
• Define and maintain the core “hypotheses” that ground GiveDirectly’s investment in this product (impact/value, feasibility/delivery, and growth/fundability), including what evidence would change our confidence.
• Build a crisp roadmap that separates (a) what must be proven, (b) what must be built, and (c) what must be scaled—then ruthlessly prioritize to match the year’s goal.

Design and iterate on program model and recipient experience

• Lead program design choices (e.g., transfer size, timing/cadence, etc), grounded in evidence and operational realities.
• Ensure the program meets a high bar for recipient dignity, safeguarding, consent, and clarity - especially given the sensitivity of pregnancy and newborn outcomes.
• Partner closely with programs teams to identify where reality diverges from our plans, diagnose root causes, and implement adaptations quickly and thoughtfully.

Build scalable delivery and partnership models

• Identify, evaluate, and manage partners critical to targeting and outcomes (e.g., community health NGOs, health facilities, government health systems, digital maternal health platforms).
• Define the operating model: what GiveDirectly must do vs. what partners can do better (and cheaper), and how responsibilities, incentives, data flows, and accountability work.
• Develop playbooks for recipient targeting/verification, enrollment of pregnant women, payment timing, troubleshooting, and issue escalation—then standardize across countries where appropriate.
• Define the tech needs for delivery and scale (e.g., digital identification/enrollment pathways, system integrations with health registries where feasible, 2-way messaging for consent/verification, automation to reduce delays/failures).

Drive the learning agenda and evidence narrative

• Set the measurement strategy and learning agenda: leading indicators, qualitative insight loops, and (where appropriate) the path to rigorous evaluation.
• Work with research/MEAL to ensure we’re collecting the “decision-grade” evidence we need (not just reporting metrics), including how findings translate into product decisions.
• Package evidence into a narrative that is legible and persuasive to donors, partners, and policy stakeholders—without overselling or handwaving uncertainty.

Support fundraising and go-to-market

• Build the product’s “go-to-market” posture: positioning, target donor segments, proof points, and the pitch narrative that unlocks scale.
• Partner with fundraising to shape pipeline strategy and support key conversations—especially where product credibility and evidence are decisive.
• Establish a cadence of tight updates and materials that make it easy for relationship owners to sell the product confidently.

Lead cross-functional execution without formal authority

• Assemble and run a high-performing cross-functional team, setting operating rhythms, decision forums, and clarity on ownership.
• Build alignment across stakeholders (country leadership, research, fundraising, tech) and “cleanly escalate” when tradeoffs need senior resolution.
• Create an environment of candor, high standards, and rapid learning—while operating with care in a sensitive domain.

Qualifications: 

• Exceptional alignment to GD values, passion for our mission, and commitment to recipient dignity and empowerment
• 8+ years of professional work experience in similar role or function (product, programs, business development, partnerships)
• Proven leadership ability and management experience in building high performing teams 
• Experience working with a distributed team in a multicultural environment
• Interest in working as part of a growing company, with awareness about the opportunities and challenges that come with a highly adaptive environment
• Strong, succinct communications: Skilled in speaking, writing, presenting, and negotiating across multiple stakeholders
• Analytical problem solver: Looks at problems w/ analytical and iterative mindset, with strong framework for prioritization 

Compensation

At GiveDirectly, we strive to pay our employees generously and equitably. We use an accredited third party salary aggregator to calculate what we believe to be competitive pay based on role, location, and cost of living. We also have a no negotiation policy to ensure we are paying staff equitably across roles. Read more about our compensation philosophy here.

Unless otherwise noted, the benefits stipend may be used to cover benefits or taken as additional taxable income.

United States

• Base Salary: $128,000
• Bonus at Target Performance: 15% (~$19,200, with potential for upside. For reference, with the organization's current performance multiplier, this amount would be $22,464 in 2025)
• Estimated Total Compensation at Target: $147,200+
• Annual Benefits Stipend: $21,393

United Kingdom

• Base Salary: £87,500
• Bonus at Target Performance: 15% (~£13,125, with potential for upside. For reference, with the organization's current performance multiplier, this amount would be £15,356 in 2025)
• Estimated Total Compensation at Target: £100,625+
• Annual Benefits Stipend: £2,760

Kenya

• Base Salary: $101,221
• Bonus at Target Performance: 15% (~$15,183, with potential for upside. For reference, with the organization's current performance multiplier, this amount would be $17,764 in 2025)
• Estimated Total Compensation at Target: $116,404+
• Annual Benefits Stipend: $8,453

This role is fully remote, so if you are not based in the US, UK or Kenya, we will share an estimated salary benchmark for the country you are based in during the hiring process. 

Why work at GiveDirectly?

At GiveDirectly, we work to ensure that you have everything you need to excel in your role and on your team, including:

• A positive and supportive team with opportunities for advancement 
• A demonstrated commitment to helping all staff develop and grow
• A competitive salary, including bonus
• A robust health benefits plan (exact details will vary by country)
• Flexible paid time off
• Allowances for desk set-up and learning and development

We welcome and strongly encourage applications from candidates who have personal or professional experience in the low-income and/or historically marginalized communities that we serve

 #LI-REMOTE

About 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 seeking two Data Senior Supervisors to join our Global Supply Chain operations. You will be critical in ensuring data integrity, system efficiency, and seamless financial reconciliation across our operations.

Responsibilities

Role 1: Global Purchasing Data Senior Supervisor

Focus: Payment Cycles & Procurement Analytics

• End-to-End Payment Processing: Manage payment requests for global and in-country teams, ensuring 100% timely processing within set SLAs.
• Reconciliation & Variance Management: Resolve seed and stock variances within strict timelines (1-2 weeks) and collaborate with Inventory Data teams.
• PO Lifecycle Management: Lead monthly stand-ups to track open POs, ensuring 95% closure of overdue items and escalating long-term risks.
• KPI Reporting: Utilize Power BI and SAP to monitor performance metrics, flag inconsistencies, and drive data-led decision-making.
• Ticketing Excellence: Maintain FreshDesk responsiveness (24-48hr turnaround) for Rwanda, Tanzania, and Global procurement requests.

Role 2: GSC Input Delivery Data Senior Supervisor

Focus: Inventory Integrity & Warehouse Systems

• Inventory Accuracy: Oversee counts and reconciliations across warehouses, performing Quality Control (QC) on count sheets and variance reporting.
• System Champions: Act as the lead for SAP and Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), providing training and troubleshooting support to country teams.
• Transaction Quality Control: Conduct regular QC reviews on Goods Receipt POs (GRPOs) and inventory moves to ensure data integrity and prevent shrinkage.
• Root Cause Analysis: Drive continuous improvement by analyzing recurring errors and implementing corrective actions in transaction posting.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Finance for accurate stock reporting and with Purchasers to facilitate efficient PO closure.

Career Growth and Development

We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.

Qualifications

Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:

• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Business, Commerce, Economics, Statistics, or any related field.
• At least 2 years of practical experience in data analytics, supply chain, or logistics operations within a data-driven environment.
• Proficient in SAP , Warehouse Management System, or comparable ERP systems, able to guide users, optimize workflows, and ensure data is correctly captured and maintained.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel (can maintain complex spreadsheets) and able to perform advanced data analysis for decision-making.
• Experience in analyzing data, detecting inconsistencies, and ensuring accurate reporting.
• Experience collaborating across multicultural teams to achieve shared goals.
• Succeed in a structured environment and be comfortable managing routine tasks.
• Fluency in English is required.

Preferred Start Date

As soon as possible

Job Location

Nairobi, Kenya

Benefits

Health insurance, paid time off 

Eligibility

This role is only open to citizens or permanent residents of Kenya

Application Deadline

31 May 2026. Please note that we hire on a rolling basis which means that applications are reviewed and processed on a continuous basis until a hire is made.

One Acre Fund never asks candidates to pay any money or pay for tests at any stage of the interview process. Official One Acre Fund emails will always arrive from an @oneacrefund.org address. Please report any suspicious communication here (globalhotline@oneacrefund.org), but do not send applications or application materials to this email address.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), and anti-racism are deeply connected to our organization’s mission and purpose. One Acre Fund aspires to build a culture where all staff feel consistently valued, represented, and connected – so that our team can thrive as professionals, and achieve exceptional impact for the farmers we serve.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

About the role:

This is a 10-week minimum summer internship designed for experienced professionals who want to apply their skills at the cutting edge of social impact measurement. The role sits within our Services Team and combines client management, research strategy, data analysis and insight delivery. You will work directly with some of the world’s most exciting impact-driven organizations and have real autonomy in shaping how we deliver value.

This role can be based remotely, although in-person candidates are preferred, subject to the candidate having the necessary work authorization. We have offices in New York, London, Bengaluru, and Nairobi.

Specifically, the Summer Intern (Senior Associate) will:

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in consulting, research, social enterprise, impact investing, international development, or a corporate environment.
• Oversee end-to-end project execution, keeping a close eye on quality, timeline and alignment with client needs.
• Contribute to final deliverables by shaping insights, adding context, and ensuring recommendations speak to what matters most for each client.
• Use AI tools (such as Claude, ChatGPT and other emerging platforms) confidently and creatively to accelerate research workflows, improve data analysis, and enhance the quality of deliverables.
• Contribute to the growth of 60dB by finding creative new ways to present our findings, and identifying new survey methods and business development opportunities.
• Understand client learning goals, tailoring projects to deliver on their priorities, and thinking outside the box on how 60dB can add value and grow their impact.
• Design surveys and research approaches to meet client needs, and present analysis and data in a way that helps clients take action and make better decisions.

About You:

First and foremost, you bring compassion and dedication to this work because it matters to you. You have an excellent eye for detail, thrive in an environment where you are juggling multiple things at once, and take personal accountability seriously: i.e. when you say you’re going to do something, you do it.

We also expect that most candidates will have had the following experiences / attributes. If your experience set differs, but you think you’re the right person for the role, say that in your application.

• A graduate degree, or current progress toward one, in business, international development, public policy, or a related field (for example an MBA, MPA, MPP, or MA) is strongly preferred.
• A natural affinity towards data, and a high level of proficiency with analysis.
• Fluency and confidence using AI tools (e.g. Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini) to support research, analysis, writing and workflow automation. You don’t need to be an engineer, but you should be an enthusiastic and resourceful user of AI in your daily work.
• An orientation towards, and passion for, ‘client-delight’: you are always asking yourself ‘what can we do to improve our customer/client experience?’.
• Excellent PowerPoint and Excel skills. High levels of comfort with new technology and software.
• Superb communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Great core skills of problem solving, teamwork and project management. And great soft skills, plus the understanding that they’re not really “soft” at all.
• Comfort in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment; awesome ability to prioritize and manage multiple workstreams; general interest in and orientation towards technology.

Interested in applying?

Deadline: Candidates are encouraged to apply early, as applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Duration: Minimum 10 weeks, with the possibility to extend pending performance and business needs.

Location: This role can be based remotely, although in-person candidates are preferred, subject to the candidate having the necessary work authorization. We have offices in New York, London, Bengaluru, and Nairobi.

Compensation: A monthly stipend is provided. In addition, this opportunity may qualify for university-sponsored stipends or other forms of institutional funding. Candidates are encouraged to check eligibility with their university. 

Senior Lead - Africa Athlete Manager

Location: Nairobi or Zurich, with travel required

Department: Global Athlete Strategy & Partnership
Reports to: Head of Athlete Management

In Summary:

This role plays a pivotal role in shaping On’s athlete strategy across Africa, one of the most important regions in global distance running. As Senior Lead - Africa Athlete Manager, you oversee On’s athlete partnerships in the region from the athlete’s perspective, ensuring that our athletes receive world-class support while building strong, long-term relationships with them and their representatives.

You own the management of our Kenya Training Camp, ensuring it operates as a world-class environment for athlete development while fostering strong relationships with athletes, coaches, and the broader local running ecosystem. You are responsible for identifying and recruiting emerging talent, leading athlete negotiations, and partnering with athletes throughout their journey with On.

You act as a key connection point between athletes and internal cross-functional teams including product development (Footwear, Apparel, Accessories), Marketing (Storytelling, Social, Events), Product Verticals, PR, and regional teams. Your goal is to help our athletes succeed at the highest level of competition while creating compelling athlete and product stories that strengthen On’s presence in global running.

Your Mission

• Athlete Relationship Management: Build and maintain strong, trusted relationships with On’s athletes across Africa as well as their coaches and athlete representatives. Act as the primary point of contact for athlete needs, ensuring they are supported across all aspects of their careers. Manage athlete communications, career development conversations, and partnership support while maintaining a strong network that enables identification of new talent for the brand.
• Collaboration with Global Athlete Strategy & Partnership Team: Oversee the management and strategic development of On’s Kenya Training Camp, ensuring it provides a world-class training environment for elite athletes. Maintain strong relationships with local coaches, training groups, and community stakeholders while ensuring smooth operations and a high-performance culture. Use the camp as a central hub for athlete support, collaboration, and talent development.
• Execution of Athlete-Driven Programs: Lead the management and development of On’s athlete partnerships across Africa, including key markets such as Kenya and Ethiopia, while exploring opportunities in emerging running markets. Build and manage a portfolio of elite athletes while ensuring alignment with On’s global athlete strategy.
• Talent Identification & Recruitment: Leverage a strong regional network to identify and recruit high-potential athletes across Africa. Lead negotiations and manage the process of onboarding athletes into On’s athlete roster. Develop long-term pipelines for emerging talent and future elite athletes.
• Risk Awareness & Athlete Integrity: Operate with strong judgment in a complex and evolving environment by proactively identifying and mitigating risks related to anti-doping, athlete safety, regulatory compliance, and reputation management. Ensure athlete partnerships align with On’s integrity standards and support athletes in maintaining the highest levels of professional conduct.
• Strategic Project Development: Contribute to the development of new projects and initiatives designed to strengthen On’s presence within elite distance running in Africa. Use athlete insights and performance data to generate innovative ideas that elevate both athlete success and brand impact.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with On’s marketing, product, sales, PR, and regional teams on site (e.g. Director of Africa, Head of Africa) to ensure athlete partnerships align with broader brand objectives. Foster internal alignment to ensure athlete needs are met and athlete-driven initiatives are executed successfully.
• Performance Tracking & Reporting: Monitor and report on athlete performances across major global competitions, tracking metrics such as podium finishes, top placements, and engagement impact. Provide regular updates on athlete performance, partnership impact, and key regional insights.

Your Story: 

• Strong Network in African Distance Running: Established relationships within the African elite running ecosystem, including athletes, coaches, agents, and training groups. Deep understanding of the competitive landscape in key markets such as Kenya and Ethiopia.
• Proven Athlete Management Skills: Experience working directly with elite athletes and supporting their professional development. Ability to manage athlete relationships with professionalism, trust, and efficiency.
• Strong Judgment & Risk Awareness: Ability to make sound decisions in complex environments while mitigating risks related to doping, athlete safety, compliance, and reputational considerations. High integrity and a strong commitment to protecting both athletes and the brand.
• Strategic & Operational Mindset: Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational execution, particularly in managing athlete programs and training environments.
• Collaboration Across Teams: Strong interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate effectively with global marketing, product, PR, and regional teams. Ability to align athlete priorities with broader brand strategies.
• Passion for Distance Running: Deep passion for global distance running and athlete performance. Strong understanding of the culture and dynamics of elite training environments.
• Project Management: Strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects, timelines, and stakeholder expectations simultaneously.
• Travel Flexibility: Willingness to travel frequently across Africa and globally to support athletes, competitions, and training environments (approximately 15–20 trips annually).

Key Success Metrics:

• Athlete Performance: Tangible improvements in On athlete performances at major global competitions, including podium finishes and top placements at key international road and track events.
• Athlete Engagement & Retention High levels of athlete satisfaction with partnership support and strong retention of top athletes within On’s roster. Positive feedback from athletes and representatives regarding the level of support, trust, and professionalism within the partnership.
• Talent Identification: Successful recruitment of emerging athletes from key African running markets who develop into world-class performers representing On.
• Training Camp Impact: Successful management and development of the Kenya Training Camp, reflected in strong athlete participation, positive athlete feedback, and performance outcomes linked to the training environment.
• Athlete Integrity & Risk Management: Effective identification and mitigation of risks related to anti-doping, athlete safety, and partnership integrity, ensuring that athlete relationships consistently align with On’s ethical standards and compliance requirements while protecting both athletes and the brand.

About The Team:

About On:

On is a leading performance running brand known for its innovative approach to running shoes, apparel, and gear. We are dedicated to creating the best running experience for athletes of all levels, from beginners to elite competitors. Join us and become part of a dynamic team working at the intersection of sport, performance, and innovation.

This role presents a unique opportunity to contribute to On’s growth in the distance running space, playing a key part in the development of global athlete strategies and driving forward-thinking initiatives that elevate both athletes and the brand. If you're passionate about Africa and Distance Running and want to help shape the future of On in this exciting sport, we encourage you to apply.

Location: Remote. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment Visas in the U.S. or U.K. at this time.

About this role

GiveDirectly is scaling its emergency response operations to reach more people, faster, with cash in the wake of crises. As a Senior Manager on the Humanitarian team, you will play a key role in launching and overseeing rapid cash responses globally. You’ll drive organizational readiness, design response strategies, manage program implementation, and support fundraising by translating field insights into compelling cases for support. The Senior Manager’s portfolio will be staffed with a Program Manager, to be managed by the Senior Manager. Other responsibilities will include support to staffing and budgeting exercise, and managing internal and external relationships. 

Senior Managers should be able to:

• Understand and clearly communicate about the market/landscape and GiveDirectly’s value proposition in their domain and across domains 
• Build and motivate teams and advocate for resources to sustain them (through proposals, budgets, workplans)
• Oversee excellence in design and implementation, with a constant drive to improve, iterate, and learn

Reports to: Director, Emergency Cash Delivery

Level: Senior Manager

Travel Requirement: Must be able to travel up to 60% of the time including ~1-2 times per year for team retreats. Must be able to deploy on short notice in response to an emergency. This role incurs travel to potentially insecure areas. 

What you’ll do:

Design and implement high-quality programming:

• Oversee end-to-end design, planning, and execution of improvements to emergency response capabilities, coordinating internal and external stakeholders to ensure successful delivery
• Refine and scale deployment criteria and operational playbooks to accelerate readiness across a growing number of countries
• Conduct operational diligence, feasibility, and risk assessments for individual disaster responses, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and context realities
• Define, track, and report on operational efficiency and impact metrics to support performance management and continuous improvementEnsure high-quality management of partners, vendors, and subgrantees to drive excellence in program execution
• Assess and advocate for required resources (e.g., budgets, staff) for project success; monitor ongoing utilization and adapt plans to address gaps or overages

Pursue new funding opportunities and represent the GD Humanitarian team, internally and externally:

• In coordination with the Emergency Cash Delivery Director, Country Directors, and Fundraising teams, identify and pursue response-specific and unrestricted emergency funding opportunities
• Translate field learnings and operational successes into compelling donor proposals, updates, and campaign materials
• Establish and maintain high quality relationships with designated donors and operational partners
• Represent GiveDirectly at external and internal fora, including but not limited to Town Halls, conferences, and media engagements

Manage and develop high-performing teams

• Manage a Program Manager and support broader surge staffing efforts to ensure GD can respond effectively to Tier 1 disasters
• Support team goal-setting, impact planning, and performance tracking across emergency responses
• Foster talent development through coaching, career planning, and clear accountability, with a focus on building long-term capacity within the team

Qualifications 

• Alignment with GiveDirectly Values: exceptional alignment with values and an active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity. 
• 5-8+ years of experience in a role focused on problem solving, team management, and/or new business development. Prior humanitarian/emergency experience strongly preferred.
• Analytical problem solving: looks at problems with an analytical and iterative mindset, with strong framework for prioritization and ability to put structure and process to ambiguous problems.
• Strong project management skills and the ability to manage multiple workstreams, prioritize/explicitly deprioritize, and hold a high quality bar.
• Strong technical skills, including data analysis and ease with learning new third-party tech platforms and tools.
• Fundraising: Preference for candidates with a strong partnership and relationship management background.
• Strong communications skills: Skilled in speaking, writing, presenting, and negotiating across multiple stakeholders.
• Enthusiasm for fast-paced environments, which may lack pre-defined playbook for success and involve significant “learning by doing.” Comfort with ambiguity and building systems from scratch.

Nice to have:

• Fluent in a language other than English, especially French, Portuguese, Arabic, or other languages.

Compensation

At GiveDirectly, we strive to pay our employees generously and equitably. We use an accredited third party salary aggregator to calculate what we believe to be competitive pay based on role, location, and cost of living. We also have a no negotiation policy to ensure we are paying staff equitably across roles. Read more about our compensation philosophy here.

Unless otherwise noted, the benefits stipend may be used to cover benefits or taken as additional taxable income.

United States

• Base Salary: $109,200
• Bonus at Target Performance: 10% (~$10,920, with potential for upside. For reference, with the organization's current performance multiplier, this amount would be $12,776 in 2025)
• Estimated Total Compensation at Target: $120,120+
• Annual Benefits Stipend: $21,393

United Kingdom

• Base Salary: £71,400
• Bonus at Target Performance: 10% (~£7,140, with potential for upside. For reference, with the organization's current performance multiplier, this amount would be £8,354 in 2025)
• Estimated Total Compensation at Target: £78,540+
• Annual Benefits Stipend: £2,760

Kenya

• Base Salary: $77,500
• Bonus at Target Performance: 10% (~$7,750, with potential for upside. For reference, with the organization's current performance multiplier, this amount would be $9,068 in 2025)
• Estimated Total Compensation at Target: $85,250+
• Annual Benefits Stipend: $8,453

Why work at GiveDirectly?

At GiveDirectly, we work to ensure that you have everything you need to excel in your role and on your team, including:

• A supportive team that works hard and cares hard
• A robust health benefits plan (exact details will vary by country)
• Flexible paid time off that staff is encouraged to take
• Allowances for desk set-up and learning and development

This role is fully remote, so if you are not based in the US, UK or Kenya, we will share an estimated salary benchmark for the country you are based in during the hiring process. 

About 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

From R&D to sales to strategy to operations, the Global R&D Data Analyst has the unique opportunity to improve decision-making across all aspects of One Acre Fund’s program using many diverse data types, such as sales, yield, demographic and satellite data, to help us reach more farmers with greater impact. 

The Global R&D Data Analyst will help us reach over one million farmers by executing analyses for strategic decision-making on repayment, expansion, and other business functions, and work directly with program leaders to interpret results and make data-driven decisions. The Global R&D Data Analyst will play an integral role in shaping One Acre Fund’s data strategy, including dreaming up and executing new ways to use our data to improve our program.

Additionally, One Acre Fund has a robust agronomic and socioeconomic research program spanning all countries of operation. This role will work closely with country R&D teams to ensure all trials are executed at the highest possible standards, provide follow-up analytical support and training to team members, and support with warehousing of our agronomic data to make our research outputs accessible to external collaborators, further increasing One Acre Fund’s smallholder farmer impact across the continent.

To succeed in this role, you will need to be a strong communicator and have a solid analytical background with experience in experimental design. You will need to be comfortable interpreting ambiguous results generated with imperfect data and advising leaders on the relative risk associated with different decisions based on the results of your analysis. 

This is a deliberately hybrid role. Success requires the ability to operate effectively as:

• an experimental methodologist (trial design & causal inference),
• an applied data scientist (production analytics, geospatial methods, modelling), and
• a delivery-oriented project manager (prioritisation, documentation, coordination).

Responsibilities

Own methodological rigour and analytical quality for trials and surveys (30%):

• Design and analyse trials and surveys, including:
  • Sample size and power calculations
  • Stratification and experimental design
  • Recommend the appropriate statistical methods (e.g., hypothesis testing, regression, ANOVA/mixed models)
• Lead analysis of agronomic and product trials to estimate treatment effects and program impact
• Quality assure trial designs and analyses produced by other analysts
• Translate trial findings into clear recommendations for product design, agronomic guidance, and program strategy.

Develop scalable analytical products and decision-support tools using program, survey, and spatial data (30%):

• Build, maintain, and improve analytical pipelines and production codebases that power operational decision tools (e.g., sowing date or input recommendations), including occasional support at the production level.
• Integrate survey, MEL, and operational data with geospatial layers (soil, climate, vegetation, remote sensing) to generate localised recommendations and program targeting strategies.
• Conduct spatial and remote-sensing analyses for program design, prioritisation, and impact estimation (e.g., soil erosion modelling, site suitability analysis).
• Analyse historical trial and soil data to generate input and soil management recommendations (e.g., lime application, fertiliser rate application).
• Evaluate potential impact of alternative interventions and support pilot design, iteration, and scale decisions.
• Translate analyses into decision-ready outputs (briefs, dashboards, and memos) for non-technical stakeholders.
• Identify new, high-leverage analytical use cases that improve program reach, impact, or cost-effectiveness.

Lead impact data management and project management (~20%)

• Lead curation and standardisation of historical yield, agronomic practice, and trial datasets to enable reuse and external research collaboration.
• Own knowledge management for impact data and trials, including:
  • Central documentation of methodologies, assumptions, sample sizes, and results for all projects
  • Reusable analysis templates and reference implementations
• Manage external data requests in compliance with client data protection and confidentiality protocols.

Provide portfolio-level project management (~20%):

• Maintain project plans, priorities, and timelines
• Track dependencies and risks
• Coordinate with program and R&D stakeholders to identify potential delivery risks
• Establish durable documentation and planning systems (e.g., project roadmaps, project trackers, shared repositories).

Career Growth and Development

We have a strong culture of constant learning, and we invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.

Qualifications

Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:

• Bachelor's Degree in one of the following fields: economics, econometrics, mathematics, or statistics
• Proficiency in R and/or Python, including working knowledge of -
• Database connectivity (e.g., PostgreSQL) to enable data retrieval, manipulation, and storage from various databases
• Interact with RESTful APIs (e.g., JSON, XML)
• Data manipulation libraries (e.g., dplyr, tidyr) for efficient data wrangling, transformation, and exploration
• Packages for data visualisation (e.g., ggplot2, lattice, plotly)
• Advanced statistical analysis and modelling (stats, lme4, survival)
• Machine learning frameworks (e.g., randomForest, xgboost, caret) for building predictive models and conducting machine learning tasks
• Packages for data manipulation and visualisation, such as numpy, pandas, and Matplotlib
• Spatial data manipulation libraries (geopandas, rasterio, shapely, GDAL)
• In-depth knowledge of statistically rigorous trial design methodologies, including RCTs, side-by-side comparisons, RCBD, and other experimental designs
• In-depth knowledge of statistically rigorous survey design methods, including random, stratified, and cluster sampling
• Knowledge of relevant meteorological, soil, and vegetation data layers and sources, their uses and limitations (e.g., iSDA, ISRIC, CHIRPS, TAMSAT, NASA, Sentinel Hub, Google Earth Engine, AWS)
• Working knowledge of agronomy, e.g., practical understanding of fertiliser nutrient compositions, plant populations, growing degree days, GxE interactions.
• Working knowledge of GIS tools such as ArcGIS and QGIS, and spatial data analysis techniques.
• Proficiency in version control, such as Git/GitHub.
• Ability to easily explain technical concepts to non-technical decision makers and grow the analytical skills of others.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for coordinating across teams.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple analytical projects in parallel, including:
• Scoping ambiguous analytical problems and translating them into deliverable plans
• Prioritising work against timelines and stakeholder needs
• Tracking progress, managing dependencies, and proactively unblocking delivery risks
• Maintaining clear documentation and project plans to ensure continuity and institutional memory

Preferred Start Date

As soon as possible

Job Location

Nairobi, Kenya or Kigali, Rwanda

Benefits

Health insurance, housing, and comprehensive benefits

Contract Duration

2 Years

Eligibility

One Acre Fund can support a work permit for this role. However, nationals of (or those with an extensive professional background and work history in) our countries of operation are preferred.

Application Deadline

10 July, 2026

Please note that we hire on a rolling basis, which means that applications are reviewed and processed on a continuous basis until a hire is made.

One Acre Fund never asks candidates to pay any money or pay for tests at any stage of the interview process. Official One Acre Fund emails will always arrive from an @oneacrefund.org address. Please report any suspicious communication here (globalhotline@oneacrefund.org), but do not send applications or application materials to this email address.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), and anti-racism are deeply connected to our organisation’s mission and purpose. One Acre Fund aspires to build a culture where all staff feel consistently valued, represented, and connected – so that our team can thrive as professionals, and achieve exceptional impact for the farmers we serve.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Acumen is seeking a highly motivated, thoughtful, and curious Senior Associate, Insights with atleast 5 years of experience to support the delivery of a rigorous learning agenda for a transformative business and economic empowerment program across Africa with a strong focus on young women, leadership and organizational growth and development.  This role will focus on generating high quality insights to inform adaptive program delivery, with a strong emphasis on understanding enterprise growth, work quality, and women’s participation in the green economy.This role will be based out of Acumen’s office in Nairobi or Lagos, with an expectation of working from the office 3 days a week.

About Acumen

Acumen is a global force of entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and social innovators working together to build a world based on dignity. We were founded by Jacqueline Novogratz on the radical idea that business, when cultivated with moral imagination, can break the cycle of poverty. We invest in transformational companies, build sustainable markets, and prepare leaders with the tools they need to create a more just and inclusive future. Since 2001, we have scaled companies and shaped markets in some of the hardest-to-reach communities on the planet, impacting over half-a-billion lives. To learn more visit acumen.org.

About the Role

As the Senior Associate, Insights, you will support the execution of the program’s learning agenda, working across program teams and partners to generate actional insights that inform program delivery and strategy.

This role sits within the Insights function, focusing on the ‘why’ and ‘so what’ behind program results.  You will lead qualitative and mixed-methods data collection and analyze findings.  You will also synthesize findings into clear insights and contribute to learning outputs that shape adaptive management and thought leadership.

You will report to the Program Insights Lead and program teams across multiple workstreams.  The role requires strong execution, structured thinking, and the ability to translate complex data into meaningful insights.

Accountabilities include:

Execution of the Program Learning Agenda

• Support the implementation of the Program’s multi-year learning agenda, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery of learning activities
• Coordinate and execute qualitative and mixed-methods data collection across Program pillars, including surveys, interviews, focus group discussions, and feedback tools
• Support the design and development of data collection tools (e.g. surveys, interview guides, tracking tools) aligned with learning questions
• Manage data collection processes across multiple stakeholders, including program teams, partners, and enterprises
• Ensure data is collected, documents, and organized in a structured and usable way

Insight Generation and Analysis

• Conduct qualitative and mixed methods analysis to identify patterns, trends, and key insights across program data
• Synthesize findings across multiple data sources to answer core learning questions
• Translate data into clear, concise, and actionable insights that inform program decision-making
• Identity emerging signals and insights to support adaptive learning and continuous program improvement

Adaptive Learning and Program Support

• Provide input into adaptive learning processes, including after-action reviews and periodic learning sessions
• Support program teams in understanding and applying insights to improve program delivery
• Contribute to tracking learning questions and ensuring alignment between data collection and program priorities
• Surface insights to support strategic reflection and decision-making

Knowledge Products and Thought Leadership

• Support the development of internal and external learning deliverables, including reports, briefs, and blogs.
• Contribute to drafting sections of program learning outputs, ensuring clarity, rigor, and strong narrative
• Help translate insights into compelling stories and evidence that contribute to broader conversations on green entrepreneurship, work quality, and women’s economic participation
• Ensure learning outputs are grounded in high-quality evidence and aligned with program priorities

Skills and Qualifications

• 5 – 8 years of relevant experience in consulting, development, research, or a related field
• Experience in qualitative or mixed-methods research, including designing tools and conducting interviews and surveys
• Strong analytical and synthesis skills, with the ability to translate complex information into clear insights and recommendations
• Strong writing skills, with the ability to contribute to reports and structured outputs with guidance
• Experience working on complex programs.
• Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and stakeholders
• Ability to work independently with guidance, while contributing to team thinking and problem solving
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate across teams and functions
• Good presenter in public, strong voice in meetings

Desirable 

• Experience in entrepreneurship, MSMEs, or private sector development programs
• Familiarity with climate, green economy, or sustainability-related sectors
• Exposure to large, donor-funded, or multi-stakeholder programs
• Experience supporting the development of knowledge products or thought leadership outputs

Location: Nairobi (East Africa) or Lagos (West Africa)

Acumen is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, age, differential ability, race, religion, sexual orientation, or background.

Applications will be reviewed and interviews scheduled on a rolling basis. 

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About 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 Global Safety Nets and Microinsurance Senior Associate is a high-agility role responsible for the end-to-end design, piloting, and initial setup of household microinsurance and safety net products. This role bridges the gap between high-level strategy and ground-level execution, conducting field research, managing external partners, and leading pilots during the critical innovation phase.

Responsibilities

• Lead Market Entry & Opportunity Scoping
• Conduct deep-dive market assessments and farmer needs analyses to evaluate the viability of microinsurance and safety net interventions in new markets.
• Identify high-impact opportunities and define entry strategies for pre-scale programs.
• Drive Product Innovation & Design
• Lead end-to-end design of innovative financial protection products, translating complex risk and insurance concepts into simple, farmer-centric solutions.
• Rapidly prototype, test, and iterate products based on field insights and user feedback.
• Own Pilot Execution & Program Delivery
• Serve as project lead for country-level pilots, managing the full lifecycle from design to implementation and evaluation.
• Collaborate with country leadership to ensure alignment, execution excellence, and readiness for scale.
• Build Strategic Partnerships & Delivery Models
• Identify, negotiate, and manage partnerships with insurers, InsurTechs, NGOs, and other service providers.
• Design operational models and delivery structures that enable scalable, cost-effective program implementation.
• Develop Playbooks, Teams & Pathways to Scale
• Build operational playbooks, tools, and training materials to transition pilots into scalable programs.
• Manage and mentor junior team members while strengthening in-country team capability.
• Capture insights and shape global strategy for microinsurance and safety net programming.

Career Growth and Development

We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.

Qualifications

Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:

• 3–5 years of professional experience in a similar role, preferably consulting, startup, or international development.       
• Strong problem-solving mindset with experience building or launching new products, programs, or ventures.
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and driving progress in early-stage or unstructured environments.
• Demonstrated ability to lead projects end-to-end and deliver results in cross-functional, global environments.
• Strong analytical skills with proficiency in Excel; ability to translate data into actionable insights.
• Experience managing or mentoring team members is an advantage.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Economics, Development, Business, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Fluency in English required; French or Swahili is a strong advantage.

Preferred Start Date

As soon as possible

Job Location

Nairobi, Kenya or Kigali, Rwanda

Benefits

Health insurance, housing, and comprehensive benefits

Contract Duration

2 years

Eligibility

One Acre Fund can support a work permit for this role. However, nationals of (or those with an extensive professional background and work history in) our countries of operation are preferred.

Application Deadline

25 June 2026. Please note that we hire on a rolling basis which means that applications are reviewed and processed on a continuous basis until a hire is made.

One Acre Fund never asks candidates to pay any money or pay for tests at any stage of the interview process. Official One Acre Fund emails will always arrive from an @oneacrefund.org address. Please report any suspicious communication here (globalhotline@oneacrefund.org), but do not send applications or application materials to this email address.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), and anti-racism are deeply connected to our organization’s mission and purpose. One Acre Fund aspires to build a culture where all staff feel consistently valued, represented, and connected – so that our team can thrive as professionals, and achieve exceptional impact for the farmers we serve.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Are you passionate about building communities that do more than engage; communities that drive growth, deepen belonging, and unlock measurable business impact? Do you thrive at the intersection of community building, learner engagement, programme activation, and cross-functional execution? Are you excited by the opportunity to shape how community becomes a key driver of enrollments, retention, storytelling, and brand advocacy in one of ALX’s most important markets?

Do you have the strategic maturity to design community systems and the operational discipline to make them work at scale? Can you activate ambassadors, mobilise learners and alumni, and create high-energy experiences that strengthen participation and drive results? Are you energized by the opportunity to make community one of the strongest levers for growth in Kenya?

If so, this could be the role for you.

About ALX Africa

ALX Africa, a non-profit organisation under the ALX Foundation, is dedicated to unlocking the potential of Africa's digital future. Formerly part of Sand Tech Holdings, we've embarked on an independent journey to provide world-class tech skills training and career acceleration programmes. Our mission is to bridge the digital divide, upskill and re-skill talent, and create a generation of innovative leaders. By 2030, we aim to empower 2 million Africans to secure sustainable tech careers.

With hubs in 8 cities across Africa and counting, we provide safe access to quality learning and a dedicated network of expert instructors. Our innovative programmes equip learners with the practical skills and knowledge needed to succeed in today's rapidly evolving tech industry. Through a combination of rigorous coursework, industry partnerships, and hands-on projects, we prepare our students for in-demand roles in software engineering, data science, and cybersecurity.

We achieve this by:

• Providing young professionals with access to the most in-demand tech skills that will power the future.
• Empowering the next generation of technology innovators, entrepreneurs, and business leaders through challenging, real-world coursework.
• Building a lifelong, impactful community of tech professionals that supports them at all stages of their career journey. 

Our impact thus far:

• 347k+ graduates since 2020
• 257k youth in work
• 31k youth starting own ventures
• 60k youth in jobs created by entrepreneurs

 Visit our website www.alxafrica.com to learn more about our digital revolution.

Role Summary

The Community Manager will be responsible for leading ALX’s community activation strategy in Kenya, with a strong focus on ambassador activation, learner and alumni engagement, community-led recruitment, and impact storytelling.

The role will own the development of systems, experiences, and operating rhythms that enable the community to become a scalable driver of growth. This includes activating ambassadors, increasing monthly active engagement, supporting community contribution to enrollments, documenting compelling stories of impact, and creating a strong community experience that deepens learner connection to ALX.

The Community Manager will also play a key leadership role in cross-functional execution, partnering with Learning, Marketing, Recruitment, and leadership teams to ensure community efforts contribute meaningfully to business goals around enrollments, learner experience, and market growth.

Specific Responsibilities

Community Strategy and Market Activation

• Lead the design and execution of the Kenya community strategy, ensuring strong alignment with market growth priorities and business objectives.
• Build and operationalise a community model that strengthens learner and alumni engagement while driving measurable outcomes.
• Develop market-relevant activation strategies that increase participation, visibility, belonging, and advocacy across the ALX community in Kenya.
• Establish clear systems, operating rhythms, and success measures that position community as a strategic growth function.
• Continuously refine community programming and structures to improve relevance, consistency, and impact.

Ambassador Programme Design and Activation

• Lead the recruitment, activation, and ongoing management of community ambassadors in Kenya.
• Design an ambassador model that enables consistent monthly activity, strong accountability, and meaningful contribution to community growth and learner recruitment.
• Develop engagement structures, communication rhythms, toolkits, and incentives that empower ambassadors to lead relevant and high-quality community activities.
• Track ambassador activity and effectiveness to ensure the programme supports engagement, referrals, visibility, and growth objectives.
• Strengthen the quality and consistency of ambassador-led programming over time.

Community Engagement, Participation, and Retention

• Drive strategies that increase monthly active engagement across learners, alumni, and broader community members in Kenya.
• Design and oversee community programmes, experiences, and events that foster belonging, accountability, and continued participation.
• Work closely with internal teams to strengthen learner and alumni connection to ALX throughout the lifecycle, from onboarding to post-programme engagement.
• Monitor participation trends, engagement risks, and drop-off points, and implement interventions that improve retention and continuity.
• Create strong operating mechanisms for in-person and virtual community touchpoints that can scale effectively.

Community-Led Recruitment and Growth Contribution

• Partner closely with Marketing, Recruitment, and city teams to ensure community contributes meaningfully to learner acquisition and enrollment goals in Kenya.
• Develop and execute strategies that increase the percentage of new enrollments secured through community-led recruitment channels.
• Support the creation of referral systems, ambassador-led outreach efforts, local engagement campaigns, and events that drive qualified prospect interest.
• Ensure community programming and messaging are aligned with campaign priorities, target audience needs, and market goals.
• Track and report on the community's contribution to lead generation, conversion, and enrollment performance.

Impact Storytelling and Brand Advocacy

• Build systems to identify, capture, and elevate powerful stories of learner, alumni, and community impact in Kenya.
• Work with internal stakeholders to ensure impact stories are consistently documented, surfaced, and shared in ways that strengthen brand credibility and community pride.
• Support the development of a strong story pipeline that provides regular, high-quality proof points for marketing, partnerships, and brand communications.
• Encourage community members and ambassadors to contribute to storytelling efforts that showcase ALX’s value and local impact.
• Ensure storytelling efforts are intentional, measurable, and aligned with business and brand priorities.

Cross-Functional Collaboration and Community Operations

• Work closely with Learning teams to align community efforts with learner experience, participation, and retention priorities.
• Partner with Marketing and Recruitment teams to ensure community campaigns support business growth and enrollment objectives.
• Collaborate with leadership and relevant stakeholders to ensure community priorities remain visible, integrated, and outcome-oriented.
• Build strong internal coordination mechanisms that ensure the community is not operating in isolation, but as part of a broader market growth strategy.
• Contribute to a culture of accountability, experimentation, and continuous improvement within the Kenya team.

Monitoring, Reporting, and Continuous Improvement

• Track and analyse performance across key community metrics, including ambassador activation, monthly active engagement, community-led recruitment, and impact storytelling.
• Build strong reporting rhythms that provide visibility into community health, activity levels, and contribution to Kenya market goals.
• Use data, field insights, and participant feedback to continuously refine community strategy, activation models, and operating processes.
• Translate community performance insights into clear recommendations and action plans.
• Drive ongoing improvements that make the community more effective, scalable, and measurable over time.

Skill Requirements - Essential

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in community management, programme management, youth engagement, ecosystem building, marketing activation, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience building or managing communities that drive measurable outcomes such as engagement, recruitment, retention, advocacy, or growth.
• Proven ability to lead multi-market or multi-stakeholder initiatives with strong operational discipline and execution quality.
• Strong experience designing and running engagement programmes, ambassador initiatives, events, or community activation campaigns.
• Ability to translate strategy into practical systems, operating rhythms, and measurable results.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across Learning, Marketing, Recruitment, and business leadership teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with strong facilitation and community-facing presence.
• Strong analytical mindset, with the ability to track performance, interpret trends, and use insights to improve programming and results.
• High level of ownership, organisation, and comfort managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Candidates must be based in Nairobi or willing to relocate to Nairobi.
• This is an in-person role, and the successful candidate will be expected to work onsite as part of the Nairobi team.
• Legal authorisation to work in Kenya.

Skill Requirements - Preferable

• Experience working in education, youth development, employability, entrepreneurship, or mission-driven growth environments.
• Experience launching or rebuilding community models in new or emerging markets.
• Experience supporting business or growth goals through community-led acquisition and referral strategies.
• Exposure to content, storytelling, or brand advocacy systems within a community function.
• Comfort working across both virtual and in-person engagement environments.

Person Specification/Attributes

• Courage: Willingness to speak up, challenge the status quo, and embrace new challenges.
• Humility: Openness to learning, seeking help when needed, and a focus on serving others.
• Adventure: A passion for setting ambitious goals, tackling difficult tasks, and finding joy in the journey.
• Initiative: Proactive problem-solving, a sense of ownership, and a willingness to go above and beyond.
• Resilience: The ability to bounce back from setbacks, persevere through challenges, and emerge stronger.

Employment Type

This role is a full-time  position

Acumen is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Impact Manager with at least 8 years of work experience to provide Reporting, Data and Analytics leadership at a regional level for a transformative business and economic empowerment programme across Africa with a strong focus on young women.

This role will be based out of Acumen office in Nairobi or Lagos with an expectation of working from office 3 days a week. Remote from other geographies is not an option.

About Acumen

Acumen is a global force of entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and social innovators working together to build a world based on dignity. We were founded by Jacqueline Novogratz on the radical idea that business, when cultivated with moral imagination, can break the cycle of poverty. We invest in transformational companies, build sustainable markets, and prepare leaders with the tools they need to create a more just and inclusive future. Since 2001, we have scaled companies and shaped markets in some of the hardest-to-reach communities on the planet, impacting over half-a-billion lives. To learn more visit acumen.org.

About the role

As the Impact Manager: Reporting, Data and Analytics you will be responsible for designing and implementing the technology solution for the programmatic MEL framework. That is potentially adapting existing solutions like Salesforce and Google sheets, or creating/identifying new technology solutions, to ensure that the MEL framework has a functioning and efficient technology platform, routine reporting on key data points. We expect the role to focus on continual identification of system and data management and reporting improvements. We expect candidates to be highly technically efficient with data and software solutions with growing skills in the use of AI. 

You will work closely with the Impact Manager: Monitoring, Evaluation and learning. The Impact Manager: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning will focus on MEL framework design and implementation and adaptive learning. 

Additionally, you will work closely with other Impact & Insight staff based in the UK and in East and West Africa. 

The postholder is expected to travel occasionally within the region. 

Accountabilities include: 

MEL framework design and implementation

• Support the implementation of the programmatic MEL framework (including MEL plan, data collection plan, data management plan, quality assurance protocols, results framework) through providing a functioning technology solution to support data collection, management and reporting 
• Work collaboratively with the Impact Manager: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning to co-develop quarterly reporting processes and reports on key metrics and KPIs (including financial KPIs for companies), for sharing with a range of stakeholders (This role to focus on the technology platform e.g. Power BI or Airtable and develop dashboards)
• Carry out data analysis to derive insights in collaboration with the Impact Manager: MEL 
• Develop infographics using data visualisation software and tools 
• Close collaboration with Finance to quality assure and integrate finance data with impact data - including reporting on Impact Linked Finance initiatives

Programme data management 

• Ensure that data is collected and managed in line with best practices
• Liaise with Compliance and Legal team to ensure we are following best practices on data consent, use, management, retention, reporting, protection and security approaches. 
• Integrate data, from a range of data sources, to produce reports (through Power BI or similar)
• Be the point person for all impact data requests

Knowledge Management and Learning

• Set up an internal Knowledge Management system for the programme and co-develop the programme knowledge management system.
• Work closely with Programme Insights team to ensure lessons are captured and knowledge management processes are followed. 
• Work closely with the Programme Insights team to ensure qualitative data is managed in line with best practices. 
• Actively support any programmatic evaluations that are required by donors by ensuring all data needs are met

Capacity building - team and partners

• Capacity building team members to use technology for MEL implementation
• Capacity building partners (organisations) to engage with technology for reporting. 
• Development of training materials and training sessions to upskill staff and partners with a range of skills in this space
• Support lower capacity organisations to develop their own internal reporting systems in line with programmatic needs 
• Site visits to monitor partner data management and reporting systems
• Quarterly reporting on data quality from partners

Skills and qualifications

• At least  8 years of professional experience, including at least 3 years of experience in developing and managing data systems, MEL databases, and reporting tools
• Strong hands-on experience in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) for complex, multi-country programmes
• Demonstrated ability to strengthen the use of data for decision-making across different organisational levels
• Strong skills in data analysis and data visualisation
• Experience setting up routine reporting systems (actuals vs targets) for quarterly and annual reporting
• Experience using technology to support MEL in field and country contexts, including mobile data collection
• Experience working with compliance teams on data governance and best practices
• Experience building or using Salesforce-based data management and reporting systems
• Interest or experience in AI solutions or AI agents for MEL
• Experience in Impact Linked Finance / Value for Money / SROI / Cost–Benefit analysis
• Project management qualification
• Experience working in multi-country, matrix-managed environments
• Experience in gender and youth programmes or working with private sector partners
• Familiarity with Power BI, Airtable, Salesforce or similar tools

Location: Nairobi (East Africa) or Lagos (West Africa)  

Acumen is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, age, differential ability, race, religion, sexual orientation, or background.

Applications will be reviewed and interviews scheduled on a rolling basis. 

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Are you passionate about building entrepreneurial ecosystems and supporting founders from idea to scale? Do you thrive at the intersection of strategy, community building, programme execution, and ecosystem engagement? Are you energised by the opportunity to work directly with ambitious entrepreneurs, startup founders, mentors, investors, and innovation partners to unlock new pathways for venture creation and growth?

Do you have the ability to translate entrepreneurial ambition into structured programmes, meaningful founder support, and high-impact ecosystem experiences? Can you combine operational discipline with strategic thinking to drive enrollment, engagement, venture progression, and ecosystem visibility? Are you excited by the challenge of helping shape one of Africa’s most dynamic entrepreneurship platforms while working across multiple markets?

If so, this could be the role for you.

About ALX Africa

ALX Africa, a non-profit organisation under the ALX Foundation, is dedicated to unlocking the potential of Africa's digital future. Formerly part of Sand Tech Holdings, we've embarked on an independent journey to provide world-class tech skills training and career acceleration programmes. Our mission is to bridge the digital divide, upskill and reskill talent, and create a generation of innovative leaders. By 2030, we aim to empower 2 million Africans to secure sustainable tech careers.

With hubs in 8 cities across Africa and counting, we provide safe access to quality learning and a dedicated network of expert instructors. Our innovative programmes equip learners with the practical skills and knowledge needed to succeed in today's rapidly evolving tech industry. Through a combination of rigorous coursework, industry partnerships, and hands-on projects, we prepare our students for in-demand roles in software engineering, data science, and cybersecurity.

We achieve this by:

• Providing young professionals with access to the most in-demand tech skills that will power the future.
• Empowering the next generation of technology innovators, entrepreneurs, and business leaders through challenging, real-world coursework.
• Building a lifelong, impactful community of tech professionals that supports them at all stages of their career journey. 

Our impact thus far:

• 347k+ graduates since 2020
• 257k youth in work
• 31k youth starting own ventures
• 60k youth in jobs created by entrepreneurs

 Visit our website www.alxafrica.com to learn more about our digital revolution.

Role Summary

The Entrepreneurship Development Manager will play a pivotal role in building and strengthening ALX’s entrepreneurship ecosystem in Kenya. This is a high-impact role designed for a strong operator, ecosystem builder, and founder-support leader who can drive both programme excellence and strategic market presence across multiple countries.

The role requires the ability to manage programme delivery, founder engagement, stakeholder partnerships, ecosystem visibility, and performance tracking, while contributing to the long-term growth of ALX’s entrepreneurial footprint in Kenya. This individual will report directly to the Country General Manager for day-to-day implementation and local market leadership, while maintaining a strategic reporting line to the Entrepreneurship Director to ensure consistency with ALX entrepreneurship objectives.

Specific Responsibilities

Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Development and Market Leadership

• Serve as the primary lead for entrepreneurship in Kenya, driving the development, visibility, and growth of ALX’s entrepreneurship agenda across the three markets.
• Design and execute market-relevant strategies that foster founder engagement, startup pipeline development, and entrepreneurial community building in Kenya.
• Position ALX Ventures and related entrepreneurship programmes as a leading platform for high-potential entrepreneurs, innovation, and venture growth across the three-country portfolio.
• Represent ALX in the entrepreneurship ecosystem through active engagement with founders, investors, innovation hubs, accelerators, corporates, and relevant public and private sector actors.
• Identify and pursue opportunities for ecosystem recognition, strategic partnerships, grants, and visibility platforms that strengthen ALX’s entrepreneurship brand and reach in Kenya.

Founder, Community Engagement and Experience

• Build and sustain a vibrant founder community through regular, high-value touchpoints that deepen engagement, accountability, and peer learning across all supported markets.
• Lead in-person founder engagement and ecosystem activities in Nairobi, while ensuring strong and consistent virtual support for entrepreneurs outside of Nairobi.
• Host monthly fireside chats and ecosystem conversations featuring entrepreneurs, investors, operators, and industry leaders.
• Organise and deliver weekly entrepreneurship-related engagements such as pitch nights, founder meetups, networking forums, hackathons, and community-building events across the country’s portfolio.
• Ensure that ALX entrepreneurship programmes create a strong founder experience from recruitment through onboarding, participation, progression, and alumni engagement.
• Supervise and support community-led entrepreneurial initiatives to ensure alignment with ALX’s strategy, standards, and values.
  
  

Incubator Programme Execution and Venture Support

• Work closely with the ALX Ventures Incubator central team to deliver programme goals and ensure local implementation aligns with broader entrepreneurship strategy.
• Support the screening, selection, and onboarding of strong Founder Academy graduates into incubator pathways, balancing both in-person and virtual programme delivery requirements.
• Facilitate milestone-based workshops, peer-learning forums, and venture reviews that support founders from prototype development through market launch.
• Connect ventures to relevant support structures, including mentors, advisors, interns, ecosystem partners, and investors.
• Organise Demo Days, local pitch events, and showcase opportunities that increase startup visibility, strengthen founder confidence, and create opportunities for investment and growth.
• Support alumni founders in accessing continued support, new markets, follow-on programmes, and funding opportunities.

Partnerships, Mentorship, and Ecosystem Collaboration

• Build and maintain strong relationships with ecosystem players, including investors, entrepreneurship support organisations, accelerators, hubs, government actors, development partners, and corporate innovation stakeholders in Kenya.
• Curate and manage a strong network of local mentors, advisors, and subject matter experts, matching them thoughtfully to founders based on stage, sector, and growth priorities.
• Design and host masterclasses and expert-led learning sessions featuring entrepreneurs, investors, and functional specialists across key sectors.
• Develop and strengthen partnerships that expand resource access, founder opportunities, and collaboration pipelines for ALX entrepreneurs.
• Contribute to fundraising, grant positioning, and strategic partnership development that advance the scale and sustainability of entrepreneurship programming.

Monitoring, Reporting, and Continuous Improvement

• Track and analyse programme performance across key metrics, including recruitment, participation, completion, founder engagement, venture launches, ecosystem participation, and investment readiness.
• Ensure strong compliance with founder reporting, self-assessments, quarterly updates, and programme accountability processes.
• Produce regular reports and insights for internal stakeholders, including city leadership, the entrepreneurship team, and other relevant decision-makers.
• Use feedback, programme data, and ecosystem trends to improve delivery quality, founder outcomes, and strategic programme design over time.
• Participate actively in planning cycles, reviews, and retrospectives to strengthen learning and continuous improvement across entrepreneurship initiatives.

Skill Requirements - Essential

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in entrepreneurship programme management, venture support, innovation ecosystem development, or related programme and project management environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Programme Management, or a related field.
• Strong experience working directly with startups, founders, or entrepreneurial ventures, ideally in an innovation hub, accelerator, incubator, venture studio, or startup support environment.
• Demonstrated experience designing, delivering, and improving entrepreneurship programmes, founder engagement models, demo days, masterclasses, or mentorship structures.
• Proven ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously, balancing strategic priorities with high-quality operational execution across different markets.
  
• Strong stakeholder management capability, with experience engaging investors, mentors, ecosystem partners, and cross-functional internal teams.
• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills, with the confidence to represent ALX externally and inspire founders and partners.
• Strong planning, coordination, and execution skills, with a high level of ownership and attention to detail.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving, and relatively ambiguous environment with minimal supervision.
• Candidates must be based in Nairobi or willing to relocate to Nairobi.
• This is an in-person role, and the successful candidate will be expected to work onsite as part of the Nairobi team.
• Legal authorisation to work in Kenya.

Skill Requirements - Preferable

• Master’s degree in a relevant field.
• Previous experience as a startup founder, venture builder, startup coach, or entrepreneurship advisor.
• Experience building or managing founder support networks, mentor pools, or investor engagement structures.
• Demonstrated success in partnership development, fundraising, grants, or resource mobilisation for entrepreneurship initiatives.
• Strong understanding of the entrepreneurship ecosystems in Kenya.
• Experience working across both in-person and virtual programme delivery environments.
• Familiarity with impact tracking, founder performance measurement, and ecosystem reporting frameworks.

Person Specification/Attributes

• Courage: Willingness to speak up, challenge the status quo, and embrace new challenges.
• Humility: Openness to learning, seeking help when needed, and a focus on serving others.
• Adventure: A passion for setting ambitious goals, tackling difficult tasks, and finding joy in the journey.
• Initiative: Proactive problem-solving, a sense of ownership, and a willingness to go above and beyond.
• Resilience: The ability to bounce back from setbacks, persevere through challenges, and emerge stronger.

Employment Type

This role is a full-time position

Are you passionate about entrepreneurship, founder communities, and building meaningful learning experiences that help entrepreneurs thrive? Do you enjoy working at the intersection of programme coordination, community engagement, recruitment, and event execution? Are you energised by the opportunity to support founders from the moment they enter the programme through to active participation, milestone completion, and continued engagement?

Do you have strong organisational skills, a bias for action, and the ability to keep multiple moving parts running smoothly? Can you help drive stronger founder recruitment, higher engagement, better retention, and a more vibrant entrepreneurship community experience? Are you excited by the opportunity to work closely with an Entrepreneurship Development Manager to support one of ALX’s most important founder-facing portfolios?

If so, this could be the role for you.

About ALX Africa

ALX Africa, a non-profit organisation under the ALX Foundation, is dedicated to unlocking the potential of Africa's digital future. Formerly part of Sand Tech Holdings, we've embarked on an independent journey to provide world-class tech skills training and career acceleration programmes. Our mission is to bridge the digital divide, upskill and reskill talent, and create a generation of innovative leaders. By 2030, we aim to empower 2 million Africans to secure sustainable tech careers.

With hubs in 8 cities across Africa and counting, we provide safe access to quality learning and a dedicated network of expert instructors. Our innovative programmes equip learners with the practical skills and knowledge needed to succeed in today's rapidly evolving tech industry. Through a combination of rigorous coursework, industry partnerships, and hands-on projects, we prepare our students for in-demand roles in software engineering, data science, and cybersecurity.

We achieve this by:

• Providing young professionals with access to the most in-demand tech skills that will power the future.
• Empowering the next generation of technology innovators, entrepreneurs, and business leaders through challenging, real-world coursework.
• Building a lifelong, impactful community of tech professionals that supports them at all stages of their career journey. 

Our impact thus far:

• 347k+ graduates since 2020
• 257k youth in work
• 31k youth starting own ventures
• 60k youth in jobs created by entrepreneurs

 Visit our website www.alxafrica.com to learn more about our digital revolution.

Role Summary

The Entrepreneurship Development Analyst will support the delivery and growth of ALX’s entrepreneurship programming in Kenya with a strong focus on Founder Academy recruitment, founder engagement, event coordination, retention, and programme operations.

This is a highly execution-oriented role for someone who enjoys working directly with founders, coordinating events and experiences, driving engagement, and ensuring strong operational follow-through.

This individual will work closely with the Entrepreneurship Development Manager to strengthen founder pipeline conversion, maintain a high-quality cohort experience, improve retention and participation rates, and ensure entrepreneurship programmes are delivered with excellence and consistency across markets.

Specific Responsibilities

Founder Academy Recruitment and Pipeline Support

• Support recruitment and outreach efforts for the Founder Academy in Kenya to help achieve enrolment targets.
• Assist with lead generation, founder outreach, follow-up, screening coordination, and conversion activities across the recruitment funnel.
• Track prospective founder journeys from initial interest through application, onboarding, and enrolment to support stronger pipeline visibility and follow-through.
• Work closely with the Entrepreneurship Development Manager and relevant internal teams to ensure timely communication with prospective founders.
• Support the execution of recruitment campaigns, information sessions, outreach events, and other market activation activities that build programme awareness and attract strong candidates.

Founder Engagement and Cohort Experience

• Support the day-to-day engagement of founders throughout the Founder Academy journey to encourage participation, accountability, and programme completion.
• Help create a strong, responsive, and motivating founder experience from onboarding through active programme participation.
• Monitor founder attendance, engagement levels, milestone completion, and participation trends to identify risks early and support stronger retention.
• Conduct regular check-ins and follow-ups with founders to encourage consistency, resolve barriers to participation, and maintain momentum.
• Support the Entrepreneurship Development Manager in implementing engagement strategies that improve completion rates, learner satisfaction, and founder outcomes.

Events and Community Activation

• Coordinate and support entrepreneurship events designed to increase founder engagement, strengthen community, and maintain high retention across the cohort.
• Organise and execute community touchpoints such as onboarding sessions, founder meetups, fireside chats, office hours, networking events, pitch events, and ecosystem conversations.
• Manage logistics for in-person and virtual events, including planning, scheduling, communications, attendance tracking, and post-event follow-up.
• Help create engaging founder-facing experiences that build belonging, accountability, and excitement within the entrepreneurship community.
• Support the Entrepreneurship Development Manager in ensuring events are well-run, valuable to participants, and aligned with broader entrepreneurship goals.
  
  

Programme Coordination and Operational Support

• Support the smooth coordination and administration of entrepreneurship programmes in Kenya.
• Maintain accurate records related to recruitment, founder participation, attendance, progress tracking, and programme engagement.
• Assist with onboarding processes, scheduling, founder communications, session coordination, and operational preparation for programme delivery.
• Ensure timely follow-up on action items, founder needs, and operational requirements that contribute to a seamless programme experience.
• Provide executional support to the Entrepreneurship Development Manager across Founder Academy, incubator-related activities, and community initiatives as needed.

Monitoring, Reporting, and Continuous Improvement

• Track founder engagement, participation, retention, and progression data to support performance management and programme improvement.
• Help compile weekly and monthly updates on recruitment performance, cohort engagement, event participation, and founder progress.
• Identify emerging trends, challenges, and opportunities related to founder engagement and retention, and escalate them appropriately.
• Gather participant feedback and support analysis of founder experience to improve future programme delivery.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by helping refine processes, communication flows, and engagement approaches over time.
  
  

Cross-Functional and Ecosystem Support

• Work closely with the Entrepreneurship Development Manager and internal teams to ensure strong coordination across entrepreneurship activities.
• Support relationship-building with local ecosystem players, mentors, speakers, and partners by assisting with communication, scheduling, and event coordination.
• Represent ALX professionally in founder-facing engagements and community touchpoints.
• Contribute to building a founder community that is active, connected, and aligned with ALX’s mission and values.

Skill Requirements - Essential

• 2 to 4 years of professional experience in programme coordination, community engagement, entrepreneurship support, events, partnerships, or a related role.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Entrepreneurship, Communications, Project Management, Education, or a related field.
• Strong interest in entrepreneurship, startups, founder support, and ecosystem-building.
• Experience supporting recruitment, engagement, programme operations, or community-building initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate multiple activities and manage operational details with a high level of organisation and follow-through.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage participants professionally and clearly.
• Experience planning or supporting events, workshops, community sessions, or participant-facing experiences.
• Strong attention to detail and comfort with tracking data, participation, and progress across a programme or cohort.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities effectively.
• Candidates must be based in Nairobi.
• This is an in-person role, and the successful candidate will be expected to work onsite as part of the Nairobi team.
• Legal authorisation to work in Kenya.

Skill Requirements - Preferable

• Experience working in an entrepreneurship hub, accelerator, incubator, learning community, youth programme, or startup support environment.
• Familiarity with cohort-based programme delivery and participant engagement models.
• Experience supporting CRM, pipeline tracking, or applicant conversion processes.
• Exposure to founder engagement, startup ecosystems, or innovation-focused programming.
• Experience supporting virtual communities or multi-country programme coordination.
• Strong event hosting or event coordination experience.
• Comfort using spreadsheets, reporting tools, and programme tracking systems.

Person Specification/Attributes

• Courage: Willingness to speak up, challenge the status quo, and embrace new challenges.
• Humility: Openness to learning, seeking help when needed, and a focus on serving others.
• Adventure: A passion for setting ambitious goals, tackling difficult tasks, and finding joy in the journey.
• Initiative: Proactive problem-solving, a sense of ownership, and a willingness to go above and beyond.
• Resilience: The ability to bounce back from setbacks, persevere through challenges, and emerge stronger.

Employment Type

This role is a full-time position

About the role:

We are looking for highly skilled AI Evaluators to support the development of advanced AI tools for grammar correction and proofreading. This project focuses on creating a rich and diverse dataset of written German text, annotated and corrected by humans.

Responsibilities:

• Respond to a set of prompts simulating realistic business or casual communication.
• Write clear, plausible short texts (3–4 sentences for business settings, 1–2 sentences for casual chat).
• Generate responses with intentional but realistic grammar, spelling, and structural errors.
• Review annotated message pairs (input text + corrected/proofread version) to ensure:
• All grammar/spelling/preposition/punctuation errors are corrected appropriately
• Meaning is preserved between input and corrected text
• Error types are classified correctly
• Explanations are clear and linguistically sound

Qualifications:

• German as a first language - C1 German proficiency 
• English as a second language - B2 English proficiency.
• Ability to follow linguistic and situational writing prompts.
• Good written communication and creativity.
• 2 years working experience in a corporate/ business environment.
• 1 year working experience working as an AI Evaluator, data annotator, or similar role 
• Strong computer literacy and fast, accurate typing skills are essential for navigating annotation tools and maintaining efficiency in text-based tasks.
• Strong logic, intuitive problem-solving and critical thinking; adaptability to the needs of the task. The candidate needs to be open-minded and welcome different viewpoints or solutions.
• Proactiveness, confidence to work independently without constant support. Reliability and being able to make good decisions on their own.
• Be a thought partner to delivery managers, input into the project delivery strategies, and share quality best practices to aid in achieving the project goals.
• Adapt quickly to evolving guidelines, new task types, and AI model updates in a fast-paced, iterative environment. Access to your own laptop for work 

Preferred Qualifications:

• C1 or C2 English preferred 
• Experience working with NLP/GenAI models is a plus 

NB: This is a temporary, project-based position with the possibility of renewal. While this role will be on payroll, please note that benefits are not included as part of this position.

About the role:

We are looking for a highly skilled Quality Analyst Project Coordinator to support the development of advanced AI tools for product attribution, classification and other purposes. This project focuses on creating a rich and diverse dataset of written German text, annotated and corrected by humans.

Responsibilities:

• Review and audit labeled datasets for both text and image-based content to ensure accuracy, consistency, and adherence to guidelines.
• Document and share feedback with the individual labelers
• Identify trends and insights in quality performance, and effectively mitigate quality performance issues. 
• Communicate quality trends and insights to the customer. Calibrate with the  customer on instructions and edge cases.
• Evaluate responses generated by AI, verifying correctness, clarity, relevance, and alignment with task instructions.
• Apply knowledge of Consumer Packaged Goods domain to accurately classify and/or describe products.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to update labeling workflows and improve quality.
• Monitor performance metrics (e.g., accuracy rates, inter-rater agreement) and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
• Generate responses with intentional but realistic grammar, spelling, and structural errors.
• calibration sessions to align QA standards across teams and help train new reviewers or analysts.
• Adapt quickly to evolving guidelines, new task types, and AI model updates in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
• Ensure that documentation is up to date. 

Qualifications:

• English as a second language - minimum C1 English proficiency required. 
• C2 level of German
• Ability to follow linguistic and situational writing prompts.
• Excellent written communication and coordination skills 
• 2 years working experience in a corporate/ business environment.
• Prior experience in at least one of the following:
• Linguistic QA
• Data annotation for NLP/AI projects
• ESL/EFL teaching, editing, or copyediting
• Keen eye for detail -spotting subtle grammar and structure issues others miss.
• Comfortable reviewing and providing feedback on structured data.
• Ability to give actionable and constructive feedback to annotators.
• Experience with creating and tracking timelines, milestones, and status reports is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications:

• C1 or C2 level English proficiency. 
• Familiarity with error tagging systems is a big plus.
• Experience in CPG industry/workflows, or other relevant knowledge of retail products. 

NB: This is a temporary, project-based position with the possibility of renewal. While this role will be on payroll, please note that benefits are not included as part of this position.

How you will make an impact

As Transformation Director, you will lead Instiglio’s organization-wide transformation agenda - strengthening the systems, operating models, and change capabilities that enable us to scale impact globally.

This role sits at the intersection of strategy, systems-building, technology, and execution. It is designed for a leader who thrives in complexity and is equally comfortable designing transformation roadmaps and rolling up their sleeves to ensure adoption and results.

A member of Instiglio’s Executive Team is accountable for each substantive transformation initiative, so while reporting to the COO, you will also work closely with the CEO and Chief Impact Officer (CIO) on specific initiatives, agreeing and assuring strategies together prior to execution. You will also partner with fellow members of Instiglio Leadership Team to leverage their experience and expertise, and to ensure transformation efforts are coherent, integrated, prioritized, and embedded across the organization.

Key responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

Lead Organization-Wide Transformation & Change Management

• Own and drive Instiglio’s Transformation & Change Management Program  end-to-end.

  • Diagnose organizational challenges and opportunities, design solutions, prioritize execution in line with Instiglio’s strategic goals, and ensure successful adoption.

  • Act as the integrator across teams (e.g., Partner Group, Leadership Team, People Committee, Finance Committee), ensuring transformation initiatives are aligned, sequenced, and mutually reinforcing.

• Establish clear success metrics and track progress, learning, and impact over time. 
  

AI Integration & Digital Transformation

• Lead the design, pilot, and scale of AI-enabled tools that enhance decision-making, productivity, and service delivery.

• Drive organization-wide AI adoption, capability-building, and change management.

• Translate emerging AI opportunities into practical workflows, operating model shifts, and strategic advantages.

• Ensure ethical, responsible, and effective use of AI across the organization.

Impact Management Systems (in partnership with the CIO)

• Strengthen how Instiglio measures organizational performance, learning, and results.

• Design and refine frameworks, tools, and processes that clarify goals, drive alignment, and support strategic decision-making.

• Improve visibility and coherence across impact data, organizational learning, and performance management.

Partnerships Development Systems

• Build and refine systems that strengthen how Instiglio develops, manages, and sustains partnerships across donors, governments, and the private sector coordinating with the Partnership Development Centre and Business Development Teams.

• Develop processes that improve pipeline visibility, institutional engagement, and strategic prioritization.

• Enable leadership teams with better data, tools, and decision frameworks for partnership growth.

Internal Operating Model & Process Evolution

• Lead the evolution of Instiglio’s internal operating model as the organization scales.

• Redesign workflows, governance rhythms, collaboration structures, and decision-making processes.

• Embed AI and digital tools across core operational systems to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

• Ensure changes are practical, adopted, and sustained in day-to-day operations.

Hands-On Execution & Delivery

• This is not a strategy/transformation-only role.

• You are accountable for seeing transformation initiatives from idea to execution to sustained adoption. On internal strategies, systems & processes, you will work closely with Internal Services teams and management to see through and sustain excellence in a sustained role that is necessarily operational in nature.

• You will personally:

  • Build tools, templates, and dashboards;

  • Draft frameworks and operating models;

  • Run complex, cross-functional projects;

  • Facilitate alignment and decision-making;

  • Troubleshoot operational bottlenecks; and

  • Ensure implementation sticks beyond launch.

Who you are

We are building a team of thoughtful, driven professionals who are motivated by our mission and excited to grow with the organization. An ideal candidate will have:

• Experience: At least 10 years of relevant experience in:

  • Organizational transformation and change management.

  • AI or technology implementation in organizations.

  • Systems-building in high-growth or complex environments.

  • Management consulting, public sector reform, or international development.

  • Designing and scaling operating models, decision systems, and workflows.

  • Working closely with senior leaders to translate strategy into execution.

• Languages:

  • Professional working proficiency in English (C1).

  • Working proficiency in French and/or Spanish would be an added advantage.

• Skills & Competencies:

  • Strong builder mindset - energized by designing systems from scratch and iterating toward excellence.

  • Exceptional project management and coordination skills across multiple high-stakes initiatives.

  • Hands-on operator who can move seamlessly between strategic thinking and detailed execution.

  • Structured thinker who brings clarity to ambiguity and complexity.

  • High emotional intelligence, humility, and adaptability.

  • Creative and innovative leader comfortable in fast-changing environments.

  • Cross-cultural fluency and effectiveness working across geographies and diverse teams.

  • Deep alignment with Instiglio’s mission and commitment to public-sector transformation.

• Mindset & Culture Fit

  • Thrives as a resourceful, sleeves-rolled-up doer; not an armchair strategist.

  • Calm and effective in moments of organizational pressure and uncertainty.

  • Collaborative, influence-oriented, and committed to building strong relationships.

  • Values purpose over spotlight.

How you will grow with us

Your work will be driven by impact and purpose, within a dynamic culture rooted in inclusion, collaboration, and high performance. You will partner closely with teams delivering complex, high-impact projects, gain exposure to a wide range of approaches and contexts, and collaborate across a diverse, international organization. You will be encouraged to take ownership, exercise judgment, and contribute meaningfully to shaping how Instiglio operates and grows.

As a Director at Instiglio, you will continue to develop and deepen your leadership, systems-thinking, and transformation capabilities. You will lead internal initiatives and organizational priorities, with support and guidance from senior leadership. Instiglio has a strong feedback culture, including bi-annual, structured performance reviews complemented by ongoing, real-time feedback. Mentorship and individual development plans are embedded in our people model to ensure sustained professional growth and support.

With Instiglio’s planned continued growth there are also progression opportunities for high-performing candidates.

Working model and benefits

Instiglio has adopted a hybrid working model (i.e., minimum of two (2) days a week at the office for face-to-face connections). Instiglio offers generous benefits, which include personal days, remote workdays, travel and health insurance, pension, a company end-of-year holiday additional to vacation, and parental leave, among others.

Join Us 

To apply, please submit your CV in English and answer the application questions listed. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

About the internship program 

Are you a recent graduate passionate about solving real-world problems and driving social impact? Do you dream of working at the intersection of strategy consulting, public policy, and international development? 

This internship is your opportunity to learn from experts, build hands-on experience, and make a difference.  

Instiglio offers unique work experience at the intersection of the private, public, and social sectors. As an Intern, Instiglio will offer you the opportunity to engage with a fast-paced results-oriented environment; experience first-hand the fundamentals of a growing global business; and contribute to the momentum of the results movement in international development.  

The Internship Program runs for a period of six (6) months and is open to recent graduates or end-of-study students. Interns will be based at the Nairobi office and will join a growing, entrepreneurial team. As a Project Intern, you’ll join a fast-paced, collaborative environment where you’ll support real client projects - helping governments and global organizations tackle challenges in education, employment, climate, and beyond. 

You will work closely with a project team (including Associates, Managers, and Senior Leaders) to conduct research, analyze data, and co-create insights that shape better programs and policies. 

 As an Intern, you will: 

• Facilitate problem-solving and help improve program designs for our clients.
• Prepare deliverables and high-quality presentations for clients. Conduct literature reviews and synthesize findings. 
• Execute qualitative and quantitative data analysis including describing and interpreting graphs, analyzing data and applying statistical concepts (e.g. mean, SD) to draw actionable insights/hypotheses.
• Contribute to teams developing technical components of Results-Based Financing instruments from scratch by assessing considerations and trade-offs unique to each design.
• Support the growth and development of our organization through initiatives such as business development, recruitment, etc. 

Who you are 

We are growing a team of resourceful go-getters that are driven by our mission, curious about the world, and dedicated to a life of learning supporting our strategy and growth. 

The ideal candidate is a Kenyan national or someone with the required permits to live and work in Kenya, a recent bachelor’s graduate or awaiting graduation, and is looking to kick-start an impact-driven career in strategy consulting and international development.  

Successful candidates must meet the following minimum requirements: 

• Education: Recent graduates (Class of 2026) with a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, Economics, Statistics, Development Studies, Public Policy, Political Science, Business, Engineering, or related fields.
• Language skills: Exceptional written and oral communication skills in English (C1 or professional proficiency). 
• Experience: None required. However, prior work experience (including other internships or trainee programmes) in consulting, international development, public policy, research, or similar fields is highly desirable.
• Skills   
  • Highly analytical with excellent numerical accuracy.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite applications (Excel, PowerPoint and Word) or Google Workspace (Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Forms, etc.). 
  • Ability to synthesize technical information into simple concepts and analyze information critically.
  • Ability to work independently.  
  • High organizational skills and attention to detail.  
  • A team player attitude and enthusiasm for relational work with clients. 
  • Passion for international development.  

How you can grow with us 

Joining Instiglio as an Intern will enable you to accelerate your career in international development, consulting and public service, playing a critical role in shaping and delivering impactful projects with leading development actors.  During your internship, you will receive continuous feedback and mentorship from experienced professionals, participate in knowledge-sharing sessions across our global teams, and build a strong professional network within the international development and consulting space. You will also develop valuable consulting skills that can position you for a potential full-time Analyst role upon exceptional performance and business needs. At Instiglio, we foster a strong feedback culture through semi-annual reviews and personalized development plans to support your growth and learning journey. 

Working model and benefits 

The position is based in our Nairobi office and Instiglio has adopted a hybrid working model i.e., a minimum of two (2) days a week at the office. In addition to a stipend, Instiglio offers Interns other generous benefits such as vacation days, personal days to attend to personal emergencies, and bonus days off.

Join our team! 

Make your first career step one that creates real change. Join Instiglio and help governments deliver results that transform lives. 

Submit your application by attaching an English version of your CV and answering the application questions.  We will review applications on a rolling-basis.  

About 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 believe that new technology is critical to building the most effective rural distribution network on the African continent. Today, we reach over 1.6 million farm families and we aspire to serve more than 10 million households in the coming decade. Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, you will lead the development of our technology, focusing on a mobile tech transformation: providing our field staff with the mobile-based tools to reach more farmers; developing scalable, direct communication channels with farmers to improve customer service; and digitizing and decentralizing data collection tools to speed up data flows and improve efficiency.

We are looking for someone with the technical experience to bring this vision to life; the Director of Engineering will transform our technology into a core organizational strength, working through several development teams that cross our tech stack

Responsibilities

• Own the tech stack and overall architecture and strategic direction: You will guide our team to work toward a common vision of our tech stack, ensuring a robust solution across all of our technical needs whether back-office, client-facing, or business intelligence needs.
• Lead efficient delivery of impactful software products: Provide detailed, hands-on guidance for tech projects based on an intimate understanding of our clients and internal users. Maintain a robust and well-documented architecture, balancing elegant design with practical requirements across our functional needs.
• Leverage Talent into an Agile Center of Excellence: Support a talented team to work at their best - support Agile processes that go beyond scrum ceremonies to drive efficiency and excellence in all areas. Use new technologies to support the velocity and quality of deployments.
• Develop Leaders and Build Team: Manage a leadership team of ~5 senior-level direct reports, and increase career growth and performance across the division.
  • Grow the careers of leaders across the tech division through weekly check-ins and workshops, ongoing development feedback, and regular career reviews.
  • Provide technical mentorship to the team.
  • Lead recruitment efforts to ensure we are building our team with top talent.
  • Set clear performance expectations and support the team to build itself as a center of excellence.

Career Growth and Development

We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.

Qualifications

Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:

• 10+ years of industry experience with 5+ years leading and managing technology teams.
• Experience working with mobile technology solutions.
• Passion for providing hands-on execution guidance for large teams.
• Experience managing Agile software engineering teams successfully deploying solutions to support complex processes.
• Experience translating complex customer needs into high-quality tech solutions that deliver impact.
• Experience with our tech (C# .Net Core, CouchBase, React Native, and Kubernetes) and our tooling landscape (GitHub, JIRA, and Azure DevOps).
• Humility. We are looking for a passionate professional who combines a focus on excellent performance with good humor, patience, and a service mindset interested in joining our family of leaders.
• Language: English is required in all locations.

Preferred Start Date

As soon as possible

Job Location

Nairobi, Kenya; or Kigali, Rwanda (these two locations are preferred but we are open to locations within our program countries)

Benefits

Health insurance, housing, and comprehensive benefits

Eligibility

One Acre Fund can support a work permit for this role. However, nationals of (or those with an extensive professional background and work history in) our countries of operation are preferred.

Application Deadline

9 February 2026

One Acre Fund never asks candidates to pay any money or pay for tests at any stage of the interview process. Official One Acre Fund emails will always arrive from an @oneacrefund.org address. Please report any suspicious communication here (globalhotline@oneacrefund.org), but do not send applications or application materials to this email address.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), and anti-racism are deeply connected to our organization’s mission and purpose. One Acre Fund aspires to build a culture where all staff feel consistently valued, represented, and connected – so that our team can thrive as professionals, and achieve exceptional impact for the farmers we serve.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

How you will make an impact

Managers and Senior Associates at Instiglio are a core part of project teams, overseeing most aspects of project execution and team management in close collaboration with Project Leads. You will gain expertise in results-based approaches and deepen your consultancy skills, translating complex concepts into easy-to-understand insights. You will advise clients on difficult, yet important, adaptations of their practices and lead teammates to deliver impactful projects that enhance development outcomes across Africa. You will also play a leading role in growing the Nairobi office, from recruitment and capacity building to nurturing stakeholder relationships with both the donor community and government partners in East Africa that lead to project growth. Managers will also be asked to make wider contributions to Instiglio’s global management and strategy as an integral part of the management team.

Some of your tasks will include:

• Senior Associates are likely to act as project managers of 1-3 project workstreams (reporting to a Manager) or stand-alone projects (reporting to a Lead), while Managers are likely to oversee 3+ stand-alone projects at any given time.
• Leading and overseeing the development of technical components of RBF instruments and data-driven performance management systems. 
• Leading the creation of proposals and client deliverables, articulating technical concepts in an eloquent and accessible manner. 
• Managing project budgets and contracts with clients and subcontractors, anticipating issues, and proactively addressing them. 
• Planning, delegating and overseeing tasks to effectively and efficiently achieve the best results within the team.
• Proposing, structuring, and overseeing data analyses to draw actionable insights/hypotheses.
• Preparing and delivering clear and effective presentations to stakeholders in the public and private sectors. 
• Coordinating and motivating project teams and supporting team growth through coaching and mentorship within and outside of projects.
• Actively improving our RBF and Performance Management services and our delivery approaches.

Who you are

We are growing a team of resourceful go-getters that are driven by our mission, curious about the world, and dedicated to a life of learning. An ideal candidate will have:

• Experience:
  • Senior Associate: At least 6 years of experience, including 4 years of relevant work experience in international development, management/ strategy consulting and/or in the public sector.
  • Manager: At least 8 years’ experience, including 6 years of relevant work experience in international development, management/ strategy consulting and/or in the public sector.
  • Demonstrated experience in Results-Based Financing and/or Performance Management is an additional advantage, but is not required.
  • Experience working with governments and government agencies is highly desirable.
• Knowledge:
  • Results-Based Financing mechanisms and/or experience related to the field
• Education:
  • Master's degree or equivalent in Economics, Development Studies, Public Policy, Public Administration, Business, or related fields.
• Language skills: 
  
  • Exceptional written and oral communication skills in English. Professional working proficiency in French is an added advantage.
• Skills: 
  • Proven track record in managing complex client projects and interacting with diverse stakeholders.
  • Experience growing and managing teams in an entrepreneurial atmosphere.
  • Exceptional strategic thinking, problem solving, and structured thinking.
  • Ability to develop complex analytical frameworks and have exceptional working proficiency of the most common analytical principles to give structure to the analysis.
  • Exceptional people skills: Ability to relate well with people from different backgrounds, build trust, and solve problems.
  • Ability to communicate complex ideas  in an eloquent and accessible manner.

How you will grow with us

Managers and Senior Associates at Instiglio have a chance to develop a variety of skills, with the guidance of more experienced senior staff. Instiglio has a strong feedback culture, with all staff receiving bi-annual formal, structured reviews, in addition to real-time feedback. Additionally, a mentorship system and development plans are in place to ensure that staff receive proper support in their professional development.

Working model and benefits

The selected candidate(s) will be based in our Nairobi office and the opportunity is open to individuals with a right to work in Kenya. Instiglio has adopted a hybrid working model i.e., a minimum of two (2) days a week at the office for face-to-face connections. We offer generous benefits, which include seven (7) personal days, sixty (60) remote workdays, travel and health insurance, a company holiday between Christmas and New Year's in addition to the legal vacation days, and parental leave, among others.

Interested? Join our team!

Please apply here, submitting your CV and cover letter (in English). In your cover letter answer the following questions: (1) Why are you a good fit for this role? (2) What is your motivation to apply to Instiglio? We will review applications on a rolling-basis. Only candidates selected for further assessment will be contacted.