Technical Assistance Success Specialist (Fixed-term)

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

This role ensures that Technical Assistance support is aligned with investee needs through data collection, designing impactful youth and young women initiatives, conducting TA needs assessments, and providing feedback to inform TA strategy.

Responsibilities

Essential Function – TA Needs Assessment and Gap Analysis

• Support the TA manager to refine technical assistance assessments and prioritize support by sharing insights gathered through interactions with investee promoters, management teams, and field staff.

• Synthesize findings to inform the phased delivery of TA in line with investee’s graduation paths on their growth journey across youth and young women engagement, reporting, systems, and governance

• Support the TA Manager in tracking implementation of agreed TA plans, including maintaining progress trackers, following up with investees on key actions, and flagging delays or challenges.

Essential Function – TA Implementation Alongside Investees (with emphasis on youth and young women projects)

• Act as OAV’s primary implementation partner for TA projects by spending time with portfolio companies —onsite or remotely—to align expectations, liaise with key contact persons, and guide as activities roll out.

• Scope out initiatives addressing barriers faced by youth and young women farmers working with investees through questionnaires, surveys, and field visits. Build a first-hand understanding of youth and young women's needs and challenges as part of the process to design tailored initiatives

• Build internal capacity of investee staff through demonstrations, coaching and one-on-one sessions, ensuring successful handover and ownership of systems and initiatives post OAV support

• Document implementation progress and outcomes through structured debriefs and case studies, with particular attention to youth and young women project results.

• Coordinate with external implementation partners to ensure TA initiatives are right-sized for the investee, taking into account the investee team capacity, maturity and incentives

Essential Function – Farmer Data Collection, Coordination, and Template Population

• Partner with investee staff to translate existing paper and manual farmer records into OAV's impact reporting templates, working hands-on alongside the company rather than doing the work for them.

• Directly support the investee staff responsible for data collection (whether a dedicated data collector, a field agent, or a manager with data as part of their remit), coaching them on workflows, troubleshooting issues, and building their confidence in the process. The goal is that companies can reliably self-report within ~2 quarters.

• Coordinate with OAV's Impact and E&S teams (and with OAF country teams where relevant) to align data requirements with field realities.