Role Specification & Details
About One Acre Fund
One Acre Fund is an award-winning agricultural social enterprise founded in 2006, equipping over 5.5 million smallholder farmers across Africa with financing, quality agricultural inputs, agronomic training, and crop insurance. Operating extensively throughout Uganda, One Acre Fund empowers rural farming communities to dramatically boost farm productivity, increase family incomes, and build climate resilience.
About This Role / Role Overview
The Uganda Field Operations Lead (Fixed-Term) is a core operational position at One Acre Fund, responsible for executing strategic responsibilities, maintaining high quality standards, and driving organizational success in Jinja. The successful candidate will collaborate with cross-functional teams, implement industry best practices, and contribute directly to the long-term mission and growth objectives of One Acre Fund.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
- •Coordinate the day-to-day implementation of community project activities in Jinja in strict alignment with donor grant agreements.
- •Facilitate community dialogue, beneficiary verification, and participatory stakeholder engagement across target settlements.
- •Collect, clean, and analyze qualitative and quantitative monitoring data using digital mobile tools (KoboToolbox, ODK, SurveyCTO).
- •Monitor project progress against logical framework indicators, tracking output milestones and budget utilization rates for One Acre Fund.
- •Deliver awareness campaigns on child safeguarding, gender-based violence (GBV) prevention, and community resilience.
- •Prepare high-quality monthly project progress reports, human-interest case studies, and donor compliance documentation.
- •Liaise with local government district leaders, UNHCR, Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), and community elders.
- •Ensure strict compliance with international humanitarian principles, safeguarding mandates, and donor accountability standards.
Qualifications & Requirements
- ✓Bachelor's Degree in Development Studies, Social Work & Social Administration (SWASA), Project Planning, Economics, or related field.
- ✓At least 2 to 5 years of direct experience implementing donor-funded community or humanitarian projects in Uganda.
- ✓Demonstrated proficiency in digital data collection methodologies (Kobo, ODK) and monitoring & evaluation (M&E) reporting.
- ✓Strong understanding of humanitarian protection principles, child safeguarding policies, and community-based programming.
- ✓Excellent community mobilization skills with fluency in English and relevant local languages spoken in Jinja.
- ✓Willingness to live and work in rural or refugee-hosting field locations across Uganda.
Key Skills & Competencies
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Verified vacancy originally published on 2026-11-06. Discovered via verified recruitment channels.