Zambia Marketing & Extension Specialist (Renewable)

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

You will design and lead field-tested adoption and engagement approaches that help farmers clearly understand program value, build trust, and confidently choose to enroll. This is a field-facing role at the intersection of Field operations, behavior change, and communication, turning farmer insights into practical, scalable adoption solutions.

Responsibilities

Farmer-Centered Adoption Design & Execution

• Design and lead farmer-centered adoption approaches that drive enrollment and trust.
• Translate program offerings into simple, compelling value propositions grounded in farmers’ realities, constraints, and priorities.
• Design and coordinate community engagement and mobilization approaches that improve turnout, understanding, and informed decision-making.
• Develop practical farmer-facing messaging tools and ensure consistent, high-quality delivery.
• Spend time in the field observing farmer interactions, identifying breakdowns in understanding, trust, or motivation, and working with field team to adjust delivery, sequencing, and emphasis.
• Continuously refine adoption approaches using farmer feedback, enrollment outcomes, and field observation.

Adoption Data Analysis & Learning

• Review weekly adoption and enrollment data to identify bottlenecks and drop-off points.
• Combine data with field insight to recommend practical improvements to adoption execution.
• Produce clear, field-relevant adoption post-mortems that highlight what worked, what didn’t, and why, grounded in farmer realities.

Field Team Coaching

• Coach Field Directors and Field Officers on how to communicate value, not just deliver information.
• Strengthen Field Officers' confidence in answering farmer questions and building long-term trust.
• Support Field Directors to plan, monitor, and troubleshoot weekly adoption activities.

Multi-Channel Farmer Communication

• Shape how messaging shows up across community meetings, radio, SMS, and FO conversations.
• Work closely with Communications to ensure mass media efforts reinforce and support field engagement
• Help sequence and time messages to support farmer adoption and enrollment.

Cross-functional Collaboration

• Social Behavior Change (SBC): Work closely with the SBC Senior Coordinator to apply behavior-informed insights to adoption and engagement execution, while keeping ownership of field rollout and delivery.
• Government Relations: Partner with Government Relations to align local leader engagement with adoption and community buy-in efforts.
• Communications: Collaborate on the testing and rollout of farmer communication approaches across radio, SMS, and community platforms.

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:

• Knowledge of community engagement, marketing, or social behavior change in rural settings.
• 3+ years of experience in sales, marketing, or adoption-focused roles within the development or social impact sector.
• Ability to design farmer-centered communication and outreach strategies
• Moderate data analysis (Google Sheets, dashboards) and ability to interpret adoption trends and translate insights into field actions.
• Experience designing or executing multi-channel marketing campaigns. Could include field activations, SMS, radio, community engagement.
• Strong communication skills.
• Coaching and facilitation skills to build field officers and field directors marketing capacity. (Nice to have)

Preferred Start Date

As soon as possible

Job Location

Kabwe, Zambia

Benefits

Health insurance, paid time off 

Contract Duration

1 Year

Eligibility

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

Application Deadline

17 April 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.