Job Summary
Seeking a proven & passionate writer with 2+ years of professional writing experience to help take us to a new level of fundraising.
Minimum Qualification:Bachelor
Experience Level:Mid level
Experience Length:2 years
Job Description
ABOUT ONE ACRE FUNDFounded in 2006, One Acre Fund supplies 1 million smallholder farmers with the agricultural services they need to make their farms vastly more productive. We provide quality farm supplies on credit, delivered within walking distance of farmers’ homes, and agricultural trainings to improve harvests. We measure our success by our ability to make farmers more prosperous: On average, farmers harvest 50 percent more food after working with One Acre Fund.
JOB DESCRIPTIONOne Acre Fund is growing fast: we aim to more than double in scale within the next five years. This growth will be fueled by fundraising. We are looking for a proven and passionate writer to join our dedicated 8-person writing team within our broader Business Development team.
You will report to a senior writer, immediately take on a portfolio of reports and proposals for smaller grants, and receive intensive writing mentorship over the first 6-12 months. Your work will then quickly ramp up in value, complexity, and independence. This is a career-track position, with multiple pathways to management based on performance and preference.
Primary responsibilities:
Write grant reports and proposals.Our writing team crafts powerful prose about One Acre Fund's work and customers, with emphasis on strong logical flow, hard data, and farmer-centric perspectives. This is a backend role; you will partner with our frontend fundraisers to tailor each piece to each donor through a collaborative drafting process.
Manage complex projects.We expect writers to "own" all stages of a writing project, with support from colleagues and team leadership. You will set and manage timelines, coordinate input from multiple teams, and ensure error-free work, typically for 2-3 overlapping projects at any one time.
Invest in program fluency.To be effective, writers must develop and sustain a deep working knowledge of One Acre Fund's operating context, model, results, and future plans. For individual projects, you will also often conduct additional research into potential donors or specific aspects of our work.
Secondary responsibilities:
Provide ad hoc writing/research support to senior team members
Contribute to team-wide writing tools/systems
CAREER GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENTOne Acre Fund is proud of our culture of continual growth. You will have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance, including career reviews every six months and quarterly opportunities to discuss aspirations and career goals. We invest in helping our people build rewarding long-term careers at One Acre Fund, which in turn helps us grow stronger as an organization.
QUALIFICATIONSMinimum of Bachelor's degree
Minimum 2+ years of professional writing experience
Can share 2-3 writing samples that demonstrate the ability to write concise, well-structured, jargon-free prose
Can share 2-3 concrete examples of having successfully managed complex writing projects with multiple stakeholders
Genuine commitment to rural communities. You are passionate about providing opportunity to the hardest-working farmers on the planet.
Language: English
PREFERRED START DATEAs soon as possible
JOB LOCATIONNairobi, Kenya or New York City, USA
COMPENSATIONCommensurate with experience
DURATIONFull-time job
BENEFITSHealth insurance paid time off
SPONSOR INTERNATIONAL CANDIDATESNo; Must have existing rights to work in either Kenya or the US.
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 (**********), but do not send applications or application materials to this email address.
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.
