Creative Lead

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

Our Creative Lead will work as a deputy to our Creative Director on our Global Communications team, and will manage the Global Comms team support request systems and oversee all incoming creative requests, delegating those out to team units and helping ensure the team is upkeeping our SLAs and quality. They will be a strong contributor to creative brainstorms and ideation, will support the organization’s brand management, and will review all creative content for quality, holding last line creative reviews for Tier 2 and Tier 3 content.
This position will also manage and be responsible for the professional development of a creative team of ~5 people working on graphic design and video, directly managing ~3 reports.

Responsibilities

Creative Content Quality Review & Brand Management

• Hold quality bar and last line reviews for Tier 2 and Tier 3 creative content running through Global Comms
• Engage in brand building and advising for new affiliates within the org’s brand families
• Drive brand guideline expansions and evolutions to better serve our markets as needed (example, work with the Design Lead to build out youth brand guidelines)

Run & Improve Comms Support Systems

• Build, maintain, and improve single Comms support request form
• Receive incoming requests and delegate those out to team units
• Ensure the team is upkeeping our SLAs and quality
• Continually improve our content storing and sharing systems as well as templates, with the support of the Comms team to execute improvements

Creative Brainstorming & Ideation

• Contribute to campaign, brand, and design brainstorming and ideation
• Contribute to content planning and design content that can be cross purposed based on upcoming content plans
• Hold standing touch points with Internal comms, External comms, Digital and BizDev to support content planning and production

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:

• Keen attention to detail for reviewing and upholding a quality bar
• Strong project management and organization skills
• Strong project management and organization skills
• Strong people management skills and culture setting skills
• Proficient in Google Suite
• Expertise with Adobe Creative Suite
• Technical expertise in one or multiple creative fields, i.e. graphic design, video, photography, or writing knowledge
• Strong understanding of One Acre Fund’s brand, what makes it unique, and how to translate that across mediums in content
• Strong knowledge of one or more of the markets where One Acre Fund operates

Preferred Start Date

As soon as possible

Job Location

Countries of operation

Benefits

Health insurance, housing, and comprehensive benefits

Eligibility

This role is only open to citizens or permanent residents of Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Nigeria, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Application Deadline

26 August 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.