One Acre Fund Vacancy – Intern

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.

One Acre Fund’s Internship Program offers high-performing African graduates meaningful internships and training opportunities at a high-performing, mission-driven organization. Our internships are paid, and all interns can expect to receive substantive work assignments working on high-impact projects that support One Acre Fund’s operations.

Position: Ethiopia Program Support Intern

Qualifications

Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:

• Bachelor’s degree (recent graduate).
• Working proficiency in Google Workspace or MS Office: Sheets/Excel (data entry, sorting, filters, basic formulas), Docs, Gmail, and Calendar.
• Clear written and spoken English and Amharic.
• Organised follow-through: tracks many small tasks and deadlines at once and closes them without reminders.
• Attention to detail (accuracy with numbers and financial documents for per diems, receipts, settlements).
• Willing to travel to rural areas, including overnight stays.

When joining, interns will participate in an onboarding program and receive training on how to design and execute projects. Over the period of your internship, you will get the opportunity to work with like-minded individuals and receive learning opportunities to build strong foundations for your future career. 

You will support the Expansion team’s logistics by ensuring scheduling, recruitment administration, and records are up to date.

Responsibilities

Field and scouting logistics

• Prepare trip logistics with the Coordination Lead for each scouting round: vehicle bookings, lodging, travel schedules and per-diem calculations, following the approved field calendar.
• Prepare advance requests and complete settlements with full receipts within the deadlines set by OAF finance policy.
• Prepare contracts, attendance sheets and payment requests for temporary enumerators, guides, translators and drivers.
• Maintain the daily security check-in log during field trips; escalate any missed check-in immediately to the Coordination Lead and the security focal person.
• Submit procurement requests prepared by the team and follow them up until delivery; keep the procurement and logistics tracker current.
• Join selected field visits to run on-site logistics and administration.

Recruitment and onboarding administration

• Post job ads for field recruitments, receive applications & shortlist candidates
• Schedule written exercises and interviews; send invitations, reminders and outcome messages using approved templates.
• Book venues; print, pack, and safeguard exercise materials before and after each session.
• Organise logistics for hiring events and onboarding sessions (venues, materials, travel, attendance lists). 
• Keep the recruitment tracker up to date and share a weekly status with the hiring manager.

Team scheduling and information flow

• Maintain the team calendar; schedule internal meetings, Steering Committee meetings, and stakeholder visits.
• Take meeting notes, circulate action items, and send reminders as deadlines approach.

Preferred Start Date: As soon as possible

Job Location: Addis Ababa

Benefits

Interns will be provided with a reasonable stipend for the duration of their contract.

Eligibility

This role is only open to Ethiopian citizens, permanent residents, and origin cardholders.

Application Deadline: We hire on a rolling basis which means that applications are reviewed and processed on a continuous basis until a hire is made.