Rwanda: Consultant Potato Seed Production

Nov 10, 2025 (Deadline: 2026-01-25) | One Acre Fund

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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.

Objective of the Assignment

To provide world-class technical expertise and strategic guidance in certified potato seed production, with a focus on maximizing productivity, ensuring the highest quality standards, building sustainable team capacity, and embedding cost-efficient production systems. The consultant will directly support the department’s scale-up ambitions, enabling rapid adoption of global best practices adapted to tropical and sub-tropical environments, and ensuring resilience to climatic and disease-related challenges.

Scope of Work

The consultant will deliver high-impact strategic and technical interventions across two consecutive production seasons in 2026 (total of 12 weeks, 6 weeks per season). This will include:

• On-site technical diagnostics and operational optimization across all seed production sites and generations.
• Strategic seasonal planning for land preparation, planting, crop management, harvest, and post-harvest handling.
• Cost-efficiency advisory, identifying opportunities to reduce inputs, streamline operations, and improve return on investment.
• Advanced quality assurance guidance, ensuring compliance with certification standards and alignment with international benchmarks.
• In-field, hands-on coaching and mentoring to upskill the production team in cutting-edge agronomic techniques.
• Rapid-response protocols for managing disease outbreaks, climatic stress, and other production risks.
• Documentation of innovations, lessons learned, and best practices for replication and scale-up.