Deputy Agriprograms Manager- Northern Region, Haiti (North & Northeast)

Position: Deputy Agriprograms Manager- Northern Region, Haiti (North & Northeast)
Reporting/Supervisor: Agriprograms Associate Director
Contract duration: Undetermined 
Contract type: Employee  
Travel: Approximately 100% local travel 
Starting date: October 2026 

About Acceso 

Acceso (www.acceso.org) is a social enterprise that is revolutionizing food systems in Latin America and the Caribbean to put smallholder farmers first. Acceso’s mission is to create fundamental and lasting positive economic change in the lives of rural smallholder farming families. Our entrepreneurial model provides smallholder farmers with a sustainable way to participate in formalized markets, enabling them to work themselves out of poverty with dignity and to prosper. Acceso currently operates a portfolio of three social businesses in Colombia, Haiti and El Salvador and an ag-tech tool (Extensio) founded in Mexico. Across our agribusinesses, we have impacted more than 26,000 smallholder farmers and farm workers, generating more than $60m in farmer income to date. 

About this role: 

The Deputy Agriprograms Manager will be responsible for overseeing all Acceso agricultural program operations in the Haiti’s Northern Region (North & Northeast departments). The position will provide leadership for field implementation, staff supervision, project management, data quality, and stakeholder engagement, while supporting the AgriPrograms Associate Director in achieving strategic growth and impact objectives.

Key responsibilities: 

1. Program design, execution and oversight:  

• Assist Haiti Agriprograms Director and Associate Director in developing new programs, including budgets, operational plans and projected output and outcome estimates;
• Assist Haiti Agriprograms Director and Associate Director in establishing and maintaining strong relationships with community stakeholders, including funders, relevant government departments, private sector companies, and business associations;
• Assist Haiti Agriprograms Director and Associate Director in recruiting project teams, leading the launch of program activities, and ensuring excellence in execution through sound managerial, technical, human resource, and overall programmatic practices;
• Directly supervise Zone Managers and other assigned field staff in the Northern Region.
• Conduct regular performance reviews, coaching, capacity-building, and succession planning activities for field teams.
• Maintain project work plan and ensure timely project implementation; including satellite nurseries, inputs (seeds, seedlings, etc.) distribution according to established project plans/partner MOUs;
• Conduct visits with field managers to expand operations, lead and motivate staff, manage farmer training and induction programs and resolve business challenges;
• Progressively build and strengthen a sustainable farmer supply base;
• Proactively identify successful strategies and tactics, or bottlenecks to effective execution of project objectives;
• Serve as the primary focal point for all Agriprograms operations in the Northern Region and act on behalf of the Agriprograms Associate Director when delegated;
• Understand, respect and promote Acceso’s mission, vision and strategy in implementation of assigned duties.

2. Project management, reporting, and proposals 

• Help monitor project budget performance and variances to ensure spending remains on target and recommend corrective actions as required;
• Produce and share project performance metrics, including dashboards, Program Status Reports (PSRs) and impact data;
• Assist Haiti Agriprograms Associate Director in drafting presentations, concept notes and full project proposals;. 

3. Program data management oversight 

• Oversee Acceso’s data systems deployment (working with Acceso’s data team) to ensure all field staff operations and farmer activities are recorded in our platform;
• Complete analysis of key performance indicators of all areas of farmer network data and communications campaigns;
• Ensure data quality assurance procedures are implemented and followed across all program activities;
• Use program data and impact metrics to inform operational decision-making and continuous improvement;
• Analyze and update impact assumptions on a quarterly basis (working with Acceso’s data team);
• Assist Haiti Agriprograms Associate Director in the implementation of a monitoring and evaluation plan including farmer surveys;
• Locate and define new data collection processes and improvement opportunities;
• Troubleshoot problems, inaccuracies, and other issues to achieve 100% accuracy with farmer network data systems.

Core Attributes, Education, Work Experience & Languages

• Entrepreneurial spirit and ambition for growth;
• Has an ‘it can be done’ mind set and prepared to go the extra mile to do what it takes to support Acceso’s beneficiaries;
• Good analytical thinking, problem solving and decision-making skills;
• Passionate about poverty alleviation and improving farmer livelihoods and adopting new entrepreneurial solutions to solve poverty;
• Ability to conceive and implement new opportunities to drive impact;
• Experience engaging successfully with economic development funders and a broad understanding of the agricultural development sector in Haiti;
• Ability and desire to travel to remote locations in Haiti and deal directly with farmer groups, intermediaries, processors and buyers;
• Proven effective leadership skills and ability to mentor and manage groups of managers, staff and farmers;
• Strong project management and budgeting skills, and experience leading multi-year, multi-million program budgets;
• A master’s or bachelor’s degree or major course work in business, agriculture or economics, or a related field with five (5) years’ experience of which three (3) must be managing agricultural development programs, preferably in Haiti;
• Advanced user of MS Office Suite applications;
• Oral and written fluency in French, Creole, and English. Spanish is a plus.