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Job Description/Requirements
Qualifications
Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:
Experience in Agroforestry and Landscape Restoration
- 3+ years of leadership and demonstrated results in agroforestry, restoration, or related domains in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- University or advanced degree in agroforestry, ecology, restoration, or related fields
- Familiarity with nature-based carbon projects, including implementation and certification is an additional advantage
External Relationships
- Exceptional written and verbal communication to engage a range of audiences, including rural farmers, internal staff, external partners, and organizational leadership
- History of collaboration with primary actors in the forestry and landscape restoration sectors, including implementers, technical resources, and policy-makers
- Experience launching new programs or building successful partnerships
Management Skills
- Experience managing high-level team members and coordinating complex and scalable programs
- Penchant for data-driven decision-making with structured analysis and fact-based recommendations
- Experience with multi-year, multi-project budgeting and planning
Other
- Willingness to travel within the region up to 25% of the time
- English Fluency. Other preferred languages include Swahili, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Chichewa, Amharic, or French.
- Support agroforestry program leads in 10 programs to meet their operational targets to achieve One Acre Fund’s vision of one billion trees planted by 2030., including seedling production, adoption, survival, and species diversification. This may also involve managing via dotted line some of the smaller program leads.
- Develop and maintain performance tracking systems that help program leads understand and improve their performance, including scale, impact, ecosystem service indicators, and more.
- Foster agroforestry team cohesion and shared learning through pull-ups with field teams and the Agroforestry Director, team-building and improved knowledge management and dissemination
- Scope, pilot, and scale new investments to improve program impact and reach. For example, you could launch initiatives to improve seedling survival rates, implement new tech solutions that improve programming, or identify solutions to seedling supply challenges.
- Facilitate external partnerships. Help communicate agroforestry program results and plans to external partners through data, visuals, and narratives.
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