Tanzania Agroforestry Specialist (Fixed-Term)

As a Tree Specialist, you will oversee the delivery of One Acre Fund’s agroforestry program across designated sites while driving impact, financial sustainability and customer service through the districts that you manage. The main purpose of this role is to oversee the seedlings production work and identify areas for innovation and process improvement within the department. You will take ownership of driving these initiatives forward.

You will collaborate in inter-departmental teams to develop and implement new solutions. You will set objectives for your team, ensuring that they meet performance expectations. You will report directly to the Tree Associate/Manager, and manage a team spread across 100 - 150 villages and 1 - 2 centralized nurseries.

This is role requires 60% field work and 40% office work. Your location will be determined based on the location of your team members within the Iringa, Njombe, Mbeya and Songwe regions

JL 7

Iringa or Njombe or Mbeya or Songwe, Tanzania

Laura Orozco Romo

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Tree Management

• You will lead seedling cultivation by managing a team of Nursery Officers (Outgrowers) who produce seedlings at the villages or in centralized nurseries. Ensure the seedlings grow healthy and are ready at the ideal planting time by creating implementation and contingency plans. Oversee the seedlings production by external suppliers
• You will design and implement trials to test the production of soil improving, timber and fruit species
• You will understand barriers to higher seedling survival and tree growth and implement practical and scalable methods to improve the metrics among farmers
• You will manage a big field team to constantly meet their performance expectations

Agroforestry Expansion

• You will scope new sites for inwards and outwards program expansion
• You will promote financial sustainability by implementing cost controls.
• You will create the seedling marketing and distribution strategy and lead its implementation
• You will create surveys, train enumerators, support data collection, quality assessment and analysis to inform departmental decisions and provide actionable recommendations.

Stakeholder Engagement

• You will present our work to government officials at different levels to ensure program buy-in
• You will collaborate in inter-departmental teams to develop and implement current and new projects.

• A Bachelor's degree in Forestry, Agroforestry or related fields
• Experience with data collection and analysis in Excel /Google Sheets  (Proficiency in SPSS, STATA or R statistical software would be a bonus)
• People management experience
• 2+ years of experience managing nursery production or tree planting projects
• Technical knowledge around sourcing quality seed
• Fluent professional proficiency in English and Swahili

Health insurance, paid time off 

1 Year (with possibility of extension)

This role is only open to citizens or permanent residents of Tanzania

02 November 2023. Applications after this date will be accepted on a rolling basis. 

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