Agroforestry Innovations Associate
One Acre Fund
About One Acre Fund
One Acre Fund is an agricultural service provider that supports Africa's smallholder farmers to build resilient communities.
More than 50 million families in Sub-Saharan Africa earn a living from small farms, which produce 80 percent of the continent’s food. But harvests still lag far behind the rest of the world. We supply the financing and training these farmers need to grow their way out of hunger and build lasting pathways to prosperity.
Instead of giving handouts, we invest in farmers to help them increase their yields and their profits. When farmers become more productive, they help feed healthy communities and create thriving economies.
Job Description
As an Agroforestry Innovations Associate, you will strengthen and improve these programs with new approaches to generate positive change for farm families and the environment. You will work on a variety of complex challenges, including strengthening our supply of quality tree seed, improving training and management tools for nursery managers, and diversifying our species offerings. The Agroforestry Innovations Associate will be part of our dedicated international agroforestry team and will support ten embedded agroforestry teams one in each country program. This role will report to the Agroforestry Director.
Responsibilities
- Scope, pilot, and scale new investments to improve program impact and reach. Example initiatives could include:
- Developing solutions to improve seedling survival rates
- Building planning solutions to better support nursery managers
- Researching and trialing sustainable socket alternatives
- Implement improvements to tree seed supply systems
- Supporting tree tracking systems at the farm level
- Conducting site species matching research (field and desk) to expand species diversity
- Provide short-term direct support to agroforestry operations in cases where team bandwidth isn’t adequate. This could be in the form of high-touch operational support or even a short-term secondment
Requirements
- 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 biodiversity projects or nature-based carbon projects is an additional advantage
- 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
- Experience coordinating complex and scalable programs
- Penchant for data-driven decision-making with structured analysis and fact-based recommendations
- Willingness to travel within the region at least 25% of the time
- English Fluency. Other preferred languages include Swahili, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Chichewa, Amharic, or French.
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This role is only open to citizens or permanent residents of Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, and Nigeria.
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