One Acre Fund Agroforestry Associate Jobs in Malawi

One Acre Fund Agroforestry Associate Jobs in Malawi; The Agroforestry Operations Associate will conceptualize, design and manage implementation of innovations, early-stage pilots and program improvements for the Malawi Trees team.

You will report to the Malawi Agroforestry Manager.

Responsibilities

Ideate:

Manage the long-term Agroforestry innovations and improvements pipeline, with a focus on key parameters related to better planting rates, survival, and tree-based income for farmers

Find the most important operational improvements to make for key parameters for the program, like scale, planting rate, tree survival, et al.

Liaise regularly with MEL on data, findings, and recommendations based on their surveys for new products, services, et al.

Implement Pilot:

Work with the relevant field-facing team (Trees, or Field Operations, or any other) through regular meetings and coordinate to implement pilots

Maintain critical path for pilots and partnerships, including:

Clear timelines for each activity (action plans)

Targets are clarified for each stage of the pilot

Team needs are clarified and the right team in place

Budget is clear and managed through the pilot phase

Post-Mortem & Scale:

Work with the relevant field-facing team to identify data collection needs, and follow-up with MEL / other teams to create surveys

Use survey findings to create simple but clear post-mortems that have a clear recommendation

Use data and lessons learned from trials or surveys to improve agroforestry programming

For pilots that can grow, create a “scale integration” plan to do a proper handover, where necessary, to the relevant field team.

Scale Fruit

Tree Work:

Lead operations of the current fruit tree pilot in Malawi

Work across 2+ fruit value chains, to take the program from nursery setup to farmer adoption of fruit trees

Help scale this pilot to all current districts of operation.

Support MEL planning to follow-up on survival, growth and fruit production from distributed trees.


Qualifications

Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:

3 or more years of experience in agriculture, forestry, agroforestry, agricultural development or related fields

3+ years of experience in one of our countries of operation.

Experience working with farming and farmers in rural settings

Technical skills: Google workspace and tools (i.e. Google Sheets, Google Forms), Budget Management

Nice-to-haves: Some fluency with CommCare; basic data analysis of CommCare / Excel data; basic knowledge about trees generally or One Acre Fund program offerings specifically

Knowledge: Fluency in English.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; One Acre Fund Agroforestry Associate Jobs in Malawi

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