Ongoing Recruitment at One Acre Fund

About the Role

• As Agroforestry Manager, you will help address three key challenges facing smallholder farmers - extreme poverty, climate change, and biodiversity loss - through agroforestry and Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR). Specifically, you will strengthen and improve existing programs that serve more than 2 million farm families and produce over 70 million seedlings per year through a network of over 2,500 local nurseries. You will also have ample opportunity to improve new approaches to generate positive change for farm families and the environment, working on a variety of complex challenges including strengthening our supply of quality tree seedlings, improving trainings for nursery managers, and diversifying our species offerings.
• The Agroforestry Manager will support a dedicated international agroforestry team and ten embedded agroforestry teams - one in each country program - and will report to the Agroforestry Director.

Responsibilities

• 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.  

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.

Application Deadline

08 May 2025.

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About the Role

• You will oversee all logistics activities at Tupande Warehouses. This includes planning, coordinating, and executing input reception, warehousing, inventory management, and distribution of inputs while ensuring seamless processing of warranty claims. This role is integral to maintaining inventory accuracy, optimizing storage and retrieval processes, and ensuring warranty claims are processed efficiently to uphold product standards and client satisfaction.  You will be a part of the Logistics Department and will report directly to the Logistics Program Manager. This role is based in Kakamega, Kenya and is hybrid.

Responsibilities

• Oversee inventory reception, storage, picking, packing, and shipping to various Business Unit (BU) clients. Ensure cost-effective, and organized deliveries through strategic planning and collaboration.
• Monitor end-to-end warehouse workflows, establish standard operating procedures, and enhance operational efficiency.
• Enable teams to operate efficiently, effectively, and in compliance with organizational standards in a dynamic, innovative program setting.
• Prepare contingency plans to address potential risks proactively and enhance accountability.
• Provide analytical insights on your sub-department\'s performance to enable data-driven operations improvements.Participate in annual strategic planning and support the execution of departmental Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).

Qualifications

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

• Bachelor's Degree, in Business, Supply Chain Management, applied mathematics, or operations management.
• 4+ years FMCG, E-Commerce or warehouse management experience
• Experience with SAP ERP or related systems
• Excel (can maintain complex spreadsheets), as they will be used to analyze and presentdata, create reports, and make informed decisions.
• Experience setting strategic direction, managing projects from idea to implementation.
• English required in all locations. Other notable and useful languages is Swahili.

Application Deadline

11 May 2025