Agroforestry Innovations Associate

About the Role

One Acre Fund is home to Africa's largest agroforestry programs, serving over 2 million farmers and providing more than 100 million seedlings per year. We engage a network of over 2,500 rural nurseries run by local entrepreneurs. These programs address three key challenges facing smallholder farmers: poverty, climate change, and biodiversity loss.

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 the supply of quality tree seed, improving training and management tools for nursery managers, and diversifying 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Scope, pilot, and scale new investments to improve program impact and reach, including:
  • Developing solutions to improve seedling survival rates
  • Building planning solutions to better support nursery managers
  • Researching and trialing sustainable socket alternatives
  • Implementing 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

Position Details

• Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
• Employment Type: Full-Time