One Acre Fund Tree Project Field Coordinator Jobs in Ethiopia
One Acre Fund Tree Project Field Coordinator Jobs in Ethiopia
Job DescriptionServe as TREE project Field Coordinator, mainly leading Field Managers’ management for the cluster and leading the field operations in the cluster.
Responsibilities of this role include:
Project management responsibilities
Conduct regular field visits to observe these staffers’ work, assess the quality of their work, give them advice on how to improve
Deliver trainings as necessary both on technical topics (e.g. nursery establishment and management) and soft skills (e.g. critical thinking, & problem solving) to both the Field Extension Experts and the full teams under them
Ensure that the team and all external partners understand the vision of the project and are committed to achieving the goals
Collect, compile and analyze Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) from Field Extension Experts each week and make suggestions for action items needed to achieve KPI goals
Use your knowledge of tree production and your field observations to identify problems in a timely manner and help to solve them, and ideally to anticipate and prevent potential problems before they happen
Make sure Field Assistants, Field Officers and Field Managers are well equipped to do marketing/convincing farmers to buy trees
Run field tests of draft trainings and written tools and share lessons learned for improving the materials, as requested by your manager
Provide high level strategic ideas and feedback to HQ
People management responsibilities
Manage 2 woredas/FMs under which there are 39 kebelles and 8 Field Officers in 2021 season. This management role might expand for future years.
Develop your staff through expectations, feedback, training, spot coaching, mentoring and development plans
Communicate performance expectations and formally evaluate your direct reports’ performance regularly twice per year
Recommend poor performers for disciplinary action and work with your manager to take appropriate action
Identify high performers and helping with career pathing for future promotion
Communications with headquarters responsibilities
Help to ensure excellent communication between your field team and headquarters (HQ) by writing your own detailed, insightful weekly reports of what
you have observed and sharing messages clearly from HQ back to the field team during your visits and meetings
Woreda relationship responsibilities
Monitor the lower level day to day woreda government relation work of Field Managers to give support as needed
Manage bigger picture issues, complex problem solving with woredas, and high level relationships with woreda office heads
Other responsibilities as requested by your manager
Note that this position is a field position and requires very frequent, on average 3-4 days per week, of travel to other woredas of operation and remote rural kebeles plus 1x travel to Bahir Dar for weekly meetings.
You will be based in one of the 4 woredas of your cluster (Dejen).
You will be required to travel by public transport, foot and occasionally by mule
Job Requirements
Qualifications
Bachelor degree in Natural Resource Management, Forestry, Plant Science, Agronomy or a related field
At least four (4) years of related work experience
At least one year of experience in a team management role
At least two years of working experience in rural Ethiopia on project(s) related to tree planting or production, agricultural development or farmer livelihood improvement
Enthusiasm for traveling to the field and working in a rural setting, with farmers
Enthusiasm for learning and openness to feedback
Demonstrated critical thinking and problem-solving skills
Native or Near-Native Amharic (written, spoken and typed)
Good English (written and spoken)
Good computer skills (in basic Microsoft office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) applications, skills and experience with web searches and communications)
How to Apply
Interested applicants from woredas of operation (Awabel and Enemay) are encouraged to apply!
Women are encouraged to apply!!
Compensation
Submit CV and cover letter ONLY at ethiopiarecruitment@oneacrefund.org
When you send your email, write "Tree Field Coordination Application" in the subject line of the email. Just copy paste the underlined text and paste it on the subject line
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for a first-round phone interview
In person application isn’t accepted
Applications after 10 September 2020 won’t be accepted
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