Description
One Acre Fund is hiring a Uganda Agroforestry Lead based in Jinja, Uganda. As our Agroforestry Lead, you will coordinate the annual tree production cycle in Uganda, from planning and nursery production through to seedling distribution. You will be the single source of truth on tree production performance, keeping stakeholders aligned so that quality seedlings reach farmers on time and at scale. This role has no direct reports. You will succeed by influencing and coordinating colleagues across Field Operations, Supply Chain, Data, and Product Innovations, and by escalating risks early to the right people. If you enjoy owning a complex end-to-end process, working with data, and contributing to impact for farmers, this role offers real ownership and room to innovate. Main responsibilities: • Own the master tree production calendar and milestones, and coordinate activities from production planning to seedling distribution and excess tree management • Align Product Innovations, Supply Chain, Data, Regional Leads, and Tree Nursery Managers, and escalate risks, delays, and quality issues to leadership. • Work with Regional Leads and Product Innovations to ensure timely nursery setup, weekly supervision, follow-up on interventions, and corrective action to stay on track for targets. • Work with the Data & Analytics Lead on dashboards and weekly nursery analyses, and turn the findings into clear updates and action plans. • Coordinate seed quality control at delivery, receipt, and storage, monitor seedling quality, and support pre-distribution audits • Design and lead seedling distribution plans, pack projections, transfers between sites, and route planning, improving efficiency as complexity grows. • Coordinate field trials, support the scaling of new tree species, and document lessons learned.
About One Acre Fund
Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips 5.5 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive. Across nine countries that together are home to two-thirds of Africa's farmers, we provide high-quality farm supplies, tree seedlings, accessible credit, modern agronomic training, and a wide range of other agricultural services.
Requirements
Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have: Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture, Forestry, Agroforestry, Natural Resource Management, Economics, Agricultural Economics, or Statistics (or equivalent experience) 3 to 5 years of experience in agroforestry or tree production work (tree nursery establishment, seedling production, quality control, and agroforestry systems) Field programme implementation, with supply chain and logistics coordination Strong stakeholder management and communication, including influencing without authority Problem-solving and comfort with ambiguity in a fast-scaling organisation Data analysis and dashboard use, with the ability to turn data into action You are willing to travel regularly to nursery sites Preferred Start Date As soon as possible
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