Ethiopia TREE - Agroforestry Training Senior Officer

Seeking an agroforestry training professional to lead technical content creation, revision, and delivery for field teams, Stakeholders and Tree Nursery Operators, driving reforestation impact across the South Tree Program.

Responsibilities

Organize/lead training components of the tree team in South Tree Program

• Seedling Production, Marketing, and Distribution Training

• With support from the training coordinator, revise training manuals on yearly basis (with new species and changes of recommendations if any) and preparation of new contents for seedling production, marketing, distribution, and tree planting.

• Conduct data quality checks for the printed training documents and bindings works.

• Lead Technical TOT sessions for the field team 

• Follow up on the deliverability of training cascaded down to the Tree Nursery Operator, ensuring training directly translates to improved nursery activities and achieving production goals

• Support non TAF non technical training

Professional Development Training 

• Support the training coordinator in the preparation of a year-round professional development training  plan when needed. 

• Contribute in execution of field team acceleration program.

Execute small-medium complexity/scope training related projects for the south tree team

• Support on planning and implementation of small-medium complexity tree related projects like conducting needs assessment from the field, measure knowledge retention and assess training compliance.

• The projects may relate but are not limited  to increasing performance at the field, increase field survival, bring more farmers to our nurseries to take seedlings, help achieve the production goals of the tree team and increase adoption of new species and AGF practices. Few examples of such projects include:

  • Agroforestry seed quality check (QC) 

  • Marketing and Distribution 

  • Support with  local seed procurement 

  • Lead the Small SBC projects that aim to provide directional information to the program

Career Growth and Development

We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.

Qualifications

For this role specifically, you will have:

• 2 year minimum experience

• Speak Wolayta, Amharic, and English languages

• Preferably Experience related to training and agroforestry preferable