About One Acre Fund

About the Role

Responsibilities

Central Nursery Oversight: Oversee the successful establishment, infrastructure setup, and daily operational workflows of central avocado nurseries in South and Central Ethiopia.
Decentralized Nursery Oversight: Support the operational efficiency of avocado production across decentralized production contexts in South and Central Ethiopia
Agronomic Best Practices: Ensure strict adherence to high-quality standards and agronomic best practices in seedling production, specifically targeting grafting operations, optimal watering schedules, and rigorous pest and disease control.
Operational Agility: Apply quick thinking and adaptability to navigate operational bottlenecks in decentralized nursery environments, standardizing avocado workflows to streamline production metrics.
Post-Grafting Follow-up: Implement structured monitoring systems and post-grafting verification routines to ensure high survival rates and maintain rigorous seedling quality metrics.

Hands-on Trial Management: Directly manage the field execution, localized setup, and status tracking of non-avocado Product Innovation (INN) trials in the South (e.g., active shade net trials) hosted at INN’s research station or core tree nurseries.
End-to-End Data Ownership: Modify existing data collection tools, or design context-specific data tools ensuring they accurately capture what is required for trial objectives.
Data Collection Quality Control: Provide rigorous training, oversight, and auditing for temporary field staff and dedicated INN Tree Officers collecting data to ensure data quality is high enough to make concrete scaling recommendations.
Analysis & Reporting: Synthesize, analyze, and report on qualitative and quantitative field trial data to capture localized performance metrics and drive strategic model improvements.

Staff & Owner Training: Conduct technical training and capacity-building sessions for full-time Tree Officers (TOs), local tree nursery owners, and temporary field staff to institutionalize avocado production and trial tracking techniques.
Documentation & SOPs: Author, refine, and update technical training materials, standardized toolkits, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to guide seasonal and permanent field executions.

Workstream Scope Management: Scope improvements within the immediate avocado and trial workstreams to resolve field challenges independently, while actively considering future team strategies and expansions into new regions.
High-Mobility Field Presence: Execute intensive field travel, spending 50%+ of working hours in the field across South and Central Ethiopia to audit nursery sites, supervise teams, and manage localized operations firsthand.
Organizational Alignment: Fluently articulate the current and future activities, targets, and milestones of the avocado program to cross-functional internal teams and external local stakeholders.

Career Growth and Development

Qualifications

At least 3-5+ years of experience in avocado seedling production, grafting management, plant health diagnostics, and smallholder farming systems.
Bachelor's Degree in Agroforestry/Horticulture.
Background in project management.
Field data collection/analysis.
Google Sheets/Excel proficiency.

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One Acre Fund never asks candidates to pay any money or pay for tests at any stage of the interview process. Official One Acre Fund emails will always arrive from an @ oneacrefund.org address. Please report any suspicious communication here ([email protected]), but do not send applications or application materials to this email address. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), and anti-racism are deeply connected to our organization’s mission and purpose. One Acre Fund aspires to build a culture where all staff feel consistently valued, represented, and connected – so that our team can thrive as professionals, and achieve exceptional impact for the farmers we serve. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

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