Trees Assistant Field Director

• Train motivate mentor and evaluate team members through direct management and/or indirect management of seasonal staff (e.g. Field Managers Field Assistants).
  

• Conduct regular skills gap assessments for team members and collaborate with L&D to identify relevant training to build team capacity.
  

• Review all work deliverables for team members and provide actionable and timely feedback for improvement.
  

Essential Function 2: Delivery of Program KPI

• Conduct regular visits to nursery locations to troubleshoot challenges and ensure field activities remain on track and within set timelines.
  

• Supervise field activities within assigned pods to meet 100% of production targets in assigned locations.
  

• Support farmers mobilization and enrolment to deliver 100% of set farmer adoption targets for the season within served communities.
  

• Support the coordination of seedling distribution to ensure the right number of seedlings are delivered to farmers.
  

• Lead on post distribution compliance follow up including out-planting follow-up visits and farmer planting compliance calls where applicable.
  

Essential Function 3: Recruitment and Training of Field Team

• Provide support as required to the District lead to inform the recruitment of Field Managers and seasonal staff (e.g. Field Assistants Nursery Managers)
  

• Support the field managers onboarding process by facilitating relevant training
  

• Coordinate the recruitment onboarding and training of field assistants across project locations
  

• Plan and coordinate farmers training to ensure all enrolled farmers are trained
  

• Essential Function #4: Program and Quality Management
  

• Coordinate all aspects of nursery input distribution to sites
  

• Supervision of nursery data submission to ensure all nursery data is submitted timely to the program lead to inform program decisions
  

• Verify and validate performance reports and data submissions of team members to ensure high data quality is maintained
  

• Monitoring of nursery activities to ensure adherence to program quality standards and reduce wastage
  

Essential Function 5: Research and Program Execution

• Undertake independent stretch projects that contribute to the programs success and professional development as specified by the program lead.
  

• Prepare reports on successfully completed trials/strategic research capturing results and recommendations where relevant
  

• Provide the program lead with operational insights and feedback in an actionable way
  

Essential function 6: Document completion training and meetings

• Attend all department trainings as required including refresher trainings and review all relevant training materials
  

• Attend all meetings including ad hoc meetings for the field team
  

• Complete weekly work plans and submit them to your manager in a timely manner
  

• Complete check-in documents on a weekly/bi-weekly basis and submit them to your manager in a timely manner
  

Requirements

Requirements

Across all roles these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically you will have:

• Education: Higher National Diploma preferably in Agriculture or related fields
  

Experience:2-3 years of relevant work experience

Experience implementing projects at the field level

• Skills:
  

Technical Skills

• Proficiency in the use of Google Suite tools (Gmail Google Drive Google Calendar Google Meet Google Docs etc.)
  

• Capable of efficiently operating Android and Windows operating systems for work-related functions
  

• Ability to conduct basic data analysis and generate clear and accurate reports
  

Soft Skills

• Experience in management or team leadership
  

• Efficient work planning & task execution skills
  

• Decision-making skills
  

• Problem-solving skills
  

• Communication skills
  

• Experience in community mobilization
  

• Takes initiative to enhance work efficiency and skills
  

Language Skills

• Strong fluency in English and Hausa is required
  

• Fluency in local languages in respective areas of operation (Nupe Eggon Alago Gbagyi Hausa ) is desired
  

Location

• Availability to live in the community/state where the role is open.
  

• Travel: up to 50% across various communities.
  

Compensation

• In line with the job level.