Planting Field Officer, Kwale
KWALE / OPERATIONS – FIELD OPERATIONS /
PERMANENT
Komaza is revolutionizing African forestry by unlocking the potential for small-scale farmers to serve booming wood markets. By combining high-scale operations with digital intelligence, we are currently planting commercial-grade forests at a rate of over 1 million trees with 5,000+ new farmers per year, making us Kenya’s largest industrial tree planter.
We hold the only sustainable blueprint for meeting Africa’s $30B wood supply crisis – by leveraging farmers’ contribution of land and labor, Komaza can access nearly limitless land and establish a hectare of trees for far less than big plantations.We have been recognized with numerous awards and
investments, including The Climate Policy Initiative, The Nature Conservancy,
Forbes, and Novastar Ventures.
About
the Team
Field Operations is the heart-center of
operations at Komaza. We are deeply systems-oriented and enjoy the challenge of
training and managing hundreds of new teammates each season. In order to plant
tree farms with thousands of new farmers every year, we are laser-focused on
hitting our key performance indicators. We thrive on data, and technology is
playing an ever-increasing role in our day-to-day work life.
Field Operations is ultimately responsible for
the planning, coordination and timely implementation of our innovative
micro-forestry model, which creates life-changing income for our farmers by
growing trees more cost-efficiently than large-scale plantations. We enroll
farmers; support them through land preparation; distribute inputs and seedlings;
plant trees; ensure post-planting care and long-term maintenance.
About
the Role
The Planting Field Officer role is appropriate
for hard-working professionals who are good at managing teams to implement
projects in the field, and who have a sincere commitment to serving farmers
with integrity and positivity. Planting Field Officers are based in the field
to manage small rural field teams, and spend most of their time collaborating
with the local administration officials, managing Field Facilitators in their
field activities by providing training, coaching and mentoring teammates, leading
brainstorming of challenges and solutions, answering questions, reporting on
progress, and ensuring work is being carried out to a high quality.
Responsibilities
- Run
weekly meetings with local Facilitators & assign them tasks as per
instructions from Field Managers.
- Quality-check
FEN’s work before submitting to the immediate supervisor.
- Compile
KPI reports, Track FEN team’s actual vs target performance against weekly,
monthly and seasonal timetables.
- Plan
detailed work plans for self & team of Facilitators.
- Provide
both onboarding training for new staff, annual refreshers for all staff,
and just-in-time training throughout planting season.
- Provide
course-correcting feedback to nurture FEN behaviors aligned with company
values
- Build
personal relationships to earn trust & respect.
- Train
Facilitators & Ambassadors in all required technical and behavioral
job elements in order to successfully enroll & serve farmers and plant
& maintain trees.
- Bring
positive energy, a philosophy of teamwork, and enthusiasm for Komaza to
all meetings
- Check
random samples of FAs work to ensure quality standards are being met
- Respond
to any quality deviances; and also, report major issues immediately
- Step
in for any FA who’s resigned to ensure their weekly farm tasks are
attended to
Qualifications
- Secondary
school education is required; a Diploma/Degree is preferred
- Minimum
experience 2 years’ experience in field operations
- Sufficient
education or exposure for working effectively in the “formal economy”
What’s in it for you?
Great vision without great people is irrelevant,
Jim Collins wisely stated. If you share Komaza’s vision and want to help make
it a reality, apply today! You’ll get a chance to work at our office in Kwale,
Kenya. We offer a competitive remuneration package and an opportunity to
further your career.
Komaza is an equal opportunity employer and
values diversity. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications,
merit and business need.
How to Apply