Burundi Product Innovation Associate (Fixed - Term)

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. On average, this model enables any farmer to increase their income and assets on supported land by more than 35 percent, while permanently improving their resilience. This is all made possible by our team of 9,000+ full-time staff, drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions. To learn more, please see our Why Work Here blog post. Our Burundi program, established in 2011, operates under the local brand Tubura. We are a rapidly growing organization with over 1,000 employees nationwide. As of 2024, we serve over 340,000 unique farmers in 7 provinces; Muramvya, Gitega, Kayanza, Mwaro, Ngozi, Muyinga, and Ruyigi. To learn more about our work, look at our Burundi program blog. About the Role Planting trees is one of the most efficient actions to generate impact for rural families and improve the local environment. Growing trees can have many benefits for farm families - trees can improve land productivity and soil fertility. Trees can also serve as a critical economic resource for families.. Additionally, they contribute positively to local ecosystems and reduce the effects of climate change. As the Burundi Agroforestry Lead, you will lead our national agroforestry program to make it more impactful, efficient, and environmentally responsible. Through your technical experience and leadership you will help farmers to plant ten million trees in your first year, with potential to double in scale over time. Your work will support our target of planting 1 billion trees by 2030. You will also contribute to our Regenerative Agriculture Portfolio in Burundi; improve farmer's ability to use natural resources to deliver healthy soils and continued prosperity. You will report to the Burundi Impact Lead. Responsibilities Strategic Reviews and Development: We don't just want to run an efficient programme - we want to improve and scale it. We expect under your leadership we could double the size of the Agroforestry Programme, compliment with new varieties, and bring more impact for farmers; through operational reviews each season, and strategy setting. Refine and Improve Current Operations: incremental gain in the work we do will have a big impact at scale. Driving new initiatives to improve our agroforestry operations will result in additional impact for each farm household that we serve. Through root cause analysis, you will identify underlying issues and then launch improvement initiatives. For example, these could aim to improve Seedling Survival Rates, New Varieties of Trees, Improving Market Demand, or phytosanitary care. Secure our seedling supply chain through our in-house production models. You will assess performance across our country-wide programme and implement improvements to design and deliver trainings on best practices for nursery management and species management and implement tactics and tools to reliably track field performance. Planning and Coordination of Distribution: Taking seedlings from 900 nurseries across the country and distributing to 400,000 farmers is a major task; and requires digital management of distribution, close understanding of farmer needs and constraints, and effective working with our field operations team. Scope and Launch new Initiatives in Regenerative Agriculture: Investing in additional trees for our farmers will support healthy soils and more productive farms. You will also support new initiatives to grow farmer income through use of natural alternatives to inorganic fertilizer: such as restoring soil health, biodiversity and ecosystem resilience. Career Growth and Development We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in develop