WeForest
WeForest is a fast-growing international non-profit association headquartered in Belgium and with current projects in Brazil, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Malawi, Senegal and Zambia. The mission of the organisation is to advance innovative, scalable and lasting solutions to restore forest and landscapes for climate, people and planet. We promote scientific evidence for the ways in which forests contribute to climate change mitigation, beyond their impacts as stocks of carbon, by increasing water availability, enhancing local biodiversity conservation and rural livelihood and resilience.
Job Summary
The Nursery and Agroforestry Coordinator will work in a dynamic team on our objective towards increasing forest cover in communities around the Community Forests in Lavushimanda District through forestry and agroforestry development on smallholder farms as a scalable solution for climate mitigation and adaptation, livelihood improvement and gender equitable development. The Nursery and Agroforestry Coordinator will work under the direct supervision of the Programme Manager and will mainly be active in the nurseries and on farms where agroforestry trees will be planted in the Lavushimanda Community Conservation Project in Lavushimanda District.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Plant nursery management, coordination and out planting
1. Deliver on-time, and on-budget, the nursery agroforestry quota and seedling targets.
2. Oversee the planning and coordinate the nursery teams to grow good quality tree seedlings
3. Support the mapping of smallholder farms where agroforestry is being implemented
4. Provide extension services in out planting of nursery trees on smallholder farms
5. Support the recruitment and training of farmers in Climate Smart Agriculture
6. Provide extension services in pest, weed and disease management of nursery trees to small holder farmers.
7. Engage/train forest-dependent communities and implement forest friendly livelihoods
Culturally sensitive and effective communication with local communities, Forestry Department and other relevant stakeholders
Efficient and transparent weekly and quarterly reporting to the Programme Manager
Support field staff in school outreach programmes on tree planting, nursery management and agroforestry
Provide farmer trainings in agroforestry, compost making and nursery management
Technical leadership
Implement best practices in nursery management and staff coaching
Minimise seedling and consumable loss by avoiding diseases, pest damage among others to seedlings.
Demonstrate leadership and show own initiative, not being hesitant to “get your hands dirty”
Provide and disseminate knowledge within the organization on growing seedlings at scale in a cost-efficient manner.
CANDIDATE PROFILE
Essential:
- A B.Sc., or equivalent experience in, Forestry, Agroforestry, Agriculture or equivalen
- Fluent in English and Bemba (both speaking and writing)
- Minimum 3 years’ relevant experience in nursery coordination and management
- Proven experience in growing and planting trees at scale
- Demonstrable experience of developing livelihood value chains in collaboration with small-scale farmers, communities and business
- Excellent management, coordination, training, reporting and communication skills
- Flexible in terms of traveling and living conditions
- Excellent team player
- Able to ride a motorbike.
- All academic and professional certificates should be certified by the Zambia Qualification Authority (ZAQA)
Desirable:
- Knowledge of Bisa/Bemba
- Track record with gender-sensitive participatory, governance and inclusion approaches
DUTIES
- Implement best practices in nursery management and coordination
- Coordinate and train the staff under your responsibility
- Provide timely budgets for nursery inputs and be responsible for budgeting
- Ensure collection of quantitative & qualitative data (germination rate, seedling survival, precipitation data,…)
- Facilitate nursery visits and other services on behalf of WeForest/ third parties.
- Appropriate and frequent reporting in full transparency and integrity, being coachable for improvement
- Support training of farmers in tree planting and survival
- Support tree planting and other relevant field activities (e.g. ring weeding etc.)
- Handle internal information and data as confidential
- Ensure a safe working environment for nursery staff, local community workers and other stakeholders.
- Ensure good care of organisation’s assets at the nursery, presenting a clean, green and environmentally-friendly nursery.
Terms & Conditions
Position: Full-time employee, 6 days/week. Initially for one year, envisioned for an additional 2 years.
Base: at Lavushimanda Community Conservation Project, Lavushimanda District, Muchinga, Zambia
Start date: As soon as possible, preferably by 1st of October, 2025
Package: Competitive package for a small organization, level 2b salary
Interested?
Please send applications to recruitment.zambia@weforest.org with your CV, a motivation letter, and 2 recent references by September 18th, 2025.
Make sure to mention the job title in the subject of the email, and to indicate where you saw the job post. In your motivation letter, we’d love to read about what makes you interested to work with WeForest Zambia and what you love about growing trees. Due to the anticipated high number of applicants, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. We thank you in advance for your interest.
