Your mission
Maliasili is a dynamic and innovative organization that is taking a different approach to drive locally-led conservation impact in Africa. We find the best local African conservation organizations and make them better by strengthening their organizational performance, leadership, and resourcing so that they can achieve greater impact. Our partner portfolio includes outstanding local and national organizations at the forefront of wildlife conservation, land restoration, and coastal fisheries. Our partners are pioneering conservation approaches grounded in community and indigenous land rights, generating economic opportunities from nature-based businesses, and restoring ecosystems across many of Africa’s most important landscapes.
Since its founding over a decade ago, Maliasili has built a portfolio of roughly 55 partners working across over 64 million hectares of critical landscapes and ecosystems in seventeen countries. We have helped our partners generate or leverage more than $27.3 million in funding for their work, developed a growing set of tools to help improve their organizational performance, and supported many of our partners to grow their impacts in the field significantly. Our goals are to build a portfolio of Africa’s best local conservation organizations, help them collaborate and learn from each other, and scale up their community-based conservation work on the ground and their leadership capacity within the conservation field.
Our mission is to accelerate community-led conservation through local organizations.We believe that improved conservation practices through community action and stewardship will scale and spread through more capable, influential, and resilient local organizations.
Your profile
Role Summary
We are looking for an associate to join our team in Madagascar to support the delivery of Maliasili’s strategy. Our aim is to strengthen local conservation organisations to be more strategic, collaborative, and responsive to trends shaping our sector. We believe that building the agency of local organizations will catalyse quicker, stronger impact for the urgencies at hand in the field of conservation.
We’re seeking someone passionate about the environment and the growth of people and organisations. You’ll be based in Madagascar but work with our international team to deliver leadership programmes and organizational development services. We want a facilitator at heart: a fun team player, a sharp independent thinker who can diagnose and distill problems and opportunities. Apply if you have a curious mind and want to do things differently.
Responsibilities
Assist in managing relationships with the leadership of partner organizations, and provide thought partnership and collaborative problem-solving.
Assist with the design of effective organizational development services offered by Maliasili in areas such as strategic planning, work planning, strategic fundraising, financial management, monitoring & evaluation systems, and human resource management and recruitment.
Assist with the design and facilitation of workshops with partners to make progress toward broader organizational development goals.
Assist in the design and delivery of the Madagascar Environmental Leadership Programmes (MELP)
Support cultivating relationships with other organizations in the field and developing a pipeline of potential partner organizations in Madagascar.
Work to connect partners to appropriate networks, contacts, and resources within Madagascar and beyond.
Additionally, the Portfolio Associate will have additional responsibilities including, but not limited to:
Reviewing and analyzing reports, papers, and data pertinent to our external audiences;
Taking notes and analyzing outputs of meetings and workshops;
Compiling reports, designing presentations, and editing documents;
Organizing event logistics;
Will be committed to regular travel in Madagascar, and beyond (the position requires approximately 30% travel).
