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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. One Acre Fund has been working with farmers in the Amhara region of Ethiopia since 2014, with a specific focus on trees since 2018. The Ethiopia program has now expanded into the South Region of Ethiopia in 2024. Our aim with the tree program is to provide not only short-term income opportunities but also long-term benefits, such as soil health improvements and erosion control, so that farmers build resilience over time. About the Role The Avocado and Trials Coordinator will be a vital part of our Product Innovations team, reporting directly to the Innovation Specialist. This role sits at the intersection of operational execution, field coordination, and data collection. Your role is to ensure effective day-to-day nursery operations and field trials across South and Central Ethiopia, leveraging field evidence and data to support our avocado production model and maximize farmer impact. You will manage a field team of full-time Tree Officers (1-2) and temporary staff (5-10), implementing standardized operational plans on the ground. You will handle decentralized nursery logistics, ensure grafting success, and capture field results to support program improvements. This role is focused on streamlining avocado operations and innovation trials through hands-on coordination across our regions of operation. In a single week, you might start by hosting a technical capacity-building session for Tree Officers and local nursery owners on advanced grafting techniques. Next, you would analyze seedling survival data from various decentralized sites to check production metrics. You would then spend the latter half of your week traveling to nurseries to audit nursery production techniques, provide technical oversight and support to tree teams, troubleshoot operational bottlenecks on the spot, and evaluate progress on ongoing trials. You would also oversee data quality monitoring for avocado grafting success rates, facilitate grafter bonus payouts, and engage with our nursery operators to share insights. Responsibilities Central Nursery Ownership: Oversee the setup, daily operational workflows, and logistics of our central nurseries. You hold full accountability for the end-to-end seedling production cycle, from growth and grafting to transport and regional distribution. Small Nursery Production & Quality Support: Help smaller, local partner nurseries grow tree seedlings efficiently across our areas of operation. Enforce high-quality standards and agronomic best practices (for example, targeting avocado grafting operations in nurseries). External Expert Monitoring: Design and implement data quality tracking systems to monitor the success rates and performance bonus payouts for specialized external workers and experts (such as local contract grafters). Field Trial Management & Data Ownership: Directly manage the setup, field tracking, and execution of active Innovation trials and technical infrastructures (such as shade net setups). You will design or adapt data collection tools to ensure accurate field tracking. Technical Training & Resource Development: Author, refine, and update technical training materials, toolkits, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Lead capacity-building sessions to train full-time Tree