We are hiring!
Want to take a different approach to drive conservation impact in Africa? Maliasili is seeking talented, passionate, and fun people to join our team.
Maliasili is a dynamic and innovative organization that is taking a different approach to drive 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 working 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 43 partners working across over 40 million hectares of critical landscapes and ecosystems in 12 countries. We have helped our partners generate or leverage more than $15 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 significantly grow their impacts in the field. 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.
In 2016, Maliasili launched a leadership program aimed to build more dynamic, effective, and creative leaders that can grow strong organizations and drive collaborations that can achieve large-scale change. To date, Maliasili has trained 182 African conservation leaders from over 40 local organizations across 17 countries in East and Southern Africa. Our program works to strengthen and develop a rising generation of African conservation leaders and their organizations.
Maliasili’s 2025 strategic plan describes an ambitious growth trajectory focused on tripling our portfolio of partners, expanding our geographic reach, and catalyzing a new generation of African conservation leadership. A key plank of our strategy is to step up Maliasili’s role in mobilizing resources to support our growing portfolio, while influencing a shift in conservation funding towards greater and better investment in local organizations.
Maliasili continues to develop and learn as an organization and will continue to grow our portfolio, investments, and impacts.
OPPORTUNITY: MALIASILI FELLOWSHIP - MADAGASCAR
Maliasili exists to support high-potential local organizations to accelerate the benefits they bring to people, ecosystems, and climate change. We do this by providing organizational and leadership development to exceptional local organizations and leaders across Africa. We take a portfolio approach to our work through which we offer intensive support to organizations for them to reach the best potential. We’re very intentional in how we build our portfolio, and have recently launched the second iteration of the Madagascar Environmental Leadership Programme through which we identify great leaders and organizations to work with.
At Maliasili, we believe that the growth of organizations relies on the interconnectivity of great leadership, strategic vision, effective monitoring and evaluation, robust fundraising, and impactful communications. To support this, we continually refine our branding and communication tools. We’re seeking a motivated fellow with a strong artistic flair to help enhance our communications materials. A willingness to use tools Canva is essential, as is a self-starting attitude and a drive to contribute meaningfully to our mission. This fellowship offers a win-win opportunity: we aim to share our culture and expertise, welcoming fresh curiosity, new ideas, and a commitment to professionalism in return.
Submit your application through this link - Maliasili Fellowship- Madagascar by the 20th of January 2025. We promise a rewarding learning journey within a fun and fast-paced international work environment.
OPPORTUNITY: ASSOCIATE, FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION
Maliasili is a dynamic and innovative organization taking a different approach to driving 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 resources 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.
The Associate will provide a range of support for Maliasili’s financial operations and administration, including accounting and bookkeeping. The Associate will work closely with the Manager – Finance & Administration and the Sr. Manager – Finance & Administration.
Interested candidates can apply using this link: Associate, Finance & Admin on or before the 31st of January 2025.
OPPORTUNITY: MANAGER, GRANTS & FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Maliasili is looking for an engaged and motivated Manager, Grants & Funding Opportunities to play a key role in our team-wide fundraising efforts. This role will work with all areas of the organization to identify funding opportunities and to develop, submit, manage, and close funding proposals to private foundations, individual and family funds, and multilateral or bilateral agencies.
The Manager, Grants and Funding Opportunities plays a key role in providing overall coordination and support to Maliasili’s fundraising efforts, with a focus around identifying funding opportunities and managing inbound grants from proposal to final reporting. The position will work with other team members, including the CEO and Portfolio Funding Director, and the Chief Financial Officer, to ensure Maliasili’s fundraising processes and efforts are systematic and efficient. This role supports Maliasili’s commitment to mobilize more funding to support our long-term growth and increased reach and operations, as well as increase the funding for our growing portfolio of outstanding local conservation organizations in Africa..
Interested candidates are invited to submit their application through this link - Manager, Grants & Funding by the 31st of January 2025.
OPPORTUNITY: SENIOR PORTFOLIO MANAGER, WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICA
Maliasili is looking for a Senior Portfolio Manager to join our passionate and fast-paced team in West and Central Africa. Maliasili is a dynamic and innovative organization that is taking a different approach to driving locally-led conservation impact in Africa. We find the best local conservation organizations and make them better by strengthening their organizational performance, leadership, and resources so that they can achieve greater impact.
Senior Managers lead and facilitate our organizational development support to our partners to help them become stronger organizations and achieve their goals and missions. Understanding the functional elements of an effective organization is at the core of Maliasili’s work, and senior managers should have command of these elements and the characteristics of a highly effective organization, be able to diagnose organizational challenges, and design plans to implement solutions and catalyze behavior change in our partner organizations. Senior Managers are also responsible for developing a portfolio strategy in their designated landscape or geographic area of focus, scouting and recommending potential partners, as well as managing portfolio staff.
Interested candidates can apply by sending a cover letter and CV in PDF format to recruitment@maliasili.org with the subject line - Senior Portfolio Manager, West Africa by 1st April 2024.
Maliasili offers a competitive package of compensation and benefits and is committed to promoting diversity and equity in compensation irrespective of geography or nationality, as described in our 2025 Strategic Plan. Maliasili also offers a flexible and dynamic work environment and an organizational culture defined by our commitment to our partners, constant learning and improvement of our work, excellence in teamwork and execution, and ambitions to maximize our impact while having fun doing it.
All applications, including cover letters and CVs, should be sent to recruitment@maliasili.org. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.
Maliasili is an equal opportunity employer and has a strong organizational commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.
