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: MANAGER, LEADERSHIP PROGRAMS
In 2016, Maliasili launched a leadership program aimed at building 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 181 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 is seeking a full-time Program Manager to join our team, ideally based in East or Southern Africa. In this role, you will be a key member of our growing leadership program team, contributing to the design and facilitation of our learning programs while providing essential support to our alumni community of leaders and fostering engagement and continuous development opportunities like our bi-annual African Conservation Leaders Forum. You will also bridge our leadership work and organizational strengthening initiatives, ensuring seamless integration with our partner support, while closely collaborating with our Portfolio Managers.
Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications through the following link: Manager, Leadership Programs no later than 14th October, 2024.
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.
OPPORTUNITY: COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER
Are you passionate about communication strategies that drive impact and change? Maliasili is seeking a talented Communications Manager based in southern Africa. As a pivotal member of our team, you'll have the opportunity to create, innovate, and amplify the stories of our partners and Maliasili's transformative work across various platforms. This is a remote, work-from-home position, as part of a diverse global and remote operating team.
Interested? Have a look at our ambitious 2025 strategic plan, and send a cover letter and resume to recruitment@maliasili.org with the subject line - Communications Manager. The applications will be processed on a rolling basis, and the position will close once a suitable candidate is identified.
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.
