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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.

Roles and Responsibilities

Portfolio Associate supports our organizational development support to our partners, working side by side with our Portfolio Managers. This position will support partners specifically in Ghana, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Therefore, the position will require travel.

The Portfolio Associate will work with the Portfolio Managers and/or the Senior Portfolio Manager, supporting and developing their skills in the following areas:

• The development of trusted relationships with partner organizations, providing thought partnership and collaborative problem-solving.

• Working with partners to diagnose and develop joint plans to address major organizational development needs and priorities.

• Supporting partner service delivery in areas such as strategy development, design of work plans, strategic fundraising, financial management, human resource management, and recruitment.

• Responding to and coordinating requests to partners for M&E, events planning, etc.

• Developing ongoing organizational development expertise and staying at the cutting edge of organizational development, social enterprise, and community-based conservation.

• Supporting Maliasili efforts, including but not limited to strategic planning and monitoring & evaluation.

Additionally, the Portfolio Associate will have additional responsibilities, including, but not limited to:

• Reviewing and analyzing reports, papers, and data pertinent to our partners and the ecosystems in which they work;

• Designing meeting agendas and facilitation plans;

• Taking notes and analyzing outputs of meetings and workshops;

• Compiling reports, designing presentations, and editing documents; and

• Organizing event logistics.

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