Project Lead - Namibia

Main Purpose of the Job
Responsible for managing the entire P&L of the project. Lead the project team, including business development, operations, financials, legal and MIS towards their near-term and long-term goals. Responsible for managing key relationships in Namibia, including with Boomitra’s partners, farmers, entrepreneurs, contractors, and government stakeholders.

Tasks and Responsibilities
Business Development
• Manage existing partners and their farmers.
• Develop new partners to enable reaching more farmers, onboarding and increasing participation every year.
• Responsible for Carbon Credits committed year-on-year.
• Ensure yearly credits increase by indicated OKRs year-over-year by either working with partners/farmers to increase sequestration rates or/and increasing participating landowners.
• Evaluate existing practices and identify improvement plans to increase production.
• Devise local strategies for increasing sequestration rates alongside existing or new partners and local experts.
• Develop and maintain partners for providing further value-added services and products to farmers (for increased sequestration or growing more with less).
• Create new localised content in line with global marketing.
• Ensure all agreements are signed and required evidence and other documents as
required by the standards bodies collected, safely kept and made available for audit.
• Ensure the commercials are in line with agreed terms.

*Legal Compliance *

. Drafting/ amending/ negotiating/ finalizing all types of project documents including Partner Agreements, MOU’s and other agreements.
• Work closely with legal team to ensure compliance of all documents.
• Manage and escalate any legal issues with partners and other stakeholders in the project.

Operations
• Capacity Building – Partners & Farmers.
• Responsible for Farmer Onboarding as per plan.
• Responsible for confirmation of all farms.
• Ensure Data is in line with Boomitra Carbon Program needs.
• Create a monitoring plan and monitor progress.
• Work with App development team for any issues and requirements.
• Work with Geospatial team to get carbon and other reports.
• Work with Carbon development team and VVBs to ensure smooth Validation and Verification.
• Work with the Carbon Project Management team to ensure successful Validation / Verification of projects.
• Work with the Carbon Project Management team, VVBs to ensure validation and verification audits are successfully completed on time.
• Work with product team for release of any additional products and services in region.

*Finance *

• Work closely with Finance team to model farmer’s and ground partner’s implementation and monitoring costs on yearly basis.

• Work closely with Finance team and provide the final carbon issuance for payments.
• Work closely with Finance team to ensure smooth payment to farmers and partners.
• Ensure all statutory and compliances are met, including taxation and government regulations.

*Reporting *

• Ensure that all OKRs metrics (Daily, weekly, Monthly) are sent on time.
• Monitor acreage of project on weekly basis.
• Monitor enrolled farmers, and farmer retention statistics.
• Ensure Monthly Project status is sent to Executive Team.

Your profile
Minimum Qualifications/Requirements
• B.S. in Agriculture or Sustainability, Environmental sciences and management (agriculture, forestry, etc.), Natural Science, Ecology, Conservation.
• 6-8 years of experience in agricultural product supply chain. Experience in carbon development projects will be desireable.
• Excellent written and oral command of English. Conversational ability in Afrikaans and German is desirable.

Experience / Exposure
• Exposure to good agricultural practices.
• Good networks with agriculture related networks.
• Open to travel as per business requirements.

Competencies
• Commercial acumen
• Vendor / partner management
• Ability to plan meticulously
• High level of execution skills
• Negotiation skills
• Analytical thinking
• Resilience and composure
• Leadership qualities and Team management skills
• Good listening skills