Work with Tree Aid
Looking for a fulfilling new job? Join our team and you can work with us to tackle poverty and the effects of the climate crisis.
Tree Aid works in partnership with communities to grow and protect trees so people can live from them for years to come. To do that, we need experienced and committed people who share our values.
Why work at Tree Aid?
Everyone in our team plays a role in tackling poverty and the effects of the climate crisis in the drylands of Africa. Once recruited, we aim to support our people to succeed in their roles and grow both personally and professionally.
Our aim is to build a team who can work together to successfully deliver our strategy and be driven by our values.
Our approach to recruitment
We recruit with openness and transparency. We employ people on the basis of their ability to carry out the role being recruited for.
We ensure that no applicant receives less favourable treatment than any other on the grounds of disability, gender, race, religion or belief, age, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, caring responsibilities or hours of work.
What we offer
We benchmark our salaries using independent surveys to ensure they are fair and competitive. All our people have 33 days of annual leave (including public holidays), rising to 38 days with length of employment. We provide a generous pension scheme in the UK, contributing up to 6% of salary. We offer enhanced maternity pay and are open to discuss flexible working options.
We provide all our people with the skills and opportunities to grow and realise their potential. We support a variety of formal and informal learning opportunities for staff, including time-off to attend training and assistance with training costs.
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This is a fantastic opportunity for an exceptional candidate with expertise in financial management, marketing and communications, or fundraising and business development to join Tree Aid’s Board of Trustees. We're seeking a highly experience individual who can oversee the governance, effectiveness and direction of the charity, as well as its financial health and legal commitments.
For the successful applicant, this is an opportunity to have true and lasting impact for people and planet - helping to deliver large-scale landscape level restoration and poverty alleviation across the drylands of Africa.
There has never been a more exciting time to join the Tree Aid team. We are an innovative, knowledgeable and specialist charity focusing on the role of trees in tackling poverty and combatting the climate crisis in dryland Africa. We are values led, unique in what we do and are growing fast – we continue to set ourselves ambitious targets for expansion, and are looking to grow the influence and impact of our work.
Key documents:
The full job description and person specification can downloaded below:
How to apply:
To apply, please send your CV and a covering letter setting out how you meet the person specification to recruitment@treeaid.org.
Key dates:
- Closing date: Midnight, Monday 1st May, 2023
- Interviews: Interviews for this position will be on 10th and 11th May
Our approach to recruitment:
We value diversity and welcome applications from applicants from all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with a Black, Asian or minority ethnic (BAME) background.
We recruit with openness and transparency. We employ people on the basis of their ability to carry out the role being recruited for. We ensure that no applicant receives less favourable treatment than any other on the grounds of disability, gender, race, religion or belief, age, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, caring responsibilities or hours of work.
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Location: Bristol, United Kingdom (negotiable)
Hours: 35 hours a week, full time, permanent
Salary: £39,234pa + competitive holiday + pension
An exciting opportunity has arisen at Tree Aid for a Nature-based Solutions and Carbon Manager to join our growing organisation. Join Tree Aid as we expand our operations to further increase our impact and influence across the drylands of Africa. In this critical period in the global fight against climate breakdown, this newly created position will play a key role.
We are recruiting a confident and experienced professional, passionate about ecological restoration, to provide technical expertise to support the development and implementation of high-quality, impactful nature-based solutions (NbS) projects in Tree Aid countries of intervention (Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Niger and Senegal).
They will be involved in evaluating the carbon credit generation potential of land-use based strategies and on how to channel climate finance and carbon markets in the most effective, equitable and sustainable manner to the benefit of the communities Tree Aid serves. As a result, the individual will need to be comfortable working with data at different scales and levels of certainty and analysing forest growth and yield models to produce estimates of environmental commodity/credit generation.
As the NbS and Carbon Manager, you will:
- Support Tree Aid UK Programmes team and Country Management teams in the overall development of NbS projects and carbon financing that fully respects and champions local rights and knowledge, and generates high-impact social and environmental co-benefits.
- Provide technical leadership and support for the implementation and technical monitoring of ongoing NbS project activities.
- Support continuous improvement of programme implementation through technical advice, capacity building and learning to create an environment for innovation.
You will have a proven track record of working with NbS and voluntary carbon projects that includes first-hand experience in planning, screening, developing and managing nature-based carbon sequestration projects in agriculture or forestry-based methodologies, including measurement, reporting and verification. Tree Aid expect that there will be considerable growth opportunities in this role with exposure to investment underwriting, investment management, and investor engagement.
With excellent evaluation, research and analytical skills and the ability to present and report information accurately and intelligibly, you will shine at building and managing interactions and possess brilliant communication, influencing, facilitation and negotiation skills. This role will also work closely with our Advocacy Advisor to help amplify the impact of our work, deliver on our international influencing strategies and in helping Tree Aid achieve lasting change across the drylands of Africa.
Above all - inspired by Tree Aid’s mission to alleviate poverty whilst improving the sustainable management and restoration of ecosystems - you will be committed to empowering families in some of the world's poorest countries to thrive, rather than just survive. We have ambitious plans for the future. Help us to realise them.
Recruitment timeline:
- The deadline for applications is 9am on Wednesday 12th April 2023.
- First round of interviews will be held on Tuesday 18th and Wednesday 19th April. (This will be a remote interview process).
Key documents:
Candidates must be legally entitled to work in the UK at time of application.
How to apply:
To apply, please send your CV, equal opportunities monitoring form and a supporting statement setting out how you meet the person specification to recruitment@treeaid.org
Our approach to recruitment:
We value diversity and welcome applications from applicants from all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with a Black, Asian or minority ethnic (BAME) background.
We recruit with openness and transparency. We employ people on the basis of their ability to carry out the role being recruited for. We ensure that no applicant receives less favourable treatment than any other on the grounds of disability, gender, race, religion or belief, age, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, caring responsibilities or hours of work.
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Hours: 35 hours a week, full time, permanent
Salary: £28,980 pa + competitive holiday + pension
An exciting opportunity has arisen at Tree Aid for a Programmes Officer to join our growing organisation. Join Tree Aid as we expand our operations to further increase our impact and influence across the drylands of Africa. In this critical period in the global fight against climate breakdown, this newly created position will play a key role.
We are recruiting a confident and experienced professional, passionate about ecological restoration, to provide support and backstopping for the implementation of high-quality, impactful nature-based solutions (NbS) projects in Tree Aid countries of intervention (Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Niger and Senegal).
You will have excellent interpersonal skills, an ability to work calmly under pressure to deliver outputs on-time and to a high quality, and will be able to work with both English and French speaking staff.
A background in carbon projects would be an advantage.
Above all you will be inspired by Tree Aid’s mission to alleviate poverty sustainably whilst improving the environment, you will be committed to empowering families in some of the world’s poorest countries to thrive, rather than just survive.
Candidates must be legally entitled to work in the UK at time of application.
How to apply:
To apply, please send your CV, equal opportunities monitoring form and a supporting statement setting out how you meet the person specification to recruitment@treeaid.org
Closing dates:
The deadline for applications is 9am on Wednesday 12th April 2023.
First round of Interviews will be held the week of Monday 17th April. (This will be a remote interview process).
Key documents:
Candidates must be legally entitled to work in the UK at time of application.
Our approach to recruitment:
We value diversity and welcome applications from applicants from all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with a Black, Asian or minority ethnic (BAME) background.
We recruit with openness and transparency. We employ people on the basis of their ability to carry out the role being recruited for. We ensure that no applicant receives less favourable treatment than any other on the grounds of disability, gender, race, religion or belief, age, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, caring responsibilities or hours of work.
Our commitment to Safeguarding
Tree Aid is committed to safeguarding people within our programmes from exploitation and abuse. We have specific policies on this commitment, including standards of behaviour and whistleblowing. These policies outline the expected behaviour and the responsibility of all staff, volunteers and other organisational representatives.
Any candidate offered a job with Tree Aid will be expected to sign our safeguarding policy and agree to comply with our procedures. Some roles require DBS checks/police vetting.
