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 in eastern and southern Africa.
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: 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.
OPPORTUNITY: ASSOCIATE, FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION
Since its founding over a decade ago, Maliasili has built a portfolio of roughly 40 partners working across over 35 million hectares of critical landscapes and ecosystems in seven 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 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.
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.
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 Sr. Manager – Finance and Administration and the Manager – Finance & Administration.
Interested candidates can apply by sending a cover letter and resume to recruitment@maliasili.org with the subject line - Associate, Finance and Administration by 29th March 2024.
OPPORTUNITY: MANAGER, CONSULTING
Maliasili’s mission is to accelerate community-based conservation through local organizations, and most of our programmatic efforts are focused on these local organizations. We have a reputation for providing focused and effective strategic planning processes that develop team input into and ownership of the resulting strategic plans. As such, we receive requests for support from other organizations that may not meet our criteria for partnership but play a strategic role in the broader conservation landscape or could be a potential partner in a new geography or an advisory partner that needs tailored support. We only accept these projects if we see the potential to have a strategic impact aligned with our vision and goals. Examples of these projects in the past include the strategic planning process for a global movement organization, reviewing approaches and developing partnership guidelines for an INGO, and developing a leadership transition plan for a local organization.
Maliasili is seeking a Consulting Manager to lead the management & administration of this work alongside delivering and implementing several consulting assignments. This is an opportunity to lead strategically significant, high-leverage processes and projects, potentially expanding the scope and strategic impact of Maliasili’s consulting engagements over time as part of the organization’s wider mission.
Interested candidates can apply by sending a cover letter and resume to recruitment@maliasili.org with the subject line - Manager - Consulting by 29th February 2024. We will conduct three rounds of interviews and anticipate the process to last approximately four weeks from 15th March 2024.
OPPORTUNITY: PORTFOLIO MANAGER, MADAGASCAR
Maliasili is looking for a Portfolio Manager to join our passionate and fast-paced team in Madagascar. 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 conservation organizations and make them better by strengthening their organizational performance, leadership, and resourcing so that they can achieve greater impact.
The reason why we’re successful at what we do is because our team is a tight ship operating on values of trust, diversity and fun. The Portfolio Manager we’re looking for will be someone who shares these values and who is deeply passionate about community conservation in Madagascar. We work with cutting-edge management and leadership tools which invite us to be courageous, kind and independent thinkers who thrive in a team.
If this sounds like a work culture which suits you, have a look at our ambitious 2025 strategic plan, and send a cover letter and resume to recruitment@maliasili.org with the subject line - Portfolio Manager - Madagascar. The applications will be processed on a rolling basis, and the position will close once a suitable candidate is identified.
OPPORTUNITY: PORTFOLIO MANAGER, EAST AFRICA
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. To actualize these ambitious goals, we are looking to expand our team and are recruiting for a Portfolio Manager in Rwanda.
This position will work under Maliasili’s East Africa Director. Applicants should have strong written and oral communication skills in English and Kinyarwanda/Swahili. Maliasili is unable to sponsor work or residence permits for the successful applicant.
Candidates should send a cover letter and resume to recruitment@maliasili.org with the subject line - Portfolio Manager - Rwanda. The applications will be processed on a rolling basis, and the position will close once a suitable candidate is identified.
OPPORTUNITY: PORTFOLIO MANAGER, SOUTHERN AFRICA
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. To actualize these ambitious goals, we are looking to expand our team and are recruiting for Portfolio Associate in Southern Africa.
We are now accepting applications for a Portfolio Manager position to support community-based organizations in Southern Africa. The position will be based in mainland Southern Africa, ideally within or close to the KAZA-TFCA. This position will require approximately 30% travel within the region. This position will work under Maliasili’s Southern Africa Director. Applicants should be proficient in spoken and written English. Another language spoken in Southern Africa is an advantage. Maliasili is unable to sponsor work or residence permits for the successful applicant.
Candidates should send a cover letter and resume to recruitment@maliasili.org with the subject line - Portfolio Manager - Southern Africa.
OPPORTUNITY: PORTFOLIO ASSOCIATE, SOUTHERN AFRICA
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. To actualize these ambitious goals, we are looking to expand our team and are recruiting for Portfolio Associate in Southern Africa.
The Portfolio Associate - Southern Africa will be working under the Portfolio Manager - Southern Africa to participate in accelerating the growth of the Mozambican and Angolan Portfolios. The Associate will assist in delivering Maliasili's organizational development (OD) support to our partners. The Associate will work closely with Southern Africa Portfolio Managers to understand the functional elements that make a great organization, assist in diagnosing organizational challenges, and help design plans to implement solutions to catalyze behavior change in our partner organizations.
Candidates should send a cover letter and resume to recruitment@maliasili.org with the subject line - Portfolio Associate - Southern Africa.
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.
