Field Technician | LifeTree Bangladesh - Sundarbans

Company Name: The Earth

Location: Bagerhat, Khulna

Job Type: Contractual

Workplace Type: Full-time

Job ID: IJOB202664429

The Earth Society (TES) is a youth-centric NGO working on climate action, green skills development, sustainable entrepreneurship, and advocacy in Bangladesh. Through its programmes, TES weaves together capacity building, ecosystem restoration, and livelihood development to nurture an inclusive ecosystem of resilience and regeneration.

Project Description

LifeTree Bangladesh is a regenerative agroforestry and reforestation initiative implemented by The Earth Society, in partnership with Sundori Agro and Mother Trees, and funded by Ecosia. The project facilitates the plantation of climate-resilient trees through homestead agroforestry, live fencing, and social forestry across the coastal districts of Khulna and Bagerhat, along the ecological buffer zone of the Sundarbans — helping restore degraded landscapes, strengthen climate resilience, and build sustainable livelihoods for coastal communities.

Job Purpose

The Field Technician's main role is working directly with farmers: serving as The Earth Society's day-to-day point of contact for farmers, nursery staff, lead farmers, and community members participating in the LifeTree Bangladesh – Sundarbans project within their assigned working area.

The Field Technician is trained jointly by the Technical Specialist and their assigned Technical Officer, and in turn trains and supports farmers directly, with ongoing support and oversight from the Technical Officer. The Field Technician also supports the social forestry component under the direct guidance of the Technical Officer, who leads that component given its specialized technical requirements.

Day-to-day responsibilities include delivering hands-on training and coaching, supporting nursery and seed bank operations, conducting regular plantation monitoring and field data collection, and maintaining accurate field records.

Key Responsibilities

Farmer and Community Engagement

• Serve as the direct point of contact for farmers, lead farmers, and community members in the assigned working area, building and maintaining rapport with local leaders and communities.
• Support farmer identification, enrollment and formation of village-level groups of 25 farmers each (with at least 50% women), and orientation of participating households.
• Orient farmers and community members on the project's goals, eligibility criteria, participant selection process, and planned interventions.
• Facilitate family sessions to increase understanding of the program, the importance of agroforestry and its role in income and nutrition and ensure support of family members engaged in the program, especially women.
  
  

Requirements

• Experience: At least 2 years
• Education: bachelor of science in agriculture
• Skills: field technicians, tree planting, plant management, landscape maintenance, planting, field service engineering, fieldwork, tropical ecology, plant maintenance, project support
  
  

Last Date of Application: 19 September 2026