Technical Officer | LifeTree Bangladesh - Sundarbans

Company Name: The Earth

Location: Bagerhat, Khulna

Job Type: Contractual

Workplace Type: Full-time

Job ID: IJOB202664425

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 Technical Officer provides direct technical supervision of an assigned team of 3–4 Field Technicians and plays a hands-on technical role in implementing the project's social forestry/mangrove restoration component, given the specialized skills this component requires and the scale of the work involved.

The Technical Officer is trained and mentored by the Technical Specialist and works jointly with the Technical Specialist to train Field Technicians. The Technical Officer directly oversees social forestry implementation within their assigned area, serves as the primary reviewer of nursery, seed bank, and plantation monitoring records maintained by Field Technicians, and conducts regular spot-check monitoring in the field.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Supervision and Team Leadership

• Directly supervise, mentor, and provide day-to-day technical support to an assigned team of 3 or 4 Field Technicians and their related farmer groups (average 10 per field tech) as needed.
• Conduct regular spot-check monitoring of Field Technicians' work, including field visits, data quality checks, and troubleshooting.
• Ensure that field data collected by Field Technicians is complete, accurate, and correctly uploaded to KoboToolbox and the donor monitoring portal manner.
• Support Field Technicians' work planning and track progress against targets within the assigned area.
• Escalate technically complex issues beyond the team's scope to the Technical Specialist.
  
  

Social Forestry and Mangrove Restoration Implementation

• Directly oversee implementation of the social forestry and mangrove restoration component within the assigned area, working hands-on alongside Field Technicians and troubleshooting where needed given the specialized technical requirements of this component.
  
  

Requirements

• Experience: 3 to 4 years
• Education: bachelor of science in agroforestry
• Skills: field technicians, technical team management, site supervision, project support, field supervision, site supervision, technical services, landscape maintenance, tropical ecology, staff training
  
  

Last Date of Application: 19 September 2026