Project Manager managing flagship mangrove partnerships, overseeing restoration operations and drone program at veritree, a climate tech startup. Collaborating on field data and ensuring project success across East Africa.
Responsibilities
Own the end-to-end relationship with our flagship East Africa mangrove partner — running monthly business reviews, triaging field issues, ensuring monitoring and data collection is on track, and following through consistently so the partner experiences veritree as organized, transparent, and dependable.
Establish veritree's drone program on a sound technical footing and provide an evidence-based assessment of ecosystem health.
Finish, document, and stabilize the core mangrove SOP set (planting session, survivability, seed germination, monitoring) and make them portable enough to roll out across other mangrove projects.
Run our largest mangrove planting partner relationship end-to-end as the primary point of contact, across current operations in Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique and planned expansion into new countries.
Travel to East Africa up to three times a year to meet with our planting partner, foster healthy business relationships, evaluate new opportunities, and audit planting sites. Each trip is typically one to two weeks.
Support an additional one to two partnerships, applying the same standards and processes across them.
Own and run all recurring partner meetings, including monthly business reviews: setting agendas, driving decisions, and owning follow-through.
Keep the partner's planting, verification, and survival data accurate and current: owning data hygiene and quality checks on data flowing into our system.
Track trees from planting through verification, and make sure monitoring tasks (survival checks at defined intervals) are created, scheduled, and completed.
Manage the outstanding monitoring backlog with a prioritized, batched plan, and provide regular status updates on progress against targets.
Create, refine, and audit the SOPs that define what we expect of mangrove projects: from planting sessions and evidence requirements to survivability and monitoring.
Write SOPs at a level general enough to adapt across geographies, species, and partner capacity, so they can be standardized across all mangrove projects.
Own the drone program at veritree: writing SOPs, owning budgets, coordinating flights, overseeing image capture, and processing imagery into usable outputs.
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in forestry, remote sensing, geospatial science, environmental science, or a related discipline (advanced degree a plus)
Experience in forest or ecosystem restoration monitoring, ideally including mangroves and/or work in East Africa.
Hands-on experience with remote sensing and drone (UAV) imagery: flight planning, image processing, and analysis.
Demonstrated project management experience, including managing external partners and delivering on timelines.
Strong data literacy: comfortable interrogating field and imagery data.
Ability to travel internationally (10-15% of time).
Experience building or standardizing monitoring SOPs across multiple projects or geographies.
Benefits
Competitive salary with a performance-driven framework that ensures fair and consistent compensation reviews, tied to individual impact and business growth
Extended health, dental, and vision benefits
Additional Health Spending Account (HSA) / Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA) to support your well-being and lifestyle interests
A variety of time-off programs, including vacation, personal days, and a 4-week remote work program each year
Employee discount with tentree, our sister company
A flexible, hybrid work environment designed for collaboration and focus-driven impact
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