Vacancy title:
Director of Clean Cooking & Biochar Program

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources, Category: Restaurant & Hospitality]

Jobs at:
Umoja Greenlands

Deadline of this Job:
Monday, June 30 2025

Duty Station:
Uganda | Kampala | Uganda

Summary
Date Posted: Monday, June 23 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

The Clean Cooking & Biochar Program aims to drastically reduce the health, environmental, and climate harms of traditional open-fire cooking. We offer simple, research-based stove upgrades—like insulated rock beds, biochar grates, and improved combustion designs—that reduce wood consumption, lower indoor air pollution, and produce biochar for regenerative farming.

Through local trainings and partnerships with churches, cooperatives, and schools, we are turning cooking fires into catalysts for ecological restoration and women’s empowerment.

Role Overview: What You’ll Do

As the Voluntary Director of this program, you will:

• Coordinate Volunteers: Support local trainers, documenters, and stove builders across multiple villages.
• Strengthen Partnerships: Collaborate with community groups and aligned organizations (e.g., CarbonFace, MCFA) to co-develop solutions.
• Guide Learning & Impact: Oversee collection of basic data (fuel savings, soil enrichment, health reports), and contribute to storytelling and reporting.
• Advance Regenerative Strategy: Explore ways biochar can support tree planting, climate adaptation, and land repair efforts across the region.
• Contribute to Funding & Scaling: Help write small grants and design expansion pathways rooted in community leadership.

Who You Are

• Experienced (or passionate) about clean cooking, ecological restoration, or appropriate technology in rural settings.
• Skilled at team coordination, with a collaborative and empowering approach.
• Grounded in non-anthropocentric, inclusive ethics and eager to advance plant-based, justice-oriented systems.
• Comfortable with light monitoring and evaluation tools (or willing to learn).
• Inspired by grassroots resilience and South–South collaboration.

Why Join Umoja Greenlands

• Real Impact: This work protects forests, reduces toxic smoke exposure, empowers women, and enriches soils.
• Collaborative Culture: Work within a self-organizing, value-aligned team of changemakers.
• Flexible Role: Set your own hours and contribute remotely, with occasional field involvement if desired.
• Grow a Movement: Help scale a replicable, community-rooted solution across East Africa.

Time Commitment

5–8 hours/week, with flexibility and emphasis on coordination, storytelling, and strategic development.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 12

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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