{"id":3285503,"url":"https://alion.io/job/trees-for-the-future-inc-senior-manager-data-systems","title":"Senior Manager, Data Systems","company":{"id":693393,"name":"Trees for the Future Inc","domain":"trees.org","url":"https://alion.io/company/trees-3","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Rippling","truth_index":null},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"posting_text","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":["UG"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Power BI","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"Tableau","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-26T15:02:35Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-26","last_verified_at":"2026-10-31T18:13:12Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":5,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":5},"description":"WHO WE ARE\nTrees for the Future (TREES) partners with farmers to restore their land and unlock prosperity through regenerative farming. Our vision is a future where every farmer is a thriving climate changer-building a prosperous livelihood while restoring the land and contributing to climate solutions.\nSince 1989, we’ve worked with communities to grow trees, restore landscapes, and improve livelihoods. Today, our work is farmer-led and grounded in science: farmers grow diverse trees and crops that rebuild soil health, improve food security, support biodiversity, and remove carbon from the atmosphere. By connecting farmers with markets, technology, and finance, we help turn restored land into thriving farm enterprises that strengthen rural economies.\nWe currently work alongside farming communities in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Joining our collaborative team means contributing to lasting change led by farmers, with benefits that reach far beyond the farm.\nLearn more at trees.org.\nTHE ROLE\nThe Data Systems Senior Manager is responsible for the effective day-to-day management, configuration, implementation, and continuous improvement of TREES' Salesforce environment. This is a highly hands-on role for an experienced Salesforce professional who combines strong Salesforce administration and functional expertise with excellent project management, requirements gathering, and stakeholder engagement skills.\nThe Senior Manager will work closely with the Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL), Programs, Carbon, Fundraising, and other teams to understand business needs, translate them into practical Salesforce solutions, and ensure that system improvements are implemented effectively following industry best practices and adopted by users.\nThe Senior Manager will be responsible for taking assigned system improvements from requirements through solution design, configuration, testing, user acceptance, deployment, and documentation. The role will work closely with TREES' external Salesforce development and consulting partners to coordinate technical implementation and ensure that solutions are aligned with TREES' established data model and technical standards.\nThe role requires someone who can operate comfortably between users and technical teams. You should be able to sit with a Program team member to understand a workflow problem, translate that problem into a Salesforce solution, configure the solution yourself when appropriate, work with developers when custom development is required, and ensure the final product works as intended before it reaches users.\nThe Senior Manager will initially report to the Senior Director of Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) and will transition to reporting to the Director of Data Systems once that position is filled.\nTREES is currently recruiting for the Director of Data Systems and plans to expand the Data Systems team further by hiring a Junior Salesforce Administrator in Q4 of 2027.\nThis is a hands-on role. The successful candidate should expect to spend approximately:\n50% Salesforce administration and functional system work \n25% requirements gathering, user engagement, and governance \n25% project and implementation management \nThis role must be based in Kenya, Tanzania, or Uganda. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role, existing and permanent work rights for the location of work required.\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\n1. Salesforce Administration & Continuous Improvement\nAdminister, configure, maintain, and optimize TREES’ Salesforce environment, including objects, fields, automation, validation rules, reports, dashboards, permissions, and access controls. Troubleshoot system issues, monitor system performance and data quality, and maintain accurate configuration documentation. \n2. Requirements Gathering, Solution Design & Implementation\nWork with MEL, Programs, Carbon, Fundraising, and other teams to understand operational needs, translate them into clear requirements and acceptance criteria, and develop practical Salesforce solutions aligned with TREES’ established data model and technical standards. \nManage assigned Salesforce enhancements from scoping through deployment, coordinating deliverables, timelines, dependencies, stakeholders, and external developers. Track progress, resolve implementation questions, and proactively communicate risks, delays, and outstanding actions. \nWork collaboratively with technical partners to evaluate proposed solutions, identify unnecessary complexity, and escalate significant architectural or advanced development decisions to the Director of Data Systems. \n3. Testing, Quality Assurance & Release Management\nCoordinate user acceptance testing (UAT), develop test cases, track issues through resolution, verify fixes, and obtain user sign-off. Ensure changes are appropriately tested in sandbox environments, required approvals and documentation are complete, and release readiness criteria are met before production deployment. \nDocument releases and communicate changes, user guidance, and known limitations to affected teams. \n4. Reporting, Integrations & Systems Harmonization\nDevelop and maintain accurate, user-centered Salesforce reports and dashboards that support operational and management decisions. Work with stakeholders to define reporting requirements and support TREES’ broader business intelligence and analytics strategy, including Power BI. \nSupport reliable integrations and consistent data flows between Salesforce and connected platforms, including TaroWorks, fundraising and communications tools, and BI and analytics systems. Document integration requirements, investigate synchronization and data-flow issues, coordinate resolution, and escalate complex integration and architecture decisions to the Director of Data Systems. \nSupport consistent data structures and business processes across Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and other TREES operations while accommodating legitimate country-level program differences. \n5. Data Governance, User Support & Technical Collaboration\nSupport TREES’ data governance and change-management processes for assigned work, maintaining clear records of requirements, decisions, enhancements, dependencies, and outstanding issues. Ensure system and process changes are documented and communicated clearly to affected users. \nDevelop practical user guidance and training materials, support Salesforce superusers and other key users, and use feedback and recurring support issues to improve functionality, usability, and adoption. \nWork effectively with external developers and consultants to ensure solutions address business needs and remain maintainable, while recognizing the limits of the role’s technical authority and escalating decisions appropriately. \nWHO YOU ARE\nA hands-on Salesforce professional who enjoys solving real operational problems through thoughtful system configuration. \nA strong Salesforce administrator who understands how Salesforce objects, relationships, automation, security, reporting, and data structures work together. \nA practical and entrepreneurial problem solver who can take an ambiguous business problem and turn it into a clear, implementable solution. \nA strong project manager who follows commitments through to completion and proactively communicates status, risks, and delays. \nA disciplined tester who understands that “built” does not mean “ready for production.” \nA strong communicator who can work effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues. \nA reporting and dashboard specialist who builds automated, decision-oriented Salesforce reports and dashboards and understands how to use BI platforms such as Power BI to support broader analytics needs. \nHighly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing multiple concurrent priorities. \nComfortable working across multiple countries, teams, and time zones. \nQUALIFICATIONS\nRequired\nBachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Management, Business Systems, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience. \n5-7 years of progressive Salesforce administration and data systems experience, with demonstrated ability to independently configure Salesforce, including objects, fields, flows, validation rules, reports, dashboards, permissions, and related functionality. \nSalesforce Administrator certification (ADM 201) or equivalent demonstrated expertise. \nExperience gathering business requirements, analyzing operational needs, and translating them into practical Salesforce solutions, including automated reports and dashboards that support decision-making. \nDemonstrated project or implementation management experience, including coordinating deliverables, timelines, dependencies, and stakeholders to ensure work is completed as agreed. \nExperience coordinating user acceptance testing, resolving issues, and managing controlled system releases, with a strong commitment to quality assurance and system reliability. \nExperience working with external developers, consultants, or technical implementation partners, as well as familiarity with data governance, change management, and integrations between Salesforce and other systems. \nExperience with Power BI, Tableau, or comparable advanced visualization platforms. \nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, strong organizational and analytical abilities, attention to detail, and demonstrated follow-through. \nPreferred\nAdvanced Salesforce certifications (ADM 211, Platform App Builder, or others). \nExperience with Salesforce NPSP (Nonprofit Success Pack). \nExperience with TaroWorks or other mobile data collection platforms (ex: CommCare, ODK, KoboToolbox). \nTechnical skills in APIs, SQL, Python, or other data analysis/integration tools. \nFamiliarity with online communications and fundraising applications (e.g. HubSpot, Fundraise Up, Wealth Engine) \nProfessional experience working within international development, climate, agriculture, or social impact organizations, with familiarity navigating programmatic and donor-driven data environments. \nExperience in supporting monitoring and evaluation frameworks and impact measurement in nonprofit or international development settings. \nWORK ENVIRONMENT AND BENEFITS\nTREES is an International Organization that strives to be the best home for staff wanting to make an impact on the farmers we serve. We believe that the diversity of our staff contributes to excellence. TREES values collaboration and teamwork that fosters increased engagement and innovation for professional growth.\nWe offer a multicultural, collegial work environment with a competitive salary, comprehensive medical insurance, workers' compensation, and substantial paid time off, including annual leave and sick leave.\nAPPLY\nIf this opportunity speaks to you, please apply with 1) a cover letter that explains why TREES’ work excites you and why this role is a fit for you, and 2) your resume. Ensure both documents are shared as PDF documents. Please apply no later than December 1, 2026. We review applications on a rolling basis.\nTrees for the Future is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information, or other characteristics or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. \nWe embrace and value diverse skill sets and backgrounds. We are a community of leaders who are proud to represent many different national, racial, ethnic, socio-economic, religious, gender, and other identities. 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