Rainforest Alliance
Job title:
Supply Chain Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist
Company
Rainforest Alliance
Job description
The Global Programs department serves as a major programmatic resource hub to guide and support the Rainforest Alliance’s implementation of its strategy through global programs, regional projects, and partnerships, as well as to draw on for developing external engagements with companies, consumers, donors, and other stakeholders. The department facilitates and ensures consistent programmatic design that brings together the range of programs required to achieve impact and delivers its services in a synergistic and coordinated manner.
As part of the Global Programs department, the Monitoring, Evaluation, Research & Learning (MERL) unit leads the methodology and processes to ensure systematic measurement of the Rainforest Alliances’ impact, ensuring strategic alignment to the organizations’ strategy and continuous learning. The Unit also lead on large-scale global M&E projects in collaboration with our local country teams.
Position summary:The Rainforest Alliance has recently embarked on the new phase of a global M&E project focusing on the coffee sector, with one of our long-term strategic private sector partners. This project will work to accelerate our partners regenerative transition and support producers within their coffee supply chain to become more efficient, resilient and prosperous, at scale. This will include in-depth, science backed impact monitoring and evaluation for adaptive management across over 15 countries. By elevating the current M&E system to excel in operational execution, breath and speed, and by providing actionable data-driven insights on interventions and their impact we will support our partner in accelerating progress of their regenerative transitions, achieve sustainability targets and steer further investments.
As a result we are looking for a thought leader in supply chains M&E, who brings a wealth of strategic thinking as well as technical and scientific expertise to lead all aspects of the implementation of the project. Working closely with our project partner, the Senior Supply Chain M&E Specialist will ensure robust M&E system design and innovation, streamlining and standardizing for scale, and will provide in-depth analytics and upgrades to existing reporting.
This role will be reporting to the Supply Chain and Project M&E Senior Manager and will work closely with the project team within MERL, and other Rainforest Alliance departments, along with staff in the countries of implementation.
The ideal candidate comes with extensive M&E experience within agriculture production systems, is a self-motivated strategic thinker, results oriented, with meticulous attention to detail, and is passionate about sustainability issues.
Responsibilities:
Engage with our private sector partner and their country and expert teams, in coordination with the local RA Country Director, to ensure optimal alignment and delivery of the project;
In collaboration with the Senior Manager, Supply Chain & Project M&E lead the coordination and preparation of workplans, project reports, and adaptive management sessions;
Review our partners’ M&E systems and related Theory of Change (TOC) and plans, working with their teams to ensure alignment of TOC with the project goals and sustainability strategic objectives;
Lead the process of designing and scaling-up streamlined, standardized M&E systems for our partner that will propel and accelerate impact at farm level at scale, helping our partner tack on the triple climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution crisis and drive farmers resilience;
Establish and promote quality control processes to ensure high-quality and integrity of the M&E deliverables submitted to our partner
Design and lead a learning approach informing future years data collection, analysis and overall M&E reporting;
Make recommendations on innovation opportunities (e.g. tech integration, mobile solutions, remote sensing/satellite technology, outcome harvesting, global standardization, human-centred design, gender-responsive M&E, others as applicable);
Develop in-depth M&E analytics (cause-effect, interdependencies, attribution, contextualization, visualization, correlations);
Identify M&E service opportunities, lead the development of the technical proposal and budgets for next phases of the project, and negotiate service agreements with our partner;
Work collaboratively with all project team members within MERL and throughout the organization to ensure satisfactory delivery of services and execution of the project;
Other duties, as assigned.
Qualifications:
Advanced degree, or equivalent in a natural science, economics, business administration, or related field;
Extensive experience in monitoring & evaluation, ideally applied to commodity supply chains and sustainability;
Proven experience (5 years’) in project management with multiple stakeholder, ideally focusing on commodity supply chains and sustainability;
Experience in organization wide planning and performance measurement through the Theory of Change approach and SMART metrics;
Experience in designing innovative data collection and analysis tools, data management and data quality assurance;
Good understanding of the coffee sector;
Experience in building and maintaining excellent relations with companies and other stakeholders;
Knowledge of ESG reporting frameworks for corporates;
Experience in leading all aspects of internal and external impact study design and implementation to inform learning and continuous improvement;
Being a thought leader and a strategic thinker on planning, performance measurement, impact assessment and learning for continuous improvement;
Knowledge of certification systems and due diligence for sustainability highly desirable.
Job level: 2A
Deadline: 14 March 2024
Notes: Only candidates authorized to work in the Netherlands or the UK will be considered.
If you have any questions about the job vacancy, please contact the HR department:
WHO WE ARE:The Rainforest Alliance is creating a more sustainable world by using social and market forces to protect nature and improve the lives of farmers and forest communities. To achieve our mission, we partner with diverse allies around the world to drive positive change across global supply chains and in many of our most critically important natural landscapes.
Our alliance spans 70 countries and includes farmers and forest communities, companies, governments, civil society, and millions of individuals. Together we work to protect forests and biodiversity, take action on climate, and promote the rights and improve the livelihoods of rural people.
As an international nonprofit organization with more than 30 years of experience in sustainability transformation, we understand that the social and economic well-being of rural communities is tightly connected to ecosystem health. This knowledge has shaped our rigorous programs to advance sustainable land-use and commodity production.
At the Rainforest Alliance we combat climate change, protect forests and biodiversity, promote human rights, and improve livelihoods. The enormity of the social and environmental challenges we are facing requires working together in a broad alliance. This is why we bring farmers, forest communities, companies, and consumers together to change the way the world produces, sources, and consumes.
WhyTo protect nature and improve lives it’s becoming increasingly urgent that we approach the way we use our land and produce food and other products in more sustainable ways. For this to succeed we need to fundamentally change the way that businesses operate and source, and the choices we all make as consumers.
HowOur growing global alliance aims to transform our relationship with our natural resources and each other, to create a better future for people and nature together.
The Rainforest Alliance encourages diversity and inclusion across the global organization. With this commitment to diversity, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ages, disability, and any other protected group.
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Thu, 29 Feb 2024 06:22:38 GMT
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