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The Rainforest Alliance is a growing network of people who are inspired and committed to working together to achieve our mission of conserving biodiversity and ensuring sustainable livelihoods. Through creative, pragmatic collaboration, we aim to rebalance the planet by building strong forests and healthy communities around the world.
Position summary:
The Global Programs department will serve as a major programmatic resource hub to guide and support Rainforest Alliance’s implementation of its strategy through global initiatives, 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.
The Director, Livelihoods and Human Rights oversees the Livelihoods and Human Rights unit within the Global Programs department. The Director activates the full potential of Rainforest Alliance’s livelihoods and human rights programs, in line with the organization’s goals of people having improved economic well-being and respect for people’s fundamental labor and human rights. The Director leads the strategic positioning and further development of these programmatic expertise areas, steers communication with external stakeholders, engages in alliances, and ensures a consistent, comprehensive programmatic expertise portfolio.
The Director will supervise a multi-disciplinary, international team of strategic leaders in the field of human rights and social science, gender, youth inclusion and supply chain and farm economics. The Director will ensure effective collaboration and coordination across Rainforest Alliance departments with regards to global, and selected regional programs.
As a leader, the Director will be committed to providing clear direction and to support the teams in driving impact. As we move forward into a more agile Rainforest Alliance, our leaders will be at the forefront of innovating what and how we make that impact as well as how we support our people to grow whilst doing so.
Everything we do focuses on what serves our producers and achieving our mission, and our leaders develop teams who work across and beyond organizational boundaries to deliver excellence to our producers. By defining clear priorities and enabling creative viable solutions to complex problems through robust yet flexible decision-making processes, the Director will contribute to a data-driven and conscientious culture.
Identifying critical cross-departmental and external alliance growth opportunities as well as having the expertise and communication style to positively influence these successful collaborations is key to the success of this role.
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