Innovation Manager at IDH, The Sustainable Trade Initiative

The role

• In this position, you will directly support the Senior Innovation Manager as well as work with colleagues in different Business Units that are focusing on interventions to improve living wage and working conditions for workers. You will help to document learnings and create tools and solutions to help unlock cross-sector challenges related to this impact area. As an Innovation Manager, you work on content and operational tasks around the topic of better jobs, and you support your colleagues in implementing this agenda.

In sum, your role includes:

• The development of tools & solutions on Better Jobs;
• Support documentation of learnings;
• Work on building of tools to disseminate knowledge and learnings;
• Maintain an overview of tools, database;
• Innovate new tools and solutions, analysis and insights.

Support the development of IDH thought leadership on Better Jobs:

• Work with the Senior Innovation Manager on learning activities, learning sessions and publications;
• Support the Senior Innovation Manager in developing and showcasing publications and knowledge products.
• Support the team with coordination and alignment of other Business Units on Better Jobs.

Who you are

• You are a great team player with a good systems-level understanding of supply chains, human rights and global labour rights topics as well as how these topics are addressed by the private sector. Therefore, experience working with labour rights organizations, workers, or unions is highly beneficial. Experience in collaborating with people from different cultural backgrounds and levels of seniority is necessary. You are a strong data-driven and conceptual thinker who can see large projects through from beginning to end. You can excel in a fast-changing environment and are a proactive, result-oriented and self-organized person.

What you bring

• 5-7 years of relevant experience with global Human rights (living wage, social dialogue, working conditions);
• Working and thinking at Master’s degree level; Social Sciences, International Business, International Law, Human Rights);
• Relevant knowledge of global frameworks such as the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct;
• Experience in tackling social issues across supply chains from the private sector perspective;
• Experience in leading and conducting research and managing consultants;
• Experience in knowledge management and capacity building;
• Proven track record in collaboration in cross organizational self-steering teams;
• Strong communication capabilities at multiple levels (corporate, academic, public sector);
• Strong written and visual communication skills;
• Affinity to work with data; using evidence and data for decision making;
• Fluent in English and preferably a second world language.