Senior Associate, Business Intelligence at Rainforest Alliance

Position summary:

At the Rainforest Alliance we are looking for a collaborative and results oriented Senior Associate, Business Intelligence to join the Design, Monitoring, Evaluation, Research & Learning (DMERL) team. This position is responsible for working across different functions to align RA and stakeholder use cases with the design and delivery of business intelligence tasks and products through high-quality analysis, visualization and customized storytelling and reporting, with emphasis on the transformation of monitoring data collected through RA’s certification program and Landscapes and Communities (L&C) portfolio. The position will also work closely with RA’s Data Excellence team to identify the right tooling, systems and IT support to create impactful business intelligence products.

Responsibilities:

• The Rainforest Alliance’s Core Values are Impact, Change, Collaboration, Openness and Trust and as such they form the basis of the behaviours we demonstrate;
• Support DMERL’s Senior Manager for Business Intelligence to design RA’s Business Intelligence vision and ensure RA’s business intelligence needs and priorities are adequately reflected and planned for through organizational strategic and annual planning; 
• Coordinate closely with RA’s Regions, Markets Transformation, Markets Excellence and Advocacy & Themes to customize business intelligence products that are aligned with the sector, geographic and thematic stakeholder use cases;
• Coordinate closely with relevant departments to build business intelligence reports on project and certification insights to support value propositions, proposals and communication/marketing products; 
• Coordinate closely with DMERL’s strategic planning and evaluation and learning teams to customize and create business intelligence products that support RA’s evaluation and learning agenda and strategic prioritization and planning processes;
• Support RA internal tasks by designing business intelligence platforms and dashboards that link origin and supply chain insights to the management and reporting needs of key partners;
• Coordinate closely with RA’s Data Excellence team to align stakeholder business intelligence outputs with RA’s data management, governance and security policies and procedures, and support ingesting of relevant data into the DAP and in explaining the business context to build the right data model;
• Identify external data sources to contextualize RA data and create deeper business intelligence insights, and work with Data Excellence to integrate new data sources into RA’s underlying data architecture; and
• Other duties, as assigned. 

 Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in data science, earth science, international development, supply chain management or related field; or equivalent professional qualification or work experience;
• At least 5 years of progressively responsible work experience in economic development, sustainability, or agricultural supply chain management with a focus on business intelligence and reporting preferable;
• Knowledge of agricultural supply chains, information management, business intelligence, data analysis and visualization;
• Working knowledge of sustainability issues in the coffee, tea, palm oil and/or cocoa sector, as well as Certification Standards;
• Ability to work independently, find innovative solutions to problems or challenges, and creatively tell compelling stories using data.  
• Advanced skills in MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, knowledge of statistics combined with basic GIS and proficiency using data visualization tools such as Tableau and Power BI; Report automation (using Macros Excel VBA, R, or Python) is a plus.
• Having experience working with data quality monitoring, data consolidation, and both qualitative and quantitative data analysis
• Knowledge of, and commitment to environmental issues and sustainability practices; and
• Fluent in English is necessary.

Closing date: 22 April 2022