Job Vacancies at Rainforest Alliance

Position summary:

The Farm and Supply Chain Economics Manager will play a pivotal role in ensuring our impact area “People have improved economic wellbeing" will become a reality, by supporting our organization’s strategic development and implementation of workers’ living wage and households’ livelihoods, in close coordination with the Lead, Farm & Supply Chain Economics and the wider team. 

As a member of the Livelihoods and Human Rights team, the Farm & Supply Chain Economics Manager will be key to providing support to Rainforest Alliance’s living wage work as well as key livelihoods economics issues. 

Responsibilities:

• Gather, manage, and share knowledge, information and resources on living wage and livelihoods economics topics with internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage living wage and livelihoods economics projects, including monitoring of deliverables, being first point of contact and maintaining relationships.  
• Support Livelihoods and Human Rights colleagues in developing the thematic vision and intersection with other themes and incorporating this vision into strategic interventions. 
• Provide technical expertise and economic analysis related to the certification program and donor- and company- funded projects on living wage and livelihoods economic issues.
• Support the implementation of the Rainforest Alliance certification program, related tools, and guidance.
• Provide ad hoc support to the work of the Livelihood team as required.

As a specialist working alongside others in RA, the holder of the position of Farm & Supply Chain Economics Manager is expected to:   

• Prioritize strategically and keep an agile approach; ensuring templates, white papers and example proposals are available to source from. 
• Lead all aspects of RA’s interest, rather than from their programmatic expertise area only; thus, work as an integrated team so that programs and projects are strengthened through deep and current subject knowledge and inclusion of all subjects appropriate to the opportunity and purpose.
• Ensure seamless, effective, and service oriented processes for collaboration cross-functionally.
• Collaborate closely with Corporate Engagement and Partnerships, Data and Tech, Growth and Innovation, the regional departments and others as needed to achieve integrated Standards & Frameworks and Thriving Landscape offerings and support account management.
• Ensure that the data and dashboards coming out of the Data and Technology portfolio is applied to enhance programming.
• Ensure use of the data from the Producer Centricity programs such as the Community Listening Program.
• Ensure clear RACIs are in place and respected; and Go-No-Go and Where-We-Work protocols are respected and implemented. 
• Ensure organization wide learning on the programmatic expertise areas is effective. 

The position holder will be expected to cultivate teamwork and support the team in driving impact. By defining clear priorities and enabling creative viable solutions to complex problems through robust yet flexible decision-making processes, the position holder will contribute to a data-driven and conscientious culture. 

Qualifications: 

• First degree in Economics, Business, Natural Resource Management, Environmental Science or related studies, and master’s degree in Agricultural Economics or MBA.
• Minimum 5 years professional (and field) experience in agricultural economics related work, preferably with experience in the global south.
• Experience in supply chain economics, and particularly Living Wage.
• Knowledge of certification programs in the context of living wage, livelihoods and sustainability practices.
• Experience in the sustainable production of at least one of Rainforest Alliance focus crops (cocoa, coffee, tea, banana) would be preferable.
• Experience in fundraising, including the design of complex proposals and projects, with bilateral or multilateral donor agencies and company partnerships.
• Fluency in English, both verbal and written. Additional languages in particular Spanish and/or French are an asset.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 25% of the time.

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Position summary:

The Technology department is responsible for the Development, Realization and Implementation of the  strategic Digital Product Roadmap for Rainforest Alliance (including all supporting Technology processes), for all Global Business Initiatives and Assurance programs. “Information Office’’ is one of the four teams under Technology Department.

It’s responsible for planning and leading implementation of leading technology ecosystem that will enable achievement of the 2030 strategy. Ensure alignment of technology investment and initiatives with the business goals, requirements and expectations and ensure optimal utilization of investments in technology and delivery of services by the technology vendors across the organization.

Within the Information Office is the role, Senior Associate, Technology Investment and Vendor Management. This role is responsible for ensuring investment in technology is driven by realistic business case/benefit and vendors engaged to provide technology services and tools are delivering value to RA. You will be expected to work closely with the legal and compliance teams to ensure that technology related contracts are completed as per RA’s policies and procedures. You will be expected to support the entire data and technology function on sourcing of services, solution vendors, suppliers of equipment and consultants. You will also be responsible for review and approval of technology related invoices before forwarding to finance for processing.

Responsibilities: 

• Develop and lead adoption of best practices in technology vendors/suppliers management at Rainforest Alliance
• Participate on contract discussions for technology vendors.
• Lead supplier relationships through the whole lifecycle and actively monitor suppliers’ performances
• Builds strong relationships with suppliers, particularly the strategic suppliers across the organisation to meet requirements of the sourcing strategy
• Ensures fulfilment of results / commitments as per the contract
• Responsible for vendor financial management, including invoice management and supporting budgeting, reconciliation, etc
• Creates and leads a supplier risk approach throughout the whole supplier lifecycle at both individual supplier and supplier portfolio levels
• Ensure every vendor contract is accompanied by relevant Key Performance Indicators and vendors are evaluated against those Key Performance Indicators during contract execution and at the end
• Defines the scope and level of service via Master Service Agreement (MSA) or individual agreement with vendors
• Maintain the relationship with internal legal experts and Compliance
• Monitor and control of contractual changes post-award contract in a measured and transparent way to build trust between parties. Analysis of operational and financial impact of changes.
• Track and handle contractual deliverables (i.e. supplier responsibilities) and obligations (i.e. technology org.’s responsibilities)
• Follow change control procedures for all amendments to contracts and Terms and Conditions
• Conducts regular compliance reviews of contracts
• Lead selection of vendors working with the rest of managers in Data and Technology
• Day-to-day management of suppliers and interaction with prospective vendors
• Maintain close links with the Procurement, Legal, Compliance, Third Party Risk functions
• Management of vendor issues from identification and analysis through to execution. Dispute management is performed when required through defined escalation channels and appropriate governance forums

Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in technology or business field such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Business Administration/Commerce/Finance, etc
• At least 5 years experience in technology related services/equipment/solutions, vendor environments
• Experience in contract management processes
• Experience in contract negotiations
• Qualification/knowledge/experience in leading systems development frameworks such as PMP, Agile, Scrum, etc
• Experience in business process analysis and modeling
• Experience in risk management processes
• Experience in software licenses management (reviewing compliance, usage optimization, etc)
• Knowledge/experience in costs management
• Demonstrate ability to think strategically and identify opportunities for improvement