Vacancies at Rainforest Alliance

Position summary:

• At Rainforest Alliance, we believe in the value of data. The Data Management and Intelligence department is paving the way for enabling data-based decisions by focusing on the delivery of scale-able data products to the market, supporting internal decision-making by unlocking the value of data, and creating a solid data foundation on which we can continue to build out our data offering.
• The Data Ethics & Sharing officer reporting into the senior Manager, Data Management will develop data sharing and ethics approaches organizationally.

Responsibilities:

• Optimize, maintain, and oversee the organization’s data sharing and ethics policy, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, compliance standards, and evolving best practices.
• Collaborate with Legal, Subject Matter Experts, and other key stakeholders to ensure adherence to and integration of the principles defined in the policy across all data-related activities.
• Evaluate the ethical implications of proposed data science and AI initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational values, legal standards (e.g., GDPR, DPA), and frameworks for responsible data use.
• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of relevant legislation and emerging standards to ensure compliance and proactively address potential risks in data management practices.
• Provide expert guidance on ethical considerations for data projects, leveraging existing ethics frameworks to support stakeholders in making responsible, informed decisions.
• Facilitate collaboration and build consensus among diverse teams and external stakeholders, ensuring ethical data practices across shared initiatives.
• Apply social science theories and critical analysis to provide strategic oversight of data projects, policies, and products, challenging assumptions to enhance their impact and robustness.
• Develop and deliver training programs for employees and stakeholders, empowering them to address data ethics and sharing concerns confidently and effectively.

Qualifications: 

• A professional degree in fields such as Computer Science, Statistics, Information Systems, or a related discipline, with extensive knowledge of data sharing principles, ethical data use, and compliance frameworks.
• Proven ability to lead and facilitate discussions among diverse stakeholders, including management, to shape and implement strategies for ethical and transparent data management practices across the organization.
• 3–5 years of demonstrated experience in data reporting, analysis, and ethical oversight of data usage, ensuring adherence to relevant legal and organizational guidelines.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills in English, with the ability to engage effectively in multi-cultural settings and communicate complex ethical considerations at all organizational levels.
• Experience in supply chain traceability systems or similar data ecosystems (3–5 years preferred), ensuring ethical data handling throughout the supply chain.
• Advanced Excel skills for data manipulation and analysis, with a strong emphasis on ensuring data integrity and compliance with ethical standards.

The candidate should be able to:

• Effectively manage and navigate consequential or complex risks, ensuring informed decision-making and appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Lead and guide others in making sound design decisions, fostering collaboration and alignment with organizational goals and ethical principles.
• Apply varied risk assessment methodologies, tailoring the approach to the scale and nature of the risks involved.

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POSITION SUMMARY:

We are seeking a dynamic Corporate Services Manager to lead LandScale’s development of corporate services to unlock private sector engagement in landscapes. You will lead on the scoping of LandScale services to support compliance-ready corporate disclosures and claims in relation to landscape investment and support. You will also lead the development and implementation of the LandScale-Approved Service Provider (LASP) model and network to build independent assessment capacity necessary for robust claims. You are an excellent project manager, good networker, a strategic thinker, and a well-organized self-starter with a “can do” attitude and agility to work across multiple projects.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Corporate Services Manager, LandScale will be responsible for the following duties:

• Leading a cross-organizational matrix team to draw from internal expertise on assurance and other technical areas, develop and implement a strategy for strengthening assurance across LandScale’s services to unlock private sector market adoption by meeting the assurance needs of key prospective corporate and investor landscape supporters.
• Lead the development and implementation of LandScale corporate services that support compliant-ready disclosures and claims, to help unlock corporate support into landscapes. Working closely with the LandScale Technical Manager, this will include leading the scoping and operationalisation of LandScale’s Claims service.
• Lead the development and implementation of the LandScale-Approved Service Provider (LASP) model and network. Work with the LandScale Operations Manager and Technical Manager in the model design, internal management procedures and training. Work with the LandScale Business Development & Innovation Manager to build a network of approved services providers.
• Lead the scoping of potential LandScale services for investors, to help unlock inward investment into landscapes.
• Monitor relevant standards and frameworks to ensure alignment with assurance requirements for disclosures, claims, and potential investment services.
• Lead internal matrix teams and external consultants as needed.
• Represent LandScale in relevant partnerships, working groups and at external events.
• Support the LandScale team in other areas as appropriate in the delivery of its strategy to achieve its mission.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in forestry, agriculture, natural resources, environmental management, international development, economics, social sciences, or a related field.
• At least seven years of progressively responsible professional experience.
• Experience working with or within agribusiness or finance companies to advance sustainable sourcing and/or investment decisions.
• Experience working with multi-stakeholder initiatives or landscape partnerships.
• Experience working with sustainability certification and verification standards.
• Strong understanding of sustainability and ESG regulatory frameworks, disclosures and target-setting initiatives.
• Proven track record of taking projects from inception to delivery.
• Experience in movement-building for sustainability change or outcomes.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
• Proficiency in Spanish, French, Portuguese or Bahasa Indonesia is a plus.
• Positive and professional approach to collaboration, including strong facilitation and negotiation skills.
• Cultural awareness and the ability to work well with stakeholders and partners from diverse backgrounds.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 10% of the time, both nationally and internationally.