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;

Proactively lead and support the organization in achieving its 2030 Strategy with respect to climate issues, promoting speed, scale and simplification in design, implementation and impact creation;

Complete organization and effective operating of the Climate unit, in close collaboration with the Sr Director Global Programs and team members;

Promote Rainforest Alliance’s climate impact to stakeholders and partners in a compelling way that resonates with their interests, activating its full potential, and supporting the organizations’ fundraising efforts;

Represent Rainforest Alliance at key events, presentations, policy forums and roundtables;

Maintain a continuous assessment and solid management of Rainforest Alliance’s climate work, ensuring the unit provides thought leadership, programmatic expertise into proposal development and select program implementation, input on the requirements for tech and data platforms, and interpretation of dashboards;

Ensure consistency, coordination, accountability, and continuous learning between expertise areas, overseeing Rainforest Alliance’s interests as a whole, rather than from a single programmatic expertise area only;

Ensure seamless, effective and service oriented processes for collaboration cross functionally;

Guide program design and implementation using research, learnings, impact data, and qualitative feedback to make data driven decisions;

Cultivate a culture of positive and proactive collaboration, engaging widely and inclusively across the organization, clearly demonstrating having taken broad perspectives into consideration, and embed continuous learning and simplification into all aspects of programmatic work;

Ensure an effective embedding of a producer centric approach in all climate work;

Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies applicable laws and corporate behavioural framework- responsibilities include hiring; mentoring and evaluating; guiding professional development opportunities; and addressing employee relations issues; and;

Other duties, as assigned.

Qualifications: 

Master’s degree in Climate Change, Natural Resource Management, Environmental policy, or Sustainability related field AND a minimum of 8 years work experience in climate change or corporate sustainability;

Strong knowledge of the SBTi guidance and standards, GHG Protocol, and climate regulatory reporting frameworks (such as the EU’s CSRD and CSDDD, EUDR, Canadian laws, UK laws and California’s laws), especially guidance for forest and land sectors;

Experience or familiarity with carbon markets, credits and offsets;

Knowledge and experience with GHG accounting methodologies for the agricultural and forest sectors;

Experience developing joint workstreams with or working within agribusiness companies on climate mitigation and adaptation;

Experience applying the climate mitigation standards and guidance (desired);

Knowledge and understanding of climate finance as well as international and national climate policy in the agriculture, forestry, and land sector;

Experience in the coffee, tea, or cocoa sectors (desired);

Communication Skills: Excellent English writing, editing and verbal communication skills; foreign language proficiency preferred (Spanish, French, Portuguese);

General: Strong organizational skills to manage multiple priorities in a time-sensitive manner; strong attention to detail; quick to learn and adapt in fast-paced settings.