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The Rainforest Alliance is creating a more sustainable world by using social and market forces to protect nature and improve the lives of farmers and forest communities. To achieve our mission, we partner with diverse allies around the world to drive positive change across global supply chains and in many of our most critically important natural landscapes.


Our alliance spans 70 countries and includes farmers and forest communities, companies, governments, civil society, and millions of individuals. Together we work to protect forests and biodiversity, take action on climate, promote the rights and improve the livelihoods of rural people.


As an international nonprofit organization with more than 30 years of experience in sustainability transformation, we understand that the social and economic well-being of rural communities is tightly connected to ecosystem health. This knowledge has shaped our rigorous programs to advance sustainable land-use and commodity production.


At the Rainforest Alliance, we combat climate change, protect forests and biodiversity, promote human rights, and improve livelihoods. The enormity of the social and environmental challenges we are facing requires working together in a broad alliance. This is why we bring farmers, forest communities, companies, and consumers together to change the way the world produces, sources, and consumes.


Why


To protect nature and improve lives it’s becoming increasingly urgent that we approach the way we use our land and produce food and other products in more sustainable ways. For this to succeed we need to fundamentally change the way that businesses operate and source, and the choices we all make as consumers.


How


Our growing global alliance aims to transform our relationship with our natural resources and each other, to create a better future for people and nature together.


The Rainforest Alliance encourages diversity and inclusion across the global organization. With this commitment to diversity, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ages, disability and any other protected group.


Position summary:


At the Rainforest Alliance, we are looking for a collaborative and results-oriented Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Officer to strengthen our team in providing spatial analytics and geo-oriented support for MEL tools and ME frameworks. It also includes supporting Senior GIS officers and managers with the development of a wide range of geo-data-oriented products, services and analyses for internal and external stakeholders. Additionally, GIS officer will support the BI team in the update and streamline relevant geo-data quality and processes in the geodata ecosystem, and will support the Forest team with field project portfolio monitoring.


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;

  • Validate and analyse GIS data to produce dashboards, (web)maps, etc. for internal projects and initiatives (ICFM, FarmGrow, etc.)

  • Support the targeting, design, monitoring and reporting of RA’s projects and programs with spatial analytics, geodata collection and visualizations

  • Support the Forest program in showing its contribution to nature and biodiversity through monitoring implementation support and data analysis

  • Assist the sector leads in providing analytics/information to internal and external stakeholders;

  • Support GIS data and process owners/stewards to ensure data are well-versioned and documented in the system;

  • Contribute to drafting, updating, and distributing geodata-oriented information, and materials; and

  • Contribute to disseminating good use of GIS resources and best practices and actively participate in RA’s GIS Community of Practice.


Qualifications:

  • Minimum 2 years of experience in a functional area (volunteer and intern work considered) or master’s degree with 1 year of experience;

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in degree/ professional qualification in forest conservation, biodiversity, land-water management, agriculture, or related field;

  • Ability to organise and manage data and good knowledge of Excel. Work experience in (geo)data management/processes is required;

  • Ability to understand and analyse data in various formats, aggregate information and report on trends and findings;

  • Knowledge of the ESRI platform and a remote sensing background;

  • Knowledge of programming language (Python, R), or Google Earth engine is a plus;

  • Knowledge of Certification Programmes (UTZ/RA) and /or any of our supply chains is a plus i.e., coffee, tea, cocoa or bananas is a plus;

  • Knowledge of MEL tools implementation or affinity with ME frameworks is a plus;

  • Fluent in English is necessary. Working knowledge of French, Bahasa Indonesia, Portuguese or Spanish is a plus;

  • Ability to work in a cross-functional, multi-cultural team with members in different parts of the world;

  • Strong personal ethics and integrity and commitment to upholding the rules and values of the Rainforest Alliance.


Salary:

Commensurate with experience.


Deadline: October 26, 2022


Notes:

Only candidates authorized to work in the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium will be considered


If you have any questions about the job vacancy, please contact the HR department: recruitment@ra.org