Senior Officer Climate Mitigation
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, and 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:
The climate mitigation senior officer will be responsible for implementing and developing the organization’s work on carbon mitigation within supply chains. The senior officer will lead the carbon footprinting in farms, primarily in the coffee, cocoa, tea, and fruit sectors, identifying tools and methodologies, and advising field teams and partners to collect data.
The senior officer(s) will also be engaged in a broader effort by the organization to embed climate mitigation, adaptation and resilience measures and their links to regenerative agriculture in each of its core programmatic areas. The senior officer(s) will work cross-functionally in the organization to implement an integrated value proposition for producers, communities and supply chain actors, including carbon stock estimations, measuring and reporting of GHG footprint, and identification of reduction strategies.
The senior officer will support the Climate Lead to assess priorities and articulate a value offering to sourcing companies and other stakeholders. The individual will implement activities to accelerate the work and impact of our efforts to provide science-based mitigation opportunities for farmers, community forestry concessions and supply chain actors.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Conduct carbon footprinting, including data collection, data modelling, and analysis of Scope 3 footprints in supply chains (primarily in coffee, cocoa, tea, and fruit sectors) and landscapes
Advise other Rainforest Alliance programs on how to most accurately measure and report GHG footprint, estimate potential carbon stocks, and mitigation strategies to maximize impacts for producers and smallholders
Model the impact of various intervention strategies (certification, regenerative agriculture, agroforestry, etc.) to reducing Scope 3 emissions
Support the design and implementation of climate mitigation activities in various programs of the organization (e.g. client-specific, donor-funded for landscape interventions, etc.)
Advise on GHG footprint reporting needs of key stakeholders, for example companies with SBTi targets and REDD+ projects
Support the design and implementation of climate mitigation activities in various programs of the organization;
Advise on the suite of tools RA should utilize for various carbon initiative including gap analysis of current tools and methodologies used vs. potential tools
Advise on development of landscape-level carbon programs, carbon capture, and compensation/carbon markets
Support other members of the Rainforest Alliance climate team in coordinating the organization’s internal climate change community of practice, awareness raising and technical capacity building across the organization;
QUALIFICATIONS:
Relevant undergraduate degree holder and ideally MSc degree in climate mitigation, or tropical agronomy or natural resources management with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in climate change mitigation activities at field level;
Experience in tropical agriculture, forestry, supply chains or related field;
Experience in carbon stock measurements; GHG footprint tools such as Cool Farm Tool; experience in monitoring, reporting, and verification requirements of SBTi and REDD+;
Experience or familiarity with carbon markets, credits and offsets (preferred)`
Knowledge and understanding of international and national climate policy in the agriculture, forestry and land sector (preferred)
Strong organizational skills to manage multiple priorities in a time sensitive manner;
Strong written and verbal communication skills; and,
Fluency in English; other languages – Spanish, French, Bahasa (desirable).
SALARY:
Commensurate with experience.
DEADLINE: October 28, 2022
NOTES:
Only candidates authorized to work in the Rainforest Alliance registered locations will be considered
If you have any questions about the job vacancy, please contact the HR department: recruitment@ra.org