M&E Project Manager, Global Supply Chains (Coffee) in London

The Rainforest Alliance leads a global Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) service focusing on the coffee and cocoa sectors, delivering to key long-term strategic private sector partners. In coffee, this service works to accelerate our corporate partner’s regenerative transition and support producers within their supply chain to become more efficient, resilient and prosperous at scale. This includes in-depth, science-backed impact monitoring and evaluation for adaptive management across 15 countries to produce high quality data at speed and scale for annual externally verified corporate reporting and M&E insights.

By elevating the current M&E system to excel in operational execution, breadth and speed, and providing actionable data-driven insights on interventions and their impact, we support our partner in accelerating the progress of their regenerative transitions, achieving sustainability targets and steering further investments. As a result, we are looking for a manager with strong project management and team management skills and experience, and M&E technical expertise to lead and execute M&E projects in global coffee supply chains to support our partner in improving their supply chain sustainability performance.

This individual will lead a global team of M&E field staff implementing data collection, analysis, results dissemination, reporting and communication with our partner. This role will be reporting to the Global M&E Strategic Lead and will work closely with the project team, Rainforest Alliance departments and thematic experts, and staff in the countries of implementation. The ideal candidate is a self‑motivated, autonomous, results‑oriented, proactive strategic planner with rigorous attention to detail.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

• PROJECT AND TEAM MANAGEMENT
  • Oversee and manage all aspects of the supply chain monitoring and evaluation coffee project delivery, including robust global planning, execution, data analysis, quality assurance, and stakeholder coordination, ensuring alignment with objectives and deadlines.
  • Lead the development and implementation of detailed team work plans, ensuring alignment with global project goals and timelines.
  • Proactively identify and address project management needs to execute M&E data collection in each country, maintain smooth operations, streamline delivery across all countries, and mitigate potential risks.
  • Manage a global team of (minimum) seven members across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, ensuring effective coordination of M&E field data collection campaigns in 15 countries; coordination scope includes third party enumerators training, data quality assurance, data analysis, and preparation of comprehensive M&E reports.
  • Assess current team capacities and prepare capacity building plans to strengthen team members' skills.
  • Ensure coordination internally with other RA teams (i.e. data teams, thematic experts, field/regional teams, finance) and external consultants for the execution of the project, ensuring timely deliveries of the project M&E component.
  • Maintain and oversee relationships with company partner, M&E service providers and other key stakeholders.
  • Oversee campaigns’ budget planning and execution to ensure financial accountability and the efficient allocation of resources.
• M&E EXPERTISE
  • Contribute to the design and review of M&E systems and indicators.
  • Oversee regenerative agriculture, carbon emissions, and farm economics analysis review with RA thematic experts.
  • Coordinate the contextualisation of M&E findings with insight and experience from coffee and other sectors, using relevant secondary data (research publications, international and/or national statistics data, etc.), scoping interviews with partners, and field observation.
  • Oversee the dissemination and communication of M&E results and key findings to company partners and RA internal teams, including addressing feedback.
  • Ensure delivery of globally consistent high-quality work in a timely manner. This includes ensuring the implementation of best practices in data collection and in the review and analysis of M&E data.
  • Support the global M&E strategy lead in the design and implementation of the global M&E framework including elements such as theory of change and KPIs.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

• Advanced degree and/or previous experience in food systems, agriculture, forestry, natural resources, environmental management, or related field.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in related field and M&E, including at least 2 years’ experience with private sector sustainability activities in the coffee sector or other similar commodities.
• Very strong strategic planning and organisational skills with experience in international project management to manage multiple priorities in a time‑sensitive manner, anticipate challenges, and put in place pre‑emptive measures; proficiency with project management tools and having a project management certification is desirable.
• Strong experience in managing multicultural – global teams remotely.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interact culturally, linguistically, and diplomatically with diverse internal and external individuals.
• Excellent English writing, editing and verbal communication skills; Spanish and/or French would be a plus.
• Strong ability to work remotely with minimal supervision.
• Travel Requirements: Ability to travel internationally 4-5 times per year (1-2 weeks per trip). Other occasional travel to Amsterdam may be required.
• Experience working for companies as a service provider would be a plus.
• Working knowledge of statistics and data analytics, experience with statistical packages (Stata, SPSS, R, etc.) and data visualization software (Power BI, etc.) a plus.

BENEFITS OF WORKING AT THE RAINFOREST ALLIANCE:

• Be a part of a global organization with a strong mission and a collaborative, respectful, and accountable culture.
• Enjoy opportunities for professional growth and career development.
• Benefit from remote working flexibility and flexible hybrid working environment.
• Receive a competitive salary package.
• A favourable time‑off policy, including annual leave and Resilience Days, to help you recharge and balance life outside of work.
• Prioritize your wellbeing. We have numerous ways to promote work‑life balance, so you get the chance to take some time off, recharge, and remain at your best. This includes: Resilience and personal leave days, Employee assistance programs, Sabbatical opportunities.

Apply now and let’s grow together. We look forward to hearing from you and exploring how your skills can help us advance our mission.

Notes: Only candidates legally authorized to work in the Netherlands, UK, Kenya, Ghana or South Africa will be considered. If you have any questions about the job vacancy, please contact the HR department. 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.