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:

Rainforest Alliance seeks to engage two committed individuals as Sustainable Agriculture Associates. The associates will be part of a project that Rainforest Alliance and a cocoa company are implementing to provide cash payments linked to sustainable agricultural strategies for 5,000 farming households in Côte d’Ivoire. The associates will report to the senior project manager and will provide support for cooperatives and their members on regenerative agricultural practices.

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;
• Support the implementation of Rainforest Alliance’s adoption observation framework for regenerative agriculture and provide support for cooperatives and their members;
• Provide support for technicians on data collection of farmers’ adoption level of regenerative agricultural practices;
• Assist in vehicle management;
• Provide organizational and logistical assistance for workshops, events, meetings, and trips;
• Assist in the monitoring and evaluation process of the adoption observation framework, ensuring that farmers and cooperatives are participating; and
• Perform any other duties that may be assigned from time to time.