Company Profile
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.
For more information, please visit http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/about.
Job Description
Position summary
The Program Officer Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) is responsible for coordinating and carrying out M&E activities in Rainforest Alliance’s Landscapes & Livelihoods projects in Ghana.
The Program Officer M&E will support these projects by working with Rainforest Alliance staff, project partners, consultants and stakeholders to build and manage sound M&E systems that improve understanding of the local context and tracks the project implementations and outcomes of interventions over time.
This includes designing and evaluating implementation of project activities; training technical staff, project partners, and field consultants on M&E methods and tools; ensuring proper output and outcome indicator data collection, quality control, analysis, and management; and reporting on key findings. The position will also coordinate closely with other Rainforest Alliance units.
The position is open to expand in time and geography depending on funding and development.
Responsibilities
- Develop and manage field-based project M&E systems´ including methods, tools and processes, in coordination with Senior Manager Strategic Projects West-Africa, Ghana Country Lead, West-Africa Regional Lead and other Project Managers.
- Facilitate baseline assessments at project inception to understand needs, gaps, and opportunities for achieving rural development outcomes in the context of business and local community needs;
- Design and provide remote and in-country training and technical assistance to staff, project partners and field consultants on M&E methods, tools and processes, ensuring M&E best practices;
- Collaborate in the design and conduction of field-based studies, and supervise assessment teams as necessary;
- Implement and take responsibility for quality control procedures to ensure transparent, evidence-based M&E systems, and the collection, management, analysis and reporting of high-quality output and outcome indicator data;
- Identify M&E partner organizations, such as local universities or research institutions as appropriate;
- Support Project Managers in maintaining updated project information in the SharePoint-based project site;
- Support Project Managers in the preparation of quality and timely project performance technical reports as required by donors, as well as in the preparation of presentations to partners, Senior Manager Strategic Projects West-Africa, and other Rainforest Alliance units;
- Ensure that Rainforest Alliance´s Key Performance Indicators are embedded in project design; and M&E best practices into the project;
Required Skills or Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in international development, Agriculture, Social Sciences, Economics, Natural Resources Management or related field;
- Minimum 4 years of experience in similar position, including minimum of 2 years of experience conducting project M&E activities, impact assessments of programs and projects, and/or related studies, preferably related to sustainable livelihoods, sustainable agriculture, agricultural supply chain management, and/or community engagement;
- Experience advising and supervising field teams or consultants in the collection of field data on social, environmental and/or agronomic and/or socioeconomic indicators for performance assessment, and in the use of associated field methods and tools (household surveys, farm monitoring, etc.)
- Fluent English required, and knowledge of French is a big plus;
- Ability to develop and implement cost-effective performance-based monitoring systems;
- Demonstrated ability to build capacity for project M&E among project staff and partners;
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
- Experience in West Africa;
- Ability to be results-oriented and multi-task, as well as motivate field staff and teams to manage diverse and time-sensitive activities while delivering quality results; and
- Ability to travel locally and internationally at least 40% of the time.
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