Senior Associate Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, Cote d'Ivoire (San Pedro/Soubre/Abengourou), Côte D'Ivoire

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:

At Rainforest Alliance we are looking for a collaborative and engaging Senior Associate, Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) who will be responsible for coordinating and carrying out a LandScale-based M&E and Performance Management Framework and activities in the RESTORE (Resilient Ecosystems and Sustainable Transformation of Rural Economies) project in Côte d'Ivoire. The Senior Associate M&E will support this project by working with Rainforest Alliance and Olam food ingredients (ofi) staffs, 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 incumbent will work closely with the Chief of Party, with matrix reporting to the project advisory group. 

Responsibilities: 

• Use LandScale framework to develop and manage field-based project M&E systems methods, tools and processes, in coordination with the Chief of Party, colleagues and partners;
• Collaborate in the design and conduction of field-based baseline, mid-term, and end of project studies to understand needs, gaps, and opportunities for achieving rural development outcomes in the context of business and local community needs, and to assess the project´s contribution to such outcomes;
• 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;
• Lead a participatory process with community members, lead farmers and landscape actors to co-create, and troubleshoot a hybrid community monitoring (HCM) system, including methods, tools and processes, employing GIS and satellite imagery;
• Design and provide support, directly and remotely to actors of landscape governance bodies on M&E methods, tools and processes, ensuring M&E best practices;
• Implement and take responsibility for quality control procedures to ensure transparent, evidence-based M&E systems, based on reliable and timely field data collection, management and analysis, to generate and report high-quality output and outcome indicator values;
• Support Project Managers in maintaining updated project information in the Project Management Platform and SharePoint-based project sites;
• 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, and other Rainforest Alliance colleagues and departments;
• Ensure that Rainforest Alliance´s Key Performance Indicators are embedded in project design; and M&E best practices into the project; and
• Other responsibilities as assigned. 

Qualifications: 

• 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 including as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) officer for designing, delivery and impact assessments of programs and projects, and/or related studies;
• Experience in software programs including ArcGIS, QGIS, ERDAS Imagine, Global Mapper, ENVI, STATA, SPSS, KOBO Toolbox, CSPro, R. and computer Microsoft Office (Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Publisher).
• Has hands-on experience in co-designing and implementation of cost-effective performance-based and community-based monitoring systems, and the collection, management, analysis and reporting of high-quality output and outcome indicator data; 
• 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.)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; with required fluency in English and French;
• Demonstrated ability to build capacity for project M&E among project staff´, partners and key actors in local communities;
• Ability to travel locally and internationally at least 40% of the time.

Salary:

Commensurate with experience.

Deadline: September 19, 2022

Notes:

Only candidates authorized to work in Côte d'Ivoire will be considered.

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