Technical and Monitoring Manager

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 Rainforest Alliance has a rich and measurable history of investment in internal innovation, staff, processes, and operations. Beginning in 2019, the Rainforest Alliance started building an in-house innovation team with the objective to launch ground-breaking innovations. Today that team has grown to 7 members of staff with skills in innovation strategy, design-thinking, service design, financial modelling, market research, facilitation, capacity-building, and training. The team services innovation needs across the organization; from learning and education of innovation skills, to support for concept development, from incremental to transformational concepts. The Technical and Monitoring Manager takes accountability for the Business Case for Collective Landscape Initiative (BC) monitoring, evaluation and learning processes during the implementation. The BC convenes the private sector, governments, and local producers and organizations in some of the world’s most important tropical ecosystems and sourcing regions to address global environmental challenges associated with commodity-driven deforestation, including greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss. Under the leadership of the Deputy Chief of Party, The Technical and Monitoring Manager provides strategic guidance, vision, and management for successful monitoring and evaluation of the BC. The Technical and Monitoring Manager also supervises one staff and ensures the strategic and functional integration of all Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) activities. The Manager is responsible all MEL activities, provides technical support, ensures the accurate reporting of results for BC activities, and ensures the BC aligns with Rainforest Alliance’s quality standards for MEL in in close coordination with the Monitoring and Evaluation (ME) Manager for Latin America. The Technical and Monitoring Manager will update and manage processes for technical quality control of activity interventions, as well as risk mitigation and scaling strategies. The Manager will be responsible for keeping update and improve the monitoring and evaluation system, overseeing the collection and analysis of data and reporting on BC indicators, as well as coordinating with all project staff to facilitate implementation, management, and continuous learning. The Manager will also provide the information required for the weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports required by the donor and the development of "success stories," as appropriate. **Responsibilities**: - Lead the management and monitoring of the MEL Plan and other relevant technical compliance plans such as an Environmental Mitigation and Monitoring plan and the Gender and the Gender Equality