Are you passionate about agricultural and forestry sourcing that delivers positive outcomes for people, nature, and climate? Want to work in a mission-driven organisation that takes on challenges at global scale? We are looking for a strategic thinker to join our Responsible Sourcing Team and support major food and consumer goods companies in setting their environmental and social sourcing commitments and turning them into practical on-the-ground implementation.
About Proforest
Proforest is a mission-driven organisation that provides a consultancy service working throughout agricultural supply chains supporting the production and sourcing of agricultural and forest commodities that deliver positive outcomes for People, Nature and Climate. These cover issues such as protecting and restoring forests and natural ecosystems, respecting worker’s rights, advancing gender equality, and engaging with communities and indigenous people.
Job Description
What will you do?
Our Responsible Sourcing team is a global group of experts on environmental and human rights issues in agricultural and forestry supply chain. We work with companies such as Nestlé, PepsiCo, Mars, Unilever, and Cargill on their commodity supply chains including palm oil, sugar, soy, coconut, beef, and cocoa.
You will lead on multiple projects with our clients to deliver meaningful environmental and social positive outcomes in their supply chain and production base. For each project, you will manage a global team of experts and be working on a wide range of topics such as strategy and action planning, traceability, environmental and social risks mitigation, suppliers engagement, collaboration, landscape initiatives across Nature, People and Climate.
You’ll be tasked with leading strategic thinking, considering how best to achieve impact and translate this into a feasible workplan. You’ll be expected to identify issues and propose solutions, overseeing the delivery and ensuring consistency of our work. Whilst doing this you’ll develop and maintain meaningful relationships clients and influence long term change.
Qualifications
What is your profile?
You are self-motivated, be passionate about what we do and are excited about helping deliver our mission. You will also have:
Essential:
* Knowledge and understanding of social and environmental issues in agricultural supply chains such as deforestation, regenerative agriculture, climate change, livelihoods, gender equality and respect for human rights.
* A masters’ level qualification (or above) in social/environmental/agriculture/forestry
* Significant professional experience in a similar consultancy or private sector role working in, or closely with, large corporate buyers and international agricultural commodity supply chains.
* A track record in project delivery in tropical agricultural and/or forestry supply chains, managing small teams to achieve specific goals
* You have experience in leading interactions with food/FMCG clients and delivered reports and presentations to a range of different audiences.
* Experience of operating in a multi-cultural environment with experience outside of your home country
* Excellent communication skills with the ability to build and maintain deep stakeholder relationships
Desirable:
* Advanced proficiency in written and spoken English. Knowledge of Spanish, French, Portuguese, Bahasa, or Mandarin
* Experience working with teams in the regions in which Proforest operates
* On the ground fieldwork experience with the commodities we work with
* Line management experience.
Additional Information
Why should you work for us?
* Be part of a global organisation with a shared vision, working in offices across 10 countries with staff from more than 17 countries, speaking more than 40 languages
* We organize regular in-person team gatherings, regional and international knowledge exchanges and social events, including quarterly in person meetings in Oxford.
* We support learning and development with a dedicated team to help you achieve your goals; we provide access to training for technical knowledge and competency skills in Proforest Academy
* We offer 25 days plus public holidays (with an extra 2 days the following year should you take your well earnt holiday within the year)
* We contribute to your pension (up to 8%)
* Life insurance and income protection insurance
* Access to an employee assistance programme and other benefits
Key information
Location: Oxford, UK or Leiden, The Netherlands
Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 or €51,000 - €57,000 depending on skills and experience
Requires eligibility to work in EU when applying to the Leiden office
Closing date: 3rd February Please note we may close the advert early should we find our chosen candidate and therefore would encourage you to apply at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.
*Hybrid working: Proforest operates on a hybrid basis both in our Oxford and Leiden offices. We encourage staff to attend the office as often as possible to maximise interactions with colleagues but also appreciate individual circumstances and preferences. We ask that staff attend the office at least twice a week (although increased time in the office upon starting would be expected) and are happy to explore flexible working options.
We are committed to supporting diversity throughout Proforest globally, ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive and therefore welcome applications from all. Please note the official job title for this role is ‘Principle Project Manager’.