Vacancy in Rainforest Alliance - Team Manager, Palm Oil, Indonesia

JOB TITLE: TEAM MANAGER, PALM Oil, INDONESIA

Job Function: Staff position

Job LEVEL: 3

Location: Jakarta or Denpasar, Indonesia

Reports to: Director, Indonesia

DEPARTMENT: Regions, Asia Pacific

status (Full-time / part-time (with hours)): FullTime

 

 

ABOUT THE RAINFOREST ALLIANCE

At the Rainforest Alliance, we are building an alliance to create a better future for people and nature by making responsible business the new normal. To advance our mission, we focus on amplifying our impact on the ground through systemic transformation: change across the entire supply chain, change in the relationship between people and nature, and change within our own organization. We achieve this transformation by working in collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders to create a stronger Alliance. Together, we amplify the voices of farmers and forest communities, improve livelihoods, protect biodiversity, and help people adapt to climate change in bold and effective ways. We embrace transparency because we believe that the best way to build trust across our alliance is through openness about our tactics, our impact, and partners on the ground. Together, we can achieve our vision of a world where people and nature thrive in harmony.

 

 

Position summary

The Team Manager, Palm Oil is primarily responsible for developing and managing the Rainforest Alliance’s palm oil program in Indonesia and for serving as a technical resource to staff working on palm projects in other regions.  This includes delivering projects according to work plans and budgets, coordinating with field consultants and staff, identifying and supporting local partner organizations and maintaining relationships with donors and with stakeholders in the corporate, government, and civil society sectors. Additionally, s/he will oversee performance by implementing partners, provide technical services, source appropriate technologies and consulting services, and provide reports on project progress, monitoring and evaluation, finance, and other project areas. The position will coordinate closely with Rainforest Alliance’s international teams, such as Markets Transformation, Development and Communications and in Indonesia with the finance, accounting and HR colleagues. This is a position with supervisory responsibilities.

 

 

Responsibilities

• Ensure effective communication with global team as needed about the impact and development of the work for the use of project learning, communication and fundraising.
• Develop and maintain relation with key local stakeholders to contribute on the stronger impact of the Oil palm and landscape/jurisdiction program in the country.
• Represent the RA as needed in related Oil palm platforms or events to improve the RA Oil palm certification positioning in the country.
• Coordinate with other RA global departments to ensure cohesion in the overall program execution.
• Supervise and lead the local team and provide them with plan, feedback, coaching and support their interaction with donors and local project partners.
• Provide direct technical support to local partners implementing field activities under sub-grants to trigger more work on the related field in the country.
• Identify and supervise Rainforest Alliance’s implementing partners to ensure subsequent deliverables.
• Manage the development of the Oil palm and landscape work portfolio, ensuring that resources are assigned to implement activities in line with donor commitments.
• Oversee and lead project planning and implementation, be responsible for deliverables and budgetary execution; prepare donor reports as per contractual commitments.
• Contribute to the Oil palm and landscape program strategies, annual planning and reporting, and studies to assess results and impact.
• Organize logistical support and host visit by international specialists, journalists, project auditors and other stakeholders visits to projects.
• Develop and/or adapt technical support tools for use by local technical assistance providers, farmers, and group administrators.
• Support the Director, Indonesia to identify new project opportunities, support in proposal writing and presenting new proposal to donors.
• Support the country lead to identify resources and needs required to further expand the palm oil and landscape program in the country; and
• Other duties as assigned.

 

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor degree in Forestry, Agriculture, Natural Resources Management or another relevant field. Master degree is preferred.
• Minimum 7 years of experience (for Bachelor degree) or 5 years of experience (for Master degree) in project management, including managing budgets and implementing activities according to agreed-upon work plans and schedules;
• First-hand knowledge of the concepts of sustainable agriculture and knowledge of the palm oil industry as well as landscape/jurisdictional approaches;
• Understanding of market value chains and certification of sustainably produced commodities;
• Demonstrated leadership and ability to manage remote staff and consultants in developing countries:
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to operate efficiently in multi institutional relationships, and to communicate with farmers, government ministers, donor representatives and/or company executives;
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to work independently as well as in a team environment, to assess priorities and to multi-task with strong attention to detail;
• Administrative efficiency, with the ability to track project progress and prepare timely reports, and competence in the main computer software programs;
• Demonstrated professional capability in written and spoken Bahasa Indonesian and English; and
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 25 percent of the time.

 

 

Deadline:  March 4^th, 2021. To apply, please visit this link https://my.hirehive.io/rainforest-alliance/jobs/74824/team-manager-palm-oil-indonesia-jakarta-or-denpasar

 

Notes:

Only candidates authorized to work in Indonesia will be considered.

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.

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