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Impact Manager

Enveritas

Enveritas

Remote
Posted on Jul 23, 2024

Enveritas builds solutions to improve the measure of sustainability in agricultural supply chains and include smallholder farmers in responsibly sourced agricultural products, in particular coffee and cocoa. A key component of this requires financial investments in projects that demonstrate impact on the sustainability of production and the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.

We are a dynamic non-profit organization working across 26 coffee and cocoa growing countries around the world, with a remote-first environment and hubs in diverse locations such as Uganda, Colombia and New York. Enveritas brings together tech and machine learning with rigorous field processes to collect and process data on supply chain sustainability and environmental impact. This is made possible by a dedicated and diverse team, with profiles coming from leading consultancies & banks, development organizations, commodity traders, data science and tech companies.

Summary:

Enveritas is looking for exceptional talent to join our growing Impact team, with responsibility for developing and managing impact projects. We are looking for a profile with approximately 5 - 10 years professional experience, including some years spent in a leading strategy/business consulting firm (ideally Project Leader / Engagement Manager level). The candidate will be a doer that is also comfortable managing a small team as well as interfacing with senior stakeholders and clients. The candidate should also bring at least one additional experience from industry giving them either relevant content/technical expertise or functional experience (e.g. impact investing, growth/BD at a start-up or tech firm). In terms of content/technical expertise, we are particularly keen on profiles that have experience in carbon sequestration & reforestation, agritech, agriscience, climate tech. The role reports to the Head of Impact. This position is remote with a home base that can be discussed. Some travel to coffee origins is expected.

More specifically, this role will:

  • Identify projects to fund for impact in the agricultural sector
  • Carry out impact & ROI evaluation and risk assessments on candidate projects
  • Design in-house impact programs from start to finish, including the strategy and implementation plan, identification and negotiation with partners, pilot testing, coordination of public relations
  • Run, monitor & evaluate results, and scale
  • Interface with external partners and stakeholders in the private sector and government, as needed, to enable the smooth roll-out and growth of impact projects
  • Manage more junior members of the Impact team
  • Visit projects and implementors on site as necessary, supporting the field teams (but this role can be primarily remote)

Requirements:

  • Min. 2-3 years of experience in strategy consulting or finance/PE, including some at the associate or EM level (alternative experiences in high intensity environments that combine design, finance and client management also considered, e.g. Tech, VC funded start-ups)
  • Evidence of more than 3 years of additional experience. Tech firms, VC funded start-ups or Impact investing particularly valuable.
  • University degree in science or engineering preferred
  • Excellent analytical skills, experience with quantitative data analysis and large datasets, familiarity (or better expertise) with the scientific approach
  • Proven client management skills
  • Ability to structure sophisticated problems and communicate them clearly to management
  • Ability to manage a multicultural team, remotely and/or in person to deliver on the ambitions of a project
  • Proficiency in either French, Spanish, Portuguese, Swahili, Indonesian, Vietnamese, or other relevant language is desirable (but not required)

Compensation is competitive for the sustainability sector.

How to apply:

We are a multicultural organizations, we look to hire employees who reflect the communities we serve and we strongly encourage qualified candidates from all backgrounds to apply.​ We embrace and celebrate the unique experiences, perspectives, and cultural backgrounds that each individual brings. We work hard, focus on results, but always with enthusiasm and a positive attitude. Our work is complex and nuanced, so the more diversity we have in the voices working on our problems, the larger of an impact our work can have for the world. Enveritas is an Equal Opportunity Employer ​encouraging an inclusive and diverse workforce.

Please apply here with your resume and supporting evidence demonstrating your fit to the requirements of the role and company (e.g. short cover letter, responses to application questions).

Feel free to contact us at jobs@enveritas.org should you have any questions about the position, the interview process, or if you require any adjustments to ensure a fair and equitable application process. Questions about this opportunity or process will not reflect negatively on your application.

A few notes about our communications: We are not able to reply to messages sent to staff outside of either our application process or our jobs email address, as this is unfair to other candidates. Also, Enveritas has been made aware of fake job postings by individuals pretending to hire persons seeking employment. These individuals are looking to collect personal information about you for fraudulent purposes. All legitimate Enveritas job openings are posted on our Greenhouse board at https://boards.greenhouse.io/enveritas. All recruiting emails from Enveritas team members will come through Greenhouse or from @enveritas.org. If you have any concerns about employment opportunities or contact from someone supposedly representing Enveritas, please reach out to us at jobs@enveritas.org