Position summary:

The Rainforest Alliance has embarked on a new phase of a global M&E project focusing on the cocoa sector, with one of our long-term strategic private sector partners. This project works to accelerate our partners regenerative transition and support producers within their cocoa supply chain to become more efficient, resilient and prosperous, at scale. This includes in-depth, science backed impact monitoring and evaluation for adaptive management across 4 countries. By elevating the current M&E system to excel in operational execution, breath and speed, and by providing actionable data-driven insights on interventions and their impact we support our partner in accelerating progress of their regenerative transitions, achieve targets and steer further investments.

As a result, we are recruiting for a Senior Associate, Supply Chain and Project Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) to coordinate and execute the monitoring and evaluation efforts of this project in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana. This role will report to the Cocoa Supply Chain M&E Specialist.

Under guidance, the Senior Associate will ensure all project deliverables are met in each country, providing input for reporting and system improvements and ensuring robust data collection, analysis and quality control. In coordination with the project management, the Senior Associate will coordinate with M&E partners, the local teams of our partner and ensure dissemination of results and findings as required.

We are seeking an M&E professional who is self-motivated, hands-on, results oriented, with meticulous attention to detail, quality and accuracy, and who is passionate about environmental issues.

Responsibilities:

• Handle and coordinate the supply chain M&E project implementation in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana, including activities such as survey design, survey translation (as needed), survey app testing, facilitate enumerator training, and field data collection supervision;
• Ensure internal coordination with members of the Rainforest Alliance project team, and other key internal departments, as required;
• Review and prepare guidance on the survey tools/questionnaires, and all necessary training materials for M&E partners;
• Prepare farm visit plans for agreed sample of farms;
• Support data collection teams by explaining M&E concepts, describing basic cocoa production practices, and arranging logistics;
• Conduct data quality control, statistical analysis and prepare M&E reports;
• Present M&E key findings or results to both company partner and stakeholders;
• Provide oversight and management to M&E partners in conducting field monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities, including (but not limited to) contracting data collectors/M&E partners, organizing training, and coordinating payments;
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in agriculture, forestry, natural resources, environmental management, or related field;
• At least 5 years of progressively responsible work experience in conducting monitoring and evaluation or agricultural supply chains, managing data collections teams, synthesizing and analysing data;
• Knowledge of statistics and principles, practices and methodologies of project monitoring and evaluation;
• Strong leadership and communication skills and comfortable facilitating M&E training events and backstopping data collection teams in often challenging international settings; demonstrated ability to transfer knowledge to diverse audiences through training and mentoring;
• Ability to work within a dynamic project with changing workloads, challenges, and tight timelines, demonstrating agility and capacity to take ownership to deliver solutions;
• Demonstrate self-motivation and ability to take initiative, working independently with minimal supervision, and with multi-disciplinary teams;
• Experience with database management essential; experience with statistical packages (Stata, SPSS, R, etc.) and data visualization software (Power BI, etc.) a plus;
• A good working knowledge of the cocoa context in West Africa a plus;
• Fluency in English and French;
• Ability to travel a minimum of 20% per year, locally and internationally.

Level: 4

Deadline: 31 October 2025

Salary: Commensurate with experience

Notes: Only candidates legally authorized to work in Côte d'Ivoire or Ghana will be considered.

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

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