The climate mitigation senior officer will be responsible for implementing and developing the organization’s work on carbon mitigation within supply chains. The senior officer will lead the carbon footprinting in farms, primarily in the coffee, cocoa, tea, and fruit sectors, identifying tools and methodologies, and advising field teams and partners to collect data.

The senior officer(s) will also be engaged in a broader effort by the organization to embed climate mitigation, adaptation and resilience measures and their links to regenerative agriculture in each of its core programmatic areas. The senior officer(s) will work cross-functionally in the organization to implement an integrated value proposition for producers, communities and supply chain actors, including carbon stock estimations, measuring and reporting of GHG footprint, and identification of reduction strategies.

The senior officer will support the Climate Lead to assess priorities and articulate a value offering to sourcing companies and other stakeholders. The individual will implement activities to accelerate the work and impact of our efforts to provide science-based mitigation opportunities for farmers, community forestry concessions and supply chain actors.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conduct carbon footprinting, including data collection, data modelling, and analysis of Scope 3 footprints in supply chains (primarily in coffee, cocoa, tea, and fruit sectors) and landscapes
• Advise other Rainforest Alliance programs on how to most accurately measure and report GHG footprint, estimate potential carbon stocks, and mitigation strategies to maximize impacts for producers and smallholders
• Model the impact of various intervention strategies (certification, regenerative agriculture, agroforestry, etc.) to reducing Scope 3 emissions
• Support the design and implementation of climate mitigation activities in various programs of the organization (e.g. client-specific, donor-funded for landscape interventions, etc.)
• Advise on GHG footprint reporting needs of key stakeholders, for example companies with SBTi targets and REDD+ projects
• Support the design and implementation of climate mitigation activities in various programs of the organization;
• Advise on the suite of tools RA should utilize for various carbon initiative including gap analysis of current tools and methodologies used vs. potential tools
• Advise on development of landscape-level carbon programs, carbon capture, and compensation/carbon markets
• Support other members of the Rainforest Alliance climate team in coordinating the organization’s internal climate change community of practice, awareness raising and technical capacity building across the organization;