- Being the methodology expert and network coordinator for the topic of Better Income and Living Income

- Advisory to internal organisation teams and external stakeholders on topics relating to Living Income and Better Income agenda

- Lead development and adoption of tools and solutions

- Contribute to knowledge management agenda of the Better Income team;

- Support the capacity building of organisation staff on the topic of Better Income;

- Lead research on relevant topics related to farmer incomes; aggregate learnings and translate this into practical recommendations;

- Carry out deep dives into strategies that drive a living/better income for smallholder farmers;

- Engage with intelligence centre, global director living income, commodity leads and other impact teams at organisation to collect information required and align work and data sets;

- Engage with corporates and their research partners on research carried out and evidence collected.

- Provide data-driven insights and intelligence to corporates joining the living income initiative;

- Lead on the writing of diverse knowledge products and the dissemination of knowledge;

- Organize and facilitate internal and external learning sessions;

- Provide inputs on organisation thought leadership on farmer data;

- Review knowledge products produced by colleagues;

- Operational support for the Better Income team (Reporting, coordination and contracting)
 

- Experience in sustainability specifically tackling social issues across supply chains from the private sector perspective

- Experience in leading and conducting research and managing consultants

- Experience in knowledge management and capacity building

- Proven track record in collaboration in cross organizational self-steering teams

- Strong communication capabilities at multiple levels (corporate, academic, public sector)

- Strong, spoken, written and visual communication skills; Fluency in English

- Affinity to work with data; using evidence and data for decision making; Prior experience in M&E is a plus.

Who you are :

- Ability to process large amounts of information and convert into actionable advice while often being sector and geography agnostic. Often there is a lack of data and case studies.

- Varied stakeholder management of a range of internal and external parties.

- Stakeholders lack the willingness to move. Living income is in a delicate phase, companies are willing but not able to take enough to close gaps. Global commodity chains are complex and opaque with a range of actors with different motivations.

- Managing technical advisory can be challenging as different teams in organisation are in different stages of their journey in improving farmer incomes

- Oversee each part of Better Income work at organisation: Advising BUs, working on internal capacity building for internal teams, Developing and adopting LI roadmap thinking and learnings for the larger topic of farmer incomes