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Title | Innovations Manager |
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Are you interested in driving change within the world’s leading sustainability standards systems? Do you combine a deep knowledge of how sustainability standards operate with a big picture sense of how the broader sustainability landscape is evolving? And do you share our commitment to finding new approaches that improve the effectiveness of sustainability standards? ISEAL Alliance is seeking to fill the new role of Innovations Manager. ISEAL is the global membership association for sustainability standards that includes many of the leading standards and certification schemes worldwide as its members. Please find out more about us on our website www.iseal.org. This is a new position within ISEAL, joining our small team focused on supporting sustainability standards to test and integrate solutions that improve their effectiveness and impact. The Innovations Manager will be responsible for working with and inspiring our members and other stakeholders, both in a facilitation and technical capacity. The role will facilitate and provide support to a number of working groups which bring members together to research, test and integrate innovations into their standards systems, specifically focused on the assurance model. The scope of innovation will range from data management platforms and risk-based models to auditor competence and real-time data collection, and the Manager will work closely with colleagues focused on related topics such as traceability and monitoring and evaluation. The Manager will also lead our work related to maintenance and revision of the ISEAL Assurance Code and technical support to members to comply with the Code’s requirements. In addition, the Manager will play an integral role in the organisation as a technical expert on sustainability standards, providing technical support to various projects as needed. This role will be supported by and responsible to the Director of Innovation. This is a challenging and exciting position that requires a distinctive skill set. The successful candidate has a technical background in assurance, with on the ground experience, and is familiar with the operational models of a number of sustainability standards systems, most likely having worked with one or more schemes. However, they also understand the limitations of existing assurance models and may have experience with other types of verification or sustainability tools. They have strong communications skills, being able to take complex technical issues and convey these clearly and in multiple formats to various audiences. The individual is also an accomplished facilitator, with experience moving diverse organisations toward collective learning and action, and potentially also has experience delivering training. Working group facilitation & technical support • Facilitate member working groups, in particular on specific assurance topics, stimulating innovative ideas and testing of new approaches Innovation Summit • Support implementation of this annual event bringing members and experts together around assurance and other topics to share examples of excellence Other • Undertake project management and reporting as needed Experience, Knowledge and Attributes • Postgraduate degree in a relevant subject or an equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education and training Other Relevant Information Term: This is a permanent position. Interested candidates should submit a current CV and a statement explaining how they meet the selection criteria for the position torecruitment@isealalliance.org, quoting the job title “Innovations Manager”. Specific enquiries about this role and the application process can be sent to the same email. Deadline for applications will be 30/9/2016, noon (BST). Initial informal telephone interviews will be carried out leading up and just after the deadline; in-person interviews at our London office. We regret that we will only be able to contact short-listed candidates |