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The primary function of this position is to lead CI’s global initiative in the coffee sector, with a particular emphasis on developing and driving strategies and programs to achieve CI’s long-term goal of transforming 100% of US and European markets to sustainable coffee sourcing. This position will sit within CELB’s Sustainable Food and Agriculture Markets program (SFAM) and will report to the Senior Director, SFAM. Primary duties include:
Driving CI strategy for the coffee sector: The Director will lead implementation of CI’s market facing strategies for the coffee sector. These strategies will build upon CI core capacities in field implementation, science, policy and market engagement and will focus on sustainable coffee production as a component of Healthy Sustainable Societies in coffee producing regions of the world. Implentation of these strategies will require leadership and collaboration across CI divisions.
Building and managing alliances: The Director will lead development and implementation of alliances that may include multiple companies, NGOs, donors, government agencies and other stakeholders in the coffee sector necessary to achieve CI amplification targets.
Managing partnerships and projects: The Director will be responsible for recruiting and building partnerships with companies and donors and managing these projects to ensure their successful implementation.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Account Management: Serve as Account Manager for key corporate and donor partnerships in the coffee sector that will advance CI’s overall institutional coffee strategy. This role includes managing day to day communications with corporate partners, managing implementation of projects and delivery of key products to partners, serving as CI’s internal expert on the company, and ensuring overall health of the CI-partner relationship.
- Project Management an Implementation: Project management responsibilities include development and management of project work plans, overseeing implementation by different CI divisions to deliver quality outputs on time and in budget, budget management, and reporting to donors. This role includes implementation of project activities that specifically relate to coffee market and supply chain strategies. Project management includes projects build around relationships with individual companies, as well as development and implementation of work plans associated with multi-stakeholder alliances.
- Fundraising: Lead development of fundraising concepts and proposals to drive CI’s coffee strategy working across divisions to draw from CI’s full set of skills and capacities across the institution. Engage and cultivate donors to successfully progress from initial donor engagement, to concept note, and proposal delivery. Fundraising efforts will likely also include external partners and organizations.
- Communications and Outreach: Represent CI at coffee industry events such as National Coffee Association or SCAA conferences and directly engage corporations, donors, and other organizations in the coffee sector as necessary to position CI as an authority in the area of coffee sustainability. Develop content for external communications that may take the form of presentations/speeches, web content, blogs, scientific papers, and proposals. Serve as an internal coffee “expert” and communications hub within CI so that lessons learned and expertise are shared across the institution, other divisions are aware of trends and opportunities in the coffee sector and institutional strategies and actions are coordinated to ensure CI achieves targets and goals for the coffee sector.
- Other duties as assigned by supervisor
Working Conditions
- This position will work from the CI-Virginia office. It will require extensive travel to CI field offices, conferences, and partner facilities in the US and abroad. Estimated travel requirements would be 20-30% of time.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required
- 7- 10 years of senior level experience in the coffee sector related to business and environmental sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility, and business strategy from a corporate, consulting, academic, public sector, or NGO environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in agriculture, business, international development, conservation or other related field
- Sophisticated knowledge and understanding of coffee value chains, certification and other sustainable supply chain systems relevant to coffee
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects or initiatives that involve multiple internal and external stakeholders across private and public sectors and civil society organizations
- Proven ability to engage and establish partnerships with corporations
- Proven ability to develop concepts, develop them into proposals and secure funding
- Proven ability to work effectively across cultures, establish and manage effective collaborations
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Highly developed ability to synthesize and communicate information to businesses and other stakeholder groups
Preferred
- Foreign language abilities with preference for Bahasa Indonesia, Portuguese, Spanish or Mandarin.
- Established track record in research and writing on CSR topics in business or academic settings through published reports, articles or contributions to significant company consulting projects.
- Masters degree or higher.
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