Communications Manager, LandScale

Overview of Landscale:
LandScale is an innovative global initiative, co-lead by the Rainforest Alliance and Conservation International, which aims to drive improvements in sustainability at landscape scale. To do this, LandScale offers an integrated system to assess and communicate trusted information about landscape sustainability, comprising a rigorous sustainability assessment framework, detailed guidance, an online platform, and a validation mechanism. The LandScale system is available to any organization convening, implementing, or financing work to improve sustainability at landscape scale. In addition to scaling the use of the LandScale system, the initiative is working to demonstrate that the information generated by LandScale assessments can form the basis for innovative market, financial and policy mechanisms (e.g., sustainability linked loans, payment for ecosystem services, preferential sourcing) that can incentivize the actions needed to deliver improvements in sustainability at landscape scale. LandScale is developing a fee-based business model with the aim of becoming self-financing as soon as possible.

Position summary:
We are seeking an enthusiastic Communications Manager to lead the development and implementation of LandScale’s communications strategy. You will manage LandScales communications (internal and external), ranging from media relations and stakeholder engagement to messaging, editorial planning, and content development. You are a determined and well-organized self-starter with a "can do" attitude and are comfortable taking on diverse responsibilities.

The Communications Manager will be responsible for the following duties.

• Refine and implement a communications strategy to support LandScale’s strategic priorities and mission
• Ensure the LandScale brand is applied correctly and consistently by the team, partners, customers, and advocates
• Lead the development of LandScale’s communications materials in all relevant forms, including print and online, e.g., website content, social media, newsletters, case studies, press releases, white papers, videos, infographics, and any other necessary materials
• Plan and coordinate LandScale’s presence at key events and assist in preparing team members to participate in these events, including preparing presentations, and attending meetings, as needed
• Oversee website development and curation
• Manage and enhance engagement of LandScale’s subscribers/followers via social media channels and mailing lists
• Support LandScale’s Steering Group members (Rainforest Alliance and Conservation International) and partners to be effective in conveying and amplifying key messages related to LandScale
• Build and manage a network of engaged advocates to promote LandScale through word-of-mouth and other communications
• Work with colleagues, LandScale users, and partners to develop stories and thought-leadership pieces to raise awareness of LandScale
• Manage and elevate LandScale’s media presence, for instance by producing press releases, cultivating and maintaining key media contacts, and securing earned media placements

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, international development, environmental or social sciences, or a related field
• At least 7 years of relevant work experience
• The ability to present complex ideas in a clear and compelling manner to a wide variety of audiences, including governments, businesses, investors, and project developers
• Excellent English writing, editing, and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated experience working effectively with a diversity of stakeholders from different sectors and cultural backgrounds
• Strong knowledge and understanding of current sustainability trends and practices as well as environmental and social issues
• Experience conducting or overseeing visual and graphic design activities in support of brand identity, marketing, and communications
• Experience with media relations
• Proficiency working with key communications platforms and tools, including but not limited to Wordpress, Mailchimp, Canva, Adobe Creative, LinkedIn, and Twitter
• Experience working in a start-up environment is a plus
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time nationally and internationally

Job level: 3A

Deadline: 01 March 2024

Notes: Only candidates authorized to work in locations in which we are registered will be considered.

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

WHO WE ARE:
The Rainforest Alliance is creating a more sustainable world by using social and market forces to protect nature and improve the lives of farmers and forest communities. To achieve our mission, we partner with diverse allies around the world to drive positive change across global supply chains and in many of our most critically important natural landscapes.

Our alliance spans 70 countries and includes farmers and forest communities, companies, governments, civil society, and millions of individuals. Together we work to protect forests and biodiversity, take action on climate, and promote the rights and improve the livelihoods of rural people.

As an international nonprofit organization with more than 30 years of experience in sustainability transformation, we understand that the social and economic well-being of rural communities is tightly connected to ecosystem health. This knowledge has shaped our rigorous programs to advance sustainable land-use and commodity production.

At the Rainforest Alliance we combat climate change, protect forests and biodiversity, promote human rights, and improve livelihoods. The enormity of the social and environmental challenges we are facing requires working together in a broad alliance. This is why we bring farmers, forest communities, companies, and consumers together to change the way the world produces, sources, and consumes.

Why
To protect nature and improve lives it’s becoming increasingly urgent that we approach the way we use our land and produce food and other products in more sustainable ways. For this to succeed we need to fundamentally change the way that businesses operate and source, and the choices we all make as consumers.

How
Our growing global alliance aims to transform our relationship with our natural resources and each other, to create a better future for people and nature together.

The Rainforest Alliance encourages diversity and inclusion across the global organization. With this commitment to diversity, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ages, disability, and any other protected group.