Sustainability Evaluation Lead

About the job

Sustainability Evaluation Lead

Zurich, CH, 8005

About the role

Barry Callebaut’s Forever Chocolate strategy includes strong commitments towards generating a living income for cocoa farmers, protecting human rights and children’s rights, becoming forest positive, decarbonizing our carbon footprint to become a net-zero company and having 100% certified or verified ingredients in all our products, traceable to farm level.

We are currently looking for a Sustainability Evaluation Lead to manage important discussions at a global level on sustainability data collection processes and definitions and to lead the generation of insights on sustainability. By translating complex datasets into actionable insights, the Sustainability Evaluation Lead will drive data-driven decision making and contribute directly to Barry Callebaut sustainability ambitions.

Key Responsibilities include

Build and drive learning initiatives to understand the effectiveness of our sustainability programs

Develop and implement advanced analytics and predictive modelling tooling

Enhance insights with statistical analysis and geospatial tools

Lead the design of new data collection methodologies

Lead qualitative data collection and analysis to enhance quantitative data

Align with stakeholders to define what sustainability data is required, how that data will be collected, what the definitions are, what the quality rules are, and how the data will be reported

Document processes, definitions, tools and data rules

Design data visualization dashboards for internal stakeholders

Participate in sustainability projects for customers, donors or countries, as an expert on the monitoring and evaluation deliverables

Collaborate with the Sustainability Learning & Knowledge Lead to ensure that deliverables are aligned with the learning strategy and priorities

Collaborate with the Sustainability Data Architect to ensure that the data is ready-to-use for analytics and feed back any improvement on data quality

Collaborate with and support the monitoring and evaluation teams in the cocoa origin countries so that they provide relevant reports on the effectiveness of sustainability processes

About you

University level degree in data science, geospatial science, statistics or related field

5 years of technical experience with data visualization tools (PowerBI) and GIS tools

Familiarity with qualitative and quantitative evaluation methodologies

Proficiency in statistical software for analysis and modelling with strong knowledge of SQL and/or Python

Formal training in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, impact measurement or program evaluation is a strong asset

Experience with data management or data governance

Strong analytical, process, and project management skills

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills coming from a multinational and complex organizations

Fluency in English. French or other languages is an asset

Experience with working with/in developing countries and with sustainability work (human rights, agricultural development, climate)

Ability to communicate with origin countries, across cultures

Excellent data storytelling skills to communicate insights to non-technical teams is a strong asset

Able to write professional reports and presentations

Knowledge of (smallholder) agriculture

Able to operate in ambiguous and multi-stakeholder environments

Self-organized,calm, patient and persistent

Passionate about the different domains of sustainability: human rights, carbon emissions, deforestation, livelihoods

Driven to contribute to the sustainability cause, but pragmatic enough to understand the challenges

Open to occasional travel to cocoa growing countries

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