Hybrid Sustainability Fellowship en Enveritas

Summary

Enveritas is looking for exceptional talent to join our team and to support our operations and data analysis around the world.

Background

Consumers are increasingly asking if the brands they trust are “sustainable” – that is, produced under acceptable social, economic and environmental practices. Companies have responded by setting targets for becoming “100% sustainable”. However, traditional approaches for verifying sustainability face challenges reaching farmers that are too small, too remote, or informally organized. Enveritas (www.enveritas.org) is building solutions for smallholder coffee farmers that are currently beyond the reach of existing sustainability certification or verification approaches. We have developed a rigorous, scalable and transparent method of verification that works in this “underserved space.” This verification is the backbone of our Responsible Sourcing platform that helps companies meet their sustainability targets by investing in the areas that need it most.

Enveritas is a non-profit organization founded in 2016 and works in most major coffee-growing countries in the US, with a remote-first environment and hubs in diverse locations such as New York, Uganda, Ethiopia, Colombia, and Indonesia. Enveritas combines the rigor of its systems and processes with an intense effort to collect credible data from the field, accompanied by inspiring and unique stories (insights) that permit our clients to work together with stakeholders to improve the coffee grower’s livelihood. Our operations in Africa and Asia cover major commodity-growing countries around world, such as Brazil, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Vietnam, and Indonesia.

Fellowship

The Enveritas Sustainability Fellowship is a new opportunity for recent graduates to receive a crash course in the organization’s mission-driven, highly dynamic work. We are looking for recent graduates who are interested in spending up to a year embedded with our operations teams on the ground. The fellowship includes:

• $1,000 monthly stipend
• Unique opportunity to embed within one or multiple of Enveritas’ country operations teams in Latin America, Africa, or Asia
• Housing and travel to country team locations
• On-job training for several key sustainability-related competencies, including survey operations, data quality, and analysis, carbon accounting, and more

Your role will be to assist Enveritas in managing its operations and data. You will report to an Enveritas program manager. Specific responsibilities of the role may include:

• Surface the trends and insights that will help coffee roasters make data driven decisions about how they strengthen their supply chains
• Manage data quality and survey operations for a team in an Enveritas operations country
• Support for project management and process improvement efforts across
• Supporting the management of Enveritas’ proprietary survey and data collection tools
• Design, test, and scale new tools and SOPs to be used by Enveritas teams
• Support special analysis projects on a wide range of sustainability topics, such as costs of production, greenhouse gas emissions, and living income.
• Work on new initiatives in collaboration with members of the Enveritas global team, which includes program & field operations managers, data scientists, product managers, software engineers, agronomy and coffee industry experts, and multi-generational coffee farmers
• Gain direct experience and knowledge of coffee production, through visits to coffee farming communities and meetings with industry stakeholders and local coffee organizations

Enveritas will invest heavily in your growth and success. We recognize that we will need to attract and retain exceptional talent in order to fulfill our vision of reaching 100% of the world’s coffee farmers across 30+ countries. You will have the backing of a global team with deep experience in coffee sustainability and technology to help you reach your goals. We offer a fun, open, flat, and agile work culture that mitigates the communication challenges posed by being a global organization.

Qualifications

• Experience working in a fast-paced, multicultural team environment
• Excellent communication and analytical skills; flexible problem-solving attitude
• High level of rigor and attention to detail
• A driving desire to alleviate poverty and make the world a better place
• Strong worth ethic and professionalism, particularly when doing independent and remote work
• Strong analytical competencies, with experience in navigating through large datasets and derive relevant insights with the use of data exploration or analysis techniques
• Strong computer skills, including proficiency in Microsoft Office and Google Docs applications, familiarity with quantitative data collection software/platforms; knowledge of Python or other programming languages beneficial, but not required

Compensation
Enveritas will pay interns $1000 USD per month, in addition to any additional cost incurred due to organization activities (eg, travel)