Forest Risk Commodities Researcher Global Canopy Programme
Salary: Mid-level (GCP offers a competitive remuneration package including a pension after 3 months)
Location: Oxford
Reporting to: GCP Global Programme Director
How will we feed 2-3 billion more people without destroying tropical forests to clear land? How will we do this as climate, commodity prices and consumer demand place greater pressure on forests – impacting the lives of more than a billion of the world’s poor? How will we move to a ‘green economy’ with the sustainable use of forests as natural capital at its heart? What impact will new government and private sector policies have on commodity supply chains? And does all this have any material impact on companies and investors in the supply chains of ‘forest risk commodities’ – soya, beef and leather, palm oil, timber and biofuels?
The Forest Footprint Disclosure (FFD) project is designed to help investors identify how a company’s activities and supply chains contribute to deforestation and use this 'forest footprint' to assist in their evaluation of companies. Modelled on the Carbon Disclosure Project, it aims to shed light on the key commercial drivers of deforestation whilst building capacity and knowledge to reduce their impacts.
The project is part of the Global Canopy Programme (GCP), a tropical forest think-tank that acts through its global networks of experts across disciplines to spark insight, convene research and design projects that demonstrate the value of forests as natural capital and can help leverage future large-scale system change.
We are now looking for an experienced analyst with a passion for tropical forests to join our team to push forward thinking on forests, drivers and commodity risks – to provide companies and investors with sound evidence on which to base their shift to sustainable wealth creation.
The role would be suitable for someone from a finance, NGO or business background, preferably working with sustainable commodities or supply chains, with a keen interest in the political economics of deforestation and its impacts on human wellbeing and poverty alleviation. The ability to work independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team is essential. Fluency in Spanish or Portuguese would be highly desirable.
Your responsibilities will include driving the direction of research, in collaboration with the Project Director, GCP Global Programme Director, Head of Sciences and across Finance and Policy programmes, producing major research work for internal and external project audiences, covering issues around deforestation, commodities, supply chains, materiality to business and sustainability metrics.
The position will be offered on an initial two years contract with a view to further extension.
Please send a copy of your CV together with a covering letter outlining your suitability for this position and salary expectation to
info@forestdisclosure.com.
Closing date 10th May 2012.
www.forestdisclosure.com
@FFDproject
Location: Oxford
Reporting to: GCP Global Programme Director
How will we feed 2-3 billion more people without destroying tropical forests to clear land? How will we do this as climate, commodity prices and consumer demand place greater pressure on forests – impacting the lives of more than a billion of the world’s poor? How will we move to a ‘green economy’ with the sustainable use of forests as natural capital at its heart? What impact will new government and private sector policies have on commodity supply chains? And does all this have any material impact on companies and investors in the supply chains of ‘forest risk commodities’ – soya, beef and leather, palm oil, timber and biofuels?
The Forest Footprint Disclosure (FFD) project is designed to help investors identify how a company’s activities and supply chains contribute to deforestation and use this 'forest footprint' to assist in their evaluation of companies. Modelled on the Carbon Disclosure Project, it aims to shed light on the key commercial drivers of deforestation whilst building capacity and knowledge to reduce their impacts.
The project is part of the Global Canopy Programme (GCP), a tropical forest think-tank that acts through its global networks of experts across disciplines to spark insight, convene research and design projects that demonstrate the value of forests as natural capital and can help leverage future large-scale system change.
We are now looking for an experienced analyst with a passion for tropical forests to join our team to push forward thinking on forests, drivers and commodity risks – to provide companies and investors with sound evidence on which to base their shift to sustainable wealth creation.
The role would be suitable for someone from a finance, NGO or business background, preferably working with sustainable commodities or supply chains, with a keen interest in the political economics of deforestation and its impacts on human wellbeing and poverty alleviation. The ability to work independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team is essential. Fluency in Spanish or Portuguese would be highly desirable.
Your responsibilities will include driving the direction of research, in collaboration with the Project Director, GCP Global Programme Director, Head of Sciences and across Finance and Policy programmes, producing major research work for internal and external project audiences, covering issues around deforestation, commodities, supply chains, materiality to business and sustainability metrics.
The position will be offered on an initial two years contract with a view to further extension.
Please send a copy of your CV together with a covering letter outlining your suitability for this position and salary expectation to
info@forestdisclosure.com.
Closing date 10th May 2012.
www.forestdisclosure.com
@FFDproject
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