Senior Manager, Social Standards
While this is a remote-first opportunity, the candidate filling this role must be a resident of the Netherlands, the UK, Pennsylvania, New York, or Brazil at the start of employment.Full-TimeManager
Salary253,000 - 278,000 BRL per year
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Job Details
- Languages
- Fluency in English
- Experience
- At least 7 years in a role providing specific experience in relevant issues of social impact and business performance
- Required Skills
- Project ManagementRelationship managementGoogle WorkspaceSlackAsana
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree, with a preference for a Master’s degree, spanning subject areas including sustainable or international development, or other social sciences that intersect with sustainable business practices
- At least 7 years in a role providing specific experience in relevant issues of social impact and business performance, including topics such as: Job Quality/Labor; Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI); Business and Human Rights; Living Wage; and Supply Chain Management
- Technical expertise and strong critical thinking skills in the social areas of business sustainability and impact management performance
- Direct and demonstrable experience with developing, reviewing, and maintaining standards, especially those associated with social impact topics
- Strong oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to confidently navigate conversations involving challenging or technical topics
- Effective partnership development and management experience across complex organizations
- Collaborative, with the ability to engage with and influence a variety of internal and external stakeholders and to anticipate the unique needs of different audiences
- Ability to distill complex information for diverse audiences and tailor messaging and materials to meet a variety of needs and levels of expertise
- Demonstrable experience with project and relationship management, with the ability and desire to tackle complex projects with a diverse set of stakeholders and deliver them in a timely and effective manner.
- Preference for candidates with work experience navigating social impact challenges in a diverse global context, including experience in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
- Fluency in English
- Experience working with or for private sector businesses, preferably in a role relevant to corporate social responsibility and/or sustainability with projects within their specialty
- Social audits experience conducting or supporting in audits on social impact topics
- Experience working in a geographically dispersed organization and collaborating effectively in a remote and fast paced environment
- Speaking and writing proficiency in Spanish and/or Portuguese is a plus
- Experience supporting and managing others, including providing ongoing coaching and professional development
Responsibilities
- Lead research and standards development and revisions for B Lab Standards and related products, with a subject matter focus on the social components of the B Lab Standards including Human Rights, Fair Work, and Justice, Equity, Inclusion and Diversity (JEDI)
- Identify and develop supplemental content, including resources or guides, to enable standards accessibility and understanding that supports implementation and impact management improvements by companies
- Support the communication, understanding, and interpretation of B Lab Standards and processes across B Lab teams, network partners, companies, and public stakeholders
- Contribute to Standard Advisory Council and other standards governance meetings to drive meaningful decisions on standard development and improvements in line with B Lab’s Theory of Change and corresponding strategies
- Support internal and external stakeholder questions, request for clarifications, and limited standard compliance exemptions regarding the social impact topics and other cross-cutting components of the B Lab Standards
- Support regular reviews of the B Lab Standards’s Equity Mechanism and Interoperability applications with other recognized certification schemes, sustainability-related frameworks, disclosure reporting and regulatory standards, among other Standards mechanisms
- Collaborate on B Lab Standards strategy for producing best in class environmental, social, and governance impact management standards through contributing inputs related to social impact topic developments, advances, innovations, and risks
- Partner and advise on the work of the Standards Management Team as a whole to ensure a comprehensive, holistic, and consistent approach to the Standards, informed by individual specialist areas
- Develop and maintain relationships with other standards organizations, stakeholders, and partners to coordinate efforts, build mutually beneficial partnerships, and ensure appropriate inputs into B Lab Standards, supplementary standards, and cross-functional B Lab projects
- Lead and contribute to specific internal cross-functional work-streams to reach organizational objectives and network priorities aligned with B Lab’s Theory of Change
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