Impact Incentives, Manager

Impact Incentives, Manager
About Us
Textile Exchange is a global non-profit driving positive impact on climate change across the fashion and têxtile industry. It guides a growing community of brands, manufacturers, and farmers towards more purposeful production from the very start of the supply chain. By 2030, its goal is to guide the industry to achieve a 45% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions within fiber and raw material production. Its focus is holistic and interconnected, accelerating the adoption of practices that improve the state of our water, soil health, and biodiversity too. For real change to happen, everyone needs a clear path to positive impact. That's why Textile Exchange believes that approachable, step-by-step instruction paired with collective action can change the system to make preferred materials and fibers an accessible default, mobilizing leaders through attainable strategies, proven solutions, and a driven community. At Textile Exchange, materials matter. To learn more, visit TextileExchange.org.
Working at Textile Exchange
We work remotely with a team located in 20+ countries. We are a diverse group committed to harnessing the strengths of the global têxtile industry to accelerate change toward climate and other key environmental goals. We work collaboratively on important environmental issues around the world by working and interacting with farming groups, processors, brands, retailers, and environmental experts in the têxtile and fashion industries around the world. We offer an opportunity to join a cutting-edge global environmental nonprofit and to help strengthen the impact of our organization.
About Impact Incentives
Impact Incentives are an evolution of the book & claim or credit trading systems. Incentives are issued to producers that meet a set of sustainability criteria (eg: zero deforestation).
The physical goods and the Impact Incentives are traded separately from each other, eliminating the cost and complexity of traceability, while still allowing transparency. Brands buy incentives to deliver financial support to the farmers for following best practices, and in turn can make sustainability claims.
About the Impact Alliance
Job Summary
We are looking for an **Impact Incentives Manager**,** to become part of the Textile Exchange Impact Incentives team and work with the Leather team and other Fiber and Materials teams. The Impact Incentives Manager will focus on implementing and scaling up the Impact Incentives. They will support the Senior Manager in executing the operational and strategic goals that aim at large-scale adoption of the Incentives by brands and producers.
A strong initial focus of this position will be on leather and the cattle industry in Brazil and South America. Textile Exchange is currently expanding the use of Impact Incentives to other materials and regions in the world. By incentivizing raw material producers to adopt and sustain best practices, the Impact Incentives are an important tool to deliver key impacts in support of the Textile Exchange Climate+ strategy. The Impact Incentives Manager will play an important role on scaling up this tool.
The Impact Incentives Manager will support the oversight of all Textile Exchange Impact Incentives programs. Their work will include the onboarding and supporting of producers, on-the-ground Program Partners, and third-party verifiers, as well as managing relationships with other key stakeholders in the regions the Impact Incentives are being applied in. Engaging closely with the supply side of the Incentives, they will play a key role in safeguarding the integrity of the Impact Incentives and in delivering value to the invested brands and to Textile Exchange.
This is a fantastic opportunity to work for a mission-driven organization. You will be a positive person interested in sustainability and passionate about scaling solutions to address the climate crisis. You will have a proven ability to work autonomously, have good judgement, the ability to think critically and to adjust to a fast-changing environment. Expert-level written and verbal communication skills, the attention to detail, as well as a high level of professionalism and integrity are all needed.
Like all roles at Textile Exchange, this role will be primarily home-based, ideally in Brazil or South America; Textile Exchange is a US-based but remote-working organization with a global team. Your key colleagues will be in Argentina and Canada, while key stakeholders are based in time zones between PST and CET.
**Responsibilities**:
Reports to: Impact Incentives, Senior Manager
**Engagement with producers, Program Partners, and Verifiers**
- Act as primary contact with existing and new producers, including recruitment, onboarding/training, support and guidance on the Impact Incentives program(s).
- Act as primary contact with existing and potential new Program Partners, including recruitment, onboarding/training, support and gui

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