Program Associate

**About Rights and Resources Initiative**

The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) is a global coalition of over 150 organizations dedicated to advancing the forestland and resource rights of Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant Peoples, local communities, and the women within them. RRI leverages the power of its global coalition to amplify the voices of local peoples and proactively engage governments, multilateral institutions, and private sector actors to adopt institutional and market reforms that support the realization of rights. It works to unblock political obstacles to create the enabling conditions for recognition of land rights, pilot implementation, and create pathways to scale. RRI is coordinated by the Rights and Resources Group (RRG), a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC.

**About CLARIFI**

The Community Land Rights and Conservation Finance Initiative (CLARIFI) is a new international funding mechanism created by RRI and Campaign for Nature to fulfill a critical gap in the current ecosystem of funding for Indigenous and community rights and conservation. It aims to contribute to raising and deploying US$10 billion in public and private funds by 2030 to secure Indigenous Peoples’, Afro-descendant Peoples’, and local communities’ land rights and to support their conservation and development initiatives.

**Associate, CLARIFI (**Spanish**/English)**

The Associate is a key member of RRI’s CLARIFI team and will be responsible for providing administrative and programmatic support for CLARIFI. The Associate will perform the job duties in a systematic and precise manner, handling details carefully while focusing on big-picture goals. The Associate will be flexible to work in a highly dynamic environment while ensuring that work is completed within established deadlines. The ability to work collaboratively, collegially, and respectfully under pressure is essential.
- Applications will be accepted immediately and interviews conducted on a rolling basis._

**Primary Responsibilities**:
**1. CLARIFI (75%)**
- Provide general administrative support for CLARIFI in English and Spanish, assisting the CLARIFI Director and Facilitators as appropriate.
- Provide coordination and administrative support to the CLARIFI Steering Committee and CLARIFI Technical Team.
- Under the guidance of the Program Director, take ownership and responsibility for proactively:

- Participating in the contracting process via consolidation of budgets and work plans for CLARIFI_, _reviewing and providing input to concept notes and drafting all CLARIFI contracts and amendments as needed.
- Tracking projects in CLARIFI, e. g. project deliverables; reviewing financial reports and managing payment activities consistent with RRI’s accounting tools.
- Drafting correspondence in English and Spanishto ensure concept notes, contracts, reporting and payments are completed in a timely fashion and accurately reflect program/activity objectives.
- Assist in the coordination and drafting or translating (English to/from Spanish) of research, analytical briefings, and CLARIFI updates for use in publications, reports, meetings, etc., etc.
- Manage and provide logístical, travel, administrative and research support to meetings and events held at national, regional and global levels.
- Contribute to monitoring and evaluation process and reporting, ensuring documents are prepared on time to reflect CLARIFI’s impacts.
- In coordination with Communications team, manage CLARIFI webpage and update event announcements, news and relevant content to blogs.
- Effectively contribute to the smooth program administration of CLARIFI, adhering to RRI administrative protocol and deadlines by proactively communicating and seeking resolution of issues.
- Undertake other tasks as requested.

**2. Organization Planning and Institution-wide Support (25%)**
- Provide support on institution-wide functions as requested, including correspondence with Partners and Collaborators in country and in the regions,.
- Coordinate with regional teams on the development and management of projects.
- Support the preparation of narrative reports to donors, and support programmatic planning and monitoring, including the Independent Monitor.
- Provide support related to a strategic theme of intellectual interest, contributing to and/or carrying out research or strategic analysis, providing critical comments on analysis created by RRI Partners and Collaborators, collecting and disseminating relevant publications, articles, news and analyses, supporting networking activities of RRI Partners and Collaborators.
- Edit and translate minor or internal documents to/from English and Spanish.
- Prepare CLARIFI presentations for planning and governance meetings.
- Provide logístical and administrative support to RRI governance and global planning meetings, including contributions to note-taking, translation of short documents and simultaneous translation.
- Participate in