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Textile Exchange is a global non-profit driving positive impact on climate change across the fashion and textile 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 textile 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 textile 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. Each Textile Exchange employee is offered a competitive compensation package with paid time off, yearly bonus, opportunities for continuing education, and more.

Job Summary

The Human Rights Specialist will report to the organization’s Standards, Senior Technical Manager, and work as part of the Textile Exchange Standards team, the department that is responsible for the development and maintenance of various textile industry-leading voluntary sustainability standards, used for independent auditing and certification.

The position will also report through a dotted line to the Human Rights Strategist, who leads the organizational strategy on integration of human rights and livelihoods. This position will serve as our Standards team expert on human rights and livelihoods content, currently included within Textile Exchange’s Global Recycled Standard (GRS), Responsible Animal Fiber (RAF) standards and evolving as Textile Exchange harmonizes its standards into a more unified standard system.

The Human Rights Specialist will have a strong foundation and expertise of industry human rights and livelihoods standards, also working on related topics covering audit-ability, grievance mechanisms and remediation procedures and will provide team support on systems maintenance across all standards.

Like all roles at Textile Exchange, the role will be primarily home-based. Textile Exchange is a US-based, remote-working organization with a global team. This position is open to domestic and international candidates. Some overlap of working hours with Europe and the US Pacific Standard Time zones is required.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Standards, Senior Manager and team on revisions of existing standards and the development of a more unified standard system, including coordination with an international working group, piloting of criteria, public consultations, and finalization of new versions of the standard;

• Serve as the technical expert for human rights and livelihoods content within Textile Exchange standards and related policies, procedures, and guidelines;

• Develop knowledge on the application of human rights and livelihoods criteria across all fibers & materials that form the scope of Textile Exchange standards;

• Develop and maintain corresponding policies, procedures, training materials, templates, and other resources that support comprehension and uptake of human rights and livelihoods criteria;

• Collaborate with the Assurance team, the department responsible for oversight of the implementation of Textile Exchange’s standards, to develop audit framework and supporting documentation for the implementation of a more unified standard system;

• Collaborate with the Assurance Training team to develop guidance and training for certified organizations, certification bodies and accreditation bodies on implementation of human rights and livelihoods criteria.

• Collaborate with the Assurance team and organizational Compliance team in the development of a grievance mechanism, leading a pilot program to develop access for rights holders in certified supply chains.

• Collaborate with the Impact Acceleration team to complete social benchmarking process of external standards against the Leather Impact Accelerator – Leather Production Social Standards Benchmark.

• Collaborate with the Stakeholder Engagement team to support the uptake of Textile Exchange standards as well as inquiries and questions on the human rights and livelihoods content;

• Represent the organization during virtual ISEAL workshops on human rights and livelihoods content and supporting implementation systems.

• Develop internal and external communications to support comprehension of human rights and livelihoods standard requirements and supporting systems.

Minimum Experience and Qualifications

• Experience working with human rights and livelihoods standards within textile, apparel and/or agricultural sectors.

• Minimum 3 years of experience in human rights/ethical trade in supply chains.

• Detail-oriented with intuitive thought processes to understand new contexts to provide interpretation of requirements.

• People-oriented and empathetic for outreach activities and to understand questions and scenarios and provide helpful solutions;

• Highly literate, with excellent written and grammatical skills in English to provide clear and concise writing in standards and guidance.

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, & Word and the ability to quickly learn new systems.

• A driven individual with a strong work ethic and high degree of autonomy; self-starting and proactive.

• Strong organizational and planning skills.

• Motivated, energetic, determined, and with strong interpersonal skills.

• Able to produce a high standard of work across all forms of media.

• Honest, professional, responsible, discreet, and able to act with the utmost confidence at all times.

• Flexibility of working across multiple time zones.

• Experience working at an international organization.

Employment Package

• Reports to: Standards, Senior Technical Manager

• Full Time Position, 40 Hours a Week

• Location: Virtual/Remote

• Salary Range: 50,000-60,000USD

• Start Date: As Soon as Available

How to Apply

Please submit the following here:

• Resume

• Cover Letter

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis as they are submitted. Early application submission is strongly encouraged.

Textile Exchange is committed to creating a diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.