Freelance Auditor – Assurance Provider Oversight – APO- Asia

• Posted on October 3, 2025

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Vietnam
Buon Ma Thuot, VN 11111, VNM +2 more locations

• On-site
• Quality Assurance
• Full-Time
• Requisition #: REQUE
  001537

RA Department:
Assurance

Location(s):
Asia – Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Indonesia and North – Italy, Belgium

Commitment: 12 months

Desired start date and duration:
February 2026

Under direction of:
Manager, APO

The Rainforest Alliance (RA) is an international nonprofit organization working at the intersection of business, agriculture, and forests to make responsible business the new normal. We are building an alliance to protect forests, improve the livelihoods of farmers and forest communities, promote their human rights, and help them mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis. We envision a world where people and nature thrive in harmony.

The Rainforest Alliance is creating a more sustainable world by using social and market forces to protect nature and improve the lives of farmers and forest communities.

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The Rainforest Alliance Assurance Systems, specifically Assurance Provider Oversight, as responsible for managing the evaluation and quality system of the Certification Bodies (CBs) for the Certification Program, must carry out shadow, review, office and desk audits to monitor the performance of the auditors and CBs as well as compliance with the Rules and Protocols for authorization and maintenance of CBs. Through these audits, it will allow the Certification Program to carry out continuous improvement follow-ups with the CBs and auditors, as well as with the audited farms and groups

Main Objectives

The Freelance Assurance Provider Oversight (APO) Auditor assesses the performance of certification bodies working with Rainforest Alliance Certification Program to guarantee consistency, credibility, higher standards and compliance to assurance procedures and protocols to safeguard integrity of the organization’s standards.

The Freelance Auditor will be attending the requirements of the RAAssurance system, including shadow, review, office and desk audits and/or the conduction of spot-checks at field level to verify concrete examples of compliance ofcertificate holders; also the Freelance Auditor will participate in investigation audits; the reviewing of audit reports produced by other auditors as assigned byRA; the reviewing of corrective action plans or other documents produced by the certification body as assigned by RA;

the training of other APOFreelance Auditor as assigned by RA. The Freelance Auditor may be requested to perform other tasks directly related to the improvement of theRACertification Body Monitoring program, including but not limited to reviewing documents to give inputs, developingtemplates, developing guidance, instruction documents as agreed with their contact person at RA.

Activities

• Audits to the CBs working with the Rainforest Alliance Certification Program, RA 2020.
• Follow-up activities resulting from the Assurance Provider Oversight audits.
• When required, to participate in the process to train other Assurance Provider Oversight Freelance Auditors on the applicable auditing procedures.
• Assessment of the CBs’ execution of and compliance to assurance policies.
• Provide effective feedback to the Rainforest Alliance to develop and implement the monitoring program on CBs’ activities.
• Provide complete and accurate data as requested by the Rainforest Alliance Assurance Team supporting its system of risk assessments and consistent scoring of CBs performance

The Consultant shall…