B Lab and the B Corp movement

B Lab is the non-profit network transforming the global economy to benefit all people, communities, and the planet.

B Lab creates standards, policies, and tools for business, and we certify companies — known as B Corps — that are leading the way. We mobilize the global B Corp community of over 7000 businesses in 90 countries towards collective action to address society’s most critical challenges and we collaborate with governments, academia, coalitions, and other institutions to drive economic systems change. By using business as a force for good, our collective vision is to create an inclusive, equitable, and regenerative economy.

The B Lab Benelux team is part of B Lab Europe. The Benelux Community is scaling rapidly, as the demand for B Corp certification and interest in impact management tools and programs across the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg is fast growing. We are a young, innovative, and open-minded team, working with strong dedication and a contagious drive to contribute to B Lab’s mission and vision.

About the role

The B Corp Engagement & Impact team is accountable for B Corp relations, ensuring that B Corps are engaged in, and satisfied with their certification. The team also develops opportunities to share knowledge and examples among B Corps to drive continuous improvement of their impact.

B Lab Benelux is looking for a B Corp Impact Improvement Lead to join our team. This is an exciting new role in the B Lab Benelux team and an opportunity to join an organization and movement working to make the global economy benefit all people, communities, and the planet.

In this new role, you will start from an outside-in (customer) perspective and overall focus on identifying opportunities that increase the impact of certification and ideate other programs or resources that increase impact and thus add value for our core customers: the B Corp community.

Your main responsibilities will be:

This is a new role in our team. Therefore your key tasks (not exhaustive) will entail:

Prepare B Corps for the new B Corp performance standards

• Become part of the new performance standards (EoS) implementation team

• Co-create the EoS implementation plan and support execution

• Jointly with the Certification & Product manager to develop content (programs, resources) that support and encourage B Corps to work with the new B Corp standards,

Strengthen the B Corp impact improvement journey and assets

Together with the Sr. Manager B Corp Impact & Engagement, you will lead on:

• Develop a community-wide strategy and tactics to enhance the continuous impact improvement ability of B Corps (e.g. better unlock the BIA potential as an impact management tool, specific peer or sector programs, automated impact improvement emails, etc.)

• Develop activities to support B Corps on their impact measurement and management journey - adding to the BIA performance framework and the B Corp standards (e.g. setting up specific programs, events, webinars, peer- or sector sessions, toolkits, blogs)

• Co-create tailored services and tactics for the various types of B Corps (smaller, medium and larger companies)

Data and insights analysis

• Capturing insights around improvement and impact and translating them into strategy and actions

• Building a system of community impact data analysis , track and update community impact (e.g. to tailor our offerings and events) and

• Creating reports and impact dashboard creation

• Work with other team members on share insights for content and program development

Collaborate with the team on designing and programming Belgium & Dutch B Corp gatherings and events (providing specific content related to impact improvement).

Preferred Qualifications, Skills & Knowledge

• 3-5 years of working experience in at least the private sector or consulting

• Experience in working with multiple stakeholders or companies on collective initiatives.

• Proven knowledge of impact in a business context, ESG /sustainability strategy and implementation, data analysis, and monitoring.

• Strong analytical skills and data analysis and reporting capabilities.

• Fluent(verbal and written) communication and presentation skills in NL and ENG.

Person Specification:

• Passionate about the role that business can play in creating a future that benefits all people and the planet.

• Gets energy from talking to a culturally diverse group of people, both inside B Lab and within the B Corp community of businesses

• A self-starter, someone who takes initiative and can start new projects on their own.

• A team player with strong stakeholder engagement and cultural awareness skills. Preferably experience working in international organizations.

What we offer:

• Indicative salary range EUR 54-59K gross per year (incl holiday allowance) dependent on relevant work experience

• 25 days of holiday plus additional days off over the end-of-year holiday period

• Volunteering hours to help contribute to other organizations

• Annual professional development budget to contribute to career development and learning

• Monthly contributions towards health insurance, health and wellbeing, mobile and commuting to the office bills, and working from home – we believe well-being is fundamental to our mental and physical health and happiness!

• Working in a flexible open office at the KIT, next to the Oosterpark.

Start date: As soon as possible

Working arrangement: Hybrid - both working from the office in Amsterdam and working from home is allowed.

Recruitment Policy

We have made it a priority to hire from, a diverse pool of candidates - as we believe that a range of lived experiences, voices, and perspectives directly contributes to the success of our team. An equitable and inclusive work environment and a diverse, empowered team are key to achieving our mission. That’s why we have chosen BeApplied as our recruitment tool as it is designed to try and remove as much bias as possible from our hiring process.

• Instead of using your CV [alone], we are asking candidates to answer questions to test the skills needed for the role. No cover letter is required.

• The answers are then anonymized, chunked, randomized, and reviewed by team members.

• Once we have anonymously reviewed your answers, you will be contacted via email with either an invitation to an interview or an email explaining why you did not receive an invite to an interview based on our review.

Whether you are successful for this role or not, we will store your application and data in our system for a max period of one year from the application date in case another role becomes available that you are suitable for. If you have any questions or concerns about us storing your data and/or the period of time, please contact us at jobs@bcorporation.eu and we will answer to you within 30 days.