About Ephtah Specialty Coffee

Ephtah Specialty Coffee, founded in 2021, is an award-winning, women-owned specialty coffee export company dedicated to supplying the finest Ethiopian specialty coffee to customers around the world. The company is committed to delivering exceptional quality, traceability, transparency, and outstanding customer service while building long-term partnerships with clients, suppliers, and coffee-producing communities.

Guided by the core values of Integrity, Transparency, Innovation, Community, Sustainability, and Excellence, Ephtah strives to create lasting

 value for customers while contributing to the sustainable growth of Ethiopia's specialty coffee industry.

About Ama Commitment

Ama Commitment ("The Mothers' Commitment") is Ephtah Specialty Coffee's flagship social impact and charitable initiative dedicated to empowering women coffee farmers and strengthening rural communities across Ethiopia. Through education, healthcare, environmental conservation, economic empowerment, and sustainable livelihood initiatives, the program seeks to improve the lives of farming families while promoting responsible coffee production.

The Role

The role is responsible for leading the Ama Commitment social impact initiative, managing sustainability certifications, strengthening supplier sustainability, ensuring compliance with international standards, fostering stakeholder partnerships, and driving measurable environmental and social impact while supporting the company's long-term business objectives

Location: Ephtah Head Office, around Atlas Hotel

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and periodically review the company's sustainability strategy aligned with the corporate vision and business objectives.

• Establish annual sustainability goals, key performance indicators (KPIs), and implementation plans.

• Advise senior management on sustainability risks, opportunities, regulatory developments, and emerging industry trends.

• Promote sustainability as an integral part of organizational culture and decision-making.

• Lead continuous improvement initiatives across all business functions.

• Develop and implement environmental sustainability programs across the coffee supply chain.

• Promote climate-smart and regenerative agricultural practices among coffee producers.

• Lead initiatives related to biodiversity conservation, water stewardship, waste reduction, recycling, and responsible resource management.

• Measure, monitor, and recommend initiatives to reduce the company's carbon footprint.

• Support environmental impact assessments and climate resilience initiatives.

• Provide overall leadership and management of the Ama Commitment program.

• Design, implement, and monitor projects that empower women farmers and improve community livelihoods.

• Conduct sustainability assessments and audits of suppliers and producer organizations.

• Develop monitoring and evaluation frameworks for sustainability programs.

• Build and maintain strategic partnerships with government institutions, NGOs, certification bodies, research institutions, development agencies, coffee associations, donors, and international buyers.

• Identify grant funding opportunities and strategic partnerships.

• Monitor project implementation, budgets, deliverables, and timelines.

• Develop and update sustainability policies, procedures, and standard operating procedures.

• Monitor international sustainability trends, coffee industry developments, and best practices.

• Conduct regular field visits to coffee-producing regions across Ethiopia.

Reporting Line

• Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO)