Jessica Joubert
Capability and Assurance ManagerContact
Responsibilities
- Farm Sustainability Assessment
- SAI Platform Systems Support
- Systems Communications
Jessica is the Capability and Assurance Manager at SAI Platform.
In her role, Jessica oversees SAI Platform’s verification programme for the FSA and Regenerating Together, ensuring that users can confidently implement SAI Platform’s industry solutions and communicate about their sustainability verifications.
She is passionate about enhancing access to quality knowledge and information for farmers and stakeholders, through research, training and institutional development. She believes that ensuring that people have access to the tools and knowledge they need to do their work well can help them to realise their goals and potential, in a way that is sustainable.
Her background is in livelihoods development and smallholder agriculture. She previously worked with Bonsucro in Africa, running Bonsucro’s LEGEND Challenge Grant across six African countries, and was involved in the organisation’s ISEAL funded ‘Good Practice, Better Finance’ project, which piloted affordable finance models for farmers who perform well against sustainability frameworks. Before this she worked as a consultant with RMI Development, a consultancy which focusses on rural development and preparing smallholder organisations for commercial farming.