Crop Trust Operations

In 2024, the Crop Trust’s corporate operations team focused on building staff capacity and improving processes to enable the organization to function more efficiently and effectively. 

The size and diversity of our organization grew over the year. The 50 people working at the Crop Trust at the end of the year represented 26 nationalities, with 61% of staff identifying as women and 39% as men. Under the newly launched corporate Internship Program, two interns served for six months each to support the External Affairs and Programs teams respectively.

A corporate Gender Diversity and Inclusion (GDI) learning initiative was launched jointly by HR and the GDI Committee of the organization. The initiative provided all staff with access to an online training course, complemented by five face-to-face sessions. An on-site two-day leadership and management training session was also provided to all staff with supervisory responsibility. This included a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment of all participants and a 360-degree assessment of all Executive Committee members.

During the year, a new cloud-based performance management system was selected and customized for the organization’s needs. Implementation will be completed in 2025.

The procurement process for consultants was streamlined to ensure that both categories of service providers – individual consultants and companies – are governed by the same policies and procedures.