Engagement Lead – Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool

The UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) strives for a
sustainable world for biodiversity and people. One of the impact areas in UNEP-WCMC’s strategy
is Nature Economy, where we enable and empower leaders across all sectors of the economy to act
for nature.

We support businesses, financial institutions, and governments, to ensure they have the
knowledge, tools and capacity to measure and account for their impacts and dependencies on
natural capital so they can implement actions towards a nature-positive future. Fifteen years
ago, a ground-breaking alliance between UNEP-WCMC, BirdLife International, Conservation
International and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) launched the
Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT). This tool integrates data from globally
authoritative biodiversity datasets – the World Database on Protected Areas, World Database of
Key Biodiversity Areas and the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species – into a single portal to
support decision-makers from industry, finance and governments. Today, it continues to be an
innovative solution for providing biodiversity information to decision-makers while channeling
resources into the underlying datasets. This post is hosted in the Nature Economy team of
UNEP-WCMC, and works full time as part of the IBAT Secretariat supporting IBAT.

The Engagement Lead will lead scaling IBAT’s business development. Leading a team of programme
officers, and working closely with the IBAT Manager, IBAT User Sub-committee and other members
of IBAT’s leadership team, the post holder will develop and implement sector-specific outreach
strategies targeting key sectors of the economy with the greatest impact on biodiversity. The
post holder will engage with businesses and financial institutions to expand IBAT to more
organisations while overseeing IBAT’s marketing and communication activities. The post holder
will manage IBAT’s user support and training efforts, ensuring organisations receive the
support they need to incorporate and mainstream biodiversity into their decision-making.
Working within a multidisciplinary and cross-organisational team, the post holder will draw on
both their expertise and user insights to develop a pipeline of projects to enhance IBAT’s
products and services to expand its impact.

If you are looking for a rewarding and challenging post where you can use your skills to make a
positive impact, we want to hear from you. Please complete a WCMC application form and submit
it with a CV and short covering letter using the link below by Sunday 17th March 2024.