Interim Advocacy Director (maternity cover)

Reports to: CEO, Business for Nature

Manages: BfN’s Advocacy team (5 people)

Term: ideally starting 4 November 2024 until mid-May 2025 (with possible handover in Oct 2024)

Location: Anywhere, provided you have the right to work, ability to work remotely and travel occasionally

Position/type of contract: Full-time or part-time negotiable

Application deadline: 15 September 2024

Gross Salary range for 6 months (total):  USD 30-60,000, depending on location, for full time position

Key responsibilities

• Ensure the advocacy team is coordinated, continues to have a clear workplan and objectives and that communication flows between team members
• Ensure the advocacy strategy is translated into impactful activities and outputs to meet the advocacy objectives
• Ensure BfN’s new policy positions are clear, pragmatic, ambitious and grounded in business reality
• Lead the engagement with BfN’s Leadership Group and Business Advisory Group
• Help drive BfN’s vision and strategic priorities, and uphold its values

Qualifications, skills and experience

• A degree in political sciences, environmental management, economics, sustainable development, or any other relevant field
• Experience in leadership and people management
• Excellent track record in program and project management
• Experience in advocacy/policy and engaging directly with policymakers
• Ideally, experience in working with businesses
• Technical expertise on BfN’s advocacy priorities (outlined above) would be a plus but not essential
• A talent for working in multi-stakeholder partnerships and managing multiple stakeholders
• Excellent English written and oral communications skills particularly to convey complex ideas, thoughts and concepts for a general audience
• Strong organizational and time management skills including a capacity to track details.

Please submit a CV, cover letter, and salary expectations (keeping in mind the range provided above) to [email protected] with the subject line “Interim Advocacy Director: First name, Last name” by 15 September 2024.

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