Business for Nature is hiring an Interim Advocacy Director (maternity cover)

 
 
 

We are looking for an Interim Advocacy Director to join our global team and coordinate our advocacy efforts as a maternity leave cover. This is a senior leadership and strategic role with the organization and the postholder will also sit on and contribute to Business for Nature’ senior management team. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a multi-stakeholder international coalition, work alongside our network of 100 partners worldwide and with leading businesses help to drive Business for Nature’s mission and strategy.  

We work in a fast-paced and constantly changing environment. You need to be comfortable working autonomously.  As a small team operating across the world, you should feel comfortable working virtually.  

Job overview

Title: Interim Advocacy Director, Business for Nature

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 hand-over in Oct 2024) 

Location: We are a virtual team so you can be based anywhere providing you have the right to work there. You may need to travel occasionally.  

Position: 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  

Who are we 

Business for Nature is a global coalition of more than 100 influential parter organizations and forward-thinking companies. Together, we drive credible business action and policy ambition to achieve a nature-positive economy for all by 2030.

Our priorities are to:

  1. Provide the courage, comfort, and technical expertise to governments so that they adopt, implement and enforce ambitious policies that help create a nature-positive economy  

  2. Scale and speed up business action by strengthening, clarifying and amplifying why and how companies should act now  

  3. Drive ambitious national implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework by embedding the role of business in the CBD National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) and sharing learnings across regions

Our values  

  • We aim high: We deliver high quality work with urgency that will have real impact. 

  • We are collaborative:  We work with and recognize others to simplify the landscape to reach better outcomes for people and the planet. 

  • We are inclusive:  We employ and work with people and stakeholders from different backgrounds and geographies. 

  • We are open: We listen, learn and bring light-heartedness to our work without underestimating the challenges we face. 

The Interim Advocacy Director will fulfil the following functions

  1. Lead and manage the Advocacy team: Ensure the team is coordinated, continues to have a clear workplan and objectives and that communication flows between team members. Manage the day-to-day work of the five team members, providing strategic and technical support as required. Support any HR related issues with the team.

  2. Lead the advocacy program management:  Ensure the advocacy strategy is translated into impactful activities and outputs to meet the advocacy objectives. Ensure the program is implemented effectively, timely and impactfully. Overall overview and accountability of the implementation of global advocacy projects. Ensure BfN’s new policy positions are clear, pragmatic, ambitious and grounded in business reality.

  3. Support internal and external outreach:  Ensure liaison with other BfN teams and coordination. Lead the engagement with BfN’s Leadership Group and Business Advisory Group. Ensure effective engagement opportunities for the CEO with governments as relevant based on the strategy.

  4. Join BfN management team: Contribute to BfN’s strategy, vision and overall decision making. 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. 

  • Strong sense of responsibility for taking projects from inception to completion.  

Process to apply 

To apply for this position please submit the following materials to contact@businessfornature.org with the subject line “Interim Advocacy Director: First name, Last name” by 15 September 2024.

  1. A CV / resume 

  2. A cover letter outlining why you are suitable for the role 

  3. Salary expectations, keeping in mind the range provided above

Important notes: 

  • Candidates who applied through LinkedIn or other channels without a cover letter will NOT be considered 

  • We will only respond to candidates selected for the interview process. 

 
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