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Conservation International’s (CI) Global Public Partnerships (GPP) team works to increase and diversify the amount of support by public donors to CI’s programs and its partners. Global Public Partnerships’ two-pronged approach focuses on developing long-term partnerships with key donors and providing support to CI field programs accessing public funding. Working on projects with public donors also serves to build CI’s relationships with and understanding of program and policy trends among influential institutions. GPP ‘s engagement thus extends to development assistance policy as it affects climate change, biodiversity, conservation and other CI program areas. GPP supports CI policy units and senior management in creating advocacy for increased funding for programs that benefit conservation.
As a Director for Global Public Partnerships (GPP), s/he is responsible for supporting overall partnership development and outreach to bilateral and multilateral institutions for new “special initiatives.” Special initiatives are CI’s key priorities that are well aligned with the biodiversity and sustainable development agenda and CI’s capacity to deliver through its field programs. They can include field project implementation, advancing science and ensuring policy relevant messages are formulated and communicated around major topics such as Ecosystem based adaptation, green economic development, REDD+, fresh water or valuation of our natural capital. Presenting such initiatives to our bilateral and multilateral partners will require a sound understanding of the issues, CI strategy and their relevance for the overseas assistance agendas of these partners. S/he will represent GPP at a high level within the international conservation and development community at strategic meetings.
The Director is also responsible for leading development and implementation of fundraising strategies for new “special initiatives” to benefit high-priority institutional objectives. In this role, s/he will be required to liaise within the Center for Environment and Peace as well as with CI senior leadership, CI’s regional institutes and CI’s Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Ecosystem Finance Division to determine the most exciting and important issues and innovations that could merit becoming ‘special initiatives’. S/he is also the Account Lead for Canada and the Australian Government. As such s/he will work with designated staff in Asia/Australia and lead management of relationships through day-to-day stewardship, and through regular contact on strategic, financial and programmatic issues with senior-level counterparts.
S/he is responsible for donor reporting and works with the department head to integrate departmental goals and outcomes into divisional and institutional planning processes.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Lead development and management of “Special Initiatives” public funding opportunities benefitting high-priority institutional objectives. It will require strong representational skills to effectively liaise with donors, CI’s leadership, The Americas Institute, The Asia Institute, Africa Field Programs, The Moore Center and the Ecosystem and Finance Division on these concepts. Initiatives are CI’s institutional top priorities that are cross divisional and may include developing new cross-donor partnerships. Special efforts will be made to pursue opportunities to advance environmental peace building. Specific duties include:
- Provide inputs and advice based on knowledge of public finance priorities to agenda and priority setting processes in the relevant divisions and departments;
- Developing and implementing partnership and fundraising strategies for new initiatives such as the African Leadership Summit follow up, The Pacific Islands Forum;
- Work closely with account managers on behalf of the initiatives and ensure fulfillment of commitments towards bilateral and multilateral donors.
- Lead fundraising and outreach efforts to increase CI’s project portfolio with the government of Canada and Australia. Together with CI’s Asia field program staff, determine strategies and be responsible for account management for funding from Australia. Specific duties include:
- Effectively engage with CI staff based in Asia/Australia to coordinate outreach activities to the Government of Australia;
- Act as Account Lead for Canada and Australia, thereby representing CI at donor, regional and international meetings;
- Support programs in accessing bilateral funding through support to proposal development, contract negotiation and project implementation;
- Act as Account Manager for all active grants, supporting effective implementation and donor compliance;
- Support to the VP GPP in strategy development, administrative tasks and representation:
- Develop engagement strategies/event, including identifying target Global Agents of Change and drafting talking points;
- Represent GPP in senior-level Global Agents of Change meetings and/or coordinate outreach to Global Agents of Change and other bilateral and multilateral institutions
- Coordination with CI’s office in Brussels
- Represent GPP at internal meetings such as the Resource Management Group, Fundraiser’s Forum, Policy meetings etc.
Working Conditions:
- This position is based in CI Headquarters in Arlington, VA
- Ability to travel up to 20%
QUALIFICATIONS:
Requirements:
- Masters Degree in environmental studies, development, or international policy.
- Minimum 10 years of relevant work experience.
- Proven track record preparing multi-million dollar proposals, including strong writing and editing skills.
- Excellent understanding of conservation programs’ technical aspects.
- Excellent understanding of official development assistance priorities and organizational structure of major public donors.
- Strong network among bilateral and multilateral institutions.
- Strong representational and negotiation skills.
- Personal commitment to conservation.
- Self-starter with strong strategic thinking capacity.
- At least one foreign language
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