Director - Policy and Advocacy

1 week ago

London, United Kingdom Business for Nature Full time €6

Business for Nature is looking for an Interim Advocacy Director (maternity cover) (November 2024 - May or June 2025, 6-7 months)  
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.
This is a unique opportunity for professional and personal development through different skills, perspectives, and experiences. By being part of the senior management team, the individual will strengthen their strategic leadership, decision-making and team management; by working in a hugely collaborative network, they will boost relationships and extend their professional network; by working in a small team, they will experience an agile work environment. 
We are looking for a passionate individual who can lead the implementation of Business for Nature’s advocacy strategy with experience in people and team management as well as program management, experience of working with a policy audience, and ideally good understanding of environmental issues and experience working with business.
To be successful, the candidate should be a self-motivated team player who has excellent organizational, management and communications skills with the ability to simultaneously handle multiple projects and maintain a high level of attention to detail.

Title: Interim Advocacy Director, Business for Nature
Manages: BfN’s Advocacy team (5 people) 
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 
Gross Salary range for 6 months (total): USD 30-60,000, depending on location, for full time position 

This is a good-faith range based on the equivalent of a full-time (40 hour/week) employment contract. Salary may vary based on number of hours worked, local market and experience. The range listed is one component of the total compensation package for employees.  
We are hosted at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, a US-based organization, which offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including health coverage, retirement/pension benefits, and holidays.  

Together, we drive credible business action and policy ambition to achieve a nature-positive economy for all by 2030.
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
# Drive ambitious national implementation of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (UN CBD) Global Biodiversity Framework by embedding the role of business in the National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) and sharing learnings across regions


We deliver high quality work with urgency that will have real impact.
About our advocacy work   
Through our advocacy work, we aim to unify and amplify an ambitious leading business voice that calls on governments to adopt transformative policies, legislation and regulation that in turn would lead to accelerating business action on nature. Our objective is therefore to provide the courage, comfort and technical expertise to governments so that they adopt, implement and enforce ambitious policies that ensure the creation of a nature positive economy by 2030. Now that the Framework is adopted, our advocacy strategy is centred around ensuring its successful implementation at global, regional and national level.
Business for Nature’s current advocacy priorities are focused on:
# The overall implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework, including the adoption by governments of ambitious National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs), that provide clear roles and responsibilities to business and outline the upcoming regulatory framework.
# The reform of environmentally harmful subsidies and incentives to ensure the elimination of perverse subsidies and the increase of positive incentives, to ensure that financial flows are aligned with the mission of the Global Biodiversity Framework.


Lead and manage the Advocacy team 
Lead the advocacy program management
Ensure the advocacy strategy is translated into impactful activities and outputs to meet the advocacy objectives 
Overall overview and accountability of the implementation of global advocacy projects 
Overall overview and accountability of the implementation of national and regional advocacy projects 
Ensure BfN’s new policy positions are clear, pragmatic, ambitious and grounded in business reality
 
Support internal and external outreach 
Join BfN management team
Help drive BfN's vision and strategic priorities, and uphold its values 
 
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
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.

Business for Nature offers a competitive, modern, and flexible working arrangement: 
Flexi-time and part-time possibilities 
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