Nature Engagement Manager

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Are you passionate about the role of the private sector in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement? Do you have experience in working with key nature and biodiversity actors? Are you a strong project manager who is able to coordinate engagement across multiple stakeholders? Then, the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) is looking for you because we are recruiting for an:

Engagement Manager, Nature and Biodiversity System Transformation

WBA is building a movement to measure and incentivise business impact towards a sustainable future that works for everyone. The private sector has a crucial role to play in advancing the SDGs, but to boost companies’ motivation, there needs to be real change in the way that their impact is measured. That’s why we are assessing the progress of thousands of companies through publicly available and free rankings of corporate performance. We strengthen, support and complement our benchmarks through active engagement with different stakeholders – including civil society organisations, financial institutions, business networks, policymakers and regulators so that our benchmarks are relevant and used by all, accelerating a race to the top.

The role of the Nature and Biodiversity Engagement Manager is to enable WBA’s Nature Benchmark to be relevant, recognised, aspirational and useful. You will be responsible for a broad set of responsibilities including stakeholder relations activities, partnerships and coalition building, project management, and events, to ensure that the methodology and Benchmark is effectively utilised by stakeholders as we build a movement towards increased corporate sustainability leadership and accountability. This will include management of issues focused on governance and strategy, biodiversity and environmental management, and social inclusion and community impact. You will work closely with the Nature and Biodiversity System Transformation Lead and ensure alignment of communications and approaches with WBA’s other systems. Part of WBA’s Engagement Function, you will also play a role in supporting WBA’s institutional engagement activities during key global moments.

What you will do:

  • Ensure balanced, multi-stakeholder engagement throughout the benchmark development process;
  • Perform stakeholder mapping and build relationships with key organisations – such as investors (e.g. UNEP FI, PRI, Robeco, Finance for Biodiversity, Nature Action 100), civil society, academia and business platforms (e.g. WWF, WBCSD, IUCN, CDP) – to help create and manage collective engagements around benchmark data, advocating for evidence-led transformation;
  • Lead engagement at COP15 on Biological Diversity, including developing approach, strategy and stakeholder networks to create high-impact conversations on corporate accountability and system transformation;
  • Organise global and regional events with diverse groups of stakeholders, leading on concept and objective setting, building narratives, identifying and briefing speakers and ensuring effective follow-up. Strategize approach to global forums including the UN General Assembly, Stockholm+50 and COP15;
  • Consult and collaborate closely with WBA’s engagement, research, and communications colleagues in the development of the Benchmark narrative and engagement strategy with key stakeholder groups;
  • Share learnings and best practices with other engagement managers to ensure alignment, troubleshoot issues and support larger organisational priorities;
  • Support WBA’s monitoring and evaluation and learning from the Nature system perspective, as well as quarterly/annual reporting and funding proposals.

What we are looking for:

  • 3-5 years working experience in engagement-related roles;
  • Passion for sustainability with knowledge and understanding of the SDGs and the nature and biodiversity space specifically;
  • Experience of running coalitions, collective engagements or campaigns would be an advantage.
  • An outstanding relationship/stakeholder manager, capable of building relationships of trust;
  • Is flexible working in an evolving and fast changing environment, a self-starter that has a positive attitude and is able to plan and set priorities;
  • Excellent verbal and written English communication skills, including ability to distil and translate complex data into relevant insights for a broad range of stakeholders
  • Ability to work across different virtual teams and global cultures, comfortable in an evolving ‘Teal’ working environment that promotes flexibility, self-management and wholeness;

Our Offer

A dynamic role with room to grow in a driven team focused on impact, ambition and teamwork. We stimulate personal growth and believe in flexible working arrangements. We have a physical presence in Amsterdam and London, alongside many employees who work across the world. You can be based anywhere for this role as inclusivity is one of our values.

Interested?

Send your resume to careers@worldbenchmarkingalliance.org addressed to Matt Gwyn (Engagement Manager) with a brief cover letter explaining why you want to join the WBA and how you meet ‘What we are looking for’. We are happy for you to apply as soon as possible but at the latest by 27 February and virtual online interviews will be held in the week of 7 March. For more information about us and our benchmarks, see our website or follow @SDGBenchmarks.

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