Stakeholder and Political Engagement Lead

Global Canopy is a data-driven not for profit that targets the market forces destroying
nature. We do this by improving transparency and accountability. We provide innovative
open-access data, clear metrics, and actionable insights to leading companies, financial
institutions, governments and campaigning organisations worldwide. Our special focus is on
ending deforestation – an essential step in achieving urgent global goals on climate, nature
and human rights.

The role: overview 

This role builds on Global Canopy’s long-standing influencing work with different
strategic audiences – including policymakers, investors, companies, campaigners and the media –
advocating for forests, nature and people; as well as our work developing and delivering ideas,
stories and messages in the public arena. 

Our new Strategic and Political Engagement Lead will play a pivotal role in helping to
align and connect this advocacy and engagement across programmes, drawing in the unique data
and insights generated by our teams, and ensuring that we are strategic in reaching the
audiences that can influence change. 

This comes at an important moment in the growth of the organisation, which now has a
more complex set of programmes, datasets and domains – crossing both forests and nature, human
rights and the just transition, and dependencies, impacts and opportunities. The challenge is
to help create entry-points that draw on all this work, making it ‘more than the sum of the
parts’; and helping teams to package and deliver it through an audience-focused lens that will
cut through in the politics of the day.

To be successful in this role, these are the things that will matter the
most: 

• Deep knowledge and networks in the forests, climate, and nature finance space – and
  the right combination of technical, communications and creative skills to help unlock
  influence and impact where so many are just stuck. 
• Strong track record in defining, executing and building ongoing momentum behind
  impactful engagement strategies and plans that are responsive both to internal strengths
  and weaknesses, and external opportunities and threats.
• Proven track-record of delivering and managing cross functional teams to deliver,
  high quality and impactful engagement, particularly with finance sector and policymaker
  stakeholders.

Skills and experience:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to communicate
  complex concepts precisely in writing.
• Experience of working in, or closely with, the finance sector a very significant
  advantage.
• Strong experience of working as a trusted partner in a developed network and
  strategic relations to players and thought leaders in a relevant space.
• Ability to work collaboratively with technical and programme teams bringing a new
  lens to their work, facilitate new thinking and ability to bring this together with an
  organisation wide lens.
• An ability to strategically prioritise and identify key opportunities where a small
  organisation like Global Canopy can add value. 
• A self-starter with an ability to design, manage and conduct complex portfolio of
  engagement projects. 
• Facility for working with teams of technical experts.

At Global Canopy, we value diversity and inclusion. You can read our diversity
statement on our website. We encourage
applications from all backgrounds and are committed to having a team with a diverse set of
skills, experiences and abilities. We are committed to reducing systemic barriers in our
recruitment processes. 

Global Canopy works on issues of tropical deforestation. We are particularly interested
in strengthening our team to include those with a background from forest regions such as Latin
America and South East Asia. We welcome applications from people from these regions.

Global Canopy is an inclusive employer and accommodations will be made to allow anyone
who requires additional support to apply for this role. Please get in touch with us if you
require any additional support.