This role focuses on advancing restoration enabling conditions across Ecosystem Restoration Integrated Program (ERIP) countries. This includes strengthening policy frameworks, financing mechanisms, institutional capacity, and multi-stakeholder coordination.
Responsibilities
Partnership & Program Delivery
- Manage the day-to-day implementation of high-impact partnerships and agreements supporting restoration enabling conditions (e.g., policy, finance, governance, and institutional strengthening).
- Track deliverables, timelines, and milestones, ensuring high-quality and timely delivery.
- Maintain strong working relationships with partners and proactively address challenges and bottlenecks.
- Support the development and onboarding of new collaborations, as relevant.
Coordination of Core Workstreams
- Coordinate delivery of key program workstreams, including enabling conditions diagnostics, policy, and financing support, capacity building, and tools that strengthen restoration planning and investment readiness.
- Ensure alignment, consistency, and quality across partners and countries with a focus on addressing systemic barriers to restoration at national and subnational levels.
- Work collaboratively to resolve implementation challenges in a proactive and solutions-oriented manner.
Regional Dialogues, Knowledge & Capacity Building
- Support the coordination and facilitation of regional dialogues on restoration enabling conditions, focused on identifying and addressing key policy, financial, and institutional barriers, ensuring strong participation from countries and partners involved in the Ecosystem Restoration Integrated Program (ERIP).
- Work closely with partners to translate diagnostic findings into meaningful discussions on key challenges, bottlenecks, and opportunities.
- Support the consolidation and synthesis of insights emerging from diagnostics and dialogues.
- Contribute to the development of knowledge products, briefs, and presentations, helping translate technical outputs into actionable insights.
- Support delivery of capacity-building activities and multistakeholder engagement processes.
- Help identify opportunities to amplify learning through relevant regional and global networks.
External Engagement
- Represent the program in technical discussions, workshops, and global events, including on topics related to restoration enabling conditions, policy, and finance, as appropriate and in coordination with the Senior Director.
- Ensure external engagement and messaging are aligned with internal teams and organizational positioning.
- Support the dissemination of program learnings, including through country partners and stakeholders.
Monitoring, Evaluation & Reporting
- Support tracking of progress against indicators and targets related to strengthening enabling conditions for restoration in collaboration with the M&E team.
- Ensure timely collection of inputs from partners.
- Contribute to high-quality program reporting and documentation.
Internal Coordination & Team Collaboration
- Work closely with the Senior Director and broader team to ensure alignment across workstreams.
- Collaborate effectively across internal teams and partners.
- Contribute to a team culture of collaboration, accountability, and shared delivery.
Knowledge Exchange & Global Convenings
- Support the planning and delivery of global knowledge exchange activities, focused on advancing restoration enabling conditions across countries and partners, including major program events and convenings.
- Contribute to both content and logistics, ensuring smooth and high-quality execution.
- Take a proactive, hands-on approach to support key program moments as part of a small, global team.
Working Conditions
- Ability to work across multiple time zones in a highly collaborative, global team environment.
- Up to 25–30% international travel, including participation in global and regional meetings, workshops, and conferences.
- Occasional requirement to support in-person events and global convenings, which may involve extended hours and hands-on coordination.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced, dynamic program environment.
- Ability to work flexible and extended work hours to meet project deadlines.
