Partner Engagement Specialist

Partner Engagement Specialist

The World Economic Forum brings together leaders from business, government, academia, and civil society to address global challenges and improve the state of the world.

Within the Forum’s Centre for Nature and Climate, the Forest Future Alliance (FFA) mobilizes private-sector and philanthropic action to advance the conservation, restoration, and stewardship of forest landscapes in a way that is socially, economically and ecologically responsible.

Why we are hiring

FFA seeks a Partner Engagement Specialist to support partner engagement, events and the delivery of strategic interventions in critical forest landscapes globally.

Private sector and philanthropic investors face rising complexity from degrading carbon sinks, carbon market setbacks, AI-led disinformation, and constrained funding.  And yet there are emerging opportunities in this forest investing space. The Partner Engagement Specialist will support the FFA community by project managing team processes related to the recruitment and retention of private sector and philanthropic investors, our annual events schedule and the identification and support to landscapes. The role will require stakeholder management and coordination skills across investors, corporates, and philanthropic counterparts and the FFA team.

Reporting line

The Partner Engagement Specialist will report to the Program & Partner Engagement Manager and work closely with FFA colleagues responsible for partnerships, philanthropy and communications, while interacting with staff at the Tropical Forest Alliance and Giving to Amplify Earth Action (GAEA).

Responsibilities include

• Support the project management for the identification, assessment and profiling of scalable investment opportunities, from innovative financial models, business models and critical forest landscapes.
• Provide operational and coordination support for stakeholder management to ensure partner engagement targets at met across the team (e.g., briefings, tracking actions, meeting preparation and follow-up).

• Ensure the FFA partner directory is maintained and updated throughout the year, for our FFA community to access and connect with innovators and implementation partners globally.
• Support the organization of relevant virtual learning as well as in-person convenings at Forum and FFA events.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of knowledge assets, content and communication materials, working with the team.

Requirements and experience

• 3-5 years of relevant experience across project management and partner engagement.  
• Strong stakeholder management and coordination skills across investors, corporates, philanthropy and innovators.
• Digital proficiency and a strong understanding of CRM tools (e.g., Salesforce) is a plus.
• Excellent written and spoken English. French, Spanish and/or Portuguese would be considered a plus.

Skills

• Team player with the ability to absorb, synthesize and develop a wide variety of insights, combined with strong organizational and coordination skills.
• Strong project management skills including demonstrated ability to drive progress and prioritize and deliver on key activities such as convenings, partnerships and content curation.
• Ability to connect the dots in a complex matrix environment; strong collaboration skills, with disciplined and consistent follow-through for internal and external parties.
• Strong entrepreneurial and collaborative attitude.
• Strong research and analytical skills.

To be successful, you should

• Be solutions-oriented, proactive, responsive to feedback, and comfortable operating in ambiguity.
• Thrive in a convening role: supporting alignment across actors with different incentives and timelines.
• Align with the team’s values of: servant leadership, integrity, collaboration, inclusion and optimism.

Why work at the Forum:

The Forum believes that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to improve the state of the world by building awareness and cooperation, shaping mindsets and agendas, and driving collective action. Join us and become a driver for positive change!