Director

The Director of the Social Equity, Agriculture & Enterprise Programme is a new role, leading a team of specialists to support, influence and deliver this area of work across The Company’s global conservation programme, collaborating closely with project teams within our four regional programmes and with other cross-cutting technical teams.

You are a highly motivated, skilled and experienced individual ready to lead our technical team supporting local conservation initiatives across our global conservation programme with efforts to support rights-based conservation, sustainable diets and farmer livelihoods, nature-positive enterprise and finance mechanisms and other related actions that address local economic and social drivers of nature loss. You have extensive experience of enabling conservation projects to live up to standards for good governance and social safeguards.

You have excellent communication, collaboration, analytical and team management skills, enabling your team to build positive, productive working relationships with colleagues and partner organisations across our global conservation programme. You are comfortable working in an international NGO and managing in a matrix-like structure. Your senior credibility and network of contacts will help connect the potential conservation and social impacts of The Company’s global conservation programme with partners at policy and landscape level. Fluency in spoken and written English is essential and proficiency in a second language relevant to The Company would be an advantage.

In return, the role offers the opportunity to work within an international, impactful and ground-breaking organisation, at the forefront of global conservation. In addition, The Company offers a generous pension contribution, attractive annual leave allowance and life insurance. Our offices are located in central Cambridge, just a few minutes’ walk from glorious historic buildings and museums, the picturesque River Cam, the central market and shopping centre, and a host of cafés and restaurants.