Head of Business Advocacy
- Recruiter
- WWF UK
- Location
-
Woking
South East EnglandUnited Kingdom
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 31 Mar 2021
- Closes
- 28 Apr 2021
- Job Title
- Director
- Category
- Executive and Director
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Head of Business Advocacy
£48,374pa
Living Planet Centre, Woking, Surrey
Fighting for our planet is not for the faint hearted and this exciting new role within WWF UK is no exception. This role provides an amazing opportunity to use your experience of leveraging businesses through impactful advocacy to catalyse action and create solutions in the fight for our world.
With the scale of challenges facing our planet, we know we cannot succeed alone. Our success depends on forging relationships with companies that will join us in tackling the pressing threats facing our world. This is where your passion and talents come in as our Head of Business Advocacy.
As Head of Business Advocacy, you will mobilise businesses in support of our policy, advocacy and campaigning objectives. Working as part of a ‘matrix’ team you will shape and lead our business advocacy strategy to ensure we are as effective as possible in our advocacy outreach and engagement. You will develop clear and ambitious asks and stretch targets for business to deliver the change we want in key policies and practises. You will make the most of all opportunities, support media work and help shape external communications for businesses too.
Leading our private sector advocacy, you will collaborate with colleagues across the organisation to deliver results. An immediate priority will be leading our business advocacy for COP 26. Your role will be key to making sure the business voice around the COP is progressive and ambitious when it comes to tackling climate change and delivering on the Paris commitment to keep warming to 1.5C. You will also engage with food retailers to ensure they play their role in reducing emissions and transforming the food sector.
For this role, you must have significant experience of working with businesses and driving change in the private sector. This will include engaging with businesses to deliver change on either social or environmental issues. Able to demonstrate a deep understanding of the environmental and climate change challenges facing businesses and their supply chains, you will be skilled of at developing policy, advocacy and campaigning. Comfortable operating at CEO and Director level, you will be a natural leader who can bring creative and innovative ideas as well as drive strategy from design through to delivery and impact. Passionate for our mission, you will also be effective at influencing stakeholders as well as having excellent analytical, communication and interpersonal skills.
If you have the expertise to harness the power of businesses to drive positive change for our planet, we would love to hear from, so please visit our website via the link and complete the online registration and submit a copy of your up to date CV and complete the Supporting Statement highlighting why you are interested in this role as well as why this role is for you.
Every role at WWF is open to applications from all sections of society. We believe in the potential of everyone regardless of; sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, different physical ability, family structure, socio–economics, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other aspect that makes you, well you. Here at WWF we’re committed to conscious inclusion that helps cultivate an ethos of belonging, connection and shared purpose. We believe that the more diverse we are the better we become; this brings us together and empowers us to develop, engage and inspire; and critically to help build a future where people can live in harmony with nature.
Our policies and benefits reflect the importance of people being able to have a good work–life balance and being able to bring their ‘full self’ to work.
Our world needs you like never before. We are the first generation to know we are destroying the world and we could be the last that can do anything about it. We’re looking for people who are passionate about making it politically, socially and economically unacceptable to destroy our planet’s natural resources. We need you to join us in the fight for our world.
£48,374pa
Living Planet Centre, Woking, Surrey
Fighting for our planet is not for the faint hearted and this exciting new role within WWF UK is no exception. This role provides an amazing opportunity to use your experience of leveraging businesses through impactful advocacy to catalyse action and create solutions in the fight for our world.
With the scale of challenges facing our planet, we know we cannot succeed alone. Our success depends on forging relationships with companies that will join us in tackling the pressing threats facing our world. This is where your passion and talents come in as our Head of Business Advocacy.
As Head of Business Advocacy, you will mobilise businesses in support of our policy, advocacy and campaigning objectives. Working as part of a ‘matrix’ team you will shape and lead our business advocacy strategy to ensure we are as effective as possible in our advocacy outreach and engagement. You will develop clear and ambitious asks and stretch targets for business to deliver the change we want in key policies and practises. You will make the most of all opportunities, support media work and help shape external communications for businesses too.
Leading our private sector advocacy, you will collaborate with colleagues across the organisation to deliver results. An immediate priority will be leading our business advocacy for COP 26. Your role will be key to making sure the business voice around the COP is progressive and ambitious when it comes to tackling climate change and delivering on the Paris commitment to keep warming to 1.5C. You will also engage with food retailers to ensure they play their role in reducing emissions and transforming the food sector.
For this role, you must have significant experience of working with businesses and driving change in the private sector. This will include engaging with businesses to deliver change on either social or environmental issues. Able to demonstrate a deep understanding of the environmental and climate change challenges facing businesses and their supply chains, you will be skilled of at developing policy, advocacy and campaigning. Comfortable operating at CEO and Director level, you will be a natural leader who can bring creative and innovative ideas as well as drive strategy from design through to delivery and impact. Passionate for our mission, you will also be effective at influencing stakeholders as well as having excellent analytical, communication and interpersonal skills.
If you have the expertise to harness the power of businesses to drive positive change for our planet, we would love to hear from, so please visit our website via the link and complete the online registration and submit a copy of your up to date CV and complete the Supporting Statement highlighting why you are interested in this role as well as why this role is for you.
Every role at WWF is open to applications from all sections of society. We believe in the potential of everyone regardless of; sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, different physical ability, family structure, socio–economics, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other aspect that makes you, well you. Here at WWF we’re committed to conscious inclusion that helps cultivate an ethos of belonging, connection and shared purpose. We believe that the more diverse we are the better we become; this brings us together and empowers us to develop, engage and inspire; and critically to help build a future where people can live in harmony with nature.
Our policies and benefits reflect the importance of people being able to have a good work–life balance and being able to bring their ‘full self’ to work.
Our world needs you like never before. We are the first generation to know we are destroying the world and we could be the last that can do anything about it. We’re looking for people who are passionate about making it politically, socially and economically unacceptable to destroy our planet’s natural resources. We need you to join us in the fight for our world.
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