Job Field: Sector in Agriculture / Agro-Allied

Main responsibilities:
Coordinate thought leadership across offices, concerning Network-wide, large ticket, initiatives involving many offices (beyond regular fundraising), to successfully raise funds for the achievement of the Global Goal of the Practice.
Convene strategic content from across the Network and ‘translate’ complex, technical content into persuasive and compelling proposals.
Collaborate with the Fundraising Community of Practice on the development of major initiatives to accelerate transformational funding opportunities for the achievement of the Global Goal.
Provide proposal development expert support across the Practice by developing exchange of best practices (e.g. proposal examples, language used, winning pitch decks etc.).
Provide operational fundraising support to the Practice (i.e. on-demand help with editing/fine-tuning proposals and reports).
Together with the Practice Leadership, and the Network Fundraising community, identify critical programme needs that require funding and match these to funding opportunities in support of the Global Goal
Work with Network fundraising and partnership experts to ensure that proposal development is accurately tuned to match their requirements
Work with fundraising community to develop funding events that allow WWF to showcase is biggest and most promising ideas to most promising donors
Project coordination of the proposal development for big topics i.e. collect and share best-practices to utilise the full potential of most recent know-how across the network.
Provide assistance, upon request from offices, with communication/content/grant proposal representation toward the donors.
Contribute to the Knowledge-Management platform to share learnings.
Liaise with Focal Points and Fundraising leads in Offices and coordinate with the Practice to support fundraising concepts and proposals (co-design).
Coordinate stewardship and reporting requirements.
Liaise regularly with Focal Points and Practice Members to share developments, updates and progress.
Additional duties and responsibilities as required by the Practice Leader
Required Qualifications, Skills and Competencies:
Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in English, journalism, communications or related relevant field.
Excellent written and oral skills in English;
At least five years’ relevant professional experience in writing marketing, fundraising, PR or communications materials
Experience of working in an international environment, particularly an NGO, would be an advantage.
Proven ability to create donor friendly materials including experience in grant/proposal and donor report writing and understanding of the principles of communications and fundraising, especially donor needs. Experience of producing fundraising appeals (online, or through direct mail) an advantage.
Excellent editing and proofreading skills with very high attention to detail.
Knowledge of fundraising principles and practices, preferably in a non-profit environment.
Ability to coordinate/manage processes and projects that require participation and contribution from staff for which the post holder has no direct supervisory responsibility.
Demonstrated competencies in all relevant computer packages required for writing and formatting materials.
Ability to manipulate, analyse and interpret data and good understanding of proposal budgets.
Proven ability to meet deadlines and ability to coordinate projects with many variables, set and meet realistic deadlines, and manage a timeline under pressure.
Ability to communicate a compelling and inspired vision in written and presentation materials and to formulate and clearly communicate ideas to others.
Passion for conservation and adheres to WWF’s values, which are: Knowledgeable, Optimistic, Determined and Engaging.

The Role:
As a results driven Policy resource, provide research, analysis and expertise on strategic policy issues, develop related and innovative policy solutions, and drive the execution of agreed coordination and advocacy strategies related to the achievement of the Practice Goal and Outcomes. Take responsibility for the positioning of the Practice in this respect.
Main responsibilities:
Provide strategic advice and facilitate the development of network policy positions and advocacy strategies related to the achievement of the Goal and Outcomes of the Practice, in consultation with the Practice Leader, and the Practice Leadership Team.
Lead WWF’s engagement at key policy intervention points executing WWF to influence key policy outcomes related the Practice Goal and Outcomes.
Liaise and co-ordinate with relevant external partners to drive powerful policy change.
Support the network in developing consistent and coherent internal WWF positions on issues pertinent to the Goal and Outcome.
Coordinate across Practices to ensure organisational policy coherence.
Analyse, identify, and facilitate the development of innovative policy solutions and advocacy strategies relevant to the Practice Goal and Outcomes,
Coordinate the professional, coherent and effective network engagement of diverse WWF teams at appropriate policy dialogues relevant to the Practice content.
Identify policy levers and enabling conditions which need to be addressed to achieve the Global Goals and outcomes of the Practice.
Raise decision-maker awareness and understanding of critical conservation issues relevant to the Practice content.
Provide a research and radar capacity on external policy developments relevant to the Practice content.
Ensure consistency and coherence to the internal and external delivery of Practice policy and global positioning.
Find best practice solutions to policy dilemmas related to the Practice content and share them with network colleagues and influencers in policy communities.
Support capacity building of colleagues in the WWF network to develop skills and experience related to fast achievement of Practice outcomes.
Act to ensure coherent and collaborative approaches to policy work related to the Practice content.
Promote regular interaction with Policy leads in other Practices to drive cross-practice policy coherence.
Additional duties and responsibilities as required by the Practice Leader
Required Qualifications, Skills and Competencies:
University degree in a relevant discipline e.g. environmental policy, International relations, Economics or similar disciplines.
Ideally 10 years’ professional policy experience in conservation, environment and development work.
Track record of delivering policy impact.
In depth understanding of global and regional environmental, natural resources and geopolitical governance.
Experience of working in complex organisations.
A strong team player, with a measurable ability to influence senior management.
Fluency in English- any other language/s an asset.
Outstanding communication, policy analysis, coordination and advocacy skills.
Ability to strategically influence appropriate policy development and dialogues and effect change in a constructive and solutions oriented manner.
Results driven, tenaciously working to meet or exceed goals.
Experience of working with governments, corporate sector, aid agencies, civil society, and NGOs.
Strategic thinking and vision.
Passion for conservation.
Adheres to WWF’s values, which are: Knowledgeable, Optimistic, Determined and Engaging.