Strategic Partnerships Manager

About Climate Arc

Climate Arc (Arc) is a philanthropic funded nonprofit organization working to accelerate climate action by unlocking the private capital needed to meet global climate targets. We ensure that financial decision makers have the tools, data and skillsets needed to direct capital to the right solutions at speed and scale. Arc implements its strategy through grantmaking and proprietary products and programs delivered by our in-house capability.

About the opportunity

Arc’s strategic outputs of climate transition pathways, corporate analysis and human capacity building are principally geared toward supporting financial decisions, but they are an important and powerful toolkit for the entire ecosystem of actors working to address climate issues. Our activities are deeply rooted in a dynamic collaboration model with all key stakeholders to jointly address the opportunities that lie in actions from corporates, governments, sub-nationals and individuals.

Arc is now recruiting for a Strategic Partnerships Manager to drive these critical relationships and add value to the community as a whole. You will be responsible for building relationships particularly with those organisations which are working on the same cause but are not directly our grantees or funders. These can be NGOs working on climate analytics solutions that fall outside of our funding remit, or alliances and coalitions looking to address climate finance.

You will be the central focal point for these organizations’ engagement with Arc, while working closely with others in the team who own relationships with grantees, financial institutions and funders.

What you will be doing:

• Conduct stakeholder mapping, research, and analysis to identify strategies and tactics to effectively engage organizations to advance Arc’s goals
• Own Arc’s engagement with organizations and alliances that we do not fund, or do not fund us, and are critical partners nonetheless
• Keep up to date with partners’ work, and make connections with Arc’s work so that impact can be scaled and amplified
• Work with internal subject matter experts to answer partners’ technical queries
• Lead meetings with partners and relevant Arc colleagues to align key actors on goals, progress and blockers
• Lead progression of relationship formalisation such as MOUs with critical partners where appropriate
• Monitor the impact of partner relationships and provide briefings for leadership whilst proactively identify challenges and aligning stakeholders’ interest to reach solutions

Requirements

The ideal candidate has:

Required:

• A commitment to Arc’s vision and mission
• Proven experience in managing dynamic partnerships between multiple stakeholders in complex ecosystems
• Credible convener and coordinator with excellent interpersonal skills and exceptional relationship management skills
• Knowledge and understanding of the global climate finance ecosystem and/or climate change related disciplines
• An analytical mindset with creative problem-solving abilities
• Impeccable written and verbal communication skills

Desirable:

• Relationships and experience relevant to one or more of Arc’s strategic pillar portfolios
• Knowledge and experience of the climate and/or climate finance NGO and philanthropic ecosystem

Benefits

Climate Arc currently offers the following for UK staff:

• 36 days' holiday including public holidays
• Private medical & dental cover for you and your dependents
• Life assurance 4x basic salary (where available)
• 9% company pension contribution
• Enhanced family pay and leave policies
• Professional development program
• Professional membership paid (if applicable)
• Nomad working policy

Location

For this role we can offer a remote first working option and are open to locations across the UK, Europe and the USA. Candidates in the US will need to be based on the East Coast due to the need to collaborate closely with employees in UK/European timezones.

Remuneration

Depending on location experience and demonstrated capability, the salary range for this role is £50,000-£70,000. If the successful candidate is based outside of the UK, local benchmarking will be conducted to determine salary based on Arc's Reward Framework.

To apply

Please complete the Application Form including attaching an up-to-date CV as well as a Cover Letter (both in English) outlining how your skills and experience align with the above requirements and what motivates you to work with Climate Arc in this particular role.

We intend to close the advert for this role on Friday 10th May but depending on the level of response we may close it prior, so we encourage you to submit your application sooner than later.

The application and assessment process will involve the following:

• Application review (applications that do not include a full cover letter will not be considered)
• 1st round interview: Recruiting Manager (30 to 45 minute MS Teams video call)
• Offline task (2-3 hours)
• Formal interview (in person or MS Teams) with the Hiring Manager and panel (1 hour)
• Additional interviews as required