Director of Climate and Restoration

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants anywhere in the world.

📋 Description

• Direct the Climate and Restoration Programme, ensuring efficient service delivery and advancement towards financial and impact objectives.

• Establish organization-wide priorities for climate and restoration, coordinating services, projects, and expertise across divisions and regions.

• Create services and delivery methodologies that address stakeholder requirements and generate significant environmental and social outcomes.

• Supervise systems, tools, templates, and technical guidance necessary for accreditation and credible service delivery.

• Cultivate strategic relationships with clients, companies, NGOs, governments, donors, producers, and assurance schemes.

• Identify and pursue opportunities for business development, partnerships, and fundraising.

• Represent Preferred by Nature at conferences, technical networks, industry initiatives, and other external platforms.

• Lead and nurture the team through well-defined priorities, capacity planning, continuous feedback, and professional growth.

• Contribute to strategic planning, program budgets, financial oversight, and reporting.

• Progress the Climate Impact roadmap and implement coordinated work plans with measurable advancements.

• Enhance collaboration across Certification, Advisory, Projects, and regional teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience, including significant expertise in senior leadership, program development, stakeholder engagement, and climate or restoration services.

• Comprehensive knowledge of climate mitigation, carbon markets, ecosystem restoration, and associated policy, market, and regulatory developments.

• Demonstrated ability to establish strategic direction and lead complex initiatives across diverse teams and stakeholder groups.

• Capacity to foster alignment and achieve results within an international organization where colleagues operate across various functions and reporting lines.

• Experience in developing strategic partnerships and identifying opportunities that enhance organizational impact and growth.

• Professional credibility in the climate, carbon, restoration, or broader sustainability sector, including experience representing an organization in senior external settings.

• Understanding of business development and fundraising, with experience contributing to budgets and financial management.

• Ability to lead and develop personnel, support teams through transitions, and promote collaboration, learning, and accountability.

• Entrepreneurial mindset with practical judgment and a focus on measurable outcomes.

• Commitment to fostering positive environmental and social impacts.

• Experience in carbon project validation and verification, ecosystem restoration, and organizational or product carbon footprints is desirable but not mandatory.

• Experience in linking assurance services, advisory roles, and project execution within a unified organizational strategy is advantageous but not required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Global work culture.

• High degree of flexibility – remote work and work from home options.

• Comprehensive onboarding and professional training.

• Excellent opportunities for growth and professional advancement.

• Potential future opportunities for international travel.

• A friendly, international team of colleagues in a pleasant work environment.

• Begin with 20 days of vacation leave per year.