Senior Manager, Corporate Partnerships & Communications, BWS

Senior Manager, Corporate Partnerships & Communications, BWS

Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) is an entrepreneurial nonprofit working on environmental solutions at the intersection of renewable energy and freshwater. Partnerships are key to our success. We build long-term relationships with our education, corporate, utility and philanthropic partners by first understanding their goals and needs and providing solutions that achieve those goals while achieving real, measurable environmental benefits.

Who are we looking for?

BEF’s Business for Water Stewardship Team helps businesses work collaboratively with community and policy stakeholders to advance solutions that ensure people, economies, and ecosystems have enough clean water to flourish. We invite tribal nations, agriculture, food, beverage or technology companies, community organizations, environmental advocates, and policymakers to join us to transform how we collectively value, use, and manage water.

The Senior Manager, Corporate Partnerships & Communications, BWS plays a critical role in advancing the organization's national and international corporate water stewardship strategy and program. Working closely with the Senior Director of BWS, this position bridges strategy and execution — translating complex technical work into compelling narratives, managing high-value corporate partnerships, and equipping internal teams and external partners to effectively expand and communicate the impact of water stewardship investments.

The ideal candidate is a skilled communicator and relationship manager who thrives in a cross-functional environment and is passionate about connecting corporate commitments to measurable conservation and mission outcomes.

• Partnership:
  We believe we can accomplish more by working together.
• Adaptability:
  We evolve, adapt, and apply what we learn to improve our approaches and outcomes.
• Knowledge:
  We seek out and value diverse perspectives, embrace new ideas, and advance new approaches.
• Innovation:
  We recognize that the scope and pace of the change we need demands innovation, drawing on knowledge from the past and new information and tools.
• Integrity:
  We are honest with our employees, customers, and our partners. We seek to deliver outcomes that benefit the environment and people we serve.

• Develop and execute messaging strategies that articulate the impact of BWS work at the project, basin, and corporate portfolio levels.
• Translate technical and data-driven insights from project and reporting teams into clear, compelling content for diverse audiences, including corporate partners, funders, and the public.
• Help articulate the corporate partner’s programmatic vision and business value derived from water stewardship investment and engagement.
• Develop and maintain key case studies — including flagship projects and engagements — that demonstrate the value of and best practices in corporate water stewardship.
• Partner with BEF's Communications Director to ensure corporate partnership and BWS program messaging remains consistent with BEF's overall brand, mission, and reputation, while meeting BWS program-specific brand requirements.

• Articulate BWS’s corporate engagement strategy to funders, partners, sustainability forums, NGOs, and other relevant organizations at the regional and portfolio level.
• Build the capacity of implementing partners to effectively communicate, champion, and benefit from BWS program work.
• Support media engagement and communications on behalf of corporate clients, projects, and funding partners.
• Exercise sound judgment in balancing competing partner priorities and program…