Nordics Public Funding and Partnerships Lead

Oslo, or remote UK

TNC’s will play an instrumental role within a wider, dynamic team of professionals to deliver public funding outcomes for highly impactful projects around the world. This is a fully remote position with no physical office. You will work with a distributed, multi-country team. Reporting to the Europe Director of Public Funding and Partnerships, our new Lead will be responsible for delivering against the following objectives:

• Shape and manage the development and implementation of TNC’s long standing strategy on engagement and resource mobilisation for biodiversity and climate with key public sector institutions including Norway’s Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), Norway’s Ministry of Climate and Environment and Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) and Norfund. Develop partnerships and engage with other relevant Norwegian organisations, public, private or civil society, that can support the advancement of climate and biodiversity global priorities.
• Develop partnerships and identify opportunities for public funding and/or blended finance and/or innovative finance mechanisms with other Nordic bilateral and multilateral organisations including Ministries of Foreign Affairs and development aid departments, Nordic Development Fund (NDF), Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (Nefco), Finnfund, Denmark Impact Fund, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and Swedish Environmental Protectives Agency (SwEPA).
• Provide senior leadership and strategic guidance within TNC on Norway’s and other Nordic governments and related organisations funding trends and positioning opportunities. Advise internal teams across TNC on funding rules, eligibility requirements and partnership frameworks.
• Supported by the TNC’s Europe Public Funding Manager, build and maintain an active pipeline of potential funding opportunities aligned with TNC’s priorities through both competitive calls for proposals and proactive positioning of TNC projects for collaborative funding opportunities.
• Working with the Europe Public Funding Manager, support teams across TNC to submit high quality proposals and/or establish effective relationships with partners to access public funding, providing strategic input on project design, eligibility requirements, budget structure, compliance, and partner arrangements based on strong knowledge of public donors’ funding priorities and cross-cutting requirements (such as equity and inclusion).
• Work with teams implementing Nordics’ donors funded projects to support high quality, timely, compliant delivery of contracts/grants to ensure TNC remains a partner of choice for this set of public donors and its related institutions.
• Work with external stakeholders and teams across TNC to explore, identify and influence the creation of opportunities for blended finance initiatives with Nordics’ development financial institutions and funds that have the potential to mobilise public-private sources of funding for climate and biodiversity, as well as other innovative finance mechanisms.

• Manage strategic relationships with key contacts at the aforementioned Norway’s key public sector institutions and bodies and support engagement with country delegations in partner countries as appropriate.
• Develop and manage relationships and establish TNC as a strategic partner with other Nordic organizations.
• Represent TNC in relevant networks, working groups, and information sessions including possibly in public speaking roles at conferences and events.
• Collaborate with TNC’s Europe Policy and other teams across TNC as required to support access to a strong network of relationships and position TNC as a trusted adviser and partner with Norway’s and other Nordic relevant public entities and organizations.

She/he/they will report to the Europe Director of Public Funding and Partnerships. The location for this position is Oslo, Norway. No relocation or immigration assistance can be offered with this position.

• Bachelor’s…