Senior Programme Advisor - Asia

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

This is a UK based contract and as such, you are required to have the Right to Work in the UK. We unfortunately do not have any opportunities available for sponsorship. Any offer of employment, if applicable, will be subject to receiving evidence of your Right to Work in the UK.

Salary: £45,167
Hours:35 hours per week
Location: The Living Planet Centre, Woking, Surrey (Hybrid working– minimum 40% office-based)
Contract Type: Fixed term contract until June 2027

The Senior Programme Advisor (SPA) in the Asia team will focus on the delivery of a large 3-year corporate partnership started in June 2024 and ending in June 2027 working on freshwater issues in Asia (with focus in India, China, Pakistan) and looking at palm oil production in Indonesia. The programme also has strong advocacy and learning components, and it is testing new innovative approaches such as insetting.

The SPA will coordinate and, when possible, lead on all programmatic input - including technical, financial, M&E - as well as overseeing the coordination and facilitation of other partnership delivery needs including advocacy and communications, science, learning and knowledge sharing. Working as part of an Asia Regional Unit, in direct collaboration with the Senior Relationship Manager in the Corporate Partnerships team, the SPA role is responsible for:

• overall coordination of the partnership components (on the ground conservation in 4 geographies, advocacy and communications, research, learning and knowledge exchange), ensuring coherence and collective contribution to the overarching Theory of Change.
• providing strategic programmatic leadership, oversight, support and advice on the conservation work, with a stronger focus on the work in India and Indonesia
• Identifying additional areas for programmatic development based on an understanding on the corporate partnerships ambition
• Liaising directly with Senior Relationship Manager in Corporate Partnerships team to represent the programmatic needs in the partnership and ensure consistent alignment between Conservation Programmes and Corporate Partnerships for effective partnership delivery.
• Convening and facilitating stakeholder engagement for effective partnership delivery, specifically on the programmatic side, including network partner offices in Asia, colleagues across WWF-UK, the wider WWF Network and where appropriate external organisations
• coordinating with the wider WWF Network to ensure support to delivery of relevant network ambitions, in combination with WWF-UK’s ambitions and ensuring mutual benefits through the partnership.
• overarching programme management of the international grants within the partnership portfolio.
• Lead on the development of the fundraising proposition for renewal with the donor

On the ground conservation programmes are implemented by teams within network partner offices, the emphasis of this UK-based role will be on ensuring that all programmes are well designed, quality assured, contribute to the overarching partnership theory of change, and risks are managed appropriately, as well as providing strategic advice directly and by convening others to address identified resource and capacity gaps and playing the role of critical friend that can bring insights from across the partnership portfolio to strengthen delivery in each geographic region and the partnership coherence as a whole.

We believe in rewarding our team with more than just a salary. Here’s what you can expect:

• Annual leave starting at 26 days a year, rising one day each year to 31 days plus bank holidays
• Flexible working…