Global Canopy – Director of Programmes by Oxford HR

Director of Programmes February 2024

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Welcome to Global Canopy We are so pleased you found us. Global Canopy is an ambitious, creative and dynamic not-for-profit targeting the market forces destroying nature. Our special focus is on ending global deforestation, most of which is driven by agricultural expansion for commodities like beef, soy and palm oil that end up in products we all use every day. In fact, our research shows that $6 trillion in private finance each year is driving this destruction – including 20% of the money that we all put into our pensions. This is a major driver of climate change, of biodiversity loss and of human rights abuses. To tackle this we deliver radical transparency through our award-winning data platforms, detailing how consumer markets are linked to nature loss. We enable major companies, investors and governments to take positive action, and we help

campaigning organisations and investigative journalists shine a light on those not doing enough. And we help policymakers to design laws that make it mandatory for the private sector to change. We are now growing rapidly as an organisation – expanding our work and teams in key geographies like Brazil and South East Asia. And we are deepening our relationships with major investor networks as we redouble work to remove deforestation and nature-related impacts from lending and investment portfolios worldwide. As part of our team, you will be at the heart of global efforts to tackle the intertwined climate and nature crises. And you will find yourself surrounded by engaged, positive and committed colleagues determined to make a difference. Please join us, this is urgent. Niki Mardas Executive Director

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About Global Canopy Global Canopy is a data-driven not-for-profit delivering real transparency and accountability for market impacts on nature and people. Our special focus is on ending deforestation – an essential step in achieving urgent global goals on climate, nature and human rights. We deliver our work via three main strategies: 1. on open data (including via major global data platforms like Trase, Forest 500, Forest IQ, and ENCORE); 2. on creating stronger voluntary and compliance frameworks to address nature loss (we are a founding partner of the TNFD); 3. and on accelerating accountability and action by the finance sector towards deforestation-free portfolios. Our platforms, data and insights are relied upon by Fortune 500 companies, major

financial institutions, national and regional governments, and some of the most effective campaigning organisations worldwide. We work globally, with a focus on both forested regions (particularly across Latin America and South East Asia), and major consumer and financial markets (with a focus on Europe, the US, Singapore and China). We have a distributed team of around 60 people worldwide, with a main office in Oxford (UK). We work via close and deep partnerships, including with institutions like the Stockholm Environment Institute, the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions, UNEP Finance Initiative, the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, the Zoological Society of London, and many, many others.

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Our Values As an organisation committed to achieving system-wide change, we operate in a challenging environment. Our organisational values help guide our ways of working and keep us accountable to these standards: Entrepreneurial – We develop bold new ideas to catalyse system-wide change. Impactful – We learn from what works, hold ourselves and others accountable and work in collaboration with others. Inclusive – We celebrate diversity, value teamwork and support individuals to fulfil their potential. Clear – We listen actively, think critically and communicate with clarity.

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Organogram People & Org Development Committee

Directors Global Canopy Intiatives

Trustees Finance, Audit & Risk Committee

Executive Assistant

Executive Director

Governance

Leadership Team

Programme Leadership Group

Cross-Cutting Team

Programme Teams

Operations Teams

Director of Programmes

Director of Education & Learning

Senior Human Rights Associate

Senior Advisor on Brazil

Nature-Related Finance Director

Trase Lead & Policy Director

Engagement Director & Corporate Performance Lead

Strategic Comms Director

Finance & Ops Director

Director of Development (Acting)

Director of People & Org Development

NRF Team

Trase Team

Corporate Performance Team

Comms Team

Accounts & Ops Team

Development Team

HR Team

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The Role: Overview Role: Director of Programmes Location: Global Canopy are based in Oxford, UK and applicants have to be able to attend the office periodically. Global Canopy is open to candidates from outside the UK and particularly welcomes applicants with a deep knowledge of the tropical forest regions that our work focuses on, and we are able to support relocation for the right candidate. Contract: Full-time and Permanent Salary: £75,000 – £85,000 Global Canopy is a story of success and achieving tangible change. It is an organisation that has been at the heart of critical initiatives in the transition toward more sustainable economies, such as the pioneering Trase open data partnership, and the Task Force for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD). As an organisation we have always asked the hard questions and been courageous in our approach. Now, with rapid and sustained year-on-year growth, three successful and synergistic programmes of work and increasing regional expansion, we have an ambitious strategy and a great team that we invite you to bring your talents to. As Global Director of Programmes you will play a pivotal role for the organisation: stewarding, connecting and growing our amazing portfolio of programmes, and helping to ensure that we maximise our positive impact.

You will oversee and report on programmatic strategy development and delivery, ensuring quality and resourcing for a talented and effective group of directors. You will ensure the alignment of programmatic work with our strategy, and help create synergies in delivering for impact. You will oversee annual planning, alongside monitoring, evaluation and learning processes. You will lead on gatekeeping and development for new programmatic activities aligned with our strategy and support programmatic fundraising. Your role will ensure that programme directors are on track with their plans, are adequately resourced and that progress is reported back to the leadership team. You will line manage Programme Directors and cross-cutting Technical Leads across the team, and chair our Programmatic Leadership Group. You will convene and connect (rather than direct) the activities of teams, facilitating rich dialogue between teams, providing capacity (as requested) and helping the programme team to get to the key decisions required for success. Global Canopy’s style of management is to be ‘first amongst equals’. You will report to the Executive Director, and be a member of Global Canopy’s Leadership Team, helping to develop an impact mindset across the organisation as it continues to grow. You will be a champion of our values, will be deeply committed to our charitable mission, and will ensure that diversity, equity and inclusion are central to our programmatic work.

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The Role: Responsibilities Programmatic leadership & stewardship (75%) • Support and ensure high quality and effective delivery of our programmatic work, ensuring that strategies and plans are interconnected and commonly understood, that communications & engagement are aligned, and that monitoring, evaluation and learning is a continuous process. • Chair the Programmatic Leadership Group as a forum for Programme Directors and cross-cutting Leads to align and stay on top of external and internal developments, troubleshoot, connect, innovate and gatekeep together. Act as a bridge with Leadership Team. • Coordinate planning processes, working closely with our People, Operational and Finance leads to ensure appropriate processes and support are in place and followed. • Coaching-led line management of Programmatic Directors and cross-cutting Leads. • Support the development of talent within the team, working with our People Director to attract and develop key skills in our team and supporting opportunities for learning between teams, and with our wider network of global partners.

• Oversee programmatic development and fundraising, working closely with Programme Directors and our Development team, and building strong relationships with key partners & donors. • Communicate our programmatic strategies and progress to the wider team, ensuring that everyone is clear on their contribution to our impact and is confident that their feedback will be heard and accounted for. Organisational strategy and leadership (25%) • Play an active role in Global Canopy’s Leadership Team, with shared responsibility for a strong, supportive and inclusive organisational culture and overall organisational success. • Lead on periodic review and update of our organisational strategy, working closely with Global Canopy’s Executive Director and Programme Directors, and engaging our Trustees and external advisors. • Represent Global Canopy externally with an emphasis on targeted advocacy, working in close partnership with our engagement and communications leads, and raising the profile of our strategy and impact among key partners and donors.

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Person Specification You will be an established leader with a strong track record of coaching high performing teams and enabling their success. You will be an expert in convening and diplomacy, both internally and externally with the ability to facilitate rich dialogue with partners, team members and peers – helping Global Canopy to lead and to get to the right decisions smoothly and efficiently. You will be a values-driven individual who will be able to find the right balance between working within the system and applying a dash of activism and courage to drive change. Global Canopy works in partnership with organisations often at a larger scale to ours and co-develops groundbreaking initiatives. As such, you will have the wisdom and experience to understand how to engage with partners as a peer. You will have a strong strategic and practical grounding in global efforts to tackle the climate and nature crisis; you will have a strong understanding of how markets drive deforestation, the role of radical transparency and accountability in reversing this situation; and you will have a strong understanding of the needs, practices and motivations of our target audiences in finance, corporations, government and civil society. Critically, you will have a deep understanding of the transition pathways that must be rapidly taken by companies and financial institutions to contribute to more sustainable and nature positive economies. You will understand Global Canopy’s role in driving this change, and the role of other players in the ecosystem (e.g. policymakers, litigators, educators, campaigners, and journalists) that can both help enable action and increase accountability for the most exposed market players.

You will be a skilled convener of people and ideas, able to listen deeply and foster effective alignment and collaboration, able to hold in mind our big picture strategies while problem-solving in the day-to-day, and able to support and enable programmatic teams in their ambitions to achieve excellence. You will contribute to a culture of kindness, collaboration, rigour and accountability in equal measure. You will come to work with a sense of urgent mission, but one balanced by emotional intelligence. You will share our conviction that it is not just what we do that matters in our working life, but how we do it too. To be successful in the role, these things will matter the most: • Programmatic leadership skills – to connect and enable individual programmes and partnerships, supporting diverse and high-performing leaders to deliver impactful work in line with our strategy. • Deep technical knowledge – to be able to guide and coordinate strategy development, but also to ensure that programmatic outputs are delivered to the highest quality. • Strong networks in our space – to ensure our strategy remains connected and relevant, and that we can draw on partnerships and strong donor relationships in our work. • Emotional intelligence – to contribute to a positive culture of kindness, collaboration, rigour and accountability – valuing how we work together as much as what we do.

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Required Skills and Experience Skills and experience:

To be successful in this role, these are the personal attributes we think are key:

• Deep practitioner’s understanding of the politics and practice of global efforts to increase transparency and accountability for market impacts on nature, with a particular focus on deforestation. • Experience working with the finance sector desirable. • Demonstrable experience of leadership in complex organisations and a coaching style of management. • Evidence of developing high performing teams. • Track-record in stewarding and connecting complex programmes in an international context (or equivalent), including oversight of planning, and monitoring, evaluation and learning processes. • Strong communication, relationship-building and influencing skills, and a track record of working to deliver outcomes via collaboration and partnership. • Understanding of monitoring, evaluation and impact measurement and reporting. • Demonstrable experience of working in partnership to achieve resource mobilisation to grow programmes.

• Motivated to work in an organisation that is purpose-led and with a deep commitment to the values and mission of Global Canopy. • A high degree of emotional intelligence and an instinctive understanding of how to empower teams and people. • Kind, collaborative and humble in approach. • Organised, decisive and creative. • Entrepreneurial mindset and approach, with a desire to test new ideas quickly with the market, to harvest feedback and adjust accordingly to grow new work streams. • Prepared to be both hands-on and strategic, taking ownership for new work streams and overseeing delivery of work while extra capacity is being brought in. • Enjoy being creative with work, drawing on experience in learning design to find different and innovative ways to explain complex topics and ideas.

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How to Apply All correspondence, at this stage, should be via Oxford HR. To apply for this post, click on the “Apply” button on the job advert page, complete our online application form, and submit your CV and cover letter as two different documents, which should be prepared before applying as they will be considered in the application process. The cover letter should be no more than two pages long and explain why you are interested in this post and how your skills and experience make you a good fit. The document should be saved in PDF in the following format: Your First Name-Your Last Name-Document Name-Date (mmyy) e.g., Jayden-Brookes-CV-022024-GlobalCanopy or Jayden-Brookes-CoverLetter-022024GlobalCanopy. Timeline Closing Date: First stage interviews: Final interviews:

22nd March 11th – 12th April w/c 6th May

Selection Process All candidates will receive an update regarding their application after the closing date. We advise candidates to add the role email to their safe senders list and regularly check their spam folder. Diversity Statement At Global Canopy, we value diversity and inclusion. You can read our diversity statement on our website. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and are committed to having a team with a diverse set of skills, experiences and abilities. Queries If you have any queries on any aspect of the appointment process, need additional information, or would like to have an informal discussion, please email at globalcanopydirector@oxfordhr.com in the first instance.

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About Oxford HR Exceptional leaders can inspire change and propel purpose-led organisations towards reaching their world-changing goals. Finding such leaders can be a challenge; and yet their transition into leadership is vital to an organisations mission and success. Oxford HR is a global leadership consultancy dedicated to searching for and supporting remarkable leaders and teams in purpose-led organisations. We understand the nuances of purpose-led leadership because we’ve worked in organisations across the breadth of the sector ourselves. We’ve also worked with such organisations since 1995; so we appreciate just what benefits impactful people can bring.

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