Remote Associate: GEF Partnerships & Public Funding

The Nature Conversancy; Arlington (VA); Remote; USD 61,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

The Nature Conservancy seeks an Associate for GEF Partnership and Public Funding to strengthen engagement with GEF, GBFF, GEF Agencies, governments, and other partners. The role coordinates complex information and supports funding opportunities, proposals, and knowledge management across units and time zones.

Reporting to the GEF Partnership Manager, you will own defined projects from planning through completion, escalate issues as needed, and work remotely with occasional travel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 3 years of related experience.
• Fluency in English.
• Familiarity with the GEF, other multilateral funds, or similar international development or financial institutions.
• Experience researching information from divergent sources and compiling it into a cohesive reporting structure.
• Experience with policy, public funding, or corporate initiatives at two or more of the following levels: international, country, sub-national, or local.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate defined workstreams supporting TNC’s GEF/GBFF opportunity and proposal pipeline, including workplans, deadlines, next actions, inputs, review points, and follow-up.
• Support research on GEF and GBFF policies, programming directions, funding windows, country priorities, events, and partner activities, and synthesize findings into concise briefings, memos, presentations, trackers, or recommendations.
• Support coordination among TNC Business Units, regional teams, country programs, global strategies, Policy and Public Funding colleagues, and technical and operational functions.
• Help prepare and coordinate engagements with GEF Secretariat staff, GEF Agencies, governments, multilateral organizations, conservation organizations, and other national and local partners, including the development of agendas, briefing materials, participant inputs, notes, decisions, and follow-up actions.
• Maintain accurate pipeline, relationship, interaction, and next-action information in TNC's CRM and other designated systems.
• Build and maintain accessible knowledge-management resources, templates, intranet pages, training materials, event records, proposal materials, and implementation lessons.
• Support proposal and project coordination, including document management, internal input processes, partner follow-up, deadline tracking, and consistency review.
• Progressively own bounded deliverables and selected working-level relationships, with clear decision rights and escalation expectations.
• Identify risks, inconsistent information, unclear ownership, or missed deadlines early and propose practical options for resolution.
• The role requires regular collaboration across time zones and cultures. The position may occasionally support time-sensitive deliverables or events outside standard working hours, with advance planning wherever practicable.

Skills

Fluency in English

Experience with policy/public funding

Experience with research and reporting

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

The Nature Conservancy seeks an Associate for GEF Partnership and Public Funding to strengthen engagement with GEF, GBFF, GEF Agencies, governments, and other partners. The role coordinates complex information and supports funding opportunities, proposals, and knowledge management across units and time zones.

Reporting to the GEF Partnership Manager, you will own defined projects from planning through completion, escalate issues as needed, and work remotely with occasional travel.