Remote GEF & Global Funding Partnerships Associate

USA The Nature Conservancy; Virginia; Remote; USD 61,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

The Nature Conservancy seeks an Associate to advance GEF Partnership and Public Funding initiatives, coordinating pipelines, research, and external engagements with GEF Agencies, governments, and other partners. The role supports the GEF Partnership Manager and manages defined deliverables across time zones.

You will research policies, prepare briefs, and maintain CRM data while ensuring alignment with internal processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 3 years of related experience.
• Fluency in English.
• Familiarity with the GEF, other multilateral environmental 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 international, country, sub-national, or local levels.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate defined workstreams supporting TNC’s GEF/GBFF opportunity and proposal pipeline, including workplans, deadlines, inputs, review points, and follow-up actions.
• 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 partners, including agendas, briefing materials, 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 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.
• The role requires collaboration across time zones and cultures, with potential time-sensitive deliverables outside standard hours.

Skills

Fluency in English

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

The Nature Conservancy seeks an Associate to advance GEF Partnership and Public Funding initiatives, coordinating pipelines, research, and external engagements with GEF Agencies, governments, and other partners. The role supports the GEF Partnership Manager and manages defined deliverables across time zones.

You will research policies, prepare briefs, and maintain CRM data while ensuring alignment with internal processes.