Remote GEF Partnerships & Public Funding Associate

The Nature Conservancy; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 61,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care benefits

Flexible spending accounts

401(k) plan with 8% employer match

Parental leave

Accrued paid time off

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Employee assistance program

Other life and work well-being

Job summary

The Nature Conservancy is seeking an Associate, GEF Partnership and Public Funding to strengthen engagement with GEF, GBFF, and public funding partners. You will coordinate cross-business-unit activities, manage deliverables from planning through completion, and develop concise briefs, trackers, and proposals.

You will support the GEF Partnership Manager, maintain CRM data, and help organize engagements with governments, multilateral agencies, and other partners.

Qualifications

• Fluency in English.
• Familiarity with GEF/GBFF 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.
• Research information on GEF/GBFF policies, programming directions, funding windows, country priorities, events, and partner activities; synthesize findings into concise briefings, memos, presentations, trackers, or recommendations.
• Coordinate among TNC Business Units, regional teams, country programs, global strategies, Policy and Public Funding colleagues, and technical/operational functions.
• Prepare and coordinate engagements with GEF Secretariat staff, GEF Agencies, governments, multilateral organizations, conservation organizations, and other partners, including agendas, briefing materials, inputs, notes, decisions, and follow-up actions.
• Maintain accurate pipeline, relationship, interaction, and next-action information in TNC's CRM and other systems.
• Build and maintain knowledge-management resources, templates, intranet pages, training materials, event records, proposal materials, and lessons learned.
• Support proposal and project coordination, including document management, internal input processes, partner follow-up, deadline tracking, and consistency review.
• Progressively own bounded deliverables and defined working-level relationships, with escalation as needed.
• Identify risks, inconsistent information, unclear ownership, or missed deadlines and propose practical resolutions.

Skills

Fluency in English

Policy & public funding familiarity

Stakeholder coordination

Research from divergent sources

Education

Bachelor’s degree and 3 years of related experience

Job description

The Nature Conservancy is seeking an Associate, GEF Partnership and Public Funding to strengthen engagement with GEF, GBFF, and public funding partners. You will coordinate cross-business-unit activities, manage deliverables from planning through completion, and develop concise briefs, trackers, and proposals.

You will support the GEF Partnership Manager, maintain CRM data, and help organize engagements with governments, multilateral agencies, and other partners.