Senior Political Strategist

Permanent* / full time

*offered on a 12 month contract basis initially, with possibility of extension / move to permanent contract, subject to local terms.

Location: The successful candidate may be based in a country where one of the independent National/Regional Greenpeace organisations (NRO’s) is located. See the locations here. [Please note that we are currently unable to host new staff in a number of NRO's at this present time, due to various restrictions. We are unable to support hosting in Africa, Colombia, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain, India, US, UK, MED, and MENA in addition to some other NRO locations. The recruitment team may reach out to you to provide an update as necessary, depending on your location]. We offer competitive NGO level salary and benefits, the specifics of which depend on location where the successful candidates will be based. We aim to share this information with candidates before reaching the offer stage.

Greenpeace International’s Programme Department is seeking a Global Senior Political Strategist to take on a leadership role in advancing global political strategies and providing political expertise in order to support impactful campaigns and projects across Greenpeace’s network. The successful candidate will represent Greenpeace at key international fora and support colleagues and delegations in multilateral processes and advocacy efforts.

The Senior Political Strategist will provide high-level political analysis, technical and policy expertise, and thought leadership, fostering collaboration and innovation in support of Greenpeace’s mission. This means advising, leading, and implementing global programme political strategies and supporting campaigns, engagement, and communications colleagues on global political matters. In addition, the candidate will facilitate knowledge and information sharing, collaboration and best practice across the network and keep abreast of the latest political, technical and policy developments, always aiming to ensure that innovation is at the heart of our work.

In this role you will:

• Lead the development and implementation of global programme political strategies through inclusive dialogue with NROs, project teams, and other relevant stakeholders.

• Establish and/or maintain strategic partnerships and alliances across the broader movement and represent Greenpeace in different fora.

• Actively support the delivery of assigned political projects or initiatives including assuming a project leadership role and/or task management responsibilities as and when required

• Provide expert advice and support to NROs, project teams and other key stakeholders on political strategies, advocacy and operating in multilateral processes and fora

• Develop analysis, materials, trainings and other tools to disseminate political insights and technical expertise in order to advance Greenpeace campaign and/or political goals

• Monitor and analyse key political developments, providing strategic recommendations to relevant stakeholders in the global network.

• Conduct independent research and commission external analysis to support political programme objectives.

For further information about this role, please see the full job description /terms of reference by clicking HERE (please note that this is the base job description, to which this role is an extension focusing in Politics).