Strategy and Governance Coordinator

Key Details

This role can be based in either the UK or Perú. Visit our careers page for full details.

Job Title: Strategy and Governance Coordinator

Reporting to: Director

Salary: £32,000-£35,000 FTE per annum (UK) or S/6,000-S/7,000 per month (Perú)

Location: Remote-first / hybrid (UK or Peru) – This means mostly home-working with a requirement to travel to meet colleagues up to once per quarter (travel and accommodation is funded by Cool Earth)

Essential Purpose of Role: Coordinate the essential governance responsibilities of Cool Earth Action’s constituent charities and manage the strategic planning process.

Contract Type: Full-time, permanent. Part-time (0.6+) and other flexible working requests considered.

Applications for this role will be reviewed on an on-going basis. We reserve the right to close the role if we find a suitable applicant.

About Cool Earth

Cool Earth is a climate charity that protects the rainforest by supporting the people who live there. We have been working alongside local and Indigenous rainforest communities for over 15 years in the three largest and most important rainforests in the world, the Amazon, The Congo Rainforest and the Papua New Guinea Rainforest. Indigenous and local communities have been protecting the rainforest for thousands of years, but unfortunately are now facing a humanitarian crisis, lacking necessities like safe drinking water, infrastructure, healthcare, and stable incomes.

This makes rainforest communities vulnerable to exploitation by illegal loggers and extractive industries, who pressure them to sell their land. Once these industries take over, Indigenous peoples are displaced, losing their ancestral homes, culture, and traditional ways of life, and the rainforest is destroyed. Without these forests to regulate the earth’s temperature the climate crisis will only worsen. So what do we do to help?

By working in collaboration with these communities we help support their livelihoods, improve health, sanitation and education and provide tech to help monitor their rainforest. Our main programme involves giving direct unconditional cash to rainforest communities so that they can decide how best to use it in order to improve their quality of life. Rainforest communities can only defend their land from illegal loggers and greedy land grabbers when they themselves are resilient and strong. We help them get to that point.

About the role

To apply for this role, please visit our Careers page: https://www.coolearth.org/work-with-us/

Over the past three years, Cool Earth has doubled in size. New teams within Programming to improve our evaluations and to pilot basic income have accompanied significant growth in our existing Peru and PNG work. A new marketing department with members in every country that we operate in has also added to the complexity of the organisation. This role has been created to ensure the governance and strategic planning of Cool Earth keeps up with the pace of change..

Working across a global team and alongside the Director and Senior Leadership Team of Cool Earth, the co-ordinator will ensure the organisation’s ambitious targets are monitored and met. They will provide daily support to the Director’s regulatory and strategic responsibilities, liaise with the Board of Trustees (UK and US) and become a key member of the wider Cool Earth team.

What you’ll do

• Provide research and administrative support for the Boards of Trustees and Director.
• Ensure the organisation’s ambitious targets are monitored and reported on.
• Manage the quarterly cycle of team wide meetings and strategic planning.
• Coordinate agenda and objective setting across the Strategic Leadership Team and act as secretariat to SLT meetings.
• Plan, organise and document the Director’s annual planning and mid-year review meetings.
• Follow up outstanding issues which emerge from planning and objective setting.
• Coordinate and prepare meetings and larger internal events as required, including preparation and circulation of agenda, reading materials and minutes.
• Assist with the planning and delivery of occasional external events.
• Draft correspondence to high-level recipients and of a complex and sensitive nature.
• Support the Director in researching and preparing information for internal and external presentations.
• Liaise with the marketing and fundraising teams to set up briefings with supporters and philanthropists.
• Liaise with the programmes and policy and advocacy teams to set up internal and external briefings.
• Organise trustee’s meetings, prepare papers, take minutes and follow up decisions.
• Support the annual planning cycle with the Senior Leadership Team and the budget monitoring responsibilities of the Director.
• Support the Director and SLT of Spanish/English translation of key presentations, documents and other communications from leadership to the global team.

For a full job description and to apply, please visit our Careers page: https://www.coolearth.org/work-with-us/

Who you are

You will have the following essential skills and abilities:

• Fluent spoken and written English and Spanish.
• Proven analytical skills with the ability to identify and communicate key points from complex material or information. You will be excellent at visual presentation of data and information.
• Understanding and practical experience of organising and coordinating priorities, including creating processes and tools to support effective planning at senior level
• Excellent organisation and administration skills with the ability to plan and prioritise work for self and others
• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to follow tasks and ideas through to completion
• Ability to communicate clearly, concisely and diplomatically, verbally and in writing with stakeholders at multiple levels
• High level of competency with the Google and Microsoft Office suite.
• Genuine interest in and commitment to the humanitarian and environmental principles of Cool Earth
• A commitment to EDI (equity, diversity and inclusion) and Safeguarding.
• Alignment with Cool Earth values of “smart”, “driven”, “open” and “locally-led”
• Ambitious, versatile and conscientious in your attitude to work

For a full person specification of essential and desirable skills and abilities, please visit our Careers page: https://www.coolearth.org/work-with-us/

Cool Earth is committed to building an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace and ensuring our application process is accessible for all.If you have any questions or concerns about this, please feel free to get in touch with us at [email protected]