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Location: This is a full-time role based in London hybrid with some flexibility to exceptional candidates that can frequently travel to London from elsewhere in the UK and Europe, with a salary dependent on experience. 

Apply by: Wednesday 11 March 2026

Job Purpose and Background:

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) seeks a maternity cover for the position of Head of Strategic Partnerships. This leadership role is responsible for the SBTi’s strategic partnerships, including building the SBTi’s partnerships, events, and fundraising strategies and managing those teams, and translating their efforts into impact across the SBTi. 

This senior role will report to the Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer and will be responsible for one of the four main pillars of the SBTi’s strategy and transformation team. 

The ideal candidate will have a collaborative, proactive, and growth-oriented mindset, with a commitment to demonstrating SBTi values, and delivering on our mission and strategy. This role is pivotal for enhancing SBTi’s impact in accelerating corporate decarbonisation.

Key Responsibilities:

Partnerships Strategy

• Activating across the SBTi: Build a strategic partnerships strategy and manage the Partnerships Lead to ensure stronger strategic management of partnerships across the SBTi, while also leading on more sensitive strategic partner relationships.
• Partner insights strategic integration: Monitor trends in the corporate climate action ecosystem, funnelling insights to share feedback within the SBTi from partners to be agile in response to changing market conditions.

Fundraising Strategy

• Fundraising partnerships: Lead on the fundraising strategy, including managing the Fundraising Lead to: steward relationships with existing SBTi philanthropic donors, seek new strategic donors for critical SBTi projects, and ensure the SBTi’s internal fundraising processes meet best practice.
• Strategic insights: Along with the Fundraising Lead, build strong relationships with donors, regularly updating them on SBTi’s activities, while seeking their feedback, and opportunities for enhanced partnerships. 

Events Strategy

• Showcasing the SBTi: Ensure that the SBTi’s events strategy delivers value and opportunities for growth at events, including managing the Events Lead to implement ‘Tier 1’ events of a global nature (for example, UNFCCC COP, London Climate Action Week), and ‘Tiers 2’ and ‘3’ with regional/country-specific and sectoral events.
• Seek opportunities to increase growth: Support and advise the Events Lead to develop strategic opportunities to build bespoke SBTi events, including for the CEO and Executive Team, to deliver impact across the SBTi.

Management 

• Strategic Partnerships Team: This role includes direct line management of three roles including the Partnerships Lead, Fundraising Lead, and Events Lead (who manages the events coordinator).
• Wider SBTi management team: At the ‘Head’ level of seniority, this role also involves strategic leadership in the SBTi as a member of the cross-departmental management team.

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Location: This is a full-time role based in London hybrid with some flexibility to exceptional candidates that can frequently travel to London from elsewhere in the UK and Europe, with a salary dependent on experience. 

Apply by: Wednesday 11 March 2026

Job Purpose and Background:

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) is seeking an experienced partnerships expert to lead the SBTi’s cross-organisational approach to managing strategic partnerships. 

This role will be part of the SBTi’s Strategic Partnerships team, reporting to the Associate Director, Strategy & Partnerships. The Strategic Partnerships Lead is responsible for implementing the partnerships strategy, including building the alignment of partnerships across the SBTi, and growing strategic relationships. This role will offer the chance to demonstrate leadership skills to shape the SBTi’s partnership model in a period where the SBTi is implementing a new strategy, where partnerships are a key lever for growth.

The ideal candidate should have experience building partnerships to deliver impact in an organisation going through a growth/evolution phase. They should also have an excellent network in the corporate climate action space (ideally including some public and private sector experience), strong relationship building skills, and project management and organisational skills. The candidate should also clearly demonstrate their alignment with the SBTi mission and values, as well as flexibility, and a spirit of collaboration and growth. 

Key Responsibilities

• Activating effective partnerships across the organisation: ensuring that partnerships are managed in line with the SBTi strategy and 2026 business plan by partnership points of contact across the SBTi. This includes regularly monitoring the quality of partnerships and working with the Associate Director of Strategy and Partnerships to ensure alignment with the strategy.
• Training partnership points of contact across the SBTi: to ensure the partnerships strategy is being strategically utilized across the organisation to meet our goals, while also collecting feedback for continuous improvement.
• Building strategic partnerships: working with the Associate Director, managing sensitive and important partnerships, while also acting as a central point of contact for new partner prospects. This includes regularly meeting with partners online and in person, including attending events to build partnerships (for eg London Climate Action Week, and other major global climate events).
• Deeper partner alignment: ensuring partnership points of contact are keeping their partners updated on the SBTi’s activities and equipped with materials to support growth of the SBTi, while also sharing important feedback within the SBTi.

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Location: 

This is a full-time role based in London with some flexibility to exceptional candidates that can frequently travel to London from elsewhere in the UK and Europe, with a salary dependent on experience. 

Apply by: Monday 16 March 2026

Job Purpose and Background:

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) seeks a Project Lead Systems and Progress to design and deliver new forward-looking assessments of corporate decarbonisation in line with the objectives and pathways of SBTi. This exciting role is pivotal for enhancing and evolving the SBTi's value proposition and impact in shaping, informing and accelerating corporate climate action.

This role will strengthen the SBTi Systems and Evidence work programme through delivering new and rigorous, system-level analyses that harness SBTi’s unique evidence base and global network, in line with stakeholder demand. Through developing and tracking leading indicators to assess future low carbon delivery progress across all sectors and regions covered within SBTi, this work will provide authoritative insight into the pace of the corporate net zero transition and help drive real world impact through identifying and addressing systemic gaps and barriers to faster delivery. 

The successful candidate will combine strong, creative analytical skillsets with a strategic perspective and deep knowledge of the low-carbon transition. They will bring a delivery-focused, collaborative approach—working effectively across internal teams, external partners and with business leaders to translate complex analysis into credible, high-impact outputs.

Key Responsibilities

Methodology and system development 

• Strategic design and indicator development: Develop new methodologies to identify and track leading actions around capital allocation, asset build-out and retirement, and technology choices as forward indicators for corporate decarbonisation delivery. Liaise and work with key stakeholders to test, gather and implement method design insights.
• Data integration and validation: Operationalise these indicators using internal and external data sources applying robust processes to ensure completeness, accuracy and consistency. Cultivate strong partnerships with data partners to enhance access, transparency and shared understanding.
• Evaluation: Undertake quantitative assessments on these indicator data to derive trends, and patterns, and interpret these to draw out forward signals on actions that will drive emissions reductions. Identify key data gaps and suggest and develop innovative approaches to address these. 

Insight development & communication

• Insight generation: Develop evidence-based insights and lead work across teams to develop and refine the resulting key messages and action recommendations tailored to corporate leadership, technical audiences and other external stakeholders.
• Output drafting: Produce clear and concise outputs, focussing on clarity around the added value of analyses and findings, both at cross-cutting levels and in regional or sector specific settings.
• Consultation management: Prepare structured consultation materials to test findings, synthesise feedback from senior leaders and external partners, and integrate their input to strengthen analytical approaches and outputs.
• Dissemination Support: Support effective communication and dissemination of findings, collaborating with communications and stakeholder teams to maximise reach and impact.

Project and product leadership

• Project scoping and design: Structure clear workplans to deliver tasked outcomes through day to day ownership and line management of project workstreams and inputs.
• Team coordination: Collaborate effectively across technical, sectoral and regional teams to ensure coherence, efficiency and shared ownership of outputs..
• Product development: Translate methodologies, indicators and datasets into scalable, marketable data products and services that strengthen ecosystem-wide understanding of corporate transition progress.

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Location: 

This is a full-time role based in London with some flexibility to exceptional candidates that can frequently travel to London from elsewhere in the UK and Europe, with a salary dependent on experience. 

Apply by: Thursday 19 March 2026

Job Purpose and Background:

The Science Based Targets (SBTi) initiative is looking for a Project Manager to manage the development and delivery of SBTI’s standards. The role is responsible for planning and executing projects within scope, time, budget and to quality, in line with SBTi’s Standard Operating Procedures (SOP). This role involves coordinating cross-functional team members, utilising assigned resources, and mitigating risks to achieve successful outcomes. The Project Manager also ensures monitoring and reporting as well as clear, timely project related stakeholder communication. The role is critical for efficient, effective project delivery and driving continuous improvement of the Technical Department’s work programme and product development. It also exemplifies respectful behaviour, open communication and integrity, embodying SBTi’s values and supports a positive, healthy work culture.

Key responsibilities include: 

• Ensure successful delivery of assigned projects following SBTi’s Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
• Build out detailed project plans including timelines, milestones, budget requests, and resource allocation.
• Project manage cross-functional team members to ensure successful delivery within scope and constraints.
• Project manage Data and Technology workstreams for the Technical Department.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks throughout the entire project lifecycle.
• Track, monitor, and report project progress, including key milestones, deliverables, and any deviations.
• Facilitate stakeholder communication, ensuring alignment and timely resolution of issues.
• Foster a collaborative team environment and address team progress in alignment with project goals.
• Facilitate regular lessons-learned sessions and implement improvements to foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Facilitate decision-making processes that are informed, timely, and aligned with project priorities.
• Drive collaboration and knowledge sharing within the team, the Technical Department, and across the organization to maximize impact.
• Role model respectful behavior, open communication, and integrity as vital pillars of SBTi’s culture.

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