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Location: London hybrid with some flexibility to exceptional candidates that can frequently travel to London from elsewhere in the UK and Europe.

Apply by: Monday 2 March 2026

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) seeks a Director of Engagement, Growth and Insights to lead our strategic efforts in corporate engagement and insights generation. This role is pivotal for enhancing SBTi’s impact in accelerating corporate decarbonisation. 

Reporting to the Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer, this leader will shape and support SBTi’s global, regional and sectoral engagement and growth programs. The overall focus will be to drive growth through engagement programmes and bring insight into standards development. The Director will also supervise the stakeholder engagement team, which runs the consultation stage of our standards development process. 

The ideal candidate will blend a proactive and growth-oriented approach to SBTi’s external stakeholder engagement with deep collaboration internally to unlock value across SBTi. 

Key Responsibilities

Engagement Strategy

• Strategic Leadership and growth: Identify segments and regions of potential growth, in line with organisational strategic priorities, and craft plans to activate funnel of businesses and partnerships. Demonstrate pragmatism in implementing plans based on previous success and resourcefully using the global partner network.
• Regional and Sectoral Program Design: Working closely with regional and sectoral engagement leads, operationalise engagement plans in line with organisational priorities. Provide a framework for operationalizing this strategy across regions and sectors, aligning with overarching organizational goals.
• Market Intelligence: Monitor trends, regulatory changes, and practices within corporate sustainability standards to adapt engagement strategies, ensure SBTi standards respond to market needs and align with and inform SBTi’s overall strategy.
• Insight Integration and unlocking value across SBTi: Create structured feedback loops to funnel insights gathered outside of formal consultations back into SBTi’s standards development.

Programme Delivery

• Regional Team Leadership: Guide and empower regional teams to deliver impactful regional insight and engagement programs directly and through partnerships.
• Sectoral Team Leadership: Support the sectoral leads to develop sectoral approaches and briefs, with a focus on the most challenging sectors and segments and working closely with our technical standards team.
• Stakeholder Consultation Leadership: Provide oversight and support to the Stakeholder Engagement Senior Manager who coordinates stakeholder consultations that inform SBTi standards development, working in close consultation with the Technical Department.

Operational Improvement and Central Support to Regional Programmes

• Resource Development: Collaborate with departments across SBTi to develop and refine educational materials and engagement resources. Support regional teams in customizing these materials to meet local needs.
• Operational Support and Process Development: Establish processes that bridge central functions with regional programs, ensuring cohesive strategy execution.
• Issue resolution: Take issues raised by regional leads back to the broader organization, driving cross-functional solutions to challenges.
• Partnership Development and Management: Strengthen and expand relationships with SBTi founding partners, industry groups, and sustainability organizations. Leverage these partnerships for broader engagement and to gather actionable market insights.

Representation

• Events Strategy: Work closely with the Head of Market Transformation and Strategic Partnerships, the Communications Department, and Regional and Sectoral Leads to define and deliver regional events strategies and bring regional expertise and context to global events such as COP.
• Representation and Advocacy: Act as a spokesperson for SBTi, advocating for science-based target setting at events and in media interviews.

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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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