Head of Partnerships
- Organization
- The Earth Foundation
- Location
- Remote; Global
- Job Type
- Full-time
- How to Apply
- Please send your CV, a cover letter, and a one-pager presenting your plan for Year 1 — how you’d approach building a diversified global partner community and piloting the first regional boards — to info@earth-foundation.org. References will be requested at the final stage.
- Where to Apply
- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R52ue_VrKzLABbry-BKStVEmhufzNpwu/view?usp=sharing
- Tags
- Remote
The Earth Foundation runs The Earth Prize, the world’s largest environmental competition for teenagers. Each year, thousands of students across seven global regions develop real solutions to real environmental problems.
The best reach our Scholar phase, where they receive mentorship, resources, and a platform to take their ideas further.
We are launching a country sponsorship programme: a first-of-its-kind model where organisations and individuals sponsor a country’s participation in The Earth Prize. Students from 169 countries and territories have taken part so far, and we want our supporters to be just as global. Your job is to build that community of funding and strategic partners (companies, foundations, family offices, philanthropists and institutions) country by country and region by region, and to establish the regional advisory boards that will sustain and grow it long-term.
Country sponsorship is the flagship, but it is not the only way in. Some partners will sponsor a country; others will fund a region, back the programme over several years, or bring expertise, influence and access. This is a new revenue stream, a new product, and a genuinely new kind of partnership. It will require someone who can sell a vision before the results exist, match each partner to the right way of supporting us, build boards of committed regional advocates, and care about the mission as much as the close. As Head of Partnerships you will own the programme end to end, reporting to the COO & Founder.
Responsibility 1: Partnerships & Country Sponsorship
Build a diversified partner community
Own the full partnership cycle, from research and first contact to signed agreement and on to renewal. Year 1 is about breadth: bringing partners on board across as many countries and regions as possible, learning which kinds of partner respond best where, and building the relationships that make them want to stay.
• Research, map and prioritise prospective partners across five groups: companies and corporate
foundations; family offices and private foundations; philanthropists and high-net-worth individuals;
selected institutional partners, such as embassies, delegation offices and development agencies in the
countries we serve; and influential individuals introduced through the regional advisory boards
• Build and manage a single global pipeline across these groups, matched to specific countries and regions
• Lead conversations with senior decision-makers: CSR and sustainability leads, foundation directors,
family-office principals, philanthropists, and diplomatic and institutional representatives
• Tailor the offer to the partner: a country sponsorship for one, regional or multi-year funding for another,
expertise or advocacy for a third
• Develop compelling proposals combining Earth Prize participation data, Youth Changemaker
programme completion rates, and the partner’s own mission and narrative
• Steward partners through the annual cycle: reporting on the impact of their support, and building towards
renewal and longer-term commitments
• Work with the COO & Founder on due diligence, so that every partner is a credible fit for the
Foundation’s mission and for the country or region it supports
• Maintain the public register of country sponsors accurately across each cycle
• Feed partner intelligence back to the programme team: what drives participation in The Earth Prize, what
helps students complete the Youth Changemaker programme, and what stories land with which partners
Year 1 objectives: agreed with the COO & Founder on joining, covering the number of countries sponsored,
total income raised across all types of partner, and the breadth of the pipeline. The right person will
understand that a first sponsor in a smaller country can matter as much as a headline name in a major
economy, and that a well-placed ambassador or family office can open more doors than a single cheque. If it
moves student participation, it builds the case for everything that follows.
