Public Funding and Partnerships Lead

The Nature Conservancy

Lead on public funding and partnerships for biodiversity and climate initiatives in Norway. Responsible for strategy implementation and stakeholder engagement within the public sector.

Posted 6/27/2026full-timeRemote • 🇳🇴 NorwaySeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Shape and manage the development and implementation of TNC’s long standing strategy on engagement and resource mobilisation for biodiversity and climate with Norway key public sector institutions such as Norad, Norway’s Ministry of Climate and Environment and Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative.
Develop partnerships and identify opportunities for public funding and/or blended finance and/or innovative finance mechanisms with Nordic bilateral and multilateral organisations including Ministries of Foreign Affairs and development aid departments.
Provide senior leadership and strategic guidance within TNC on Norway’s and other Nordic governments and related organisations funding trends and positioning opportunities.
Supported by the TNC’s Europe Public Funding Manager, build and maintain an active pipeline of potential funding opportunities aligned with TNC’s priorities through both competitive calls for proposals and proactive positioning of TNC projects for collaborative funding opportunities.
Work with teams implementing Nordics’ donors funded projects to support high quality, timely, compliant delivery of contracts/grants to ensure TNC remains a partner of choice for this set of public donors and its related institutions.
Explore, identify and influence the creation of opportunities for blended finance initiatives with Nordics’ development financial institutions and funds that have the potential to mobilise public-private sources of funding for climate and biodiversity, as well as other innovative finance mechanisms.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of experience working with Norway’s and other Nordics public institutions and with their funded programmes and finance mobilisation initiatives for biodiversity and climate.
Deep knowledge of Norway’s climate and biodiversity global priorities and related financing streams and program cycles with an established network of strategic relationships.
Knowledge of the public development aid landscape and a established network of relationships with other key Nordic climate and biodiversity public sector agencies, development financial institutions and funds
Strong track record of identifying and securing public sector funding, ideally within environmental and/or climate-related areas.
Demonstrated experience engaging Norway’s and other Nordic institutions and navigating public funding programmes and blended finance mechanisms.
Proven experience in managing and coordinating internal and external stakeholder strategic partnerships across a variety of priorities and topics.
Experience implementing and managing multiple complex projects, on time and to agreed budgets.
Experience with client management databases and tracking tools.
Fluency in Norwegian and English; additional European languages are an asset.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health care benefits
Retirement benefits
Parental leave
Paid time off
Life insurance
Disability coverage
Employee assistance program
Flexible work environment

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Hard Skills & Tools

Funding IdentificationPublic Sector FundingBlended Finance MechanismsProject ManagementFinancial MobilizationEnvironmental FundingClimate FinancingProposal DevelopmentCompliance ManagementClient Management

Soft Skills

Strategic GuidanceStakeholder EngagementRelationship BuildingCollaborationCommunicationLeadershipNegotiationProblem SolvingAdaptabilityTeam Coordination