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About the Role
You will strengthen and co-lead the delivery of a dedicated engagement strategy in Australia, focusing on closing the corporate accountability gap through company and stakeholder engagement. You will be part of WBA’s Company and Industry Engagement Team, driving company learning and improvements in performance.
Responsibilities
- Use technical expertise in biodiversity, nature, or food and agriculture issues to identify key trends, gaps, and opportunities in company performance and inform WBA’s engagement with high-priority companies.
- Unpack WBA’s company data and research to identify compelling findings, trends, and insights that demonstrate company progress, remaining gaps, and necessary actions for improved sustainability performance.
- Proactively identify, build, and nurture relationships with high-priority companies, business platforms, and other key organizations in or linked to Australia.
- Represent WBA externally in bilateral meetings and events, including industry forums, conferences, roundtables, and policy dialogues.
- Scope developments, risks, and opportunities across biodiversity, nature, food and agriculture, and related sustainability issues to shape WBA’s company engagement approach in Australia.
- Bring insights and learning from engagement in Australia back into WBA, sharing company practices and connecting them to WBA’s wider research and engagement workstreams.
- Work closely with the Australian Stakeholder Lead to deliver WBA’s broader Australian strategy.
Requirements
- 8+ years’ relevant experience in sustainability with strong technical expertise in biodiversity and nature, or food and agriculture.
- Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to analyze company-level data, identify trends, and translate complex information into clear insights.
- Good understanding of challenges and opportunities facing companies and their supply chains in relation to biodiversity, nature, food and agriculture, and other sustainability transitions.
- Proactive approach to external engagement, with the confidence and initiative to identify opportunities, build relationships, and engage constructively with companies and stakeholders.
- Confidence and clarity in communicating complex sustainability issues to key stakeholders, including companies, financial institutions, policymakers, and civil society organizations.
- Strong existing sustainability networks in Australia, particularly with companies, business platforms, financial institutions, policymakers, and/or civil society organizations.
- Excellent strategic and innovative thinking, and strong project management skills.
- Collaborative, thoughtful, and calm under pressure, thriving in a fast-paced, changing environment.
- Comfortable taking initiative and working independently.
Skills
- Biodiversity
- Nature
- Food and agriculture
- Sustainability
- Analytical skills
- Communication skills
- External engagement
- Relationship building
- Strategic thinking
- Innovative thinking
- Project management
Location
- Australia
Work Type
- Full-time
- Fixed-term contract
Experience Level
- 8+ years
Salary/Compensations
- EUR 75,000 - 95,000
- AUD 119,000-150,000
About the Company
- The World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) is an independent, non-profit organisation that measures how businesses impact people and planet to hold companies accountable for contributing to sustainable development.
- WBA assesses the world’s 2,000 most influential companies using open-source research and methodologies.
- WBA provides a clear roadmap for companies to understand their performance, identify gaps, and strengthen their approach to environmental and social sustainability.
- WBA engages with companies to help them interpret findings, share emerging good practice, and build understanding of credible transition planning.
- WBA is a Teal-inspired organisation, prioritizing collaboration, trust, learning, and personal growth alongside high performance.