Project Manager

Dynamic Planet helps build conservation economies that benefit people, nature and climate - by restoring nature rather than by depleting it. Dynamic Planet is fiscally sponsored by Re:wild.

Dynamic Planet helps advance markets that restore nature through conservation economy development. We are part of a growing effort to help effectively protect 30% of the planet by 2030 (30x30) with strong local socio-economic benefits and fit-for-purpose sustainable financing. Our team helps guide high-impact partners in key geographies across government, business, and civil society who are building regenerative seascapes, landscapes, and island nation economies through a combination of new business models, blended finance, public-private partnerships, and compelling science-based narratives to maximize environmental, social, and economic returns. We have worked from the tropics to the Arctic to help create or improve protected areas and related conservation markets for regenerative rather than extractive economies. We are also involved with public & private sector coalitions and campaigns, natural capital investment funds, and nature-based climate solutions.

To achieve 30x30, the world needs to quadruple current ocean protection in the next 7 years. To help meet this ambitious goal, Dynamic Planet works at the invitation of governments, businesses and NGO partners, such as National Geographic Pristine Seas and other organizations that are focused on creating and implementing fully or highly protected marine areas (MPAs) with and for local communities. Fully or highly protected MPAs have been proven to restore marine life and provide new economic opportunities via ecotourism, enhanced fisheries, and food security around them, and help mitigate global warming. If managed and reinvested well, MPAs are regenerating ‘fish factories’ that can pay for themselves and provide economic benefits to locals in tourism and fishing in perpetuity. MPAs are engines of ocean regeneration that yield multiple benefits to humanity. Yet, even when you add up the best of current conservation efforts, it is easy to see that the world will fall short of 30x30.

We are embarking on a special, high profile, multi-year campaign to communicate and support the benefits of MPAs so that more coastal communities will be inspired and equipped to create and manage them on their own — and contribute to 30x30. To inspire local communities, the project will kick off with a major feature global documentary and a variety of audience-specific films with content also available for local campaigning. The campaign will equip local communities with the necessary tools and resources to create their own MPAs. The campaign architecture has been drafted but needs to be detailed, implemented, and refined for global, priority country, and sector audiences and with key partners.

Position Description - Your Responsibilities and Impact Reporting to Dynamic Planet’s CEO, we are seeking a talented Project Manager to:

Relationship Management:

• Serve as the day-to-day manager for international partner relationships.

• Support CEO on senior level relationships and funders with ability to anticipate next steps within project management for smooth operations.

• Design and implement a relationship management system that incorporates consistent communication, implementing and maintaining program plans, timelines, and agreements.

Project Management:

• Support campaign team with design and implementation of a project management system to track progress on key initiatives & partnerships, including program plans, timelines, and creation of partner proposals /MOUs /agreements.

• Conduct research and analysis and present findings clearly, concisely, and visually.

• 7+ years of experience in similar role with minimum of bachelor’s degree.

• Experience working across sectors internationally to achieve outcomes with experience in nonprofit and/or environmental sector preferred.

• Excellent research, writing and verbal skills in English – other languages a bonus.

• Excellent project management and organizational skills with high attention to detail and tone.

• Ability to understand big picture and overall goal yet deliver on mapping strategies and steps within realistic timelines, mitigating risks with foresight.

• Ability to apply critical thinking to multiple workstreams, under deadlines, with changing priorities in a dynamic, fast-paced, multi-cultural environment to achieve outcomes; ability to deliver pragmatic and professional judgements to a range of groups, balancing the needs of multiple priorities at any given time.

• Outstanding interpersonal and social skills to apply to strong understanding of relationship networks and interplays between levels (government, policy, business, and community audiences through this work.)

• A collaborative spirit, effective at engaging stakeholders and collaborators with good judgement, common sense, and keen discretion.

• Excellent time management of self and others.

• Current knowledge of best practices for project and relationship management software including AI trends.

• Strong ability to work virtually and effectively across time zones and cultures, with an ability to build strong, trusting relationships that include seeking and adapting to perspectives from all parties.

• Passion and intellectual rigor around coastal regeneration and related economies and communities.

• Demonstrated commitment to supporting local communities and promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion internally and externally.

• Immediate start with competitive, flexible package.

• Opportunity to significantly contribute to novel global outcomes as we shift traditional markets from extraction to regeneration as a solution to the combined climate, biodiversity, and equity crises.

• Opportunity to join a creative, entrepreneurial, world-class, yet humble team, working with a global network of innovators and changemakers including government, business, and community leaders.

Thank you.