Advocacy Partnerships Manager, France (GC Live)
Global Citizen, France
Job Description
*Temporary Full-Time Employment from July 2021 to November 2021*
About Global Citizen
Since its inception, Global Citizen has leveraged the power of artists, governments, corporations, philanthropists, and civil society to achieve one common goal: ending extreme poverty. Global Citizens have taken over 28.4 million actions since 2009. Today, these actions, in combination with high-level advocacy work, have led to over $35.4 billion being distributed to our partners around the world, impacting 1.09 billion lives in the fight to end extreme poverty.
In 2021, Global Citizen is undertaking a coordinated advocacy campaign around the Recovery Plan for World launched in late February. The campaign will seek to mobilize new resources to address the most urgent needs brought about by COVID-19 and to help the world recover better together.
This plan calls for global support and new commitments to:
- End the pandemic- and ensure equitable access to tests, treatment, and vaccines
- Stop the hunger crisis exacerbated by the pandemic
- Resume learning for all children
- Increase Climate Ambition and Cool the Planet
- Promote Equity and Justice for All
Financing for sustainable development is a cross-cutting theme of this year’s campaign.
Until the end of the year, Global Citizen will organize two more tentpole moments (on top of VaxLive organized in early May) to leverage new commitments:
- September 25: Global Citizen Live, focused on the 5 pillars with a specific emphasis on climate
- October 29: G20, mobilizing commitments and celebrating success ahead of the G20 Summit and the COP.
As part of the campaign, Global Citizen aims at mobilizing governments, corporates, and philanthropic foundations to secure new financial and policy commitments, grow the movement and mobilize the public around the priority issues.
Global Citizen Live will be the most important event for Global Citizen’s campaign this year. It will be a 12-hour broadcast, with live events with attendance in New York City and Paris.
In order to achieve our objectives in the run-up and with the event itself, Global Citizen is building a team on the ground in Paris, which will closely work with the global teams, Live Nation as our most important partner and be supervised by the VP for Global Advocacy based out of Paris.
Position Overview
As part of the team, Global Citizen will recruit a manager focused on advocacy and partnerships, which the objective of:
- Leveraging the partnership with the French government, ensuring France steps up its financial and policy commitments as part of Global Citizen Live and mobilizes other governments to do the same;
- Building a network of strategic partners, especially with NGOs and think tanks, which will help us achieve our advocacy objectives;
- Identify other strategic partners in the corporate and philanthropic world, and develop an action plan to leverage private financial and policy commitments in line with Global Citizen’s strategy and relevant teams (in particular the private sector and philanthropy one and the business development one).
- Support advocacy and corporate and philanthropic outreach throughout Europe where needed;
- Provide policy research and briefing regarding France and European countries where relevant;
- Support the impact team in ensuring commitments are trackable and due diligence is complete in time.
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant experience in advocacy, government relations, policy and corporate/ philanthropic engagement;
- Very good knowledge of the French political landscape, experience with working with the French government and/ or private sector an asset;
- Experience developing advocacy, campaigns and/ or fundraising strategies;
- Excellent writing and communication skills in French and English; knowledge of Italian is an asset;
- Ability to work well under pressure, meet tight deadlines and stay organized to execute campaigns
- Collaborative style and strong work ethic
- Experience working in a dynamic team environment, remotely and autonomously
- Deep experience in coordinating with multiple teams across multiple partnerships, cultures, time zones
- Able to facilitate strategic and tactical decision-making on a day-to-day basis
- Demonstrated interest in the international development sector;
Benefits
Why Global Citizen?
In this coming decade of action and accountability, Global Citizen will be the leading international voice, educator, and influencer that rallies humanity to take full responsibility and accountability for eradicating extreme poverty by 2030. You have a chance to contribute and make this world a bet