Finance Working Group Coordinator
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Environmental Paper Network International is hiring a Finance Working Groups Coordinator. If you are interested in applying, please read the job description and submit your application (CV and cover letter) by 15 September (more information below).
About the job
The Finance Working Group Coordinator will be a staff member of Environmental Paper Network International (working on an external services contract or employed by one of our members), in charge of two working groups, one focusing on campaigns targeting pulp finance and the other on biomass finance. Each Working Group is composed of 5 to 15 people.
The successful candidate will design and deliver the working group strategy, work plans and reporting; coordinate joint activities; facilitate working group meetings; engage with financiers of pulp and biomass-related industries; and identify opportunities for finance-related work in the broader EPN strategy.
Main Tasks
- Build and maintain relationships with NGOs working on financial institutions and NGOs working in the two industries’ main expansion areas. This includes collaboration with EPN’s regional working groups.
- Build relationships with financial institutions, engage with them, and conduct finance-related work.
- Initiate and/or coordinate campaigns with local NGOs around “dodgy deals” (harmful projects or companies financed by banks).
- Write or assist in writing letters to financial institutions, reports, blogs, etc., ensuring agreed-upon sign-off procedures are applied before sending/publishing.
- Contribute to EPN International communication’s work: build relationships with finance journalists, contribute to communication strategies, contribute to our social media and to our internal newsletters to our members. .
- Proactively identify opportunities to communicate about “dodgy deals” and relevant finance information.
- Organise and chair regular working group calls.
- Organise ad hoc calls with external stakeholders (such as finance institutions) and ensure EPN representatives are involved.
- Represent EPN in finance-related NGO coalitions
- Manage email lists, moderate discussions, and share relevant information.
- Participate in weekly team calls, monthly EPN Steering Committee meetings/calls, broader EPN discussions and in-person meetings (at least once a year).
- Help the EPN International coordinator and EPN finance manager raise funds for working group activity, manage relevant budgets, and report to funders.
Essential requirements
- Experience in working on topics involving financial institutions.
- Proven affinity with environmental and social movements.
- Experience with working in a culturally diverse environment and sensitivity to cultural differences
- Good organisational skills.
- Expertise in forests, human rights, climate change, biodiversity, Indigenous Peoples’ rights, pollution or other areas relevant to the pulp and paper and bioenergy industry.
- Strong experience working with NGOs and within networks or coalitions.
- Ability to proactively engage with financiers.
- Ability to work independently and in a primarily virtual working space.
- Flexibility and availability to work across different time zones and to travel when required.
- Fluency in English and fluency in another language, preferably Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, or Indonesian, are desirable.
Terms of employment
- Initial 3 months contract for a trial period with a possibility to prolong it afterwards
- The Finance Working Group Coordinator will work three days per week with a flexible schedule
- Working on a self-employed basis or as an employee of one of EPN International member organisations.
- Remuneration: EPN is non-hierarchical, and all EPN International staff are currently paid the same daily rate of €286, so the annual salary would be €41,184 (€3,432 monthly, EPN covers the VAT tax if needed).
- 18 days (6 weeks) of paid annual leave
Environmental Paper Network adheres to the principles of justice, diversity, and equity. We encourage applications from candidates of any gender, age, or culture, especially from the Global South countries.
To apply, please send your curriculum vitae and a cover letter explaining why you seek the role, how you would approach the job, and how you meet the requirements to work@environmentalpaper.org and augustyn@environmentalpaper.org by September 15th.
Please attach your application as a single PDF document to your email. The vacancy will run until the position is filled. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews, which will be conducted via video conference. Enquiries or requests for additional information about the job may be sent to Karen Vermeer, karen@environmentalpaper.org.
About Environmental Paper Network International
The Environmental Paper Network (EPN – environmentalpaper.org and environmentalpaper.cn) is a global coalition of more than 250 civil society organisations, all of which have signed the Global Paper Vision for transforming the paper industry to become sustainable and ethical or the Biomass Delusion Statement for halting the expansion of the bioenergy industry. We have been working together for over two decades, originally focussing on the pulp and paper industry only. EPN was formed in North America in 2002, in Europe in 2005, and in China in 2009. In 2014, the European EPN expanded to become EPN International, the hub for all members outside China and North America.
EPN identifies synergies and links between NGOs in the forest, human rights, pollution and climate change movements. We share knowledge and information, help develop joint strategies and messages, and coordinate international campaigning.
EPN is a lean, strategic hub that helps civil society work together on the bioenergy and pulp & paper industry. EPN’s work is focused on companies, customers, financiers, and governments, both informing them about what is happening in the global pulp and paper industry and encouraging the industry to move towards The Global Paper Vision. With regard to bioenergy, EPN’s focus is on halting the expansion of the harmful industrial bioenergy sector. EPN hosts working groups of active member organisations on the following topics:
- Paper: paper saving, Indonesian rainforests, pulp finance and South America pulp expansion
- Biomass: regional working groups (Latin America, Africa, Asia Pacific and East Asia), bioenergy finance and COP Taskforce
We are governed by a steering committee of representatives from our member organisations and experts in the field.
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