Fungi and Climate Project Lead

Core responsibilities:

• Work across organizations to build project identity and strategy with vision for implementation and communication
• Organize and track project activities, milestones, and delivery while reporting grant progress to funders
• Cultivate, seek, and maintain strategic relationships with key allies including government agencies, NGOs, and scientific partners
• Work closely with core team and organization teams to execute key activities and manage budget

This role aims to lay the legal, regulatory, and scientific groundwork required to write fungi into global climate and conservation agendas, protecting fungal communities and harnessing their power to mitigate climate change and support global biodiversity.

Required qualifications:

• 3-5 years' experience in climate and/or biodiversity space with proven track record of project leadership and delivery
• Exceptional communication and networking skills with ability to tailor messaging for diverse audiences
• Senior-level presence to credibly represent organizational strategy in high-level conversations without supervision
• Self-directed, autonomous, ambitious with ability to understand and communicate complex policy and science concepts

Compensation range is USD $5,000-6,600 per month with global compensation multiplier to ensure equity across regions. This is a 3-year consultancy role as a contractor with initial 3-month trial period, fully remote with travel requirements.

The Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) maps and protects mycorrhizal fungal networks that regulate Earth's climate and ecosystems through a global data platform and network of Science Associates. The Fungi Foundation is an international environmental non-profit dedicated to conserving the world's fungi through policy, education, and conservation work.