How to apply for Senior Partnership Manager, Ghana

About Terraformation

Terraformation works on global forest restoration using native ecosystems and sustainable solutions. The company focuses on combating climate change by accelerating restoration at scale. This role sits at the center of its Ghana Country Platform, working with the Forestry Commission and technical experts.

About the role

The Senior Partnership Manager, Ghana builds and manages the partnerships and coalition behind Terraformation's Ghana Country Platform for Forest Restoration. The role executes three workstreams: seed supply capacity enhancement, governance, finance and community of practice, and strengthening restoration monitoring. It also coordinates a National Seed to Forest Accelerator and acts as a bridge between Ghanaian partners and Terraformation's internal teams.

A typical day

A typical day may involve coordinating with the Forestry Commission and local partners on workstream progress, then meeting Terraformation's technical teams on seed supply, monitoring, or training design. The role also spends time on stakeholder engagement, solution design, and moving the National Seed to Forest Accelerator forward. Exact routines depend on the stage of each workstream, so ask about team structure and reporting lines in the interview.

Who Terraformation is looking for

• Has direct experience building and managing multi-stakeholder partnerships in Ghana, ideally with government bodies such as the Forestry Commission.
• Understands forest landscape restoration, native seed supply chains, and restoration monitoring in the Ghanaian context.
• Has coordinated capacity needs assessments and delivered training, tools, or technical assistance to local organizations.
• Can manage multiple workstreams at once, from stakeholder engagement and solution design through to implementation.

Tips for this application

• Name Ghana's 2040 Forest Landscape Restoration Strategy in your application and show how your experience connects to its goals.
• Describe specific partnerships you have built in Ghana, including who the partners were and what the partnership achieved.
• Use the three workstreams (seed supply, governance and finance, restoration monitoring) as a structure in your cover letter or CV summary.
• Show any experience coordinating a national or large-scale program, similar to the National Seed to Forest Accelerator.
• Demonstrate how you have worked as a bridge between local partners and technical teams, since this is central to the role.

What to cover in your cover letter

Explain your track record of building partnerships with Ghanaian institutions, especially the Forestry Commission or similar bodies. Describe your hands-on work in seed supply, restoration monitoring, or governance and finance for restoration. Give one example of a capacity needs assessment you led and what training or tools followed. Show how you would coordinate the National Seed to Forest Accelerator with both Ghanaian stakeholders and Terraformation's technical teams.

Research before applying

• Read Ghana's 2040 Forest Landscape Restoration Strategy and note its targets and priority regions.
• Study Terraformation's work in Ghana and any public materials on its Country Platform model.
• Learn about the Forestry Commission of Ghana, its structure, and its role in restoration.
• Look into existing seed supply and restoration monitoring efforts in Ghana to understand the current gaps.

Likely interview topics

Based on the job description, expect questions about:

• How would you build and manage the coalition behind Terraformation's Ghana Country Platform?
• Walk us through your experience with seed supply capacity or native seed systems in Ghana.
• How would you coordinate a National Seed to Forest Accelerator from needs assessment to delivery?
• Describe how you have worked with the Forestry Commission or other Ghanaian government stakeholders.
• How would you strengthen restoration monitoring alongside technical experts and local partners?

Common mistakes to avoid

• Applying without showing any knowledge of Ghana's restoration policy or the Forestry Commission.
• Treating the role as a generic partnership job instead of addressing the three named workstreams.
• Claiming restoration or seed supply experience without concrete examples from Ghana or similar contexts.