The Beyond Seafood Campaign focuses on the intersection of human rights, labor, and environmental abuses, particularly in tuna fisheries. Greenpeace USA, Greenpeace Southeast Asia, and Greenpeace East Asia, along with allies and workers, are demanding that Big Seafood–key players in the global seafood industry–end isolation at sea.
The global BSC team works in partnership with Greenpeace Southeast Asia, Greenpeace USA, and Greenpeace East Asia to ensure that tuna fisheries no longer will be caught with forced labor or continue indiscriminately driving marine life populations to the brink of extinction.
Global projects at Greenpeace:
Greenpeace is a network united by a shared commitment to global impact in our environmental mission. Our strength lies in cross-border collaboration that delivers more together than any of us could alone. Global projects are coordinated by independent National Regional Offices (NRO’s) that choose to come together to run a project for campaigning at a global level. As a result, there isn’t a defined hierarchy, there is a shared responsibility to implement the project to meet its strategic goals and responsibly manage the people coordinating the project. The Global Project Staffing Model allows us to pool our resources, staff, and budgets into ambitious projects. Working across time zones our local action drives global impact, and global wins reinforce local power.
Purpose of the role:
As the Beyond Seafood Global Project Lead, you will lead and align a global project team across borders and offices, driving the integrated campaign strategy needed to challenge power and deliver global impact by:
- Leading and coordinating the development and implementation of a global project, focusing on strategic development and delivery, team performance, and resource coordination to achieve global impact.
- Provide visionary leadership by managing a diverse project team and a global coalition of staff across NRO’s, ensuring alignment with the organisation’s global programme plan.
- Direct the integration of multiple strategic components including political, communications, legal, and engagement strategies, to shift power structures and empower supporters worldwide.
- This role is highly collaborative, working across the project to ensure seamless delivery of the various strategies that will deliver on the campaign ambition.
Skills and qualifications:
- Strategic planning and development: Develop and deliver the global campaign strategy and theory of change, ensuring project objectives are relevant to participating NROs and aligned with the global programme ambition.
- Project management and monitoring: Oversee day-to-day operations, including task-giving, implementation of work plans. Set and refine global project objectives, and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to report on impact and progress.
- People management: Coordinate with People & Culture (Project P&C Lead, and NRO P&C) to manage the staffing of the global team, ensuring the right talent is in place and overseeing the recruitment process for new staffing needs and managing the performance of team members through objective setting and coaching.
- Budgetary and resource oversight: Create and manage a complex global budget and resource plan that pools NRO resources, international enabling funds, and external foundation funding. Responsible for reviewing the resource allocation and approving expenditure according to authorisation pool guidelines, where relevant, work with the Project Manager.
- Stakeholder and ally management: Build and maintain trust-based relationships with external allies, strategic partners, and high-level donors to maximise the project’s reach and impact.
- Risk management and responsiveness: Proactively identify organisational and operational risks, develop contingency plans, and ensure the team is prepared to nimbly respond to unforeseen external opportunities.
Global projects role requirements:
- Commitment to Greenpeace mission: Strong alignment with our mission with a record of using our values to guide decisions and long-term strategy.
- JEDIS commitment: Strong support of Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Safety. As a global campaign organisation, global projects are the heart of what we do; ensure cultural and regional realities and sensitivities are reflected in global projects.
- Cross-cultural collaboration: Ability to build relationships across a global network, collaborating with diverse teams and driving results without direct authority.
- Asynchronous collaboration: Ability to work with diverse staff and teams, autonomously across time zones using digital tools like Slack, Asana, and Google Drive.
- Proficiency in English (written and spoken): Fluency in any other languages is a plus.
- Integrity: Ability to handle sensitive information with discretion and maintain resilience in high-pressure or high-risk environments.
- Time zone alignment: Global project success relies on bridging time zones. Individual working hours will be agreed upon collaboratively with your line manager to support team needs, emphasizing our commitment to smart, asynchronous work rather than long hours. Negotiations over hours of work must take into account the legal requirements of the country that the team member is employed in.
