Executive, Market Transformation

**Position Title**:Executive, Market Transformation (Climate)**

**Reports to**:Assistant Manager, Market Transformation

**Location**: Singapore

**About WWF-Singapore**:
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is one of the world’s largest and most respected independent conservation organisations. WWF’s mission is to stop the degradation of the earth’s natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature. As one of WWF’s international hubs, WWF-Singapore supports a global network spanning over 100 countries. WWF Singapore works closely with local stakeholders towards a greener and more sustainable Singapore and the region around us. We work to address key conservation areas, such as climate change, sustainable finance, deforestation, illegal wildlife trade, marine conservation, and sustainable production and consumption, through collaboration, education and outreach efforts involving the community, businesses, and governments. For more information, please visit wwf.sg.

**Major Functions**:
The Market Transformation team sets impactful industry aspirations on sustainability in Singapore and Southeast Asia in the areas of plastics, palm oil, seafood, climate and illegal wildlife trade. Through consultation and close collaboration with businesses, we build platforms, tools and practical solutions closely guided by data and science that help entire sectors to become more sustainable.

We engage with businesses to broaden corporate participation and take action on climate change throughout their supply chains. Our work with companies starts from supporting them on the sustainability journey and committing to take climate action. We eventually help them align with a 1.5°C world by achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. WWF’s flagship global initiative is Earth Hour, a symbolic switch-off event held every year that is part of a wider effort to mobilise climate action.

Through research, events and capacity building we also engage the wider ecosystem in Singapore and beyond to foster climate action; this includes policy makers, think tanks, associations, consumers etc.

The Market Transformation Executive will implement and support WWF- Singapore’s projects with a focus on climate.

**Major Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Ideate and project manage climate initiatives, including doing research and drafting reports. Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders as needed, organising meetings and taking minutes.
- Provide stewardship and management support for account relationships with different business platforms with the main focus on climate business engagement.
- Support the development of relevant content for the Market Transformation team and align with the Marketing, Communications and Fundraising department.
- Support alignment and engagement with other WWF-SG teams to design and deliver innovative climate projects, such as the sustainable finance and/or field teams.
- Support the climate lead in running the WWF-SG net zero programme team, a cross-departmental space for collaboration.
- Support event management for Market Transformation business events, such as webinars, roundtables, and conferences. This includes handling invites, platform and speaker management, coordination with cross-functional teams and post-event follow-up.
- Coordinate with external agencies and vendors e.g. for research projects, events or for the production of marketing and communication materials.
- Other tasks as assigned by the line manager, which may include wider support functions for Market Transformation work areas (e.g. plastics, e.g. palm oil).

**Required Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, social science, economics, sustainable development, sustainable management, environmental science or related field.
- Academic or professional background in climate science, climate business engagement, climate policy or related areas, or through participation in ground-up or volunteer projects.
- Demonstrate passion for and interest in current developments on the topic of climate in the public and private sector.
- Familiarity with common standards and terms including ESG, Sustainable Development Goals, Net Zero and climate based targets; knowledge of Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and carbon disclosure and accounting would be beneficial for this role.

**Required Skills and Competencies**:

- Strong project and relationship management skills.
- Excellent command of English and good written and oral communication skills. Should demonstrate an ability to communicate complicated concepts simply to diverse audiences, including through the use of office management software such as ppt or xl..
- Self-driven ownership of projects and being able to work independently.
- Passionate about conservation and sustainability, keen to learn and keep up with the latest developments in the climate sector locally and internationally.
- Ability to work constructively wit