Why This Role Might Be Perfect for You:
If you’re someone who thrives in a fast-paced, values-led environment—and you’re excited by the idea of working on sustainability, strategy, and storytelling all in one job—this role was made for you. You’ll help steer the communications and partnerships work of a small team but globally impactful alliance, where your work directly influences real-world outcomes in ocean governance, corporate responsibility, and ocean sustainability.
You’ll work directly with the Executive Director and teammates across advocacy, data, and strategy. This role is both strategic and hands-on, offering autonomy, variety, and purpose.
📅 Applications close: Sunday, July 6th 2025 at 23:59 CET.
About the Global Tuna Alliance (GTA):
The Global Tuna Alliance is an independent group of retailers and tuna supply chain companies committed to ensuring socially responsible and environmentally sustainable tuna fisheries. We drive progress through collaboration, advocacy, and transparent communication with global stakeholders.Learn more at: www.globaltunaalliance.com
Position Summary:
We are looking for a proactive, adaptable, and mission-driven individual to serve as our Partnerships & Communications Manager / Officer. This role sits at the intersection of stakeholder engagement, communications, internal coordination, and fundraising support. As a small team, we value versatility—and this role offers flexibility to tailor responsibilities based on the successful candidate’s unique skills and experience.
You could serve as a primary liaison to GTA partners and potential partners, lead communication efforts, and provide project coordination support across events, campaigns, and grant-related activities. This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate with a collaborative mindset and broad skill set who wants to contribute to tangible change in ocean sustainability.
We are a small, diverse team and we value authenticity, adaptability, and varied thinking styles. You’ll be joining a culture that is collaborative and always evolving, where comfort with ambiguity is as valuable as attention to detail.
Core Responsibilities:
Partnerships & Outreach
- Act as the point of contact for new and current GTA partners (corporate and NGO), building and maintaining strong relationships.
- Onboard new partners and maintain accurate CRM records (via Monday.com, MailChimp, Google Suite).
- Coordinate meetings and engagements, including outreach, scheduling, materials, and follow-up.
- Lead development of partner-focused resources: presentations, reports, briefing materials, etc.
- Build new engagement models to support our partnerships.
Communications & Engagement
- Develop and deliver compelling content: newsletters, blog posts, social media, media releases.
- Maintain a strategic content calendar and ensure messaging is consistent and aligned with GTA values.
- Coordinate with external agencies and partners for joint messaging, media campaigns, and brand management.
Campaign & Advocacy Support
- Assist in developing and disseminating GTA’s global advocacy campaigns (e.g., around RFMO events such as ICCAT, IOTC, WCPFC).
- Format and edit position statements and policy summaries.
- Coordinate input from the GTA Partners, quotes, visual assets, and engagement materials.
Event & Project Coordination
- Assist and support organisational project management
- Help organize GTA’s presence at events such as seafood expos, partner summits, strategy workshops.
- Manage logistics for in-person and online events.
- Develop supporting event materials: invites, handouts, panel briefings.
Internal Coordination & Grants
- Contribute to organisational reporting and strategy documents.
- Support grant writing and reporting processes (foundation outreach, donor coordination).
- Align engagement efforts with strategic goals and key organisational priorities.
Our Hiring Ethos:
We believe in hiring the person, not just the CV. If you see parts of this role that excite you, even if you don’t tick every box, please consider applying. We value potential, lived experience, and a willingness to learn.
This role can flex slightly depending on the strengths of the successful candidate. For example:
- Strong on comms? We’ll bolster engagement support.
- Strong on outreach or policy? We’ll tailor comms assistance accordingly.
Let us know in your cover letter where you think you could add the most value. Feel free to share examples that show your approach, your style, or how you’ve made an impact in past roles or projects.
📅 Applications close: Sunday, July 6th 2025 at 23:59 CET.
Requirements
Essential Skills & Qualifications:
- Relevant post-graduate qualifications or equivalent experience.
- 2–5 years of experience in partnerships, communications, project coordination or similar roles.
- Strong writing, editing, and verbal communication skills.
- Organised, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities
- Comfortable with (or quick to learn) tools such as MailChimp, Canva, Monday.com, WordPress, Google Workspace, Zoom.
- Experience working in cross-cultural or international teams.
Desirable (but not essential):
- Familiarity with ocean sustainability, seafood supply chains, or fisheries.
- Fluency in other languages (especially French or Spanish).
- Experience managing external agencies, consultants, or vendors.
- Background in fundraising or supporting grant applications and reports.
Benefits
- A flexible, remote-first work environment designed to support diverse work styles and personal needs.
- A small, values-driven team that embraces creativity, welcomes new ideas, and empowers each team member to shape our direction.
- Opportunities to collaborate with global stakeholders and occasionally represent GTA at international events and summits.
- Meaningful career development: we support training, mentorship, and space to experiment and grow your skills.
- Full-time Contractor Role (Annual Contracts with Possibility to Renew)