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🕒 May 14

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Canopy Planet Solutions

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51 - 200 employees

🤲 Charity

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Charity • Non-profit • Social Impact

Canopy Planet Solutions is a mission-driven non-profit organization focused on protecting forests, biodiversity, and the climate by transforming supply chains and promoting sustainable alternatives to forest-derived materials. The organization partners with brands, producers, NGOs, Indigenous leaders, and decision-makers to run initiatives like CanopyStyle, Pack4Good, and Next Gen, which aim to phase out the use of ancient and endangered forests in textiles, paper, and packaging and to scale next-generation alternatives. Canopy Planet Solutions also engages in research, advocacy, and fundraising, and provides tools and resources for brands to reduce forest risk and implement sustainable sourcing.

📋 Description

• Lead the development of Canopy’s organization-wide partnership strategy • Identify and prioritize partnerships that can increase leverage, credibility, capacity, and scale • Assess the partnership landscape to identify opportunities, gaps, and emerging actors • Build and manage relationships with coalitions, alliances, NGOs, standard setters, technical partners, and other stakeholders • Represent Canopy in key external forums and strategic discussions • Support leadership in high-value partnership negotiations and stewardship • Develop partnership frameworks that define objectives, roles, governance, and success measures • Translate relationships into concrete collaborations, joint initiatives, and ecosystem-building efforts • Ensure partnerships are aligned with Canopy’s strategic priorities and integrated into campaigns and initiatives • Work cross-functionally to align partnerships with internal teams and priorities • Develop systems and processes for partnership tracking, prioritization, and accountability

🎯 Requirements

• Five or more years of experience in partnerships, strategy, external affairs, or related leadership roles • Proven ability to build and manage complex, high-value partnerships across sectors and stakeholder groups • Strong strategic judgment and ability to identify leverage points • Excellent relationship management skills, with credibility, diplomacy, and the ability to navigate complexity • Strong communication skills, including the ability to develop compelling partnership narratives and translate strategy into action • Experience working in sustainability, nature, climate, forest conservation, supply chains, corporate engagement, or systems change is strongly preferred • Ability to work cross-functionally and align diverse internal and external stakeholders around shared goals • Comfort operating in a dynamic environment with multiple moving parts and evolving opportunities • Experience with alliances, coalitions, standards bodies, or multi-stakeholder initiatives is a strong asset • Passion for environmental conservation, social impact, or mission-driven work strongly preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• comprehensive benefits packages • professional development opportunities • supportive workplace culture dedicated to environmental conservation