Closing date: 15 May 2025

WCMC | Competitive Salary

IBAT is seeking an exceptional, forward-thinking leader to take the helm as Head of IBAT. This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of one of the world’s most trusted biodiversity decision-support platforms.

IBAT is the product of the IBAT Alliance - a ground-breaking collaboration between four of the world’s largest and most influential conservation organisations: BirdLife International, Conservation International, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC).

In this high-impact role, you will drive the strategic vision for IBAT, ensuring it continues to lead the way in delivering authoritative biodiversity data to decision-makers at the forefront of global change. You’ll play a pivotal role in securing the long-term sustainability of the critical biodiversity datasets available through IBAT, and in scaling up IBAT’s influence in a fast-evolving environmental and economic landscape.

As Head of IBAT, you will lead across all operational areas—business development, product innovation, marketing and communications, and finance—bringing cohesion and ambition to a complex and growing initiative. You’ll cultivate strong partnerships across the IBAT Alliance and with IBAT’s Governance Committee, harnessing the partner’s combined expertise to ensure biodiversity intelligence directly informs private sector decision-making.

You will leverage and expand your networks in the corporate and financial sectors to embed biodiversity at the heart of business strategies. You’ll serve as a visible and influential advocate for IBAT and its Alliance partners, representing IBAT and the globally important data it provides on the global stage and building new pathways for impact and collaboration.

You will also lead the dynamic IBAT Secretariat—a cross-functional, international team hosted across partner organisations—fostering a collaborative, high-performance culture where innovation thrives and each member is empowered to excel.

If you are a bold, strategic thinker with a passion for driving systems-level change and a deep commitment to biodiversity conservation, we invite you to lead IBAT into its next chapter - enabling organisations to take positive action for nature while delivering critical funding to support biodiversity datasets.

To view the Job Pack, please click here.

WCMC can offer sponsorship for this role. This is not a United Nations Post, this position is with the charity WCMC, working in collaboration with UNEP.

All applications should be submitted via the WCMC website. Please note we reserve the right to close this position as soon as a suitable applicant is found, so please do not delay your application.