Senior Portfolio Manager (Maternity Cover)

Senior Portfolio Manager (Maternity Cover)

Department

Prize and Impact

Employment Type

FTC

About us

The Earthshot Prize is the world’s most impactful and prestigious environmental award. At the heart of our mission is a simple equation: Urgency + Optimism = Action.

Inspired by President John F. Kennedy’s moonshot challenge, The Earthshot Prize is designed to mobilise a decade of action for the planet. We identify, celebrate, and back ambitious climate leadership from every corner of the globe. From Indigenous communities to city leaders, entrepreneurs to governments, they are all working to solve our planet’s greatest challenges.

We focus on five key Earthshots: Clean Our Air, Fix Our Climate, Revive Our Oceans, Build a Waste-Free World, and Protect and Restore Nature. Each year, we select a group of 15 Finalists and award 5 of them £1M each to help advance or replicate their work and recognise their achievement and potential.

The Earthshot Prize is about more than recognition, it’s the world’s most ambitious network connecting innovators, funders, businesses, and communities to back climate leaders and restore confidence in our ability to save the planet.

About the job

Earthshot Prize Finalists include for-profit, social enterprise, not-for-profit, government-led solutions and more. Our aim is to mobilise the greatest support possible – financial and strategic – to help these incredible leaders scale their solutions and increase their impact on the environment.
The Senior Portfolio Managers sit within the Prize and Impact team, and is focused on providing targeted support to help accelerate The Earthshot Prize finalists and winners’ efforts to reach scale. You will work directly with a small number of Finalists in our annual cohort to understand and shape their growth strategies, and you will seek opportunities to leverage The Earthshot Prize’s spotlight platform and unique network of partners to make those plans a reality. This will involve cultivating a network of relationships with corporates, investors and policy-makers who will be instrumental in helping our Finalists scale.
 

The role will also support in the creation of curated roundtables, networking events, reporting tools and other assets that can help our portfolio of Finalists take advantage of growth opportunities.
 

This individual plays an essential role in ensuring that Finalists for The Earthshot Prize achieve exponential impact as a result of being selected, through leveraging the Prize’s unique platform and unprecedented global network.

Success in this role means delivering measurable outcomes for Finalists, in the form of Finalists achieving their headline goals, including investment and funding channelled from The Earthshot Prize’s network, policy adoption/replication, and corporate deployment.

You’re not afraid to roll up your sleeves and get into the weeds while always lifting up to strategically guide the building of robust stakeholder engagement processes and systems that allow The Earthshot Prize to flourish as a cutting-edge global organization. You embrace strategic planning and measuring results.

You’ll be expected to exemplify our values of transparency, collaboration, inclusion, curiosity, and kindness. Constantly curious and eager to learn, you’ll build up a network of corporate, institutional & academic partners that you’ll partner with, share best practices with and leverage in support of our Finalists across all years.

Key responsibilities

Finalist Strategy & Advisory

• Build trusted, high-impact partnerships with Finalists, developing ambitious and actionable strategies that accelerate their impact and maximise the unique value of The Earthshot Prize platform and network.

• Diagnose growth opportunities and co-create financial, operational, and strategic solutions to enable Finalists to scale effectively.

• Provide ongoing advisory support, including regular check-ins, troubleshooting, programme guidance, and structured tracking of needs and progress.

• Balance multiple Finalist relationships simultaneously, defining clear deliverables, timelines, and resource requirements.

Network Activation & Partner Engagement

• Leverage and expand The Earthshot Prize network to build tailored communities of support around each Finalist.

• Facilitate introductions, off-take opportunities, stakeholder engagement, and curated events that drive measurable value.

• Develop and leverage relationships with high-value investors, funders, corporate buyers, and strategic partners to unlock capital, commercial opportunities, and collaboration for Finalists.

• Coordinate closely with Storytelling and Events teams to align outreach, communications, and engagement activities.

• Represent The Earthshot Prize credibly in external forums, strengthening its reputation as the leading global environmental prize.

Impact Tracking, Reporting & Continuous Improvement

• Track and measure Finalists’ progress against scaling strategies, ensuring insights inform impact reporting and wider organisational strategy.

• Monitor and evaluate engagement effectiveness, identifying best practices and opportunities to enhance support.

• Maintain CRM systems, data integrity, and structured reporting (including Board and stakeholder updates).

• Develop and refine processes, templates, and tools to improve portfolio management, data utilisation, and operational excellence.

• Provide strategic input into Prize & Impact strategy, including selection considerations such as investability and scalability.

Candidate criteria

• Empathy and self-awareness - you are a constant learner, open to coaching and feedback.

• Experience working closely with start ups, scale-ups, NGO initiatives or government innovation teams.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, a proactive, can-do attitude and demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects at once in a fast-changing and complex environment.
  

• High level of professionalism, confidentiality and judgment.

• Exceptional relationship-building, verbal and written communication skills.

• Ability to effectively interface with and influence employees at all levels of the organisation.

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, bonus points for accelerator, start-up and global organisation experience.

Benefits

• Annual Leave – We believe that taking time away from work is incredibly important. You will be entitled to 25 days plus any statutory bank/public holidays. Our holiday year runs from 1st April to 31st March.

• Pension – We contribute the full auto enrolment contribution of 8% into your pension after 3 months service. You do not have to contribute but you can if you wish.

• Life Assurance/Death in Service – From day one, we want to give you peace of mind and ensure all our employees are covered (4 x salary) under our life assurance policy.

• Critical Illness Cover – From day one, we want to give you peace of mind and ensure all our employees are covered (2x salary) under our critical illness cover.

• Private Medical Insurance – Should you need it, we want you to have access to private healthcare and provide access to insurance to cover the costs of private healthcare, from diagnosis to treatment. We will cover the cost of your insurance, but you can choose to add your family to the scheme.

• Employee Assistance Programme – Provided by BUPA, you will have 24/7 access to counselling sessions, online tools and resources to assist you in managing your mental health and wellbeing.

• Family leave – We want to support you and your family and offer enhanced pay and leave after 3 months service. Our maternity/adoption pay and leave is 6 months full pay and our paternity/non pregnant parent pay and leave is 3 months full pay.

Location

London, London, City of (Hybrid)

Department

Prize and Impact

Employment Type

FTC