Job Description

Job Mission

The Ghana Partnership Lead will build and manage the partnerships and coalition underpinning Terraformation’s Ghana Country Platform for Forest Restoration.

Working closely with the Forestry Commission and Terraformation’s technical experts, the role will execute three priority workstreams supporting Ghana’s 2040 Forest Landscape Restoration Strategy:

• Seed Supply Capacity Enhancement
• Governance, Finance & Community of Practice
• Strengthening Restoration Monitoring

Across these workstreams, the Partnership Lead will coordinate assessments, stakeholder engagement, solution design, and implementation. This includes supporting the delivery of targeted training, tools, technology, and technical assistance to strengthen Ghana’s restoration capacity and infrastructure.

The role will also coordinate the execution of a National Seed to Forest Accelerator in Ghana. Based on a participatory capacity needs assessment, the Partnership Lead will work with Ghanaian stakeholders and Terraformation’s technical teams to design and deliver targeted training, tools, and ongoing support that strengthen local organizations’ technical, operational, financial, and monitoring capabilities.

Serving as a trusted bridge between Ghanaian partners and Terraformation’s internal teams, the Ghana Partnership Lead will help remove systemic barriers to restoration and create the enabling conditions for a sustained pipeline of high-integrity, locally led restoration projects.

Location: Accra Office

Competitive Salary

Responsibilities

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in partnerships, stakeholder engagement, coalition-building, public policy, international development, conservation, climate, forestry, or a related field.
• Demonstrated success building trusted relationships with senior government officials, NGOs, community organizations, research institutions, donors, and private-sector partners.
• Strong understanding of Ghana’s institutional, political, and socioeconomic context.
• Experience designing or facilitating multi-stakeholder platforms, sector coalitions, or public-private partnerships.
• Ability to translate diverse interests into shared priorities, practical commitments, and coordinated action.
• Strong facilitation, negotiation, conflict-resolution, and diplomatic skills.
• Experience engaging communities and local organizations through inclusive and participatory approaches.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, institutional complexity, and competing stakeholder interests with sound judgment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to represent Terraformation credibly with senior external stakeholders.
• Strong project-management skills, with the ability to track commitments, risks, dependencies, and results.
• Fluency in English. Proficiency in relevant Ghanaian languages is strongly preferred.
• Willingness and ability to travel regularly within Ghana.

About Terraformation

Terraformation is committed to addressing climate change through the power of native forest restoration. Our portfolio of high-quality projects is designed to restore forests that will remove high quantities of carbon, renew ecosystems, enhance biodiversity, and create sustainable long-term community income and benefits. Our project teams have planted over one million biodiverse and native trees, stored 131 million seeds, supported 19 forestry projects, and created over 700 jobs through reforestation efforts worldwide.

Our innovative approach not only equips local forestry teams with training, technology, and access to capital, but also empowers businesses to be a part of the solution to climate change. By investing in our projects, businesses can directly address climate change, offset carbon emissions, meet net zero commitments, and enhance corporate sustainability initiatives.

Terraformation’s mission-driven global team, which includes experts in forest science, carbon markets, operations management, and business development, demonstrates how diverse backgrounds drive innovation and create significant impact.

Learn more at terraformation.com

We are an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable laws, including the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, where relevant.