Director for Strategy and Impact

**Position**:Director for Strategy and Impact

**Program/Departament**: Diretoria Executiva

**Location**:São Paulo

You will be joining WRI Brasil during an exciting moment of organizational change. We are shifting our strategies and structures to enable a system-wide Country in Brazil. As the **Director of Strategy and Impact**, you will report directly to the Country Executive Director and serve as a key strategic leader in developing and implementing WRI Brasil’s Country Transition Strategy. You will align WRI Brasil’s vision, programs, and operations to deliver transformative, measurable results for People, Nature, and Climate. This role positions you to oversee strategic initiatives, strengthen organizational alignment, and amplify WRI Brasil’s leadership at the global stage during pivotal moments such as COP30. In this role, you will establish and manage key internal and external strategic relationships, including with WRI’s Board of Directors. You will actively engage with WRI’s Global and other Country/Regional Offices to leverage WRI’s global network to foster collaboration, adapt cross-country learning, and enhance WRI's impact toward Country Transitions. By engaging staff across WRI Brasil, you will drive alignment between strategic goals, operational priorities, and measurable outcomes, fostering a learning-oriented and results-driven culture and helping teams deliver impactful solutions at scale. You will oversee and guide strategic, high-impact special projects critical to advancing Brazil’s Country Transition and promoting systems change. You will be a prominent thought leader, cultivating big ideas, helping shape WRI Brasil’s agenda and engagement in key policy arenas, and representing the Program internally and externally.

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**Main activities and/or responsibilities**:

- Country Transition Strategic Leadership (50%):_
- Work with the WRI Brasil Country Director to shape and execute an ambitious strategy for WRI Brasil to support Brazil’s Country Transition to an inclusive and responsible socio-economic development model that leads to less inequality and more quality of life, natural ecosystems that generate wealth and prosperity, and carbon neutrality by 2050 move onto a path to achieve greenhouse gas emission reductions in line with current science, leveraging high-quality research and high-impact engagement with key stakeholders and decisionmakers. Adapt that strategy over time to meet evolving political and economic realities
- Provide high-level oversight and guidance for the execution of WRI Brasil’s Strategy, ensuring strategic alignment and synergies across Theories of Change toward the broader Country Transition. Collaborate with project leads to ensure all efforts contribute to the overall vision and Results Framework.
- Prepare and support the Brazilian Leadership team towards a high performance and to an adaptative management style, result-driven and oriented by a robust planning, monitoring, evaluation, and learning (PMEL) system to be designed.
- Lead efforts to build an inspiring, learning-oriented, and collaborative culture across WRI Brasil that motivates staff at all levels to deliver on WRI Brasil’s Country Transition goals.
- Thought Leadership & Strategic Relations (20%)_
- Provide thought leadership on strategy, systems change, and complex systems thinking to shape WRI Brasil’s agenda and key policy positions in national and global arenas.
- Support operations, programmatic, fundraising and communications to develop and improve compelling external narratives that articulate WRI Brasil’s Country Transition Strategy, Results Framework, Theories of Change, and measurable results.
- Build, reconnect and maintain relationships across WRI Brasil teams and the broader WRI network of offices and centers, leveraging shared learning and innovation while maximizing institutional resources and expertise to deliver results and impact;
- Serve as WRI Brasil’s representative and spokesperson internally within WRI’s network and externally in meetings, at events, communicating WRI Brasil’s Country Transition Strategy, results, and program objectives to staff, partners, donors and other audiences.
- Establish and manage a process for managing key strategic partnerships, including WRI Brasil’s Board of Directors.
- Work as a peer to other directors and directly support the Country Executive Director in aligning programs, operations, and stakeholder engagement with WRI Brazil’s strategy and goals.
- Build and maintain relationships with other Country and Regional Offices and global teams, including Research, Data, and Impact (RDI) and Managing for Results (MfR), to leverage WRI’s global network to drive the Country Transition, as well as position WRI Brasil as a recognized contributor within WRI’s network.is
- Strategy_ _Management and Impact Monitoring (20%)_
- Collaborate with other WRI Brasil leadership members to develop and continuously adapt Program strategies aligned with WRI Br