Consultant - GLF Speakers Engagement

The Global Landscapes Forum (GLF)’s Speakers Engagement Coordinator will support the GLF Partnership & Engagement Coordinator in identifying and reaching out to strategic partners, donors, sponsors, and governments, as well as inspiring community leaders, activists, artists, and other individuals who could potentially become GLF speakers. This role will also contribute to the events’ overall narratives, as plenary speakers heavily influence the conference’s tone and outcomes. Reflecting on GLF’s core themes, the successful candidate will help define the most relevant topics for discussion and thus identify the best-suited speakers to address them, ensuring diverse representation across gender, region, and knowledge systems. Key responsibilities include(but are not limited to) identifying speakers, co-designing sessions, overseeing invitations, confirmations, event briefings, and event follow-up processes.

Additionally, this role will identify strategic opportunities to promote the knowledge held by speakers through different media and mediums, thereby achieving content longevity. The selected candidate will also support strengthening the speaking skills of the local and community actors whom GLF works with (GLFx Chapters, Youth, and Restoration Stewards).

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• Leading the end-to-end speaker journey, serving as the primary focal point (digital or in person) for identification, invitations, briefings, and follow-ups with speakers, while collaborating with the Partnership and Engagement Coordinator to secure diverse and impactful participation;
• Identifying diverse, visionary leaders and emerging topics to deepen the impact and alignment of GLF’s core themes, ensuring gender diversity (at least 50% women) and geographic representation, especially across the Global South;
• Coordinating seamless communication across internal teams to ensure speakers’ information is shared accurately, constructively, and on time;
• Managing the speakers’ database and serving as the primary anchor for related website updates;
• Curating engaging formats for speeches and sessions - for both in-person and digital events - that inspire the audience to take action, always ensuring diverse representation and plurality of voices;
• Analyzing GLF’s history and themes to connect new voices, organizations and meaningful ideas that enrich and advance today's global discourse on landscapes;
• Identifying creative ways to connect topics, audiences and priorities across different parts of the world;
• Bridging real-time media narrative with GLF activities to ensure our campaigns and events resonate with current global conversations;
• Promoting and creating new content rooted in speakers' knowledge across various media platforms and collaborating closely with the communications team to amplify their messages and impact;
• Supporting capacity building within the GLF communities’ network, ensuring frontline voices are actively represented and woven into the narrative of all GLF events and campaigns;
• Supporting the coordination of the Knowledge Committee to build a coherent, action-oriented event narrative informed by past engagements;
• Nurturing strategic relationships and identifying potential new partners alongside the Managing Director and the Partnership & Engagement Coordinator to expand, grow and support our community;