BGCI is seeking to appoint an experienced, committed, passionate, and self-driven Director of Operations to ensure an effective and resilient BGCI by providing strategic oversight and hands-on delivery of BGCI’s operations including communications, IT, membership, and the services we provide to members.

Title of post: Director of Operations
Job Purpose: To provide strategic direction to the organisation’s operations to ensure an effective and resilient BGCI including project co-ordination, finance, IT, communications, membership services, and other operational areas.
Contract Type: Full-time
Duration: Permanent
Location: BGCI Offices, Kew, London (flexible working arrangements possible)
Remuneration: £55,000 – £58,000 dependent on level of expertise (experience, education, training), and performance related to budget management, people management and other measures.

About BGCI

Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) is a membership organisation and a global network for plant conservation located in Kew, London with regional bureaux in China, Kenya, Singapore, and the USA. Our membership comprises over 930 botanical institutions working in plant conservation – botanic gardens, arboreta, NGOs, restoration organisations, government, and universities – in over 120 countries all around the world. We work with this extensive network of members, and the wider conservation community, to use our collective knowledge and hands on expertise to reverse the threat of extinction facing plants and to secure plant diversity for the well-being of people and the planet.

BGCI coordinates efforts to enhance regional networking and scale up technical networks by facilitating, coordinating, and supporting the consolidation and functioning of botanic garden networks. BGCI’s mission is to mobilise botanic gardens and engage partners in securing plant diversity for the well-being of people and the planet.

BGCI’s goal is that botanical organisations in our network will play a critical role in preventing plant species extinctions and create a more sustainable planet. Our work towards achievement of the goal can be broken down into the following work streams: Saving Plants, Inspiring and Leading People, Sharing Knowledge and Resources, Addressing Global Challenges through Public Engagement and Education, and Ensuring an Effective and Resilient BGCI.

Person Specification

Candidates for this post will have a proven record of accomplishment working for a charity or environmental organisation, preferably in conservation or science. The post holder will demonstrate sensitivity to complex, multicultural and multinational institutions and structures.

Application Process

If you are interested in this role, please send us your CV and a cover letter (two pages maximum), explaining your motivation for the role and providing examples and evidence of how you are suitable for the position.

Please send your CV, cover letter, and Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form to info@bgci.org

The Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form can be downloaded from https://www.bgci.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Equality-Diversity-Monitoring-Form.doc

Closing date for applications is 24 February 2025

The interviews will be conducted online/in person the week commencing 3 March 2025

BGCI is committed to putting equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our organisation. We are committed to ensuring a working environment in which all individuals are free from discrimination and in which opportunities are equal to all. We encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly those underrepresented within our sector.