Location: Remote, within 6 hours of Central Europe Time

About SPUN

SPUN is an environmental nonprofit with a mission to map and protect the mycorrhizal networks that regulate Earth's climate and ecosystems. Since our founding in 2021, we have built a global data platform for these living underground networks, which move approximately 13 billion tons of CO2 into soils every year.

Through our Underground Explorers programme and a network of over 400 Science Associates across 80+ countries, we generate high-resolution datasets and mapping tools using machine learning, remote sensing and field-based sequencing. We turn that data into strategies for conservation, restoration, climate mitigation and sustainable land management.

We are a team of roughly 20 people at an inflection point: the science has matured, the policy landscape is moving, and the opportunity to embed mycorrhizal networks into global conservation, restoration, biodiversity and climate frameworks is real and time sensitive.

About the Role

The Project Manager is the operational partner to our Director of Global Policy & Impact. The Director is building the coalitions, policy relationships and cross-sector alliances that turn mycorrhizal data into above-ground decisions. You will make that work run: turning strategy into plans, keeping many parallel workstreams moving, and making sure SPUN shows up prepared, on time and credibly in the rooms where decisions are made.

Our theory of change runs from science and data, to translation for key decision-makers through coalitions and partnerships, driving tangible policy and practice adoption, which leads to improved decision‑making outcomes and eventually long‑term ecosystem impact and transformational shift in systems, mindsets and power.



You will help ensure each link in that chain is planned, tracked and evidenced.

This is a hands‑on role in a young, entrepreneurial organisation. You will manage projects, but also coordinate meetings and people across time zones, support funder reporting and help build the systems that let a startup NGO scale with integrity.

You will be the operational link across SPUN's policy and impact work, supporting two colleagues in particular. You will work with the International Policy Strategist / Advisor, who leads our engagement on the EU Soil Monitoring Law and the UNCCD, to keep their calendar, submissions and deliverables on track. And you will work with the Advocacy Lead, Mongolia, and the local team there (policy expert, Underground Explorers representative), whose workplan, risks and reporting feed into the portfolio you maintain.

What You'll Do

Strategy and planning

Support the Director in

- Translating the global impact strategy and roadmap into workplans with clear objectives, priority geographies, owners, milestones and deadlines.
- Maintaining an integrated view of all policy, coalition and advocacy workstreams, flagging risks, dependencies and decisions needed.
- Helping keep policy and advocacy efforts aligned with SPUN's programmatic work by coordinating with the science, data, restoration,



Underground Explorers and communications teams.
- Maintain one integrated workplan and tracker covering the general, EU/UNCCD and Mongolia workstreams, and run a regular check-in rhythm across the Director, the International Policy Strategist / Advisor and the Advocacy Lead, Mongolia.

Stakeholder and coalition coordination

- Maintain a stakeholder map and relationship tracker covering policymakers, NGOs and grassroots movements, practitioners, Indigenous and local communities, funders and scientists, with next steps and owners.
- Plan and run logistics and follow-up for convenings and collaborative processes, including agendas, briefing packs, participant coordination and action tracking.
- Support coalition and alliance activity across conservation, restoration, and biodiversity and climate networks, keeping commitments visible and moving.
- Coordinate with partners and consultants in different regions and cultural contexts, with respect for community-driven and Indigenous-led approaches.

Policy and advocacy delivery

- Maintain a calendar of multilateral, regional and standard‑setting processes (for example the CBD, UNFCCC and EU legislation), with deadlines for submissions, side events and consultations.
- Manage the production cycle for policy briefings, position papers and impact narratives, from drafting and scientific review to design and publication.
- Help track impact of the Underground Explorers and Advocates network and turn data and stories the into materials for policymakers, practitioners and funders, working with the science and communications teams.
- Support the Director for senior‑level representation at international forums with briefin

📌 Project Manager, Global Policy (Madrid)
🏢 SPUN
📍 Madrid