Landscape Finance Associate

Landscape Finance Associate (Dutch fluency required)

Do you want to be part of our journey to unlock landscape finance as a tool to accelerate holistic landscape restoration efforts globally? And do you want to use your finance expertise for the benefit of local landscape partners around the world? Then we invite you to read and apply for this position!

Your role

As a Landscape Finance Associate, you support mobilization of private and public finance with a particular focus on Europe, integrate landscape finance activities into landscape development processes, support blended finance mechanism development, and engage in influencing and advocacy activities. You will collaborate with the carbon finance team to expand opportunities in carbon finance.

You will be part of the Landscape Finance team and report to the Director of Landscape Finance. You will collaborate with colleagues across other teams, including Landscape Development, Carbon Finance, Communications & Fundraising, and Policy & Impact, as well as Commonland’s landscape partners directly.

Your responsibilities

In this role, you will contribute to a range of activities across landscape finance, carbon finance, and advocacy, including:

1. Landscape Finance Activities

• Landscape Finance Assessments: work with landscape partners to identify interventions and their financing needs at a landscape level (the what).
• Strategy Development: support development of landscape-level finance strategies using finance assessments as input (the how).
• Support continuous development of landscape finance tools and knowledge resources to support these activities.

2. Blended Finance Mechanism Development

• Support analysis, design, and development of finance solutions suitable to the unique contexts of each landscape (or aggregation of landscapes) building on finance assessments and strategies developed with partners.
• Support the mapping and analysis of interventions (and their financing needs) within and across landscapes and facilitate matchmaking with donors and investors.
• Play a leading role in investor relations.

3. Carbon finance

• Support the carbon finance team with mapping and analysis of potential investors in carbon projects and buyers of carbon credits aligned with Commonland’s mission and buyer criteria. Facilitate matchmaking with investors and carbon credit buyers.

4. Influencing & Advocacy

• Participate in relevant conferences and events to advocate for holistic landscape restoration and landscape finance.
• Support development of landscape finance publications and thought leadership.

You bring

• Experience (~4-6 years) in either finance, international development, and/or consulting.
• Strong stakeholder and project management skills (to coordinate landscape finance assessments, strategy processes, finance mechanisms, etc., with several partners).
• Ability to communicate complex information in a simple and clear way.
• Knowledge of working in Europe with EU-level experience is an asset.
• Fluency in Dutch and English is required; Spanish proficiency is an asset.
• A passion for nature conservation and sustainable development.

We offer you

• A 12-month contract with Commonland with the possibility of extension.
• Salary range between €4000 – €4500, depending on level of work experience.
• Annual training budget of €2,000 for personal development.
• Holiday allowance of 8%, collective pension scheme and a home office setup budget.
• Monday lunches, hybrid inspiration sessions and a great office in Amsterdam to work, connect and strengthen our culture (with hybrid working opportunities)

Commonland Foundation

Commonland is an international non-profit that supports people and organisations to restore landscapes and shape a regenerative future for all. With our holistic approach – underpinned by the 4 Returns Framework – people and organisations all over the world are working with nature and their community to restore landscapes.

Our core values are empowering each other, putting words into action and being compassionate & honest. These guiding principles help us to guide our actions, strengthen our culture and determine if we are on the right path in fulfilling our ambitious goals.

How to apply?

We’re looking forward to hearing from you! If you have any questions about the role, please contact Ana Klaric (Landscape Finance Manager) at ana.klaric@commonland.com. If you have any questions about the application process or HR matters, please contact the People team at jobs@commonland.com.

Please send in your Resume and CV via the apply button below before end of day CET on February 22nd, 2026. In case we receive more than 50 applications, the vacancy might be closed earlier.

We believe it is essential to center the diversity of voices and experiences in our work as they are also represented in society. Hence, we warmly encourage applications from people with diverse identities and backgrounds.

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