Head of Project Development at Robert Walters

Confidential • Ghana, Ghana • Posted June 20, 2026

Position Overview

About the role: The role will require exceptional commerciality and a solution-oriented attitude, with experience of delivering complex projects alongside multiple stakeholders and an understanding of processes and sensitivities around land acquisition.Responsibilities


  • Sourcing degraded land for tropical forest restoration across Ghana, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast and other high priority countries

  • Negotiating and securing large-scale (10,000 ha+) land concessions for tropical forest restoration from governments, traditional authorities and local communities

  • Negotiating benefit sharing agreements with governments, traditional authorities and local communities to ensure equitable and fair sharing of project benefits in a structure that reflects the risk/reward profile of our investment

  • Taking new country operations from zero to one – setting up new country entities and securing, where required, the necessary government agreements to ...