Climate-KIC
51 - 200 employees
Founded 2010
🌍 Social Impact
⚡ Energy
🌾 Agriculture
Social Impact • Energy • Agriculture
Climate-KIC is Europe’s leading climate innovation agency and community. It supports cities, regions, countries, and industries to achieve their climate ambitions through systemic innovations and place-based transformations. The organization collaborates with a global network of partners spanning the public and private sectors, mobilizing finance, testing new business models, and opening pathways for institutional and behavioral changes. Climate-KIC orchestrates large-scale demonstrations to promote exponential decarbonization and build resilient communities. By focusing on interconnected solutions and local adoptions, it guides regions towards circular economies and sustainable food systems, aiming to accelerate climate neutrality and resilience by 2030. Climate entrepreneurship and learning are integral to its mission, transforming the startup ecosystem to deeply embed climate impact in entrepreneurship.
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Climate-KIC
51 - 200 employees
Founded 2010
🌍 Social Impact
⚡ Energy
🌾 Agriculture
Social Impact • Energy • Agriculture
Climate-KIC is Europe’s leading climate innovation agency and community. It supports cities, regions, countries, and industries to achieve their climate ambitions through systemic innovations and place-based transformations. The organization collaborates with a global network of partners spanning the public and private sectors, mobilizing finance, testing new business models, and opening pathways for institutional and behavioral changes. Climate-KIC orchestrates large-scale demonstrations to promote exponential decarbonization and build resilient communities. By focusing on interconnected solutions and local adoptions, it guides regions towards circular economies and sustainable food systems, aiming to accelerate climate neutrality and resilience by 2030. Climate entrepreneurship and learning are integral to its mission, transforming the startup ecosystem to deeply embed climate impact in entrepreneurship.
📋 Description
• Systems-driven sensemaking and pattern finding • Design frameworks and visual tools to synthesise complex data streams from projects and portfolios. • Identify systemic patterns, interdependencies, leverage points, and emerging opportunities. • Translate complexity into clear visual maps, narratives, and decision-making tools. • Design and facilitate sensemaking sessions and workshops that help stakeholders interpret signals, spot patterns, and align on priorities. • Develop a systems narrative for portfolios, linking individual projects to Climate-KIC’s broader mission and systemic impact goals. • Map relationships, flows, dependencies, and gaps across portfolios to improve coherence, synergy, and resource use. • Design portfolio-level structures, interfaces, and working rhythms that support strategic alignment and collective impact. • Provide actionable recommendations to prioritise initiatives that strengthen systemic outcomes and long-term strategic value. • Turn complex ideas, relationships, and insights into compelling visual artefacts such as systems maps, frameworks, canvases, journey maps, and portfolio overviews. • Create shared visual languages and communication tools that help teams understand how their work fits into the wider system. • Collaborate with communications and leadership teams to make strategic messages more accessible, engaging, and actionable. • Use design to support decision-making, learning, alignment, and organisational sensemaking. • Design and facilitate workshops, working sessions, and collaborative processes that support cross-functional alignment and action. • Shape meeting formats, decision-making processes, and collaborative workflows so teams can work more effectively in complexity. • Support teams in framing problems, generating options, testing ideas, and moving from insight to action. • Act as a facilitator across functions to connect operational teams, research, leadership, and delivery partners. • Lead research to identify emerging systemic challenges and opportunities, and connect these to new pathways for climate action. • Translate insights into prototypes, pilots, and experiments that help Climate-KIC respond to evolving system needs. • Support collaboration across campaigns, fundraising, policy, delivery, portfolio, learning, and community functions. • Help teams build a shared understanding of priorities, trade-offs, and opportunities through structured facilitation and visual sensemaking tools.
🎯 Requirements
• Systems expertise: Demonstrated capability in systems thinking, pattern finding, and complexity analysis in multi-stakeholder environments. • Strategic design experience: Demonstrated ability to design strategies, structures, and processes that align initiatives with wider systems goals. • Visual communication: Ability to turn complex information into clear, compelling visual artefacts and frameworks. • Facilitation: Experience designing and facilitating workshops, collaboration sessions, and sensemaking processes. • Work design: Ability to shape collaborative workflows, meeting formats, decision-making processes, and team interfaces. • Insight-led practice: Demonstrated ability to synthesise diverse data and perspectives into actionable recommendations. • Storytelling: Ability to craft narratives that communicate systemic impact and strategic direction. • Climate innovation: Knowledge of climate innovation or systemic transformation in sustainability is highly desirable.
🏖️ Benefits
• Flexible working hours • Remote work options • Professional development opportunities
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