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ClimateWorks Foundation

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2008

🤲 Charity

🤝 Non-profit

Charity • Environment • Non-profit

ClimateWorks Foundation is a global platform dedicated to accelerating climate solutions through philanthropy. With a mission to end the climate crisis, it amplifies the impact of philanthropy by collaborating with grantmakers and implementing partners worldwide. ClimateWorks supports climate solutions across a variety of sectors including transportation, food and agriculture, forests, and sustainable finance. Since 2008, it has granted over $1. 8 billion to more than 850 organizations in over 50 countries. The foundation seeks to bend the emissions curve and advance a thriving planet for all living beings.

📋 Description

• Lead project management of the Solar Industry Association Initiative workplan, ensuring strong coordination and alignment with partner workplans across regions. • Support overall project management responsibilities in grant processing, compliance, and grantee engagement. • Oversee effective and timely delivery of project outputs, proactively identifying risks and implementing mitigation measures to maintain momentum. • Maintain and regularly update project timelines and global event calendars, and provide strategic recommendations on high-impact and priority activities to the Global Head of GETI and the Associate Director for the Solar Industry Association. • Support the Global GETI Lead, Project Management Unit and Associate Director (Solar Industry Associations) in organizing briefings and events (lead the planning and execution). • Monitor and coordinate with grantees against agreed workplans, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality outputs. • Collect, consolidate, and synthesize updates from grantees through regional leads to maintain a clear view of portfolio progress. • Lead regular coordination meetings with industry association grantees, with particular focus on technical workstreams and implementation milestones. • Provide weekly portfolio updates to the core project team and key funders, highlighting progress, risks, and required actions. • Deliver structured reporting using agreed templates, ensuring consistency, clarity, and responsiveness to stakeholder requests. • Provide a full range of project management support to technical expert teams from partner organizations. • Ensure the technical expert team’s support to Africa, Asia, and Latin America is structured, monitored, and delivered on time and to a high degree of quality. • Support capacity assessment and capacity building convenings across different continents. • Lead in grant processing for solar industry associations and other programmatic grants. • Support regional leads in engaging national and regional solar industry associations. • Support the grantees in strengthening institutional capacity, including member surveys, human resource plans, and reviewing the national plans according to the funding proposals. • Facilitate coordination between grantees and technical/communications experts on regional and national policy recommendations.

🎯 Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent • 7 years of work experience in project management and the solar sector • Strong attention to detail and deadline management skills • Experience in complex project management and developing/ maintaining a precise work plan • Experience in grant management and grant processing • Experience in event organizing (1-3 hour events) • Experience communicating directly with funders and developing concise reporting • Working with consultants for capacity building, strategic communications • Ability to juggle numerous competing demands and priorities, respond quickly to management requests • Experience working in a global matrixed team • Commitment to the mission and values of ClimateWorks Foundation • Experience in working with solar industry associations • Experience in grant management tools such as Salesforce • Data interpretation and analysis