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Regional Officer
Organization: C40 cities
Apply By: 14 May 2024
Location: New Delhi(Delhi) Ahmedabad(Gujarat) Chennai(Tamil Nadu)
About the Organization
C40 is a network of nearly 100 mayors of the world’s leading cities, who are working to deliver the urgent action needed right now to confront the climate crisis, and create a future where everyone, everywhere can thrive. Mayors of C40 cities are committed to using a science-based and people-focused approach to help the world limit global heating to 1.5°C and build healthy, equitable and resilient communities. Through a Global Green New Deal, mayors are working alongside a broad coalition of representatives from labour, business, the youth climate movement and civil society to go further and faster than ever before.
C40’s team of 400+ staff is based in offices in London, in New York, Johannesburg, Singapore, Delhi, Rio de Janeiro, Copenhagen, Beijing and Paris, and individual staff based across 25+ different locations.
Job Description
The post holder will play a crucial role in the success of the growing South and West Asia (SWA) regional team. The Regional Officer will be an organised, agile and proactive individual who will join and support the team to help coordinate and facilitate the delivery of the SWA regional team covering member cities across the specified regions.
The Regional Officer combines strong analysis and administrative skills. The ideal candidate will have strong MS Office skills (PowerPoint and Excel mainly), a high degree of comfort coordinating multiple stakeholders (including high level city staff and partners) as well as some international experience. They will be excellent problem-solvers, able to keep track of multiple tasks and processes simultaneously.
Job Responsibilities:
- Provide administrative support to the Regional Director and the Regional Team in South and West Asia, including in-person and virtual event coordination/regional convenings, webinar preparations, logistics and coordinating internal trainings, meeting organisation, document preparation, presentations, etc.
- Support effective coordination between the SWA regional team and other internal C40 teams, city staff and relevant partners
- Support work tracking, ensuring information is available, organised, easy to access and up to date through maintenance of various trackers such as Salesforce and other similar platforms
- Support other internal C40 and regional processes
- Draft reports, briefings for management team and funders requested from the region
- Conduct desk research as required to gather or assess information on supported cities and projects.
- Support creation of clear and updated documents and presentations as requested for global teams and programmes;
- Support recruitment process for the regional staff
- Support monitoring members’ compliance with Leadership Standards
- Gather and provide political updates to Regional and Mayoral Engagement lead and Management Team
- Support relevant procurement (eg. translation and interpretation need) and financial tracking processes
- Additional duties as requested
Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience
- Detail-oriented, proactive and agile
- Ability to multitask and excellent time management
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Experience supporting senior stakeholders and hybrid teams in day-to-day activities
- Good problem-solving, strategic thinking and analytical capabilities
- Strong skills in MS Excel and other relevant tools
- Experience in event planning and management, travel coordinations and familiarity with expenses processing and procurement processes.
- Expertise and/or interest in workshop preparation and facilitation, including preparation and design of presentations in MS PowerPoint and related resources.
- Efficient and effective administrative skills and experience
- Experience in government, business or NGO sectors with a focus on cities, sustainability and/or climate change
- International experience working across different cultures, languages and time zones
- Excellent written and spoken English is a requirement. Additional local language skills are encouraged.
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