Manager, Engagement and Climate Implementation

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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 Manager, Engagement and Climate Implementation will act as the focal point for taking forward long-term climate action planning and C40 engagement coordination within the cities. They will be responsible for engaging internal and external stakeholders; facilitating knowledge transfer across the cities and the wider C40 network; and working with C40 and consultants to provide high-quality tailored technical assistance to support locally-led efforts.

Technical assistance provided will need to be comprehensive and may consist of: a review of the city’s existing plan(s) and capacity and national level climate commitments; scenario modelling; sector-level roadmaps; climate risk assessments; stakeholder engagement; access to climate finance; and monitoring and evaluation.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in climate risk assessments, climate action planning and stakeholder engagement; experience working with cities on climate action planning; sector specific expertise in either Energy, Transport, Waste Management or Adaptation and excellent project management and communication skills.

Job Responsibilities

Working closely with cities in the region and C40’s Head of Implementation for South & West Asia, the Manager, Engagement and Climate Implementation will support in developing and implementing a delivery strategy for selected cities in the region with implementation support to deliver on selected high impact actions based on Paris Agreement compliant Climate Action Plans. Main areas of responsibility are:

• Support C40’s South and West Asia cities in their implementation of key priority actions from their Climate Actions Plans and C40 current programmes and activities, aligned to the Leadership Standards.
• Support implementation of C40 climate action delivery programmes in the region, with a particular focus on climate action planning, mainstreaming activities and regional implementation programmes in the region.
• Supervise all the contracts and procurements related to the Climate Implementation and Mainstreaming work in South and West Asia
• Work with C40’s Regional Director and Head of Implementation in developing and executing strategies to ensure alignment with national and sub-national policies and with support programmes from other development partners to further accelerate the implementation of city climate actions.
• Coordinate the identification and establishment of critical partnerships for delivery of key priority actions.
• Elicit learnings and best practice examples from implementation processes and provide input to ensure that this knowledge is exchanged and available in the C40 Knowledge Hub and other relevant platforms for cross learning.
• Ensure the collection of data for and reporting on all programme related KPIs.
• Work with the  Head of Implementation to ensure coordination and linkages with all other C40 teams, including City Solutions and Networks, City Diplomacy, Finance, etc. towards a unified and coordinated city support strategy for the region.

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• Post graduate degree in environmental/ climate science, public policy, environmental engineering, urban/ environmental planning, urban design, development, or related subjects.
• Experience working in implementation roles related to climate action and sustainability.
• Strong   interpersonal, relationship   building, and negotiation   skills   as   well   as   written   and   verbal communication skills, combined with English and Tamil fluency.
• Excellent problem-solving, and strategic thinking capabilities.
• Advanced MS Office ( Excel, Word, Powerpoint), data management and analysis skills
• Proficiency in quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
• Significant experience in government, business or NGO sectors with a focus on sustainability and/or climate change, and experience working with or within municipal governments
• Knowledge of stakeholders, institutions and agencies working in Chennai/ Indian cities on climate and sustainability issues. 
• Familiarity with data that can support city-level GHG inventory development/updates and city-wide climate action planning.
• Technical expertise in climate change and city-wide GHG emission inventories
• Technical knowledge of emission reduction measures in Indian city context.
• Strong interpersonal, relationship building, and negotiation skills as well as written and verbal communication skills, combined with English fluency.
• Demonstrable problem-solving, budget and people management experience, including working with third party delivery teams, and ability to manage multiple parallel tasks;
• Experience of coordinating and facilitating interactive and enquiry-based workshops.
• International experience, working across different cultures, languages and time zones.

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