Director of Sustainability & Climate Justice

Mayor Justin Bibb is continuing to build a team that reflects the diversity of our city and is committed to delivering a modern and responsive city government to bring City Hall into the 21st century. The City of Cleveland has a proud history as the birthplace of the Environmental Protection Agency, the healthcare capital of the world and the home of manufacturing.

It is that ingenuity, grit and resilience that we share as Clevelanders that will drive the new wave of leadership and innovation in our city. Mayor Bibb’s vision for Cleveland is to become a national model for city management, police reform and neighborhood revitalization. This is our moment to lead. It is time to take our city’s proud heritage to the next level by investing in homegrown talent and attracting new talent to the city.

The City of Cleveland employs nearly 8,000 people dedicated to public service and we are looking for emerging and experienced leaders to help us move forward. Join us today as we shape our future.

Climate change is the single greatest challenge humanity has ever faced, threatening water and food security, health, livelihoods, and the safety of billions of people together with drastic negative impact on global ecosystem balance. The City of Cleveland’s Mayor’s Office of Sustainability & Climate Justice seeks to enhance their climate ambitions under the Paris Agreement, with focus on greater emissions reduction and resilience building.

The next phase of the Climate Action Plan update will focus on climate advocacy and long-term planning to ensure inclusive climate action at the speed and scale required to keep global temperature below 1.5°C. Achieving the carbon neutrality in the second half of the century by all countries is a crucial requirement set by the Paris Agreement to avoid the irreversible global climate change.

Realization of this goal involves work on local, regional, national, and global levels, as well as participation of all relevant stakeholders – governments, business, non-profit organizations, community members. The path to carbon neutrality should be just and leave no one behind, while empowering women, youth, black, indigenous and people of color, and vulnerable groups of population.

The Director of Sustainability & Climate Justice manages and directs the operations of the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability & Climate Justice ("Sustainability"). The Director of Sustainability & Climate Justice ("Director") is appointed, reports to the Mayor and serves at the pleasure of the Mayor. The Mayor’s vision is for Cleveland to continue to be a leader in demonstrating the broad community benefits of a strategic end-to-end operational transformation with sustainability at the center of how the City creates growth, opportunity and value for all community members, including residents, community-based organizations, businesses and non-profit organizations.

The need is to lead collaborative integration of purposeful sustainability and climate justice into all of the City’s activities and operations with deliberate implementation of 1st term strategic planning. The purpose of this position is to lead the management of the overall day-to-day operations and personnel of the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability & Climate Justice to assure the successful achievement of the office's vision, mission, and program objectives through the implementation of the 2025 Municipal Action Plan for city operations and the 2025 community-based Cleveland Climate Action Plan.

• Responsible for routinely updating and executing the City’s strategic sustainability strategic plans (Municipal Action Plan “MAP” and Cleveland Climate Action Plan…