Senior Associate Director, Global Energy Transition Initiative

ROLE

• Lead and coordinate complex, multi-stakeholder work streams, ensuring strong relationship management, strategic quality, timely information sharing, and smooth end-to-end program execution.
• Maintain and continuously refine the Renewable Energy and Storage Industry Association Strategy, ensuring it remains responsive to evolving global and regional market, policy, and industry dynamics, in line with partner activities and learnings.
• Lead the coordination with GETI Program Leads in advancing the Renewable Energy and Storage Industry Association Initiative, ensuring deliverables are high quality and outputs, and outcomes remain closely aligned with the overall strategy.
• Develop strategic direction on which regional and global convenings to prioritize, working across teams and stakeholders to ensure participation is purposeful, well-coordinated, and aligned with broader solar agenda goals
• Serve as the primary coordination point for solar associations, the Executive Taskforce organizational development team, communications teams, and the GETI program team, ensuring seamless execution of all initiative-related activities.
• Serve as the key coordination support for the Global Head of GETI in funder engagement and communications.
• Coordinate with internal and external partners for organizing funder briefings
• Lead preparation of agendas, briefing materials, and top-line messages
• Collect and synthesize updates from grantees through regional leads
• Draft funder-specific or general written reports
• Lead, or monitor global, regional, and national renewable energy and storage convenings in coordination with external partners and communications experts
• Design, develop and/or support strategic communications activities in collaboration with communications partners and coalition partners
• Develop policy-maker-friendly briefings and written materials
• Maintain a high-quality database of learnings to create a repository of materials accessible to all stakeholders
• Facilitate learning sessions with grantees to capture successes and lessons learned
• Lead preparation of bi-annual monitoring and learning reports for stakeholders

• At least 15 years of relevant professional experience, including 7+ years in a managerial or leadership role.
• Experience working with trade associations and/or at the intersection between the public and private sectors for clean energy would be an advantage
• Highly experienced in strategic planning, project oversight, and budget management, ideally within complex, multi-stakeholder or international environments.
• Relationship-oriented and solutions-focused, with a strong service mindset and ability to partner effectively with internal teams, grantees, and external stakeholders.
• Familiarity with philanthropic, nonprofit, coalition, advocacy, or legislative communities preferred.
• Self-directed and thoughtful, with sound professional judgment and the ability to balance strategic vision with operational execution.
• Experience working in a global matrixed team
• Ability to communicate the success stories and impact of the work
• Commitment to the mission and values of Climate Works Foundation

• International salary range to be determined based on the location and local cost of labor.
• Compensation is intentionally structured to be above leading local market averages and appropriate to the regional cost of labor.
• Opportunity to work with a global organization committed to ending the climate crisis.