Program Communications Director; CWF

Climate Works Foundation (CWF) is a global non-governmental organization that partners with leading funders to be more strategic, efficient, and effective in their response to global climate change. The organization offers a suite of services:

• Provides a Global View: CWF aggregates, synthesizes, and presents emissions data and political, social, technical, and economic analyses in a way that offers insights for climate philanthropy. These insights help funders prioritize opportunities to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, develop strategies that are robust under different future scenarios, adapt strategies to changing conditions, and track progress towards climate goals.
• Develops Strategies and Makes Grants: CWF collaborates with partners globally to develop portfolios of philanthropic investments designed to achieve large-scale greenhouse gas emissions reductions. With their partners, CWF evaluates insights from a wide range of sources, develops informed strategies, and clusters strategies into diversified, high-impact portfolios for philanthropic investment. CWF makes strategic grants that support transnational initiatives and organizations addressing climate change in critical parts of the world.
  
  They then monitor progress and apply candid assessments to drive learning and improvement.
• Facilitates Funder Collaboration: CWF facilitates collaboration among influential philanthropic funders—creating opportunities for them to interact with their peers, compare strategies, generate ideas, and coordinate investments that target the biggest drivers of global climate change.
• Grows Climate Philanthropy: CWF helps increase the number of foundations working to address climate change and grow the overall size of philanthropic investment directed towards climate action. Central to this effort is the organization’s work with funders to help them evaluate investment opportunities that are aligned with their interests and priorities, and to connect them to like-minded peers.

As experts in climate science, public policy, economic and social analysis, and strategic philanthropy, CWF’s staff understands the multi-faceted challenges and opportunities of climate change. They are researchers, strategists, collaborators, organizers, and grantmakers who care passionately about the mission.

Program Communications Director, Clean Air, Clean Energy

Climate Works Foundation is seeking strategic communications expertise and project management support for its Clean Air, Clean Energy campaign (“the campaign”). The Program Communications Director, Clean Air, Clean Energy (“Program Communications Director”) will be dedicated to the campaign, which aims to help with the transition to healthy, low carbon prosperity through encouraging deployment of clean energy options. The campaign will achieve this goal by supporting NGOs, working directly with consultants, managing important communications partnerships with external stakeholders and, where appropriate, working with key opinion leaders to elevate campaign messaging.

Working cross-functionally with relevant organizations and stakeholders, the Program Communications Director will construct influential and persuasive external messaging and support CWF’s strategic partners in delivering this content across geographies to diverse audiences.

The successful candidate will have global experience and established networks developed through past engagement in air quality communications. S/he will bring a commanding integration of thoughtful and strategic insights, and an innate understanding of, and passion for, climate action. The selected candidate will be a concise, honest, and thoughtful communicator who instinctively understands nuanced messaging in an often complex and politically tenuous environment.

S/he will be a proven manager and executor of multiple streams of communications work, possessing the acumen to evaluate return on investment and prioritize accordingly.

The Program Communications Director will report to the Portfolio Director, Clean Air, Clean Energy and be supported by a campaign-dedicated Program Associate, contracted individuals or organizations, and existing…