Manager, Corporate Climate Resilience Manager, Corporate Climate Resilience Center Climate

About the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES): Our mission is to secure a safe and stable climate by accelerating the transition to a thriving, just, and resilient low-carbon economy. We are widely recognized as an influential voice on climate issues, a trusted convener, and a credible source of expertise and analysis. We work closely with international climate negotiators; federal, state, and local policymakers;

executives of Fortune 500 businesses; and a wide range of other stakeholders to advance strong policy and action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote clean energy, and strengthen resilience to climate impacts. C2ES is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization.

Our organizational values: We are ambitious and practical, advancing effective solutions that push the boundaries of the achievable. We are open-minded and inclusive, seeking out and considering a wide range of voices, views, and approaches. We are people-focused, dedicated to improving human well-being and recognizing that respect and empathy are central to success. We are one team, working collaboratively, communicating openly, making ourselves accessible to each other, and treating one another with kindness and respect.

Position Summary: The Manager, Corporate Climate Resilience will develop and implement programming for the community of practice and manage a multi-stakeholder, consensus-based process for developing a standardized framework for companies to demonstrate leadership on climate resilience. This role will manage day-to-day project operations and stakeholder engagement, primarily with C2ES’s Business Environmental Leadership Council and dozens of companies strengthening their resilience to climate risks and impacts across their operations, value chains, and communities where they operate.

This position will report to the Vice President, Business Engagement and will work closely with other colleagues across C2ES working on business engagement, climate resilience, and communications.

Background: C2ES works to build avenues for companies to accelerate their decarbonization efforts and improve their resilience to climate impacts. To this end, C2ES has been actively engaged in developing standards and methodologies needed to reflect new solutions and approaches that can better enable and reflect businesses’ investments in a net zero, climate resilient transition. In 2026, C2ES will launch a multi-stakeholder effort that will develop a standardized framework for corporate climate leadership on climate resilience and adaptation, a project under the Corporate Climate Resilience Pathways Initiative.

C2ES will serve as the effort’s Secretariat and will engage a wide stakeholder group to develop a consensus-based standardized framework to help companies develop and report on how they are implementing climate resilience in their operations, value chains, and communities. C2ES is also fostering a growing community of practice among companies working on climate resilience, and will continue to develop dialogues and other peer exchange opportunities to improve insights across industry sectors and to contribute to wider understanding of business leadership on climate resilience.

• Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with existing and prospective stakeholders from companies across industry sectors, and other relevant stakeholders (NGOs, investors, etc), to identify cross-cutting resilience strategies and ensure meaningful participation in both the community of practice and framework development
• Maintain a comprehensive database analyzing stakeholder participation, tracking influence, interests, and engagement levels
• Coordinate and align business engagement with the Climate Resilient Communities Accelerator and, if necessary, support delivery of in-person stakeholder convenings in Colorado, Texas, Washington, and other states, to be determined

• Execute project workplan, including managing detailed project schedules, tracking tasks and deliverables, identifying and reducing project risks, and ensuring milestone achievement
• Manage consultants and…