Summary

Climate Group is seeking a motivated and enthusiastic individual to lead the organisations policy and advocacy work, which advocates, and provides advice and support, to governments, international and multilateral organisations to develop and implement the most impactful climate policies and share their progress with global counterparts.

About Climate Group

Climate Group is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, ensuring that everyone in our team has the opportunity to thrive and excel. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Climate Group drives climate action. Fast. Our goal is a world of net zero carbon emissions by 2050, with greater prosperity for all.

We focus on systems with the highest emissions and where our networks have the greatest opportunity to drive change. We do this by building large and influential networks and holding organisations accountable, turning their commitments into action.

We share what we achieve together to show more organisations what they could do. We are an international non-profit organisation, founded in 2004, with offices in London, Amsterdam, Beijing, New Delhi and New York.

About the role

Climate Group is looking to significantly boost our capability to influence and shape climate policies across the world. We are looking for someone experienced in forming effective relationships with governments and policymakers and building influential policy positions to spearhead this work. This will include:

• Systematically build Climate Groups external relationships the role will lead on policy and advocacy for the organisation, through their own activity and encouraging/coordinating with colleagues across teams. The aim is to grow the influence of both our systems work (e.g., campaigns on energy, transport) and additional government and policy agendas (e.g., climate finance, adaptation).
• Develop and steer our policy and advocacy focus, projects, and initiatives with, and towards, governments and international and multilateral organisations, focusing on the opportunities and policy changes most likely to accelerate climate action.
• Establish and build Climate Groups policy positioning driving bold policy positioning that both leads agendas and engages with the topical issues of the day. Developing our suite of positions through building on existing knowledge, expertise and collaboratively developing new positions where there is the need to lead
• Lead tactical thinking on how to best influence bringing innovative campaigning, advocacy and engagement techniques to help achieve our goals, balancing the need for constructive engagement with governments, while also taking a solutions-focused approach to tackling barriers to change,

Direct Responsibilities

The Head of Policy and Advocacy is one of the four lead managers in the Governments and Policy team and will also work closely with our Systems and Communications teams. This role is responsible for growing our collective influencing expertise as an organisation. The key responsibilities of the role are:

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  Policy and advocacy strategy development and implementation through building impactful relationships particularly with government/multilateral stakeholders, key project partners and funders.
• Coordinating and leading policy development, dissemination, and oversight across the organisation.
• Influencing expertise as a source of senior support to cross-cutting campaigns on policy and advocacy and contributing to specific systems focused campaigns.
• Driving external focus and engagement to build the quality relationships Climate Group needs to influence and change policy, through engagement with policymakers, advisors etc and working with colleagues to achieve this.
• Maintaining and leading the approach to our engagement with the intergovernmental advocacy calendar (e.g., UNGA, COP, CEM, G7/G20 etc).
• Leading senior advocacy work for our key global moments e.g., supporting the Climate Week NYC and COP teams to secure high profile speakers for our platforms and maximising the engagement opportunities.
• Overseeing the delivery of major policy focused projects (these currently include the Under2 Methane project and Finance Fit for Change).
• Team leadership in driving the Policy and Advocacys team agenda, vision and supporting team members, and playing a wider organisational role to achieve that.
• Policy knowledge production and learning through working with colleagues to ensure that our policy work is effectively disseminated, and our Under2 Coalition and wider government partners are informed and able to identify levers for scale-up and replication.
• Building out a pipeline of new projects based on opportunities for greatest impact, working with development colleagues to ensure secure income streams to develop the work of the team.