Associate Director, Global Energy Transition Initiative

• Lead and coordinate the global solar industry association initiative, ensuring strategic alignment and effective multi-stakeholder engagement across regions.
• Drive funder engagement and communications, including preparing briefings, reports, and synthesizing grantee updates.
• Oversee strategic communications and convenings to advance the solar energy transition in emerging economies.
• Develop KPIs, maintain learning databases, and facilitate learning sessions to capture impact and lessons learned.

This role accelerates the global transition to clean energy in emerging economies, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, creating jobs, improving public health, and providing affordable power to millions.

• At least 12 years of relevant professional experience, including 7+ years in a managerial or leadership role.
• Experience working with trade associations and/or at the intersection of public and private sectors for clean energy preferred.
• Highly experienced in strategic planning, project oversight, and budget management in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Strong relationship management, communication, and ability to work across global time zones.

International salary range determined by location and local cost of labor; compensation is competitive within each region. ClimateWorks offers a collaborative culture with core values of collaboration, humility, curiosity, learning, and risk-taking. Staff attend annual in-person events including an in-town week in San Francisco, all-staff retreat, and department retreat.

ClimateWorks Foundation is a catalyst for accelerating climate progress, connecting funders and implementing organizations worldwide to identify and scale transformative solutions across sectors and geographies. Since 2008, it has granted over $2 billion to more than 850 grantees across 50 countries.