Background
C40 is a network of nearly 100 mayors of the world’s leading cities, who are working to deliver the urgent action needed right now to confront the climate crisis, and create a future where everyone, everywhere can thrive. Mayors of C40 cities are committed to using a science-based and people-focused approach to help the world limit global heating to 1.5°C and build healthy, equitable and resilient communities. Through a Global Green New Deal, mayors are working alongside a broad coalition of representatives from labour, business, the youth climate movement and civil society to go further and faster than ever before.
C40’s team of 400+ staff is based in offices in London, in New York, Johannesburg, Singapore, Delhi, Rio de Janeiro, Copenhagen, Beijing and Paris, and individual staff based across 25+ different locations.
The strategic direction of the organisation is determined by an elected Steering Committee of C40 mayors, which is chaired by Mayor Sadiq Khan of London and Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr of Freetown. Three-term Mayor of New York City Michael R. Bloomberg serves as President of the C40 Board of Directors, responsible for operational oversight. A regionally diverse management team, led by Executive Director Mark Watts, leads the day-to-day management of C40. C40’s three core strategic funders are Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and Realdania.
Our international staff work with the C40 network under the leadership of city governments to deliver this mission. Using a data-driven approach, our team identifies and promotes the exchange of proven programmes and policies developed by cities; provides world-class research, technical expertise and access to key partners to deliver new programmes and policies with cities; and communicates cities’ individual achievements and collective leadership.
Diversity Statement
C40 is committed to supporting and promoting equity and diversity and creating an inclusive working environment for everyone. We believe that when people with different life experiences are involved in decision-making, we deliver better.
We believe having a diverse workforce ensures we connect better with all the different communities and people affected by the climate crisis. This enables us to make better decisions which lead to better outcomes in the work we do through increased creativity, productivity, greater global impact alongside a broader perspective and approach to our work.
We welcome applicants that are diverse in terms of age, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity and perspective. Our goal is for C40 to be an environment where everyone, from any background, can flourish and can be themselves whilst contributing to our mission. If you identify as a person with a disability, we work to provide reasonable appropriate measures and any additional support needed to provide an equitable working experience. If you are living with a disability, chronic illness or neurodiversity please inform us, to provide you with the proper assistance in the application process.
C40 promotes a work culture where staff can input to improve equity, diversity and inclusion through staff-led groups and formal forums. We know that creating our ideal working environment is a learning process and we are committed to the ongoing effort.
Regional Approach
Core to C40’s value and effectiveness is an ability to be responsive to the needs of all C40 cities and focus services and support on the areas of greatest opportunity for city action and climate impact – both at the individual city level and across our regional and global networks. Our regional management structure better enables C40 to leverage relationships between peer cities and technical and financial partners regionally and globally and to be more responsive to local needs and conditions.
To manage these efforts, C40 Regional Directors are positioned in seven regions: Africa, Europe, North America, Latin America, East, Southeast Asia & Oceania, and South & West Asia. The Regional Directors act as the ambassador for their regions, to ensure that the organisation can deliver effectively at a regional level considering specific geographic, cultural, language and other differences.
The UCAP CAI Programme
The UCAP Climate Action Implementation programme supports 15 cities in 3 regions to implement their Climate Action Plans. In Africa there are 7 cities: Addis Ababa, Accra, Dar es Salaam, Johannesburg, Lagos, Nairobi, Tshwane.
C40 has provided dedicated support to these cities through the Climate Action Planning Program. The current C40 Business Plan focuses on the delivery and mainstreaming of transformative actions contained in the CAPs, supporting and strengthening mayoral leadership, and promoting innovation.
Position description
C40 has an ambition to mainstream inclusion and equity in our climate action work globally. The Senior Manager, Inclusive Climate Action (ICA) and Knowledge – Africa will play a crucial role in supporting the seven cities to ensure that priority actions are inclusive, equitable and just. The postholder will work across all cities in the region and provide structured support and guidance for inclusive implementation and capturing and communicating knowledge and lessons learned.
The postholder will have a pragmatic focus on ensuring cities achieve quick wins as well as paving the way for longer term transformational action through enabling changes, in an integrated and inclusive way, seeking to share lessons across cities.
The postholder will have a good understanding of how cities work, and will be familiar with the economic, social and political context of priority cities in the region. They will provide guidance on inclusive climate action to the dedicated City Advisers and liaise with city focal points as needed. The postholder will have a thorough understanding of inclusive climate action, with specialist knowledge and experience working on relevant topics including gender, race, class, youth, migration, just transition, energy poverty, informality, green jobs and pro-poor development. They will also coordinate with UCAP CAI Programme global and regional teams and other C40 programmes to promote cohesive engagement with cities, while adjusting to local contexts.
Responsibilities
The main responsibilities will include:
- Work with City Advisers to ensure that climate action implementation initiatives are aligned with C40’s Inclusive Climate Action best practice and ICA Implementation Guide.
- Collaborate with other regional ICA managers and ICA team to share learnings.
- Lead in the development and delivery of key technical advice and policy to ensure integration of ICA strategies and criteria
- Advise on and support inclusive stakeholder engagements processes
- Support communications and campaigns for CAI Africa cities in collaboration with the global C40 communications team
- Support monitoring, reporting and evaluation of climate action plans across the cities to ensure that outcomes achieved are equitable
- Lead the CAI Africa team to capture lesson learned, and opportunities to share resources and best practice between C40 cities and partners
- Report on progress, identify delivery risks and support outcome harvesting
- Maintain and lead on the delivery of the Africa knowledge strategy and plan
- Deliver, co-deliver, and support others to deliver knowledge sharing activities, or knowledge products to meet the aims and goals of the Africa knowledge sharing plans and strategies. This could include:
- Identify suitable knowledge products and provide guidance on format and information needed to effectively communicate knowledge outcomes.
- Support the creation and delivery of workshops, working closely with sector leads and city teams.
- Curate, draft and design case studies, in collaboration with the respective CSN and UCAP CAI teams, with cities that might require successful examples from other C40 cities, to get internal traction and inspiration to continue with the implementation of Climate Actions.
- Develop guides or reports, to help share lessons learned, best practice and key knowledge to support the replication and acceleration of equitable climate action projects globally.
- Support the delivery of webinars or peer-to-peer exchanges to allow city officials to share their experiences in delivering ambitious climate action projects.
- Lead engagement with the C40 Knowledge Hub to identify and share suitable UCAP CAI materials that can be shared on the Knowledge Hub
- Coordinate closely with the UCAP CAI Monitoring & Evaluation Manager and Communications manager, to ensure that the work contributes to relevant Indicators.
- Support the Snr Climate Finance and Mainstreaming manager on delivery of mainstreaming and climate finance outcomes.
Person specification
- Experience with inclusive climate action approaches and stakeholder engagement
- Experience of working on policy areas like inclusive climate action, just transition, climate and equity, social and economic features of climate actions, climate justice, etc.
- Ability to communicate complex policy in a simple way to a non-technical audience
- Experience with story-telling, climate change communications and extracting, capturing and sharing knowledge and lessons learned
- Excellent project-management, strategic thinking and analytical capabilities
- Self-starter with demonstrated experience in working as part of a team, and in multicultural settings, and ability to manage multiple parallel tasks; and
- Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills, combined with excellent English fluency and ability to write technical materials and documents.
Other Requirements:
Applicants must already have the right to work in the listed locations. Moderate travel will be required as part of the role.
Reporting To: Head of Climate Action Implementation Africa
Term: Fixed term until 31st December 2025
Location: Kenya or South Africa
Salary: KHS 6,079,185, ZAR 1,036,800 gross per annum
Application Process:
Closing date for applications is 29th November 2024 at 5h00 pm GMT. C40 reserves the right to close this job opening before the closing date for applications so please do submit applications early.
To learn more about the work of C40 and our cities, please visit www.c40.org, follow us on Twitter @c40cities and like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/C40Cities.
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C40 is an equal opportunities employer.