Regional Director – Venice, CA

Organization: C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

Job Title: Regional Director

Location: Venice, CA

Hours and Compensation: Full time

Position Dates: Start ASAP

Application Deadline: July 31st, 2012

Posted On: June 26th, 2012

Organization Overview

The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) is a global network of the world’s largest cities taking action to combat climate change by identifying, developing, and implementing policies and programs that generate measurable reductions in greenhouse gas emissions An international staff of embedded “City Directors” and “Global Initiative Teams” work for the organization, and with these cities, to deliver on this mission.

Description

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 the C40 organization to leverage relationships between peer cities both regionally and globally, and technical and financial partners, enabling C40 to be more responsive to local needs and conditions. Regional Directors (RD) are positioned in seven regions:

• Africa
• Europe
• North America
• South America
• Southeast Asia & Australia
• East Asia
• South and West Asia

Responsibilities

Regional Directors (RDs) are responsible for managing relationships with all the C40 cities in that region, either through direct relationships with City staff, or through the C40-CCI City Directors located in participating cities, where applicable.

RDs oversee the strategic development and implementation of the C40 Programs in a particular region, provide oversight to in-region City Directors, and ensure that C40 city governments are satisfied with and benefitting from their partnership with the C40. In this capacity, the primary role of the RD is to establish and maintain strong relationships with C40 city governments, partners and stakeholders in the region; identify opportunities for cities to collaborate with each other – both within the region and throughout the larger organization and help to facilitate direct peer-to-peer exchange; convene regular regional meetings with participating and affiliate C40 city officials, and serve as a conduit between the region and the broader organization, including directing C40 resources to serve the priorities of cities within the region, as developed through an annual workplanning process.

Qualifications

• Over ten years experience in government, business or NGO sectors with focus on policy development, project management or community organization, including inter-organizational cooperation, strategy and negotiation.
• Experience working with or within municipal government, with senior officials and environmental teams and projects preferred, particularly in the specific geographic region.
• Ability to lead strategic discussions to help facilitate action oriented approaches.
• Over five years management experience, proven skills to support a multi-site operation, ability to create a team environment given a virtual organizational structure.
• Experience living and working in the region.

• Strong technical and policy background in climate change or sustainability preferred.
• Ability to serve as a spokesperson or public speaker

• Masters in relevant discipline; MBA; MPA; MPP preferred.
• Strong English language skills required, as well as fluency in the local language(s).

How to Apply