Associate Director, Global Energy Transition Initiative

ClimateWorks Foundation

1d • Remote

About The Position

ClimateWorks Foundation’s (CWF) Global Energy Transition Initiative (GETI) supports efforts to rapidly transform the global power sector toward clean energy, beginning with 15 emerging economies across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. These are countries where power demand is projected to rapidly grow, and there is huge potential for solar, wind, and other renewable energy deployment in this decade. The benefits of a transition to clean energy go far beyond reducing greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating climate change. It creates jobs, builds local manufacturing value chains, improves infrastructure, protects public health by keeping pollutants out of the air, and provides affordable and accessible power. By shifting to clean energy, developing nations can secure a resilient and thriving future.
The Global Energy Transition Initiative has developed a global initiative to support the solar industry associations for unifying missions and voices, providing policy and regulatory inputs, shaping public communication and narratives, coordinating knowledge and standard leadership, and ensuring financial sustainability and business models.

Department Summary - Programs
The Programs department leads ClimateWorks’ strategies and grantmaking to advance climate solutions around the world. The team works alongside funders, regional grantmakers, field experts, and frontline leaders to design, implement, and steward high-impact grantmaking portfolios across sectors. Focus areas include renewable energy, industrial decarbonization, electric transport, sustainable finance, adaptation and resilience, and more. Grounded in data, local context, and field expertise, program teams identify emerging opportunities, scale solutions, and equip partners with the evidence and capacity needed to drive transformative climate progress. Through strategic grantmaking and trusted relationships, the Programs department supports ClimateWorks’ efforts to catalyze durable, scalable change.

Requirements

• 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 between the public and private sectors for clean energy would be an advantage
• Highly experienced in strategic planning, project oversight, and budget management, ideally within complex, multi-stakeholder or international environments.
• Relationship-oriented and solutions-focused, with a strong service mindset and ability to partner effectively with internal teams, grantees, and external stakeholders.
• Familiarity with philanthropic, nonprofit, coalition, advocacy, or legislative communities preferred.
• Self-directed and thoughtful, with sound professional judgment and the ability to balance strategic vision with operational execution.
• Able to work efficiently and effectively (both virtually and in person) with minimal supervision.
• Experience working in a global matrixed team
• Ability to communicate the success stories and impact of the work
• Commitment to the mission and values of ClimateWorks Foundation

Responsibilities

• Global coordination for solar and storage associations support
• Lead and coordinate complex, multi-stakeholder workstreams, ensuring strong relationship management, strategic quality, timely information sharing, and smooth end-to-end program execution.
• Maintain and continuously refine the Solar and Storage Industry Association Strategy, ensuring it remains responsive to evolving global and regional market, policy, and industry dynamics, in line with partner activities and learnings.
• Support GETI Program Leads in advancing the Solar Industry Association Initiative, ensuring deliverables are high quality and outputs, and outcomes remain closely aligned with the overall strategy.
• Provide strategic direction on which regional and global convenings to prioritize, working across teams and stakeholders to ensure participation is purposeful, well-coordinated, and aligned with broader solar agenda goals.
• Serve as the primary coordination point for solar associations, the Executive Taskforce organizational development team, communications teams, and the GETI program team, ensuring seamless execution of all initiative-related activities.
• Play significant role in funder engagement and communications.
• Coordinate with internal and external partners for organizing funder briefings.
• Lead preparation of agendas, briefing materials, and top-line messages.
• Collect and synthesize updates from grantees through regional leads.
• Draft funder-specific or general written reports.
• Support, lead, or monitor global, regional, and national solar convenings in coordination with external partners and communications experts.
• Design, develop and/or support strategic communications activities in collaboration with communications partners and coalition partners.
• Develop policy-maker-friendly briefings and written materials.
• Develop and maintain Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for solar industry associations using agreed criteria
• Maintain a high-quality database of learnings to create a repository of materials accessible to all stakeholders
• Facilitate learning sessions with grantees to capture successes and lessons learned
• Lead preparation of bi-annual monitoring and learning reports for stakeholders

Benefits

• International salary range to be determined based on the location and local cost of labor.
• Compensation is intentionally structured to be above leading local market averages and appropriate to the regional cost of labor.
• Staff are expected to attend an in-town week in San Francisco, an all-staff retreat, and a department retreat annually.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed