Global Lead, Decarbonized Energy Consumption at World Resources Institute (WRI)

What will You Do: 

Decarbonized Energy Consumption Team Leadership and Delivery (40%) 

• Ensure WRI’s Decarbonized Energy Consumption team is achieving outcomes and a positive change in the world by setting clear goals, developing robust strategies, and building a coherent and highly motivated team to achieve results
• Within this strategy, work with country leads and with research, data and strategic communications colleagues to design approaches that ensure the program delivers high-quality research and impactful communications and outreach
• Ensure the pillar has robust monitoring, evaluation, and learning approaches in place and delivers timely reports to donors
• Supervise and support pillar staff to ensure they feel inspired, challenged, and appreciated. Inspire, motivate, and problem-solve to ensure effective program management
• Align, integrate, and find synergies across existing global, country, and human system transition programs and activities, and work with country leads and the Director of Global Impact to develop a future pipeline of larger, longer-term projects to achieve the goals of the pillar and WRI’s overall Energy Program.
• Oversee robust financial management of the pillar aligned to WRI standards and ensure that project finances are managed and within budget according to donor procedures 

Fundraising (30%) 

• Develop and steward the decarbonization of demand pillar fundraising strategy, pipeline, and intelligence sharing around opportunities for funding and partnership.
• Coordinate with country managers who lead pillar activities in WRI countries to improve alignment and mutual interests in advancing globally relevant, locally resonant work areas.
• Pursue opportunities for joint bids within WRI and with external partners leading to successful 7 figure investments.
• Pursue flexible funding support to support global and country work.
• Work closely with country team members and the Director of Global Impact and the Polsky Energy Center’s Director for Research and Data to expand funding for programming, communications and data visualization.
• Collaborate with WRI's Development team to ensure strong donor relations and expand WRI’s ability to engage high net-worth individuals. 

Stakeholder and Partnership Engagement (30%) 

• Prioritize across a diverse network of relevant public and private sector actors for a few high priority global strategic partnerships on clean energy supply
• Maintain a strong personal and institutional partnership network and invest in knowledge sharing and energy community support with local and international partners.
• Collaborate closely with the communications team, the Director of Global Impact, and other pillar leads to increase awareness of actions, learnings and build acceptance of decarbonization efforts. 

What you will need: 

• A deep understanding of the energy and industrial transition issues.
• Fluent understanding of energy technology and investment issues across Asia, the US, LATAM, and Africa and the regional differences across these markets.
• Experience working across sectors, especially with large buyers concerned about the environmental performance of products and services they purchase.
• A successful track record managing large grants and keeping teams on track to deliver impacts.
• Experience leading global teams and empowering team members to achieve results.
• Demonstrated thought leadership on energy transition from a user perspective, and experience communicating complex topics to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Being adept at managing multiple opportunities with the ability to negotiate and develop complex strategic partnerships to advance the energy transition. 

Education: Completed Masters’ Degree in a related field (e.g., energy, policy, international development, climate-related subjects)

Work Experience: You have 10+ years of relevant work experience with at least 5 years of direct-line management experience