Community Manager, Climate Resilience

About the Opportunity

The Role

As the convening arm of the Clinton Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) brings together leaders from the public sector, private sector, and civil society to drive action and create partnerships to improve lives. To do this, CGI hosts both large-scale conferences (500-1,500+ attendees) and targeted events to spotlight and bring together the people, issues and solutions making a difference in communities around the world. Separating CGI from other conveners, year-round, CGI supports partners in our community to develop Commitments to Action – new, specific and measurable projects that help address a specific challenge.

Building on track record of pioneering and implementing innovative public health solutions, the Clinton Foundation is looking to bring on a new Community Manager, Climate Resilience at CGI. This role is charged with developing and supporting a network of domestic and international organizations committed to tackling the climate crisis, promoting renewable energy, and implementing community-specific programs that advance resilience around the world.

The Community Manager, Climate Resilience will support the development and maintenance of a portfolio of Commitments to Action to address specific climate resilience challenges both in the US and globally. As CGI continues to expand its work in the Climate Resilience space, the Community Manager will be charged with identifying, recruiting and forging partnerships between and among a wide-range of organizations committed to advancing climate resilience, including domestic and international businesses, philanthropic institutions, government agencies, and community-based organizations.

Successful candidates for this role will have a strong background in environmental sustainability, renewable energy, or climate, will have a global perspective, a large professional network, and be excited to engage on challenges facing a diverse set of constituencies in the US and around the world. Candidates will have strong relationship management experience and an intuition for bringing different people together to forge partnerships.

Core Responsibilities

In this role you will work on:

Support the development and growth of a diverse community of organizations focused on advancing climate resilience efforts and tackling the climate crisis, and support them in developing Commitments to Action:

• Lead the development of a portfolio of Commitments to Action focused on specific climate resilience and environmental sustainability challenges/solutions.
• Proactively recruit organizations to join the CGI network, attend CGI events. Examples of target organizations include Fortune 500 companies, large philanthropic institutions, community-based organizations, innovators, and other organizations with a stake in advancing climate resilience efforts and tackling the climate crisis.
• Help lead research and stakeholder mapping
• Build and manage pipeline of target organizations to recruit.
• Partner with the CGI leadership and broader CF colleagues to turn project and investment ideas into specific project plans, providing partner recommendations, sharing best practices, and driving network resources to yield tangible outcomes.
• Forge new partnerships across the CGI community to create new Commitments to Action and unlock new resources for the network.
• Identify and advise CGI/CF on emerging trends in the climate resilience, renewable energy and environmental sustainability spaces that could be applicable for commitments to action and/or programming for CGI convenings.

Develop programming to support the creation of Commitments to Action and to facilitate recruitment to the CGI network.

• On an as-needed basis, lead and/or support the development of public or private events/panel discussions to advance the development of Commitments to Action. Examples of programming couple include:
• Developing private roundtable discussions on specific topics to drive issue awareness and identify partnership opportunities
• Creating public-facing panels and discussions at CGI or partner events to elevate issues and partners and create the platform for announcing new Commitments to Action.
• Attend conferences and other networking functions to recruit organizations to the CGI network.

Lead and maintain external relationships with key CGI partners and other stakeholders:

• Provide relationship management and service to key network stakeholders, proactively engaging in CGI events, brokering partner connections, and providing additional support to their work on an as needed basis.
• When appropriate, partner with the Clinton Foundation development team to support sponsorship proposals or other development asks to help sustain the work of CGI.

Minimum Qualifications

What we’re looking for:

• Bachelor’s Degree required, Master’s Degree with a focus on climate, renewable energy or sustainable development preferred
• 5+ years of progressive experience in the environmental sustainability/ climate resilience/renewable energy space, with a record of developing partnerships, and a preference for some international experience.
• Significant experience in the environmental sustainability/ climate resilience space/ renewable energy.
• Experience in developing cross-sectional partnerships and multi-stakeholder engagement strategies.
• Self-starter with the ability to develop to ideate, design and implement complex projects in various geographies.
• Deep knowledge of international development/social impact landscape, with particular insight into key players and trends.
• Experience in fundraising or sponsorship cultivation and/or creating investment plans and models a plus.
• Strong relationship management, communication, and project management skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook required, database experience preferred.
• Strong public speaker with an ability to lead large meetings and represent the Clinton Foundation in front of various stakeholders.
• Must have excellent interpersonal skills, be able to communicate positively with multiple departments and external partners, developing a strong rapport with all levels of staff and demonstrate diplomacy and tact even when under pressure. ·
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally, and work on multiple time zones, as necessary.

About the Clinton Foundation

Building on a lifetime of public service, President Clinton established the Clinton Foundation on the simple belief that everyone deserves a chance to succeed, everyone has a responsibility to act, and we all do better when we work together. For nearly two decades, that premise has energized the work of the Foundation in overcoming complex challenges and improving the lives of people across the United States and around the world.

As an operating foundation, we work on issues directly or with strategic partners from the business, government, and nonprofit sectors to create economic opportunity, improve public health, and inspire civic engagement and service. Our programs are designed to make a real difference today while serving as proven models for tomorrow. The goal of every effort is to use available resources to get better results faster – at the lowest possible cost.

We firmly believe that when diverse groups of people bring resources together in the spirit of true cooperation, transformative ideas will emerge to drive life-changing action.

The Clinton Foundation is committed to public health and to the safety and wellbeing of our colleagues, visitors, and volunteers. As such, we have adopted a policy requiring all employees whose positions require them to be on site to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or to meet the legal guidelines for an exemption.

Learn more at http://www.clintonfoundation.org, on Facebook at Facebook.com/ClintonFoundation and on Twitter @ClintonFdn.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The Clinton Foundation maintains a strong policy of equal opportunity in employment. It is our objective to recruit, hire, and retain the most qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic or status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Our equal employment philosophy applies to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, compensation, benefits, training, promotions, transfers, job benefits, and terminations.