Regional Director, Southeast Asia and Oceania

Position Title:  Regional Director, Southeast Asia and Oceania

Location: C40 City in the Region

(Bangkok, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Jakarta, Melbourne, Singapore, Sydney)   

Salary: Competitive with NGO sector pay scales

Background

Created by cities for cities, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) advances the climate action agendas of the world’s megacities in order to achieve meaningful reductions of greenhouse gas emissions and climate risks. The C40 consists of 63 engaged cities globally that are committed to replicable and sustainable climate-related policies locally, which address climate change globally.

Our international staff works with the C40 network under the leadership of city governments to deliver this mission. Using a data-driven approach, our team identifies and promotes exchange of proven programs 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.  As an organization, C40 is committed to furthering research related to climate change and cities, and providing a platform for cities to communicate achievements and collective leadership while advancing a unified agenda.

The current chair of the C40 is New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who – with the support of the C40 Executive Team -- guides the work of the C40, along with the members of the C40 Steering Committee. Current Steering Committee members are: Berlin, Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Johannesburg, London, New York City, Seoul and Tokyo. C40 was established in 2005 and expanded via a partnership in 2006 with President William J. Clinton’s Climate Initiative (CCI). 

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 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 

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 must maintain a basic understanding of each of the C40 initiative and network focus areas, including a general knowledge of applicable policy and technical solutions.  

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 in the region with focus on policy development, project management or community organization, including inter-organizational cooperation, strategy and negotiation.
• Significant experience working with or within municipal government, with senior officials and environmental teams and projects required, 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). 

Reporting Structure:

This key organizational position is a critical element in the C40 management structure. RDs work closely together to share learnings from their regions among themselves and throughout the organization, and work collaboratively to ensure the C40 network operates in a cohesive and strategic manner.

The position reports to the Director of Regions and Initiatives who sits on the C40 Executive Team and reports directly to the Executive Director.

Interested applicants should submit curriculum vitae and cover letter to careers@c40.org.

For more information on the C40, please visit www.C40.org and follow us on Twitter @C40cities.