Background
C40 is a network of nearly 100 mayors of the world’s leading cities, who are working to deliver the urgent action needed right now to confront the climate crisis, and create a future where everyone, everywhere can thrive. Mayors of C40 cities are committed to using a science-based and people-focused approach to help the world limit global heating to 1.5°C and build healthy, equitable and resilient communities. Through a Global Green New Deal, mayors are working alongside a broad coalition of representatives from labour, business, the youth climate movement and civil society to go further and faster than ever before.
C40’s team of 400+ staff is based in offices in London, in New York, Johannesburg, Singapore, Delhi, Rio de Janeiro, Copenhagen, Beijing and Paris, and individual staff based across 25+ different locations.
The strategic direction of the organisation is determined by an elected Steering Committee of C40 mayors, which is chaired by Mayor Sadiq Khan of London and Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr of Freetown. Three-term Mayor of New York City Michael R. Bloomberg serves as President of the C40 Board of Directors, responsible for operational oversight. A regionally diverse management team, led by Executive Director Mark Watts, leads the day-to-day management of C40. C40’s three core strategic funders are Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and Realdania.
Our international staff work with the C40 network under the leadership of city governments to deliver this mission. Using a data-driven approach, our team identifies and promotes the exchange of proven programmes 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.
Diversity Statement
C40 is committed to supporting and promoting equity and diversity and creating an inclusive working environment for everyone. We believe that when people with different life experiences are involved in decision-making, we deliver better.
We believe having a diverse workforce ensures we connect better with all the different communities and people affected by the climate crisis. This enables us to make better decisions which lead to better outcomes in the work we do through increased creativity, productivity, greater global impact alongside a broader perspective and approach to our work.
We welcome applicants that are diverse in terms of age, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity and perspective. Our goal is for C40 to be an environment where everyone, from any background, can flourish and can be themselves whilst contributing to our mission. If you identify as a person with a disability, we work to provide reasonable appropriate measures and any additional support needed to provide an equitable working experience. If you are living with a disability, chronic illness or neurodiversity please inform us, to provide you with the proper assistance in the application process.
C40 promotes a work culture where staff can input to improve equity, diversity and inclusion through staff-led groups and formal forums. We know that creating our ideal working environment is a learning process and we are committed to the ongoing effort.
C40 Cities Finance Facility
The C40 Cities Finance Facility (CFF) is an award winning programme which was launched at the C40 Forum during COP21 in Paris in December 2015 and is currently funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), The French Development Agency (AFD) and the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). The CFF is jointly implemented by C40 and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, with delivery responsibilities divided across both organisations. The CFF was selected as a winner of the 2020 United Nations Global Action Award in the category “Financing for Climate Friendly Investment”.
The CFF facilitates access to finance for inclusive and equitable climate projects in urban areas in developing and emerging economies to develop cities’ green and just priorities into bankable investment proposals through the following:
- Finance readiness: Cities are enabled to prepare finance-ready climate action project proposals that contribute to a green and just recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. This is measured through the completion of project proposals that reflect international standards and through proposals which address equity and inclusion recommendations.
- Linking to Finance: Cities are enabled to link their projects with finance. This is measured through the presentation of completed project proposals to representatives of financing institutions and through the negotiation of contractual documents for project implementation with finance or operating partners.
- Replication and upscaling: Cities’ individual and organisational capacity needed to scale-up or replicate climate action projects has been improved. This is measured through the independent application of CFF products or standardised practices by cities in the preparation process of additional or upscaled climate action projects and through the documentation of learnings from knowledge dissemination events and workshops.
The CFF cooperates with several platforms and stakeholders to attract investment for its projects, as well as urban development networks and initiatives to make use of synergies, disseminate knowledge, and share best practices. More information on the CFF’s work can be found at www.c40cff.org .
The CFF is part of C40’s Climate Action Implementation directorate supporting cities to implement actions from their climate action plans and to ensure the effective collaboration across multiple C40 teams and monitoring its impact.
Position Description
The Regional Engagement Manager is a key part of CFF’s global team, working across different geographies to deliver on their ambitious goals. Central to this role will be to ensure successful engagement with stakeholders in Africa, contributing to the transformational impact that knowledge can have.
The Regional Engagement Manager will be responsible for building and maintaining a network of stakeholders to support the CFF’s work in the region, including financiers, NGOs, city networks and knowledge forums. This position will work in close collaboration with Senior Project Advisors, which are CFF staff delivering technical support in partner cities, the
C40 Africa Regional team and other C40 programmes and staff in the region. This position will also be responsible for contributing to the production and dissemination of the knowledge documents produced by the CFF, and for identifying opportunities for feeding into dialogues and discussions on climate finance and sustainable urban infrastructure. The Regional Engagement Manager will engage with policymakers at the local and national level and represent the CFF in events and conferences. This position will also assist the CFF team in the selection of projects that the CFF supports during possible upcoming phases.
The Regional Engagement Manager will report to the Senior Engagement Manager of the CFF but will also have close interaction with other C40 and GIZ staff based in Africa.
Responsibilities: City and Stakeholder engagement (60%)
- Contribute to the development and delivery of activities for CFF projects in Africa, jointly with each city nucleus team (CNT) and working closely with both C40 and GIZ staff to ensure effective implementation of in-city and regional activities;
- Serve as regional focal point to the CFF on the continent and represent the CFF and C40 Cities at workshops and conferences (virtual and in person) as part of knowledge dissemination and partnership activities with CFF and non CFF partner cities.
- Support C40 Cities’ Regional Directors in Mayoral engagement and political analysis/engagement with CFF projects ;
- Liaise with Regional Directors and other relevant C40 relevant staff to inform and include them in the city and project development process.
- Maintain and monitor city project progress and report internally through City Asanas and other relevant internal communication tools;
- Work closely with relevant C40 and GIZ teams to ensure coordination and synergies between CFF and other C40 programmes and teams for relevant cities and projects.
- Identify, monitor and report project delivery risks to CFF Management and other relevant stakeholders (e.g. C40 regional directors, relevant partners, etc) together with other CNT members; .
Knowledge creation , creation and dissemination (25%)
- Strategically and proactively disseminate CFF’s knowledge products within the region through regional and local events (virtual/in person).
- Support the CFF’s Head of Regional Engagement Manager, and Head of Knowledge & Partnershipsiin gathering information from CFF supported cities for the creation of knowledge strategies and products. This may include identifying opportunities, gathering information and contributing to different knowledge products.
- Support the delivery of replication and upscaling initiatives identified within each city, and lead on regionally-focussed opportunities agreed upon jointly;
- Support the monitoring, reporting and evaluation of CFF’s knowledge dissemination activities.
- Work with the Knowledge & Partnerships team to support the implementation of the CFF knowledge strategy, including in facilitating the delivery of relevant climate finance and equity & inclusion capacity building activities;
Partnership building (15%)
- Identify, build and maintain regional networks and partnerships to support CFF’s strategic goals (e.g.financiers, NGOs, other project preparation forums, knowledge forums), working in close collaboration with Senior Project Advisors and with the C40 Regional Director eETS2Ep BIpnb
- Identify and prioritise opportunities for partnership engagement for the CFF in the region, including but not limited to policy discussions at the national or regional level that deliver on the CFF objectives.
- Provide information to CFF Management on potential partnership opportunities in the region.
Other:
- Support the CFF communications team with regional communications and raise awareness of the work of the CFF within the region.
- Support CFF’s city selection process for future program phases
- Engage with other CFF and C40 relevant teams as requested
- Engage with regional partners where needed ;
- Support cross-cutting programme activities and other C40 initiatives;
Person Specification:
- You have experience and/or qualifications in one or preferably more of the following fields: infrastructure finance, project preparation, cities and urban development, climate finance and/or climate change or related fields.
- You have gained this experience either at a multilateral, a development bank, NGOs and Community based organisations, a city administration, a development organisation, the private sector or other relevant sectors.
- You embrace the flexibility and agility to operate within a partnership delivery structure, and within a complex organisational structure spanning two organisations and four continents..
- You are someone who enjoys “connecting the dots” in complex programmes. You enjoy working on cross cutting workstreams.
- You have the interpersonal skills to liaise and communicate clearly with people and partners at all levels of seniority and from different cultures and backgrounds.
- You are great at building and maintaining relationships and enjoy finding innovative ways for collaboration. You have experience in agile teams and role-based working methodologies;
- You understand that delivering a complex programme across organisations requires agility and flexibility while the need to be highly organised, and you have a positive, solutions-oriented mindset.
- Awareness of working with cities, public sectors or governments is highly desirable.
- Experience in communications and/or story telling is desirable.
- Fluency in English (written and spoken) is a must, working level knowledge of French or another relevant C40 city language is desirable.
- You have experience working in a hybrid format (virtual and in person).
Other Requirements: Applicants must already have the right to work in the location they are applying for. This position requires moderate travel if deemed safe. The Regional Engagement Manager, Africa may be asked to travel to CFF’s offices in London, Bonn and Berlin and should be willing to undertake moderate travel across Africa if needed.
Reporting To: Head of Regional Engagement, C40 Cities Finance Facility
Term: Fixed term until 31 October 2024, ( with possibility to extend if further funding is available)
Location: Ghana, Kenya, South Africa
Salary: (Grade 4) Ghana- GHS 142,345, Kenya-KHS 4,163,825, South Africa – ZAR 715,392
Application Process: Closing date for applications is Tuesday 27th February 2024 at 5pm GMT C40 reserves the right to close this job opening before the closing date for applications so please do submit applications early.
To learn more about the work of C40 and our cities, please visit www.c40.org, follow us on Twitter @c40cities and like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/C40Cities.
For any queries about the role, please contact [email protected]
C40 is an equal opportunities employer.