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Location: Brussels, Madrid, Rome, Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, London, or Amsterdam
Location type: Hybrid in one of the above cities
Reporting to: Executive Director
Manages: A team of 3 policy directors
Annual salary: €110K EUR, depending on experience
Contract type: Full-time, permanent
Candidate level: Director
Background
Europe’s leading advocates for clean transport and environment, are looking for an exceptional leader to join our team as Senior Director (SD) in charge of aviation, shipping and energy. Transport & Environment or T&E is an independent, non-partisan think tank and NGO working to decarbonise transport. Our vision is a zero-emission mobility system that is affordable and has minimal impacts on our health, climate and the environment. Through our advocacy activities, based on authoritative analyses and coalitions with business, we have shaped some of Europe's, and the world's, most important clean mobility laws.
This unique opportunity comes at a time when the organisation is looking to expand outside of Europe and where decarbonizing the shipping, aviation and energy sectors has never been more urgent. The SD will be responsible for the overarching shipping, aviation and energy program strategy, with a special focus on energy. Depending on the candidate, the Senior Director would also supervise T&E’s (smaller) rail and climate teams.
Purpose of role
Reporting to the Executive Director, the Senior Director will lead a team of policy directors and issue leads, be a member of T&E’s Senior Management Team (SMT), therefore co-determine the organisation’s strategy, and work with T&E’s national offices and members to deliver our strategy.
Primary responsibilities
Strategy Development:
The Senior Director will be responsible for the overarching shipping, aviation and energy program strategy, with a special focus on energy as this is key to decarbonising aviation and shipping. They will collaborate with T&E’s senior management team, programme teams and others to facilitate and drive effective, sophisticated and organisationally owned strategies. The Senior Director will be responsible for expanding and further advancing T&Es energy strategy, an area expected to grow in the coming years, with clear links to aviation and shipping fuels. They will also ensure that the team of Directors and the organisation deliver to that strategy. The Senior Director will understand the advocacy strategy, the importance of solid evidence and analysis to drive change and ensures that strategy is informed by external reality and is in line with T&Es overall ambition as well as the short term programme goals.
Leadership:
The Senior Director will support T&E Executive Director in in partnership with the other members of T&E’s Senior Management Team (SMT) to ensure a highly capable management structure and environment with excellent functional qualities, an enabling and positive culture, and effective people to ensure the continuity and quality of T&E’s performance. The Senior Directior should lead by example both in their knowledge and experience but also in how they work with others.
Management:
Programme responsibility: The Senior Director will lead and directly manage a core team made up of 3 policy directors, and potentially two additional policy leads. They will create an integrated team culture that is focused, dynamic and works well together. Additionally, they will be responsible for identifying and leading strategic discussions and decisions among T&E management to achieve a high level of shared analysis, strategic alignment and orientation, and to nurture working relationships to benefit each part of the organisation.
Integrated Management:
The Senior Director will have a collaborative working relationship with the National Offices, E-mobility, Analytical and Operations Directors that helps ensure strong integration across these functions for the overarching success of T&E’s programmes.
Representation and stakeholder management:
The Senior Director will represent T&E as a senior leader, both internally and externally. They will speak on behalf of T&E, representing the organisation with governments, other NGOs, funders, the media and representatives of civil society.
Finances:
The Senior Director will support the Executive Director and Operations Director to ensure the strategic and prudent management of T&E’s resources to ensure T&E’s grants are allocated effectively. They will also responsible for ensuring the cluster is adequately financed and is proactive and efficient in their fundraising efforts. They will ensure effective management and transparent and timely reporting of the budget and grants.
Experience
- At least ten years leadership experience, whereof minimum 5 years should be in a senior leadership position, preferably in an international nonprofit environment.
- Deep technical knowledge of electricity, hydrogen and liquid fuels.
- Kind, humble and generous, willing to both give and receive feedback and committed to a work culture based on proficiency, accountability and collaboration.
- Knowledge of the European Union legislative processes
- An intimate and experienced understanding of advocacy strategy and policy implementation and advanced policy leadership experience.
- Strong leadership and team building skills and experience of leading and building high performance teams. Knows when to lead and when to follow.
- Excellent communicator that can communicate complexity simply; tell stories, both written and verbal.
- Good analytical skills. Ability to understand complex models, data and systems, and to direct analytical work.
- Strategic thinking and an ability to translate strategy into organisational output.
- Negotiation, problem solving and networking skills.
- Financial control, fundraising and management experience.
- Have a great commitment to T&E’s mission and in particular to decarbonising the aviation and shipping sectors.
- Willing to travel nationally and internationally.
Terms and conditions
T&E offers a competitive salary in line with the candidate's experience and professionalism, extensive benefits and considerable flexibility. But above all, if you join T&E, you will have the opportunity to dedicate your energy and creativity to solving one of humanity's greatest challenges: combating climate change and defending the environment.
Please contact Ruth Gardner at ruth@darylupsall.com for any queries you may have.
The deadline for application is Sunday 15th December 2024
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