C40 Cities

Account Manager

• Support the design of C40’s overarching fundraising strategy, both in the short term and long term.
• Oversee the delivery of the strategy across the organisation with the Director of the Executive Office.
• Oversee the annual and monthly work plan of the fundraising team, ensuring clarity of deliverables, deadlines, roles and responsibilities within the team and to the rest of the organisation.
• Development of strategy and delivery plan for event sponsorships.
• Review and co-deliver the infrastructure of collaboration between the fundraising team with the Government Programmes & Partnerships team.
• Join regular programmatic calls to cultivate an in-depth knowledge of resourcing needs across the organisation and of ongoing discussions with prospective partners.
• Connecting and aligning partners internally and externally.
• Join internal Boards and working groups to help identify priorities and escalate them to ensure fundraising resources are allocated according to the needs of the organisation.
• Lead fundraising efforts on priorities approved by the Management Team within the Fundraising strategy and through strategic projects, in partnership with relevant programme teams.
• Develop and maintain strong and positive relationships with existing and prospective funders.
• Attend events locally and globally as requested to further existing or prospective relationships.
• Strengthen and maintain the C40 funder database/customer relationship management (CRM) system (Salesforce).
• Support internal communications efforts around fundraising, building a culture of philanthropy across C40 teams.
• Line Management of 1-2 team members.
• And any other duties appropriate for the grade.

Head of Strategic Partnerships

Communications

• Support, coordinate and execute communications strategies for projects spanning a number of climate action sectors, including clean energy, buildings, food, waste, urban planning, transport, climate resilience and air quality.
• Work with colleagues across Communications and CSN to align and coordinate opportunities and outputs between funder, regional and organisation-wide goals.
• Lead in the drafting, editing and creation of communications materials, including key messages, press releases, resources for target audiences, social media materials, web content, copy and graphics for creative assets.
• Support with tracking programmatic outputs and reporting.
• Ensure that programmatic messaging aligns with C40’s overall mission, voice and graphic identity.
• Support organisational fundraising efforts by developing materials and streamlining communications offerings.
• Provide creative input and participate in regular brainstorming sessions on all aspects of delivering the Communications Team’s priorities.
• Assist in the review and processing of proposals and scope of work documents, and contracts for freelancers, photographers & agencies as needed.
• Contribute to Communications Team internal workshops, brainstorming and ideation sessions Support the alignment of communications activities (including programmatic messages and outputs) within C40’s broader leadership actions and objectives.
• Attend, coordinate and provide feedback on cross-team meetings, as required, as a representative of the Communications Team.
• And any other duties appropriate for the grade.

Head of Strategic Partnerships

Manager, Programmatic Communications