C40 Cities

Senior Manager, Inclusive Climate Action

C40 Cities

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Kenya

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Salary

💰 KES 6,302,899 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Support cities in the African Region (and potentially cities in South East Asia TBD) in their implementation of key priority adaptation actions from their CAPS, e.g. by helping them to identify and establish critical partnerships for delivery and opportunities to embed equity and inclusivity in policies and city-led programmes.
  • Support the design and delivery of tailored technical assistance projects that advance equitable, inclusive, and high-impact adaptation interventions prioritised in city CAPs.
  • Collaborate with C40 teams and consultants to mainstream adaptation across financial strategies, private sector, civil-society engagement, and climate governance frameworks in cities.
  • Provide technical support to cities in the African Region on climate risk assessments, vulnerability analyses, and adaptation planning, ensuring these outputs are used to inform evidence-based adaptation actions with a strong socio-economic component.
  • Contribute to capacity building through workshops, training, and knowledge exchange to strengthen city officials’ skills in climate adaptation, equity integration, and finance mobilisation.
  • Elicit learnings and best practice examples from activities and processes and provide input to ensure that this knowledge is exchanged and shared across all cities in the Resilient Urban Futures programme as well as shared across other relevant platforms for cross learning.
  • Engage with and support the overall Inclusive Climate Action Programme to help cities address wider climate-related equity challenges, notably by providing specific technical expertise, peer learning, and knowledge sharing to C40 teams and other cities in the region as needed.
  • Act as the lead and policy expert, serving as the main point of contact for City Resilient Advisors and programme staff on deliverable strategies and knowledge sources across key climate and inclusion issues (ie. just, transition, gender equity, informality, loss and damages, green jobs, disability and more).

Requirements

  • Proven experience and engagement of working with or for municipal administrations in Africa on programmes or projects, especially relating to climate action plans or climate adaptation policies.
  • Demonstrated understanding of the challenges and opportunities associated with working with senior city officials and city leaders.
  • Ability to convene and influence diverse stakeholders, including city leaders, community organisations, and private sector actors.
  • Relevant qualifications or equivalent professional experience in climate change adaptation, resilience planning, disaster risk reduction, urban resilience, development, community engagement, gender equity or related fields.
  • Demonstrated experience in translating technical climate data into policy or investment decisions, e.g. through risk assessments, vulnerability assessments, infrastructure resilience, nature-based solutions, adaptation finance, and resource mobilisation will be a key consideration in this role.
  • Strong project management skills with excellent organisational abilities and proven capacity to meet deadlines.
  • Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and effectively with major global partners, including NGOs, corporate sectors, funders, and multilateral development banks.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience facilitating workshops, webinars, and virtual or in-person meetings.
  • Strong problem-solving, strategic thinking, and analytical skills, exceptional attention to detail.
  • Proactive self-starter, able to work independently as well as part of a team.
  • Experience or interest in working across diverse cultures, languages, and time zones.
  • Fluency in English and the local language required.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
climate change adaptationresilience planningdisaster risk reductionvulnerability assessmentsrisk assessmentsinfrastructure resiliencenature-based solutionsadaptation financeresource mobilisationequity integration
Soft skills
project managementorganisational abilitiescollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingstrategic thinkinganalytical skillsattention to detailinfluencing stakeholderscapacity building