Clean Air Task Force

Manager

• Manage a portfolio of relationships with private charitable foundations and other institutional donors, with the goal of ultimately expanding CATF’s partnerships with long-term funders and deepening relationships.
• Craft impactful proposals, letters of inquiry, concept notes, and reports, as directed by the Director, Institutional Giving and in close collaboration with program staff and other team members.
• Curate, track, and refine program- and project-specific funding pipelines.
• Identify and build relationships with new funders for CATF’s work which ultimately culminate in new revenues.
• Collaborate with program staff and Financial Planning and Analysis team to shape proposal budgets in line with funders’ priorities and CATF’s interests.
• Support teams to track spending against budgets, modify spend plans, and maximize revenues’ impacts.
• Develop and execute bespoke stewardship plans for donors in assigned portfolio.
• Partner with program staff and leadership to engage in program development, to meet funders’ interests and develop persuasive proposals aligned with their priorities.
• Harness internal subject matter experts to shape and inform institutional donors’ philanthropic priorities.
• Secure, staff, and lead meetings with funders for key leadership and program staff and staff those meetings as necessary; travel to meetings as necessary.
• Support team management and staff mentorship.
• Appropriately manage internal and external relationships around grant outcomes and results to meet or exceed funder expectations.
• Partner with program teams to track progress and proactively identify any potential obstacles to delivery.

Senior Manager, Institutional Giving

• The role of the Manager, Coal Mine Methane (CMM Manager) is to lead engagements with government entities and other key stakeholders, such as allied NGO, industry, and academia, in the development of coal mine methane (CMM) mitigation plans and policies that promote emissions reductions in the coal sector, globally.
• Conduct technical analysis, plan and execute capacity strengthen workshops and outreach campaigns, and cultivate opportunities for CMM abatement in priority countries, in partnership with the Director of Coal Mine Methane and others within CATF’S Methane Pollution Prevention (MPP) team.
• Possess and gain deeper familiarity with technical, economic, market, and policy issues related to CMM and its mitigation.
• Collaborate with MPP technical staff, consultants, and other key stakeholders to develop new or updated CMM Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) protocols and coal sector policies.
• Identify opportunities, priorities, and methodologies to answer policy-relevant, CMM-related questions through research and analysis based on stakeholder needs.
• Draft and present regulatory comments to stakeholders as part of the policy assessment process, and support regulators in the implementation of mitigation policies.
• Assess the policy and political efficacy of existing or new policy proposals developed externally to CATF.
• Develop and execute strategies on education and outreach on the importance of CMM emissions reductions, relevant policy concepts and advocacy to achieve policy outcomes.
• Manage and execute capacity building activities such as webinars, trainings, roundtables and workshops on CMM for relevant stakeholders (both internally and externally), including regulators, private sector actors, and civil society organizations.
• Directly undertake, support and analyze work related to CMM policies and their implementation requirements, and communicate results of analyses to key stakeholders.
• Effectively communicate CMM science and technology developments to key decisionmakers, including via blog posts, technical and/or policy reports, white papers, and fact sheets.
• Synthesize technical documents, datasets, and discussions into various forms of communications, including presentations, briefs, and talking points.
• Manage direct communications and relationships with public officials, as well as leveraging networks of relevant stakeholders from civil society/NGOs, private sector, academia, and other experts.
• Write and contribute to blog posts, technical and/or policy reports, white papers, fact sheets, and other forms of content.
• Build strong partnerships and engagements with governments in key countries to support CMM mitigation policies and MRV systems.
• Collaborate with other international coalitions and civil society organizations to support CMM mitigation efforts in key countries (e.g. UNECE, CCAC, UNEP IMEO, etc.).
• Represent CATF in public forums such as meetings, conferences, workshops and webinars.
• Work closely with the Director, Coal Mine Methane to support MPP’s regional methane strategies and program development, and advise on new approaches that sustain project and program delivery.
• Support budget and consultant management to deliver projects and strategic initiatives in coordination with the Program Management team.
• Manage external coal consultants and deliverables.
• Coordinate and collaborate CMM initiatives with the broader MPP team, including vis-a-vis shared stakeholders, joint projects, and strategic alignment.
• Respond and adapt to new internal CATF policies and procedures.