ClimateWorks Foundation

Communications

• Serve as the brand communications lead for Drive Electric, building a deep relationship with the team and shaping their communications efforts, ensuring alignment with ClimateWorks organizational goals and workflows.
• Develop and lead an integrated marketing and communications strategy for the Drive Electric Campaign, including announcements, initiative and publication launches, and brand positioning for public audiences and stakeholder communications.
• Oversee and champion clear, consistent brand messaging that articulates Drive Electric’s goals, strategy, structure, and impact, translating technical information into a compelling and accessible voice.
• Cultivate and lead impact storytelling across communications channels, working with grantees, peer organizations, and internal colleagues to bring the Drive Electric Campaign story to life for a range of audiences and formats — from earned media to owned media content, including the campaign website, social media, board presentations and progress reports.
• Lead in strategizing and supporting thought leadership for Drive Electric staff, including events and speaking engagements, social media, media interviews, and other opportunities.
• Proactively identify and flag reputational and narrative risks, advising the Drive Electric team on sensitive communications decisions and ensuring appropriate review before launches or implementation.
• Project manage deliverables for all communications engagements and products outlined in the communications plans, including storytelling content, email, reports, announcements, and initiative launches to engage target audiences.
• Manage and work closely with external contractors, including writers, graphic designers, web developers, and other communications specialists
• Collaborate with colleagues across Marketing & Communications — including on media strategy, event strategy and execution, and donor communications — as well as the Partnerships team and external partners, to coordinate efforts and amplify messaging.
• Develop and strengthen tools, processes, and workflows to manage communications planning and execution across teams, including consistent use of project management systems like Asana to maintain visibility, accountability, and planning discipline.
• Evaluate engagement metrics across digital platforms, campaigns, and media to refine strategies and maximize impact.

Communications Manager, Drive Electric Campaign

Program Manager

• Lead project management of the Solar Industry Association Initiative workplan, ensuring strong coordination and alignment with partner workplans across regions.
• Support overall project management responsibilities in grant processing, compliance, and grantee engagement.
• Oversee effective and timely delivery of project outputs, proactively identifying risks and implementing mitigation measures to maintain momentum.
• Maintain and regularly update project timelines and global event calendars, and provide strategic recommendations on high-impact and priority activities to the Global Head of GETI and the Associate Director for the Solar Industry Association.
• Support the Global GETI Lead, Project Management Unit and Associate Director (Solar Industry Associations) in organizing briefings and events (lead the planning and execution).
• Monitor and coordinate with grantees against agreed workplans, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality outputs.
• Collect, consolidate, and synthesize updates from grantees through regional leads to maintain a clear view of portfolio progress.
• Lead regular coordination meetings with industry association grantees, with particular focus on technical workstreams and implementation milestones.
• Provide weekly portfolio updates to the core project team and key funders, highlighting progress, risks, and required actions.
• Deliver structured reporting using agreed templates, ensuring consistency, clarity, and responsiveness to stakeholder requests.
• Provide a full range of project management support to technical expert teams from partner organizations
• Ensure the technical expert team’s support to Africa, Asia, and Latin America is structured, monitored, and delivered on time and to a high degree of quality
• Support capacity assessment and capacity building convenings across different continents
• Lead in grant processing for solar industry associations and other programmatic grants
• Support regional leads in engaging national and regional solar industry associations
• Support the grantees in strengthening institutional capacity, including member surveys, human resource plans, and reviewing the national plans according to the funding proposals.
• Facilitate coordination between grantees and technical/communications experts on regional and national policy recommendations.

Program Manager, Global Energy Transition Initiative

Financial Planning and Analysis

• The Finance Associate will report to the Associate Director of Finance.
• The Finance Associate is a key member of the Finance & Grants team within the larger Finance & Facilities Department at ClimateWorks.
• Reviewing grantee financial documents (including financial statements and organizational budgets) to ensure that grantees are financially healthy, flagging any concerns to the Senior Director, Finance.
• Verifying completeness of grantee financial reporting and coordinating with grantees and the Grants Team on incomplete reports.
• Contributing to an effective grantmaking forecast and monitoring spenddown on ending funding sources.
• Assisting with quarterly collection and analysis of time estimates.
• Working with the team to ensure accuracy of information in ClimateWorks’ budget and reporting system, Adaptive.
• Aiding in the development and improvement of team systems, including Adaptive and the new Grants Management System, and team processes.
• Providing ad-hoc financial analysis, as needed.
• Contributing to the work and priorities of the Finance & Grants Team, as needed.

Finance Associate

• Processing and entering data related to grants, contracts, gifts and organizational records using shared resources such as Fluxx, Google Drive, and Salesforce.
• Reviewing supporting documents (including budgets and financial statements on grant submissions) to ensure compliance guidelines are met, sometimes working directly with grantees and contractors to resolve issues.
• Maintaining metrics for grants and contracts processing.
• Coordinating on grantee update reports — sending report reminders, reviewing and compiling reports, and tracking submission metrics.
• Contributing to annual grantmaking forecasts across multiple programs on a monthly basis.
• Providing other grants- and contracts-related assistance as needed.
• Acting as first point of contact to frequent internal inquiries regarding grant and contract processing, awards, and amendments, and as a frequent point of contact with grantees and contractors to support grantmaking.

Finance Lead – Compliance, Grants & Contracts

• Overseeing all aspects of the A&R Fund, which includes direct grantmaking, any future requests for proposals, Advisory Committee, fund governance, and development of new strategic windows of the fund.
• Managing timelines, processes, and tasks for the A&R Fund
• Conducting annual reporting to funders
• Ensuring grants are efficiently processed
• Coordinating with team members on activities and deadlines
• Maintaining regular communications with grantees
• Developing and tracking contracts and agreements
• Preparing internal and external communications relevant to the work
• Liaising closely with internal colleagues and external partners when needed
• Leading cross-functional projects with medium to high resource requirements
• Developing standards, tools, knowledge requirements for the A&R program

Communications Manager, Drive Electric Campaign

Program Manager, Global Energy Transition Initiative

Finance Associate

Finance Lead – Compliance, Grants & Contracts

Program Manager – Adaptation and Resilience