Program Manager, Global Energy Transition Initiative
ClimateWorks Foundation
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United Kingdom
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About the role
- 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.
Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- 7 years of work experience in project management and the solar sector
- Strong attention to detail and deadline management skills
- Experience in complex project management and developing/ maintaining a precise work plan
- Experience in grant management and grant processing
- Experience in event organizing (1-3 hour events)
- Experience communicating directly with funders and developing concise reporting
- Working with consultants for capacity building, strategic communications
- Ability to juggle numerous competing demands and priorities, respond quickly to management requests
- Experience working in a global matrixed team
- Commitment to the mission and values of ClimateWorks Foundation
- Experience in working with solar industry associations
- Experience in grant management tools such as Salesforce
- Data interpretation and analysis
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
attention to detaildeadline managementcommunicationorganizational skillsstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingteam collaborationadaptabilitystakeholder engagementleadership