Associate Director, Global Energy Transition Initiative

ClimateWorks Foundation

Associate Director coordinating complex solar industry initiatives and engaging stakeholders globally within ClimateWorks Foundation.

Posted 5/16/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and coordinate complex, multi-stakeholder workstreams, ensuring strong relationship management, strategic quality, timely information sharing, and smooth end-to-end program execution.
Maintain and continuously refine the Solar and Storage Industry Association Strategy, ensuring it remains responsive to evolving global and regional market, policy, and industry dynamics, in line with partner activities and learnings.
Support GETI Program Leads in advancing the Solar Industry Association Initiative, ensuring deliverables are high quality and outputs, and outcomes remain closely aligned with the overall strategy.
Provide strategic direction on which regional and global convenings to prioritize, working across teams and stakeholders to ensure participation is purposeful, well-coordinated, and aligned with broader solar agenda goals.
Serve as the primary coordination point for solar associations, the Executive Taskforce organizational development team, communications teams, and the GETI program team, ensuring seamless execution of all initiative-related activities.
Play significant role in funder engagement and communications.
Coordinate with internal and external partners for organizing funder briefings.
Lead preparation of agendas, briefing materials, and top-line messages.
Collect and synthesize updates from grantees through regional leads.
Draft funder-specific or general written reports.
Support, lead, or monitor global, regional, and national solar convenings in coordination with external partners and communications experts.
Design, develop and/or support strategic communications activities in collaboration with communications partners and coalition partners.
Develop policy-maker-friendly briefings and written materials.
Develop and maintain Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for solar industry associations using agreed criteria.
Maintain a high-quality database of learnings to create a repository of materials accessible to all stakeholders.
Facilitate learning sessions with grantees to capture successes and lessons learned.
Lead preparation of bi-annual monitoring and learning reports for stakeholders.

Requirements

What you’ll need

At least 12 years of relevant professional experience, including 7+ years in a managerial or leadership role.
Experience working with trade associations and/or at the intersection between the public and private sectors for clean energy would be an advantage
Highly experienced in strategic planning, project oversight, and budget management, ideally within complex, multi-stakeholder or international environments.
Relationship-oriented and solutions-focused, with a strong service mindset and ability to partner effectively with internal teams, grantees, and external stakeholders.
Familiarity with philanthropic, nonprofit, coalition, advocacy, or legislative communities preferred.
Self-directed and thoughtful, with sound professional judgment and the ability to balance strategic vision with operational execution.
Able to work efficiently and effectively (both virtually and in person) with minimal supervision.
Experience working in a global matrixed team
Ability to communicate the success stories and impact of the work
Commitment to the mission and values of ClimateWorks Foundation.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Non-profit ClimateWorks Foundation is a global platform dedicated to accelerating climate solutions through philanthropy. With a mission to end the climate crisis, it amplifies the impact of philanthropy by collaborating with grantmakers and implementing partners worldwide. ClimateWorks supports climate solutions across a variety of sectors including transportation, food and agriculture, forests, and sustainable finance. Since 2008, it has granted over $1. 8 billion to more than 850 organizations in over 50 countries. The foundation seeks to bend the emissions curve and advance a thriving planet for all living beings. Associate Director, Global Energy Transition Initiative Job not on LinkedIn 🔥 6 hours ago 🇺🇸 United States – Remote ⏰ Full Time 🟠 Senior 👔 Director 🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor Apply Now Find Hiring Managers Customize resume + cover letter Report problem ☆ Save ☑️ Mark as applied ❌ Hide 📋 Description
Lead and coordinate complex, multi-stakeholder workstreams, ensuring strong relationship management, strategic quality, timely information sharing, and smooth end-to-end program execution.
Maintain and continuously refine the Solar and Storage Industry Association Strategy, ensuring it remains responsive to evolving global and regional market, policy, and industry dynamics, in line with partner activities and learnings.
Support GETI Program Leads in advancing the Solar Industry Association Initiative, ensuring deliverables are high quality and outputs, and outcomes remain closely aligned with the overall strategy.
Provide strategic direction on which regional and global convenings to prioritize, working across teams and stakeholders to ensure participation is purposeful, well-coordinated, and aligned with broader solar agenda goals.
Serve as the primary coordination point for solar associations, the Executive Taskforce organizational development team, communications teams, and the GETI program team, ensuring seamless execution of all initiative-related activities.
Play significant role in funder engagement and communications.
Coordinate with internal and external partners for organizing funder briefings.
Lead preparation of agendas, briefing materials, and top-line messages.
Collect and synthesize updates from grantees through regional leads.
Draft funder-specific or general written reports.
Support, lead, or monitor global, regional, and national solar convenings in coordination with external partners and communications experts.
Design, develop and/or support strategic communications activities in collaboration with communications partners and coalition partners.
Develop policy-maker-friendly briefings and written materials.
Develop and maintain Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for solar industry associations using agreed criteria.
Maintain a high-quality database of learnings to create a repository of materials accessible to all stakeholders.
Facilitate learning sessions with grantees to capture successes and lessons learned.
Lead preparation of bi-annual monitoring and learning reports for stakeholders. 🎯 Requirements
At least 12 years of relevant professional experience, including 7+ years in a managerial or leadership role.
Experience working with trade associations and/or at the intersection between the public and private sectors for clean energy would be an advantage
Highly experienced in strategic planning, project oversight, and budget management, ideally within complex, multi-stakeholder or international environments.
Relationship-oriented and solutions-focused, with a strong service mindset and ability to partner effectively with internal teams, grantees, and external stakeholders.
Familiarity with philanthropic, nonprofit, coalition, advocacy, or legislative communities preferred.
Self-directed and thoughtful, with sound professional judgment and the ability to balance strategic vision with operational execution.
Able to work efficiently and effectively (both virtually and in person) with minimal supervision.
Experience working in a global matrixed team
Ability to communicate the success stories and impact of the work
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Hard Skills & Tools

strategic planningproject oversightbudget managementKey Performance Indicators (KPIs)report writingdata synthesisprogram executionrelationship managementcommunications strategyfunder engagement

Soft Skills

relationship-orientedsolutions-focusedservice mindsetself-directedprofessional judgmentstrategic visionoperational executioneffective communicationcollaborationleadership