Accelerating Action
The Climate Champions Team provides support to the UNFCCC High Level Climate Champions to deliver on the mandate from Parties: to drive climate action and enhance ambition by non-state actors. Working with the Marrakech Partnership and other partners, we mobilise businesses, investors, cities, regions and civil society and act as a bridge between non-state actors and national governments to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement. At COP26, the two serving High Level Climate Champions launched a five year plan to deliver on the mandate from Parties. It sets out objectives and details of the tools employed to achieve them, across six key functions for the work of the Climate Champions Team for the period 2021 – 2025.
The global team is resourced to support the major campaigns Race to Zero, Race to Resilience, as well as sector-focused systems transformation using the Climate Action Pathways, 2030 Breakthroughs and the Sharm El Sheikh Adaptation Agenda (SAA) launched at COP 27 by the COP Presidency in collaboration of the HLCs. Alongside this, we are continuing to strengthen the accountability mechanisms of the campaigns and assess the overall state of systems transformation as we prepare to support the global stocktake.
We are now looking to fill a number of key roles in the team to maintain the momentum and further accelerate climate action leading up to COP28 and beyond.
The links below set out descriptions of the roles which are currently open. Please check back regularly for updates.
Open Roles
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Nature Programme Manager
The Nature Programme manager will play a pivotal role in the Climate Champions Nature Team. The postholder will be supporting the Nature based solutions lead in coordinating engagement both internally and with external partners, and in the delivery of High Level Champions Nature team objectives and strategies for COP28 and beyond.
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The deadline for applications is 9 June 2023, with virtual interviews taking place as soon as we have identified suitable candidates.
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Digital Communications Assistant
The Digital Communications Assistant will support the Communications Director at the Climate Champions Team (CCT), in shaping the digital channels and delivering the communications strategy in the year leading up to and at COP28.
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Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis, with virtual interviews taking place from 1 June onwards.
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Open Waste Burning Manager
The post holder will be responsible for raising awareness of the detrimental impact and prevalence of open and uncontrolled waste burning on the global climate mitigation and resilience agenda, and deliver solutions to accelerate progress in addressing the issues.
With a strong knowledge of open waste burning issues in the developing world, you will support the Open Waste Burning Lead to address the issues related to Open Waste Burning and work with partners to deliver safe, nature sensitive, methane-reducing and climate smart waste prevention and management.
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Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis, with virtual interviews taking place from 24th May onwards.
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Breakthrough Agenda Senior Analyst
The Breakthrough Agenda Senior Analyst will play a central role in the Climate Champions Team’s contribution to the annual Breakthrough Agenda report, advising countries and non-state actors on how they can work together to accelerate low carbon transitions in the global economy. They will also provide analysis and advice to support the Climate Champions Team’s work facilitating international collaboration in major-emitting sectors.
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The deadline for application is 12 May 2023, with virtual interviews taking place week commencing 22 May 2023.
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Oil & Gas Methane Reduction manager
The Oil & Gas methane reduction manager will be a key part of our Energy Systems Transformation team, to define robust breakthroughs and actions to reduce methane, focusing on the outcome and the tracking system.
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Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis starting 17 April 2023, with virtual interviews taking place as soon as we have identified suitable candidates.
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Finance Resilience Lead
Alongside mitigation, adaptation and resilience are becoming critical topics for the finance industry. The Finance Resilience Lead will play a key role in advancing the finance sector’s engagement on adaptation and resilience.
This will involve:
- increasing finance sector understanding and action on the physical impacts of climate change.
- working with expert partners and co-convenors to drive forward this key topic, building on the Sharm El Sheikh Adaptation Agenda (SAA)
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Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis s, with virtual interviews taking place as soon as we have identified suitable candidates.
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Race to Zero Associate - Finance
The Race to Zero Associate – Finance will play a key role in executing our campaigns, with a focus on the private finance sector. This includes being the point of contact for finance sector alliances that are part of Race to Zero.
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Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis s, with virtual interviews taking place as soon as we have identified suitable candidates.
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Transformation and Development Lead - Africa
As the Transformation and Development Lead for Africa, you will play a key role in:
- developing and implementing the Africa programme, in close collaboration with the Africa Director and colleagues within the Climate Champions Team both across Africa and globally.
- delivering systems breakthroughs and building robust partnerships that elevate and amplify climate action and leadership amongst non-state actors, to achieve the Paris Agreement goals as fast as possible.
- engaging with financial actors to help unlock the flow of climate finance into climate action.
Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis s, with virtual interviews taking place as soon as we have identified suitable candidates.
Core Values
Unite behind the science: we commit to make the changes scientists tell us are needed.
Build upon the incredible work to date: we will cross-fertilize and amplify the work of the many heroes who have already committed so much to addressing climate change.
Take into account different ideas and perspectives: we’re willing to be challenged and to challenge, we look for the best in people and the best, most sound and most credible ideas, wherever they come from.
Practice stubborn optimism: we recognize the scale of the problem, combined with an absolute determination to build our way out.
Seek progress not perfection: all of us can be criticized and many of those best able to advance this issue are currently the biggest causes of it. We can’t allow cynical greenwashing, but all who are serious about tackling climate change positively will be welcomed.
Be humble and generous: we keep our egos in check and work together for the good of the whole.