Campaigns Project Manager at C40 Cities

Position Description:

• As Project Manager, you will work closely with the Senior Campaign Manager, Green Jobs and the Head of Global Campaigns to facilitate the development and delivery of a priority campaign to support the recent commitment of C40 mayors to drive the creation of 50 million good, green jobs by 2030 that would put cities on track to deliver their 1.5 degree climate action goals. 
• We are looking for someone with proven project management skills and expertise who facilitates dynamic cross-functional working. In other words - someone who can both manage the spreadsheets and has strong people skills.
• C40’s Campaigns aim to inspire global actors, influencers, cities and residents across the world to commit, adopt and call for the socially just and science-based climate solutions, and build support for the ambitious policies and projects C40 mayors are committed to.
• You will work closely with issue experts from C40’s Inclusive Climate Action teams, C40’s regions and mayoral engagement team, communications and advocacy teams as well as freelancers and consultants to facilitate the effective delivery of C40 campaign activities. You will enable the team to hold workshops, share best practice as well as campaigning tools and resources. It is vital you are able to navigate complex discussions about staff resources, roles and responsibilities and bring clarity to who is doing what.
• Your work will contribute to ensuring C40’s campaigns deliver on the needs of cities to overcome barriers to implementing ambitious and socially just climate action, and mobilises the collective voice of mayors and their partners across unions, business and civil society to move the global agenda forward towards a fair and just world where temperatures are constrained to 1.5 degrees.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Provide project management for each priority project which: utilises most appropriate elements of available project management methodologies and facilitation tools, e.g. Agile, Prince2, Asana, Jamboards, etc.
• Use creative facilitation techniques and group exercises, in both online and offline spaces, to support cross-team collaboration, strategy and planning in support of bringing clarity to goals and activities to achieve them.
• Follows an annual business planning cycle, while keeping a long view of 12-18 months ahead, including distinct phases of strategy development and quarterly quarterly delivery phases with ongoing monitoring, evaluation, and adaptation.
• Support the development of clear staff resource plans, including  roles and responsibilities.
• Helps ensure swift, brave, and well-informed decisions, including by working with project leads to highlight risks and choices to Director of Campaigns and other senior staff.
• Encourages inclusive, integrated strategy development, planning, and execution processes, drawing on and using the expertise of different team members.
• Help ensure that project plans and impact achieved are in line with the internal and external strategic objectives set by the project lead and organisation.
• Track and report on progress of delivery and impact of activity, including contributing to dashboards and other coordination and accountability mechanisms as required.

Support the financial management of the campaign including:

• Ensuring project budget is spent most effectively to deliver the project plan
• Effectively manage procurement processes for the project. 
• Keeping a clear record of spending plans and spending.
• Liaising with the finance team to estimate costs and make sure payments are signed off.
• Support the organisation and facilitation of team and other meetings, including but not limited to regular team meetings, team away days, meetings to update or consult wider colleagues about the campaign, and meetings to involve external stakeholders in campaign development.
• Use strong person to person skills to build positive relationships with all team members and colleagues, including developing a good understanding of their skills, abilities and ways of working, in order to help ensure effective team working.
• Model strong written, verbal and listening communications skills within the team.
• Support campaign team to communicate with key internal stakeholders, including the Regions team, the Business Planning, Measurement and Innovation, Management Team, colleagues, and external stakeholders.
• Be aware of and follow C40’s policies and procedures, with particular attention to Risk Management, Diversity Inclusion & Anti-Racism (DIAR). 

Person Specification:

• Ability to successfully project manage, and report on complex projects, with substantial budgets and diverse stakeholders inside and outside an organisation.
• Proven facilitation and coaching skills in both online and offline spaces, using a range of tools and techniques that both strengthens relationships and drives results. 
• Experience of project management within a campaigning organisation or charity, with a broad understanding of the principles of campaigning and how different aspects of campaigning (such as advocacy, media work, mobilisation and policy research and formulation), work together.
• Experience of applying a range of project management techniques in planning, staff resource management, implementing, monitoring and evaluating within a fast moving environment, ensuring the project responds to changes of agenda internally and externally.
• Capability to understand legal and financial regulatory requirements, and how to ensure compliance.
• Experience of successfully navigating a high pressure, fast paced environment and supporting individuals and teams to achieve high performance. 
• Awareness of environmental issues.
• Experience working across different cultures, languages and time zones is a plus
• Fluent in English is essential; fluency in other languages is a plus