Director, Climate Philanthropy – Global Intelligence

1 month ago


San Francisco, United States CEA Consulting Full time

ClimateWorks Foundation (CWF) is seeking a Director, Climate Philanthropy – Global Intelligence (the Director). This exciting new position will play a crucial role in leading the team in the development of a strategic vision and plan for CWF’s Climate Philanthropy and Grantee Intelligence assets, service, and product offerings.

Reporting directly to the Vice President of Global Intelligence (GI), and in close partnership with other departments, the Director will work with CWF’s Intelligence team and senior staff to design, develop, and support historic, current, and future looking databases and information related to climate philanthropy. The Director will stay at the forefront of new emerging topics in climate philanthropy, and through effective partnerships will demonstrate leadership on thought products that positions the insights from the GI assets to further philanthropic investments. Initially, the Director will be responsible for managing a team of three, along with the consultants that support GI’s projects.

The Director will possess superior professionalism and be comfortable communicating with funders and high-level partners. They will exercise solid judgement and communication skills while dealing with a broad spectrum of stakeholders. This is an excellent opportunity to represent CWF both internally and externally and to play an integral role in implementing the strategic vision and plan for the GI team.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities
The Director will perform the following duties:

  • Lead the team in the implementation of the strategic vision and plan for CWF’s Climate Philanthropy and Grantee Intelligence assets, service, and product offerings.
    • Articulate CWF’s unique value add and niche in the ecosystem.
    • Gain a deep understanding of the information needs of key customer segments.
    • Support the development of underlying assets to provide a roadmap and corresponding services that will address stakeholder needs.
    • Develop guidance on ways to mitigate potential risks to delivery of intelligence products.
    • With the Programs team, ensure the strategy and plan can scale to meet the needs of the expanding ecosystem of funders, partners, and content areas.
  • Drawing from the developed strategic vision and plan, develop an integrated annual plan with other GI asset owners (this includes other key departments such as Information and Systems and Programs)
    • Engage teams to ensure alignment and feasibility of systems, data, and information management critical to delivering on GI products.
    • Work with internal and external stakeholders to leverage intelligence products that serve multiple audiences.
    • Develop strong team partnerships with key data providers, and where possible, support collaborations that strengthen the fields’ ability to leverage information for maximum collective impact.
    • Manage detailed project plans including scope, objectives, timelines, and budgets, specifically for the climate philanthropy datasets.
  • Build a strong and compelling brand for the products
    • Work with the communications team to develop and implement a messaging and communication plan targeted to key segments and audiences.
    • Utilize offerings and team core competencies to demonstrate innovation and effectiveness as part of CWF’s global services and programs offerings.
    • Creatively identify, source, and incorporate new strategic climate and philanthropy-related datasets as needed to help deliver targeted, data-supported insights and briefs to a community of climate funders.
    • Supervise the development and ongoing management of an integrated landscape of philanthropic datasets.
  • Demonstrate leadership to showcase impact and use of climate philanthropy products
    • Work directly with senior leaders at CWF’s and at other institutions to determine the strategic implications of funding data; prepare briefings, background notes and presentations as needed.
    • Participate in high level funder discussions and respond efficiently to stakeholder requests for information.
    • Create public reports based on analysis of CWF's assets, including annual funding trends report.
    • Steward implementation of the expanded product strategy for philanthropic data, including collaborations with other departments.

Other Duties and Responsibilities
The Director may be required to perform the following duties:

  • Relationship Management
    • Create strong, positive relationships with internal and external partners to support and grow the CWF Global Intelligence function.
    • Build relationships with new funders and maintain relationships with key partners.
    • Collaborate effectively and regularly with internal colleagues (specifically the Information and Systems team and the Programs team) on various projects.
  • Personnel Management
    • Supervise three or more staff; proactively nurture staff talent through co-construction and management of performance goals, formal annual performance feedback, and co-creating and implementing professional development plans.
    • Oversee contractors as needed.
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