The World Business Council for Sustainable Development is a CEO-led organization of forward-thinking companies that galvanizes the global business community to create a sustainable future for business, society and the environment. Together with its members, the council applies its respected thought leadership and effective advocacy to generate constructive solutions and take shared action. Leveraging its strong relationships with stakeholders as the leading advocate for business, the council helps drive debate and policy change in favor of sustainable development solutions.

Since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement, both in 2015, we are now entering an exciting phase of work in the Climate & Energy Cluster at WBCSD. Ambitions are high across all our projects and 2016 has now seen the beginning of real progress on agreed action plans aiming to transform the economy.

The flagship program under Climate & Energy is the Low Carbon Technology Partnership initiative (LCTPi). A key part of LCTPi is our work on transport that focusses on sustainable fuels and low carbon freight.

To scale up deployment of sustainable fuels, we have created a campaign called below50. This business solution is unique in that it brings together the full supply chain (incl. producers, consumers, technology providers and investors) to collaborate on creating the market for the world’s most sustainable fuels.

For the Low Carbon Freight project, we are currently focusing on designing and deploying a first-of-a-kind data and asset sharing platform to reduce GHG emissions from road freight transport. This work focusses on a demonstration project in the UK starting in 2018.

The Climate & Energy Team is seeking to employ a Manager to work across the Transport program at WBCSD. The manager is expected to spend around 80% of her/his time on below50 and 20% on low carbon freight. This position is for a fixed term of 12 months with the possibility of changing to a permanent position depending on performance. based at the WBCSD offices in Geneva, Switzerland.

Main tasks include:

• Provide strategic direction to the below50 and Low Carbon Freight projects, project management, coordination with a wide range of global internal and external stakeholders, and communications. Managing one direct report and liaising with other internal staff and external consultants or partners.

Lead and manage below50 project:

• Lead development and implementation of global action plans in collaboration with members and partners
• Organize and chair Leadership Group and Advisory Board meetings
• Facilitate WBCSD member company engagement in the project (new and existing)
• Ensure visible presence of below50 and members at key global and regional events
• Lead establishment of regional hubs in North America (US), South America (Brazil) and Australia (Queensland).
• Lead establishment of regional hubs in other regions as necessary
• Develop governance model and close collaboration with regional hubs
• Grow below50 membership and other revenue streams to make this project self-funding
• Liaise with WeMeanBusiness coalition partners on communications to amplify key messages and reach new members
• Manage the scoping, development and implementation of new collaborative projects on the topics of (e.g.) policy, finance mechanisms, procurement and market growth
• Develop and maintain partnerships with international research organisations, business associations, academia and other policy and/or sustainability institutions
• Own progress reporting under LCTPi

Lead and manage Low Carbon Freight project:

• Organize and chair meetings with members and partners
• Facilitate member participation in FreightShareLab (FSL) demonstration project in the UK
• Ensure visible presence of FSL and members at key global and regional events
• Identify and organize freight dissemination activities (events, reports, media, academia)
• Own progress reporting under LCTPi
• Scope and then support the development of Freight Procurement Guidelines, in collaboration with WBCSD members and partners
• Identify options for new phases of WBCSD work on Low Carbon Freight

Sought competencies include:

• Background and experience: Master’s university degree level education with a preference for technical/science background. Experience in the biofuels industry and transport related topics gained in a relevant business setting is an advantage.
• Experience: minimum 8 years’ experience, of which at least 4 years in a private sector multinational company (or private sector-facing organization).
• Strategy: Evidence of strategic planning and development of options.
• Facilitation and stakeholder engagement: Evidence of successfully engaging with different stakeholders and creating shared vision across groups. Ability to find and make relevant new contacts. Evidence of high emotional intelligence across cultures.
• Capacity to work independently, proactively address problems and work to deadlines.
• Communication: Engaging communicator across cultures both in person and in writing, ability to adjust style of communication to suit audience (e.g. present technical topics to a non-technical audience).
• Multi-Tasking: Ability to manage project tasks and ad hoc demands simultaneously,
• Language skills: Fluency in English (written and spoken) is critical, fluency in additional languages is an advantage.

Please also note that the WBCSD will only respond to candidates selected for the interview process

More information:

WBCSD’s Climate & Energy work:

http://www.wbcsd.org/

http://www.wbcsd.org/Clusters/Climate-Energy

http://lctpi.wbcsd.org/

http://below50.org/