The Australia Initiative Director will lead strategic grantmaking to achieve policy wins that help Australia meet its climate goals and accelerate the decarbonizing of the materials it exports that are critical for the clean energy transition. This role will work with Climate Imperative’s leadership team to align the strategy with the organization’s values and theory of change. The individual will also work with a diverse group of partners, from grassroots advocates to high-level policymakers and aligned philanthropies, both within Australia and with its trading partners.
We are committed to diversity, equity, & inclusion and to a transparent recruitment process that fosters belonging. Our goal is to hire and advance people regardless of race, gender, ability, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, military service, medical condition, and any other protected characteristic under local, state, or federal law. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.
We are committed to an accessible application process and employee experience. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please email jobs@climateimperative.org.
We provide a salary commensurate with qualifications and experience. The target salary range is $195,000 to $205,000 with adjustments made for people in higher-expense markets, i.e. the San Francisco Bay Area and Washington D.C. We provide a salary commensurate with qualifications and experience. Currently, all staff local to the San Francisco and DC offices go into the office one to three days a week. Equity is incredibly important to the organization, and a pay audit for equity is completed annually.
BENEFITS
Energy Innovation provides a comprehensive benefits package. The benefits include:
- Up to 100% of premium paid for medical, dental, and vision
- Short term and long term disability insurance
- Company sponsored life insurance and voluntary life
- Carrot fertility and family planning benefits
- Student loan repayment assistance
- 401k retirement plan with a company match contribution
- Annual professional development budget
- Internet, cell phone, and health & wellness reimbursement
- 14 paid holidays and four weeks of paid time off (PTO)
- Paid parental leave, jury duty, and bereavement
- Public transportation benefit options for office staff
- Regular staff lunches and team building activities
- SF and DC office stocked with healthy snacks and beverages
- An innovative, collaborative, welcoming work culture
ABOUT US
Climate change is governed by physical facts—about carbon sources, accumulation, impacts, and timing, and more importantly, about solutions that work. These facts must inform strategy: they show that avoiding dangerous climate change is only possible through strong policy to cut carbon, promptly, in the biggest countries.
To address these issues, Energy Innovation was established in 2012 as a clean energy and environmental policy firm to provide timely research and analysis on low-carbon energy policy options to policy makers, thought leaders, and members of the media. The Energy Innovation team has expertise in energy efficiency, renewable energy, sustainable urban development, technological innovation, and energy policy design. In addition to conducting policy research, Energy Innovation also works with clients to facilitate philanthropic investments into technology and advocacy that help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Energy Innovation also staffs Climate Imperative Foundation.
Climate Imperative is focused on the most important climate policy decisions in the world and to do so equitably. Each Climate Imperative initiative targets one policy area and, by informing policy change, aims to save billions of tons of CO2e cumulatively by 2050. For each initiative, we are convening and supporting a talented, proven team of grantees, and supporting them to do whatever is needed: providing world-class technical advice, undertaking targeted communications, and/or building public support. The decisions targeted represent the largest near-term carbon abatement opportunities around the world.
Energy Innovation supports a hybrid work environment and requires all employees to come together in person two to three times per year.
