Clean Air Asia is recruiting for a full time Director for the Cities Clean Air Partnership initiative (CCAP) in Manila, Philippines. This is a new position, created to provide strategic direction, leadership and operational management to CCAP.
About Clean Air Asia
Clean Air Asia (CAA) is an international non-governmental organization that leads the regional mission for better air quality and healthier, more livable cities in Asia. We aim to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions in 1000+ cities in Asia through policies and programs that cover air quality, transport, industrial emissions, and energy. We work with ministries (energy, environment, health, transport), Asian cities, private sector and development agencies to provide leadership and technical knowledge in Air Quality and Climate Change,Low Emissions Urban Development, Clean Fuels and Vehicles and Green Freight and Logistics. Our approach is based on science, actionable guidance and an ethos of partnerships and collaboration as key drivers for meaningful and lasting impact. CAA is headquartered in Manila and has offices in Beijing and Delhi.
About CCAP
Clean Air Asia recognizes that cities are on the front lines of the fight against air pollution and climate change. CCAP asserts that city-level action is the foundation for addressing air pollution and its health impact. We aim to set 200 Asian cities on the pathway to air quality improvement year by year by 2020. CCAP, a CAA initiative under the International Environmental Partnership (IEP), an environmental collaboration program established by the Environmental Protection Administration Taiwan and the United States Environmental Protection Agency aimed at assisting environmental agencies and organizations around the globe strengthen capacity to manage the environment and protect human health. CCAP aims to provide cities with incentives and technical assistance through (a) City-to-city cooperation (C3) program which promotes city-to-city learning and collaboration to drive measurable results through city-level actions; (b) City certification program which provides a ladder to support progressive and sustainable advances in air quality; and (c) Knowledge Platform, an online resource for sharing best practices, including an online experts database accessible to CCAP cities. http://cleanairasia.org/ccap/
About the role
Based in Manila, Philippines, the Director will provide strategic and operational leadership for CCAP, ensuring ongoing development and successful delivery of the initiative and its outputs. The successful applicant will maintain critical senior relationships with funders, government and city private sector stakeholders to facilitate the ambitious goal of the initiative and the transformation we seek. The Director will lead a small Manila-based team to increase the scale and impact of CCAP in Asia and beyond. You will lead new business efforts to develop and grow the initiative in collaboration with key stakeholders and our current funders and partners while also ensuring high quality delivery of the components of the initiative. To be successful in this role you will need significant international experience in setting strategic programme direction, programme management and leadership, business development as well as being able to manage external relationships to a high level of success. An understanding of international resource mobilization is desirable.
Job title: Director, Cities Clean Air Partnership (CCAP)
Reporting to: Deputy Executive Director of Clean Air Asia
Other key relationships: US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and Environmental Protection Administration Taiwan (EPAT) staff (as part of the IEP), Cities part of the CCAP initiative
Duration of Appointment: 1 year with potential for renewal pending funding, to start as soon as possible
Salary: Competitive
Person specification:
1. Essential experience:
- Understanding of the environmental challenges facing cities in Asia and beyond
- Strong leadership and people management experience demonstrating the ability to translate ideas into actions; monitor multiple work streams; co-ordinate staff, contract partners and stakeholders – while employing a consultative and collegiate decision making style
- Proven experience of influencing senior level public and/or private sector decision makers and communicating to a variety of audiences and media
- Strong track record of successfully leading and managing projects with multiple stakeholders and in large, multi-layered international setting, handling annual budgets of at least $1m
- In-depth experience and technical understanding of environmental, sustainable development and/or air quality issues would be a significant advantage
- Proven demonstrable and successful experience of effective project management, including preparing operational plans, with clearly set milestones and achievable targets, involving various stakeholders in the centralized hub and across various countries in Asia and beyond
- Experience in implementing city-based solutions within sustainable development programmes; and/or excellent strategic leadership skills and experience of managing interventions to mitigate air pollution or climate change at city level
- Understanding and proven experience of complex partnership management involving multi-layered stakeholders coming from different parts of the world, including city representatives NGOs and government representatives
- Experience of research management and including cities focus, and of producing and delivering high quality actionable outputs
- Understanding and experiences of monitoring of implementation, programme evaluation, impact assessment and learning
2. Qualifications
- A minimum of three years’ relevant work experience, e.g. at city level, in a government setting, an international NGO, foreign service, or in the development/environment sector with major project management duties
- A minimum of three years’ work experience in Asia, with demonstrable leadership experience and understanding of environmental issues and/or challenges facing cities in respect to air quality or climate change mitigation
- Higher education qualification in international development, environmental issues, international affairs or similar relevant to the post
3. Skills:
- Proven skills in managing staff and managing a budget
- Ability to precisely communicate inside the organization as well as at high level external meetings, media work and stakeholder meetings
- Proven and strong strategic thinking capacity
- Proven ability to deliver workplan outputs, anticipate future needs/actions, adapt in a dynamic work environment
- Excellent public speaking, writing and editing skills in English, fluency in other languages highly desirable;
- Excellent political judgment skills in politically complex analyses and situations;
- Understanding and experience of working in a multi-cultural environment and delivering major programmes across different cultures and locations
- Strong negotiation skills
4. Personal Qualities:
- Strong commitment to Clean Air Asia’s mission approach and values
- Flexible and adaptable with good interpersonal skills and a ‘can do’ approach
- Ability to lead an inspire a small team
- Cultural sensitivity and ability to develop strong and trusting relationships across the region and beyond
- Meticulous attention to detail and accuracy
- Dependable and reliable with the ability to be productive under time pressures
- Very well organized, capable of building productive and positive internal and external relationships for the initiative
- Positive, resilient and supportive
- Ability to travel up to 40 percent of the time and work unsociable hours on occasion
How to apply:
To apply, please provide the following to Ms. Jovy Coroña,center@cleanairasia.org on or before 26 Feb 2016:
- An up-to-date curriculum vitae/resume (of no more than 2-3 pages)
- A detailed statement (of no more than 2 pages) explaining how you meet the person criteria and, why you are interested in this post.
- Please indicate “Director, Cities Clean Air Partnership (CCAP)” in the subject line.
