Strategic lead role with expanding, independent energy and climate think tank
Remote post working with a pan-Asian team. Regional travel required
Fluent in English and ideally an Asian language, local working rights required
The Organisation
Ember is an international independent energy and climate think tank, using data to drive down carbon emissions from electricity generation and to phase-out coal. Ember gathers, curates and analyses data on the global power system and uses the findings to shift the conversation towards high impact energy and climate policies and to empower other advocates to do the same.
Ember is a founding member of Subak, the world’s first non-profit accelerator that scales climate impact through data, policy, and behaviour change. The successful candidate will be joining at a period of rapid growth and be part of an innovative team that’s having a global impact in tackling climate change.
Ember’s work is aligned with the objectives of the Paris Agreement limiting global warming to well below 2C, preferably to 1.5C and the goal to reach global peaking of emissions as soon as possible achieving a climate neutral world by midcentury.
Benefits & Culture
Mission-driven friendly and supportive team
Competitive package and flexible, remote working conditions
Focus on professional development and wellbeing
The Role
The world needs to rapidly phase down coal power, and since Asia is home to 80% of the world’s coal power, this role is a unique opportunity to influence one of the most important policy areas of this decade. You will lead key research areas including India’s coal phasedown, widening China’s focus on electricity transition, and increase the solar uptake across
ASEAN countries.
Responsibilities will include;
Providing inputs into the international overarching strategy
Coordination of research and advocacy, maximising the team’s impact
Leadership, development, and expansion of Asia electricity analyst team
Development of the Asia strategy ensuring alignment and collaboration across the policy, data, communication, and operation teams
Further develop and implement the theory of change across multiple teams ensuring a clear vision and aligned activities across China, India and Southeast Asia
Skills Required
You are an experienced programme leader and strategist with a career ideally developed in a like-minded think tank, NGO, foundation, or other relevant organisation. You have considerable experience in initiating political change, influencing the clean energy narrative in Asia and using research and data to impact policy across multiple countries.
Your skills include;
Building, developing, and managing related Asia regional teams
Demonstrated success developing and leading regional programme strategy
Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal, experienced in outreach
Deep socio-political understanding of the South and Southeast Asia regions
Effective networking with your established network in energy and climate
Ideally you also offer;
Thought leadership in Asia’s electricity transition and ideally energy expertise
Extensive experience of media engagement and outreach across diverse platforms
Data and data visualisation experience, to complement strong Data and Dataviz teams
If you share Ember’s mission to transition from coal to clean electricity worldwide by 2040, and you can demonstrate the skills and experience required, please apply by forwarding your resume and cover letter responding to the skills required above to cv@ngorecruitment.com quoting #1015814 or call Lois Freeke of NGO Recruitment in Melbourne on 03 8080 8978.
