Europe’s leading advocates for clean transport and environment, are looking for an exceptional leader to join our team as the Deputy Shipping Director. Transport & Environment (T&E) is an independent, non-partisan think tank and NGO working to decarbonise transport. Our vision is a zero-emission mobility system that is affordable and has minimal impacts on our health, climate and the environment. Through our advocacy activities, based on authoritative analyses and coalitions with business, we have shaped some of Europe's, and the world's, most important clean mobility laws.

Purpose of role

Do you want to play your part in changing transport’s climate impact and continued reliance on fossil fuels? Transport & Environment is looking for a talented and dynamic Deputy Shipping Director to join the team to support the implementation of T&E’s work on addressing shipping’s climate impact. The Deputy Director would oversee the implementation of the team’s strategy as well as lead the operationalisation of T&E’s new shipping programme in the Asia-Pacific region, and overseeing the shipping climate work in the T&E national offices in Europe.

Shipping is a challenging sector to decarbonise. We need this position to support the execution of T&E’s long term strategy in a rapidly growing team. The Deputy Director would directly report to the Shipping Director, providing input and advice on the strategic direction of the shipping team’s work plan, while ensuring the current objectives and projects are successfully implemented. In addition, this position will require policy knowledge to coordinate technical and political work at the EU, national, Asia-Pacific and international levels to support T&E’s advocacy work to effectively reduce the emissions from the shipping sector. We need convincing and compelling economic, political and legal analysis, reports and presentations to convert complex information into advocacy and media friendly material.

Finally, we need to convince the relevant lawmakers to set ambitious but achievable goals to drive the sector from being one of the fastest growing climate problems to one of sustainability.

Primary responsibilities

• Supporting the Shipping Director in the implementation of the shipping teams projects, by turning long term goals into short term objectives, managing budgets and staff resources.
• Being responsible for the delivery of T&Es strategy and objectives in national voices both in Europe and Asia-Pacific in close collaboration with the National Office Directors, when it comes to addressing shipping’s climate impact in order to ensure alignment with the overall shipping program.
• Providing strategic input and advice to the Director on political strategies and fundraising efforts.
• Developing T&Es advocacy strategy towards regulators, politicians and media on shipping decarbonisation, including researching, analysing and communicating effectively relevant technical, economic and legal information to relevant audiences. 
• Building and maintaining contact with policymakers and T&E members working in this field.
• Leading the work on building formal and informal coalitions with key shipping industry players, research institutes, partner NGOs.
• Identifying, commissioning and delivering impactful research tailored to the needs of the policy campaigns. 
• Support the overall functioning of the team.

The successful candidate should meet the following criteria:

• Five to seven years of relevant experience in managing projects and/or staff in either the shipping sector, energy sector, EU or government advocacy, preferably on related topics.
• Strong interpersonal and team-working skills, and a willingness to develop a network in the shipping sector.
• Excellent coordination skills, with an ability to engage with, build and manage multi-stakeholder coalitions.
• Ability to deliver to tight deadlines; eager to learn, with a positive and optimistic attitude when faced with challenges.
• The confidence to think and act with initiative, to engage and influence policymakers of different stripes, industry representatives and other stakeholders at the highest level.
• The ability and motivation to learn technical, economic and legal information, to independently develop new political, economic or legal arguments and evidence and use them to convince key stakeholders.
• Project management skills.
• Good writing, communication and presentation skills.

To apply for this role, please submit a copy of your CV/resume and a cover letter outlining your interest in the role and how you fulfil the requirements set out in the job announcement by clicking on the link below.

Please contact Ruth Gardner for any queries you may have.

The deadline for application is Sunday 19^th January 2025

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