Senior Corporate Engagement Manager, Asia Region

The Organisation

With a vision of a just and thriving Asia powered by renewable energy, Tara Climate Foundation is a new and rapidly expanding philanthropic initiative focusing on South, Southeast, and East Asia (excluding China and India). The Tara Climate Foundation is headquartered in Singapore with a team spread throughout the region.

Tara plays three main roles: providing grants to a diverse group of climate and energy transition partners; working with local partners to craft compelling strategies for advancing the transition; and the convening of partners within and across borders. Tara provides grants to hundreds of civil society and research organizations, thinktanks, non-state actors, and the private sector across Asia to accelerate a just and clean energy transition.


Benefits & Culture

• Work with a dynamic international climate team with a passion to make a difference and a rigorous and results-oriented approach to work
• A flexible work environment and a space to learn the sector and players, develop, and challenge yourself
• A collaborative, fun and thriving team, driven by our mission, and living our values
• Competitive compensation and benefits with opportunities for regional and international travel

  
The Role
  
This role will build a program to drive corporate renewable energy demand and corporate decarbonisation, leveraging investor strategies and technical analysis coupled with staff engagement, media, public campaigning, and a range of other strategies.
  
You will work with existing corporate renewable energy alliances and civil society partners to develop a multi-faceted strategy for encouraging corporates to make stronger decarbonisation commitments and undertake policy advocacy to ensure renewable energy procurement options are available. In addition to direct engagement with corporates, you will build and manage new partnerships and scale a grant making program.


Skills Required
  
You have a deep understanding of, or strong interest in, renewable energy and the drivers and barriers to renewable energy adoption, and you are eager to help accelerate the energy transition by leveraging your influencing skills. With a corporate, ESG, renewable energy/ procurement, or related NGO or advocacy background, you are a politically savvy relationship manager and networker, a confident presenter, and your work demonstrates your understanding of how advocacy creates systemic change via the development of a multi-faceted strategy. You also offer:

• Excellent organisational, project management and budget management abilities
• Sharp written and verbal communication skills, strong English language skills
• A collaborative mindset working effectively in alliance with diverse stakeholders
• Impeccable ethics, experience working confidentially and flexibly across the region
• A master’s degree qualification/relevant expertise/knowledge, ideally an Asian language

If you would like to leverage your corporate engagement and strategic expertise to drive the clean energy transition and make a real impact, and you meet even some of the criteria above, please send your resume and cover letter, addressing the skills required, quoting # 1189217 or call Lois Freeke at NGO Recruitment in Melbourne, Australia on +61 (0)3 8080 8978.

Please note there is no formal closing date for this role, if you are interested, we would encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Local working rights and residency required for your South or East Asia location.

NGO Recruitment values equitable recruitment practices and is committed to representing candidates reflective of the diverse organisations and communities we work with. We welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds, ages, and identities, and are happy to adjust our recruitment process to support accessibility needs. If you are interested in this position and have most of the skills or experience we are looking for, please go ahead and apply.