Community Climate Hubs Manager
What We’re Looking For
The Climate Reality Project Canada is looking for our Community Climate Hub Manager who will provide leadership and guidance for the organization to support citizen-led climate action at the municipal level, anchored in a decentralised, collaborative and ambitious approach to solve the climate crisis through public policy literacy and accountability. This position will play a critical role in advancing climate education and action for our CRLs and Hub members across Canada. The selected candidate will work 28 hours per week, typically over four days but making allowances for flexibility required due to travel, work commitments, or other specific circumstances.
Who You Are
You are passionate about the mission of the Climate Reality Project to empower citizens from all paths of life and grassroots movements through a decentralised engagement model, and you are very familiar with climate science and policy. You enjoy strategic development and hands-on engagement. You are committed to solving the climate crisis through deep citizen engagement, organizing and multi-stakeholder convening. You are committed to diversity and inclusion, have a passion for social and environmental justice and an enthusiasm for operating in an intercultural work environment. You are a compassionate and natural convener, consensus-builder, meticulous problem-solver who loves to co-create, design and operationalize processes to support Hub members in building ambitious campaigns, help embed equity more effectively in our work, and use the team’s resources efficiently to maximize our real-world impact.
As well as being a strategic and systems thinker, the Community Climate Hub Manager will be someone who pays close attention to detail and deadlines and is exceptionally organized in their ability to assess priorities.
Position Description: The Community Climate Hubs Manager oversees the Community Climate Hub (CCH) program and related projects in order to nurture their success and to ensure they benefit each other while aligning with the organization’s strategic plan and overarching objectives. The DNA of this program is to build capacity and facilitate exchange among existing and new citizen-led Hubs, which are focused on coalition-building and public policy literacy to accelerate a just transition and raise ambition at the municipal level.
About the CCH program: Through the CCH program, grassroots campaigns are led by CRLs and citizens of all backgrounds to support rapid decarbonization of their municipalities. CCH drives sustainability at the municipal level by establishing citizen-led groups across the country and providing them with the tools and strategic support necessary to influence climate policy and to reduce their cities’ GHG emissions.
Two objectives steer the endeavor:
1. To move cities two steps forward along Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) Partners for Climate Protection (PCP) 5-step Milestone Framework;
2. To obtain municipal commitments to net zero emissions by mid-century and then ensure the local governments are on track to reaching their target.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Manage the CCH program
o Coordinate, implement, monitor and manage the CCH project plans in terms of schedule, budget, achievement of goals and objectives to ensure alignment with the strategic objectives of the Climate Reality Project Canada.
o Develop, update, organize and expand the resources gathered in the CCH toolkit, keeping close attention to the best practices in distributed engagement and citizen participation in public policies.
o Develop, update, organize and expand the content of the CCH Handbook to ensure its relevance and complementarity to other citizen engagement tools. This task will require developing potential partnerships with peer organizations or grassroots movements.
o Manage the outreach campaign to recruit new Hub members and expand our CCH community.
o Drafting articles for the Climate Reality P