Project Manager

Project Manager

Climate Alliance

Brussels, Belgium

Our ideal candidate

You will work for an EU-funded project in the area of financing, providing hands-on expertise and simplified financial aid, as well as capacity building and peer-to-peer support to municipalities, to enable the development of sound investment packages and mobilise finance. You will lead the action on sustainability, replication, and exploitation of project results in Europe. The overall objective of your work is to maximise the impact of the activities and results, specifically to promote the exploitation of investment concepts and foster wide replication of best practices. In the second half of your role, you will be in charge of Climate Alliance’s tasks in a European-funded project that supports municipalities and intermediary organisations in identifying and addressing energy poverty among people with disabilities through research, training, mentoring, policy development, and local pilot actions in Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, and Spain. You have a strong motivation to enhance the capacities of local and regional policy actors in addressing energy poverty, with a focus on people with disabilities and the mentorship programme.

As part of the Climate Alliance Brussels office, you will work closely with colleagues across the organisation, including headquarters in Frankfurt. The position offers a strong leadership mandate, the opportunity to contribute to project acquisition, and the chance to further strengthen Climate Alliance’s role as a leading actor on climate action across Europe. You are impact-driven, able to work independently and collaboratively, and motivated to contribute to a dynamic, Brussels-based team committed to accelerating a socially just transition.

Your tasks:

You act as contact person for Climate Alliance within the two project consortia and represent Climate Alliance at workshops, stakeholder meetings and policy events. You actively contribute to the dissemination of results, monitor project activities, collect data and prepare technical reports, deliverables and progress updates.

Sustainable Finance

• Lead Climate Alliance activities on sustainability, replication and exploitation of project results (e.g. the development of an exploitation report);
• Manage a small network of national partners and support them in the execution of project-related events.

Energy Poverty

• Support municipalities in developing and implementing local approaches to address energy poverty, with a particular focus on people with disabilities;
• Contribute to the delivery of mentoring, training and capacity-building activities for local and regional authorities;
• Support the organisation of workshops, webinars and peer-learning activities in collaboration with European project partners;
• Foster collaboration and knowledge exchange with municipalities, experts and stakeholder organisations across Europe;
• Assist with project monitoring, reporting and the preparation of technical deliverables.

Requirements

• Experience in managing or supporting EU-funded projects (e.g. LIFE is an advantage);
• Experience in working with municipalities, local authorities or public administrations;
• Strong facilitation, stakeholder engagement and communication skills;
• Experience in organising workshops, training programmes and participatory processes;
• Excellent written and spoken English; additional European languages are considered an asset;
• Ability to work independently while coordinating complex international partnerships and multi-stakeholder processes;
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines simultaneously;
• Knowledge of, in particular, energy poverty and/or private finance, EU funding streams and similar facilities, as well as advisory services for municipalities, is a plus.