Senior Manager, Climate Diplomacy

• Join Opportunity Green's Climate Diplomacy team as a Senior Manager, expanding engagement across high-emitting sectors to tackle climate change through multilateral negotiations. • Build ambitious international country coalitions that accelerate climate action and deliver climate justice at international forums, with a core focus on aviation and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). • Work closely with climate vulnerable countries, policymakers, and civil society partners to develop and deliver diplomatic advocacy that increases ambition and secures equitable outcomes. • Work a 4-day week (Monday–Thursday, 28 hours), based remotely anywhere in the UK with London office access, or in Belgium.

• Have a passion for using your skills to tackle climate change, with an ability to strategically work with global policymakers to increase ambition. • Have existing international networks, particularly if relevant to high-emitting sectors. • Have experience navigating and engaging in multilateral negotiations. • Demonstrate excellent written and oral communication skills. • Have active listening skills, negotiation skills, and the ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders.

• Have a strong understanding of and experience influencing climate policy in international fora. • Have extensive international networks and experience working with diverse policymakers to drive ambition through diplomacy, especially in an international context. • Have experience generating realistic, ambitious, and implementable policy ideas to drive climate ambition, including "in the moment." • Have familiarity with aviation decarbonisation, especially in the context of ICAO negotiations. • Have experience working with the media to become a trusted contact and generate strategic communication moments. • Be an engaging public speaker with experience communicating to varied audiences.

• Support Opportunity Green's efforts to build ambitious international country coalitions that accelerate climate action and deliver climate justice at international forums across high-emitting sectors. • Provide leadership and support to the wider Climate Diplomacy team, with a core focus on aviation and ICAO, ensuring alignment with strategy and work across the IMO and FAO. • Build relationships with key delegations at ICAO, maintain engagement year-round, and manage the development of high-quality technical briefs, reports, and factsheets shared with delegates. • Collaborate with analytics, advocacy, and legal teams to increase the impact of the organisation's work. • Work alongside the communications team to ensure messages are delivered effectively. • Contribute to fundraising through meetings with funders and writing fundraising reports. • Take on line management responsibilities over time.

If you want to help change how the world tackles climate change, Opportunity Green is the place to be. Opportunity Green mission is to reduce emissions to limit global temperature rise to the 1.5°C pathway by 2050. They do this by creating persuasive legal analyses that showcase regulatory solutions and robust policy changes in complex sectors. Further to this research, they provide consultation, climate diplomacy and network facilitation services for shipping decarbonisation at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), as well as work closely with climate-vulnerable Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to ensure everyone can contribute to the IMO’s agenda. Opportunity Green is especially interesting to legal and policy officers who can use the power of law as a strategic tool to address these complex, massive issues. On top of that, what is especially remarkable is Opportunity Greens' commitment to paying full pay for a four-day work week, which sets them apart as an outstanding organisation that cares for its employees.

• Earn £60,000 per annum plus a 10% employer-contributed pension. • Work a 4-day week (Monday–Thursday, 28 hours) with a commitment to work/life balance. • Take 20 days holiday per year plus bank holidays and office closure between Christmas and New Year. • Access a progressive family leave policy including 26 weeks paid leave for the new parent. • Receive support for professional development with a learning and development budget plus opportunities to lead projects, publish content, and attend conferences. • Work flexibly within a hybrid arrangement, with London-based employees in the office 2 days per week or remote UK employees travelling to London for two consecutive days per month.

Opportunity Green is a fast-growing not-for-profit organisation established in 2021 that helps identify and unlock opportunities to tackle climate change. The organisation builds ambitious coalitions, supports climate vulnerable countries in international negotiations, and finds innovative legal pathways to fight climate change. The Climate Diplomacy team works to support climate vulnerable countries in bringing down emissions from high-emitting sectors through multilateral negotiations and agreements.