Employment

Finance and Grants manager, European Climate Foundation
Senior Associate, Energy Efficiency Programme

Finance and Grants Manager, European Climate Foundation

The European Climate Foundation (ECF) was established in 2008 as a major philanthropic initiative promoting climate and energy policies that greatly reduce Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions and help Europe play a stronger international leadership role in mitigating climate change. The ECF is funded by major multi-year commitments from donors in Europe and the United States. The ECF is part of the international ClimateWorks Network that shares goals, strategies and resources to address the global challenge of climate change mitigation as part of a global network of aligned organisations.

The ECF team is a highly dynamic group of individuals, combining ambition and passion with a rigorous, results-oriented and analytic approach to work. The ECF’s culture is one of intensity, enthusiasm, and mutual support.

The ECF is recruiting a full-time Finance and Grants Manager.

This person will be a key member of the leadership team and is responsible for all aspects of managing the financial resources of the organisation, as well as maintaining and improving an effective and efficient grants management and associated workflow system. The specific duties and responsibilities include:

Financial management

Overall management of the ECF's financial resources
Support to CEO and the leadership team on all finance related issues
Daily accounting and financial tasks, including cash management and forecasting, e-banking transactions, and managing foreign exchange exposures
Regular monthly and ad-hoc financial reporting and annual financial statements
Financial controlling, audit preparation, and implementation of audit recommendations
Principal lead with auditors, banks, financial institutions, external accountants, advisors, and others as required
Support to HR on payroll

Budget management

Annual organisational budget preparation in cooperation with the CEO and leadership team
Support to ECF programmes in preparing programmatic budgets
Funding source and budget monitoring

Grants Management
- Grant management workflows, process, and procedures
- End-to-end grant awarding processes, including compliance with internal rules and regulation and grant reporting and payments
- Advising and training of staff and grantees on grant procedures and financial management
- Preparation of grant reports and other materials for management
- Updating the grants management policies and procedures as needed
- Administrator of grants management system in conjunction with IT and other staff
Other
- Supervision of a small finance and grants management team
- Budget preparation for funding applications and financial reports to donors in cooperation with the Director for External and Donor Relations
- Ensuring financial due diligence of grantees

Qualifications

Required:

Degree in finance, accounting, business administration, or other relevant area
5-10 years professional experience in a similar role, preferably in an international organisation or a private foundation
Demonstrated interest in the mission and values of the ECF
Strong attention to detail
Ability to prioritise diverse tasks
Good written and verbal communications skills
Proficient user of Microsoft Office applications (especially Excel)
Fluency in English

Preferable:

Professional financial / accounting certifications a definite advantage
Previous experience in a grant making organisation or private foundation
Experience with grant management systems and financial management information systems is an advantage
Excellent team player qualities, enthusiastic personality, a sense of humour, and results-orientation
Working knowledge of Dutch
Willingness to relocate to Brussels if needed

Location: The Hague, The Netherlands

Start Date: 1 July, 2012 or earlier

Compensation: Competitive

To apply: Please send your CV and cover letter to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , to the attention of Ms Arian Nooren. Indicate “Recruitment – Finance and Grants Manager” as the email subject line.

Application deadline: Thursday, 31 May 2012.

For more information on the ECF, please take a look at the rest of the website.

Senior Associate, Energy Efficiency Programme

The European Climate Foundation (ECF) was established in 2008 as a major philanthropic initiative to promote climate and energy policies that greatly reduce Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions and to help Europe play a stronger international leadership role to mitigate climate change. The ECF is funded by major multi-year commitments from donors in Europe and the United States. The ECF is part of the international ClimateWorks Network that shares goals, strategies and resources to address the global challenge of climate change mitigation with a global network of aligned organizations.

The Energy Efficiency Programme pursues a number of strategic initiatives to increase energy efficiency in the European economy. We aim to ensure that effective energy policies are adopted and implemented at the EU and national levels by leveraging a network of political contacts, grantees and other partners in Brussels and Member States. Major initiatives include:

Creating the regulatory and market framework for large-scale energy efficiency investments.
Ensuring the implementation of the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) and the financing and delivery of energy efficiency retrofits to existing buildings.
Reducing the energy consumption of appliances and equipment via the Ecodesign and Energy Labelling Directives.

Resources are prioritized around the most winnable political opportunities and innovative and replicable policies.

The ECF team is a highly dynamic group of individuals. The team combines ambition and passion with a rigorous, results-oriented and analytic approach to work. The ECF’s culture is one of intensity, enthusiasm and mutual support.

The ECF’s Energy Efficiency Programme is seeking to recruit a politically savvy Senior Associate to support the Energy Efficiency Director in a number of areas:

Strategy: helping set programme priorities and budgets; co-developing and implementing political strategies with our network of grantees and partners.
Grantmaking: soliciting and helping develop proposals from potential grantees; drafting recommendations for board consideration; managing consultants and occasionally commissioning studies; monitoring and evaluating progress and impact of initiatives and grants; and reporting to donors.
Networking: building partnerships with stakeholders across the policymaking, business and civil society communities across Europe; convening meetings; representing the foundation at meetings.

The Senior Associate may manage specific initiatives directly. This position requires frequent travel between the Hague, Brussels, Berlin and other EU capitals.

Key competencies and characteristics

5-10 years of professional experience.
Experience in an international organisation with a proactive, results-oriented culture. Experience as a civil servant in an European Member State Government a plus.
Strong background in energy policy and/or climate change policy. Demonstrated understanding of policy implementation challenges a plus.
Outstanding English writing and presentation skills. Additional languages a bonus.
Incisive, independent, analytic, creative mind.
Proven ability to initiate and manage projects.
Enthusiastic personality; a positive, can-do attitude; teamplayer.
Sense of humor.
Willingness to travel.

Location: The Hague

Start Date: mid-August

Compensation: Competitive

To apply: please send your CV and cover letter to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , to the attention of Ms. Bianca Lepsa. Please indicate ´Recruitment – Senior Associate for Energy Efficiency´ in the Subject line.

Application deadline: Friday 18 May 2012.

For more information on the ECF, please visit www.europeanclimate.org.