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About the role
- Chief of Staff supporting the CEO during a critical growth period at Climate Policy Radar. Involves strategic decision-making and external engagement in the climate policy sector.
Responsibilities
- Strategic support to the CEO: Synthesise internal and external information to support CEO decision-making, prepare the CEO for high-stakes engagements (board, funders, partners) and act as a strategic sounding board on organisational priorities and external positioning.
- Board engagement: Coordinate board engagement and support preparation and follow-through for board meetings with the CEO and Chair.
- Funder relationships: Support stewardship of CEO-held funder relationships, ensuring continuity, insight on relationship health, and timely follow-up.
- External narrative and positioning: Help articulate and maintain Climate Policy Radar’s external narrative across funders, partners, and public platforms, ensuring the CEO’s communications consistently advance organisational strategy and fundraising priorities.
- Senior leadership alignment: Translate external signals, organisational priorities, and emerging issues into clear synthesis and decision support for the CEO and senior leadership team.
- CEO leverage and operational flow: Help maximise the CEO’s leverage by structuring information flow, clarifying priorities, and managing escalation, in close coordination with the Executive Assistant.
Requirements
- Experience operating in close partnership with a CEO, founder, or senior executive (e.g. Chief of Staff or Strategic Advisor), with responsibility for synthesis, prioritisation, and strategic coordination.
- Demonstrated experience working in the climate sector.
- Strong strategic judgement and the ability to synthesise complex information quickly into clear options, insights, and decision support.
- Data and analytical fluency (using AI enabled tools as appropriate) to surface insights and aid decision making.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt messaging for different audiences including funders, board members, and senior partners.
- Experience operating in highly collaborative, cross-functional environments and influencing senior stakeholders.
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving environments, identifying emerging priorities and translating them into structured action.
- High levels of discretion, integrity, and trust when working closely with executive leadership.
Benefits
- A deep commitment to employee wellbeing, including policies such as 4 day workweek (same pay, Fridays off)
- Generous leave
- A vibrant, collaborative, empathetic work culture that thrives on innovation and the impact of our work
- Hybrid work environment (2 days a week) in London, at TechSpace in Goswell Road
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