Job description<br>                <div style="text-align:justify;"><strong>About the team</strong></div><div style="text-align:justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align:justify;">We're looking for someone to join our small, creative, dynamic team of communication professionals in Berlin for a fixed period of 12 months as maternity cover. You will focus mainly on communications for our climate policy outputs, including our flagship project the Climate Action Tracker (CAT), as well as collaborating with the communication leads in our global offices and content experts throughout the organisation and the CAT consortium.</div><div style="text-align:justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Job description</strong></div><div style="text-align:justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align:justify;">We’re looking for politically savvy communications manager with a wide range of experience and expertise. Our ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the ability to spot and develop a story, to deploy framings that align with our overall strategy to leverage real-world opportunities, and to use visuals to bring out the data at the heart of the story. You will understand social media and its changing landscape, be open to working with AI tools, and be able to write clearly and compellingly. Ideally, you will also have experience of working with a range of visual communications tools, such as infographics, animations and short films. With a firm grasp of decarbonisation policy and the wider political/media context, you will turn our work into convincing narratives that influence national and international policymaking.</div><div style="text-align:justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align:justify;">Working hand-in-glove with our policy team and Climate Action Tracker partners, you will anticipate the political weather to conceive, craft, and execute a full suite of communications actions, from policy reports and social media campaigns to interactive digital products and high-impact events.</div><div style="text-align:justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Your responsibilities<br></strong></div><br><div style="text-align:justify;">The Senior Communications Manager – Climate Policy is responsible for conceptualising and driving strategic communications campaigns to further the mission of Climate Analytics: supporting climate action aligned to the 1.5°C warming limit.</div><div style="text-align:justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align:justify;">The main area of responsibility will be managing Climate Analytics communications activities in the climate policy space, including on the Climate Action Tracker (CAT).</div><div style="text-align:justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align:justify;">Key responsibilities:</div><ul><li style="text-align:justify;">Develop and execute communication strategies and plans targeting key moments in the policy cycle, working closely with the rest of the Climate Analytics communications team and partners on the CAT.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Manage integrated communication campaigns, spanning media relations, social and digital communications, events and newsletters.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Monitor climate news and political developments, reacting to opportunities to maximise our media impact.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Build and maintain contacts and networks with journalists and other key stakeholders.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Plan and execute social media campaigns, drafting content, creating or</li><li style="text-align:justify;">commissioning assets (graphics, short video, toolkits), scheduling and optimising across channels, and iterating using performance insights.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Maintain and continuously improve our digital presence: update website content, enhance interactive features and visual design, optimise performance and accessibility, and coordinate delivery with external providers.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Manage end-to-end publication of reports. Line-edit for clarity and consistency, apply templates and styles, coordinate figures/references/metadata, ensure accessibility and brand compliance, and oversee approvals and final delivery.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Event Management: conceptualise and deliver occasional events and webinars.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Develop and embed tools, templates and good communication practices through training and ongoing support to staff.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Support business development, inputting creative communications solutions into proposals.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Contribute to the continual evaluation of communication performance, interpreting and presenting evaluation metrics and making recommendations.</li></ul>            Your profile<br>                <div style="text-align:justify;">Essential:</div><ul><li style="text-align:justify;">Demonstrated commitment to the mission of Climate Analytics.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">About 5 years of relevant experience in communications within climate change or a closely related field, ideally with a focus on policy influence.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Ability to translate complex data analysis and methodologies into clear, compelling messages or visuals for diverse audiences.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Experience designing and running social media campaigns across a range of channels (X, LinkedIn, Instagram, BlueSky), with proven experience creating digital content and growing digital audiences and social engagement.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Established media and stakeholder contacts with a history of successfully delivering integrated communications campaigns.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Advanced degree or equivalent experience.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Demonstrated ability to design communications strategies that align with organisational goals and coordinate multi-partner delivery, with examples of measurable impact.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Outstanding writing and editing skills: Proven ability to craft clear, concise, and compelling content for diverse audiences, with a portfolio of published materials.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Project experience managing large, complex projects.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Proven ability to build positive, effective relationships with diverse teams, including experience working in multicultural or international environments.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Native speaker-level English.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Willingness to travel.</li></ul><br><div style="text-align:justify;">Desirable:</div><ul><li style="text-align:justify;">Experience in climate policy communications, including on the energy transition, decarbonisation and mitigation policy, and the international climate process.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">An interest in international affairs, climate politics and policy.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Proven ability to turn complex data into clear, compelling visual stories. Hands-on experience generating high-quality data visualisations or other visual products would be a bonus.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Fluency in French, Spanish or German languages is an asset.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Experience using software such as Canva, Adobe Pro and MailChimp.</li></ul>            Our offer<br>                <ul><li style="text-align:justify;">A job with purpose. With us you will work in a team of highly engaged people and with your skills you can make a positive contribution to our work.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">A positive and inspiring working atmosphere in an international team. Our Berlin office is located near Moritzplatz in the heart of Kreuzberg.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Fully funded Germany-wide public transport ticket.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">40 € monthly company contribution to Urban Sports Club membership.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Online mental health and wellbeing platform.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Free German language classes.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Bike rental discount.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Optional company pension plan.</li></ul><br><div style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Conditions</strong></div><ul><li style="text-align:justify;"> Application deadline: Open until filled</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Start date: 01 September 2026</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Duration: Currently we can offer a fixed term contract for 1 year to cover maternity.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Remuneration: Between Level 5 Step 1 on our remuneration scale (EUR 5,050 gross monthly, based on a 40-hour work week), and Level 5 Step 3 (EUR 5,573 gross monthly, based on a 40-hour work week). You will be placed on the scale according to your years of experience. Step 1 requires a graduate degree and 6 years experience, Step 2 requires 8 years, and Step 3 requires 10 years.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Vacation: 29 days paid annual leave for each year worked (pro rata) + one day gifted around Christmas.</li></ul><br><div style="text-align:justify;">Please apply with:</div><ul><li style="text-align:justify;">Your CV</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Cover letter addressing essential criteria, listing of three references, and include your earliest start date and salary expectations</li></ul><br><div style="text-align:justify;">Please use PDF format exclusively using the application form. Applications by email or by post can unfortunately not be processed.</div><div style="text-align:justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align:justify;">We are a diverse and inclusive team and welcome your application regardless of your gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect that makes you unique.</div><br>            

<p>Climate Analytics is a non-profit organisation based in Berlin, Germany with offices in New York, USA, Lom&eacute;, Togo and Perth, Australia which brings together interdisciplinary expertise in the scientific and policy aspects of climate change. Our activities include: synthesising and advancing scientific knowledge in the area of climate change science, policy and impacts, providing science and policy support to the Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States in the international climate negotiations and the tracking and analysing of national climate policies in the global context with the Climate Action Tracker.</p>

Senior Communications Manager - Climate Policy (Maternity Leave cover) (f/m/d)

Job description<br />                <div><strong>About the team</strong></div><div><br /></div><div>We're looking for someone to join our small, creative, dynamic team of communication professionals in Berlin for a fixed period of 12 months as maternity cover. You will focus mainly on communications for our climate policy outputs, including our flagship project the Climate Action Tracker (CAT), as well as collaborating with the communication leads in our global offices and content experts throughout the organisation and the CAT consortium.</div><div><br /></div><div><strong>Job description</strong></div><div><br /></div><div>We’re looking for politically savvy communications manager with a wide range of experience and expertise. Our ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the ability to spot and develop a story, to deploy framings that align with our overall strategy to leverage real-world opportunities, and to use visuals to bring out the data at the heart of the story. You will understand social media and its changing landscape, be open to working with AI tools, and be able to write clearly and compellingly. Ideally, you will also have experience of working with a range of visual communications tools, such as infographics, animations and short films. With a firm grasp of decarbonisation policy and the wider political/media context, you will turn our work into convincing narratives that influence national and international policymaking.</div><div><br /></div><div>Working hand-in-glove with our policy team and Climate Action Tracker partners, you will anticipate the political weather to conceive, craft, and execute a full suite of communications actions, from policy reports and social media campaigns to interactive digital products and high-impact events.</div><div><br /></div><div><strong>Your responsibilities<br /></strong></div><br /><div>The Senior Communications Manager – Climate Policy is responsible for conceptualising and driving strategic communications campaigns to further the mission of Climate Analytics: supporting climate action aligned to the 1.5°C warming limit.</div><div><br /></div><div>The main area of responsibility will be managing Climate Analytics communications activities in the climate policy space, including on the Climate Action Tracker (CAT).</div><div><br /></div><div>Key responsibilities:</div><ul><li>Develop and execute communication strategies and plans targeting key moments in the policy cycle, working closely with the rest of the Climate Analytics communications team and partners on the CAT.</li><li>Manage integrated communication campaigns, spanning media relations, social and digital communications, events and newsletters.</li><li>Monitor climate news and political developments, reacting to opportunities to maximise our media impact.</li><li>Build and maintain contacts and networks with journalists and other key stakeholders.</li><li>Plan and execute social media campaigns, drafting content, creating or</li><li>commissioning assets (graphics, short video, toolkits), scheduling and optimising across channels, and iterating using performance insights.</li><li>Maintain and continuously improve our digital presence: update website content, enhance interactive features and visual design, optimise performance and accessibility, and coordinate delivery with external providers.</li><li>Manage end-to-end publication of reports. Line-edit for clarity and consistency, apply templates and styles, coordinate figures/references/metadata, ensure accessibility and brand compliance, and oversee approvals and final delivery.</li><li>Event Management: conceptualise and deliver occasional events and webinars.</li><li>Develop and embed tools, templates and good communication practices through training and ongoing support to staff.</li><li>Support business development, inputting creative communications solutions into proposals.</li><li>Contribute to the continual evaluation of communication performance, interpreting and presenting evaluation metrics and making recommendations.</li></ul>            Your profile<br />                <div>Essential:</div><ul><li>Demonstrated commitment to the mission of Climate Analytics.</li><li>About 5 years of relevant experience in communications within climate change or a closely related field, ideally with a focus on policy influence.</li><li>Ability to translate complex data analysis and methodologies into clear, compelling messages or visuals for diverse audiences.</li><li>Experience designing and running social media campaigns across a range of channels (X, LinkedIn, Instagram, BlueSky), with proven experience creating digital content and growing digital audiences and social engagement.</li><li>Established media and stakeholder contacts with a history of successfully delivering integrated communications campaigns.</li><li>Advanced degree or equivalent experience.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to design communications strategies that align with organisational goals and coordinate multi-partner delivery, with examples of measurable impact.</li><li>Outstanding writing and editing skills: Proven ability to craft clear, concise, and compelling content for diverse audiences, with a portfolio of published materials.</li><li>Project experience managing large, complex projects.</li><li>Proven ability to build positive, effective relationships with diverse teams, including experience working in multicultural or international environments.</li><li>Native speaker-level English.</li><li>Willingness to travel.</li></ul><br /><div>Desirable:</div><ul><li>Experience in climate policy communications, including on the energy transition, decarbonisation and mitigation policy, and the international climate process.</li><li>An interest in international affairs, climate politics and policy.</li><li>Proven ability to turn complex data into clear, compelling visual stories. Hands-on experience generating high-quality data visualisations or other visual products would be a bonus.</li><li>Fluency in French, Spanish or German languages is an asset.</li><li>Experience using software such as Canva, Adobe Pro and MailChimp.</li></ul>            Our offer<br />                <ul><li>A job with purpose. With us you will work in a team of highly engaged people and with your skills you can make a positive contribution to our work.</li><li>A positive and inspiring working atmosphere in an international team. Our Berlin office is located near Moritzplatz in the heart of Kreuzberg.</li><li>Fully funded Germany-wide public transport ticket.</li><li>40 € monthly company contribution to Urban Sports Club membership.</li><li>Online mental health and wellbeing platform.</li><li>Free German language classes.</li><li>Bike rental discount.</li><li>Optional company pension plan.</li></ul><br /><div><strong>Conditions</strong></div><ul><li> Application deadline: Open until filled</li><li>Start date: 01 September 2026</li><li>Duration: Currently we can offer a fixed term contract for 1 year to cover maternity.</li><li>Remuneration: Between Level 5 Step 1 on our remuneration scale (EUR 5,050 gross monthly, based on a 40-hour work week), and Level 5 Step 3 (EUR 5,573 gross monthly, based on a 40-hour work week). You will be placed on the scale according to your years of experience. Step 1 requires a graduate degree and 6 years experience, Step 2 requires 8 years, and Step 3 requires 10 years.</li><li>Vacation: 29 days paid annual leave for each year worked (pro rata) + one day gifted around Christmas.</li></ul><br /><div>Please apply with:</div><ul><li>Your CV</li><li>Cover letter addressing essential criteria, listing of three references, and include your earliest start date and salary expectations</li></ul><br /><div>Please use PDF format exclusively using the application form. Applications by email or by post can unfortunately not be processed.</div><div><br /></div><div>We are a diverse and inclusive team and welcome your application regardless of your gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect that makes you unique.</div><br />            

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