Senior Director, European Advocacy

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Belgium.

📋 Description

• Spearhead the formulation and implementation of CATF’s pan-European policy advocacy strategy, ensuring alignment between regional priorities and global objectives.

• Participate in our senior leadership team to harmonize priorities, resources, and investments throughout the organization.

• Cultivate and empower a high-performing team of 7 policy experts and consultants distributed across various locations.

• Lead regional fundraising efforts in collaboration with the Development team, responsible for driving revenue growth, engaging donors, and securing sustainable funding for European initiatives.

• Direct regional advocacy activities that promote practical climate solutions within Europe’s intricate political, economic, and energy landscape.

• Enhance CATF’s public presence and mitigate risks by ensuring the delivery of high-quality, consistent messaging—acting as the final reviewer for external documents such as reports, policy briefs, white papers, and press releases.

• Represent CATF in discussions with European institutions, national governments, funders, industry leaders, media, and other high-profile stakeholders.

• Manage regional resources, including team planning, budgeting, consultant support, and prioritization across European projects.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive senior leadership experience, with a minimum of 10 years in management, strategy, policy, advocacy, or a related domain.

• Profound knowledge of European energy and climate policy, political dynamics, and private sector involvement, or relevant experience in a similar field.

• Experience engaging with European Union institutions, Member States, including Central and Eastern Europe, the UK, or other European policy contexts.

• Demonstrated ability to develop and lead regional or multinational strategies within complex policy, nonprofit, advocacy, or technical settings.

• Strong history of engaging with senior stakeholders, including government officials, industry leaders, funders, and multilateral organizations.

• At least 6 years of experience in directly leading, mentoring, and developing high-performing teams across various cultures, locations, or disciplines.

• Experience overseeing significant budgets, resources, priorities, and organizational trade-offs in a mission-oriented environment.

• Proficiency in English and the ability to communicate effectively with internal and external senior-level audiences.

• A leadership approach rooted in curiosity, collaboration, persistence, integrity, and a dedication to measurable climate impact.

🏝️ Benefits

• An opportunity to influence climate policy and accelerate practical climate solutions in one of the world’s most impactful regions.

• A mission-oriented role fostering climate innovation, energy system transformation, and emissions reduction throughout Europe.

• A culture of collaboration and intellectual curiosity where diverse perspectives are valued, and bold, practical solutions to climate change are promoted.

• Opportunities for cross-functional collaboration spanning policy, advocacy, technical, communications, executive leadership, and development teams.

• A flexible, remote work environment within Europe, with travel for meetings, conferences, and strategic engagements in Europe, the U.S., and globally.

• An excellent benefits package accompanied by a competitive salary commensurate with experience and location.