Job Title: Executive Director, Sectoral Development
Location: Beijing, CN
Supervised by: CEO

SUMMARY

Serving as a member of Energy Foundation China’s (EF China’s) extended management team (MT), the Executive Director (ED), Sectoral Development is expected to:

• Be a visionary, innovative, and strong leader to help create the future of EF China; be a good communicator; and be a confident and goal-oriented executive with extensive experience in the relevant issues who can lead the team and work with external stakeholders to ensure EF China remains in a leading position in the field.
• Lead strategy development and execution of EF China’s organizational priorities, with a strong focus on building the new power system and promoting green and low-carbon industrial development by studying and developing sectoral strategies, roadmaps, guidelines, standards, and industrial policies; piloting the nexus of technological prototypes and business models; shaping efficient market structures as well as green, productive and safe domestic and global supply chains and climate friendly enterprise actions through both regulations and incentives; engaging market players to ensure innovative transition to carbon neutrality; and working towards systematic solutions for real-world issues and advancing organizational goals.
• Demonstrate strong team spirit within and across departments; jointly build a united and supportive office.
• Lead, coordinate, and support seamless and productive collaborations within and across departments to achieve strong synergies and significant impacts.
• Oversee overall performance of projects to ensure successful delivery of the desired results at the departmental level by using a Monitoring, Review, and Evaluation (MRE) approach.
• Strengthen and cultivate trust-based relationships with external partners.
• Serve as a strong culture ambassador of EF China to strengthen the brand and communicate the organization’s message.

The ideal candidate is a person who is a visionary and strong leader with extensive experience in the relevant field. Similar working experience in NGOs is a plus.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy Development

• Provide input to the organizational strategy and participate in strategy-related MT discussions as needed.
• Lead the development and implementation of select Taskforce/Priority strategies, ensuring alignment with organizational strategic priorities and the desired high-quality outcomes.
• Guide the development and implementation of select program strategies, ensuring alignment with EF China’s organizational strategic priorities.

Fundraising

• Cultivate new funders and resources by proactively communicating strategies and navigating agreements in a mutually beneficial manner.
• Collaborate with existing funding partners to build a coordinated approach to the work to meet organizational goals and strategies.
• Lead the preparation of concept papers and proposals for the Taskforces/Prioritiesunder the Sectoral Development Department.
• Provide input and feedback to all organization-level concept papers during regular updates with the extended MT.
• Review and approve proposals with specified thresholds for programs under the Sectoral Development Department in collaboration with the Strategic Partnerships team.
• Support the CEO and work collaboratively with the Strategic Partnerships team in the fundraising process to foster effective communications and secure sustainable funding.

Partnership Building

• Serve as a strong culture ambassador, representing EF China externally and striving to build and maintain trust-based relationships with partners and key stakeholders.
• Identify and cultivate valuable partnerships to maximize synergy, including partnerships with grantees, policy makers, opinion leaders, funding partners, commercial partners and other experts or leaders in the field.
• Share knowledge, expertise, critical information, and networks with partners to increase support and demonstrate shared purpose, leveraging all kinds of channels, including newsletters, meetings and conferences, and informal communications.
• Provide thought leadership and/or support to partners in the field with the shared purpose of growing the field.

Budgeting and Spending

• Provide input to organizational budget allocation preparation, focusing on the Taskforce/Priority led by the ED.
• Prepare budget allocation within the Taskforce/Priority, andreview and approve the budget allocation of the programs led by the ED.
• Guide the preparation of program spending plans.
• Review and approve all spending plan revisions.

Grant Management

• Review and approve grant applications
• Ensure efficient and effective collaborations in the grant management process, delivering desired high-quality outcomes, including:
• Execute in collaboration with other EDs and other departments to ensure the implementation of Taskforce projects.
• Oversee milestones of key projects and have regular check-ins with programs.

Collaborations

• Mobilize resources across the organization to support the Taskforce/Priority as well as other collaborations as needed.
• Advance organization-wide Taskforces and collaborative program strategies.
• Proactively identify opportunities for cross-sector program collaboration, and work closely with all related programs to deliver impact.

Team Management

• Provide managerial supervision and demonstrate leadership in talent selection, on-the-job coaching, training, and professional development to team members.
• Lead the evalution of all Program Directors under the ED; provide input on evaluation of all other Program Directors.
• Share expertise and resource networks through various communication channels to foster team spirit and a learning atmosphere within the team.
• Review reporting materials for the department, e.g. work plan to the board and regulators.
• Budget and manage General & Administrative expenses for the department.
• Undertake additional tasks and responsibilities as assigned by the CEO.
• Back up and support other colleagues as needed.

This job description reflects the assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, & ABILITIES

• Education: Master’s degree or equivalent, preferably in a related field: energy and climate, transportation, electrical& electronic engineering, electrical power system, energy efficiency, environmental sciences and engineering.
• Work Experience: over 15 years of related work experience; experience in energy and industrial policies, transportation, electricity, program management, program evaluation, fundraising, governmental relations, or communications strongly preferred.
• Language Level: native-level Chinese skills required; excellent command of spoken and written English, communicates in English effectively in public, with a deep understanding of Western cultures.
• Team Leadership: able to define direction and develop shared purpose, build a team with strong coaching skills, provide timely constructive feedback to team members, and support them for long-term career development.
• Strategic Thinking: able to foresee future trends, visionary with big-picture thinking, be able to prioritize, and make trade-offs based on possible resources.
• Communication and Coordination Skills: communicate logically and articulate key messages/points with a clear structure, listen actively, intuitively sense and support other participants’ unspoken views, seek interactions for all parties to achieve win-wins where possible and present benefits clearly, and synthesize different views to develop integrated messages.
• Problem Solving: able to define and prioritize key issues, make analyses with logical reasoning, utilize and synergize various resources to summarize and find solutions, and use a holistic approach to determine the best solution.
• Networking: the ability to develop new alliances and formal networks, mobilize external resources, and foster relationships with key stakeholders to achieve long-term mutual interests.

SUCCESS FACTORS

• Ethical Behavior/Integrity – Demonstrates principled performance and sound ethics, showing consistency among principles, values, and behaviors to build trust and credibility internally and externally.
• Broader Views for Systematic Solution – Proactively link program strategy and goals with the ones of the whole organization and other related programs, as appropriate, for cooperation and organization-wide capacity enhancement.
• Mission-driven/Initiative – Inspired by the organization's vision and mission, and takes actions with ownership, a can-do attitude, and a proactive mindset.
• Team Spirit – Collaboratively works toward solutions that benefit all involved parties; willingly cooperates with others to accomplish team/organization objectives.

Please email a cover letter and resume with subject line “Application for Executive Director of Sectoral Development” to jobs@efchina.org.