Hybrid Senior Manager, Campaigns Mainstreaming

at C40 Cities

• Job title: Senior Manager, Campaigns Mainstreaming
• Job type: Contract
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $76,745 per year
• Degree requirement: High School Diploma
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Brazil

About the role

• Senior Manager leading strategic campaigns for urban climate action in Brazil working with C40 and GCoM networks. Focusing on stakeholder engagement, campaign strategy, and public awareness.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the C40 RME (Regions & Mayoral Engagement) and External Engagement teams.
• Provide strategic leadership on mainstreaming campaigns in support of urban climate action in Brazil.
• Act as a campaigns consultant and key advisor, offering guidance, strategic input, and best-practice sharing across cities.
• Share frameworks for campaign strategy design and delivery, and share successful campaign stories from Brazilian cities to others in the C40 and GcoM networks.
• Help connect city-level action with national narratives and local communities.
• Support cities in breaking down internal silos and aligning cross-departmental functions to design effective, data-informed campaign strategies.
• Foster cross-city collaboration by linking relevant actors and identifying opportunities for high-impact engagement and storytelling.
• Contribute to programme-wide efforts to integrate public engagement strategies into diplomacy, leadership, and advocacy activities.

Requirements

• Fluency in English and Brazilian Portuguese
• Deep knowledge of the regional, national and local political, institutional and media contexts.
• Significant and demonstrable experience working with local governments to effectively navigate political and public engagement
• Successful track record of campaigns strategy design and implementation, ideally in the urban climate space
• Strong motivation to work in the climate space
• Proven track record of consulting and working collaboratively and effectively with major global partners and funders, such as NGOs and advocacy organisations, philanthropic trusts, and the corporate sector
• Expertise managing different potential sectorial approaches and subsequent third-party hiring needs
• Comfortable working in matrix environments and remote settings
• Committed to equity, diversity and inclusive climate action.
• Desirable: Climate, or urban, or urban climate campaigning grassroot experience
• Experience with campaigning in any of the following sectors: transport, waste, forestation and/or the agro-industry
• Experience working with national governments and/or international institutional bodies
• Familiarity with Brazil’s national climate programs: knowledge of initiatives such as PAC, PCVR, PLANARO, and CHAMP implementation pathways, especially as they relate to city-level action
• Fluent in Spanish.

Benefits

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