Senior Program Manager, Clean Cooling Collaborative

ClimateWorks Foundation is a global organization committed to our mission: to end the climate crisis by amplifying the power of philanthropy. Since our founding in 2008, over $2 billion in grants to more than 850 organizations working to advance climate solutions around the world. We helped grow the field of climate philanthropy to where it stands today, establishing infrastructure, global networks, and momentum for continued growth. Through our Global Programs and Services, we equip philanthropy with global knowledge, networks, and solutions to drive climate progress.

• Scaling solutions: Our collaborative Global Programs — focused on solution areas including carbon dioxide removal, cooling, industry, transportation, and more — produce results that are bending the greenhouse gas emissions curve. From the U.S. to Europe, China, Brazil, and beyond, we collaborate with a diverse community of funders, NGOs, and climate leaders to accelerate climate solutions.

• Guiding and supporting funders: Our Global Services provide funders with comprehensive resources to assess, build, evolve, and execute high-impact climate-giving strategies. Our Global Intelligence service equips funders and the climate community with climate insights to pinpoint opportunities for impact and philanthropic insights to help identify investment priorities. We facilitate Global Collaborations that enable funders to increase individual and collective impact. Our Global Grantmaking services enable funders to invest in climate solutions around the world.

• Fostering collaboration, exploration, and growth: Our collaborative approach and commitment to learning ensures that we continuously explore innovative ideas and emerging opportunities — all with the aim of scaling philanthropy-supported initiatives to help end the climate crisis.

Experienced in climate science, public policy, economic and social analysis, and strategic philanthropy, ClimateWorks’ staff understands the multi-faceted challenges and opportunities of climate change. We are researchers, strategists, collaborators, and grantmakers who care passionately about our mission. For more information, please visit www.climateworks.org.

ClimateWorks Foundation’s Clean Cooling Collaborative (CCC) program works to: a) reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by the cooling sector (e.g., space cooling and refrigeration) and b) protect people from the risks associated with extreme heat. Cooling is on track to cause 10% of all global greenhouse gas emissions annually in the future. This is due to a combination of rising temperatures, increasing urbanization rates, and growing middle classes. Together these factors are driving demand for new cooling equipment, with an estimated 3 billion additional air conditioners predicted to be deployed by 2050.

Use of this mechanical cooling equipment results in indirect emissions from the fossil fuel based power plants used to generate the electricity that is needed for their operation, and direct emissions caused by leakage/release of the refrigerants they contain into the atmosphere. These refrigerants today are mainly HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons or F-gases for short), a class of super pollutants with a global warming potential (GWP) that can be up to 2000 times greater than CO2.

Our program is organized around three major activity areas:

• Driving global action to scale clean cooling and mobilizing additional investments
• Transforming markets for clean cooling solutions, and
• Increasing cooling access for heat vulnerable communities.

Our funding supports a network of advocates, researchers, policymakers, consumers, businesses, and other stakeholders who are working together to transform the cooling sector.

Besides GHG emission reductions, our work helps take stress off the grid thereby reducing the frequency of power outages, lowers users’ utility bills, improves people’s quality of life, and helps prevent heat related illnesses and fatalities.

For more information visit CCC’s website at: https://www.cleancoolingcollaborative.org/

The CCC Program Manager will primarily support the portfolio of activities that relate to CCC’s work in India, and also support other crosscutting CCC projects. Some of the cross cutting focal areas may include supporting CCC’s work on super-efficient cooling appliances, and advancing access to cooling.

The Program Manager will work in close coordination with the India Cooling Lead to support prioritization and development of new grants in India in support of CCC’s programmatic goals. In addition, the Program Manager will seek opportunities for South-to-South learning by both taking India’s successful work/learnings to others and bringing innovative ideas from other parts of the Global South/Southeast Asia to India.

In particular, the Program Manager will support on the following priority portfolio areas of our work:

In India:

• Raise the efficiency of cooling equipment sold in India, through updated Minimum Energy Performance Standards, energy use labels and other interventions.
• Increase awareness around the combined risks of high heat and humidity levels, and help drive governmental action and investments to help mitigate them.
• Support the development of a comprehensive strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from cooling in India, including identifying opportunities for appliance efficiency improvements, passive building design, and heat adaptation.
• Work with stakeholders to develop and implement policies and programs that promote energy-efficient cooling solutions and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cooling in India.

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