Position: Program Manager

Organization: The Climate Group

Location: Haryana

Key responsibilities will include: 

• Corporate Recruitment and Engagement 
  • ​Manage and execute the EV100 recruitment strategy, aiming to continuously expand the sectoral and geographic footprint across both the United States and Canada.
  • Engage in a robust pipeline of conversations with the world’s leading companies with largescale fleets based in North America to commit them to EV100. 
  • Support the global team in managing the relationships with the existing and growing body of members in North America by being their regional EV expert and EV100 point of contact. 
  • Support the development of global and domestic EV100’s member offerings, such as our regional networking, best practice sharing and knowledge generation, to maximize the value for participating companies as well as the strategic impact of the initiative. 
• Policy Advocacy: 
  • Lead all federal policy activities for EV100 in North America including engaging with the Biden-Harris Administration, US EPA, US DOT, and more to drive forward EV100 US policy and regulatory priorities.
  • Manage a team of consultants and execute EV100’s state policy activities through July 2022 with the potential for expansion based on funding and EV100’s guidance and review. 
• Strategy and Growth:
  • Monitor industry, policy, and regulatory landscape to develop new programmatic ideas and projects to help support EV100 member commitments and develop the EV industry (e.g., Formula E). 
  • Contribute to development of core messaging for public-facing materials including media, newsletters, and annual report. 
  • Contribute to the Climate Group’s thought leadership on electro-mobility in the US and identification of strategic development opportunity for the campaign.
• Collaboration:
  • Regularly attend meetings and engage with NGO partners in the Clean Vehicles Coalition, and lead relationships with regional engagement partners and other organizations such as CALSTART, Forth, and Ceres and internally with the Under2 Coalition/ZEV Community to support EV100 recruitment and advancing collaborative projects/policy as the EV100 representative. 
  • Attend and speak at panels and conferences to promote EV100's growth and discuss EV market trends Also coordinate the participation of EV100 and its members in climate and transport events hosted by the Climate Group, external organizations and at the Climate Group's Climate Week NYC

  • Essential:

  • Minimum 3+ years of equivalent or direct experience in transportation/EV industry, corporate sustainability, partnership development, recruitment and/or engaging major international companies across a membership group. 
  • Minimum 3+ years of experience in US policy advocacy with a deep understanding of key-EV related legislative and regulatory mechanisms including relationships with federal and state government leaders. 
  • Ability to work in ambiguity, with a willingness to engage multiple different priorities at the same time across both member engagement, policy, relationship building and communications. 
  • A “get it done” mentality, and ability to develop strategy, manage expectations, build a team, and execute on projects with minimal oversight. 
  • Commitment to the Climate Group’s mission, and particularly passionate about accelerating transportation electrification.
  • Relevant background knowledge on corporate climate leadership and/or clean transport and electromobility agenda.
  • Strategic mind, leader, and ability to drive a portfolio of activities to set priorities.
  • Strong team member and ability to collaborate with multiple colleagues and partners.