About the Organization

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

Department Summary

Fiscally sponsored by ClimateWorks, the Global Industry Hub’s mission is to accelerate the decarbonization of heavy industry by mobilizing philanthropic and blended capital toward the most strategic, high‑impact opportunities in steel, cement, and chemicals. The Hub bridges the gap between funders, policymakers, and industrial actors, turning complex, capital‑intensive transitions into coordinated, investable pathways. Its value lies in its ability to act as a neutral, catalytic platform: aligning fragmented efforts, de-risking innovation, and building the institutional infrastructure needed for large‑scale industrial transformation. By combining technical insight, financial innovation, and global convening power, the Hub enables funders to achieve far greater impact per dollar, accelerating emissions reductions while strengthening industrial competitiveness and regional development.

Job Summary

The Communications Manager will play a key role in amplifying GIH’s unique platform, positioning the organization alongside target government, industry and philanthropic audiences and amplifying the importance of industry decarbonization in achieving a clean transition.

This role is for entrepreneurial professionals who are comfortable both with strategic development and execution. With a primarily B2B focus, the successful candidate will be responsible for content development, website management and a small but important social media footprint as part of a comprehensive but targeted communications and branding approach. The role will drive engagement, brand coherence, and content performance across each of GIH’s target audience groups.

Essential Tasks

Lead end-to-end management of GIH’s global website : including strategy, structure, content governance, update workflows, UX/admin coordination, CMS administration, localization support, optimization for SEO, analytics monitoring and continuous improvement.
Manage and grow GIH’s social media presence (with a particular emphasis on LinkedIn, but also other platforms as relevant) across global markets.
Curate, produce and manage content in a range of formats: web pages, blog posts, reports, infographics, videos, newsletters, and partner profiles.
Produce outstanding copy as a core skillset to this role that meets the expectations of our target audience.
Work with regional teams (Asia, Europe, Americas) to localise and adapt content for regional markets and promote shared impact with the organizations we work alongside.
Monitor and report on digital performance against our key objectives (website analytics, social media metrics, content engagement) and recommend optimizations.
Develop and maintain an editorial calendar aligned with GIH’s priorities and key milestones.
Manage external digital/content vendors or agencies as required.
Ensure all digital content adheres to brand, legal, accessibility, privacy and security standards.

Required Qualifications

5‑7 years of professional experience in communications, digital content, or marketing roles with a strong focus on B2B marketing, website management, content curation and production, and social media.
Proven experience managing a website for a global or multi‑regional organization: CMS, content governance, SEO, UX, analytics.
Demonstrable experience managing and growing social media channels (especially LinkedIn).
Strong written and verbal communications skills with a track record of outstanding copy writing.
Solid experience working collaboratively across global/regional teams.
Comfortable with analytics dashboards (Google Analytics, LinkedIn Analytics, etc.).
Excellent project management and stakeholder engagement skills.
Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in communications, marketing, digital media or related field.
Ability to work effectively and efficiently (both virtually and in-person) with minimal supervision.
A commitment to a diverse, inclusive and equitable work environment.

Nice to Haves

Nice to Haves:
Experience in international climate, industry decarbonization, sustainability, or clean‑technology sectors.
Experience working with government and/or philanthropic organizations.
Experience with CRM, marketing automation, or email‑newsletter platforms.
Ability to travel occasionally across regional hubs as required.
A dynamic professional, comfortable within a small, fast paced team environment.
A strategic thinker, you are able to translate organizational priorities into great story telling as part of a global communications strategy.
A strong digital mindset with an eye for innovation and emerging platforms.
A brand steward: ensuring voice, tone, and visual identity consistency.
Collaborative and global: culturally sensitive, effective across time zones.
Results‑oriented with strong KPI tracking and optimisation focus.
Adaptable and curious: embraces change and continuous learning.
Comfortable working cross culturally and across time zones.

Compensation

ClimateWorks offers an excellent benefits package and a competitive salary that is commensurate with experience (geographic differential applied based on location).

International salary range

International salary range - will be determined based on the location and local cost of labor.

We recognize that compensation and benefits can vary across countries and understand that this can raise important questions. Our goal is to ensure fairness, equity, and competitiveness within each local context. To achieve this, we align our compensation structure with the economic conditions, labor market dynamics, and social benefit systems of the regions where we operate.

Salaries are determined based on country specific labor markets, allowing us to offer pay that is competitive within each region and consistent with other international organizations. Compensation is intentionally structured to be above lead local market averages and appropriate to the regional cost of labor. This approach supports our commitment to equity across our global workforce while enabling us to attract and retain top talent in diverse locations.

Location

ClimateWorks Foundation is based in the San Francisco Financial District. This position is based in Australia.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We are committed to equal employment principles. We strive to find ways to attract, develop, and retain the talent needed to meet business objectives, and to recruit and employ highly qualified individuals representing the diverse communities in which we live.

Our employment policies and decisions on employment and promotion are based on merit, qualifications, performance, and business needs. We make the decisions and criteria governing the employment relationship with all employees in a nondiscriminatory manner, without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, sex (including childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), pregnancy, uniform service member and veteran status, citizenship status, disability, protected medical condition, genetic information, or any other status protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws. Support and belief in this principle is a basic responsibility of all employees.

This policy extends to all aspects of our employment practices, including but not limited to recruiting, hiring, discipline, termination, promotions, transfers, compensation, benefits, training, leaves of absence, and other terms and conditions of employment.

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