Operations Director - Climate Dividends

The Climate Dividends Initiative 

Climate dividends is a non-profit co-founded by Ademe, Mirova, Team for the Planet, Sweep, 2050 and Fondation Kanopée Partage and chaired by Brune Poirson.

Our global mission is to accelerate the financing of the environmental transition and firstly to steer investment in climate solutions contributing to global carbon neutrality, through the use and promotion of Climate Dividends.

Climate Dividends are extra-financial information corresponding to the positive climate impact of a company (measured by avoided or removed emissions) that can be claimed by their equity shareholders.
👉1 tonne of CO₂e avoided or removed by the company’s activity > 1 Climate Dividend distributed to the shareholder. 

Our ambition is to make Climate Dividends one of the main mechanisms used by international institutions and organisations to set rules, incentives and targets to guide and direct finance towards climate solutions and global carbon neutrality.

More info on this video. 

Our operational team is made up of 3 people (Laura Beaulier, CEO ;  Simon Deschamps, technical director; Diane de Beaudrap, development director), supported by very dedicated people (the board of directors, the representatives of the founding members, members of the technical committees and 4 volunteers). 

After 2 years of successful pilot phase, our main priority is now to scale and to increase market adoption. We are looking for a new Operations Director to support this growth and accompany our growing community of users.

Your mission 

• Ensure a smooth completion of the Climate Dividends process by the users

  • Project management: Your role is, in close collaboration with the technical director, to make sure that our users (corporates and funds) complete the process to issue Climate Dividends in due time and with the smoothest experience possible.
    → this requires to be very familiar with the Climate Dividends process and implies a basic understanding of the technical topics (carbon footprint, avoided/removed emissions, capital structures…). 

  • Customer success: you are also here to ensure the overall satisfaction of the users by understanding their expectations and making sure they meet them (more info on the use cases).
    → This can imply helping on a variety of topics: onboarding investors and diving into the financial use case, preparing specific communication material for a particular stakeholder…etc. 

  • Account management: ensure that customers renew every year (and potentially extend the scope of activities that they value with Climate Dividends) and make them ambassadors of Climate Dividends (so that they help us to embark other companies)

• Develop and improve our processes and tools

  • Maintain and improve current tools and ways of working - Google Suite, Notion, Webflow, Google analytics and Google Tag Manager, Hubspot, Make scenarios, Gitbook…etc.

  • Design and implement new processes and propose organisations to improve the team efficiency and make it easier to scale the initiative (sales, operations, customer success, communication…)

  • Bonus (depending on profile): In close collaboration with the technical director and potential external freelance, develop a dedicated Climate Dividends platform to track issuance and distribution
    

• Contribute to the overall development of the initiative: since we are a small team and a recent initiative, like everyone in the team you will: 

  • Participate in strategic reflection: technical topics (public consultation preparation and analysis), development strategy, financial use case…

  • Occasionally represent Climate Dividends during events 

• Other (depending on profile) : Contribute to general communication (monthly newsletter, linkedin, website on webflow)

What we are looking for

We are ideally looking for someone based in Paris (or who can be there very regularly without additional costs for the organisation) for meetings and events. Even though we are in full remote, we are seeking someone based in Paris to make business meetings and team gathering easier.

And then, this job is for you if you recognise yourself in the following:

• Personal commitment to ecological transition

• Minimum 3 years of working experience, ideally in the sustainability sector (consulting, impact manager in a corporate or financial environment) and in project management.
  The more knowledgeable on carbon accounting, decarbonisation strategies for companies and financial institutions, the better!

• Fluent in French and in English (writing and oral) > all our deliverables are in english and many users are not french so the level of english is a very important requirement for us!

• Strong organisation and rigorous skills (you’ll have to work with various users and  projects at the same time)

• Persevering, tolerant to stress, adaptable and motivated by a fast-paced project with changing and ambitious objectives 

• Analytical approach, capacity to be detailed oriented (to finish the 20% remaining of a task) and good ability to anticipate risks 

• Ability and eager to learn new skills and tools, work autonomously and take initiatives

• Experience and mastery of the following tools is useful but not compulsory: notion,  mailchimp, webflow, google analytics and tag manager 

• Good interaction abilities to build quickly strong relationships with our users 

• Ideally, some experience or knowledge of the sustainability sector (minimum: general knowledge with topics such as carbon footprint, transition plans, decarbonisation target setting..) and some understanding of financial topics and of the financial sector.
  

🙋‍♀️ At Climate Dividends, we are very strongly committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality. We warmly encourage applications from candidates with non-traditional backgrounds and experiences ! So even if you don’t match all the above requirements but are convinced that you could be happy and useful in this job, don’t censor yourself, we want to hear about you 🙂

What we offer

• Full remote: a coworking space budget can be allocated and we meet up once a month to work together mostly in Paris or Marseille but also in other cities

• Flexible working schedule (both in a daily perspective and to take holidays) and good working conditions (horizontal and benevolent work relationships, access to equipment,..)

• Opportunity to be involved right from the beginning in a very exciting initiative combining high impact and innovation, and to participate in the overall strategy    

• Salary : depending on profile (between 45 and 55k€)

Hiring Process

First quick screening interview by phone 

1st in-depth interview (with potential case study) with the CEO 

2nd interview with one of the board members 

Quick encounter with the rest of the team

⚠️ this job offer is kindly hosted on TFTP’s site but is not for Team For the Planet ⚠️