Communications Manager, Zero Emission Freight at C40 Cities

Position Description

• The Communications Manager, Zero Emission Freight will manage and coordinate cross-regional communications for Laneshift, a partnership between C40 and The Climate Pledge to decarbonize freight in Latin America and India. This role will work closely with colleagues across various teams to support programme delivery, including the Latin America and South and West Asia regional teams, as well as the global Zero Emission Freight team. This role will also serve as a key link between programme delivery teams, the Communications team and the Campaigns team, ensuring that all strategies and outputs align with C40’s global communications strategy.
• This role will serve as the primary communications contact with the donor and support the co-creation of communications activities, events and other deliverables at global and regional levels. They will support all communications activities regarding Laneshift at global events, i.e., U20, COP, New York City Climate Week and more. They will be an organised and proactive individual with excellent communication, organisational and project management skills. The person will liaise continuously with focal points responsible for Communications and Campaigns in the regional teams.
• The successful candidate will be a quick learner who thrives in dynamic, collaborative environments and is skilled in stakeholder engagement, communications and coordination across regions, teams and diverse groups of stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute a communications strategy for the Laneshift programme alongside the funder;
• Manage and coordinate all Laneshift communication and campaign activities with C40’s Communications team, ensuring alignment between funder, regional and organisation-wide goals;
• Draft and/or copyedit communications materials including, but not limited to, thought leadership pieces, press releases, web content, and social media copy, ensuring high-quality content and alignment with key messages;
• Prepare compelling and visual reports, presentations, and other knowledge-sharing products, based on relevant material and draft internal reports from other members of the team to support the dissemination of project results, best practices, and lessons learned;
• Ensure that programme messaging is consistent with C40’s communications strategy and aligns with C40’s overall mission, voice and graphic identity;
• Liaise with partners and other C40 teams to develop and request input and approvals for publications, events and other relevant materials;
• Collaborate on the creation of toolkits for cities, partners and key stakeholders to communicate about events, announcements and campaigns;
• Actively participate and, where relevant, support the development and delivery of key advocacy and campaigning efforts related to various findings and issues from the zero emission freight partnership;
• Support effective coordination and communication between the programme and other teams such as the Transport Team, Climate Action Implementation, Inclusive Climate Action, and other internal C40 teams and the programme’s donor;
• Support global project management and regional work planning and tracking, ensuring information is available, organised, easy to access and up to date;
• Work closely with the India and Latin America ZEF teams to provide strategic support to regional delivery and ensure synergy and cross-regional collaboration, whenever possible;
• Other duties as assigned.

Person Specification:

• Extensive relevant experience in Communications; English; Journalism; Marketing or other relevant fields.
• Native-level proficiency in English; ability to speak other languages a plus, especially Spanish or Portuguese;
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including experience communicating complex topics to a non-technical audience through creative outputs;
• Effective communicator, highly organised, task-driven and detail-oriented to successfully plan and manage multiple tasks to deliver quality results within tight timeframes;
• Experience in implementing multifaceted communications strategies with a track record of supporting impactful campaigns and strategies for local governments or NGOs at a high level;
• Expertise on how to leverage different communications platforms and tactics to drive growth, engagement, and business plan goals;
• Working knowledge of cities and urban issues or working directly in or for municipal administrations;
• Project and partner coordination experience and track record of delivering projects in a challenging and evolving environment;
• Excellent multitasking, organisational and time-management skills, and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.