Energy & Climate Director

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🫵 Role: Energy & Climate Director

📍 Location: Brussels

📅 Deadline for applications: 06/03/2026 at midnight

Background

At T&E, we believe the future of transport is inseparable from the future of energy. Our vision is bold: We want to move away from fossil fuels and clean up the energy that powers transport. We need to transform the way we power the aviation and shipping sectors and turn vehicles into assets for the electricity grid, enabled by a dynamic, smart, and renewables-based power system.

Description

Purpose of role

We are looking for an Energy and Climate Director to ensure that we push the boundaries of what’s possible—whether it’s unlocking the potential of green hydrogen, maximizing grid flexibility, or ensuring the seamless integration of clean energy into the transport sector.

With energy becoming increasingly central to our mission, we need a strategic leader who can unify our efforts across the EU and beyond, bridging transport, energy systems and climate instruments, pushing back on false solutions and aligning all T&E policy teams to work together toward a common goal.

Primary responsibilities

• Leading and implementing T&E’s political strategy on energy transition and the EU’s climate framework and key overarching tools.
• Leading a growing team of policy, campaign, and analytical staff, overseeing their professional development and guiding their work to achieve T&E’s clean energy and climate instruments priorities.
• Supporting the building and implementation of national strategies in Europe and Asia.
• Leading fundraising for the energy and climate team and the organization, and be a key point of contact for relevant funders, and ensuring funding proposals and project budgets accurately reflect delivery capacity and strategic priorities.
• Further developing T&E’s advocacy strategy towards high-level EU, international and national regulators, politicians, and media, presenting at high-level meetings and events.
• Coordinating policy positions and strategies with other Directors and Senior Directors.
• Leading and guiding the team in efforts to build partnerships with key industry players, funders, NGOs, T&Es members and other civil society organizations.
• Maintain and grow T&E’s media impact in key European and international media markets.
• Commissioning and delivery of impactful research, both in-house and externally (including market research, emissions analysis, etc.).
• Provide clear oversight of energy and climate projects, ensuring objectives, deliverables, timelines and ownership are clearly defined, tracked and delivered.
• Maintain effective project management and reporting processe s , giving visibility over priorities, risks, dependencies and contractual obligations.
• Hold clear responsibility and oversight for team budgets, ensuring transparency, forward planning and alignment between funding, staffing and delivery commitments
• Work closely with finance and senior management to monitor expenditure, manage risks and avoid over-commitment.

Requirements:

• Five to ten years of relevant experience managing energy and climate-related teams, either in the energy sector, the EU, government advocacy, or in INGOs.
• Strong interpersonal and team-working skills, and a willingness to develop a network in both the energy and climate instruments sectors.
• Demonstrated success in leading cross-functional teams and managing complex projects across different geographies.
• Strong network within the European energy and climate policy instruments communities and a solid understanding of international energy issues.
• Experience in strategic planning and policy analysis, with the ability to think critically and innovatively about the future of energy in Europe and beyond.
• Good financial acumen, with experience in budget and project management and reporting.
• Ability to deliver to tight deadlines; eager to learn, with an optimistic attitude when faced with challenges.
• The confidence to think and act with initiative, to engage and influence policymakers of different stripes, industry representatives and other stakeholders at the highest level.
• The ability and motivation to learn technical, economic and legal information, to independently develop new political, economic or legal arguments and evidence and use them to convince key stakeholders.
• Manages: Team of 9 with 4 direct reports
• This position will be based in our Brussel’s office, we offer 2 days of homeworking per week.