Programme Coordinator, Sustainability Accelerator
Chatham House, United Kingdom

Programme Coordinator, Environment and Society Centre's Sustainability Accelerator

Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, is a world leading independent policy institute based in London. As a global think tank, our mission is to help build a sustainably secure, prosperous and just world.

The Environment and Society Centre provides governments, businesses and societies the information, networks and tools to accelerate the world towards a sustainable and fair future.

Within the Environment and Society Centre, the Sustainability Accelerator was launched in May 2021, and puts sustainability at the core of Chatham House’s work. It researches, assembles and incubates the ideas, expertise and energy that will help the world accelerate towards a sustainable future. As a policy accelerator, it aims to combine the best of evidence-based policymaking with the innovative and experimental approach of the entrepreneurship community to act as a springboard for ideas and solutions to some of our biggest environmental challenges.

We seek a Programme Coordinator who will play a key role in supporting the Environment and Society Centre's project activities, with a particular focus on our Sustainability Accelerator's work.

You will support the Sustainability Accelerator by providing coordination and support across research projects, publications and financial administration. We're looking for an individual with a flair for events planning and working with digital communications to build up our engagement strategy.

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Reporting to the Manager of the Sustainability Accelerator, the Programme Coordinator will:

Strategy

• Understand the Sustainability Accelerator and Chatham House’s overall strategy and your role's contribution to it;
• Proactively coordinate budgets and support financial management, including to draft and review budgets for proposals and grant reports, manage payments, monitor expenditure, and work with the Manager to support internal financial review processes;
• Support preparing and submitting progress reports in coordination with the Manager and other research colleagues;
• Identify areas for collaboration and efficiencies, working across the Sustainability Accelerator to help drive these;

• Coordinate the production of outputs as required with a focus on: digital communications and promotional materials; events, workshops and roundtables; research; and administration;
• Support outreach through digital communications platforms, producing promotional content for channels such as Twitter and newsletters, while also maintaining up-to-date webpages and supporting in the creative production of other promotional materials.
• Design and deliver events, with a particular focus on public engagement events. This will include working with researchers and other colleagues in Chatham House to identify relevant event topics and managing attendance, travel accommodation, publicity and other logistics as required.
• Assist with desk research in order to develop your knowledge on the most pertinent sustainability issues while contributing to our research outputs;
• Effectively deliver on administrative processes, including but not limited to: supporting project management of an exciting schedule of activities and outputs; coordinating production of research publications; maintaining data and using our CRM in compliance with GDPR; keeping project files and databases of records up-to-date; and producing and proofreading programme outputs, meetings and memos.

• Maintain links with key individuals, businesses, and institutions around the world working on relevant issues with the Sustainability Accelerator;
• Build and maintain relationships with colleagues, funders and partners to meet the Sustainability Accelerator’s goals, with a strong collaborative approach to delivering work with other teams within Chatham House;
• Work with others in creating a positive working culture, ensuring good practice is shared and embodying the institute's standards of behaviours are followed;

Requirements

Person Specification

• Experience in coordinating and delivering high quality events for online meeting platforms and for large in-person events;
• Experience developing eng

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