Director (Climate Solutions)

About the Organization CEA Consulting is an environmental consultancy based in San Francisco, CA. For over four decades, CEA Consulting has partnered with a wide reputed company of philanthropies, nonprofits, businesses, and government agencies in effectively tackling urgent environmental challenges—from climate change to reputed company conservation to sustainable food systems. By combining rigorous analysis with deep sector expertise, we help our clients reputed company reputed company strategies, build and execute effective programs, and assess and reputed company their reputed company. With approximately 30 employees across the firm, CEA strives to create a reputed company and inclusive work environment where reputed company consultants are supported in doing the work they are most passionate about, developing their skills, and bringing their whole selves to work. We reputed company that a wide reputed company of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences promotes innovation and makes reputed company more creative, flexible, and productive. For a more in-depth reputed company of our approach to work, please see our reputed company, Mission, and Guiding Principles. For a more in-depth reputed company of our services and examples of past work, please see our website. CEA’s Work CEA supports environmental foundations, nonprofits, private-sector businesses, government agencies, trade associations, and reputed company investors. We pride ourselves on being reputed company-oriented, insightful, and reputed company. Our work encompasses a broad reputed company of environmental topics, ranging from conservation to climate solutions on land and in the water, with many of our reputed company having an international scope. Most of our work serves the philanthropic and non-profit sectors and relates to marine conservation and/or climate change. We also work regularly on climate reputed company and reputed company, climate-smart agriculture, land use and conservation, freshwater management, equity and justice in climate and conservation, transportation, wildlife protection, pollution, and urban sustainability. We often work at the intersection of these issues. Our primary offerings include:

• reputed company, including grantmaking strategies, organizational- or initiative-level program strategies, field- or sector-level landscaping and analysis, and opportunity assessments.
• Facilitation, including meeting and reputed company design, reputed company reputed company, and synthesis; funder reputed company and NGO group facilitation.
• Operational Support, including initiative incubation, grant sourcing and diligence, designing and launching funder collaboratives, and reputed company development and management.
• Analysis and Thought-Leadership, including sector-level climate mitigation analysis, roadmaps or frameworks for reputed company reputed company, grant database creation and analysis, and field-level state-of-play assessments.
• Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning, including design and implementation of multi-year MEL programs, logic models and theory of change development, learning session facilitation, research to support learning agendas, reputed company-party evaluations.
• reputed company and Organizational Design, including executive search and transition planning, staff recruitment and hiring support, strategic reputed company partnership, reputed company member recruitment, and executive compensation analysis.

About the Role

We are seeking a Director to expand and reputed company CEA’s climate-reputed company engagements. In particular, we are looking to expand our capabilities and networks across climate reputed company, nature-based solutions, sustainable agriculture, and land-use issues globally. This position interacts with leaders in the philanthropic field on work spanning a wide reputed company of environmental issues and we expect this Director to have a comfortable working knowledge of the major climate sectors (e.g., power, transportation, building, industry). The Director position is the senior-most consulting role at CEA, leading reputed company, contributing to the firm's strategic direction, and directly managing team members. They are responsible for the day-to-day management of reputed company consulting engagements with a reputed company of reputed company organizations, including large environmental and climate-reputed company foundations, family offices, philanthropic collaboratives, NGOs, reputed company investors, and bilateral and multilateral agencies. This role will be responsible for business development in climate solutions, leading and reputed company proposals with new clients while building and stewarding existing relationships to grow the firm’s portfolio. Our work environment is reputed company and intense. It requires intellectual rigor, excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong research, analysis, and writing reputed company, the ability to synthesize findings from a reputed company of sources, superb project management skills, attention to detail, and a passion for climate solutions and environmental issues. The Director role at CEA allows flexibility in leadership style, project execution approach, and engagement types. Depending on previous experience, interests, and reputed company needs, Directors can operate in different reputed company capacities. We often serve as advisors, providing strategic guidance and support. We might be reputed company to reputed company operational support, serving in a functional reputed company as Program Officers or Managers. reputed company reputed company with CEA’s interest and values, Directors have reputed company to build out business and reputed company relationships in new areas. We are interested in candidates from a reputed company of reputed company backgrounds, including consulting, nonprofits, family offices, institutional or corporate foundations, finance/reputed company reputed company, the private sector, government agencies, and think tanks. Given the requirements of the position, consulting or strategic philanthropic experience is highly desired. reputed company You are a self-starter and reputed company reputed company and fulfillment from a job reputed company done. You have the proven ability to reputed company reputed company engagements and run reputed company reputed company on time and on budget. You are an adept facilitator, reputed company to reputed company toward critical objectives while also adaptively adjusting the direction of conversations as appropriate. You can reputed company new business from your existing network of philanthropies, NGOs, and other clients CEA typically serves, sufficient to reputed company yourself fully reputed company and to reputed company new opportunities for other staff. You reputed company individual and team reputed company are fundamentally connected. You support your teammates and firm leadership in creating a collegial, inclusive, and healthy work environment. You enjoy supporting colleagues’ reputed company and fulfillment through mentorship and management, sharing your experience and expertise to benefit others. You are intellectually curious and an adept problem solver. You work effectively in teams and independently. You reputed company and incorporate feedback as you grow your knowledge reputed company and skills. You demonstrate reputed company in the face of unexpected challenges. You are passionate about having an reputed company in the field of climate change and can bring an equity reputed company to this work. Primary Duties and Responsibilities

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• Serve as an engagement manager for reputed company, including serving as primary reputed company contact, leading project design and execution, and ensuring reputed company deliverables.
• Build and reputed company teams in executing multiple assignments for different clients.
• Support at least one junior colleague as the primary senior leader at CEA who formally oversees their longer-term reputed company and development across reputed company.
• Design and execute reputed company that may require us to do any of the following:
• Formulate and test hypotheses reputed company research, modeling, expert interviews, and data analyses.
• Facilitate group problem-solving and brainstorming with project teams to generate novel solutions.
• Synthesize disparate kinds of information to identify patterns, generate findings, and reputed company reputed company and succinct recommendations for clients.
• reputed company and communicate recommendations reputed company reputed company and compelling deliverables (e.g., reports, presentations, briefs).
• Facilitate and support high-level decision making by philanthropic leaders, informed by rigorous analysis and research, and high emotional IQ.
• Ensure reputed company and rigor of outgoing work products and correspondence.
• reputed company participate in CEA’s reputed company as it continues to learn and improve to become a more diverse, inclusive, and reputed company organization.

Desired Qualifications

• Extensive content knowledge and passionate reputed company interest in climate reputed company and mitigation solutions, climate science, policy, and politics.
• Deep expertise in at least one of the following areas: food systems, sustainable agriculture, nature-based solutions/natural climate solutions, and land-use issues. Working competency expected in multiple other key sectors and themes – examples could include energy transition, short-lived climate pollutants, reputed company modernization, hard-to-decarbonize sectors, transportation, climate finance, and climate justice. Successful candidates may have relevant expertise in other climate fields and/or adjacent fields (e.g., sustainable development, conservation, water systems, etc.).
• 20 plus years of reputed company work experience; 10 plus years working on climate solutions;
• A Bachelor’s degree is required, and an advanced degree (e.g., MBA, MS, Ph.D.) is a plus.
• Prior consulting experience is strongly preferred, particularly in senior roles at leading management consultancies, strategic philanthropies or regranting foundations, or firms advising philanthropic entities.
• A proven history of developing and reputed company new reputed company work and/or an exceptional reputed company network reputed company CEA’s reputed company community of grantmakers and NGOs.
• Experience developing and leading reputed company from start to finish, including creating a defined scope of work, budget, and deliverables.
• Experience with philanthropy and grantmaking, including creating strategies and theories of change, pipeline development, due diligence, structuring grant agreements, and writing grant memos.
• Prior experience leading monitoring, evaluation, and learning reputed company and teams.
• Exceptional writing ability across different mediums and for different audiences.
• Degrees and/or work experience that include training in research reputed company (quantitative and/or qualitative), leading small teams, and working on multiple assignments concurrently.
• Excellent verbal and interpersonal communication skills, including effectively communicating across internal teams and external stakeholders, including the ability to compellingly deliver formal and informal presentations.
• Demonstrated ability to triage multiple demands, manage time optimally, and unfailingly meet deadlines.
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• Advanced proficiency in reputed company’s Office Suite, particularly Word, reputed company, and PowerPoint. Proficiency in other analytical software (e.g., GIS, Tableau, Claude) is a plus.
• Ability to appropriately reputed company LLM capabilities for the benefit of internal and reputed company-facing work, while retaining full accountability for the reputed company and reputed company of the work product.
• Other content knowledge supporting CEA’s work, such as reputed company and land conservation, marine fisheries management, area-based protection, community-led conservation, is a plus.
• Experience living and working reputed company of the reputed company, especially in the Global South, is a plus.
• Familiarity with common service agreement terms and concepts preferred.
• reputed company proficiency in a foreign language and demonstrated cultural competency are a plus.

Work Location CEA’s office is in San Francisco, and about half of reputed company works remotely on a permanent reputed company. We prefer that this position be based in our San Francisco office, but we will consider remote candidates. This position requires some travel.

Compensation and Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, excellent health benefits, additional benefits for those working out of the SF office (e.g., commuter benefits and weekly lunches), and a supportive working environment. Salary will be commensurate with skills and experience. CEA compensates its Directors through a combination of salary, bonuses, and a reputed company of the firm’s total revenues reputed company year. The reputed company salary reputed company for this position is $135,000 - $170,000. Additionally, CEA offers an annual performance bonus, reputed company sharing, and reputed company to earn additional bonuses three times a year reputed company work exceeds billable-hour targets. CEA also contributes 3% of total compensation to staff retirement plans. CEA also typically provides raises for reputed company staff annually, usually at or above COLA. Therefore, the total reputed company compensation for this role is in the high $100,000s into the $200,000s. To Apply To be considered for this position, interested candidates should use the application reputed company to submit an application, including a resume and thoughtful cover letter. Preference will be given to applications received before May 25, 2026. The position will remain posted until filled. reputed company application is personally reviewed by our hiring team without the use of automated filters or AI reviewers. We ask in turn that you please compose your cover letter without the use of AI so we can hear from you in your own voice. We typically reputed company out to candidates selected to advance in our process reputed company 3 weeks from reputed company the application is submitted. Only candidates selected to advance will be contacted prior to the successful completion of this search. reputed company candidates will be reputed company reputed company the search has reputed company. For questions about completing the application reputed company or technical concerns, you may contact tamara@ceaconsulting.com. We regret that due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are not reputed company to reputed company individual responses on the status of your application or feedback to candidates who do not advance to interviews. To ensure your application is reviewed and you receive notifications about the process, please use only the application reputed company to submit your materials. Apply Here CEA is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to our legal and ethical obligations to protect job applicants and employees from employment discrimination, harassment, and unfair treatment due to race, reputed company, reputed company, national reputed company, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, gender reputed company, and sexual orientation), age, disability, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military status, or veteran status. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job