Senior Program Manager, Industry

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About the Global Industry Hub Fiscally sponsored by ClimateWorks, the Global Industry Hub (Hub) accelerates the decarbonization of heavy industry by mobilizing philanthropic and blended capital toward high-impact opportunities in steel, cement, and chemicals. The Hub acts as a neutral, catalytic platform, connecting funders, governments, civil society organizations (CSOs), and industrial actors to transform complex, capital intensive transitions into investable pathways. Its work bridges financial innovation, policy alignment, and system design to de-risk investment and scale industrial transformation globally with decarbonization in mind. By combining technical insight, innovative finance, and convening power, the Hub helps funders and development partners achieve far greater leverage per input, accelerating emissions reductions while strengthening industrial competitiveness and regional development. Job Summary The Senior Program Manager, Industry will play a senior, strategic role in driving the Hub's priorities and grantmaking portfolio. They will focus on strategy development, grantmaking and portfolio management related to the iron and steel sector and the enabling (clean) energy infrastructure. The Senior Program Manager will shape and execute programme strategy, co-own multi-year planning and resource allocation, and act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, external partners, and funders. This role includes a significant degree of decision-making authority, frequent external representation, and responsibility for setting good practices across the GIH program area The ideal candidate is a seasoned strategist, practitioner, and networker with the instincts and experience to be a responsible grantmaker and trusted partner. You understand and value the collective impact of building an overarching strategy and aligned network that brings together a full spectrum of approaches - from techno-economic analysis, finance, private sector engagement, and policy advocacy to diplomacy, grassroots and community organizing, and public campaigning. This position reports to the Director of Steel and Energy Infrastructure. Essential Responsibilities The Senior Program Manager is responsible for the following duties: 1. Grantmaking and Program Oversight Lead and oversee the effective passage of grants through the full lifecycle of assessment, disbursement, and evaluation, including complex or novel grantmaking decisions. Own senior relationships with grantees, including understanding their needs and circumstances, ensuring strategic alignment, effective information flow, and accountability for results. Co-direct portfolio-level budgeting, resource allocation, and multi-year planning, with responsibility for managing risk and trade-offs. Develop, refine and set program standards, tools, and operating practices. Collaborate with peers and other teams at GIH and CWF and contribute to Hub-wide and CWF best practices. Coordinate grantmaking strategies, where relevant, with the Hub's regranting partners and aligned funders to maximize leverage and coherence. Provide senior guidance and mentorship to colleagues on program and other teams at GIH. 2. Strategic Development and Execution Partner with the Director of Steel and Energy Infrastructure to co-shape and execute strategic plans and grantmaking priorities. Identify, vet, and shape high-impact grant opportunities, exercising independent judgement within broadly defined strategic parameters. Collaborate with the Director of Steel and Energy Infrastructure in developing a data-driven approach to strategy development, iteration and socialization, providing timely intelligence to inform the Hub's resource plans and those of peer funders and regranting partners. Co-lead cross-sectoral strategy development on clean energy, infrastructure and clusters; cultivate deep collaboration with the Pooled fund on International Energy, Global Grid Catalyst initiative, ReNew2030 initiative, relevant Regional Climate Foundations, and aligned funders. Ensure strong feedback loops between strategy, resource needs, and fundraising. 3. Knowledge Exchange and Ecosystem Development Collaborate with the Director of Steel and Energy Infrastructure in nurturing a peer network of philanthropic foundations to align strategic goals, foster co-learning, and strengthen ecosystem coordination. Build and maintain relationships with senior stakeholders including grantees, re-grantors, funders, governments, business, finance, and academia, and represent the Hub externally as relevant. Monitor and interpret emerging trends, risks, and opportunities in steel decarbonization and enabling energy systems, particularly in Asia, Europe, G20 economies. Identify and execute opportunities for knowledge exchange among internal and external stakeholders, including convening, briefings, and contribute to the production of the annual program report through webinars, meetings, blog posts, etc. Ensure high-quality synt

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