Future Matters is seeking an experienced EU professional with strong hands-on experience with EU policy (policymaking, advocacy, and/or consulting) to advance highly impactful climate measures.
About Future Matters
Future Matters is a non-profit strategy consultancy and think tank, working to address serious threats our world is facing. Climate change endangers the livelihoods of people long-term and on a global scale. Emerging technologies like powerful AI systems and biotechnology enable new forms of destruction, such as advanced bioweapons.
Such great risks must be met with a focus on the most impactful changes we can make – identified through careful prioritization – and thoughtful strategy that scrutinizes its underlying assumptions. Over years, we have crafted our expertise in policy prioritization research and strategy development to support think tanks, government officials, companies, and movements. Past successes include advising leading climate advocates on messaging and movement building, training hundreds in political strategy, creating the first policy prioritisation document for German climate advocates.
Now, we are looking for a Senior Policy Officer to expand our work on leveraging EU climate policy for achieving emission reduction on a global level. (You can read more about our work here).
This position has unusually high impact potential, as your work will have leverage to improve the strategy and capacity of many organizations and individuals in key positions. If hired, you will have a good deal of agency to determine the most useful projects, based on expected impact and where your own expertise is best used.
Your mission as Senior Policy Officer
You enable EU action on outsized opportunities for global emission mitigation through strategic advocacy.
Our EU climate work is based on a key insight: in the next decades, the vast majority of emissions will come from outside the EU. To have the greatest impact, EU climate policy needs to identify ways to drive down emissions beyond its own borders. Our research has identified outstanding opportunities to reduce the legal, technological, and financial barriers that currently hold back global emission mitigation.
Future Matters recently published the systematic prioritization study 8 EU Policy Priorities for Global Decarbonization. Pathways to European Climate Leadership, that identifies the EU’s best climate policy opportunities for the 2024-2029 mandate. Now we work on getting these policy priorities onto the EU agenda.
Since expanding our work to the EU level 10 months ago, we have successfully built relationships with key decision-makers. Examples include the relevant Directors at DG CLIMA, influential members of the European Parliament and other EU institutions as well as German diplomats. Multiple former EU climate leaders such as former DG CLIMA Director-General Jos Delbeke and former EU Commissioner Janez Potočnik are supporting the project with advice and access to their network.
Having established this policy network, we aim to advocate for policy opportunities with major impact on global emission trajectories.
About the role
This role is a blend of advocacy, consulting, policy analysis and research synthesis with a strong emphasis on the political and policy advocacy side.
Historically, most of our work has been in Germany (climate) and the US and UK (AI safety/biosecurity). Given the recurring emergence of great opportunities for EU climate impact, we seek to permanently expand our work to the EU and build a presence in Brussels. For this, we seek to hire a Senior Policy Officer.
As Senior Policy Officer, specializing in Climate Policy, you will:
About you:
Successful candidates must have:
You may also have some of these “bonus skills”:
These are not necessary to apply. Exceptional candidates may have one or more:
Why work for Future Matters?
What we offer
If entering the second round, will receive a detailed outline of the application process, which may be subject to slight changes depending on the candidate pool.
We are an equal-opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, age, physical attractiveness, marital status, or disability. Therefore, we are happy to make any reasonable accommodations necessary to welcome all to our workplace. Please contact us to discuss adjustments to the application process if needed: [email protected].
We know that great candidates’ CVs don’t always line up with every detail of a job description on paper. You know your strengths best, so if you are passionate about EU climate policy, and you believe you have the relevant knowledge, skills and competencies to do great in this role - we encourage you to apply!
If you are interested in this role, please apply below. Any questions about your application? Please contact [email protected] and we will be happy to assist you.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Fast-track option: If you have 10 years of experience in climate and/or EU-related roles or you are meeting 6 or more bonus criteria as well as all must-have criteria (and can demonstrate so through your work history) you can choose to upload only your CV/LinkedIn and we will most likely fast-track your application to the second stage of the hiring process. Otherwise, we recommend you fill in the questions for the greatest chance of advancing through the next rounds.
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