We’re looking for an Innovation Lead, focused on climate action and sustainability to join our growing team.

Role: Climate Innovation Lead

Location: Remote (located in Latin America)

Role Status: Full-time permanent role

Remuneration: Competitive salary, negotiable based on experience and location (approx. $40,000 – $70,000 plus benefits)

 

About ChangeX

We are ChangeX. We have built a platform to connect communities to proven innovations and finance to scale sustainable impact.

Our mission? To empower people everywhere to change their communities for the better by making it easy for them to access the innovations, funding and support they need.

With our support, sustainability ideas like Grow it Yourself, Ecosystem Restoration Communities, Precious Plastic Workspaces, Open Orchard and Repair Café are being adopted by communities across the world. As the climate crisis deepens, we need to quickly make proven climate solutions easily accessible to communities across the world, with the resources to get them started.

So far, more than 28,000 community projects have started through ChangeX, scaling 200 innovations and benefitting over one million people.

Our business model is called Impact as a Service. We make it easy for funders to invest in the innovations they want to spread in regions they care most about. Our partners include Microsoft, Accenture, The LEGO Foundation, Service Now, PWC, Amazon Web Services and Nickelodeon.

This Role: This is a full-time position at the core of our impact team working closely with internal and external teams and initially accountable to the Head of Impact. You can also expect regular interaction with several other ChangeX team members, including the product and partnerships teams.

 

 Your role as Climate Innovation Lead will include:

• Expanding ChangeX’s portfolio of impactful and scalable innovations, focusing primarily on climate, environmental, and sustainability-related ideas, with potential inclusion of other areas based on interest and expertise.
• Sourcing globally relevant ideas, especially from Latin America, ranging from grassroots, hyper-local projects to larger impact climate initiatives.
• Running a search and selection process to find climate-themed innovations including:
  • Nominator outreach
  • Desk/industry research
  • Facilitating qualifying and exploratory calls
  • Working with funding partners to understand strategic objectives and curate suggested portfolios of innovations in response
  • Presenting proposed climate innovations and rationales to global funding partners
• Onboarding selected innovations onto ChangeX through:
  • Introducing the ChangeX platform
  • Translating existing innovation implementation plans into packageable solutions for communities
  • Developing robust metrics for selected innovations to report upon 
  • Populating necessary internal information related to the innovation
• Managing a growing global community of climate innovators, supporting them to design grassroots scaling strategies, package their innovation for replication and grow their impact through the ChangeX platform
• Contributing to the design and development of a robust measurement and evaluation system for climate innovations on ChangeX 
• Capturing learnings from the community of climate innovators on ChangeX and working closely with the ChangeX product team to ensure that the technology platform is optimised for social innovator needs.

 

We are looking for people* who have:

• A demonstrated commitment to community-driven change and a deep understanding of environmental and climate related issues
• 6+ years of experience working in climate action or environmental sustainability
• Fluent Spanish and English speakers (Portuguese a plus)
• Experience and network in Latin America 
• Passion for scaling ideas that work
• High social and emotional intelligence and strong team player
• Focused and disciplined
• An entrepreneurial / intrapreneurial track record
• Strong empathy and ethical fibre

*We encourage you to apply if you believe your skills and experience are a good fit for this role, even if you don’t tick every box above. When making hiring decisions, we aim to be inclusive and look beyond checklists. We want to find people who bring fresh perspectives and want to grow with our organisation.

 

Benefits

• Flexible working options: remote, in office or a hybrid of the two
• 25 holiday days per year plus flexible hours
• Annual performance-related bonus 
• Pension scheme after 6 months of employment (dependent on your location)
• Basic health insurance plan (dependent on your location)
• Annual team retreat

 

Recruitment process

If this role interests you, please complete this form by Friday September 20th. We will begin reviewing applications as they are received, so we encourage you to apply early.

We will shortlist several candidates for an interview with a cross-section of our team. We like candidates to talk to as many of our team as possible to allow us – and you – to make the best decision possible.

After the interview process is complete, we will quickly move to decision making and offer.