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Position description:

The City Advisor will be a key part of the Breathe Cities Regional Team, working closely with the Regional Director of East Asia, Southeast Asia and Oceania, and Technical Head of Breathe Cities for Asia to advise and support the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) in the implementation of the second phase of Breathe Cities in Bangkok, which focuses on delivering ambitious priority air quality actions set out in the Bangkok City Strategy to meet clean air goals. They will co-lead the programme’s development and delivery with the Clean Air Fund’s City Lead in Bangkok, ensuring alignment across all pillars, and will lead the C40-managed work within the programme. They will convene and coordinate relevant city staff, funders, regional teams to identify key activities, C40 and external resources needed to deliver toward the city's policy goals, report and track progress, and ensure that the city administration has oversight of the programme's technical outputs and is updated regularly. They will also lead activities and events involving the Governor and his executive team. The City Advisor will be the main connection between the city government and the Breathe Cities program and network of funders and partners delivering air quality activities in the city.

They will be passionate about addressing climate change and improving public health and be excited by the opportunity to work deeply with the BMA in implementing meaningful air quality action. They will have meticulous attention to detail, have deep knowledge of local environmental issues and politics, and be a natural communicator and relationship builder, capable of working across different departments and teams within the city governments towards meeting the city policy goals.

Responsibilities:

Serve as the main point of contact for BMA and Breathe Cities, providing day-to-day engagement and coordination with city officials across departments and district offices. Represent the Breathe Cities team working across all pillars, facilitating engagement of city officials in the program, and communicating the priorities of the city to the Breathe Cities/C40 teams.
Develop strong working relationships with relevant technical staff across departments in Bangkok, leading political and technical relationship management.
Co-lead programme development and delivery with the Clean Air Fund City Lead, with the support from Technical Head of Breathe Cities Asia and wider Breathe Cities and C40 Regions teams, ensuring alignment across all pillars and cross-cutting workstreams.
Monitor the city's political priorities and needs for implementing air quality action, and work with Breathe Cities and city staff to adapt the programme's support accordingly.
Convene and coordinate the city government project team (including city staff, C40 Technical Teams, and Breathe Cities partners) to collaboratively work on delivery of the city government elements of Breathe Cities.
Work with BMA to deliver phase 2 work plan through project committees and working groups, revising and adapting work plans accordingly when emerging needs are identified.
Lead delivery of the C40-managed policy and technical assistance and knowledge sharing activities, including oversight of consultants, and serve as a connector between consultants and the city working group.
Ensure the city administration has oversight of and comments on the programme's technical outputs, and that relevant city stakeholders are updated regularly on progress.
Facilitate in-city meetings, workshops, and discussions and create materials (e.g. reports, presentations, summaries etc.) that can be used to support and track decision making for, development, and rollout of key policy and program milestones.
Lead the planning and delivery of activities and events involving the Governor and his executive team, and produce, as needed, briefings, presentations, talking points, communications/media collaterals or other materials for senior officials in relation to Breathe Cities, air quality and climate change matters.
Inform and update the Breathe Cities team on the city's priorities, political dynamics and needs to break barriers for action implementation as well as opportunities for funding air quality and climate action.
Engage agencies, NGOs and development agencies working on air quality in Thailand, so that the programme contributes to broader national and regional efforts.
Connect Breathe Cities with related C40 work in Bangkok where it supports the programme’s goals.
Contribute to development of knowledge products based on technical assistance projects, including white papers, articles, and presentations for disseminating project learnings.
And any other duties appropriate for the grade.

City Advisor, Bangkok, Breathe Cities

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