Senior Insights Manager, ClimateTech

Responsibilities

• Formulate the programme’s learning agenda. This will include: building a strong understanding of the climatetech ecosystem in LMICs, identifying key stakeholders and trends, and recognising nascent opportunities; formulating and communicating strategic and business frameworks to inform programme’s future implementation work on key topics and use-cases.
• Develop and disseminate programme insights. This will include: leading discrete research projects across the programme’s priority areas, and developing report, blog, web, video and other outputs about grantees, programme research, industry events and relevant industry news for internal blogs, as well as guest blogs to share with partners.
• Present our insights to key stakeholders. This will include: presenting at key industry events, tailoring our insights to the needs of specific stakeholder groups including mobile operators, government organisations, donors, and enabling organisations.
• Position the programme as a thought leader and valuable research partner for advancing climate tech solutions in LMICs. This will include: building a strong community of practitioners with a shared vision of leveraging private sector and digital technology capabilities to solve the environmental challenges of our time, elevating the profile of our work among key stakeholders, and highlighting the programme’s unique offer at the intersection of digital innovation, climate action, and the mobile industry.
• Provide mentorship and management to the wider insights team. This will include: Managing an Insights Manager and a Climate Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Manager based in India and the UK.
• Collaborate within the wider team. This will include: supporting market engagement, and advocacy teams to delivery key insights for relevant stakeholder engagements in the form of outputs such as presentations, case studies, toolkits, blogs, events and meetings; collaborating with the market engagement team to leverage existing programme relationships and engagement to generate insights; working with the advocacy team to ensure key programme messages are included in relevant external publications and outputs.
• Collaborate within the wider GSMA. This will include: serving as a key point of entry for other GSMA Mobile for Development teams aiming to explore the climate impact of their work and ensuring that all of Mobile for Development is aligned on key messaging points and technical approaches; collaborate with the GSMA’s Climate Action team to support the industry’s transition to net zero and build on ongoing activities in LMICs.
• Engaging in a range of personal growth opportunities. Continuous learning is critical to the success of our work, and it can take many forms whether it is taking a short course on a frontier technology, exploring a novel use case through stakeholder interviews/visits, or exploring a new topic through internal or external collaborations.

Skillset

• Excellent writing skills, with an ability to structure reports coherently with minimal guidance. Additional language skills are advantageous, but not essential.
• You can work on an emerging opportunity area without a defined blueprint. You are experienced in providing strategic thinking as well as day-to-day support to external research organisations and contractors.
• You have strong communication abilities to deliver complex and technical content clearly to a broad audience through blogs, reports, power points and verbal presentations. You complement these skills with a proven ability to influence different types of stakeholders, including C-level management, and policymakers through an evidence-based approach.
• You have excellent analytical skills, including the ability to generate frameworks and structured analysis, and high attention to detail.
• You are a quick learner, and are able to grasp the complexities of new emerging technologies (e.g. IoT, Big Data etc.) and business models. You have experience in working towards sustainability outcomes within a commercial domain.
• You have thematic experience linked to several of the ClimateTech programme areas of focus (climate resilience and adaptation, natural resource management, urban resilience, circular economy solutions, climate finance, carbon credits, essential service delivery).
• The role will require developing programme positions and standpoints together with our advocacy team on these subjects and therefore subject matter expertise will be key.
• You are a team player and can achieve results through your excellent relationship management skills, collaboration and your ability to consider the interests of multiple stakeholders in your day-to-day work.
• Proactivity is an essential skill for this role. Climate action is a topic that needs urgent attention and swift response. Thinking ahead of the curve, bringing the right set of public and private sector stakeholders together are paramount to succeeding in this role.
• You should be a self-starter with a passion for helping the underserved in developing countries improve their lives and combat climate change by leveraging digital technologies.
• Understanding of the mobile industry, key industry trends, commercial drivers and challenges faced by mobile operators in LMICS is advantage.
• You have excellent project and people management skills, with the ability to handle multiple tasks at the same time, and work as part of a diverse international team, including regular travel.