Designer & Producer Slovenia

Job Title: Designer & Producer Slovenia
Team: IVC (Industry Value Chains Cluster)

Contract: 12 month fixed term contract

Level: Advanced
Please refer to our Capability Framework
Location: Slovenia
Start Date: As soon as possible.

Apply by: We're interviewing on a rolling basis until we close the role. We advise you to apply early as we may close the role early if we have a sufficient pool of candidates. 

ABOUT US

At EIT Climate-KIC, we are wholeheartedly committed to building a diverse and representative team and an inclusive workplace that values different life experiences and perspectives, and we encourage personal development, learning and growth.

When recruiting, we look to achieve diversity in the candidate pool. We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups and are happy to consider reasonable adjustments that will foster success in potential employees from diverse backgrounds and life situations. And because our team has differing needs and personal circumstances, we offer a high degree of flexibility to accommodate all working patterns. We’re happy to discuss your situation during the interview and see how best we can support you.

Don’t let Imposter Syndrome stop you from applying!

EIT Climate-KIC (Knowledge and Innovation Community) is Europe’s foremost climate innovation initiative, entrusted by the European Commission to catalyse transformation through innovation. Headquartered in Amsterdam, with circa 160 people distributed all over the EU, EIT Climate-KIC leads and orchestrates innovation with a community of more than 400. Together we conduct activities in 39 countries. We partner with cities, regions, governments and communities with the highest climate action ambition; providing the framework and expert support to holistically manage the complexity of climate change and deliver accelerated climate action.

EIT Climate-KIC operates as a not-for-profit platform working through public-private partnership, wielding both public and private funding. We consist of 3 Legal entities: a Dutch BV Holding company (for profit) with 14 branches in European jurisdictions, providing grant management, innovation orchestration services, and impact investment advisory owned by a Dutch-based foundation with charity status – Climate-KIC International Foundation. Historically, we have been funded by our founder and core funder, the European Institute for Innovation and Technology (EIT), but we are currently transitioning to a multi-funder model.

ABOUT OUR WORK IN SLOVENIA

Deep Demonstrations are a key part of our strategy and show that fast and large-scale change is possible to accelerate decarbonisation and strengthen resilience in cities, regions, countries and businesses.

Climate-KIC is working in Slovenia to support government’s ambition achieving  decarbonization and circularity under the Deep Demonstration of a Circular, Regenerative and Low Carbon Economy coordinated by both Ministry of Environment, Climate and Energy and Ministry of Public Administration. The overall goal of our partnership is to position Slovenia as a European leader in harnessing circularity to transform and decarbonise its economy while fostering a green economy, capturing public imagination with a demonstrable vision of living well sustainably, and designing and promoting the smart and circular transition through a coordinated and coherent national approach based on international best practice.

In nation-wide approach, it brings together a multitude of Slovenian stakeholders, industries, local communities and applies a system-based method to decarbonising Slovenia’s socio-economic system. The programme is about reshaping demand through technological innovation, materials use and business models, sustainable, equitable economic development, education, and policy reform, all based on circular, regenerative economy principles. Until now we have been co-creating transformative pathways in such value chains as: built environment, food, transport & mobility and starting one focused on circularity of the critical raw materials in Slovenia.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Designer & Producer role in Slovenia is crucial for the final year of implementation of Climate-KIC’s Deep Demonstration Programme, delivered in partnership with Slovenian government. You will join an existing international team working for the Slovenia Deep Demonstration project in its last year of delivery, while exploring new opportunities for further development of Climate-KIC activities in Slovenia, building partnerships and collaborative climate ambitious projects.

This role involves orchestrating a growing group of stakeholders gathered around two value chains: critical raw materials and transport & mobility and turning those groups into a collaborative community of action-oriented innovators. At the same time this role requires knowledge in at least one of the value chains (critical raw materials and/or transport & mobility) and will serve formulating strategic insights and areas of innovation and growth.

The role involves working with government and local ecosystem stakeholders to design and deliver multiple, connected innovations simultaneously, to test and learn how the country can rapidly advance its transformation towards climate neutrality.

We are seeking a dynamic and strategic-minded individual to join our team as the Designer & Producer. Your expertise will excel our systems innovation efforts, shape our collaboration and delivery of the Deep Demonstration programme in Slovenia.

You will be part of a vibrant, multicultural team dedicated to accelerating climate action through systems innovation.

Key Responsibilities

·         Stakeholder management, influence and curation, including coalition building and holding broader relationships with key strategic organisations and individuals.

·         Stakeholder engagement – nurturing existing and making new ties with individuals and organizations to build a network of contributors, supporters and local champions of the Deep Demonstration

·         Supporting government authorities in becoming systems thinking practitioners, to design and implement more transformative measures across a range of intervention areas (for example, innovations across governance, capacity building, funding and financing, or climate services).

·         Apply systems thinking and systems innovation to design actions in the spaces/ ecosystems of transport & mobility as well as critical raw materials.

·         Workshop design, preparation and facilitation for diverse audience types.

·         Contribute towards thought leadership with technical expertise and knowledge on value chains transformations, circularity and decarbonization.

·         Curate processes and dialogues to connect to other areas of Climate-KIC’s portfolio of innovation projects and Community.

·         Participate in additional attempts to fundraise for programmes to maximise impact and scale given the criticality of the climate challenge.

Key Working Relationships

·         Slovenia Deep Demonstration Project Team

·         EIT Climate-KIC Industry Value Chain Team and Lead

·         Team of team members across the organization working on systems innovation, learning, sensemaking and MEL, solutions & ventures, as well as communications

·         Other EIT Climate-KIC Teams, including Strategic Partnership, Finance and Legal

ABOUT YOU
To be successful in this role you will be a mission-driven self-starter. Someone that can translate systems thinking theory and practice from one thematic into another (for example, navigating the space between regional development, just transitions, circularity as well as various industrial value chains).

You are energised when working on a diverse set of projects engaging daily with diverse stakeholders, and skilled at sensemaking across different activities. You are oriented towards learning while doing and embracing agile ways of working.

You are passionate about addressing climate change, have deep knowledge in one of the areas of interest for Industry Value Chain team: how value chans operate, business models towards climate change, circular economy, incl. flow of materials, energy transition, similar.

Stakeholder engagement activities are your bread and butter, you enjoy working with people, are experienced in building strong and meaningful collaborations.

Qualification/Education & Experience

·         Relevant academic degree or qualification, ideally connected with value chains transformation, climate change or innovation-led development. A relevant post graduate degree is highly desirable.

·         Proven experience and expertise as a practitioner in climate action and sustainability.

·         Proven track record of holding and nurturing relationships with various stakeholders (individuals and institutions), active networking.

·         Proven track record and work experience in international and multi-disciplinary environments and contexts, fostering multi-stakeholder collaboration, and ensuring successful collaboration and delivery.

·         Expertise in at least one of the following: industrial strategies addressing climate change, circular economy, energy transition.

·         Expertise in critical raw materials and/or transport & mobility is essential.

Key Capabilities

·         Comfort and confidence working at systems levels, working in areas of complexity and uncertainty with multiple partners and relationships.

·         Emphasizing listening to learn, empathy, human-centered design, agility, empowerment, and collaboration.

·         Strong ability to build positive and fruitful relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.

·         Design and facilitation of meetings and workshops.

·         Seeing patterns of connection and difference; using diverse perspectives to catalyse breakthrough thinking, reflection and learning; culturally aware and skilled in working with diversity and inclusiveness.

·         Familiarity with different approaches and emerging trends related to strategic and systems thinking, including design for policy and futures literacy will be considered as added value.

·         Proficiency in both Slovenian and English with exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

Qualities, Personal Style, and Approach

·         Articulate and dynamic, with highly developed interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively, inspire and motivate people.  

·         Growth mindset; highly adaptable, flexible and resilient: able to work effectively in ambiguity and complexity and to respond dynamically to change.  

·         Commitment to continuous improvement.

·         Solutions focused, with a “can do” attitude; willing to undertake a range of tasks to meet needs.

·         Proactive approach, entrepreneurial.

Location

The successful candidate will be based in Slovenia, to be close to the project delivery, that is predominantly taking place in Ljubljana. It’s a fully remote working role with a high degree of flexibility.