Clean Energy Futures Projects Lead
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job title: Clean Energy Futures Projects Lead
Location: Remote (global based)
Managed by: Clean Energy Futures Strategy Lead
Salary: £45,000 - £50,000, dependant on experience
Contract: Full time; permanent
Application deadline: 12th June 2026
BACKGROUND
Consumers International is the world’s leading network of consumer organisations, uniting over 200 Members in more than 100 countries. Together, we work to protect and empower consumers everywhere, championing their rights and ensuring their voices shape products, policy and practice.
We collaborate with our Members and partners to tackle critical, systemic issues that affect people as consumers. As the only independent global advocate for consumers, we represent their interests in international policy forums and the global marketplace – helping to shape systems that are fair, safe and sustainable by design.
Joining Consumers International means contributing to bold, cross-border solutions at the forefront of consumer rights. Explore a selection of our recent achievements here.
Clean Energy Futures
Within the Clean Energy Futures programme, our vision is for an affordable and accessible energy system in which all people can enjoy the benefits of increasingly clean, decentralised and interconnected energy. You can explore our past achievements in promoting consumer interest in clean energy on our website, here: Clean Energy Futures - Consumers International.
This work is directed by our Consumer Power strategy, which puts people at the centre of a fast, fair and accountable energy transition under four pillars of action: securing energy consumer rights; sharing the benefits of a fair and affordable transition; empowering prosumers; and amplifying consumer voice in energy policy.
Purpose of the role
We are seeking a Clean Energy Futures Projects Lead to manage initiatives in our high-performing Clean Energy Futures team. This is a high-impact role that blends strategy, innovation, and delivery.
This role is central to our unique, global, multi-stakeholder programme, which includes various aspects of consumer rights in energy including energy affordability, energy access, and participation in clean energy opportunities, including emerging technologies such as smart home energy management and dynamic grids.
Working alongside the Clean Energy Futures Strategy Lead, the Director of Sustainability and the wider team, the Clean Energy Futures Project Lead will be responsible for co-creating and managing projects including policy research, consumer insights and campaigns, reports and recommendations to business and government, and coordination with international bodies (UN, IEA, OECD) on standard setting. They will have a key role in the team's engagement with a wide network of consumer organisations and energy sector stakeholders from government, multilaterals organisations, NGOs, think tanks and individual experts, and they will manage and grow critical relationships with private sector partners and funders.
This is a diverse role working on vital aspects of the clean energy transition, helping to ensure that the consumer voice and consumer interests are central to future energy systems design.
The ideal candidate is a results-driven team player with expertise in clean energy policy and practice, an understanding of the importance of demand-side solutions, and a belief in the potential of international and cross-sector collaboration in achieving a fast, fair and equitable transition.
The role is open to candidates globally.
Why Join Us
• Play a leading role in scaling Consumers International’s global sustainability programme.
• Shape partnerships and funding that enable system-level change across energy, materials and food systems.
Work with a unique global network of 200+ consumer organisations and leading international partners.
• Join a dynamic, mission-driven organisation recognised as the global voice for consumers.
Key Responsibilities
Key responsibilities of the role include the following:
Project Management
Lead multi-country, multi-stakeholder projects from inception to delivery, ensuring they are completed on time, on budget, and with measurable impact.
Manage budgets, risks, and reporting in line with organisational standards.
Coordinate across internal teams to ensure seamless delivery of complex initiatives
• Develop new project proposals, initiate/support projects and pursue relevant funding opportunities with partners and other external actors.
Insight and Innovation
• Provide deep, up to date understanding of energy and related consumer issues globally.
• Track trends and policy developments to ensure the organisation is at the forefront of global debates.
Write reports and thought leadership that can influence decision-makers.
Contribute to updating our Consumer Power strategy in the Clean Energy Futures team and identify opportunities for innovation and growth in this area.
Member and Stakeholder Engagement
• Collaborate closely with Consumers International’s membership to drive collective action.
• Work with cross-sector partners to support project delivery and support in identifying new partners, including private sector, to grow programme impact.
Global Representation
• Advocate for consumer rights and sustainability, positioning Consumers International as an important voice in fair and equitable transition to the clean energy future.
Contribute to policy discussions and global narratives.
Represent Consumers International at global events.
Working across teams
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across the organisation to support the implementation of the Strategic and Business Plans.
• Constantly be on the look-out for new opportunities for Consumers International to build our impact and organisational strength.
• Contribute as needed to Consumers International-wide communication and outreach.
• Embody the culture and values of Consumers International and help us deliver on those.
Personal Specification
| ESSENTIALREQUIREMENTS | CRITERIA |
| EXPERIENCE | ● At least four years' experience working on initiatives, advocacy, or policy related toenergy and climate.At least two years' experience delivering complex, multi-stakeholder internationalprojects. |
| KNOWLEDGE | Excellent knowledge of global clean energy issues, including energy justice,consumer-center energy principles, and the wider challenges and opportunitiesfacing energy consumers.A background or knowledge in policy and/or political science, and/or anunderstanding of international governance processes and frameworks, or abackground in energy, law or engineering (desirable). |
| SKILLS ANDABILITIES | Excellent communication skills. Ability to communicate complex informationsuccinctly both in writing and verbally.Excellent project management and organisational skils, with the ability to thriveunder pressure.Able to think creatively, using insight to make connections which lead to fruitfulpartnerships.Self-motivated, driven, and able to work eficiently without close supervision.A cooperative team worker: agile, flexible, responsive and able to work withcolleagues across the team and organisation, and across time zones. |
| OTHERREQUIREMENTS | Excellence in English essential. Second language would be an asset.Appetite for working remotely.Commitment to the aims and objectives of Consumers International.Able to thrive in a multicultural, highly collaborative and agile work environment.Ability to travel globally for key events and meetings. |
Our values
The Consumers International team strives to live the following values:
| Leadership | Making tough trade-offs to ensure we deliver against strategy.Charting a path forward, listening to other perspectives, while beingindependent of those perspectives.Self-starting, motivated to put ourselves in leadership positions anddrive forward pieces of work.Striving to bring others with us so colleagues understand the directionwe are taking and our reasoning. Viewpoints are sought at keymoments and delivery is orientated around the strategy. |
| Inclusivity | In delivering our strategy, creating the space to listen and understandviews, and diversity of participation and representation. |
| Caring | Caring about the career development and success of our colleaguesand how our team collaborates together.Caring about the future of consumers and members and achievingimpact for them through our strategy and change agenda. |
| Innovation | ● Pursuing creative ideas that have the potential to change the world. |
| Agility | ● Adapting quickly in response to opportunity. |
| Efficiency | • Generating the greatest impact for the least effort. Keeping it simpleand systemising for efficiencies. |
| Excellence | Delivering work to the highest standards with professionalism andintegrity. The quality of work is evident to all. |
| Passion | • Passion for a safe, fair, and sustainable marketplace for consumersdrives our impact and the achievement of our organisational goals.Engaging with energy and excitement. |
Employee benefits
Consumers International employee benefits offered will be in line with the statutory requirements in effect for the regional location that the applicant resides in. Applicants must have residency rights in their specified location for the duration of the employment contract.
We offer co-working spaces (up to 2 days at Regus offices) and an allowance for the pension scheme if the individual is hired through Globalization Partners, our International recruitment partner.
Holiday entitlement will be specific to each location and will be dependent on the public holidays available in the location.
Application
Please share your CV and a cover letter with recruitment@consint.org.
We look forward to hearing from you and thank you in advance for your time.
This is a description of the job as it is presently constituted. It is the practice of Consumers International to review job descriptions from time to time and to update them to ensure they relate to the job as then being performed, or to incorporate whatever changes are being proposed. This will be conducted in consultation with you. It is the organisation’s aim to reach agreement on changes, but if agreement is not possible, Consumers International reserves the right to insist on changes to your job description, after consultation with you.
Consumers International is an equal opportunities employer with a policy to ensure that no job applicant or employee should receive less favourable treatment on any grounds not relevant to good employment practice.
Updated: May 2026