Leadership Role in Climate Action

beBee Careers is seeking a leader for Climate Action in Sydney, Australia, focused on preventing gas exports. The role involves driving strategy, managing a team, and building relationships with stakeholders. Key responsibilities include leading campaigns for fossil fuel phase-out, coaching staff, and developing public narratives. Candidates should have experience in strategic leadership and climate politics. The position supports hybrid and remote work options.
Prevent Gas Exports and Drive Climate Action

This is a leadership role designed to prevent the expansion of gas exports in Australia. The ideal candidate will drive strategy in collaboration with partners, lead a high-performing team, and manage major relationships with allies, funders, and stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:
• Designing and leading high-impact strategies or public campaigns to phase out fossil fuels and drive systemic change.
• Managing and coaching senior staff and campaigners to deliver outcomes while supporting a healthy team culture.
• Facilitating collaboration across teams, programs, and allies to align strategy and maximise impact.
• Building strong relationships with movement allies, frontline communities, and funders.
• Developing compelling public narratives, media strategies, and campaign messaging.

Required Skills and Qualifications:
• Strategic leadership – Experience designing and leading strategies or campaigns that created meaningful change, ideally in climate, justice, or social movements.
• Strong understanding of Australia's climate politics – Familiarity with energy transition debates, fossil fuel industries, and the political and economic systems that shape them.
• People leadership – Proven ability to build and support healthy, high-performing teams, and coach others to lead with clarity and care.
• Collaborative mindset – Skilled at working across differences and building trust with a wide range of people – from frontline leaders to funders to policymakers.
• Movement and network experience – Understanding of how movements create change, and experience collaborating in distributed or networked organising contexts.

How We Support Our People:
• We are committed to creating a workplace that supports our staff to do their best work and develop professionally.
• We offer hybrid, remote, and flexible working policies, as well as additional annual leave, paid parental leave, and life leave for significant personal reasons.
• We provide generous allowances for workspace and technology, regular all-org and team meetings, and retreats, and professional development budget and support.
• We value diversity in all its forms and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people of colour, people with disabilities, people outside urban centres, and LGBTQIA+ folks.