Deadline for Applications: January, 15th 2023 - 23:59 (CET)
Location: remote.
Europe preferred for logistical reasons and to support local partnerships. We particularly have European hubs in the UK, Malmö and Amsterdam, but are also looking to co-locate with NetZeroCities partners in cities such as in Stockholm, Madrid, Vienna and Milan.
Contract: 1 year contract with scope to become a permanent contract
We have payroll systems set up in the UK, Sweden and the Netherlands, and have a range of arrangements in place to enable employment contracting in other countries across Europe.
FTE: full-time (4d/week possible)
Pay: see our org-wide pay formula below
Language: requires fluency in English, having at least one other EU language is highly recommended. To improve our geographical diversity, Eastern and Southern European languages are especially valued.
In a context of climate breakdown and technological disruption, Dark Matter Labs focuses on accelerating societal transition towards collective care, shared agency, long-termism and interconnectedness. Our daily work ranges from policy and regulation to finance and data, from governance and democratic participation to organisational culture and identity.
We organise our work around what this transition needs, and the things we want to see in the world. To keep that transparent, we undertake open work in collaborative partnerships to provoke alternative visions of the future, designing how they might look in practice, and experimenting in context to reveal how they could work and enable the necessary change. More about us here.
We currently have legal entities in the UK, the Netherlands, Sweden, South Korea and Canada with a joint turnover in 2022 of around £3 million and a team of around 60.
We are looking to recruit several amazing humans to be part of the DM ecosystem and to grow our team for an exciting new phase of the European NetZeroCities initiative. For this multi-partner collaboration delivering the EU’s Mission 100 climate-neutral and smart cities by 2030, we are seeking a Built Environment Lead. They will play a crucial role in our NetZeroCities team, building and delivering systemic city transformation strategies for climate-neutrality and implementing radical actions with local governments and multi-actor coalitions in cities.
The Built Environment Lead will be responsible for working with cities in innovative ways to scope and implement a range of transformative actions - across energy and transport systems, housing and construction, digital solutions, nature-based solutions, adaptive infrastructure, or other relevant domains driving down GHG emissions. This role will guide cities in designing portfolios of accelerated emission reducing actions (individually or in cohorts of several cities), but also being an influential voice to frame NetZeroCities’ programmes of work in practical impactful terms for climate-neutrality.
In this role your focus will likely be split across some key areas of work: