Associate Director, City Relationships
100 Resilient Cities – Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation
Professional Area:
Economic Planning and Development
Contact person:
On-Ramps
Location:
New York City, with 50-70% international travel,
The Associate Director, City Relationships will play a key role in defining the impact of 100 Resilient Cities Challenge by helping a regional portfolio of cities—in North America, Latin America, South/Southeast Asia, or EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, Africa)—to leverage the 100RC network as they create and implement resilience plans. The Associate Director will be the primary liaison between his/her portfolio cities selected from the Challenge and 100RC. S/he must understand each city’s resilience needs within the context of implementing the 100RC program, and develop relationships and work closely with senior city and other relevant officials. He/she will oversee management of the partnership and grant with the city, organize engagement activities (e.g., conferences, workshops, etc.), and support the success of the Chief Resilience Officer (CRO). The Associate Director will promote connectivity across cities through networking tools and work closely to communicate progress in resilience strategies across the 100RC cohort.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Serve as single point of contact for cities and develop relationships with city officials
- Liaise with and facilitate among various actors and stakeholders in cities to surface opportunities for resilience and ensure political success for resilience efforts
- Utilize formal and informal influence to support cities; help diagnose resilience needs and opportunities within member cities
- Guide resilience agenda-setting and educate key officials about resilience perspectives, opportunities, and methodologies
- Represent city and advocate for city needs to 100RC and external partners; act as an ambassador bridging local culture and context
- Organize conferences, conference calls, workshops, etc. for members to advance the resilience agenda and shared knowledge
- Help city officials and the CRO revise and finalize resilience strategies; develop relevant tools, templates, and frameworks to support the resilience agenda in member cities
- Support cities with networking tools; help them connect to other cities and resilience knowledge housed within 100RC
- Manage 100RC consultants, vendors, and platform partners to effectively deliver resources to cities
- Organize, collect, and disseminate case studies and learnings to cities as initiatives are implemented across cities; coordinate with communications team to promote stories about resilience
- Manage partnership agreements including grant disbursal and other commitments
- Work with Platform Manager(s) to find solutions to city resilience needs