Essential skills
- Proven leadership track record with substantial experience leading and managing teams in complex delivery settings.
- Strong strategic skills in developing a clear and compelling model for delivery, utilising evidence, drawing on a range of personal and team experience, and getting others to buy into a vision and deliver it together.
- Experience in catalysing public and private finance and developing investment models, ideally in climate and/or water.
- Experience of managing large grant budgets, reporting to a range of partners on spend and impact.
- Strong communication and relationship skills in building partnerships with various individuals and organisations across the public and private sectors and in different geographical settings.
- Strong presentation skills to represent the RWA effectively to different audiences.
- Experience and confidence in working with Boards, supporting governance processes, and working with legal and financial complexity to deliver solutions.
- The CEO will need to be collaborative and open to new ideas and ways of working as the RWA model continues to evolve. The team has a “start-up” atmosphere, and the CEO will need to listen and iterate around problems, be willing to take calculated risks and experiment.
- Strong networks across water, climate, and/or investment (including philanthropy and the financial services sector) and ability to grow networks that benefit the RWA.
- Strong business judgment to identify the strengths and weaknesses of projects and other interventions from a commercial lens.