Senior Manager, Climate Budgeting, Brazil

The Project

The Brazil Program is a strategic partnership between C40 Cities and the Global Covenant of Mayors (GCoM), funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, to accelerate the implementation of climate action across Brazilian cities. The program aims to unlock delivery at scale by identifying and preparing high-impact, finance-ready urban climate projects while strengthening the institutional frameworks that support long-term transformation. It combines on-the-ground implementation with targeted support to federal and multilevel governance, leveraging Brazil’s growing climate ambition and the opportunity presented by COP30 in Belém.

Over the next two years, the program will engage at least 50 cities, supporting them to move from planning to action through data-driven project identification, readiness assessments, and capacity-building. At least 20 priority actions—particularly in sustainable transport and waste—will be prepared for implementation, with a strong focus on financial viability, social inclusion, and emissions impact. These efforts will be complemented by cross-cutting strategies on climate budgeting, just transition, and strengthened data ecosystems. Working in close coordination with federal actors and national city networks, the program will create the enabling conditions for long-term, replicable investment in urban climate solutions across Brazil.

Alongside implementation, the program will leverage Brazil’s leadership in global climate diplomacy to elevate city voices, strengthen and establish a model of multilevel coordination for other countries, and integrate local action into the international climate agendas. With COP30 in Belém, the initiative brings visibility to the urban Amazon, supporting practical solutions in cities facing deep socio-economic and environmental challenges. It will also showcase CHAMP in action, using Brazil’s COP30 Presidency and co-chair role in the NDC Partnership to promote the inclusion of subnational contributions in NDCs. By advancing Climate Federalism and amplifying mayoral leadership—especially from the Amazon—the program aims to inspire globally just, inclusive, and locally driven climate action.

Climate budgeting outcomes

Context setting

Climate budgeting is a governance system that mainstreams climate commitments into policy, action, and budget decision-making. It  breaks down long-term climate goals into manageable yearly targets, mainstreaming these into daily operations and budgeting, detailing specific actions, costs, responsibilities, and expected emissions reductions within the budget. 

Its transparency allows for continuous monitoring of climate actions, identifying effective measures and areas needing improvement to stay on track with targets - highlighting both actions that are within a city's direct influence, and actions that need to be implemented in collaboration with other local, regional or national stakeholders. Additionally, the climate budgeting process can highlight funding gaps, by clearly connecting specific climate actions to city climate targets and implementation costs, thereby strengthening the city’s ability to prioritise internal funding and focus its efforts to attract external funding for climate action implementation. 

Institutionalising climate budgeting as a yearly process alongside the municipal budgeting will help to ensure strong governance and accountability for climate action to reach 2030 goals.

Intended Outcome

Five Brazilian cities to embed climate action into their budgeting and financial planning process, ensuring long-term cross-sectoral investment in climate priorities that align with national and global targets, while also empowering mayors to lead on climate issues, promote public awareness and strengthen cities in negotiations for climate action.  

Program delivery to achieve the outcome:

Support pilot implementation

• Provide direct technical assistance to five Brazilian cities to adopt and test climate budgeting frameworks, using C40’s methodology and tools to guide integration into annual budget cycles.

Produce and disseminate knowledge 

• Document Brazil’s approach to climate budgeting and share lessons learned through national and global platforms—positioning the country as a replicable model for CHAMP-style mainstreaming of climate governance.

Facilitate national alignment 

• Through CHAMP, promote collaboration between pilot cities and relevant federal ministries to incorporate climate priorities into municipal fiscal processes and frameworks.

Scope:

The Senior Manager, Climate Budgeting will be a key member of the C40 Climate Budgeting team and will lead the delivery of the Brazil Program’s priorities on climate budgeting. The program aims to support five Brazilian cities to embed climate action into their budgeting and financial planning process, ensuring long-term cross-sectoral investment in climate priorities that align with national and global targets, while also empowering mayors to lead on climate issues, promote public awareness and strengthen cities in negotiations for climate action. The programs will achieve this through direct technical assistance to the five Brazilian pilot cities to adopt and test climate budgeting frameworks, using C40’s methodology and tools to guide integration into annual budget cycles. Additionally the program will document Brazil’s approach to climate budgeting and share lessons learned through national and global platforms—positioning the country as a replicable model for CHAMP-style mainstreaming of climate governance. Furthermore promoting collaboration between pilot cities and relevant federal ministries to incorporate climate priorities into municipal fiscal processes and frameworks.

The role of Senior Manager, Climate Budgeting will focus on ensuring strong city engagement, contracting, coordination and quality control of external consultants for technical support to cities, efficient project management to ensure progress and timely delivery, stakeholder management across cities and relevant national stakeholders and close coordination with other C40 and GCoM teams across the Brazil Program and C40 Climate Budgeting team. 

The role will report to the Head of Climate Budgeting and work with the wider Climate Budgeting and Regional Mayoral Engagement teams, to set the climate budgeting strategy for this grant programme. The role will be supervised by the Head of Implementation, who will ensure coordination with the other technical workstreams (data, finance, waste, climate budgeting and inclusive climate action) and will work along with the Head of Engagement, who will be responsible for the city and national government engagements.

In the role you will work closely with the Brazil Program implementation team, including project management staff supporting implementation across workstreams. Additionally you will work closely with C40’s global Climate Budgeting team to support compliance with C40 standards and guidance on climate budgeting. 

Responsibilities and deliverables:

• Lead, manage and deliver the Climate Budgeting Workstream activities of the Program in accordance with the pre-determined timeline and to budget;
• Help cities identify and design key climate budgeting actions, as well as support the mapping and prioritization of measures within the city climate action plans that should be integrated in the climate budgeting process, and collect information from city teams, plans and budgets;
• Support the city-selection and onboarding process for climate budgeting-related projects, in close collaboration with the Head of Engagement, and when needed, with the Ministry of Cities and Ministry of Environment, conducting needs assessments and stakeholder consultations;
• Support the Head of Engagement on the political engagement of the selected cities involved in the program, and lead the engagement of technical teams in these cities in climate budgeting matters, including training, cross-city knowledge sharing and one-on-one support to design relevant sector actions and help overcome barriers to implementation work;
• Manage climate budgeting-related technical assistance and consultancy budgets, procurement and delivery;
• Track and report to the Head of Implementation on contracts, budgets, key performance indicators and deliverables, ensuring they are on schedule;
• Support the Head of Implementation in internal and external reporting requirements;
• Report to the Head of Climate Budgeting to ensure alignment between city actions and global C40 standards and principles for climate budgeting. 
• Manage stakeholder engagement with key actors in the participating cities to support and improve multi-level governance relations internally between government levels. In addition, organise and lead internal and external coordination groups on topics related to climate budgeting with partner organizations, such as FNP.
• Systematize lessons learned and each city's advances on the Program.

Required experience:

Essential:

• Relevant work experience related to public administration and/or climate action implementation and governance.
• Educational background within public administration or environmental science.
• Ability to work independently and proactively, with the ability to define and prioritize tasks and tackle day-to-day challenges with a positive mindset. 
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative analysis of environmental data across mitigation, adaptation and equity.
• Experience in stakeholder management and engaging with cities across different levels of stakeholders from decision makers to technical staff.
• Experience in project management incl. budget responsibilities and management of external consultants. 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English and Portuguese.

Desirable:

• Experience with climate budgeting or similar climate governance processes. 
• Experience in working in city government with budgeting processes and\or climate action implementation. 

Please note that this is a consultancy opportunity, therefore the successful individual will be liable to pay their own taxes, in accordance with relevant legislation in Brazil. 

Additional Requirements

When applying for the position it is required that you have the necessary legal rights to work in Brazil. Occasional international and domestic travel may be required.

Reporting To: Head of Climate Budgeting 

Term: Fixed term until 31st May 2027 (The appointment and the duration of the role are subject to the final approval of funding)

Location: Brazil -  Please note that if your right to work in one of the listed locations is not confirmed at the time of applying, C40 will be unable to proceed with your application. 

Salary: (Grade 3)(IC) USD 76,745 gross per annum - Due to its commitment to maintain equity and fairness, C40 operates on a spot salary model. This means that our employees are paid the same salary according to their grade and location. 

Application Process:

The closing date for applications is Tuesday 2nd September 2025 at 5.00pm GMT. C40 reserves the right to close this consultancy  opening before the closing date for applications so please do submit applications (CV and Cover letter) early.

To learn more about the work of C40 and our cities, please visit www.c40.org, follow us on Twitter @c40cities and like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/C40Cities.

For any queries about this consultancy, please contact [email protected]

About C40 Cities

C40 is a network of nearly 100 mayors of the world’s leading cities, who are working to deliver the urgent action needed right now to confront the climate crisis, and create a future where everyone, everywhere can thrive. Mayors of C40 cities are committed to using a science-based and people-focused approach to help the world limit global heating to 1.5°C and build healthy, equitable and resilient communities. Through a Global Green New Deal, mayors are working alongside a broad coalition of representatives from labour, business, the youth climate movement and civil society to go further and faster than ever before.

C40’s team of 400+ staff is based in offices in London, in New York, Johannesburg, Singapore, Delhi, Rio de Janeiro, Copenhagen, Beijing and Paris, and individual staff based across 25+ different locations.

The strategic direction of the organisation is determined by an elected Steering Committee of C40 mayors, which is chaired by Mayor Sadiq Khan of London and Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr of Freetown. Three-term Mayor of New York City Michael R. Bloomberg serves as President of the C40 Board of Directors, responsible for operational oversight. A regionally diverse management team, led by Executive Director Mark Watts, leads the day-to-day management of C40. C40’s three core strategic funders are Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and Realdania.

Our international staff work with the C40 network under the leadership of city governments to deliver this mission. Using a data-driven approach, our team identifies and promotes the exchange of proven programmes and policies developed by cities; provides world-class research, technical expertise and access to key partners to deliver new programmes and policies with cities; and communicates cities’ individual achievements and collective leadership.

About The Global Covenant of Mayors For Climate & Energy

The Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM or Global Covenant), is a global coalition of cities and local governments with a shared long-term vision of promoting and supporting voluntary action to combat climate change and move to a low-carbon, resilient society. The alliance unites and inspires its stakeholders to strengthen global climate coherence, accelerate the energy transition, and generate locally-tailored solutions for a common purpose: creating an inclusive, just, low-emission, and climate-resilient future for all.

Co-chaired by former New York City Mayor and UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Climate Ambition and Solutions, Michael R. Bloomberg, and European Commission Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal, Frans Timmermans, and with the support of global and regional city networks, the Global Covenant of Mayors represents the strongest and clearest signal to national governments that cities are not only acting to stop the effects of climate change, they are leading and leading together. Mayors from across all global regions serve on the Board, and represent city networks, Regional Covenants and bring locally specific perspectives – ensuring that the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy is truly led by mayors.

C40 Cities is the fiscal sponsor of the Bloomberg Philanthropies funded parts of the Global Covenant of Mayors (GCoM). As the host organization, C40 provides financial, administrative, and operational services to GCoM. C40 and GCoM are working closely together on aligned programmes and areas of activity.

Diversity Statement

C40 is committed to supporting and promoting equity and diversity and creating an inclusive working environment for everyone. We believe that when people with different life experiences are involved in decision-making, we deliver better. 

We believe having a diverse workforce ensures we connect better with all the different communities and people affected by the climate crisis. This enables us to make better decisions which lead to better outcomes in the work we do through increased creativity, productivity, greater global impact alongside a broader perspective and approach to our work.

We welcome applicants who are diverse in terms of age, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity and perspective. Our goal is for C40 to be an environment where everyone, from any background, can flourish and can be themselves whilst contributing to our mission. If you identify as a person with a disability, we work to provide reasonable appropriate measures and any additional support needed to provide an equitable working experience. If you are living with a disability, chronic illness or neurodiversity please inform us, to provide you with the proper assistance in the application process.

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