The Opportunity
 

Our Client is a Nonprofit Organization focus on stimulating the innovative changes in current environmental policies to create a better platform/social setting for the incubation of new energy/environmental projects. The VP of operation is responsible for managing, directing, developing and implementing complex projects or programs to accomplish strategic goals and business objectives of the organization.  

Responsibilities

• Share insights on grants making, project implementation to formulating the organization's strategy.
• Lead complex and high-priority projects, and manage sponsors and stakeholders with competing priorities, resourcing levels and time constraints across all typical project phases;
• Project initiation and scoping, including setting a definition of plans and setting and managing realistic expectations for successful delivery with project stakeholder
• Lead implementation of the organization's strategy.
• Ongoing project management and quality assurance throughout the project 
• Build and manage relationships with key project stakeholders in Operations, Technology and Business
• Work with Operations business units to assess and streamline processes in order to mitigate risk or control issues and generate efficiencies
• Provide support and advice to Operations management and project teams on project management tools and methods
• Build and maintain domain expertise, ensure proactive knowledge sharing within the filed and across different project units.
• Organise regular meeting to facilitate the discussions and to ensure effective internal cooperation.
• Identify valuable external partner to maximise synergy, representing the organization as appropriate.

Experience / Skills / Qualifications

• Master's Degree in environment, climate change, economics or energy sector.
• 15 years of professional experience in related sector. Project operation and policy research experiences are considered as a plus.
•  5 -10 years of experience working in a leadership role, able to motivate, delegate various team efficiently. 
• Demonstrate excellent people management skills and the ability to influence key stakeholders outside their direct control
• Be highly collaborative, team-oriented and strong consensus builder
• Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills both written and oral
• Strategic thinker with strong business analysis and planning skills. Capable of identifying and interpreting wider-ranging issues: ‘Big picture’ understanding; Provides creative & innovative solutions; Ability to formulate the implications of a specific solution across processes
• Chinese native speaker; Excellent command of English.  Familiar with cross-cultural communication.