Climate Engagement Specialist
Description
Our mission
Climate change is causing deep uncertainty at all levels of society, with climate volatility reducing the security of all land-based assets and posing a multi-level security threat for the functioning of enterprises, societies, and governments.
Mitiga is a spinoff of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, which hosts MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe.
Mitiga's mission is firmly rooted in employing cutting-edge science and technology to mitigate the multifaceted risks posed by climate-driven perils. Our approach spans a spectrum of temporal scales, from real-time and annual forecasts to projections spanning the next century. This comprehensive perspective on risk, coupled with our capacity to transfer risks to capital markets via catastrophe bonds, positions us to significantly contribute to enhanced climate mitigation, resilience, and equity.
And we need you.
Who you are
Mitiga is excited to welcome an experienced Innovation Bid Specialist to our dynamic team! If you have experience in creating and managing the bid process for innovation challenges, from developing detailed, costed, and persuasive proposals to winning contracts, we want to hear from you. You will also work on commercial tenders and public grants. We’re looking for someone with a go-getter attitude who won’t rest until every nook and cranny has been explored for bid opportunities, commercial tenders, and public grants that help advance Mitiga’s strategic goals.
You’ll bring exceptional writing skills in English and Spanish, with the ability to craft compelling and persuasive proposals. Your creative flair shines through in the engaging decks you create to close deals effectively, demonstrating your strong command of both data and visual storytelling.
You prefer to work independently, with minimal direction, shaping and executing your own innovation bid strategy, as well as developing winning proposals for commercial tenders, R&D, and public grant opportunities.
You likely have a background in consulting, project management, sales support or direct industry experience in some of our targeted sectors, such as infrastructure, energy, commercial real estate, asset management, or climate.
Driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, you are enthusiastic about using innovation challenges as a pathway to shape our products, strategies, and partnerships.
What you'll do
You will work within the Digital Transformation area. You’ll also interact with the CEO office, commercial and strategy teams and you’ll have colleagues who specialise in public grants (R&D).
You will take charge of the entire bid process for innovation challenges, from sourcing to proposal creation and contract win. This entails relentlessly hunting for bid opportunities that align with Mitiga’s strategic objectives. You will use your exceptional writing skills in English and Spanish (bonus points if you also know Catalan!) to create detailed, costed, and persuasive proposals that close deals.
You will create a successful strategy for winning a bid, carving out our unique selling points and understanding our clients’ specific requirements. For that, you need to bring your A game in terms of researching, writing, and validating proposals.
Shape and execute your own innovation bid strategy with minimal direction.
You will work on commercial tenders and public grants.
You will put together work plans and budgets, as well as respond to prospects’ queries before, during and after the bid has been submitted.
You will also support product offering decisions by bringing more understanding of the needs and pain points from our targeted sectors.
Qualifications
A minimum of 3 years of experience in creating and managing bid processes and commercial tenders, preferably within consulting, project management, sales support or within any of our targeted sectors such as infrastructure, energy, commercial real estate, asset management or climate.
Previous experience working on public grants is considered a plus.
Fluency or working professional level of English and Spanish is a must. Catalan is considered a plus.
Previous experience in external facing roles is considered a plus.
Strong pitch presentation skills.
Diversity
A recent study shows that one in every 10 tech workers in Spain are women. Only 8% of all contracts in 2019 with people with disabilities were in technology and science. Meanwhile, 30% of LGTBIQ people in Spain do not come out in the workplace for fear of discrimination.
This is neither the world we want to live in nor the workplace we’re building.
Mitiga is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
In fact, we strongly encourage applicants from minority groups to apply.
Our offer
Our vision is to be the place where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, to stay and do their best work. Some of our benefits, like unlimited personal time or flexible working arrangements, help work adjust to your life – and not the other way around. You can work from home or come twice a week to our office in the heart of Barcelona. Dogs and other furry friends are welcome!
Our compressed work schedule allows you to work half a day on Fridays during the year (so you can start the weekend early). During the summer, it also allows you to work 4 days a week, so you spend time with your loved ones (or work on your tan). Shadow our leadership and participate in our structured feedback and mentorship programs. If you grow, we grow.
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