Project Manager, Air Quality Policy and Analysis at C40 Cities

The Project Manager, Air Quality Policy and Analysis, supports the Clean Air Network and its member cities by gathering and analyzing crucial air quality, health, and socioeconomic data to understand and communicate city-level air quality progress; this includes maintaining air quality and health databases for annual C40 Clean Air Network trends analysis and reporting. The Project Manager performs city-level AQ and health analyses, in support of Clean Air Accelerator priority actions, and supports Clean Air Network Technical Working Groups with data and tools. The Project Manager also analyzes the potential impact of leading air quality actions and supports cities in expanding air quality content in climate action planning. The Project Manager maintains and updates user functionality of C40’s air quality tools and models, and responds to city requests for assistance with the models. 

Responsibilities: 

Air quality, health, and climate analysis

• Supports C40’s Clean Air Accelerator by performing quantitative analysis of the progress cities are making through the Accelerator; and performing city-level air quality and health analyses of specific Accelerator actions and other highly effective city actions identified by C40.
• Supports C40 Clean Air Network Technical Working Groups on emerging technical air quality and data-related issues (e.g. providing data for equity indicators, helping cities understand in-house tools for transport analysis). 
• Assists with annual update of C40 cities air quality trends reporting.
• Tracks and assists with integrating air quality content in Climate Action Plans and identifying linkages between air quality management and climate action planning. 

Modeling, coding, and quantitative tool maintenance

• Performs tasks to maintain and expand internal C40 analysis tools. Assists with maintaining user functioning and tracking and responding to user requests or debugging for C40 tools, including AQUA, AQUA-Transport, and Pathways-AQ.
• Assists in maintaining and cleaning data to upkeep and expand C40’s air quality and health databases and dashboards. 
• Gathers new health, socioeconomic and air quality data as needed, including to support internal and external partner requests. 
• Explores adding GIS and other spatial analysis capability to support cities in the Clean Air Network in assessing new policies. 

Required qualifications:

• Advanced MS Excel, R and/or Python programming skills essential. Experience developing, running, and/or maintaining Excel or R-based tools preferred, including use of Excel VBA.
• Proactive approach to work, with an interest in taking ownership of crucial tasks and seeing them through to completion. Ability to manage projects and partnerships.
• Experience in developing resources, guidance and/or knowledge products for different audiences, including technical resources; experience developing or delivering technical training is a plus.
• Experience with managing environmental data sets (preferably air quality emissions and concentrations or related inventories), including cleaning and processing datasets for year-on-year comparison and analysis. 
• Experience analyzing impacts of policies and actions, ideally at the local level and related to air quality, health, and/or climate change. Familiarity with analyzing health impacts associated with environmental factors preferred. 
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills are essential.