Salary Range: $475,000.00 To $525,000.00 Annually
Position Overview
The Rockefeller Foundation (RF) advances its clean energy impact primarily through the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP), a cornerstone partnership designed to accelerate energy access and achieve universal energy abundance. Through GEAPP and aligned efforts, RF supports countries in implementing proven pathways to modernize power systems, scale distributed renewable energy, strengthen grid reliability, and expand baseload capacity from renewable sourcesโdriving sustainable economic growth and improved livelihoods. RFโs role is focused on reinforcing delivery against this established strategy, ensuring focus, consistency, and measurable results across priority markets.
The Senior Vice President, Power reports to the EVP of Programs and is accountable for advancing the Foundation's clean energy strategy through the effective stewardship, execution, and continuous evolution of its energy portfolio. With a particular emphasis on maximizing the impact of the Foundation's partnership with GEAPP, this role ensures strong alignment, performance, and value realization across RF's energy investments while identifying opportunities to strengthen strategy, partnerships, and longโterm impact as market conditions and sector needs evolve.
Work Schedule
This role follows a hybrid schedule and is required to be on-site Monday through Thursday in New York City.
Hiring Range
$475,000 - $525,000. This represents the present low and high ends of the Foundationโs hiring range for this position. Actual pay will vary based on various factors, including but not limited to experience.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
- Serve as the Foundationโs senior relationship leader with GEAPP, ensuring a highโimpact, trusted, and strategically aligned partnership.
- Collaborate internally and externally to support GEAPPโs ability to advance shared goals on energy access and climate.
- Oversee the performance and strategic impact of the Foundationโs anchor investment in GEAPP by monitoring progress against strategic priorities, recommending adjustments as conditions evolve, and ensuring disciplined execution, learning, and continuous improvement.
- Help mobilize and support GEAPPโs fundraising strategy, including engaging donors, partners, and coโinvestors in partnership with GEAPPโs fundraising team.
- Leverage the Foundationโs network and convening power to unlock additional capital and partnerships in support of GEAPPโs mission.
- Rigorously monitor GEAPPโs performance against the results framework, leverage targets, and return on impact as aligned with the Foundationโs existing energy priorities.
- Guide the Foundationโs participation in GEAPP governance, ensuring strong representation and influence by shaping governance practices, decisionโmaking frameworks, and organizational effectiveness within GEAPP.
- Serve as the primary liaison between Foundation leadership and GEAPP executives.
- Drive tight alignment between GEAPPโs strategy, program execution, and the Foundationโs broader energy and climate agenda, while identifying opportunities to strengthen the Foundation's approach based on emerging trends, partner insights, and performance outcomes.
- Represent the Foundation in key external forums related to GEAPP and other global energy initiatives.
- Elevate the partnership as a model for publicโprivateโphilanthropic collaboration in achieving universal energy abundance.
- Drive RFโs additional priority energy portfolios, including oversight of the Foundationโs engagement with the Mission 300 Accelerator, continued evolution of the Power Remade (coalโtoโclean), advancement of work on frontier technology, and global south capacity development.
- Represent the Foundation as a credible thought leader on universal energy abundance with senior partners, funders, policymakers, and peer institutions, helping shape sector dialogue, influence institutional behavior, and strengthen accountability for results.
- Guide and oversee the Foundationโs relationship to key sector platforms and institutions, including helping build highโperforming, durable, and increasingly independent partner organizations capable of achieving compelling outcomes beyond the Foundationโs eventual reduced role.
- Provide strategic, operational, and people leadership of the RF Power Team to ensure alignment and performance across regions.
- Ability to travel internationally up to 30%.
Education, Experience, and Skills
- Generally expected to have 18+ years of experience in global energy, climate, international development, philanthropy, development finance, impact investing, or a related sector.
- Demonstrated success in shaping and leading highโimpact institutional partnerships with multilateral organizations, philanthropies, governments, investors, and privateโsector actors.
- Significant experience leading complex, multiโstakeholder initiatives and translating strategic priorities into measurable outcomes.
- Ability to align organizational objectives, partnerships, investments, and external influence toward shared goals while adapting approaches to evolving conditions and opportunities.
- Proven ability to oversee largeโscale strategic investments or portfolio initiatives, including setting performance expectations, monitoring progress, assessing impact, and driving accountability and course correction where needed.
- Deep familiarity with governance structures and boardโlevel engagement, with experience influencing decisionโmaking, organizational effectiveness, and strategic direction in partner institutions, coalitions, or affiliated entities.
- Strong track record of resource mobilization, fundraising, and partnership development, including engaging donors, coโinvestors, policymakers, and other senior stakeholders to unlock capital and advance institutional objectives. Including demonstrated experience mobilizing sovereign, DFI, and blended/catalytic capital.
- Demonstrated credibility serving as a senior external representative in highโprofile forums and with executiveโlevel audiences, with the presence and judgment to influence sector dialogue and build trusted relationships across diverse constituencies.
- Experience leading initiatives related to energy access, energy transition, climate, infrastructure, or sustainable development, with a strong understanding of the policy, financing, and implementation dynamics that shape outcomes in these fields.
- Proven ability to lead, develop, and inspire highโperforming teams, including providing strategic direction, coaching senior talent, and driving alignment and execution across regions and functions.
- Exceptional strategic thinking, problemโsolving, and organizational leadership skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and manage complexity, with a bias toward outcomes.
- Outstanding written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex issues clearly and persuasively for internal and external audiences.
- Bachelorโs degree required; advanced degree strongly preferred in public policy, business, international affairs, engineering, economics, environmental studies, or related field.
- Action Oriented: Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
- Collaborates: Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
- Manages Complexity: Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
- Nimble Learning: Learns through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.
- Strategic Mindset: Sees ahead to future possibilities and translates them into breakthrough strategies.
- Develops Talent: Develops people to meet both their career goals and the organizationโs goals.
The Rockefeller Foundation is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and compliance with all federal, state, and local laws concerning employment discrimination, including the Americans with Disabilities Act. To this end, the Foundation ensures equal opportunity to all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, lawful alien status, physical, mental, and medical disability, veteran status, liability for service in the United States Armed Forces, or any other protected status.
The Rockefeller Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.