Senior Adviser - Global Public Finance (January - June 2026)

Description

The Senior Adviser will join the organization for a length of 5 to 6 months to cover maternity leave for Laurie van der Burg, Public Finance Campaign Co-Manager.

The Senior Adviser will be responsible for programmatic, project management work, and supporting the Global Public Finance Co-Manager (Bronwen Tucker) in the management of the Global Public Finance team for the duration of Laurie van der Burg’s maternity leave.

For this role we will prioritize applications from people based in a CET / WAT compatible time zone.

Travel

Up to 3 weeks of travel should be expected throughout the course of this project, including for a team retreat in January or February 2026.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities will include, but may not be limited to :

• Managing and designing team processes, including supporting annual planning and strengthening internal ways of working;
• Leading project management for specific campaign activities, such as increasing (legal) accountability for public finance support for fossil fuels; domestic fossil fuel subsidy phase-out; growing fair public finance for a just transition;
• Supporting  relevant civil society coalitions, taking on coordination and facilitation as needed;
• Supporting team members in their fundraising efforts, maintaining relationships with existing funders and grant reporting;
• Line management responsibilities of some Global Public Finance team members.

About You

Oil Change International is a non-profit organization that campaigns to expose the true costs of fossil fuels and facilitate the coming transition towards clean energy. We’re a small, gutsy group that wages hard-hitting campaigns, grounded in solid and credible research, to push the energy industry towards an environmentally and socially sustainable future. We work together with a broad network of allies, in the United States and globally, that are committed to identifying and overcoming political barriers to a clean energy transition and shifting the balance of power in the energy industry.

Founded in 2005, Oil Change International now has a creative, passionate and dedicated staff of forty across 14 countries and a supporter base of hundreds of thousands. Known both for our credible, insightful research on the fossil fuel industry and our aggressive nonviolent campaign tactics, Oil Change is a talented group that continues to punch above its weight.