CCU (Car­bon Cap­ture & Util­isa­tion) Officer

CO2 Value Europe is the industry-driv­en asso­ci­ation ded­ic­ated to the Util­isa­tion of CO2. Its mis­sion is to pro­mote the devel­op­ment and mar­ket deploy­ment of sus­tain­able indus­tri­al solu­tions that con­vert CO2 into valu­able products such as fuels, chem­ic­als or con­struc­tion mater­i­als, in order to con­trib­ute to the net reduc­tion of glob­al CO2 emis­sions and to the replace­ment of fossil feed­stock by renew­able feed­stock. It is the only asso­ci­ation in Europe entirely ded­ic­ated to the sub­ject, gath­er­ing more than 60 stake­hold­ers from all the rel­ev­ant sec­tors of the CO2 value chain: CO2 emit­ters from all sig­ni­fic­ant pro­cess and energy intens­ive indus­tries, pro­viders of decar­bon­ated energy, CO2 con­ver­sion tech­no­logy pro­viders, and users of CO2-based products. CO2 Value Europe is com­mit­ted to build up an integ­rated vis­ion and action plan to devel­op CO2 Util­isa­tion into a new indus­tri­al sec­tor, to integ­rate the efforts of the many dif­fer­ent play­ers involved in the value chain and to become the ambas­sad­or of the CO2 Util­isa­tion com­munity towards policy makers and fun​ders​.To sup­port its devel­op­ment, CO2 Value Europe is seek­ing to recruit a: CCU (Car­bon Cap­ture & Util­isa­tion) Officer Sum­mary: The CCU Officer­plays a key role in coordin­at­ing the devel­op­ment with­in the asso­ci­ation of a col­lect­ive intel­li­gence on CCU, build­ing on the extens­ive expert­ise and exper­i­ence which is avail­able with­in mem­ber organ­isa­tions. He/​she is part of a small team com­pos­ing the per­man­ent Sec­ret­ari­at of the Asso­ci­ation and reports dir­ectly to the Sec­ret­ary Gen­er­al. He/​she works in close cooper­a­tion with the vari­ous mem­bers of the Asso­ci­ation, and par­ti­cip­ates to extern­al out­reach activ­it­ies towards EU policy makers and oth­er industry assoca­tions. Main Responsibilities: 

• Coordin­ate the gath­er­ing and shar­ing of inform­a­tion regard­ing Car­bon Cap­ture and Util­isa­tion (CCU) among mem­bers of the asso­ci­ation: tech­no­lo­gies, key stake­hold­ers, eco­nom­ics, tech­no­lo­gic­al and non-tech­no­lo­gic­al bar­ri­ers to devel­op­ment, etc.
• Provide CCU know­ledge in sup­port of intern­al them­at­ic Work­ing Groups coordin­ated by the Sec­ret­ari­at, where mem­bers dis­cuss technical/​market/​regulatory/​policy/​standardization issues rel­ev­ant for the devel­op­ment of the CCU industry.
• As part of a pro­ject fun­ded by the European Com­mis­sionto accel­er­ate the devel­op­ment of CCU pro­jects in Europe:
  • Task Lead­er to coordin­ate the emer­gence and devel­op­ment of larges­cale multi-stake­hold­er demon­stra­tion pro­jects, by organ­iz­ing stake­hold­er­swork­shops, match­mak­ing events and yearly call­s­for projects;
  • Task Lead­er for the com­mu­nic­a­tion and dis­sem­in­a­tion activ­it­iesof the pro­ject (with the sup­port of com­mu­nic­a­tion experts), super­vising the design of the com­mu­nic­a­tion strategy (web­site, social media, con­fer­ences and extern­al events) and the edit­or­i­al con­tent of the dis­sem­in­ated information.
• Con­trib­ute to draft­ing fund­ing applic­a­tionsin the field of CCU, for the asso­ci­ation itself or in sup­port of some of its mem­bers, providin­gin­put on pro­ject­design and content.
• Sup­port the Sec­ret­ary Gen­er­al in out­reach and advocacy activ­it­ies aimed at devel­op­ing appro­pri­ate frame­work con­di­tions to stim­u­late the devel­op­ment of the CCU industry in Europe (reg­u­la­tions, policy incent­ives, part­ner­ships with related industry asso­ci­ations and innov­a­tion plat­forms, etc.)

Profile: 

• A uni­ver­sity degree in Engin­eer­ing or Sci­ence is a must. A com­ple­ment­ary degree in busi­ness or man­age­ment is a plus.
• Min­im­um 4years of pro­fes­sion­al exper­i­ence in a tech­nic­al func­tion in a rel­ev­ant field (e.g. pro­cess industry, ener­gy­man­age­ment, cli­mate mit­ig­a­tion, trans­port or con­struc­tion sectors).Knowledge of CCU or related top­ics is a plus.
• Strong interest for sus­tain­ab­il­ity and energy trans­ition issues. 
• Exper­i­ence in man­age­ment of multi-stake­hold­er pro­jects at EU level. Exper­i­ence in writ­ing grant applic­a­tion is a plus.
• Strong com­mu­nic­a­tion skills with diverse stake­hold­ers (industry, policy makers, research­ers). Exper­i­ence in com­munity man­age­ment is a plus.
• Per­fectly flu­ent in writ­ten and spoken Eng­lish. Know­ledge of French, Ger­man or anoth­er European lan­guage is a plus
• Exper­i­ence with EU insti­tu­tions and inter­na­tion­al industry asso­ci­ations is a plus.
• Entre­pren­eur­i­al spir­it, capa­city to work in autonomy and to take initiatives.
• Capa­city to learn fast and to adapt to a rap­idly chan­ging environment.

Con­tract and location: 

• The pro­posed con­tract if for a fixed dur­a­tion of 3 years, with the pos­sib­il­ity to con­vert to a per­man­ent pos­i­tion after this period.
• The pos­i­tion is based in Brus­sels and entails some busi­ness travel with­in Europe. Flex­ib­il­ity in work­ing time is required.

How to Apply?Please send your CV and motiv­a­tion let­ter (man­dat­ory) to contact@​co2value.​eu no later than 10 May 2019 with the title ​“Applic­a­tion as CCU Officer”. You need to have the right to work in the EU in order to apply. Source: CO2 Value Europe