Eu Director

**Job Category**:
**Other**

**Job Experience**:
**3 to 5 years**

**Job Location**:
**Brussels**

**Expiration Date**:
**Fri, 02/28/2025**

**Brief**

Climate Change is one of the greatest challenges of our time and the ability to capture, transport and store or utilise carbon dioxide will be crucial to ensure a sustainable, competitive and equitable transition to a low-carbon economy.

The **CCSA** is seeking a highly motivated, dynamic and politically astute **EU**Director**to represent the CCSA in Brussels and lead the EU team of experts across policy, external affairs, event and membership services. This position will play a pivotal role in leading and shaping policy development and advocacy and communicating the needs to industry at the most senior political and media levels, managing stakeholder relationships, and forging strategic partnerships to advance the CCUS industry.

This is a stretching role for a committed and driven individual with a strong interest and experience in CCUS and policy in the climate change sector. The postholder will need to be highly flexible to prioritise where their input will add most value in a dynamic political landscape, and highly collaborative to work effectively both within the team and across a wide range of stakeholders.

The European Green Deal continues to be a cornerstone of the next European Commission and with President von der Leyen’s re-election, the target of 90 percent greenhouse gas reductions by 2040 is expected to be pushed by the new Commission, which took the helm in December 2024. This undoubtedly means that CCUS technologies will come to the forefront. The Industrial Carbon Management Strategy (from February 2024) foresees a large role for CCUS to reach climate neutrality with approximately 450 million tonnes of CO2 to be captured by 2050 under the European Commission modelling. The Clean Industrial Deal, promised in the first 100 days, should include investments in renewables and low-carbon technologies, grid infrastructure, storage capacity, and transport infrastructure for captured CO2 and will help create lead markets and accelerate planning, tendering, and permitting.

With some Member States already progressing on national carbon industrial carbon management strategies and key CCUS projects already underway across Europe, there is huge opportunity for the industry to expand at scale. The CCUS industry is global and many of our members are actively developing projects in the power, industrial, hydrogen, fuels and carbon dioxide removals sectors all around the world, but still see Europe as a significant opportunity for successful CCUS projects and clusters.

**Who are we?**

The CCSA is the lead European trade association representing over 130 organisations accelerating the commercial deployment Carbon Capture, Use and Storage (or CCUS) through advocacy and collaboration. Our ambition is to see CCUS developed and deployed at the pace and scale necessary to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 and deliver sustainable growth across regions and nations.

You must be prepared to travel regularly (across Europe and occasionally international), to speak at and attend events, including overnight stays.

**The role**

As a member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) you will support the CEO in leading the work of the association to accelerate the deployment of CCUS on behalf of the CCSA Board and its members. The CCSA’s EU Director will lead the CCSA’s Brussels-based team as the most senior role in the Brussels office.

You will be responsible for implementing the EU strategy, ensuring that the CCSA continues to advocate for enabling policy and regulatory frameworks for commercial deployment and removing barriers to project delivery at both EU and priority Member State levels, with a focus on cross-border CO2 infrastructure and creation of a Europe-wide CO2 market.

You will be responsible for the CCSA’s relationship with all European stakeholders, including the European Parliament, Commission and media and you will have responsibility for navigating the legislative process and engaging and influencing stakeholders at all levels to secure positive outcomes for the CCSA and its members.

You will lead on further developing the association’s profile in Europe and building strong relations with Member States and organisations that influence CCUS. You will also be responsible for commissioning and delivering research and further developing and communicating CCUS industry data to inform strategy, policy and CCSA work programmes, including EU-based or joint EU-UK projects.

The role includes management of the EU Policy and EU External Affairs teams (including Membership and Events).

**Responsibilities**
- Oversee the policy team and external affairs teams to develop a policy and advocacy work programme to lead and influence policies that are relevant to the development of the CCUS and hydrogen sectors, prepare briefings, submissions and presentations to the