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Country Director, Republic of Korea
Pacific Environment
Seoul, South Korea
Posted on Sep 17, 2025
Pacific Environment works to protect communities and wildlife of the Pacific Rim. We support community leaders to fight climate change, protect the oceans, build just societies, and move away from fossil fuels toward a green economy. Learn more atwww.pacificenvironment.org.
Pacific Environment campaigns to eliminate fossil fuel use from the shipping industry within their climate division by building strong regulatory frameworks to achieve zero-emission shipping on a timeline commensurate with the climate emergency; pressuring corporate customers to demand zero-emission ships; and influencing ports on the Pacific West Coast and beyond to end fossil fuel build-out and ready themselves for zero-emission shipping instead. We focus on environmental justice, labor equity, and science-based timelines for climate action.
Position Overview
Pacific Environment is looking for a Country Director, Republic of Korea to support Pacific Environment’s climate emergency shipping campaign objectives in South Korea. The successful candidate will have experience in leading multi-pronged campaigns with a dispersed staff, and a passion for solving the climate crisis. We are excited to pursue new opportunities to achieve the transition to zero-emission shipping, and more, in South Korea.
The Country Director, Republic of Korea will report to Pacific Environment’s Climate Campaign Director, Asia, and will be part of Pacific Environment’s global climate team.
Location and Travel
This position has a flexible work location within South Korea, with a preference for Seoul due to frequent in-person meetings with stakeholders. The position will include regular domestic, and some international travel is required. Pacific Environment is sensitive to COVID-19 and other potential obstacles to safe travel.
Responsibilities
- Leads PE’s climate campaign in RoK, including but not limited to:
- Cultivating partnerships and coordinating closely with partner organizations, policymakers, and shipbuilding industry stakeholders, to accelerate the industry’s decarbonization with a local to international strategy
- Planning and conducting events on shipbuilding, shipping and government of the shipbuilding industry to decarbonize actively
- Producing advocacy materials, directly or via supervision of contractors, to move the needle on shipping decarbonization in RoK
- Supporting coordination with other members of the climate campaign
- Supervise teams in Republic of Korea
- Oversee PE’s Offshore Wind work in RoK
- Support funder relationships with RoK funders
- Managing campaign budget
- Other tasks as assigned by the Climate Campaign Director, East Asia
Key Qualifications
- At least 10 years of work experience in relevant field (NGO administration, government relations, advocacy, campaigns, research, corporate sustainability, climate, etc.). Direct experience in renewable energy, heavy industry, or shipping decarbonization is a plus.
- Demonstrated experience and expertise in climate/energy issues and policies, including in shipping, ports, and/or other heavy industry sectors.
- A record of accomplishment of achievement in managing and winning regional or international campaigns.
- Experience and expertise in advocacy, listening, consensus-building, coalition-building, and leadership skills with a demonstrated ability to work collegially and collaboratively with other staff, organizations, and diverse communities.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral. Experience as a public spokesperson and advocate; ability to analyze and articulate complex issues and communicate them to various audiences. A candidate that is adept in building relations with government, industry stakeholders and NGOs is a plus.
- Experience managing a team and external consultants.
- Direct experience with event coordination.
- Ability to work independently and exceptional management skills, of both projects and team.
- Skill and comfort in building relationships with diverse audiences, including with policymakers, coalition partners, community leaders, and members of the media.
- Experience in energy or pollution analysis a plus.
- Korean cultural fluency, awareness and familiarity with Korean business practices, and an understanding of how climate issues are perceived in the Republic of Korea are crucial.
- English proficiency (ability to conduct everyday organizational business in English).
- Advanced degrees are a plus (tell us about yours).
- Passion for solving the climate crisis.
Physical Requirements
The Country Director, Republic of Korea work involves remaining in a stationary position and looking at a computer for long stretches of time, communicating with co-workers electronically, and occasional travel (including overnight travel), in-person meetings, or events. The ideal candidate must be able to complete all the physical requirements of the job with or without reasonable accommodation. If you require reasonable accommodation to complete this job application, pre-employment testing, or a job interview, or to otherwise participate in this hiring process, please contact: hr@pacificenvironment.org.
Pacific Environment is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage people from communities harmed by environmental degradation and from backgrounds underrepresented in the environmental movement to apply. We welcome diversity to do our best work and believe that creating teams in which everyone can be their authentic self is key to the change we seek.
No phone calls, please.