Speaker Cluster Decarbonization of Industry (CDI) Focus on Partner Management (m/f/d)

**A sustainable future with us:**

Cooperative. Engaged. Effective.

Do you want to participate in your work in protecting the environment, nature and climate? You value co-design, appreciation and organizational learning?

In the future – Environment – Society (ZUG) gGmbH, you contribute to important climate, environmental and nature conservation projects being launched. With expertise, conviction and a strong team culture, we are committed to a climate-neutral world, preservation of biodiversity and sustainable management of ecological resources and are looking for a '*n

Referent*in (w/m/d) Cluster Decarbonisation of Industry (CDI) Priority Partner Management – in full or parttime, EG 13 (TVöD Bund)

The ZUG is a non-profit federal company with around 1,000 employees at the locations Berlin, Bonn and Cottbus. We implement national and international funding programmes on behalf of the Federal Government, operate competence centres and knowledge platforms. In our work we bring together technical quality, cost-effectiveness and a value-oriented attitude – more at www.z-u-g.org.

The KEI works on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE) and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN). For the BMWE, the KEI is responsible for the following areas of work: the funding programmes “Decarbonisation in Industry” and “Federal Support Industry and Climate Protection” as well as the National Contact Point of the EU Innovation Fund. For the BMUKN, KEI acts as a think tank and impulse generator and pursues an interdisciplinary and cross-industrial knowledge transfer. Furthermore, the KEI operates the office of the nation-wide active network “CDI – Cluster Decarbonisation of Industry” and is the contracting entity for the Industrial Transformation Service in the Regions (SiT).

Your tasks

• You coordinate the development of our network: from the targeted address of potential new partnerships to the maintenance of existing cooperations. In doing so, you build relationships with nationwide and regional stakeholders and enable them to become involved in the network. For this, you will visit partner companies and participate in external events and trade fairs.
• You ensure a continuous exchange of knowledge: to the network, within the CDI, in the Think Tank and SV as well as in the KEI. In doing so, you bring your own ideas and actively shape processes and formats in partner management.
• You coordinate and moderate exchange formats (e.g. workshops, network meetings or digital formats) and support the CDI committee work (control group and advisory board) and strengthen cooperation within the network.
• You analyze needs and trends in the partner network and thereby guide impulses and concepts for new projects, cooperations and strategic developments.
• You are responsible for the data management of our network partners in the CDI analysis and collaboration of partner activities.

Your profile

• completed academic studies (Master or University Diploma) in the field of management, communication, media, marketing, economics or engineering, or in another comparable course
• ideally practical experience in building and operating networks with the participation of science, industry and politics
• first experiences in one or more fields of work of the cluster are desirable: energy and CO2 infrastructures, social and regulatory aspects, green markets or technological approaches for industrial production processes
• Practical experience in dealing with CMS and CRM systems as well as social media
• Team, enthusiasm and communication skills
• Standing for occasional missions

Our offer

1. Work with meaning and effect:

Bring your skills to work at the interface between politics and practice for a sustainable future.

2. Flexibility that gives you room:

Individual part-time models for all positions, 30 vacation days, free days on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, as well as a family-oriented culture ensure that profession and private life remain in balance. We also offer sliding time, 60% remote work and a time value account.

3 Your focus:

We support you with structured integration, internal and external training offers and regular feedback talks.

*4. Reliable conditions:**

With the TVöD you benefit from fair and transparent conditions. The job is limited to two years.

5. Working together, learning from each other:

Openness and flat hierarchies are not keywords with us, but are lived, for example, through a duz culture, diversity measures and exchange formats. We promote self-responsibility and rely on co-design.

Interest?

We are looking forward to your online application without a photo up to 21.06.2026 indicating the code 2634 via our career portal https://karriere.z-u-g.org/ If you have any questions, please send us a message to [[for e-mail see the original ad]](https://mailto:[*for e-mail see the original ad*]). For further information on ZUG, see www.z-u-g.org

As a modern employer, we ensure a wide-ranging reconciliation of work and family, because the professional equality of women and men is a particular concern to us. We promote diversity, because we are convinced that mixed teams (in terms of cultural and social origin, age, religion and sexual identity) achieve the best results. Disabled applicants are expressly requested to apply.

Joblocations:

03046 Cottbus, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 33, BRANDENBURG, GERMANY