Senior Climate Finance Specialist

1 week ago

القاهرة, Egypt World Bank Group Full time

**Job #**:

- req30214**Organization**:

- IFC**Sector**:

- Climate Change**Grade**:

- GG**Term Duration**:

- 3 years 0 months**Recruitment Type**:

- International Recruitment**Location**:

- Cairo,Egypt; Dakar, Senegal**Required Language(s)**:

- English & French**Preferred Language(s)**:

- Arabic**Closing Date**:

- 11/18/2024 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC**Description**

The Financial Institutions Group (FIG) is one of the major industry groups at IFC, responsible for managing roughly 40% of IFC’s overall business in terms of volume and capital at risk. FIG engages in a wide range of sub-sectors including Microfinance, SME, Gender, Climate, Insurance, Capital Markets, Housing, Distressed Assets, and other areas, with both investment and advisory services delivered to IFC’s clients through IFC’s global network.

IFC's priorities in FIG as an industry group are:
(i) grow investment and advisory solutions in the region, and achieve strong profitability and impact

(ii) build new and nurture existing client relationships to make IFC the preferred partner for key clients

(iii) manage portfolio of assets for strong profitability and impact;

(iv) support local companies, while improving transparency and corporate governance;

(v) catalyze foreign investment, including mobilizing B loans and parallel loans;

(vi) introduce and develop new financial solutions, products and platforms;

(vii) build long-term partnerships with strong regional players and

(viii) develop client, sector and country-level solutions through upstream and downstream interventions that can be scaled and replicated;

(ix) be a thought leader and innovator of products and client solutions globally; and

(x) deliver on ambitious climate finance investment targets across multiple sectors within FIG.

Climate Business is one of the strategic priorities of the WBG, and IFC has developed an ambitious climate action plan to reach a climate target of 35% by 2025. The focus is to support IFC’s client FIs build viable and scalable climate finance operations, leveraging their client base and partnerships with various market players such as energy utility companies, energy service companies, equipment vendors, international supply chains and various players who support the promotion of climate smart investments and emissions reduction.

IFC is seeking an experienced Senior Climate Specialist to support the implementation of a successful FIG Climate Business program in Northern and West Africa. The Specialist will work with a multi-disciplinary team to assist partner financial institutions and other program partners to develop and deliver on the program. The Specialist will also work closely with the global network of practitioners to contribute to and share knowledge and best practices. S/he will also be responsible for working with a broad range of public and private sector stakeholders to identify climate business opportunities in the market, and to disseminate lessons learned from IFC’s program to make a substantive impact on sustainability and climate change agenda in the market through FIs. The Specialist will be based in one of IFC’s main offices serving the sub regions and will be required to travel regionally. The Senior Climate Finance Specialist will report to the Senior Manager, FIG Sustainable Finance based in Washington, DC.

The Senior Specialist is expected to support the FIG team to generate new business leads for investment and advisory services focused on Climate risks and opportunities, and implement and monitor a portfolio of investment and advisory projects with financial institutions (FIs) focused on climate and nature finance. He/she will have responsibility for supporting the FIG regional and global teams in the development of product strategy, supporting Client Relationship Leads and providing technical expertise and support to the AS and IS transactions through the entire project life cycle from business development through supervision.

**Duties & Responsibilities will include but not be limited to**:
Scope technical and commercial market potential for climate finance in targeted countries and identify opportunities that might be relevant to IFC’s FI clients including:

- Prepare, update and implement IFC’s Climate Finance strategy in the region to address climate change issues, including identifying gaps and needs, formulation of motivation/drivers for end-users to implement climate friendly projects, and preparation and updating of applicable tools, manuals and procedures;
- Actively develop new business for both investment and advisory services;
- Provide applied investment and advisory support to all dimensions of climate finance including:

- sources and intermediaries of climate finance, such as international vs. domestic sources, and public vs. private sources
- financial instruments used to mobilize and distribute the funding, such as green, social, sustainability bonds, loans, grants, project-le

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