The Climate Impact Area Lead (Energy and Industry) is responsible for developing a robust pipeline of public sector projects within Energy and Industry in:
- Leading a group of senior sector specialists, investment specialists and projects officers;
- Developing projects related to cities, buildings and urban systems that will enable GCF to achieve its mission of paradigm shift in developing countries for low emissions, climate resilient development;
- Provide market insights, commercial guidance, and management leadership to the individuals in the team to bring innovative proposals to the GCF Board;
- Bring expertise with commercial and development focus to development of multi-year pipeline.
Duties and responsibilities:
Purpose
- Innovates and transforms the GCF pipeline in the respective climate impact areas including through strategic engagement at origination stage;
- Develops innovative and transformational strategies for climate impact areas;
- Provides thought leadership on programming innovation in respective climate impact area for DMA pipeline;
- Motivates team to innovate and excel in individual specialization while ensuring coherence and collaboration.
Engagement
- Advocates for transformation and innovation in pipeline proposals with external and internal stakeholders;
- Develops and nurtures a diverse and inclusive work culture aligned with GCF values among team members;
- Resolves conflicts through persuasion and inquiry;
- Makes people decisions to optimize individual growth/development as well as organizational goals within respective team;
- Engages with external partners to showcase strategy through key practical messages to influence decision.
Delivery
- Translates strategic organizational goals to transition team pipeline and annual performance goals as well as manages its effective delivery;
- Foresees new /longer-term market development in business area and promotes long-term development of pipeline;
- Maintains and manages an effective 3-4 year transformational pipeline in alignment with GCF organizational goal;
- Adapts and manages climate impact area project cycle as per needs of the GCF strategy.
Required experience and qualifications:
- MBA or other business or commercial degree with a minimum 13-year experience in areas as required by the job description or a Bachelor’s Degree with an additional of 2 years of relevant experience;
- Strong understanding and knowledge of responsible investment or climate investing principles & tools;
- Multi-sector expertise in investments in energy and industry;
- Demonstrated management experience in leading teams of minimum 4-5 senior technical or investment professionals;
- Strong commercial acumen and financial understanding;
- Strong people management, collaboration, conflict resolution and team building expertise;
- Demonstrated record of delivery of investment /financed proposals for transformational impact;
- Successful track record of leading project/deal closes (public or PPP/ PPPP) of a wide variety including deals over $50M;
- Strong existing network with financial leadership of MDBs, NDBs, development agencies, and/or philanthropies with the ability to grow, maintain and manage relationships.
How to apply
All correspondence, at this stage, should be via Oxford HR.
To apply for this post, please click: https://oxfordhr.co.uk/jobs/climate-impact-area-lead-energy-and-industry/