Senior Investment Officer

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• The Senior Investment Officer provides salient and clear analysis to support green investment projects in multiple countries through collaboration with country teams, in-house and external experts/organizations. The Senior Investment Officer provides technical advice and guidance to other staff members and prepares analytical inputs for capacity building of internal staff and government officials in green investment project design, preparation, and implementation. The Senior Investment Officer plays a critical role in building, maintaining, and strengthening partnerships with government counterparts and international/local stakeholders in the public and private sectors.

• Conduct all requisite analysis for the successful development of new green investment projects, drawn from GGGI global programs and GGGI’s country programs, based on country needs, gaps, GGGI’s strategy and strengths;
• Provide analytical support in the identification and development of relevant financing mechanism and risk reduction instruments for identified projects;
• Conduct (pre) feasibility assessment of green investment/infrastructure projects and programs engaging all relevant stakeholders;
• Perform financial, economic, and regulatory analysis throughout project concept and design stages in collaboration with the country teams and government counterparts; ensure that the project to progresses to implementation/financing stage;
• Initiate, maintain, strengthen relationships with senior officials in governments and international/local stakeholders and institutions (ex. MDB, development agencies) in the public and private sectors; build new collaboration framework with international partners (country or global-level);
• Develop and disseminate capacity development and knowledge sharing products in the field of green investment project design and preparation;
• Provide technical advice to other staff and government counterparts on green investment projects and programs;
• Review new green investment projects and ideas proposed by other GGGI project teams.

• Advanced university degree in areas such as finance, business administration, international business or economics with further financial / economics training.
• Substantive relevant experience (at least 5-7 years), with sound understanding of climate & green finance.
• At least two years of international experience – living and working outside of home country. Candidates that don’t fulfill this requirement can be considered for a national salary grade position.
• Experience with international climate finance institutions, particularly technical aspects of mitigation and adaptation activities. Hands-on investment and project management experience in a consulting firm, multilateral Bank, or financial institution is desirable.
• Ability to efficiently manage a large number of activities simultaneously and to navigate through complex environments.
• Experience in establishing structures for new financial mechanisms/ blended finance facility.
• Experience accessing and structuring finance for climate investments.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.
• Experience working in developing countries on climate and development issues.

• Experience in at least one of the following areas of green infrastructure financing: renewable energy, energy efficiency, waste management and sustainable transport
• Demonstrated relationship-building and facilitation skills.
• Resourceful and able to develop and operationalize strategies to achieve outputs and outcomes
• Profound understanding on financial instruments, infrastructure project development/assessment/finance, economic/financial analysis of infrastructure investment
• Experience with project finance, private or public sector projects, and/or in PPP transactions
• Experience with climate finance and investment banking is a huge plus.
• Knowledge of and experience in adhering to internationally agreed environmental and social safeguards (ESS) and gender-sensitive design requirements.
• Strong analytical and modeling skills, with full knowledge of excel functions.
• Willingness and ability to commit to in-country work for and travel as required and where possible.

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