Climate Finance and Sustainable Trade Senior Lead

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Job Description

The Climate Finance and Sustainable Trade Senior Lead will play pivotal role in driving initiatives related to sustainable trade, climate finance and sustainable investment in Indonesia, within the climate-energy-cities and ocean deputyship at WRI Indonesia. He/She will be responsible for leading, implementing and managing projects that contribute to the organization’s goals of fostering sustainability, climate ambitions, and resilience in trade and investment practices between Indonesia and other countries at regional and global level.
This position will be based in Jakarta with office-flex working arrangement, report directly to the Climate Manager while working closely and collaboratively with the rest of the WRI Indonesia, WRI Global and Regional team, as well as country partners, national and sub-national government, partners, communities, and donors.
Project Management:

Daily lead and manage Indonesia – China sustainable trade project and oversee project team to ensure the timely and high-quality delivery of project outputs.
Co-lead and co-manage other climate projects including 2050 is Now project, just transition and raising climate ambitions within WRI Indonesia climate portfolio.
Develop effective collaboration and coordination with other staff across WRI Indonesia, WRI Global and other International Offices, government partners at regional, national, and sub-national, development partners, donors/ funders and civil society.
Provide guidance and lead in organizing internal and external meetings, workshops, conferences and other implementation activities.
Monitor budget spending of the project to ensure an efficient and timely use of the available funding, supported by the operations team.
Contribute to the development of funding project proposals, and communication and knowledge products with manager guideline.
Responsible in developing project planning and monitoring as well as formulating project reports for funders and other relevant stakeholders as needed.

Research:

Lead and develop robust and unbiased research products that help tackle complex issues of climate change, climate finance and sustainability, green economy, decarbonization and road to net zero emissions to inform relevant policymakers and other key stakeholders.
Analyze baseline and develop recommendations to accelerate low carbon transition by decarbonizing carbon embedded in trade flows between Indonesia and China, specific to selected commodities such as nickel and palmoil, but not limited to be expanded to other commodities as needed.
Develop capacity of WRI Indonesia institutional knowledge on climate change policy, climate finance, green economy, low carbon development and decarbonizing issues.
Contribute in designing Indonesia climate action target, green economy, climate finance, carbon pricing, as well as long term climate strategies and other commitments such as the National Determined Contributions (NDC) that is aligned with the national development plans.
Support WRI Indonesia Climate portfolio in international and national climate policy analysis, and providing evidence-based policy recommendations as needed on climate actions and strategies.
Develop knowledge products on climate finance, green economy, low carbon development and decarbonization action at national and regional level with manager guidance and support.
Support in providing analytical and substantive materials on climate finance, green economy and decarbonization strategy that can be used for resource mobilization.

Stakeholder Engagement:

Develop stakeholder engagement strategy as necessary in coordination with Climate Manager
Cultivate relationship and network to expand the audiences of climate portfolio knowledge products and outreach, and the uptake of the research products produced by WRI Indonesia.
Lead the execution of the engagement and/or partnership strategy with relevant stakeholders including national and local government, NGOs, private sector, and others
Provide leadership to the development of outreach materials as well as implementation of general outreach and capacity building as necessary
Represent the projects team on internal forum and WRI Indonesia in relevant international and national events related to projects topic with support from Climate Manager

What You Will Need :

Bachelor’s degree in Climate Finance, Sustainable Development, Trade and Investment, Environment Engineering, Energy Management, Urban Planning, or related field of study
Minimum 5 (five) years of professional working experience in sustainable development, green economy, climate finance or trade and investment
Previous experience with stakeholder engagement, organizing meetings with excellent understanding of Indonesia’s climate change, low carbon development and sustainable development.
knowledgeable at using project management best practices and experience in managing donor relationships.
Intermediate in the use of a range of productivity tools for project management, team collaboration, and financial tracking and analysis.
Ability to identify project risks and possible mitigation strategies. Implements mitigation strategies on minor risks; seeks support for major risks.
Strong Excel and Power Point skills
Strong research skills and having knowledge / enthusiast on modeling.
Ability to communicate research approach and findings effectively to technical audiences with limited support from manager, using compelling presentation Skills
Business proficiency in Bahasa Indonesia and English on both verbal and written communications
Articulate, versatile, skilled writer with professional writing experience.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a fast-paced office environment, both independently and as part of a global team.
Excellent inter-personal communication skills, including the ability to encourage collaboration with other programs, international offices, and partners.
Adaptable to rapidly changing priorities and able to manage multiple deadlines and deliver high quality work products;
Ability and willingness to travel when needed.
Legally able to work in Indonesia.

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