Finance Initiative

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The United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) is the strategic partnership between the United Nations and over 500 banks, insurers and investors. For over 32 years UNEP FI has been shaping and driving the international sustainable finance agenda, setting global standards and growing a global network of leading financial institutions. Through its work-streams and regional activities, peer learning, methodology development, training and research, UNEP FI promotes sustainable finance and helps the financial industry align with and contribute to the Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals.   UNEP FI needs a consultant to lead climate initiatives for commercial banks, insurers, and asset owners in Latin America & Caribbean. 

Responsibilities

• Lead bilateral and collective engagement with banks, insurers, and asset owners to raise awareness and build capacity across the climate mitigation journey, by engaging and leveraging existing capabilities of relevant UNEP FI and other strategic partners’ teams.
• Conceptualise and develop regional / country analysis of existing net zero capabilities to identify gaps and opportunities to advance institutional capacity across the different areas of financial decarbonisation.
• Develop a climate plan for the region and lead the delivery of that plan in collaboration with other UNEP FI teams and partners.
• Engage bilaterally with banks and provide tailored advisory on how they can advance their climate capabilities all the way from impact analysis and climate risk management to Paris Alignment and transition planning. 
• Engage with relevant parties to deliver climate capacity-building activities for banks, insurers, and asset owners in line with the plan to build institutional capacity across the stages of climate mitigation journey.
• Deliver peer-to-peer learning activities on financial decarbonisation in line with the plan.
• Represent UNEP FI climate team on country and regional events, positioning UNEP FI’s climate offering and assets.  Build relationships with new partners and potential UNEP FI members.
• Prepare reporting materials: evaluations of strengths and weaknesses and insights for planning 2025.  Outputs and Deliverables: 
• Regional / Country Analyses (as per the stages of the journey)
• Regional Climate Plan (as per the stages of the journey)
• Country-Tailored Capacity-Building (as per the stages of the journey) workshops and other forms of capacity-building and technical assistance.
• Country-Tailored Training Materials (as per the stages of the journey)
• 1-2-1 engagement with FIs   The consultant shall be under the overall supervision of the Head of UNEP FI, and report directly to the Climate Team Lead. The consultant will work closely with Climate Mitigation & Banking Lead, UNEP FI and other UNEP FI programme and regional teams; and aligned with the internal governance where workplans and activities are approved.

Education:

A bachelor’s degree in finance, banking, economic development, sustainable finance, climate finance, climate technologies, sustainable development, international relations, political sciences, or a related field.

Work Experience:

At least six (6) years of working experience with financial institutions in net zero, climate finance and/or in relevant capacity building/training work.

Languages:

English is the working language of UNEP FI. Knowledge of Spanish or Portuguese is desirable.

Source: https://careers.un.org/jobSearchDescription/258677?language=en

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