Principal Investment Specialist Climate Finance

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Description

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• Leads and supports the improvement of the origination teams’ abilities to identify mitigation and adaptation opportunities in potential projects.
• Leads, facilitates and supports the improvement of the interactions between PSOD and other departments to help foster a One ADB approach to climate finance.
• Leads, facilitates and promotes open dialogue within and outside PSOD on climate finance opportunities.
• Leads the development, finalization and implementation of PSOD’s Climate Finance Ambition Plan (to be finalized within 2024).
• Provides leadership and guidance in the development of easy-to-understand information on climate finance opportunities.
• Leads and engages with internal and external stakeholders for all matters related to climate finance.
• Provides leadership and guidance by coordinating the provision of technical support for climate finance particularly early in the origination process.
• Provides leadership and guidance in developing opportunities in the thematically labelled bond market.
• Ensures systems for tracking climate finance performance are established and maintained.
• Leads and/or participates in interdepartmental working groups by providing inputs from PSOD’s perspective on strategic issues, with a particular focus on representing PSOD’s views on climate finance.
• Leads and engages with other relevant ADB departments for consistency on strategic issues, integration of policy commitments, and knowledge sharing.

• Serves as PSOD’s climate finance focal for internal and external stakeholders.
• Leads, facilitates and helps strengthen relationships between PSOD and other internal stakeholders.
• Provides leadership for work with other departments to support the focus on upstream activities.
• Leads the outreach that will be needed to implement the Paris Alignment methodology for financial institutions.

• Leads and oversees the process of climate risk and vulnerability assessments.
• Leads and oversees the technical process of ensuring Paris alignment and the greenhouse gas accounting framework.
• Leads and provides guidance on technical assistance (TA) and oversees the consultants that provide specialist climate change support.
• Leads in providing inputs on corporate policies and procedures as they relate to climate/climate finance in the PSOD context, and oversees the preparation of relevant briefing notes.

• Oversees the development and maintenance of climate related knowledge resources for PSOD
• Oversees the preparation of regular reports, briefing materials and presentations for internal and external audiences

• Provides leadership and support to reporting staff.
• Supervises the performance of reporting staff, provides clear direction and regular monitoring and feedback on performance
• Ensures the on-going learning and development of reporting staff.

• Performs any other tasks that the PSOD Senior Management Team may assign to support PSOD and ADB Operations.

• Master’s Degree, or equivalent, in Economics, Environmental Science, Finance, Public Policy, Development, or Business Administration, or University Degree and at least 5 years specialized experience relevant to the position can be considered.
• At least 12 years of work experience preferably in the field of development impact assessment and evaluation, with a specific focus on private sector operations.
• Solid knowledge and understanding of climate finance with relevant working experience.
• International experience working in development in several countries, preferably in Asia and the Pacific region.
• Proven ability to work in teams and capability to work in multi-cultural environments.
• Experience in managing teams and complex projects.
• Excellent skills in data governance, advanced data processing and use of visualization tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English is required.
• Please refer to the link for ADB Competency Framework for International Staff Level 6.

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