Senior Program Officer, Climate Finance Africa

GCA seeks an experienced Senior Climate Finance Officer to help deliver the ambitious objective of mainstreaming adaptation and resilience into the financial systems of African countries, aiming to significantly increasing the level of finance flowing towards adaptation and resilience. This role will involve supporting the Climate Finance work of GCA in driving strategic direction, active external engagement, cross-theme coordination, and project implementation.

Key Functions

The responsibilities of the Senior Program Officer, Climate Finance Africa, include:

 ·       Develop a capacity building program, and with practical tools support governments (financial regulators and central banks) and private sector financial intermediaries (banks, investors’ community, private sector companies), in mainstreaming climate risks into policies and investment decision making.

·       Support regional dialogues on African and South Asian financial and fiscal systems among key stakeholders. This would ensure exchange on best practices and experiences with implementing macroeconomic stress testing and scenario analysis, taxonomies, integrating TCFD recommendations and green budget tagging.

·       Support the development of Climate Change Public Expenditure Reviews and implementation of methodologies for green budget tagging.

·       Participate in the preliminary evaluation of project proposals to assess their feasibility for financial support and/or technical assistance by GCA. This involves the initial screening of projects, carrying out desk reviews, preparing preliminary evaluation notes for presentation to the Workstream Lead and the Regional Director for Africa.

·       Participate in relevant missions with project partners to prepare project appraisal reports, including various financial and risk analysis, development outcome analysis, strategic alignment with GCA goals.

·       Develop and review reports, presentations, and project briefs, among others, Support the preparation of knowledge products – e.g. policy briefs, news stories, reports – on GCA’s activities and the climate finance workstream, as well as capacity building activities.

·       Support the day-to-day implementation of the climate finance workstream, including but not limited to the preparation of project concepts, procurement documents, contract management, planning tools, and progress monitoring and reporting.