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Climate Change Specialist [Midrand]
POSTED BY: Development Bank of Southern Africa
REF:DBSA 266
Date Published:Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Date of Expiration:Monday, May 29, 2023 EXPIRED
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| LOCATION OF THIS JOB |
 South Africa | MIDRAND in South Africa |
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| DEVELOPMENT FINANCE INSTITUTIONS
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| Full-Time |
| MAIN JOB DESCRIPTION |
Closing Date 2022/12/09
Reference Number DBS221123-1
Job Title Climate Change Specialist [Midrand]
Job Grade 19
Job Type Classification Permanent
Location - Town / City Midrand
Location - Province Gauteng
Location - Country South Africa
JOB DESCRIPTION
1. The Climate Change Specialist role is to provide strategic advice regarding access to various climate financing mechanisms (e.g. GEF, GCF etc.), accreditation processes, understanding and adherence to DBSA obligations.
2. Continuous dialogues with relevant external climate change partners, and providing inputs to, and coordinating as requested, internal knowledge management and communications.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Technical Outputs.
1. Conceptualise and develop project proposals responsive to the priorities of the DBSA, GEF and GCF focal areas/sectors
2. Provide advisory services to all Bank’s sectors regarding environment and Climate Change matters, particularly with regards to GEF and GCF.
3. Create opportunities to co-finance projects and leverage GEF/GCF and other funding sources to achieve the Bank’s climate finance targets by liaising with sector departments within the Bank, other DFIs and Private Investors.
4. Advise lending units on accessing climate and green finance by building strong links with other units within the Bank.
5. Ensure that the Bank fulfils internal and external reporting obligations to GEF/GCF and any other sources of environment and climate finance by ensuring that reports are prepared in a timely and accurate manner.
6. Ensure that the Bank contributes actively to the development, management and administration of funds in line with its accreditation obligations.
7. Provide operational support to sector managers on specific projects across the Bank under each of the sources of climate finance.
8. Provide technical expertise on climate change and green finance to the projects in order to enable them to mobilize climate finance.
9. Provide guidance and technical support for the implementation of projects and programmes as requested, e.g., the GCF Readiness Support Programme, Low Emission Capacity Building Programme, including consultations with relevant stakeholders as needed;
10. Provide, and coordinate as requested, policy submissions to the GCF/GEF, UNFCCC mechanisms (Work Programme on Long-term Finance, Standing Committee on Finance, Warsaw Platform for Effective Climate Finance), and other collaborative forums.
11. Support, and coordinate as requested, DBSA’s representation at GCF/GEF meetings and other related events, including development of key messages for senior management and dissemination of relevant information.
12. Advise on climate finance for adaptation and mitigation projects and new market-based financing, providing expert advice to client and counterpart organizations and Bank Management with regard to national and climate change policy, including the implementation of the NDCs under the Paris Agreement and related operational issues.
13. Assist in development of new business opportunities in climate change adaptation, resilience and mitigation activities in line with relevant country strategies
14. Provide technical inputs and guidance to counterparts on appropriate scope, technology, costs, alignment with the DBSA/GEF/GCF social and environmental safeguards and fiduciary policies.
15. Perform regular reviews of technical design and implementation issues, as well as related governance, safeguards and budgetary issues, and prepare relevant reports and updates on implementation progress as part of Bank teams
16. Provide guidance and hands-on support to executing agencies and management units as part of Bank teams, assisting them in monitoring project progress, procurement processing, preparing and maintaining essential documentation for these processes in-line with GCF/GEF requirements.
Key measurements of outputs.
1. Conceptualised & developed project proposals from GCF/GEF/Other for project implementation.
2. Opportunities created to co-finance projects and leverage GCF/GEF/Other.
3. Mobilising Climate Finance
4. Value of projects catalyzed
5. Accreditation to new sources of climate finance
6. Team behavioural KPI’s
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| REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS JOB |
EXPERTISE & TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
Minimum Requirements:
1. Advanced degree (PhD or Master's) in economics, management, social sciences, engineering, natural sciences or related field
2. Minimum 6 years’ experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
3. Experience in climate change, climate finance, environmental and public policy.
4. Past experience in analytical work in climate change adaptation, resilience or mitigation issues is required.
Desirable Requirements:
1. Past experience in lending operations/ investment projects in energy, water or transport sector(s) would be an asset.
2. Past experience in policy dialogue in complex environment and climate change mitigation or adaptation issues would be an asset.
3. Past experience in gender policy/ project specific gender action plan development
4. Past experience in developing Monitoring and Evaluations (log frames), project specific experience most desirable
5. Past experience in developing Environmental and Social Impact Assessment reports
Technical Competencies:
Written & Verbal Communication
1. Write effective correspondence, prepares reports, statements of circumstance and briefing notes;
2. Has a solid mastery of writing principles such as grammar, sentence construction etc.
3. Able to communicate complex problems or concepts, by making them simple and understandable for others;
4. Is articulate, demonstrates a wide range of vocabulary, and is confident when talking to large/high level audiences.
Reporting
1. Prepares complex or tailored reports, gathers information from a variety of sources, analyses and includes in a report;
2. Keeps standard reports under review and proposes improvements to meet user needs.
Stakeholder Management
1. Proactively manages partner relationships, preventing or resolving any conflict
2. Delivers objectives by bringing together diverse stakeholders to work effectively in partnership
3. Identifies and engages a diverse range of influential contacts within stakeholder and community groups, and partner organisations.
Commercial Business Acumen
1. Monitors the economic environment and continuously seeks opportunities for economic policy and legislation improvement to ensure ease of doing business in in target countries
2. Envisions, creates and facilitates connections to develop and enhance partnerships, alliances and networks that advance shared interests
Sector Expertise (across water, energy and transport)
1. Draws on knowledge of environment and climate change policy, political economy, strategy and institutions
2. Develops insights of the politics, institutions and governance issues related to climate change to serve as a trusted advisor to stakeholders and to shape DBSA sector policies.
3. Understands the International regulatory framework for environment, particularly climate change, including the Paris Agreement, Climate finance and leveraging capital markets; Institutional Assessment; Legislative framework in country for climate change; Institutional capacity building
4. Follows given sector industry dynamics, trends and key players and uses that knowledge to develop sector insights.
5. Draws on sector knowledge and knowledge of the client business to identify unique opportunities to enhance business performance for the client.
REQUIRED PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
Behavioural Competencies:
Achievement Orientation
1. Undertakes challenging assignments and strives to complete them.
2. Sets priorities and chooses goals on the basis of calculated costs, anticipated benefits and improvement of performance.
3. Aims at exceptional performance; setting out to achieve a unique standard.
4. Constantly analyses outcomes to ensure the achievement of business goals.
5. Identifies short-term opportunities or potential problems aiming to achieve better outcomes.
Customer Service Orientation
1. Tries to understand the underlying needs of customers and matches these needs to available or customized products and services.
2. Adapts processes and procedures to meet on-going customer needs.
3. Utilises the feedback received by customers, in order to develop new and/or improve existing services/ products that relate to their on-going needs.
4. Thinks of new ways to align DBSA’s offerings with future customer needs.
Integrity
1. Is willing to end a business relationship because it was associated with unethical business practice.
2. Is capable of challenging senior management (in a n appropriate and respectable manner) in order to act on espoused values.
Leading and Empowering Others
1. Creates the conditions that enable the team to perform at its best (e.g., setting clear direction, providing appropriate structure, getting the right people, obtain needed resources).
2. Monitors performance against clear standards, and addresses performance issues promptly and takes action to get performance back to desired levels.
3. Proactively asks for feedback on own performance from team members, aiming to become more effective.
4. Ensures tasks are delegated so that team members are empowered to deliver results and develop their capabilities.
Self-awareness and Self Control
1. Withholds effects of strong emotions in difficult situations.
2. Keeps functioning or responds constructively despite stress.
3. May apply special techniques or plan ahead of time to manage emotions or stress.
Strategic and Innovative Thinking
1. Recognises opportunities or potential problems, before they become obvious, by seeing the connections in a range of sources of information, including insights from outside DBSA.
2. Restates complex knowledge in a way that makes it easier for others to understand.
3. Experiments with new approaches, tests scenarios, questions assumptions and challenges conventional thinking.
4. Creates new concepts that are not obvious to others, leveraging internal and external sources of information, to build incremental revenue and growth opportunities.
Teamwork & Cooperation
1. Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale, and resolves conflicts.
2. Creates opportunities for cross-functional working.
3. Encourages others to network outside of their own team/department and learn from their experience.
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