What
you’ll do
- Help support or lead workstreams and deliver
high-quality advisory support on public and development finance for
climate and nature outcomes.
- Develop structured analysis and synthesize
complex information into client-ready materials (strategy decks, technical
notes, briefing packs).
- Drive development of sovereign financing
strategies, including consideration of macroeconomic context, sovereign
risk, debt sustainability and credit dynamics.
- Help design, shape, and assess financing
approaches and instruments, including concessional and blended finance,
sustainability-linked bonds/loans, debt-for-climate/nature swaps, and
risk-sharing structures.
- Support stakeholder engagement across
ministries, debt management offices, central banks, IFIs/DFIs, donors and
private sector partners, including workshops and convenings.
- Contribute to proposal development, thought
leadership and knowledge building within the team.
Mindset,
skills & experience
Essential
- Degree/Masters – Economics/Finance/International
Development especially welcome
- 2–5+ years of relevant experience, for example
in:
- strategy consulting (sustainable finance focus)
- international financial institutions (e.g.,
IMF, World Bank, AfDB),
- central banks or debt management offices,
- credit rating agencies,
- sovereign research / strategy teams,
- finance ministries or public finance roles,
- development finance / advisory roles with
strong sovereign finance exposure.
- Familiarity with the sovereign financing
landscape, including concessional finance, blended finance and/or climate
and nature instruments e.g. sustainability-linked bonds/loans,
debt-for-climate/nature swaps etc.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical and research
skills — able to synthesise complex material into clear, structured
outputs.
- Excellent communication in English (written and
verbal), and demonstrated stakeholder engagement skills
- Strong project discipline and ability to deliver
high-quality work under tight deadlines.
- Collaborative team player with an
entrepreneurial mindset and strong mission alignment.
How to
Apply
