IDB Nature Financial Instruments Consultant 2024 International Jobs

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Inter-American Development Bank Nature Financial Instruments Consultant United States IDB Jobs 2024

Inter-American Development Bank looking for “Nature Financial Instruments Consultant”. Applicants with an Advanced degree may apply on or before 10-Jul-24.

The Inter-American Development Bank has published a job vacancy announcement on 28/06/2024 for qualified applicants to fill in the vacant post of Nature Financial Instruments Consultant to be based in , United States. For more jobs, please visit https://unjoblink.org

Company Name: Inter-American Development Bank

Job Title: Nature Financial Instruments Consultant

Duty Station: Washington, DC – USA

Country: United States

Application Deadline: 10-Jul-24

Responsibilities: 

 

  • Advise on technical and policy-related issues concerning debt for nature conversions and financial products for nature.
  • Support preparing project documentation, provide technical inputs, and facilitate collaboration with governments, communities, trust funds, and conservation organizations.
  • Support negotiating complex conservation commitments in a multi-stakeholder environment.
  • Revise conservation trust fund governance, and/or development of new conservation trust funds.
  • Revise national climate, biodiversity, social, and development plans to determine key conservation areas in target debt for nature conversion countries.
  • Support development of sustainability components of policy matrices.
  • Support the creation of MRV systems to track impact of debt for nature conversions on key sustainability indicators.
  • Participate in design missions, capacity building workshops, and organization visits.
  • Participate in applied research regarding to environmental governance and nature finance.
  • Support the supervision of existing debt for nature conversions.
  • Support the development of key performance indicators for nature finance projects.
  • Support stakeholder engagement in debt for nature conversions and other financial instruments.

Requirements:

  • Education: Master’s degree or equivalent in finance, business, political science, environmental engineering, environmental sciences, environmental policy, or international development.
  • Experience: At least 10 years of relevant professional experience or the equivalent combination of education and experience in finance, business, environmental engineering, ecosystem services, climate change, nature loss, climate finance, public policy, environmental management, conservation, forestry, or other related subjects. Understanding of project design, financing related to climate change or biodiversity, protected area management, as well as project management principles. Experience working with MDB, government agencies in LAC is a must.
  • Languages: Proficiency in English and Spanish, spoken and written, is required. Additional knowledge of French and Portuguese is preferable.

 

Key skills

  • Learn continuously.
  • Collaborate and share knowledge.
  • Focus on clients.
  • Communicate and influence.
  • Innovate and try new things.

Requirements

 

  • Citizenship: You are a citizen of one of our 48-member countries.
  • Consanguinity: You have no family members (up to the fourth degree of consanguinity and second degree of affinity, including spouse) working at the IDB, IDB Invest, or IDB Lab.
United States