Hot Job: Global Landscape Forum (GLF) Sustainable Finance Coordinator – YOA

Deadline: February 23, 2025

Apply now to turn out to be the Global Landscape Forum (GLF) Sustainable Finance Coordinator. The Sustainable Finance Coordinator will help GLF’s efforts to mainstream sustainable finance for nature-based mostly options, biodiversity conservation, and ecosystem restoration. With an increasing portfolio of donors and companions, GLF’s Sustainable Finance program is rising, driving modern monetary options and strengthening partnerships with key monetary organizations worldwide.

This function will contribute to the design and implementation of sustainable finance initiatives, guaranteeing alignment with GLF’s broader work streams, together with Community & Action (GLFx and Youth), Learning, Knowledge, and Digital Communications, in addition to integration with CIFOR-ICRAF initiatives, notably Resilient Landscapes.

The coordinator will play a central function in organizing finance-centered occasions, shaping information merchandise, and facilitating collaboration throughout GLF groups and exterior companions. A key focus might be on growing the financial institution means of domestically-led tasks and supporting entry to finance mechanisms for native communities and Indigenous Peoples, guaranteeing that sustainable finance options are each inclusive and impactful. Through these efforts, the function will assist scale funding into sustainable landscapes and drive significant motion at each native and international ranges.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the GLF Deputy Director and the GLF Sustainable Finance Lead, the Sustainable Finance Coordinator will play a key function in advancing GLF’s sustainable finance efforts by managing mission deliverables, fostering strategic partnerships, and integrating sustainable finance throughout GLF initiatives. Key duties embrace:

• Lead the coordination and implementation of sustainable finance grant deliverables, overseeing and monitoring mission milestones and outcomes, and fascinating with companions and donors.
• Lead the group and administration of the flagship GLF sustainable finance occasions, in addition to workshops, webinars and sustainable finance periods inside bigger GLF occasions.
• Coordinate and ship capability-constructing initiatives, in collaboration with different GLF groups, aimed toward enhancing native communities’ and Indigenous Peoples’ entry to sustainable finance. This contains designing coaching packages, matchmaking occasions, and piloting new mechanisms for enhancing monetary entry for mission builders.
• Work with the Knowledge and Communications groups to combine sustainable finance aims into broader occasions, campaigns, and coverage narratives.
• Engage with strategic initiatives inside CIFOR-ICRAF, notably Resilient Landscapes, to align efforts, share experience, and determine alternatives for collaboration on sustainable finance, biodiversity conservation, and ecosystem restoration.

Eligibility

• A college diploma in a associated self-discipline (e.g., environmental finance, sustainable finance, enterprise administration and growth, worldwide growth, environmental research, worldwide relations, or the same subject).
• At least 3 years of expertise in sustainable finance. Experience in program administration, multi-stakeholder processes, notably in creating international locations or tasks centered on sustainable landscapes, is a powerful benefit.
• Familiarity with worldwide growth and/or environmental coverage processes is fascinating.
• Experience partaking with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or Rio Conventions (CBD, UNFCCC, UNCCD) is a plus however not required.
• Fluency in English is crucial; proficiency in different languages (particularly French, Spanish, Indonesian, or German) is a bonus.

Application

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