世行招聘 | IFC金融机构局招聘气候金融咨询顾问一名

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IFC金融机构局招聘气候金融咨询顾问一名


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职位名称:气候金融咨询顾问

截止日期:2024年12月15日
申请方法:求职信和简历发至yzhou10@ifc.org

TERMS OF REFERENCE

Short-Term Consultant: EAP Climate Finance Consultant

I.  Background

About IFC: The International Finance Corporation (“IFC”) - a member of the World Bank Group - is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. We work in more than 100 countries, using our capital, expertise, and influence to create markets and opportunities. Our mission is to leverage the power of the private sector to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet.

Climate Business is a strategic priority of the WBG, with a target to increase its climate business to 45% of total financing commitments by 2025. Climate action is at the core of IFC’s business. In fiscal year 2024, IFC delivered $9.1 billion in own-account long-term climate finance and mobilized an additional $10.2 billion. The World Bank Group’s Climate Change Action Plan (2021 – 2025) outlines our collective response to align financial flows with the goals of the Paris Agreement (referred to as “Paris Alignment”). IFC has committed to align 85% of new operations with these goals starting July 1, 2023, and to align 100% of new operations starting July 1, 2025.

About FIG: The Financial Institutions Group (“FIG”) is one of three major industry groups at IFC, responsible for managing roughly 40% of IFC’s overall business in terms of volume and capital at risk. FIG engages in a wide range of sub-sectors including Microfinance, SME, Gender, Climate, Insurance, Capital Markets, Housing, Distressed Assets, and other areas, with investment and advisory services delivered globally to IFC’s clients through its global network.

Helping our clients tap into green opportunities and working with a host of partners to catalyze finance for climate action, is at the core of our business. IFC FIG Upstream and Advisory Team works with governments, the private sector, financial institutions, and partners to promote standards for green banking, expand the range of financial instruments and channel global capital flows to opportunities in emerging markets. In Asia, the Sustainability and Climate Practice Group of FIG Upstream and Advisory Services (“Climate PG”) supports financial institutions in the areas such as strategy development, green finance capacity-building, product innovation, and climate risk management.

II.  Scope of Work

IFC is seeking an experienced Short-Term Consultant (“STC”, or “EAP Climate Finance Consultant”) specialized in green banking project management, green finance product innovations, and market scoping to support the business development and project implementation with focuses on China, Mongolia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and/or other developing countries in EAP Region.

This assignment is estimated to require one hundred (100) working days, from the period from December 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025. The contract might be further extended depending on business need and performance.

The STC will be based in China and work with a multi-disciplinary team led by the Project Leader based in Beijing, China.

The key expected activities are:

1. Technical Supports

  • Contribute to the Climate PG on the market scoping and/or institutional diagnostics for green finance (including blue finance) and analyze the market landscape and opportunities for banking sector.

  • Contribute to the Climate PG on the strategic business planning of financial institutions and provide hand-holding capacity building to the client to implement and grow their green lending portfolio.

  • Contribute to the Climate PG on developing related technical reports and toolkits.

  • Support the Climate PG in organizing and delivering workshops, conferences, publications, and training modules for partner banks, both digital and in-person, as needed.

2. Project Management

  • Support the IFC Project Leader and team to manage and oversee the flagship projects via the Project Management Office (“PMO”).

  • Coordinate regular communications/meetings and track activities with key stakeholders.

  • Support to develop project management documents and toolkits, including regular PMO reports, impact reports, in decent quality and a timely manner.

3. Knowledge Management

  • Support knowledge management of the Climate PG, both externally and internally, including capture, development and dissemination of information and knowledge, best practices, solutions, and project delivery tools in areas of expertise.

  • Function as the facial point in organizing and delivering workshops, conferences, publications, and training modules for the key stakeholders for the Project.

  • Knowledge products including knowledge bytes, case study, impact report, video, etc.

The typical core deliverables include:

  • Institutional Diagnosis and Market Scoping Report that will cover but not limited to:

1) Baseline diagnostics of the client bank.
2) Local business driver analysis including government priorities and sector trends.
3) Local market landscape and green/blue sector opportunities for client bank.

  • Green Banking Capacity-building for client banks that will cover but not limited to:

1) Strategy, business objectives and operations model.
2) Green asset eligibility criteria, impact measurement, and green lending policy/procedure/process.
3) Training on priority sectors, such as blue economy, energy efficiencies and green building.

The STC is also expected to:

  • Attend regular calls with IFC project team to discuss, plan and update project progress.
  • Deliver other deliverables as required by IFC, as needed.

III.  Qualifications

  • Master's degree in Finance, Business, Environmental Science, Climate Change, Sustainability, or a related field.
  • At least 4 years of experience in management consulting for the financial sector, investment banking, and/or green and sustainable finance in banking sector.
  • Clear understanding and good knowledge of green economy and green banking business, its ecosystem and key stakeholders in China and EAP region.
  • Understanding of the financial industry and ability to link policy reforms, climate industry standards including climate risk and decarbonization approaches, advisory interventions, investment, and mobilization to deliver climate related solutions in the region.
  • Working/project experiences with developmental orgnization and/or government would be a plus.
  • Demonstrates active listening skills by paying full attention and asking questions to clarify client and stakeholder needs and gather required information.
  • Ability to interact effectively with clients and stakeholders by acting professionally, responding to their requests and inquiries, delivering what is promised, and meeting deadlines.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and sound business judgment to identify issues and present creative and practical solutions.
  • Undestanding of data anlytics and the tools, strong data processing and modeling capability.
  • Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills in both Mandarin and English.
  • Highly motivated, energetic, team player; and strong attention to detail and quality.
  • Willingness and ability to travel (if applicable) and work across time zones.
  • Capability of working under pressure to reach the tight deadline.

IV.  Supervision

The STC will report to the IFC Project Leader. All deliverables required for this assignment will be subject to the approval of IFC Project Leader, and other appropriate IFC technical officers.

All related travel shall be pre-approved by the Project Leader and related travel expenses shall be covered in accordance with IFC travel and expense policy. A Back-to-Office Report is required to summary the key activities, findings, and/or observations within 1 week of each travel.

Professional fees to be paid after the completion of the deliverables to an acceptable quality, and the submission and approval of invoices, timesheets, and deliverables of an acceptable quality. Reimbursable expenses, to be paid upon submission and approval of invoices and accompanying receipts.

V.  Confidentiality Statement

All data and information received from IFC for this assignment are to be treated confidentially and are only to be used in connection with the execution of these Terms of Reference. All intellectual property rights arising from the execution of these Terms of Reference are assigned to IFC. All materials produced or acquired under terms of this contract - written, graphic, film, magnetic tape, or otherwise - shall remain the property of IFC and may not be used for other purposes than the execution of these terms of references. The contents of written materials obtained and used in this assignment may not be disclosed to any third parties without the expressed advance written authorization of the IFC. The rights and duties provided for in this paragraph shall continue, notwithstanding the termination of the contract or the execution of its other provision.


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