Description
Allied Talent Partners is a talent marketplace, connecting experienced professionals with climate-related projects and businesses in Africa.
High-level overview
The client is a philanthropic investment organization with a mission to increase the number of bankable, climate-related projects and businesses in emerging markets and developing economies to create significant environmental, economic, and social impact. Their initial focus regions are Southeast Asia, the Caribbean and Central America, Africa, and India.
On behalf of the World Bank Private Sector Investment Lab (PSIL), the client is seeking an Analytical Team to size equity financing needs in EMDEs aligned with various climate scenarios, analyzing break down of these needs by key regions and sectors, creating a prioritization framework for flow of investments and publishing a research paper with findings for the investment and policy ecosystem. The team lead will manage stakeholder engagement including Allied Climate Partners (ACP), GFANZ, CPI and Three Cairns Group.
Role and Responsibilities
Role: Engagement Manager
Direct Report: Principal
Candidates required: 1
Deliverables
- Framework of different types/sub asset classes of equity investments Estimation of how much equity finance is needed (in addition to current flows) to support the transition in EMDEs under different transition scenarios – and the sectors, regions and priority countries where this equity can be most catalytic
- Identify and assess challenges for different kinds of financial institutions in deploying equity and potential ways in which actors can overcome these challenges.
- Suggest priority use cases for the deployment of catalytic equity financing.
- Write and publish findings – to be released in Spring 2025 (20-30 pages) Management and oversight of 2 team members (Qualitative and Quantitative analyst) Management of and preparation for stakeholder working group meetings
Requirements
Experience required
- 8-10+ years of relevant scenario modeling experience at firms such as International Energy Agency, McKinsey, Wood Mackenzie, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, DNV GL, S&P Global, UN PRI’s Inevitable Policy Response, Oxford Economics
- Proven experience in driving a project to deliverable in complex stakeholder environment
- Strong understanding of EMDE Climate Equity landscape including MDBs, DFIs, private sector investors, philanthropic organizations
Technical requirements
- Strong quantitative and qualitative analysis skills; proficiency in data analysis/modeling tools
- Deep understanding of scenario modeling and willingness to integrate own models
- Exceptional problem-solving ability, logical reasoning, creative thinking
Soft skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to convey complex concepts clearly
- A strong bias to action and ability to manage time effectively to ensure responsibilities are completed efficiently and all deadlines are met Flexibility to adapt to support project effort as receive steer and feedback from other stakeholders
Working Arrangement
Location | Remote
Operational requirements | Speak English
Required start date | ASAP
Contracting period | ~12 weeks, full time
Budget | TBC
Additional notes and/or comments
There may be a second phase in which the data is further refined and translated into an analytics tool for ecosystem players
Allied Talent Partners is a talent marketplace connecting experienced professionals and climate experts, locally and globally, to climate-related projects with non-government, private and public organisations, initially focused on Africa.
