Climate Finance Lead

About the Role

This position offers a great opportunity for career growth. The Lead, Climate Finance plays a pivotal role in shaping and scoping FSD Ethiopia's Just & Sustainable Finance agenda, aligned to the organization's mission to develop accessible, inclusive, and sustainable financial markets that support Ethiopia's Climate Resilient Green Economy (CRGE) strategy.

Operating as a senior role, this position is responsible for developing an outcomes-focused Just & Sustainable Finance strategy and priority programme pipeline, with particular emphasis on private finance mobilisation, market-based instruments, and capital market solutions. The role will lay the strategic, programmatic, and partnership foundations required to test, design, and position a credible Just & Sustainable Finance pillar within the wider strategy across Capital Markets Development and Financial Inclusion.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide expert guidance on just and sustainable finance (including climate and green finance) to internal teams, ensuring alignment with global best practices and national policy priorities
• Clarify and articulate the organization's emerging positioning in just and sustainable finance, focusing on private finance, capital markets, and market-based solutions
• Provide strategic direction, market insight, and technical leadership to integrate just and sustainable finance considerations—including climate finance, green finance, carbon markets, and ESG-aligned investment approaches—across programmes
• Ensure alignment with national policy priorities, international best practice, and emerging market opportunities
• Support project scoping, partnership development, and resource mobilisation efforts
• Work with internal teams, FSD Africa, and external partners to assess the feasibility of scaling the agenda into a fully-fledged programme of work
• Collaborate with thematic leads on strategic initiatives

Assignment Details

Duration: One year with the possibility of extension

Location

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia