Global Head of Resilience Finance

Global Head Of Resilience Finance

The Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) is a pioneering international organisation working to mobilize the bond market for climate solutions. As a global leader in climate finance, the programme must leverage CBI's established reputation in green finance, standards development, and market transformation.

The Resilience Lead is responsible for driving CBI's work to ensure that global investments and expenditures quickly incorporate necessary resilience measures in the face of increasing climate impacts.

This will include delivering a rapid evolution of public sector and corporate capital flows to reflect resilience priorities and building coalitions that support that acceleration, through providing CBI's guidance and domain expertise.

As Resilience Lead you will help to develop Climate Bonds strategy to pioneer in this rapidly growing area of sustainable finance. Acting as an ambassador and domain expert for Climate Bonds externally spearheading the engagement and fundraising activities to build a broad and supportive network and drive resilience thought leadership.

You will bring your domain knowledge to Climate Bonds and seek to upskill your colleagues to enable the resilience agenda to be integrated across the organisation at pace.

Duties and responsibilities include :

• Act as Climate Bonds subject matter expert on Resilience and Adaptation, utilising deep technical knowledge to upskill and embed resilience expertise and activities across the organisation.
• Keep abreast of market and industry developments in Resilience and Adaptation, anticipating potential needs and challenges.
• Support the Chief Investment Officer to identify the fundraising strategy for Resilience to secure long-term sustainable funding.
• Execution of the global fundraising effort, from cultivating donor relationships, managing funding / donor relationships, and driving fundraising initiatives.
• Build coalitions that support the evolution of resilience priorities with public sector and corporate capital flows.
• Develop CBI's work to track and report the adoption of those priorities through reporting of aligned investment and other indicators.
• Participate in external initiatives to embed Climate Bonds Resilience priorities into other framework setting initiatives.
• Partner with the Head of Programme Design to ensure domain expertise and feedback gained from implementation, delivery and the external landscape is iterated and developed into the programme as required.
• Partner with CBI Head of Taxonomy and CBI head of Standards to bring into life a full set of A&R criteria within 2 years.
• "Product development" Lead, convene and engage with our external working group experts both sector technical experts and financial institutions and investors to create A&R criteria which are rigorous but easily usable and accessible to the ultimate users, which are financial institutions.
• "Products delivery and refinement" Partner and engage with our Climate Bonds Network asset owners, asset managers, insurance companies and banks and the CBI team which manages the network, to distribute and encourage the adoption of the A&R criteria as broadly as possible, and test our CBI criteria as they come to the market and bring back feedback to the technical and standards teams to update and refine A&R criteria accordingly. Be a bridge between the internal technical teams and the external clients.
• Project manage the current pipeline of Resilience Projects and ensure its adequate resourcing, oversee any direct consultants or direct team resources, until such a time as funding is in place to recognise the optimal structure for delivery.