Resilience Lead

Job title Resilience Lead

Purpose:

The Resilience Lead plays a pivotal role in advancing CBI’s initiatives to ensure that global investments rapidly integrate essential resilience strategies in response to escalating climate challenges.

This position involves facilitating a swift transformation of public sector and corporate capital flows to align with resilience priorities, while also fostering coalitions that support this acceleration by leveraging CBI’s expertise and guidance.

In your role as Resilience Lead, you will contribute to the development of Climate Bonds' strategy, pioneering efforts in this dynamic segment of sustainable finance. Serving as an ambassador and subject matter expert for Climate Bonds, you will spearhead engagement and fundraising initiatives to cultivate a broad, supportive network and promote thought leadership in resilience.

Your extensive knowledge will not only enrich Climate Bonds but also empower your colleagues, ensuring that the resilience agenda is seamlessly integrated across the organisation with urgency and efficiency.

Duties and responsibilities:

• 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, such that it becomes integrated into all team strategies.
• Keep abreast of market and industry developments in Resilience and Adaptation, anticipating potential needs and challenges that seek to proactively identify opportunities to optimise the pace and success of Climate Bonds contribution.
• 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 international relationships, and driving fundraising initiatives that will build the Resilience Programme income and enhance the organisation's impact.
• 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.
• Regular engagement with external third parties to articulate the programme strategy, rep-resenting Climate Bonds as Resilience expert, advising on market need and potential focus areas for resilience
• Project manage the current pipeline of Resilience Projects and ensure its adequate re-sourcing, oversee any direct consultants or direct team resources, until such a time as funding is in place to recognise the optimal structure for delivery.

Requirements

Essential:

• Practitioner experience of adaptation and resilience.
• Demonstratable experience of climate A&R finance, existing A&R frameworks such as the MDB methodology and the EU Taxonomy
• Strong stakeholder engagement and management experience at a senior level, including with developing and implementing an engagement strategy
• Previous experience successfully managing multiple, high value and complex budgets, including managing donor relationships and reporting.
• Demonstrable experience in fundraising and donor management
• Knowledge of climate change adaptation approaches and resilience building across a variety of sectors
• Ability to work as part of a team and to take a collaborative approach.
• Strong critical thinking, strategic and problem-solving skills, able to drive change and provide clarity on the implications of complex is-sues and how these will affect the programme
• An excellent communicator with outstanding relationship manage-ment skills and the interpersonal skills required to build relation-ships with staff and colleagues in different cultural environments.
• Ability to bring a positive outlook to working at Climate Bonds and energising teams around the mission.
• Effective presentation style as well as strong speaking and written communication skills.
• Experience of developing and managing a network of professional relationships

Benefits

• Impactful responsibilities from the day you join with responsibility for your own learning curve, the role is what you make of it and the possibilities depend on you.
• Amazing opportunities for career progression and structured career development – we’ll work with you to explore your learning development and career potential

• We offer a structured and bespoke induction programme specifically suited to the team you’ll be joining and the specific role you’ll be doing. During your first few months, you’ll be given all the training you need to succeed in your role.
• Opportunity to attend a series of Lunch and Learns, delivered by internal subject matter experts and external guest speakers

• An international and diverse work atmosphere

• The chance to be part of our rapid growth and play a key role in the next exciting phase of Climate Bonds Initiative journey

• Everyone that joins us is given the opportunity to undertake our signature GSS+ Bonds Training.