Lead Climate Change

6 months ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Isilumko Staffing Full time

Purpose:

- Using a climate and nature lens to support fulfillment on the bank's purpose, which is to use its financial expertise to do good.
- To strategically guide and implement the bank's transition to net-zero by 2050, aligned with local and international best practice, policies and country agreements.

**Responsibilities**:

- Develop and mature the bank's strategy and response to climate change and nature.
- Develop the bank's response to addressing risks and opportunities related to climate change and nature.
- Mature the climate change and nature position statements and related policies.
- Develop mechanisms to help increase climate and nature-related ambitions.
- Meeting Net-Zero commitments.
- Stakeholder engagement.
- Research
- Reporting
- Training

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in science, environmental management, climate science or any other related business or science field.
- Preferred: Postgraduate qualification in relevant fields such as environmental management, sustainability, environmental economics, or climate science.
- Registered with South African Council for Natural Scientific Professionals.

**Experience**:

- More than 10 years professional climate and nature operational or consulting experience.
- Management of or involvement in a net-zero transition plan.
- 3-5 years working with a range of stakeholders, including business, non-governmental organisations, academic/research institutes and governments.
- Experience in financial services, sustainable finance or strategy consulting and experience in a global organisation advantageous.

Type of Exposure:

- Analysing complex, systemic situations, trends or data that require an in-depth evaluation of multiple factors.
- Scientific and corporate communications report writing.
- Managing conflict situations.
- Influencing stakeholders to obtain buy-in for concepts and ideas.
- Sharing and presenting information in different ways to increase internal and external stakeholder understanding.
- Developing strategy.
- Communicating standards, policies and regulations to others.
- Providing professional advice/opinion.
- Answering stakeholder queries.
- Interacting with various levels of management.

Professional Knowledge:

- Business Acumen
- Business administration and management
- Business and report writing skills
- Change management
- Client service principles
- Communication strategies
- Data, trend, information analysis
- Diversity management
- Employee training/development
- Governance, risk and controls
- Management information and reporting principles, tools and mechanisms
- Operations planning
- Organisational systems
- Principles of project management
- Relevant regulatory knowledge
- Research capabilities
- Strategic insight

Technical knowledge:

- Understanding of carbon, water and nature-related footprinting.
- Understanding of climate risk and climate opportunities.
- Knowledge of South Africa's climate and nature-related legislation and regulation.
- Understanding of and experience working with climate mitigation mechanisms such as Carbon.
- Tax, carbon credits and CBAM.
- Knowledge of and experience working with climate and nature related frameworks and risk tools, i.e., TCFD, NZBA, SNTi, TNFD, Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), WWF Biodiversity Risk filter.

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