Climate Finance and Carbon Markets Specialist

2 months ago

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa Palladium Full time

About Palladium

Palladium is a global company working to design, develop, and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

The UK PACT programme aims to improve the effectiveness of key institutions (public, private, and civil society) in partner countries so that they can deliver accelerated emission reductions and raise the ambition of their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) targets. Through its focus on NDCs, the programme supports the UK's COP26 efforts that aim to review NDC commitments and strengthen ambition.

Key Responsibilities

  • Conduct stakeholder engagement aimed at implementing and embedding South Africa's green finance taxonomy and enhancing climate finance-related policies for investment schemes, banks, and institutional investors.
  • Develop policy frameworks in the area of transition finance planning and related areas.
  • Contribute to policy enhancements relating to the framework for collective investment schemes, banks, and other institutional investors relating to climate finance across the National Treasury.
  • Develop and implement projects which pilot different use cases for various climate finance frameworks and demonstrate their real-world usability.
  • Work with stakeholders to develop demonstration transactions which utilise the green taxonomy, other regulatory frameworks, and JETP funding mechanisms.
  • Work with multi-lateral development banks on demonstration transactions to illustrate the scaling potential of catalytic climate finance projects.
  • Design financial interventions for SMEs, including green mortgages and a blended finance instrument for SMEs.
  • Implement recommendations to improve carbon market efficiency, as part of National Treasury's carbon markets activities.

Requirements

  • Extensive knowledge of the South African financial market ecosystem, including regulatory and domestic policy expertise.
  • Experience in financial structuring, financial modelling, and designing climate-related finance models and infrastructure.
  • Understanding of institutional financial balance-sheets (e.g. insurers, institutional investors, commercial banks).
  • Experience working in multicultural environments and with diverse stakeholder groups.
  • Higher education qualifications in finance, commerce, or economics are preferred. A Master's level focus on carbon markets would be advantageous. Extensive experience will be sufficient.
  • Understanding of policy or public administration is beneficial.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

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