Lead Climate Change

4 weeks 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 and application of carbon accounting methodologies.
  • 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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