Business Development Senior Advisor, Climate Finance

Catholic Relief Services is hiring a Business Development Senior Advisor for Climate Finance, based remotely in the U.S. The role requires expertise in institutional climate funding, a master's degree in relevant fields, and at least eight years of experience in business development within INGOs. Candidates should have strong interpersonal skills, proficiency in English, and the ability to train others. Travel may be required approximately 30% of the time.
Position title: Business Development Senior Advisor, Climate Finance

Location: Remote, United States | (Remote)

Qualifications:

Qualifications
• Knowledge and demonstrated experience with institutional climate funding streams required, including with donors such as the GCF, GEF, WB, AdDB, ADB, IDB, USAID and the European Union. Experience with foundations and other corporate funding streams with a focus on climate appreciated.
• Masters’ degree in climate change adaptation, environmental sustainability, ecology, carbon management, international development, and/or international relations, or related fields.
• Minimum of eight years of relevant experience in INGOs supporting across a range of business development processes (intel gathering, rules and regulations, relationship management, proposal coordination and writing)
• Applied knowledge of institutional Climate Change strategies and frameworks and environmental compliance requirements preferred.
• General programming experience and field experience in the countries where CRS works would be highly preferable and demonstrated the ability to work with staff and partners.
• Track record of contributing to business development, including coordinating across different technical stakeholders.
• Knowledge across a range of funding mechanisms, grants, payment by results and contracting processes preferred.
• Ability to lead a strategic design process.
• Knowledge of budgeting practices around environmental compliance and relevant climate and environmental technical areas would be a plus.
• Exceptional writer with expert command of English grammar and AP style would be a plus.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel). Web Conferencing Applications and strong understanding of information and budget management systems and knowledge-sharing networks.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
• Ability to train and strengthen the capacity of colleagues and partners.
• Excellent interpersonal communication, negotiation, and representation skills.
• Ability and experience in building professional networks and trustful relationships.
• A technical background in one or several areas of climate change and/or environmental sustainability is preferred. This can include programmatic backgrounds in a variety of environment facing programs and/or background in environmental safeguarding and compliance requirements, climate change risk and vulnerability analysis, climate resilience, nature based solution, carbon projects particularly in the landscape restoration sector, alignment with NDCs, NAPs, NBSAPs and frequently used indicators measuring climate adaptation and/or mitigation objectives, and/or GHG emissions accounting for nature-based programming
• A demonstrated interest in the climate financing space and climate specific funding streams

Required Languages:
• Oral and written fluency in English is essential. The ability to work and communicate in French or Spanish is preferred. Arabic a plus.

Travel:

Expected 30% LOE for travel. The role may entail a visit to Baltimore HQ, to strategic meetings/conferences and/or to support a proposal or strategy process within a region or country program.

Key Working Relationships:

Internal: Director CFSU, Senior Officer for Contracts, Technical Advisor for Climate Action, ESG risk and compliance office; Director Donor Engagement and Strategic Partnerships, Institutional Donor Engagement and Advancement (IDEA) directors and technical advisors (USG and non-USG), BD focal points within regions and country programs, Deputy Regional Directors for program quality, and CP programming and technical staff. While the position does not currently supervise anyone, should Green Climate Fund accreditation be successful, a team will likely form which is responsible for supporting GCF projects.

External: Institutional donor focal points, partnership and accreditation teams within multilateral institutions, donor climate change technical leads, counter-parts within peer organizations.
• **Our Catholic identity is at the heart of our mission and operations. Catholic Relief Services carries out the commitment of the Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and vulnerable overseas. We welcome as a part of our staff people of all faiths and secular traditions who share our values and our commitment to serving those in need. CRS’ processes and policies reflect our commitment to protecting children and vulnerable adults from abuse and exploitation.

Disclaimer: This job description is not an exhaustive list of the skill, effort, duties, and responsibilities associated with the position.

CRS' talent acquisition procedures reflect our commitment to protecting children and vulnerable adults from abuse and exploitation.

CRS prioritizes candidates who are citizens/ permanent residents of the countries where we have CRS offices.

The CFSU team is based across time zones (mainly EST and GMT) therefore daily overlap with these working hours would be required for smooth functioning of the unit. The unit supports all CRS Country Programs and therefore flexibility would be expected as needed when supporting staff working in different time zones.

CRS is proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Selection and hiring decisions are made without regard to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, age, disability, religion, national origin, color, veteran status or any other protected area.

Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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