Associate, Public Climate Finance

**1. About the European Climate Foundation**:
The European Climate Foundation (ECF) is a major philanthropic initiative working to help tackle the climate crisis by fostering the development of a net-zero emission society at the national, European and global level.

We support over 500 partner organisations to carry out activities that drive urgent and ambitious policy in support of the objectives of the Paris Agreement, contribute to the public debate on climate action and help deliver a socially responsible transition to a net-zero economy and sustainable society in Europe and around the world.

The ECF brings together diverse perspectives and backgrounds to find the best innovative solutions to tackle climate change. We are focusing on engaging and hiring great people from a wide diversity of backgrounds to strengthen the cause. If you share our values of respect, innovation, and collaboration, join us.

**Position**:
2.1. About the role

In line with the Paris Agreement and the EU net zero 2050 target, the ECF Climate Finance Strategy aims to ensure the global financial system is transformed to make financial flows consistent with a 1.5-degree pathway and climate-resilient development by:

- working on increasing Paris-aligned finance flows : ensuring an increase in development finance, particularly through reform of international financial institutions; greater mobilisation of private capital catalysed by development finance; and ensure fiscal and monetary tools are used effectively to support the transition.
- Supporting the shift to a net zero financial system: ensuring that the financial sector has the tools and methodologies to plan its approach to the transition; that corporate and financial actors provide the information and data required to assess their sustainability impacts; and that they are held to account for their climate impacts and commitments to meet net zero.
- Working on knowledge gaps and supporting capacity building : ensuring that policymakers, central bankers, supervisors have the knowledge and skills to create ambitious and robust policy on sustainable finance.

This means supporting activities such as the following:

- Supporting the implementation of ambitious public finance action within the EU, including via the EU Green Deal, the EU Sustainable Finance Strategy, and the EU budget
- Working to leverage Europe’s role in global approaches to increasing financial flows to climate and development action particularly through targeted work in priority member states.
- Fostering the work of Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) in promoting the net zero transition, e.g. financing and mobilizing private capital for green and low carbon investments and aligning their activities with the Paris Agreement,

The Associate, Public Climate Finance, reports to the Programme Manager, Public Climate Finance.

2.2. Key responsibilities

This job offers an excellent opportunity to engage with and support a growing ECF programme at an important stage in the development of the climate finance debate. The post holder will play a key role in implementing the ECF Climate Finance Strategy, co-developing strategic grants and dealing with grant management.

The Associate will be responsible for:

- Strategic grant-making: anchored in the ECF Climate Finance Strategy, co-developing and implementing strategic grant programs with our network of grantees and partners; developing the scope of work for ECF grant projects; soliciting and validating proposals from potential partners; drafting recommendations for the consideration of the ECF board and our donors.
- Grant program management: monitoring and evaluating progress and impact of initiatives and grants; facilitating coordination amongst grantees; identifying areas for improvement, acting as a liaison to report regular progress to donors, managing requirements.
- Budget support: supporting the programme manager to manage the programme’s grant-making budget for public finance. This includes maintaining the programme’s budget, liaising with the ECF’s budget team to ensure that funding sources are accurately recorded, and supporting the programme’s forward budget planning.
- Research activities: conducting research supporting scoping out new activities ; monitoring policy developments and communicating findings from major reports to colleagues and grantees.
- Programme support: Planning and organising internal and external meetings, taking minutes in meetings, preparing slides and attending and reporting back from relevant events.
- Representation: Representing the ECF Finance Programme at external events, where appropriate.

**Requirements**:
3. Experience and competencies

A genuine interest in the mission and values of the ECF

At least two years of experience in climate and/development finance policy, with an understanding of climate finance trends and challenges.

A reasonable knowledge and understanding of the main issues in EU and Internati