Head of Finance, Multilevel Partnerships

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Head of Finance, Multilevel Partnerships

Job Highlight:

• As the Head of Finance, Multilevel Partnerships, you will serve as the organisational lead for CHAMP’s subnational climate finance agenda, providing strategic oversight and technical leadership to global and country efforts to close the subnational climate finance gap through policy influence, advocacy, and implementation support.

• Reporting to the Senior Director, Finance and Private Sector, and working closely with the Senior Urban and Regional Economist and the NDC Partnership, this position requires expertise in public and blended finance, strong diplomatic skills to engage with Ministries of Finance, multilateral banks, and development finance institutions, and the ability to turn country-level lessons into systems-level change.

What you will do

Programme Delivery (60%)

• Lead design, delivery, and monitoring of Climate Finance workstream to ensure coherence between global finance reform efforts, country platform design, and on-the-ground technical assistance in Kenya and Colombia.

• Produce actionable analysis and insights capturing enabling conditions for subnational climate finance, drawing from country experiences and global practice, and translate findings into practical recommendations for governments and finance actors.

• Organise annual knowledge exchange series for national and subnational officials, country platform coordinators, development banks, and funders to share lessons on subnational access to climate finance, city pipelines, and innovative instruments.

• Coordinate CHAMP’s advocacy on subnational access to finance with partners, developing a set of concrete “asks” for MDBs and climate funds and supporting political engagement at international climate and finance events.

• Support CEF colleagues in at least two CHAMP-endorsing countries to ensure country platforms and allow for subnational participation in governance and pipeline decisions.

• Support Senior Urban and Regional Economist coordinate technical assistance in Kenya and Colombia, ensuring climate strategies and investment plans incorporate subnational priorities and identify domestic and international finance opportunities

• Support Head of National Action coordinate response to RSLs from four CHAMP-endorsing countries where these relate to climate finance.

• Capture, synthesise and communicate lessons learned from all programme activities.

• Maintain detailed and up-to-date project plans for all deliverables using Asana, with clear milestones, risk registers, and mitigation measures, ensuring proactive communication with the Director and Project Board.

• Oversee budgeting, contracting, and financial monitoring for the Climate Finance workstream.

Team Leadership and Diplomatic Engagement (40%)

• Develop and maintain strategic relationships with Ministries of Finance, MDBs, national development banks, climate funds, and other finance institutions to influence subnational finance reform agendas.