Job Description

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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