Sustainable Finance Officer (SFO)

Overview

The Sustainable Finance Officer (SFO) will strengthen UNDP Angola's capacity to design, coordinate, and operationalize sustainable finance solutions. The role aims to mobilize public and private capital for inclusive, climate-resilient, and nature-positive development.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development of key sustainable finance knowledge products and analytical outputs.
• Coordinate the implementation of sustainable finance activities, supporting the identification, design, structuring, and promotion of financing mechanisms and investment opportunities.
• Support financing readiness and investment mobilization for project interventions by assessing sustainable finance opportunities, advancing carbon and biodiversity market readiness, and promoting impact-investment approaches.
• Provide technical inputs to sustainable finance strategies, financing roadmaps, readiness assessments, concept notes, business cases, and investment narratives.
• Support the identification and preliminary assessment of financing opportunities, including blended finance, impact investment, thematic bonds, climate and biodiversity finance, carbon and biodiversity markets, conservation funds, and other relevant instruments.
• Support investment-readiness and pipeline development by helping teams identify financing needs, gaps, risks, potential instruments, partners, and next steps.
• Coordinate and contribute to specific project workstreams related to carbon and biodiversity credit markets, de-risking investments in nature, and sustainable bond recommendations.
• Support appropriate impact, SDG, climate, biodiversity, and sustainability tagging of project concepts and investment opportunities.
• Review technical products for coherence with national priorities, applicable safeguards, inclusion objectives, and relevant UNDP or partner frameworks.
• Support the identification, development, and promotion of sustainable financing and investment pipelines that advance economic transformation, economic diversification, MSME development, productive value chains, sustainable livelihoods, and territorial development.
• Maintain an up-to-date stakeholder and partnership map.
• Support structured engagement with government counterparts, particularly institutions responsible for finance, planning, environment, investment promotion, and capital markets.
• Organize and document technical consultations, financing dialogues, investor engagement sessions, and validation processes.
• Support alignment and practical linkages among the Extended Central Plateau Project, Integrated National Financing Framework (INFF) and country-platform processes, NDC investment planning, BIOFIN-related work, sustainable and thematic bond initiatives, conservation finance, and other relevant portfolio efforts.
• Support the four Project Communities of Practice.
• Assess priority capacity needs with relevant teams and stakeholders.
• Coordinate the development and quality assurance of sustainable finance and financial-literacy tools.
• Plan and support workshops, peer exchanges, study visits, and practitioner learning.
• Promote practical learning on investment readiness, financing instruments, safeguards, ESG and impact considerations, carbon and biodiversity finance, MRV interfaces, and inclusive benefit-sharing.
• Create and maintain a structured repository of templates, stakeholder records, finance opportunities, lessons, reference materials, and portfolio knowledge products.
• Capture and disseminate lessons, case studies, and transferable approaches from the Project.
• Prepare and maintain an integrated workplan.
• Coordinate inputs from consultants, project teams, and partners; monitor dependencies, due dates, risks, decisions, and required follow-up; and promptly escalate delivery constraints.
• Provide technical inputs to Terms of Reference, procurement documentation, and evaluation processes.
• Monitor progress against agreed outputs and indicators and prepare concise monthly updates, quarterly results summaries, mission or workshop records, and inputs to corporate and project reporting.
• Support coordination across sustainable finance initiatives to reduce duplication, promote sequencing, and ensure that analytical products and engagement processes reinforce one another.
• Provide operational, administrative, and financial support to project delivery and portfolio management.
• Contribute to programme and project missions, meetings, reviews, and other duties within the scope of the assignment.
• Perform any other additional duties or tasks that fall within the purview of the role as directed.

Required Experience

At least 3 years of relevant professional experience with a master’s degree, or at least 5 years with a bachelor’s degree, in sustainable finance, development finance, climate or nature finance, investment readiness, economic or financial analysis, or related fields. At least 3 years of executive professional experience in strategic planning and success in implementation.

Qualifications

Master's degree in Sustainable Finance, Environmental Economics, Business Administration, Development Finance or a related field.

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