Chief Strategy and Impact Officer

The Chief Strategy and Impact Officer (CSIO) leads the strategy development, impact monitoring and assessment, and external positioning of GCF under the guidance of the Fund’s Executive Director. The role involves strategic leadership, policy oversight, results evaluation, resource mobilization, and communications to drive GCF's mission and impact globally.

Responsibilities

• Leads the development and monitors the implementation of GCF’s strategy, including the Strategic Plan, ensuring it incorporates the latest developments on climate science, social and economic sciences, innovation and megatrends.
• Ensures that the latest scientific knowledge and solutions relevant to GCF’s mission are available to the executive leadership team and staff, and oversees implementation of mechanisms to drive their adoption when relevant.
• Drives alignment between institutional strategy, the work program, budgets, and cascade of objectives to ensure delivery of strategy.
• Oversees policy formulation and liaises with the executive leadership team to ensure high quality policy outputs are delivered in a timely manner at the Board level effectively.
• Ensures policy coherence and complementarity across GCF.
• Oversees the results monitoring, impact assessment, knowledge management and learning functions of GCF ensuring the appropriate tools, systems, capacities, and partnerships are in place to deliver at high standards.
• Ensures systematization of the results and impact data and information for effective use by all key stakeholders in GCF, including GCF management, operational teams, corporate services and Board.
• Drives an organizational culture informed by results and impact.
• Leverages GCF’s experience and knowledge to promote learning for impact among key external stakeholder groups.
• Leads resource mobilization strategy efforts, appropriately tailored to the different Sovereign and non-Sovereign partners and oversees its effective implementation.
• Identifies and oversees the establishment of strategic partnerships in support of GCF’s resource mobilization efforts.
• Leads the institutional efforts of engagement at annual High-Level events such as Conferences of Parties.
• Working closely with the ED, leads the structured replenishment efforts of GCF.
• Oversees GCF’s external communications, working to amplify awareness about GCF, and the Fund’s influence and strategic impact on a global scale.
• Ensures that GCF has a sound communications strategy, including concrete and tangible external and internal communication plans; and oversees their implementation.
• Ensures that GCF takes advantage of all key media formats to promote its messaging and experience.
• Represents GCF externally where relevant and as agreed with the Executive Director.
• Leads GCF’s global impact across climate finance and climate action through demonstrating thought leadership to multilateral, private sector and civil society actors.
• Leads efforts to drive an organizational culture informed by research and data analytics related to results and impact.
• Leads cross-organizational efforts to ensure knowledge and learning are embraced within GCF but also actively disseminated and used by key GCF stakeholders, key among which are AEs and NDAs.
• Inspires and motivates staff in GCF to honor the values of impact and innovation within the organization.
• Drives key priorities in GCF strategies and the ‘50by30’ vision: reaching vulnerable people and communities; mobilizing private sector engagement; reinventing the partnership model; expediting project review and approvals; enhancing country ownership, amongst others.
• Drives a rigorous focus on impact and results to transform GCF’s approach to policy, strategy, and operations.

Requirements

• At least 20 years of relevant experience.
• Significant experience and track record of articulating and successfully implementing global strategies (as evidenced by measurable outcomes).
• At least 10 years of experience in senior leadership and management roles, preferably in roles related to climate change, climate finance and/or climate fund management.
• Track record of leading strategy and policy development efforts using the latest science, knowledge and empirical experience.
• Track record of global thought leadership in climate action, climate finance and sustainable development.
• Strong knowledge and experience of tools and systems to support strong results, evaluation, knowledge management and learning organizational functions.
• Demonstrated effectiveness in improving processes and integrating knowledge with broader strategic, policy and operational objectives.
• Relevant postgraduate qualification.
• Senior leadership experience in international development, climate policy, or a related field.
• Demonstrated ability to lead sizeable and diverse teams.
• Familiarity with international development and the UN system, institutions of global climate governance, research and policy (UNFCCC, IPCC) would be an advantage.
• Familiarity with current private sector approaches to investment in climate action and sustainable development would be an advantage.
• Excellent presentation, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Fluency in both written and spoken English; knowledge of another UN language desirable.
• High level of commitment to values of inclusion and sustainable development.

Skills

• Global Strategy Development
• Climate Finance
• Climate Fund Management
• Policy Development
• Climate Action
• Sustainable Development
• Outcome Evaluation
• Knowledge Management
• Organizational Learning
• Process Improvement
• Strategic Leadership
• Team Leadership
• International Development
• Climate Policy Development
• Impact Monitoring
• Resource Mobilization
• External Communications
• Presentation Skills
• Interpersonal Skills

Languages

English