Climate Finance Policy Associate
What We Can Achieve Together:
The Associate will play a dual role:
• Project coordination and quality support, ensuring effective delivery against milestones, effective engagement with consultants and partners, and high-quality outputs; and
• Analytical and technical support, producing policy-relevant analysis, briefings, and learning products related to climate and nature finance.
RESPONSIBILITIES & SCOPE
Coordination & Quality Assurance
• Support the day today coordination of program activities across workstreams, geographies, and partners, working within the scope of the program's strategic goals.
• Track progress against workplans, outputs, and timelines, ensuring compliance with internal policies and external requirements.
• Coordinate inputs and reviews across internal teams, consultants, and partners to ensure timely, high-quality delivery of agreed outputs.
• Support internal governance and coordination mechanisms , including steering calls and working group meetings.
• Support logistical and substantive preparation for high-level meetings with government counterparts, donors, and partners
• Work independently while engaging the supervisor as needed.
Technical and Analytical Support
• Provide analytical and technical support on climate and nature finance topics relevant to the program, including sustainable finance pathways, innovative debt instruments, and fiscal decision-making.
• Prepare policy-relevant briefings, presentations, and analytical notes to inform program implementation, internal decision-making, and engagement with government counterparts and other partners.
• Support synthesis of insights across pilot countries in Africa and Latin America, ensuring lessons learned are clearly captured and communicated.
• Contribute to the integration of climate and nature considerations into fiscal and economic policy discussions, drawing on global best practices and existing evidence.
Knowledge Products, Learning, and Capacity Building
• Support the design, coordination, and delivery of South-South learning and peer exchange activities, including convenings in Latin America and Africa.
• Prepare background materials, agendas, discussion notes, and post-event summaries for learning events and capacity-building activities.
• Help translate technical analysis into clear, accessible materials for policy audiences, including Ministries of Finance, Economy, and Planning.
• Contribute to knowledge products and internal learning resources to strengthen organizational capacity on climate and nature finance.
We're Looking for You:
The challenges facing our planet today require comprehensive solutions that address the well-being of people and nature and lay the foundation for future conservation efforts. Promoting policies that provide benefits to both people and nature is critical to securing lasting conservation outcomes. The work and expertise of The Nature Conservancy's Policy and Public Funding ("PPF") programs are integral to this effort. The Policy and Public Funding business unit is helping to shape the government policies that help make possible achievement of transformative conservation outcomes to address climate change, enhance protection of lands, waters, and the ocean, and provide food and water sustainably. We have an awesome task at hand, and the work that you do here will have a direct impact on our success.
We are tackling climate change, conserving lands, waters and oceans at unprecedented scale, providing food and water sustainably and helping make cities more sustainable. To implement these priorities, we collaborate actively in a non-confrontational manner with public sector agencies, NGOs, academia, business and the finance sector.
What You'll Bring:
• Bachelor's degree in economics, environmental or climate policy, climate finance, or a related field, and 3 years related experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Fluency in English and either Spanish or Portuguese.
• Experience supporting complex projects in an analytical, policy, or programmatic role.
• Experience researching information from divergent sources and compiling it into a cohesive reporting structure.
• Experience engaging with legislative, planning, policy or corporate initiatives at two or more of the following levels: international, country, sub-national, or local.
• Experience working with government agencies.
Salary Information:
This position may be based in Angola, Brazil, Colombia, or Mexico; candidates must be legally able to work in the country. Salary is based on location, qualifications, specific skills, and experience. Your geographic location will be confirmed during the recruitment and used to determine your actual pay range. Additionally, for all applicants, actual pay will fall within a range based on a variety of factors including, for example, the candidate's qualifications, specific skills, and experience. Please note the following pay ranges are estimated, will be in local currency and based on the local labor market.
Angola: 30,371,264-35,498,880 AOA
Brazil: 182,053-200,968 BRL
Colombia: 108,583,475-119,864,875 COP
Mexico: 492,261-543,405 MXN
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The Associate will play a dual role:
• Project coordination and quality support, ensuring effective delivery against milestones, effective engagement with consultants and partners, and high-quality outputs; and
• Analytical and technical support, producing policy-relevant analysis, briefings, and learning products related to climate and nature finance.
RESPONSIBILITIES & SCOPE
Coordination & Quality Assurance
• Support the day today coordination of program activities across workstreams, geographies, and partners, working within the scope of the program's strategic goals.
• Track progress against workplans, outputs, and timelines, ensuring compliance with internal policies and external requirements.
• Coordinate inputs and reviews across internal teams, consultants, and partners to ensure timely, high-quality delivery of agreed outputs.
• Support internal governance and coordination mechanisms , including steering calls and working group meetings.
• Support logistical and substantive preparation for high-level meetings with government counterparts, donors, and partners
• Work independently while engaging the supervisor as needed.
Technical and Analytical Support
• Provide analytical and technical support on climate and nature finance topics relevant to the program, including sustainable finance pathways, innovative debt instruments, and fiscal decision-making.
• Prepare policy-relevant briefings, presentations, and analytical notes to inform program implementation, internal decision-making, and engagement with government counterparts and other partners.
• Support synthesis of insights across pilot countries in Africa and Latin America, ensuring lessons learned are clearly captured and communicated.
• Contribute to the integration of climate and nature considerations into fiscal and economic policy discussions, drawing on global best practices and existing evidence.
Knowledge Products, Learning, and Capacity Building
• Support the design, coordination, and delivery of South-South learning and peer exchange activities, including convenings in Latin America and Africa.
• Prepare background materials, agendas, discussion notes, and post-event summaries for learning events and capacity-building activities.
• Help translate technical analysis into clear, accessible materials for policy audiences, including Ministries of Finance, Economy, and Planning.
• Contribute to knowledge products and internal learning resources to strengthen organizational capacity on climate and nature finance.
We're Looking for You:
The challenges facing our planet today require comprehensive solutions that address the well-being of people and nature and lay the foundation for future conservation efforts. Promoting policies that provide benefits to both people and nature is critical to securing lasting conservation outcomes. The work and expertise of The Nature Conservancy's Policy and Public Funding ("PPF") programs are integral to this effort. The Policy and Public Funding business unit is helping to shape the government policies that help make possible achievement of transformative conservation outcomes to address climate change, enhance protection of lands, waters, and the ocean, and provide food and water sustainably. We have an awesome task at hand, and the work that you do here will have a direct impact on our success.
We are tackling climate change, conserving lands, waters and oceans at unprecedented scale, providing food and water sustainably and helping make cities more sustainable. To implement these priorities, we collaborate actively in a non-confrontational manner with public sector agencies, NGOs, academia, business and the finance sector.
What You'll Bring:
• Bachelor's degree in economics, environmental or climate policy, climate finance, or a related field, and 3 years related experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Fluency in English and either Spanish or Portuguese.
• Experience supporting complex projects in an analytical, policy, or programmatic role.
• Experience researching information from divergent sources and compiling it into a cohesive reporting structure.
• Experience engaging with legislative, planning, policy or corporate initiatives at two or more of the following levels: international, country, sub-national, or local.
• Experience working with government agencies.
Salary Information:
This position may be based in Angola, Brazil, Colombia, or Mexico; candidates must be legally able to work in the country. Salary is based on location, qualifications, specific skills, and experience. Your geographic location will be confirmed during the recruitment and used to determine your actual pay range. Additionally, for all applicants, actual pay will fall within a range based on a variety of factors including, for example, the candidate's qualifications, specific skills, and experience. Please note the following pay ranges are estimated, will be in local currency and based on the local labor market.
Angola: 30,371,264-35,498,880 AOA
Brazil: 182,053-200,968 BRL
Colombia: 108,583,475-119,864,875 COP
Mexico: 492,261-543,405 MXN
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