Manager, Innovative Finance
Manager, Innovative Finance
Innovative Finance is one of the emerging initiatives in CCA’s new Clean Cooking Systems Strategy. The mission is to identify key financing gaps within the clean cooking ecosystem and support the development of innovative financing solutions that enhance or complement existing initiatives within and outside of the Clean Cooking Alliance. The strategic thrust is being operationalized through the Innovative Finance Initiative under the Market Strengthening team[1], which fosters the development of a pipeline of sustainable, scalable, and investable clean cooking businesses that can attract capital to scale and replicate, accelerating the transition to cleaner cooking technologies that meet consumers’ needs.
The role of the Innovative Finance Initiative is to:
- Position the Clean Cooking Alliance as an influential voice and market facilitator for innovative finance in clean cooking markets. This includes facilitating the CCA’s representation in key innovative finance fora (policy, standards, and practice), particularly in the clean cooking ecosystem, as well as leading the (co) creation and facilitating the adoption of public goods related to innovative finance solutions across the clean cooking sector such as tools, platforms, databases, knowledge briefs and networks developing/hosting.
- Lead and manage the development and execution of the Results-Based Finance Accelerator (RBFA), a shared platform to resolve the most urgent challenges inhibiting the deployment of outcome/impact driven results-based funding, including through the carbon markets, financial and capital markets, and traditional official development and philanthropic markets. More specifically, the primary objective of the RBFA is to galvanize support for outcome/impact driven results-based funding for clean cooking by enhancing the effectiveness of existing schemes/funds and institutional arrangements, as well as unlocking new funding.
- Enhance Clean Cooking Alliance’s internal capability to adopt and promote innovative finance instruments, platforms, and knowledge, including through:
- Maintaining an overview of innovative finance interventions across CCA and facilitating synergy.
- Advising the intervention areas in the Market Strengthening Team across the project cycle to enhance effectiveness.
- Collaborating with the Strategy and Development team, the Evidence and Impact team as well as with the Chief of Staff and External Affairs on strategic cross-cutting Clean Cooking Alliance wide initiatives.
Position Overview:
As a member of the Innovative Finance Initiative, the Manager, Innovative Finance supports the Senior Director, Innovative Finance with the day-to-day management of projects across the Innovative Finance Initiative portfolio, with higher level of effort dedicated to work-streams and deliverables under the Results-Based Finance Accelerator.
Location:
This is a global full-time position with working hours that are aligned with London. Candidates applying for a position in the United Kingdom, where UNF has an office, will be considered for a staff position. Candidates applying for a position in all other countries will be considered for a contract position. There is a preference for candidates located in sub-Sahara Africa.
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