Begin date: 01 March 2024 (or later)
Length: 24 months (extension supposed)
Location: Freiburg
Deadline for software: 01 February 2024
Do you need to contribute to creating our cities higher locations to dwell?
ICLEI – Native Governments for Sustainability is a worldwide community working with greater than 2500 native and regional governments dedicated to sustainable city growth. Lively in 125+ nations, we affect sustainability coverage and drive native motion for low emission, nature-based, equitable, resilient and round growth.
ICLEI‘s European Secretariat is predicated in Freiburg (Germany), with specialised places of work in Brussels and Berlin. ICLEI Europe has greater than 150 employees from throughout Europe and past, protecting a broad number of skilled disciplines and experience.
Working with us, you’ll have alternatives to:
- Work with main city researchers, politicians and practitioners on European innovation initiatives, to supply financing options for in the present day’s city challenges;
- Assist to shut the financing hole for sustainable, climate-neutral and resilient cities by designing and implementing sustainable finance amenities and options;
- Contribute to European and nationwide processes that affect financing insurance policies and schemes, and inspire related political actors to get engaged within the strategy of bettering related buildings, processes and frameworks throughout all ranges, notably the EU Missions ‘100 Local weather Impartial and Good Cities’ and ‘Adaptation to Local weather Change’;
- Be a part of an internationally-recognised organisation that evokes, helps and critically evaluates new traits in (co-)creating sustainable, climate-neutral and resilient cities;
- Develop professionally in a versatile, family-friendly work atmosphere with alternatives for private growth, European journey, {and professional} cultural alternate.
We’re on the lookout for a brand new colleague to affix our Group with the next expertise, expertise and character:
- Stable understanding of native authorities budgeting and financing with a specific view on investments and infrastructure growth – this explicitly consists of fiscal transfers and financing within the multi-level governance system in EU nations;
- Information and experience in authorized and monetary points of funding planning and PPPs;
- Particular experience in financing associated to local weather change mitigation and sustainable city transformation;
- Expertise in working with non-public buyers and capital within the framework of PPPs for the event of public infrastructure and multi-stakeholder approaches;
- Information of related sustainable finance frameworks (e.g., ESG, EU Taxonomy) and approaches associated to climate-related budgetary and monetary dangers (e.g., TCFD);
- Stable understanding of progressive financing approaches (e.g. native inexperienced bonds, crowd financing, cooperative financing and so forth.), and of progressive methods of (blended) financing the implementation of advanced native transition programmes and built-in initiatives;
- No less than 3-4 years {of professional} expertise in related establishments/organisations, ideally for or with native governments or different public sector organisations;
- Excellent and clear oral and written communication;
- Assured interacting and collaborating with related European initiatives and establishments and a variety of companions throughout disciplines and sectors, specifically within the sphere of private and non-private financing and funding;
- Proficient in English and no less than one different European language, spoken and written; extra languages are an asset;
- Curious, artistic, collaborative, while in a position to establish and increase the room of manoeuvre for native governments along with different stakeholders in a dynamic, generally fast-paced, European and worldwide atmosphere.
Your place will embrace the next fundamental duties:
- Conceptualisation and growth of sustainable financing approaches and amenities within the context of sustainable, climate-neutral and resilient cities as a part of initiatives associated to the EU Mission ‘100 Local weather Impartial and Good Cities’;
- Identification and mapping of related European and Nationwide funding platforms, European regional growth funds, grants which can be out there to cities for public funding, and evaluation of the compatibility of cities’ funding plans with out there public capital sources on the totally different ranges;
- Assist figuring out structural, processual and systemic obstacles within the public financing system, which can be slowing down investments or are limiting funding capacities;
- Facilitating multi-level and multi-actor workshops in EU nations in an effort to overcome financing obstacles and enhance effectivity within the public financing system, notably in relation to mobilising non-public capital, and to develop progressive structural options to handle these points.
- Shut collaboration with a bunch of Metropolis Finance Specialists within the framework of the EU-Challenge Internet Zero Cities to organise skilled recommendation associated to funding planning and finance points of built-in de-carbonisation programmes and initiatives in cities;
- Have interaction within the growth of tailor-made teaching and coaching to metropolis employees and leaders on sustainable finance and local weather and monetary danger evaluation;
- Sturdy function in implementing work packages and process coordination between companions and colleagues, time and capability monitoring, communication with companions, reporting, and so forth.;
- Common communication with related organisations and establishments;
- Organisation and facilitation of, and contribution to digital, hybrid and in-person conferences, together with trainings, interactive workshops, and worldwide mission conferences;
- Contributing to acquisition, together with conceptual growth and formulation of labor packages and duties.
We give you the next circumstances:
- Preliminary 24 months contract with excessive potential for extension;
- Gross wage in accordance with the Professional place in ICLEI’s wage grid
- (indicative: 55.680 – 58.200 € each year);
- Administrative center: Freiburg/Germany;
- 40h working week with versatile working time and the likelihood to work as much as 50% distant;
- 6 weeks of paid go away each year;
- Working language is English;
- Frequent journey inside Europe is foreseen.
Please be aware that candidates should – as a result of authorized causes – maintain EU citizenship or a legitimate EU residence allow and a legitimate German work allow. Functions not assembly these circumstances can sadly not be thought of.
Deadline for software: 15 January 2024
Please apply in writing, together with a CV and letter of motivation to:
Please be aware that we assessment functions constantly upon receipt and early submissions are inspired. For extra details about ICLEI Europe go to: www.iclei-europe.org
ICLEI Europe’s Equal Alternative and Employment Coverage
ICLEI Europe’s hiring coverage is geared to make sure that the organisation hires workers with out regard to their race, color, faith, nationwide origin, citizenship, age, intercourse, marital standing, socio-economic background or sexual orientation. ICLEI’s coverage is that candidates for employment and profession development are thought of solely based mostly on their {qualifications} and competencies.