Senior Policy Analyst

Department: Policy

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Remote

Reporting To: Global Policy Lead

Compensation: £45,000 - £52,000 / year

Description

The Senior Analyst will:

• Lead and develop analysis on real economy and financial policy to drive the global net zero and resilient transition and continue to develop expertise in those sectors. This includes:

• Act as a point of contact, expertise and thought leadership on those topics for the Global Policy Team, acting as a representative for the team with all regional and project teams, coordinating work, enabling consistency and quality and fostering communications and learnings. This also includes:

• Support Climate Bonds work in advocacy and influence work on the topics listed above. Representing the organization externally.   
• Maintain and regularly engage with network of stakeholders, internally and externally to support advocacy, influence work, and collaborate. This should be based on a good understanding of the key stakeholders in the net zero transition in key sectors, both at global (e.g. G20, SFWG, G7, etc) and regional and national levels (e.g. national policy-makers, regulators). 
• Contribute to the team’s growth through identifying opportunities, contributing to project proposals, and pitching new ideas. 

You should apply if you can demonstrate...

• Being a self-starter, motivated and ambitious candidate willing to grow within the team and support its expansion. 
• Being able to function with minimal supervision and adapt to rapidly changing environments. 
• Excellent analytical and drafting skills, strong communication skills, ability to function in diverse, remote and multi-cultural teams. 
• At least three years of work experience in a policy role in the fields of sustainable finance, climate transition, or climate resilience.  
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline – policy, economics, finance, environment. 
• Knowledge of relevant global policy landscape and of policy context in one or more regions. Ability to identify and analyse events that shape policy developments
• Understanding of financial markets – with a focus on debt markets – and how those can contribute to the financing of the transition to net zero 
• Good command of Climate Bonds mission. 

• Master’s degree in a relevant discipline is desirable, experience in relevant fields will be considered as equivalent. 
• Policy experience at both global level and different regional levels.  
• Briefing experience.
• Project management experience. 
• Additional language skills (beyond English). 

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