Investment Specialist

Summary

Join Climate KIC, Europe’s leading climate innovation agency, as an Investment Specialist – Adaptation Finance. This 12-month fixed-term contract (with potential renewal) focuses on driving adaptation finance investment models. You will analyze funding needs, collect investment opportunity data, and contribute to fundraising strategies. The role involves collaborating with partners, facilitating working groups, and sharing expertise in workshops and webinars. Based remotely from any Climate-KIC office location, this role requires experience in a regulated EU financial services institution and project finance. The successful candidate will be a technically minded pragmatist with strong communication and collaboration skills.

Requirements

• Relevant degree in financial services, business, economics or related fields
• 4-5 years working experience in a regulated EU financial services institution (i.e. insurer, bank, investment fund)
• Experience working on complex project financing deals such as large-scale infrastructure investment structuring
• Proven experience of fundraising and engagement with public / private sector financing institutions
• Fluent in English
• Ability to work remotely and digitally across multiple organisations with collaborative IT applications (we use Office365 and Microsoft Teams, as well as Miro, Zoom, etc.)
• Working knowledge of different financial instruments and their utility in different scenarios
• Willingness to develop an understanding of system thinking and how to use innovation to influence system dynamics

Responsibilities

• Analyse the funding needs expressed by individual innovation projects and integrate these needs into a wider funding plan or financial structure that accommodates differing levels of project maturity
• Collect and organise information/data around investment opportunities to enable effective outreach to potential investors (both public and private)
• Contribute to development of a fundraising strategy that attracts multiple different stakeholders to invest into a coordinated funding plan for a given place or sector
• Share your investment experience and knowledge with Climate KIC partners, in particular via the Net Zero Cities Capital Hub and Pathways 2 Resilience programme in training workshops and webinars
• Act as key point of contact on adaptation innovation on projects, including facilitation of working groups and collaborative initiatives defined in project plans
• Participate in our community of investment innovation partners and help to build a strong community of practice in the field of investing for system transformation
• Assess projects identified by colleagues for financial viability and provide advice on the range of financial mechanisms that match
• Foster collaboration between public and private sector financial institutions to develop large scale investment programmes with high impact potential by hosting working groups
• Provide guidance and education to public sector employees around options to leverage public and private financing for greater action

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in project finance, business development and execution, with a primary focus on sustainable finance or adaptation finance highly preferable

Benefits

• Competitive for Not-for-profit organisation
• Remote role possible from any country in which Climate-KIC has an office
• High degree of flexibility