Job Description:

The Senior Green Investment Officer will support GGGI’s Thailand country program to identify and design green investment projects. The primary focus is on sustainable energy (renewable energy and energy efficiency), sustainable waste management, and green building sectors.

He/She will support the development of the investment pipeline, financial models, financing vehicle concepts, and project proposals to attract funding from appropriate funding institutions, mechanisms, and agencies such as international funds, bilateral and multilateral funding mechanisms, private equity funds, guarantee funds, and other climate investors. This is a national position and required fluent Thai.

PURPOSE:

The Senior Green Investment Officer will work as part of the country program and team. GGGI works in close collaboration with government partners in the different ministries with the overall aim to support the achievement of Thailand’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) targets.

The Senior Green Investment Officer will have the following tasks and duties: 

• Senior Green Investment Officer preparation of concept notes and conducts analysis for existing and potential investment opportunities.
• Leads the development of risk management tools for the domestic bank partners to manage debt and equity portfolios, as well as monitoring, reporting, and verification of an impact
• Support Green Climate Fund accreditation of financial institution(s) and retain the knowledge of the process for subsequent dissemination.
• Senior Green Investment Officer responsible for identifying investment options and structures, innovative financing mechanisms, and/or de-risking mechanisms to overcome regulatory and institutional barriers to green investments.
• Senior Green Investment Officer prepares investment documentation, including investment briefs, memos, presentations, financial models, and scenario analysis.
• Originate green investment projects pipelines and program concepts for GGGI Thailand that can support Thailand’s green policy targets.

ENGAGEMENT:

The scope of work will include indenting and engaging with government partners, private and public sector financial institutions, and initiatives. The Senior Officer shall:

• Engage financial institutions and commercial lenders in the development of projects to ensure that the initiative’s projects adequately represent their vision, interests, criteria, and objectives.
• Facilitate, where necessary, connections between public and private institutions to develop investment projects and/or innovative funding mechanisms.
• Collaborate with SME circular economy project developers and support selected partners in project documentation following the best global practices
• Support further development and expansion of GGGI’s network of financial institutions, banks, funds, and other relevant organizations both domestically and internationally.
• Provide ad-hoc support as a member of the integrated GGGI Investment Team in the development of the GGGI project portfolio.
• Assisting and coordinating the provincial investment activity with the GGGI provincial representatives and municipality partners in the waste management sector.
• Carry out other ad hoc investment-related assignments in line with GGGI’s mandate and targets for Thailand.

REQUIREMENTS:

The successful applicant must demonstrate outstanding professional competence and hold exemplary and relevant academic credentials. As noted, the position requires extensive experience in deal origination and financial analysis skills in the Green Growth sectors. Knowledge of Thai policy and governance in the Green Growth sectors, commercial risk assessment, project finance, debt instruments, and multi-stakeholder collaboration is needed. Practical experience in arranging investment deals, pitching bankable projects, and/or financial deal structuring is important.

Specifically, the application should provide convincing evidence of the following:

• A bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business management, or economics. Relevant financial certifications such as CFA will be an added advantage.
• Preferred (10) years of relevant professional experience related to project development, direct investments, and financial modeling.
• Solid understanding of various financial products, and debt/equity instruments being used in the Thai finance/investment sector. Direct working experience with any of these products will be an advantage
• Excellent Thai and English writing skills are a must, writing examples might be requested as well as potentially a written exercise as part of the selection procedure.
• Excellent understanding of the socio-political and cultural contexts of Green Growth governance in Thailand.
• Experience working directly with one or more Investment banks/ Private Equity/ multilateral would be an advantage.
• Exceptional candidates without green investment experience with strong conventional investment backgrounds with leading global investment firms will be considered.
• An extensive network of professional contacts among financial institutions and impact investors would be an added advantage.
• A good track record of working on complex investment processes, politically sensitive issues with government, banking sector, non-banking financial products, and public sector finance are desirable, especially experience with blended finance.

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