Climate Finance for Nature-based Solutions Expert - Call for Talent

Oxford Policy Management is currently seeking applications from qualified Climate Finance for NbS Experts for an opportunity to support the management of nature-based solutions within the East African Community (EAC) for a 3.5-year programme from July 2025 until December 2027. This is an in-country consulting role to be performed in Kenya or Tanzania or Burundi. 

We are an international development consultancy working to improve lives through sustainable policy change in low- and middle-income countries. Our vision is for fair public policy that benefits both people and the planet. 

Through our global network of offices, we work in partnership with national stakeholders and decision makers to research, design, implement, and evaluate impactful public policy. We draw on our local and international sector experts to provide the very best evidence-based support. We deliver projects with expert knowledge and experience and can be relied upon for excellence in all aspects of project delivery. We work collaboratively, with ambition, to help deliver impactful public policy that will bring about lasting change. 

The Victoria and Tanganyika basins in the EAC with the Riparian States of Burundi, DRC, Kenya, Rwanda, Zambia, Tanzania and Uganda are particularly affected by climate change and its human and environmental consequences. Projected average temperature increase of up to 2.5 degrees by 2050 and increasingly frequent extreme climatic events, will bear an outsized impact on communities already experiencing dire public health and economic impacts from the effects of climate change on agricultural production and health systems management. 

This programme will seek to strengthen the policy environment and technical mechanisms through which nature-based and climate resilient solutions can be effectively implemented within the EAC.  In collaboration with the programme team, key activity themes for the Climate Finance Expert may include: 

• Delivering the draft EAC Climate Change Policy and Action plan. 

• Delivering the draft EAC Framework for implementation of nationally determined contributions. 

• Delivering the Concept for EAC Carbon Credit Exchange Mechanism. 

• Deliver Gender Analysis Report, and Gender Mainstreaming Strategy and Action Plan.

• Advise five ready-to-finance project proposals for NbSKey.

• Advanced degree (Master, PhD or equivalent) in natural resources management, environmental management or climate change. 

• At least 5 years of professional experience in climate financing with Development Finance Institutions and in the development of bankable projects for nature-based solutions.

• At least 8 years of professional experience in the water or climate sector, including 4 years of experience each in the development and implementation of strategies and concepts for technical cooperation projects in East Africa Community partner countries. 

• At least 10 years of professional experience working in Sub-Saharan Africa and additionally, at least 5 years of professional experience in other regions of Africa, outside of the East African Community. 

• At least 8 years of experience working on Development Cooperation projects with a regional scope.

• C1 Level proficiency in both English and French. 

• Excellent communications skills, with the ability to work effectively as part of an intercultural team working with diverse stakeholders.