Mercy Corps
Senior Strategic Partnerships Manager – Climate Finance (Based Remotely, Mercy Corps office locations - Africa, Europe,
United States · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- Establish internal structures, functions and protocols for communication and engagement to ensure strengthen our representation and competitiveness, while ensuring clarity and transparency internally.
- Conduct ongoing research on trends in climate financing, and the priorities for financing institutions.
- Represent Mercy Corps and/or facilitate participation of other Mercy Corps team members in key climate finance events and meetings.
Responsibilities
- Mercy Corps expects to become GCF accredited in late 2026, and now seeks to expand its funding pipeline and build internal capacity to successfully acquire GCF and other climate-focused investments.
- DONOR RELATIONS AND REPRESENTATION Develop and manage relationships with relevant GCF and other climate finance representatives and serve as the primary donor liaison.
- Support country teams and regional teams in establishing and building relationships with GCF regional and program teams, and with Nationally Designated Authorities and Direct Access Entities in our priority countries.
- In coordination with relevant Headquarters functions, support country teams in problem solving related engagement with donors both in country and in Europe.
- It comprises the Business Development team, which leads on large and complex proposals, and the Strategic Institutional Partnerships team, which leads on research and relationship management.
- Position Summary This position leads Mercy Corps' efforts to secure grants and investments in Mercy Corps' climate-focused work, primarily from the Green Climate Fund.
- The successful candidate will have excellent interpersonal skills, excel at networking and building long-term relationships and will be proactive and creative in their work.
Requirements
- Experience working in or with fragile and conflict affected countries At least seven years of practical work experience in climate and energy and/or international development
Compensation
- Team members are required to complete mandatory Code of Conduct elearning courses upon hire and on an annual basis.
Benefits
- Essential Job Responsibilities STRATEGY Develop a strategic vision for engagement with climate finance institutions, with an initial emphasis on the GCF.
Company info
- We are committed to providing an environment of respect and psychological safety where equal employment opportunities are available to all.
- We are committed to the core principles regarding prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse laid out by the UN Secretary General and IASC.
- We are committed to actively engaging communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.
- Team Engagement and Effectiveness Achieving our mission starts with how we build our team and collaborate.
Equal opportunity
- Mercy Corps is an equal opportunity employer that does not tolerate discrimination on any basis.
- We actively seek out diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be collectively stronger and have sustained global impact.
- We do not engage in or tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, disability (including HIV/AIDS status), marital status, military veteran status or any other protected group in the locations where we work.
- Safeguarding & Ethics Mercy Corps is committed to ensuring that all individuals we come into contact with through our work, whether team members, community members, programs participants or others, are treated with respect and dignity.
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