Senior Research Officer (Sustainable Finance)

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Specific technical inputs to ongoing research projects such as literature reviews, data collection and data analysis;
• Supporting research project activities or leading parts of research projects including field work, conducting interviews, holding workshops, producing written outputs and preparing reports for donors, under the supervision of a Research Fellow.
• Authoring or co-authoring research reports, policy briefs and other documents for publication;
• Undertake some travel overseas for research related purposes

• Contribute to the development of expressions of interest and full project proposals;

• Liaising with and reporting to donors, managing budgets and consultants and the inputs of other project partners;
• Supervising interns and other short-term staff working within the team under the direction of a senior researcher.

• Supporting the production of communications products from research findings;
• Organising and presenting key findings to key decision-makers and stakeholders, through events and meetings;
• Disseminating research results through ODI web pages, the media, conferences, etc;
• Liaison and networking with a wide range of agencies including attending meetings on behalf of Programme and providing short meeting summaries for distribution within the team and more widely

• ODI publications and journals;
• ODI activities as discussion groups, staff meetings, working groups, interviews, research away days; and
• Intellectual exchanges with colleagues.

Person Specification

• A degree and post-graduate degree in relevant discipline (e.g. environmental economics, sustainable finance).
• Active knowledge of key international institutions working on finance for climate action and related topics.
• Active and substantive knowledge of at least one key issue relating to finance for climate action: for instance, climate finance negotiations, debt sustainability or private finance mobilisation.

• Some work experience in finance for climate action or development, ideally international public finance (for example within an international financial institution, multilateral climate fund or UNFCCC finance negotiations) or private finance (for example within an asset manager or credit ratings agency);
• Some experience in policy-oriented research focused on finance for climate action, demonstrated by publications and reports; and
• Experience in producing research outputs in a short period of time and for different audiences

• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate with a wide range of people and cultural awareness
• Excellent analytical and writing skills, including the ability to work with quantitative and qualitative data
• Strong presentation and networking skills
• Ability to multitask and prioritise
• Excellent IT skills (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
• Ability to work in a team
• Willingness and ability to travel internationally on a frequent basis, which may include overnight and weekends on occasion.
• Ability to work on own initiative and under minimal supervision, to accept responsibility and to respond with confidence to complex and evolving problems

• Fluency in a language other than English

Why should you work for us?