Catholic Relief Services is a global humanitarian and international relief organization supporting people affected by poverty, crisis, and vulnerability in more than 100 countries. As the official international relief agency of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, CRS works across emergency response, healthcare, agriculture, education, and justice and peacebuilding. Its programs are rooted in Catholic values and serve people in need regardless of race, religion, or nationality.
Senior Advisor, Green Climate Fund Pipeline and Capture Lead
Lead Catholic Relief Services’ Green Climate Fund pipeline strategy, capture planning, and proposal readiness. Coordinate country teams, consultants, donors, and climate fund stakeholders.
Description
- Coordinate Catholic Relief Services’ agency position on the Green Climate Fund, Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, and Global Environment Facility with the CFSU director.
- Analyze strategic priorities, programming directions, investment trends, country opportunities, and funding windows.
- Manage CRS’s global Green Climate Fund pipeline, including capture plans, opportunity identification, prioritization, sequencing, and preparation for anticipated Board submission windows.
- Identify pipeline risks, bottlenecks, dependencies, and staffing gaps, and bring decisions to the appropriate leaders.
- Coordinate with country programs, regional teams, GREM, PIQA, and CFSU colleagues to guide ideas through concept notes and funding proposals.
- Define responsibilities for regional focal points, proposal coordinators, technical leads, country programs, reviewers, CFSU, and contributing teams.
- Staff pipeline roles internally and externally, and onboard CRS staff and consultants.
- Capture learning from Green Climate Fund engagement and document lessons from pitches, concept notes, proposals, reviews, and external engagement.
- Maintain climate fund and donor learning resources, review guidance, value proposition tools, capture templates, pipeline and role dashboards, and proposal tools and templates.
- Create feedback loops with country programs, coordinators, technical leads, reviewers, and leadership.
- Build and manage consultant rosters covering writers, proposal coordinators, technical specialists, economists, finance experts, safeguards specialists, and other priority roles.
- Keep leaders and colleagues informed about pipeline status, decisions, resource needs, and emerging issues.
- Represent pipeline needs in internal planning and coordination forums.
- Support engagement with Green Climate Fund regional teams, National Designated Authorities, partners, and peer organizations.
- Maintain external networks and represent CRS with peer organizations, technical experts, consultants, and climate fund technical staff.
- Provide supervisory leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in climate change, environmental sustainability, international development, business development, international relations, or a related field.
- At least 10 years of relevant experience in international development, climate finance, institutional fundraising, capture management, proposal management, or related business development work.
- Demonstrated experience with institutional climate funding, including the Green Climate Fund.
- Familiarity with other multilateral climate funds, development finance institutions, bilateral donors, foundations, or corporate climate funding is desirable.
- Strong record in donor intelligence, capture planning, pipeline management, proposal governance, and coordination among diverse technical and operational stakeholders.
- Experience creating practical tools, guidance, templates, and standardized processes, and improving them through user feedback and organizational learning.
- Experience managing consultant rosters, preparing scopes of work or job descriptions, vetting candidates, and deploying external expertise to support proposals.
- Strong understanding of Green Climate Fund investment criteria, country ownership, proposal stages, review requirements, and the roles involved in developing Concept Notes and Funding Proposals.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, and web conferencing applications.
- Experience sharing knowledge with diverse audiences through training, mentoring, and other formal or informal methods.
- Excellent writing, synthesis, facilitation, judgment, interpersonal communication, negotiation, and representation skills.
- Strategic and analytical thinking, strong process leadership, and the ability to clarify complex workflows across multiple teams.
- Ability to build colleagues’ and partners’ capacity through practical guidance, coaching, and learning processes.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, identify risks early, and bring decisions to resolution.
- Strong commitment to collaboration, continuous improvement, and practical institutional knowledge.
- Fluency in spoken and written English is essential.
- Willingness and ability to travel 25%.
- Must be legally authorized to work where the position is performed.
- A master’s degree is preferred but not required.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Life insurance
- Vision insurance
- Generous retirement savings plan
- Collaborative, mission-driven work culture
- Professional development through training, mentoring, coaching, and learning opportunities
- Remote work arrangement